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Landis admits
he broke law
when filming
Twilight Zone'
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Direc-
or John Landis, defending him-
elf in the “Twilight Zone” movie
et deaths of actor Vic Morrow
nd two children, testified
Vednesday he knowingly broke
the law by hiring the youths with-
iut permits.
The bearded, bespectacled di-
■ctor, telling his story publicly
for the first time, also said no one
arned him the scene in which a
ashing helicopter killed the
ildren and Morrow was dan
gerous.
Did anyone suggest using
dummies or puppets because of
danger to the children?” defense
attorney James Neal asked in the
hushed, packed courtroom.
I “No,” said Landis, who, along
with four associates, is charged
with involuntary manslaughter.
I Landis claimed a suggestion to
hot use the children was made
only to avoid having them work
af ter dark in violation of the labor
code.
I He said he did not apply for
permits for the children because
of the state law.
1 The testimony came as Landis
described a meeting with asso-
pates in which they talked of us
ing children in a scene to be
filmed after dark and about the
restriction on using children late
at night.
1 “Our state of mind was (that)
this didn’t meet our needs,”
Landis said.
H “What was your decision?”
Neal asked.
I “We decided to break the law,”
he said. “We decided wrongly to
violate the labor code.”
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World and Nation
Weinberger: Information
secretly given to Iran, Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan refused to answer ques
tions Wednesday about the Iran-
Contra scandal, while Defense Sec
retary Caspar Weinberger said the
administration secretly had pro
vided intelligence information to
both sides in the Iran-Iraq war.
Reagan maintained his 2 1 /2-month
silence while Robert Gates was un
dergoing a second, tough day of
questioning at his Senate confirma
tion hearing to take over as CIA di
rector.
Elsewhere in Congress, the Demo-
cratic-controlled Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee voted narrowly to
cut off further aid to the Contra re
bels fighting the Nicaraguan govern
ment.
Reagan seemed in no mood to
field questions on the controversy
when reporters were permitted into
the Oval Office before his meeting
with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir.
“I’m not going to take any ques
tions on that situation” until after a
presidential commission files its re
port on the Iran-Contra affair on
Feb. 26, Reagan said.
Reagan consistently has defended
his decision to sell arms to the Irani
ans, and said he knew nothing of the
apparent diversion of profits to the
Contras until Attorney General Ed
win Meese III unearthed evidence
of it last November.
For his part, Shamir left the White
House and later travelled to the Ca-
E itol, where he agreed to meet
riefly with Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-
Hawaii and Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-
Ind., chairmen of the two congres
sional committees investigating the
controversy.
Israelis played a major role in fa
cilitating tne sale of weapons to the
Iranians, according to previous in
vestigations, but their role in funnel
ling funds to the Contras is less clear.
Weinberger, testifying before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
defended his decision not to notify
Congress about the transfer of arms
to Iran. He said he had no obligation
to do so because the only role the
Pentagon played in the transfer was
to provide the weapons to the CIA.
Several members of Congress
have charged that by withholding
word of the secret sale from the
House and Senate for more thaii 10
months, the Reagan administration
violated the law requiring timely no
tification of covert activity.
Shiite, Druse gunmen still battling
for control of Moslem west Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Druse
gunmen hurling grenades stormed
the Commodore Hotel and drove
out Shiite militiamen Wednesday in
one of the fiercest fights of a four-
day battle for control of Moslem
west Beirut.
Both sides ignored threats by
Syria to send in troops with shoot-to-
kill orders unless Shiite and leftist
gunmen stop their struggle for dom
ination of the city’s Moslem sector.
Police said at least 25 fighters
were killed and 80 wounded in street
battles around the Commodore and
the American University of Beirut
just off Hamra, the Moslem sector’s
main commercial street. That raised
the toll since Sunday to at least 65
killed and 280 wounded.
Some of the fiercest combat
swirled around the Commodore and
the annex that houses offices of the
Associated Press, CBS and NBC tele
vision, and the Kuwaiti newspaper
Al-Qabas.
The fight for west Beirut pits the
Shiite militia Amal, led by Nabih
Berri, against an alliance of Walid
Jumblatt’s Druse fighters and gun
men of the Moscow-oriented Leb
anese Communist Party.
They are nominal allies in nearly
12 years of civil war with Lebanese
Christians, but periodically turn on
each other in west Beirut territorial
disputes.
Wednesday’s fighting broke a
cease-fire arranged by Syria that was
called at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday but did
not take hold until midnight.
People had just emerged from
basements and bomb shelters in the
morning to assess the damage when
the new battle began.
Police said Druse also besieged the
Amal-held government television
station in the Tallet Khayyat district
and were trying to push toward the
airport, which is adjacent to Shiite
slums on Beirut’s southern outskirts.
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