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Don Miller, executive director of the United States Olympic Committee, has gent- ly but firmly rejected a proposal by the Town of North Elba that the town build a field house training center on town land near the Horse Show grounds for training of Olympic athletes. In a letter to Peter Moreau, ex- ecutive director of the Lake Placid Chamber, who broached the idea to Miller on behalf of the Town of North Elba on June 1, Miller reiterated the USOC's policy of dealing only with the Olympic Regional Development Authority in developing all Olympic training facilities in the area. The authority and Ned Harkness, chief ORDA executive officer, are firmly opposed to the fieldhouse con- cept about which, Harkness says, he was never consulted. Harkness was in Colorado two weeks ago with a different proposal for developing Olympic training in the area, which, Harkness said today, was enthusiastically greeted by the USOC. The ORDA proposal would utilize the gymnasiums at Paul Smith's Col- lege and North Country Community College, the high school tracks in Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, the area lakes (for crew training) and the Saranac Lake Civic Center as a box- ing training site. Ned Harkness Beirut embassy blast said to be inside job i ® 1 LONDON (UPI) - The bomb blast that wrecked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was aimed at a CIA meeting and planned by 16 Islamic extremists working at the embassy, a British television network said. In an exclusive report that quoted diplomatic and intelligence sources, Independent Television News said Tuesday 16 non-Americans planned the April 18 attack that killed some 60 people and injured more than 100. The U.S. State Department in May denied a previous report that the ex- plosion was an inside job. ITN said the explosion was timed for maximum effect — to disrupt a CIA meeting in progress inside the building. Several key CIA employees were reported killed in the explosion. The report was based on com- plicated cross-checking of bank ac- counts in Tehran,, Damascus and Beirut, ITN said. The report said none of the 16 plotters, employed as office cleaners and cafeteria workers, were killed or captured. The report said those responsible — including two Lebanese and 14 people with Iranian or Syrian connections — placed 300 to 400 pounds of explosives near the employee cafeteria. the explosion devastated the front of the eight-story building and ripped through the rest of the structure. -^ Embassy officials in Beirut have said the exact death toll will never be known because there is no record of the number of passersby or visitors in the building of the area at thei timepf theblast. _ -' / *\., ,.,, \/'.C\ \. An Islamic fundamentalist group that supports Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhbllah Khomeini claim- ed responsibility for {he attack but firm there has never been any evidence who was behind it. The official U.S. version of the inci- dent said a truck jammed with ex- plosives forced its way past embassy guards and slammed through the buiWmg's doors to detonate just in- side the facility. State Department testimony in Washington described it as a suicide attack by a \driver in a pickup truck loaded with 2,000 pounds of TNT,\ but said some of the details may never be known because most witnesses \did not survive.\ Late News DAMASCUS, Syria (UPI) — Palestinian leaders ended three days of talks on the the rebellion in the Palestine Liberation Organization, failing to find a formula to end the mutiny against Yasser Arafat. A six-man team of PLO mediators today planned to return to Tunisia to brief Arafat on the negotiations with the dissidents in Al Fatah, the mainline PLO guerrilla group where the rebellion began two months ago. Tunis has been Arafat's headquarters since the PLO evacuated Beirut, Lebanon, last year. The PLO mediators, headed by Palestine National Council speaker Khaled Fahoum, were also expected to flleet in Tunis with the -PLO's executive committee. Fahoum said he was carrying back new ideas, but refused to say whether any con- cessions had been made. - #a ! hQiim said he would return to Damascus Thursday or Friday for more talks with the PLO dissidents se&irigio end Arafat's one-man rule 0 tlie PLO* Fun in Tupper sun Supreme Court rules HMH§&g$\*\! for faster executions • In referring the Chamber and town back to ORDA Miller said, \One of the requirements for establishing a training center in Lake Placid was that the USOC would only deal with a single organization entity. We have established that entity as ORDA. Therefore, if you are interested in further developing your proposal and want USOC involvement, it is sug- gested that you contact ORDA.\ In addition Miller warned Moreau that the Placid people pushing for a field house at the horse show grounds should not use the name or symbols of the United States Olympic Commit- tee in raising furids for such a project. Harkness said today that he is op- posed unalterably to the field house concept for three basic reasons: — It dees not involve the \total Olympic region\. — It misdirects the available dollars into what he called, \duplicate facilities\ and away from the athletes. — It appears to try to take authori- ty away from ORDA over Olympic training in the area, contravening the agreement between ORDA and the USOC. Harkness said today that the pro- posal was never discussed with him by either Moreau or North Elba of- ficials. He said that the USOC officials ex- pressed to him grave concern that marketing agreements between the USOC and private companies might be jeopardized by third-parties trying to raise funds for a field house. Harkness was high in his praise of existing facilities in the region and said that they would be more than adequate for the needs of Olympic athletes training in the area. Harkness has given the USOC of- ficials a full briefing on the available facilities here. Harkness toured them two weeks ago. In the June 1 letter to Miller, Moreau proposed to lease the propos- ed field house to the USOC for a dollar a year, but Miller's answer said that the USOC would only work with OR- DA. Today Harkness said that ORDA's founding legislation would make such . a lease arrangement impossible because the law requires that ORDA have total control of those facilities which are used exclusively for Olym- pic training in the region. In short both Miller and Harkness have rejected the town's proposal completely. .1^ •* Photo by Uia Frenette SANDBOX SET — These two youngsters, Andrea Churco and Shannon McGill, found plenty to do for fun last weekend playing in the sun in Tupper Lake. LSD regains popularity LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Young parently a single .drop of LSD on a people, skeptical about \bad trip\ postage-stamp size piece of blotter drug stories_frpm the psychedelia-jiaper that a user just pops into his '60s, are starting an LSD renaissance mouth, in major cities that will spread across the nation, a drug expert says. UCLA psychopharmacologist Dr. Ron Siegal said Tuesday the resurgence in LSD popularity \appears to be ubiquitous throughout all classes of society and all age groups. But I would say the majority of the users we've seen are under 40. \It's a recreational ifse, an in- frequent use. They're used, but in- frequently abused.\ Los Angeles police said the highest abuse seems to be among high school students, attracted by the ease with which hallucinogens can be obtained and their convenience. Greater sophistication among drug users, refinement of hallucinogens and fewer \bad trips\ are respon- sible for the West Coast, trend toward LSD, PCP and other psychedelics, Siegal said. He predicted the trend ''will spread gradually throughout ihe United States by the end of the decade.\ \We are getting reports of a renaissance of LSD use- in, major cities such as New York and Chicago,\-Siegal Said, noting Users of the mind-altering drugs\ are cynical of the horror stories Surrounding psychedelics. -*' % : ^' '•;; '••, •>' Drugs Sueii. a§ IsiSlS' a^e ifiore refined'today ilfott;;.jftv..|he 1960s, mhkmgJfcfeM^ The '\i^wt*'-p^^oiijittA# ap- m&9f^S^tfimmmS« fwm^^mHs^wm w.\ ras* tea tasm m JMSM t WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Supreme Court, in a major death penalty ruling, upheld 6-3 today a new legal shortcut that could accelerate the pace of executions nationwide. Acting in the case of Thomas Barefoot, a Texas murderer who came within 11 hours of execution in January, the justices in essence ruled he did not deserve a last legal appeal and could have been put to death. In a surprising action as the high court concluded its 1982-83 term, the justices did not rule on the controver- sial Sony \Betamax\ case involving home videotaping of television pro- grams. Without explanation, they set the copyright controversy for reargu- ment next term, which begins in Oc- tober. The capital punishment ruling, which has major repercussions for the 1,202 Death Row prisoners, speeds the processing of last-minute appeals from condemned inmates who have all but exhausted ways of prolonging their lives. From now on, when an execution is imminent a federal appeals court may compress the time it usually takes to fully consider a prisoner's legal claims, give a hurried rejection and let the execution take place on schedule. \Although the (5th U.S. Circuit)* Court of Appeals moved swiftly to decide the stay, this does not mean that its treatment of the merits was cursory or inadequate,\ Justice Byron White wrote for the court. \On the contrary, the court's resolution ... reflects careful con- sideration,\ he said.. Dissenting were Justices William Brennan, an implacable foe of the death penalty, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun. While the court's handling of Barefoot's case was \tolerable White said, that \is not to suggest that its course should be accepted as the norm or as the preferred pro- cedure.\ Instead, White suggested the ap- peals court adopt clear guidelines for ^ the s'fairand.'efficient consideration\ of last-minute death penalty appeals but said they may include \pro- 1 cedures that allow a decision on ihe\ merits of an appeal accompanying , the denial of a stay \ Barefoot's case raised the issue of how last-minute requests for stays of execution should be handled by federal appeals courts, generally the? next-to-last hope for * condemned;; prisoners. « The topic grows in import as jnorV and more condemned prisoners ex- haust the last of their appeals ^ '; In fact, Mississippi officials hoped\ to put the ruling to use immediately to clear 1 the way for the execution to-^ day of child-killer Jimmy Lee Gray >; In spelling out the new guidelines^ White said appeals courts \may adopt expedited procedures'^ provided the prisoner \has adequate opportunity to address the merits (ofl the case) and knows that he is ex-^ pectedtoso.\ \If appropriate notice is provided $ argument on the merits may be, heard at the same time the motion, for a stay is considered, and the cour£ may thereafter render a single' opinion deciding both the merits and> the motion, unless exigencies of time* preclude a considered decision on th& merits,\ he said. If time before execution is so short, the prisoner's claims cannot be argued and decided carefully, the; court said, the execution should be postponed. In Barefoot's case, the appeals court took only seven days from th<§> . filing of his request for a p^tsf.^ ponement to hear arguments;. Mf >r decide there was no merit to Bare- foot's constitutional challenges atid TIO reason to delay his execution.' Barefoot, 37, was scheduled to be executed by injection Jan. 24 for the . August 1978 shooting death of policeman Carl Levin of Harker Heights, Texas. Dedication of Colby beach to William Wallace is set SARANAC LAKE - The village beach on Lake Colby will officially be dedicated to former police chief William J.. Wallace in a ceremony here on July 15. Two stone pillars were recently erected at the entrance to the beach, and a wooden sign will be hung across the top of them proclaiming the \William J. Wallace Memorial Municipal Beach.\ The ceremony will take place 10 years after Wallace's death. The public is invited to a 6 p.m. gathering for the dedication of the beach. Hot dogs and refreshments will be served afterward. Village manager E. John Lawless said the board approved the expense for the pillars and sign about a year ago, but there were delays getting the work done. The completed project will cost about $1,600. The setting for the Wallace memorial is appropriate because he used to be a lifeguard. Most local peo- ple, however, remember him for the 40 years he spent in the police depart- ment. For 25 of those years, he wore the chief's badge. •.,,... Wallace graduated from Saranac Lake High School in 1935. He spgnt. twtf? years working at the Franklin County Jail in Malone and then joineS the Saranac Lake police force; He' was promoted to Sergeant in May, 1945, and then quickly moved up to become chief in Jane of 1945 That same year he attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., and at graduation was invited to join the F.B I He was a member of the FBI Academy Association, as well as the Chiefs of Police Association. Locally, he was connected with the Salvation Army, Santa's jukebox committee, the Wachtimg Archery Club, and the Saranac Lake Fish and Game Club ) His widow Alice Saranac Lake. still resides in v •<N 5^i^fci*:^v.- : «** WfyS 4 IRIS'S. .•->•- i'~ assails*^' JSweds ii 01 *m* -n** > J. \*\**'' t*^, 1 ' TO BE DEDICATE!^ These stone pillars hanging across thetbnof t&tffc&Bl were recently.erected^t th&viWage beach ai beach to William Wallace. A ceremoi Lake Colby, and will be completed with a sign held on July 15 at 6:00* '•*•. vlrt ***(••€ i-*- +*.**n-r I
