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Irish prisoner dies BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — IRA pri soner Francis Hughes, 25, died in Maze prison Tuesday after 59 days without food, the second hunger striker in a week to die in a campaign to win political status from Britain for imprisoned Irish nationalists. Hughes died a week after fellow IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, 27, succumbed in the 66th day of his fast. Three other Irish nationalist prisoners are on hunger strike. The two, and three other prisoners still fast ing at the Maze, were trying to force the British government to grant imprisoned IRA guerrillas privileges that would give them political prisoner status. Britain said it would not concede because to do so would give legitimacy to the IRA terrorist campaign to end British rule here. The IRA wants to unite this predominantly Protestant British province with the mostly Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland. The Northern Ireland office said, ‘‘Francis Hughes, a prisoner in Her Majesty's prison Maze, died today at 17:43 p.m. He took his own life by refusing food and medical attention for 59 days.” Earlier, spokesmen for Protestant and Roman Catholic militants said the all-out sectar ian warfare that was predicted — but did not develop — after Sands’ death last week in the event of Hughes’ death. —making the news— From Associated Press Reports ATLANTA — William Barrett, a 17-year-old black youth whose body was found early today just hours after he disappeared, died of asphyxiation like 15 of Atlanta’s 26 other slain young blacks, authorities said. DeKalb County Public Safety Director Dick Hand said an autopsy showed the cause of death was asphyxiation “con sistent with ligature strangulation.” "There was minimal evidence of a struggle," Hand said. Barrett’s body was found in a wooded area of suburban DeKalb County between 1 a m. and 2 a m. EDT, about the same time he was reported missing by his mother, said DeKalb police spokesman Chuck Johnson. Police said Barrett was last seen late Monday afternoon. Johnson said he expected the case to be turned over to a special Atlanta police task force investigating the deaths of the 26 other young blacks, but Atlanta police spokeswoman Beverly Harvard said Barrett’s name had not been added to the task force list by Tuesday afternoon. LOS ANGELES — A judge ruled Tuesday that the $1.6 million awarded by a jury to comedian Carol Burnett in her libel suit against the National Enquirer was “clearly exces sive” and reduced the compensation to $800,000. Burnett’s lawyers said they would accept the reduced award, and Superior Court Judge Peter Smith denied a motion by the Enquirer for a new trial. The Enquirer was expected to appeal. Smith, in a stinging denunciation of the tabloid, said the Enquirer was guilty of a "form of legalized pandering" and called its actions "reprehensible" in printing the gossip item that prompted Burnett’s suit. The judge said the 1976 item, which said the entertainer had engaged in rowdy behavior in a posh Washington restaurant, clearly implied that she was drunk at the time. Committee passes bill favoring Vietnam vets WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Veterans Affairs Com mittee approved a bill Tuesday directing the Veterans Admini stration to give priority medical treatment to veterans who believe their ailments spring from exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The Reagan admin istration opposes the legisla tion. Because the government has established no link between the herbicide and any ailment, VA hospitals treat veterans com plaining of diseases which they attribute to Agent Orange as though their health problems did not originate during their military service. Such com plaints are given outpatient attention on a lower priority than service-connected ailments. The measure also would keep in operation for three more years 91 storefront read justment counseling centers for Vietnam veterans. The Reagan administration had proposed that the centers be closed on Oct. 1, for a saving of $31 million a year, but that proposal ran into a wall of op position. Veterans groups said the centers were helping thousands of veterans who would not nor mally turn to VA psychiatrists for advice. Senate ready to approve Reagan plan WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate, ready to give Pres. Reagan his second major legis lative victory in less than a week, lined up Tuesday to approve a $699.1-billion budget guideline for 1982 made to order for his fax and spending cuts. With Senate leaders pushing for a final vote by the early evening on the non-binding plan, the issue in doubt was a margin of victory. Almost all Republicans and many Democrats voiced sup port for the plan, with the loudest objections coming from outnumbered liberals. Sen. Alan Cranston of California, the Democratic whip, said he would oppose the mea sure, declaring that Reagan’s budget ‘‘is badly out of balance. And I’m convinced his econ omic plan will fail to provide a balanced budget even by 1984,” he said. Sen. Lowell Weicker, R Conn., also said he would op pose the plan, criticizing Reagan for deep cuts in social programs while calling for large increases in defense spending. The blueprint for the 1982 fi scal year is similar to the spending guideline the Democratic-controlled House voted last week in a remarkable victory for the president. The relatively minor differences in the two plans will be resolved by negotiators for the two houses, possibly as early as this week. 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The missile firing was an nounced by the Israeli military command, which said, “A number of Syrian surface-to air missiles were fired at noon today, Tuesday, at Israel air force planes on a routine reconnaissance flight in the Bekaa Valley region in Lebanon. The missiles ap parently were fired from a Sy rian missile base located in side Syria close to the Lebanese border near the Bekaa Valley. The air force planes were not hit and returned safely to their base." In Damascus, a Syrian military spokesman claimed one Israeli reconnaissance jet was brought down by Syrian "air defenses in the Bekaa" Tuesday morning. The Syrian announcement did not specify that missiles were used and witnesses in the Bekaa Valley denied that any planes were downed. It’s a wild and wonderful weekend al O’Callahan’s. We’re featuring SEQUEL, a great Portland rock 'n roll band, that plays it hot! “The Stats” will warm you up and play lead-in for SEQUEL so get your seat early. 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