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World beat I ■ .. . International Young pilot 'a Kero' FRANKFURT. West Germany (AP) — Mathias Rust's daring flight across the Soviet Union to the Kremlin is making the 19-year-old pilot a national hero, a West German David who outwitted the Russian Goliath. A radio station asked whether he could bo nominated for the country’s highest civilian decoration. A senior Defense Ministry official said West Ger man air force pilots could learn from his deft low-level flight to Moscow. The government formally condemned Rust’s exploit and said Monday it hopes the Soviets, who now have him in prison, will in; lenient with the young man. Since he buzzed Iamin's tomb and landed on the cobblestones outside St. Basil’s cathedral Thursday evening, Rust’s adventure has dominated news in West Germany Prime minister dies BEIRUT, Lebanon (AI») - A bomb planted in Prime Minister Rashid Karami'a attache case blew up during a helicopter flight Monday and killed the veteran Moslem politician. The co-pilot took the controls from the wounded pilot and landed the shattered aircraft. Thirteen people — karami. aides and crew — were aboard the French-built Puma. Interior Minister Abdullah Rassi was among the four wounded, all of whom were released after treatment. The assassination of the Syrian-backed Karami. 65. Lebanon's longest-serving prime minister, further dimmed prospects for an early end to the sectarian violence that has bat tered this nation for 12 years A man identifying himself only as Capt. Hammond claim ed responsibility for Karami's assassination on behalf of the hitherto unknown "Lebanese Secret Army." But police said the telephone call appeared to be a hoax Senators visit Kuwait KUWAIT (AP) — Sens John Glenn and |ohn Warner came to Kuwait on Monday from Saudi Arabia, where they wore reportedly told that the kingdom would prefer to see the Persian Gulf free of any super power military intervention. Glenn. D-Ohio, and Warner. K-Va.t are on a counlry-a-day tour exploring U.S.-Arab action to protect gulf shipping against hazards of the Iraq-lran war. In Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, they held talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. US. diplomats in Kuwait said. Arab diplomatic sources said Saud was presenting the think ing of King Fahd in expressing reluctance to see superpower muscle-flexing in the gulf, through which 20 percent of the non-communist world's oil passes. Soviet deal accepted BONN. West Germany |AI’) — West Germany said Monday it will accept Soviet proposals on nuclear missile reduction, clearing the way for a joint NATO response, but attached a condition that may not please the Kremlin. A statement issued after a Cabinet meeting of nearly four hours insisted that the 72 I’er shing lA missiles controlled by West Germany remain outside any Sovlet-IJ.S. agreement removing nuclear missiles. The Pershing tAs have a range of 450 miles. They are operated by West Germany, but their nuclear warheads are under U.S. control. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's coalition government lias been wrangling for weeks over Soviet offers of a deal to remove medium and shorter-range nuclear missiles from Europe. National Linder death probed WASHINGTON (Al'l - The Stale Department needs to la* more aggressive in pursuing details about the death of Ben iamin binder, an American kill ed last monI li by a n t i Nicaraguan guerrillas. Hep les AuCoin, D-Ore.. said Monday. AuGotn. whose district in cludes binder's home, released a letter to Secretary of Slate George I’. Shull/, urging Shult/ to "upgrade your efforts to get to the bottom of this incident binder. 27. of Portland, was shot and killed by contra guer rillas April 2H near a hydroelec tric project on which he was working in Nicaragua. He had been working with the leftist Nicaraguan Sandinista govern ment. which is the target of the U.S.-backed guerrillas AuGoin had asked the State Department to investigate the details of binder's death, but a reply to that request raised more questions than it answered, the legislator said. CIA knew about aid WASHINGTON (AIM Suspended CIA station chief |oo Fernandez, in secret sworn testimony made public Mon day. said the CIA's covert operations chief misled Con gress last fall when he testified the spy agency never facilitated private efforts to resupply Nicaragua's Contra rebels, even indirectly. Fernandez said that in fact his CIA superiors knew he was us ing a sophisticated KL-4:t en cryption device supplied by Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North to pass on intelligence informa tion to Contra leaders and private U.S. citizens to assist air drops of weapons and other supplies. Camp fire PEBBLE BEACH. Calif |AP) — A campfire that got out of control was blamed Monday for a wind-fanned blaze that hop ...——— pod from roof to roof in this ex clusive area, burning :17 homos, causing $10 million damage and forcing more than 2(H) peo ple to flee. The fast-moving flames quickly hopscotched through homes nestle<l in about 140 acres of brush and woods Nine people, including eight firefighters, suffered minor injuries. The fire was largely contain ed bv late morning, nearly 21 hours after the first wisps of smoke were spotted near 17-Vlile Drive, a private road which attracts about 1.5 million tourists annually for a look at the exclusive residences, the craggy Pacific coastline and several famous golf courses Drug testing resumes WASHINGTON |AP) The Supreme Court, confronting the issue of public employee drug testing for the first time, allow ed the U S Customs Servii e on Monday to resume, at least tem porarily. testing workers who want promotions to drug en forcement jobs. Voting 8-1, the justices in jected a union's emergency re quest to block the tests pending the court's further review of the case Regional Tax bill nears end SALEM (Al’| A com promise version of an income tax bill that would cut taxes for about six out of 10 Oregon households is headed to presumably final votes in the House and Senate. A joint bargaining committee on Monday finished work on the latest version of the measure. The bill passed Inith houses unanimously the first time around. The differences bet ween the two chambera’ ver sions were relatively minor and were quickly dealt with by the conference committee. The purpose of Mil 2225 is to put into the state tax code many of the federal income lax changes passed by (longress last Vear. It now returns to the chambers for action on the com mittee’s changes In-vitro twins born PORTLAND (AP) The firs! twins tfi be produced in Oregon with the in-vitro fertilization process were shown off try their parents Monday. Tamara Barron, a 35-year-old elementary school teacher from Boring, told reporters that she and her husband. Lonnie. 39. had been trying unsuccessfully for five years to have children before they intered the in-vitro program at Oregon Health Sciences University. Nicholas Allan and Zachary l<eonard were born Wednesday in the Portland hospital eight weeks prematurely. The twins, who weighed 3 pounds !0 ounces and 3 pounds 11 ounces at birth, were in fair condition Monday at University Hospital. They are the third and fourth babies to be born in the Oregon in-vitro program. Hill rejects charges SAI.KM | AP) State Son |im Mill Haiti Monday dial an far as he could tell, allegations against his committee ad ministrator involve possible "borderline ethics violations" hut no criminal conduct. "There are no criminal charges as a result of this in vestigation." the Salem Democrat said. Mill made the comment at a news conference as an attorney general's investigation con tinued into the activities of Roliert K darker |r.. :t l Situ e Friday. darker has been on paid leave from his job as ad ministrator of the business. Mousing and Finance Commit tee Mill is chairman of that committee and hired darker in |a unary Abuse bill passes SAI.IAt (Al'| A hill In in crease penalties for sexually abusing children 12 and under won unanimous approval Mon day in the Oregon House The measure, IIH UM1. boosts (he maximum penally for that offense from five years in prison lo ID years liehiiid bars floor manager for the bill. Hep. Slau Bunn. Ktlavton. noted that the state bas actually lightened |H'iialties for many crimes in an effort to ease prison crowding. Even so. people who sexually abuse children 12 and under deserve tougher prison sentem es than they’re currently getting. 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