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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Syrian missiles
bomb Israeli jets
JERUSALEM (AP) - Syria
fired surface-to-air missiles at
Israeli jets over eastern
Lebanon Tuesday and Syrian
MiGs were reported patrolling
the skies over northern
Lebanon in a major escalation
of the Middle East crisis that
the Reagan administration
was trying desperately to keep
from erupting into war.
Prime Minister Menachem
Begin told Parliament after
meeting with President
Reagan’s envoy, Philip Habib,
that Israel would exhaust
every diplomatic means, but if
none succeeded, "military
means will be used.” Par
liament backed Begin by a
vote of 51-39 but failed to give
him bipartisan support.
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.
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