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Vol. 107 No . 87
Reagan VP List Narroiood To 3 emphasized Reagan had made no final decision. " Anything could happen, " said one s t ra t egi st. " It's possible other names could be added. But it has really come down to those three." There ,was no im m edia te comment from the three . Reagan met in Los Angeles Wednesday with his top adviser s on the vice presiden tial selection . At the meeting were campaign director Will iam Casey, chief of staff Edwin Mees e , special assistant
DETROIT (UPI) - Ronald Reagan Thursday tentatively narrowed his vice presidential field to three candidates while his convention forces battled conservative delegates seeking strong foreign policy and military platform planks . Reagan campaign aides disclosed in Washington that Reagan narrowed the list of possible running mates to former U .N . Ambassador George Bush, Sen. Richard Lugl! r of Indiana and Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada. But they
M ichael Dea ve r, a nd comm unic ations chief Lynn Nofziger. It wa s not likely Reagan would m ake a final decison on a running mate until he arrives at the convention Monday , one top aide told U n ited Pres s International in Washington. "I think he wants to discuss it thoroughly with other pa r ty leaders fir st," said a campaign aide. It was learned th at Laxal.t, Continued on Page 18
State Heat )Wave Death Toll Hits 9 United Press International The relentless heat wave has claimed nine lives across Mississippi during the past eigbt days and officials say the 100degree temperatures may have contributed to additional deaths among elderly persons . Weather ' forecasters said no letup was in sight from the stifling heat which broke records Th ursday in Jackson and Meridian, which each recorded 100 degree temperatures. Leflore County Coroner James Hankins said five elderly Greenwood residents have died from heat-related causes in the last four days. The victims, all in their 70s or 80s, were fou nd dead in their homes with doors and windows closed. ·Hankins said all of the victims also had some other phy sical defects, but he blamed the deaths on the heat. ' Dr. John M. Smoot, a private , physician in Panola County , said two elderly women in the county : " definitely" died of heat stroke , earlier in the week and that he ., suspected it was a contributing i factor in two other deaths. . . Although Smoot listed the cause \. of death in two cases and "undetermined," he said all four l· were similar in nature. He said ;· the victims were all 71 to 84. · "All four had been closed up in I their homes ," he said in a \ telephone interview from his /\ office in Sardis. "It appears the \\ hotter it got outside, they 1 \ apparently felt they could get out iof the heat by closing themselves ' off." Smoot said the two women both . lived in small houses that had ,! been closed tight. Both had wood : stoves burning where they had ! apparently cooked · earlier, he said, adding that temperatures . inside the houses were between l1 108 and 109 degrees. ./ The other two victims we re 1 • found by relatives in similar , situations, he said. \ "While I can 't prove they died from the heat, I feel it was a ' contributing factor," he said. " Both were in good health for \ their age. Neither had had a 1 • re cent illness ." ) Earlier Wednesda y, Harrison i County Coroner Ed Little said 1 Ja mes T. Hudson, 58, of the Woolmarket community , died 1 1 around noon from heat exhaustion. Hudson's body was found in his Jeep near some land he had been surveying . He apparently drove off the road into
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sen. P aul Laxalt
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Khomeini To Send Sick Hostage Home
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United Press International Rich ard Queen , one of the 53 American h ostages in Iran, is seriously ill in a Tehran hospital and Ayatolla h Ruhollah Khomein i ha s ordered that he be sent home to his parents , Tehra n Radio announced Thursday. The r adio said Queen, 28, a na tive of New York; was in "serious" condition in a Tehran hospital. It did not disclose the nature of his illness but said it was serious e nough for Khomeini to order his release after 250 days in captivity . One militant in the occupied U .S . E mbassy, r eached by telephone by a reporter , said, "What the Im am (Khomeini) has sa id in his statement is true ."
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SURPRISING MESSAGE - -President Carter, with a look of surpr ise on his fac e, reads a report Thursday that Richa rd Queen, one of 53 America n hostages in Iran, had been ordered home by Ayatollah Khomeini. P ress Secretary Jody · Powell, left, and National Security Ad visor Zbigniew Brzezinski gave Carter the report in Anc horage, Alaska.
In several broadcasts announcing Khomeini's orders , the radio carried conflic ting accounts of Queen's illness and the events leading to the order for his r elease. One broadcast said Queen , a vice consul on his first foreign assignm ent, was rushed ' to the hospit a l Thursd ay. Another broadcast quoted hi s milit ant captors as saying he had been in the hospital fo r severa l days . Announ c ing Khomei n i' s
decision, it said Queen would be flown to a " third country" of his par ents ' choice . But a nother news bulletin imp lied that Queen's parents , who live in Lincolnville, Ma ine, would be allowed to come · to Tehran to escort him home . In Scarsdale, N.Y. , where they were visiting rel atives , Queen's parents , Harold and Jeanne, said they were "tremendously excited but wor r ied" abouftheir son. " We ' r-e · worried , the health, there must be som e reason ," Mrs. Queen said . " We ask that you all pray. " Mrs . Queen said her son ha s no history of any health problem. Asked her thoughts on Khomeini, Mrs. Queen said simply, "The whole world should be fi:iends. W.e have n o i ll fee l i ng to
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The elder Queen said fir st reaction when the State De partment inform ed him of the possible r elease of his son ·was "deep, deep, deep concern. " President Carter, in Alaska on his way home from Japan, said at Elm endorf Air F or ce Base in Anchorage , " We don't yet have a confirmation of this report. If it is true a nd if the young man is well
A FEDERAL JUDGE defied President Carter's ban on court settlements of financ ia l claims against Iran Thur sday and ruled U.S. insuran ce . firms are entitled to compensation for assets n ationalized by the Tehr~n government. Page 2.
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Lee Alternative Fuels Group Seeking FaciH1y Funding By REBECCA BOWERS Staff Writer A.Lee County-based alternative fuels organization is deter mined to find other sourc es of funding after the Department of Energy turned down its initia l request for $2.1 million. Agri-F uels Inc . preside nt Mike Mask said Thur s d ay 'the organization is und a unted in its quest to build a $2.8 million methane gas-powered facility that will produce a million gallons
"We can go back to other alternatives of funding. We're let down, we were just sure we were going to get it." Agri-Fu.e ls Inc. president Mike Mask of ethyl alcohol a day. "The board of director s has passed a r esolution to sell another 500 shares of stock in the corpora tion to raise more funds ," said Mask . Stockholders were expe cted to meet at the Lee County extension office Thur sday night to vote on
the sale of sh ares . Mask and oth e r perso ns conne cted with .the allernative fue ls agency expressed surprise at the denial of fu nd s. " DO E told us we were in the top category of the 971 applicants, " said Mask. DOE Wednesday announced· its
selection of 110 projects to receive the first g rants und er the recently enacted $20 billion alternative fue ls program. A total of $200 million was dele gated to the projects, selected from a field of 971 applic ants. Agri-Fuels In c. would have been one of the 11 organizations
recei ving $100 mill i on for cooperative agreem ents with the government toward fi na nciqg prec onstruction costs. Energy depart ment officials said un successful a pplicants could resubmit their proposa ls for a second round of funding totaling $300 million . " We can go back to other alternatives of fundiI?,g," said Continued on Page 18
FDA: Tranquilizing Drugs Not Intended For Everyday Use WASHING TON (UPI) Doctors will be warned that Valium, the single most widely prescribe d drug in the country , and other tranquilizers should not be used just to help people cope wi th e veryd ay liv ing, t he gov e rnm ent announc ed Thursday. Th e Food and D ru g Administration said five drug companies th-at manufacture the
class of tranquilizers .calle d benzodiazepines have agreed to r ev is e labeling directed at physicia ns to reflect concerns about possible addiction through casual use . "Tranquilizer s ca n ·do great good in helpin g people ge t through c risis situations or in helping with problems of mental illnes s," said FDA Commissione r Jere Goy an. "Yet millions of
Am ericans are ·takin g the m habitually just to deal with the anxiety of living. "T hese dru gs were not intended me rely to deal with normal anxiety. I'm especially concerned a bout p eople continually ta king these drugs wi thout kn owfog that they are becoming physically and psyc hologically dependent." Va liti m · is both the most frequently prescribed drug in the
Unite d Sta tes and the largestse lling tranquilizer. The FDA sa id Americans are downing benzodiazepines at a rate of 5 billion pills a year. In 1978, the agency sa id, 2.5 billion Valium t a blets were sold. Th at sa m e year, · 68 million individual prescri pt ions were written for all benzodi azepines, with a wholesale value of $360 million.
pope meets bishops . Pope John Paul II Thursday urged 200 Brazilian bishops to overcome diff e rences to "transform society." Page 26.
tupelo cutbacks sought Tupelo officials are looking for more places to cut spending with projected revenues falling well under proposed 1981 expenses, Purchasing Agent David Long • said Thursday. Page 8.
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The r evised labeling will state . t hat, " Anxiety or te n s ion associated with the stress of everyday life usually does not req uire treat ment wit h an anxiolytic (a nti-anxiety) drug." Dr. Sidney Wolfe , head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, said Valium is the nation 's most heavily pr omoted drug , and that Continued on Page 18