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NUMBER 197
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS 76240
10 PAGES — 25 CENTS
MONDAY, APRIL 18,1988
Navy blasts Iranian frigate,oil platforms
Ship set afire after it fired missiles at U.S. aircraft
latest fighting:
warning) aircraft to turn away or to
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COOKE COUNTY LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
Temperature at 8 a.m., 50
degrees. Precipitation at 8
a. m.,. 78 rain; so far this month
1.06 rain.
Lake Texoma: Level of lake
617.53 feet above sea level;
temperature of the water 58 de-
grees F.
By PAUL BROWN
Register Staff Writer
With a raucous, costumed event Saturday night,
the Cooke County Chapter of the American Heart
Association topped its 1988 fund-raising goal and -
set an all-time record for donations.
Although the final figures are not yet in, the
Second Annual Celebrity Waitr Banquet and
Auction netted the local AHA chapter about $7,000
to send this year’s donation total soaring well over
the previous record amount of about $28,000,
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Yesterday Year ago
be considered hostile. About 8:30
a.m. (EDT), the Sahand fired upon
three A-6 Intruder aircraft on patrol
in the area off the USS Enterprise.
“The Intruders returned fire with
two Harpoon missiles and a number
of laser-guided bombs. Shortly
thereafter, the USS Strauss, a des-
troyer, engaged the Sahand with an
By NORMAN BLACK
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON — An Iranian
brought in during 1985-86, according to Bill Lawler,
development chairman for the chapter. This
year’s goal was $22,000.
Drawing about 200 attendees from the Cooke
County area, the banquet featured about 20 well-
known local luminaries who donned colorful, or
almost non-existant costumes to add to the fun of
waiting on tables.
“Functions like this are impossible to pull off
without people like Dr. Marvin Knight, Virginia
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additional Harpoon. All the ord-
nance appears to have hit the frig-
ate and it’s heavily damaged.
“It’s on fire at the moment and
the smoke is so heavy that it’s diffi-
cult to do a further assessment at
this point.”
Howard added that the Strauss
had been patrolling the area in and
around the Strait of Hormuz along
with two other ships, the destroyer
O’Brien and the frigate Jack Wil-
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Gainesville Daily Register
Now in our 98th Year A
Workshop and the city’s mental
health clinic. Proceeds from
the sale of the books will be
used to finance the workshop’s
summer activities at Camp
Sweeny.
The Camp Sweeny program
is scheduled for late in the
summer of *88.
ABOUT A year ago Cooke
County College’s tennis coach,
Bob Chaloupecky, introduced
By BILL KING
Register Writer
DO YOU enjoy cooking? Now ,
I’m one of those people who en-
joys eating, but if I h ad to do the
cookin’, I fear I might well
starve to death.
But, if you do indeed enjoy
the cooking as much as the eat-
ing, I’ve got a good deal for you.
Jean Martin, production
supervisor at the Joe Walter
Dr. Knight-mare "StaffPhotobPauerown
Gainesville veterinarian Dr. Marvin Knight American Heart Association Second Annual
waits tables with a determined grimace and a Celebrity Banquet Saturday. The event netted
grass-skirtful of dollar bills at the Cooke County the chapter its largest-ever contribution total.
By LAURA KING
Associated Press Writer
The Democratic contenders
thundered into the home stretch of
the New York primary campaign
today, spurring on their supporters
in a contest that could carry con-
siderable weight in deciding which
of them will win their party’s presi-
dential nomination.
“Too Close To Call,” blared a
New York Daily News headline. A
poll published by the newspaper on
Sunday, along with other surveys,
indicated Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis was ahead of
Jesse Jackson, with Sen. Albert
Gore Jr. trailing.
But the polls suggest Dukakis’
lead has narrowed, and New York
Gov. Mario Cuomo said he
me to his friend, John McDon-
nell. John resides in Whit-
temore, Iowa and he recently
made his annual pilgrimage
back to Cooke County.
While in town, John kept up
with Gainesville lore via King
of the Road. While in the pro-
cess of digesting my ram-
blings, John ran across a
misplaced letter that tickled
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' Workshop, has announced that
her organization’s brand new
cook book is now on sale.
“The book is filled with favor-
ite recipes of the staff and cli-
ents at the Joe Walter
Workshop,” Jean said. “It also
includes recipes from people in
other North Texas counties. ”
She highly recommends the
book, which sells for $6 and is
available at the Joe Walter
8889
navy frigate was attacked and set
afire by U.S. planes and an troyed two Iranian offshore plat-
American destroyer today after the forms, said Dan Howard, the
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The confrontation occurred in the ate appeared to provide fresh evi-
Strait of Hormuz the entrance to dence that Iran intended to respond
the Persian Gulf, around 8:30 a.m. militarily around the gulf to the U.S.
EDT, about 71 hours after the attack on its off shore platforms.
United States bombarded and des- Earlier, an Iranian patrol boat
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nabbed
By STEVE NASH
Register Staff Writer
Gainesville police were question-
ing a man this morning they expect
to charge with burglary, Police
Chief Carl Dunlap said.
The man, whose identity police
have not yet released, fits the de-
scription of someone who fled from
a house he was attempting to bur-
glarize this morning, Dunlap said.
The man who fled had been caught
in the act when the resident re-
turned to his home at about 9a.m.
Cooke County College student Coy
Eddleman, of 735 N. Grand Avenue,
came home from class and noticed
his VCR had been taken from the
living room and placed on a bed, the
chief said.
“He observed the man going
through the bedroom closet, as
though he was looking for some-
thing. He yelled at the suspect, and
the guy turned around and said
something to him,” Dunlap said.
Dunlap said the suspect fled out
the back door and was last seen
running north in the 700 block of
Taylor Street. Eddleman followed
the man long enough to see Which
way he was running, and returned
home to call the police, Dunlap said.
. Police officer John Bailey later
spotted a man who fit the suspect’s
description on Highway 82, near
Grand Avenue. Bailey detained the
man for questioning, and he was
then taken to police headquarters,
Dunlap said.
“We’ve got the suspect here, and
he does match the description. I’m
sure he’s going to be charged, but it
will be later this afternoon. We’re
still processing fingerprints that
are going to tie it together,” Dunlap
said.
Law enforcement officials are in-
vestigating other unrelated inci-
dents.
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“wouldn’t be surprised” by a Jack-
son victory. Observers said turnout
could be the crucial factor.
“The race is getting closer and
turnout is the key,” said New York
pollster Lee Miringoff. He said a
low turnout would favor Jackson, News Network indicated the race
whose supporters are seen as gen- was becoming tighter.
erally being more fervent than The Post-ABC poll, based on
those of the other candidates, and interviews Friday and Saturday
thus more likely to follow through nights and pubished today, showed
and vote. Dukakis with 46 percent support,
Cuomo said Sunday a high turn- Jackson with 40 percent and Gore
out “should make us all happy ... with 11 percent. The survey, with a
but I’m not sure there’s going to be margin of error of 8 percentage
one., . . points, was based on telephone
Dukakis was staging a get-out- interviews with 183 registered
the-vote rally in lower Manhattan Democrats who said they planned
today with cousin Olympia to vote in the prim ary.
Dukakis, who won an Academy The USA Today-CNN survey
Award last week for her role in the taken Friday, Saturday and Sunday
movie “Moonstruck.” found Dukakis with 46 percent sup-
Gore was making a series of sub- port, Jackson 34 percent and Gore
way stops with a big-name backer, still far behind at 9 percent. The
New York Mayor Edward Koch, survey questioned 846 registered
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was sunk after advancing on U.S. The Iranian frigate, a 310-foot
warships; an American helicopter warship named the Sahand,
came under fire from another gun- steamed out of the naval base at
boat, and one U.S. warship fired on Bandar Abbas earlier this morning
two approaching Iranian jet fight- and “was noticed closing rapidly
ers, although it was unclear upon three U.S. warships.”
whether they were hit. “The Sahand ignored repeated
Howard gave this account of the warnings from a U.S. E-2 (early-
who has made a splash with harsh Democrats who said they were cer-
attacks on Jackson. Koch took the tain to vote Tuesday and had a mar-
offensive again Sunday, suggesting gin of error of 3.5 percentage points,
on ABC’s “This Week With David Dukakis heads into the New York
Brinkley” that Jackson, when contest with a fresh victory to his
under stress, was “not capable of credit, in Arizona’s weekend cau-
telling the truth.” cuses. He bested Jackson by a 3-2
Polls by The Washington Post- margin in the Saturday contest,
ABC News and USA Today-Cable (Continued on page
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providing care to these patients in missions was 4.4 days, compared“4. . _
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ways of saving Medicare dollars,” missions needed medical attention, , , . . .
says the report, a copy of which was but not in an acute care setting,” the
obtained by The Associated Press. ranorcoin Tt nlaced nearlv 78 ner- . - • -a --
terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait. French embassies in Kuwait in
Speaking extremely slowly and in 1983.
a tired voice, a man identified by Kuwait has refused the demand,
mww ,", the Arab hijackers as Fadel Khaled The Shiite Moslem hijackers are
By , Al-Sabah said: “I hope Kuwait re- armed with grenades and guns and
‘ leases all the prisoners.” He then have threatened to blow up the
B, mumbled something unintelligible, plane.
g- . y >' and added “Thanks to God.” Algerian officials privately ex-
F ft. The control tower at Algiers pressed hope the gunmen might
Houari Boumedienne Airport asked free one or more of their estimated
L " . .. ?. - - in English that the statement be re- 35 hostages early today as a gesture
K peated. One of the hijackers then of goodwill to mark the beginning of
B got on the radio and replied: “He the monthlong fast of Ramadan.
K doesn’t want to talk.” traditionally a period of reconcili-
Reports from a hostage freed ear- ation for devout Moslems.
- . ' Her said that Al-Sabah was in very The hijackers demanded a spe-
bad condition, apparently suffering cial Ramadan meal before dawn,
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- when the fast began at daybreak.
The analysis was based on 7,050 cent in that category, but concluded - .-c Sabah’s sisters, also are aboard On Sunday, a passenger radioed a
patient records at 214 randomly that almost 12 percent of the Kuwait Airways Flight 422. message to the control tower saying
selected hospitals from October patients did not require immediate Vherediditgo (Staf photo by Paul Brown) The Thailand-to-Kuwait flight that the hostages faced certain
1984to March 1985.1^ treatment of any kind when they one him,but youthful baseball received was hyacked Aprils with 112 people deathif!the17pro-ranian prisoners
740 admissions, or 10.5 percent, wereadmitted. . , 1 J.. ’ . , - T , . . j aboard and forced to land in Mas- were not freed by Kuwait.
were unnecessary. Most of the other medically un- plenty of instruction Saturday from Leopard coach Pat Benton and hhad, Iran, where 57 were released. Amanaboardthejet,whoident-
There is potential financial incen- necessary admissions were classed the GHS baseball team. The occasion was Leopard Day, during On April 8, the jet flew to Cyprus, ified himself as Suleiman Farhan
tive to admit patients who do not as either “social admissions,” such which Benton and his team coached Little Leaguers and other where two passengers were killed Doukhi, said in the message: “All
need hospitalization under a plan (Continued on page 2) baseball enthusiasts on fundamentals. and 13 freed. Since landing in (Continued on page 2)
Kuwaiti hostage wants
17 terrorists released
' By CHARLES CAMPBELL Algiers one passenger has been
MMA. Associated Press Writer freed, leaving about 35 hostages, in-
ALGIERS, Algeria — A member eluding the three members of
of Kuwait’s royal family, held hos- Kuwait’s extensive royal family,
tage aboard a jumbo jet, said today The five to eight hijackers are
he wants his government to give in demanding the release of the 17 men
to the hijackers’demand and free 17 jailed for bombing the U.S. and
By JERRY ESTILL established by Congress in 1983
Associated Press Writer which sets a fixed payment for each
WASHINGTON — Federal inves- of 475 diagnosis related groups — or
tigators have compiled evidence DRGs, as they are known in the in-
suggesting the nation’s hospitals dustry.
are making billions of dollars extra A hospital receives the same. "
by admitting patients who could be payment for each admission for a JA
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got on the radio and replied: “He
doesn ’t want to talk. ’ ’
Reports from a hostage freed ear-
lier said that Al-Sabah was in very
p ... ______________________________o
but not in an acute care setting,” the " ... from a nervous disorder. Two other
report said. It placed nearly 78 per-7 - members of the royal family, Al-
cent in that category, but concluded . . . Sabah’s sisters, also are aboard
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