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Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Now accepting applications for study leading to degree in both Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Courses taught in English. Programs under guidance of American Dean utilizing American curriculum. Transfer students accepted. Semester begins March 1983. We are an accredited school and listed in W H O. and affiliated with U S. hospitals for clinical rotation. Direct inquiries to: Ross University Portsmouth, Dominica. WI Attention: Mr. Butler or Canbbean Admissions, Inc. 16 West 32 Street, New York, N Y. 10001 Tylenol-cyanide killing suspect indicted in ’78 for brutal murder CHICAGO (AP) — A man be ing sought for questioning in connection with seven cyanide Tylenol deaths was indicted, but never tried, in 1978 for the brutal murder of a Kansas City man. authorities said Thursday James Lewis, who also uses the name Robert Richardson, was charged with the murder of Raymond West, whose dis membered body was found in his Kansas City attic in a "semi mummified condition," said II linois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, who is heading a task force investigating the seven deaths However, the charges were later dropped and Lewis was never tried, Fahner said at a news conference An extortion warrant for Lewis, using the name Richard son, was issued in Chicago ear lier alleging that he wrote a let • ft Page 4 ter to McNeil Consumer Products Co., maker of Tylenol, demanding $1 million "if you want to stop the killings ” A Chicago detective had been sent to Oklahoma and Texas to try to locate him Fahner had said earlier that while Richardson was wanted on the extortion charge, he has "never been a suspect” in the killings Earlier Thursday, police said a Jewel Food employee arrest ed on a tip earlier this week remains a "possible potential suspect" in the deaths of the seven people who had taken cyanide-contaminated Extra Strength Tylenol capsules Nonetheless, police Lt August Locallo said, there is no evidence that Roger Arnold, 48, the Jewel employee, put cyan ide in the capsules, and he has denied any involvement. Fahner had described Ar nold’s arrest Monday as "an other one of those (incidents) that are unrelated" to the killings. Several coincidences too strong to ignore make Arnold a "possible potential suspect," and he was uncooperative with detectives, Locallo said Auth orities are continuing to inves tigate him, he said After being released on bond Wednesday Arnold said, "I had nothing to do with this Tylenol thing at all.” He is charged with five counts of failure to register firearms and one count of ag gravated assault stemming from an earlier incident in a tavern. Reagan vows to end crime, drug menace WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres Ronald Reagan vowed Thurs day to "end the drug menace and cripple organized crime" with a $200 million program that will blanket the nation with federal narcotics task forces Reagan, criticized in Con gress last year for scaling back the fight against drug traf fickers, said the government will hire up to 1,200 more agents and investigators for a dozen task forces The illicit drug bu siness in the United States is worth an estimated $80 billion "The time has come to cripple the power of the mob in Amer ica," Reagan told more than 300 people at the Justice Depart ment Administration officials said the task forces will try to infil trate the drug mobs, concen trating on long range investiga tions aimed at breaking up networks rather than street pushers They will be modeled after the task force, headed by Vice President George Bush, that was formed to combat the drug trade in South Florida Although Congress must ap prove permanent financing for the plan, the administration in tends to begin the operation by shifting available funds from other programs The $200 million cost of the program also includes up to $34 million to expand prisons to make room for some 1,260 ad ditional inmates The administration also is backing legislation to deny bail to accused people who are considered dangerous Friday, October 15, 1982
