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Ref rash ing, tempting summer fare Page 6 DE€ program centers on salmon — Page 5 Cubs sweep fight-marred doubleheader — Page 14 Frtss-IUmibliicin Vol. 90-No. 296 Copyright 19S4. The Press-Republican The Hometown Newspaper of ^H Ctmion Essex Fronklm£ounties Plattsburgh, N.Y., 12901, Wednesday Morning, Augusts, 1984 Suggested Price: 30* 46 Pages Islamic terrorists mine Mideast waters ByWADIEKIROLOS CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Iran Tuesday said the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorist group has claimed responsibility for min- ing the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez and praised the campaign to disrupt shipping as \part of the bitter struggle\ against the West. The Iranian report came as U.S. mine-sweeping helicopters headed for the Mediterranean to join patrols by Egyptian and French ships in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. Britain also was considering sending minesweepers to the region. Fourteen ships have been hit and damaged by the mystery mines in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea since July 27, according to the Pentagon: Lloyd's of Lon- don, the world's foremost shipp- ing insurer, lists 12 ships hit. Tehran radio, in a broadcast monitored in Kuwait, reported that the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) terrorist group said it had planted the mines that damaged the ships. Islamic Jihad is the same pro- Iranian terror group that claim- ed responsibility for the October 1983 twin suicide bombings in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. ser- vicemen and 58 French paratroopers. The radio praised the mining as \part of the bitter struggle against the forces of enslave- Cuomo signs AAedicaid reform laws By WILLIAM STEVENS ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - Gov. Mario Cuomo, saying he sought to \cut costs where possible,\ Tuesday signed laws to streamline the $7.5 billion Medicaid program and allow government payments for home care of physically - disabled children. \The Medicaid reform day gives us better control of the program and enables us to direct it more effectively,\ Cuomo said. \The purpose is to cut costs where possible and at the same time make available to Medicaid patients the type of medical care that most of us have taken for granted/ 1 The law boosts fees to doctors and dentists by 30 percent and raises to $72 from $60 the max- imum charge for Medicaid-paid visits to hospital emergency rooms. The fee increases are the second for doctors and the first for dentists since 1966. Emergen- cy room payments were capped in 1981. The law also calls for a five- year experiment of comprehen- sive, pre-paid health plans specificially designed for Medicaid and Medicare patients. Up to seven programs will be established statewide, and Cuomo said they would em- phasize preventive health care. Medicaid clients alto win be given the option of enrolling in existing Health Maintenance Organizations, with local social services departments establishing contracts with the* HMOs. The added costs of $11 million in higher fees for -doctors, den- tists and hospitals will eventually be offset by efficiencies generated by the comprehensive plans, said Assemblyman James Taikm, D-Binghamum, a chief sponsor The law provides $2.Smillkm ia grants to diagnostic aod treat- ment centers tor health cane to the medically indigent and ex- pands Medicaid-paid home health care by removing limits oc around-the-clock nursing pro- visions. The law establishes up to II plans under which a doctor would ibie for a p^uenft en- ment and domination.\ \All the arrogant powers are helpless, unable to save the dozens of ships facing destruc- tion in the Gulf of Suez and the Red sea every day,\ the radio said. But Iranian Prime Minister Hussein Musavi denied at a news conference in Tehran that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic regime was involved in the mining and protested the search of two Iranian ships in the Suez Canal. The searching of the two Ira- nian ships could not be confirmed immediately in Cairo* but the Egpyptian newspaper Al Gomhourisy said \some ships\ traveling through the Suez Canal have been searched. Musavi said that although the Islamic Jihad claimed to support the Islamic revolution its nature was unknown to the Iranian government, a dispatch of the of- ficial Iranian news agency IRNA said. \I will not go into discussion about the nature of this organiza- tion because our government is unaware of it,\ IRNA quoted Musavi as saying. The Iranian statement came a day after Egyptian Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Halim Abu-Ghazala said there were ''indications\ that two na- tions were responsible for the mining. He declined to identify them, Minesweeper The United States on Tuesday airlifted the first of four Navy minesweeping helicopters, tike this RH-53D, to the Middle East to hunt for mines in the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea, Herfe the helicopter pulls a magnetic minesweep- ing sled through the water during a military exercise. (UP) but Iran and Libya both have been widely suspected of involve- ment in the minings. Suspicion focused oa Iran following reports that an Iranian vessel passed through the Suez Canal and the Red S^a twice last month. At Egypt's request, the first of four U.S. Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion left Norfolk, Va., aboard two giant C-5 Galaxy transport planes to join in the search for mines. The'choppers will go into operation in a week to 10 days, a Pentagon official said. The USS Harkness, an oceanographic ship equipped 4 with side-scanning sonar, already is in the Red Sea, along with six Egyptian minesweepers and aircraft,but so far have found no mines. At the southern end of the Red Sea, two French frigates search- ed the area for mines but found nothing, Western diplomatic sources in Djibouti said. Three other French vessels will join the search either later Tuesday or Wednesday, the sources said. I tire medic iat care, iy or by referral. Growing room ^Karate kids come in all sizes, and so do the clothes they wear. Sometimes it's hard to see the kid for the wrinkles, but with more training and a little weight this uniform should fill out just fine. The youngsters were looking through a magazine before class at Fred Vallari's Studio in Plattsburgh. (PR staff photo by Dave Paczak) Alligator kills swimmer PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (UPI) not sure what he had in his — A 12-foot, 550-pound alligator mouth, but the alligator grabbed an 11-year-old boy in its submerged taking the object huge jaws and killed him as with him.\ game officers frantically tried to Police commandeered two shoot the reptile to save the boats to chase the alligator and youngster, officials said Tues- spotted the animal again about day. 100 feet away, Robert Crespo of Port St. Lucie \They shot at him, and he im- was grabbed as he swain in the mediately let the boy go and sank St. Lucie River Monday at to the bottom.\ John; Rivergate Park while fishermen and boaters watched in horror. Lt. Biff Lamp too of the state Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission said it was the first fatal alligator attack in Florida since If7t aad the sixth stece of- ficials began tf+pmg records to IMS. Game officers, immediately called to the scene, spotted the alligator across tfce river, star- ting to crawl into a wooded area 'The gator was carrying as tuiidestified object im his month, \d a» officer fired ooe round at Rescuers pulled tfce boy from about 12 feet of water. A doctor said the youngster dM as a molt of 'trauma from alligator bites\ but police listed him as a drowning victim. \Right now. we are listing the unofficial cause of death as drowning, pending an investiga- tion by the medical examiner/* Jotutsos said. \It was obvious the alligator grabbed him in two dif- ferent places on the body. However, he was not mauled/' After searching for about an Mondale questions honesty • 4 of Reagan over U.S. deficit By DAVID LAWSKY PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - Walter Mondale kept the pressure on President Reagan Tuesday to be \honest\ and questioned whether Reagan will be truthful in his assessment of how fast the budget deficit, is growing. \You've heard the story of Pinocchio, you know why his time,\ Mondale said. Mondale, speaking to an en- thusiastic crowd of more than 3,000 assembled for a Com- munication Workers of America Convention, questioned whether the administration will make an honest assessment of how large the deficit will grow in coming years when it releases figures Thursday. Mondale used as his ben- chmark a Congressional Budget Office estimate released Monday which projects $263 billion deficit by 1989. \Let's see on Thursday whether this is an honest, solid reflection of the facts that we face or if it's what you might call a Pinocchio projection.\ Administration sources say the estimate is expected to be tens of billions of dollars lower. Earlier, at an appearance in Toledo, Ohio, Mondale accused Reagan of practicing \voodoo economics\ and jokingly sug- gested Reagan debate his own vice president, George Bush. Mondale used Bush's catchy phrase from the Bush-Reagan battle for the 1990 Republican nomination against the ad- ministration on a three-day, five- sold Monday h* hod no plans to raise taxes and that Mondot* was not tolling tho truth to suggest othor* wiso. But in Santa Barbara, Calif., Whito House spokesman Larry Spoakos rofusod to say Tuosday whothor tho prosi- dont's vow to not \allow any plans for a tax Incroaso\ noxt yoar slommod tho door on any rovonuo increases. After traveling to Penn- sylvania, he was set to concen- trate on pivotal Southern states — North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. Mondale again demanded that the president \tell the truth\ by making public his economic plans for next year. Mondale, waging a concerted attack on the administration's economic policies, has said he will raise taxes to help reduce the federal deficit and that Reagan, despite what he says, will do the same it re-elected. Reagan said Monday he had no plans to raise taxes and that Mondale was not telling the truth to suggest otherwise. But in San- ta Barbara, Calif., where Reagan was vacationing, White House spokesman Larry Speakes refused to say Tuesday whether the president's vow to not \allow any plans for a tax increase\ next year slammed the door on any revenue increases. \Just yesterday Mr. Reagan said that I wasn't telling the truth,\ Mondale told a crowd of Democratic Party workers and elected officials at the Port of Toledo. \Well who is telling the truth?\ statement, made after meeting with Reagan in California Mon- day, that the door was still open to a tax increase. Mondale used the apparently conflicting statements by Bush and Reagan to hark back to 1980 when Bush accused Reagan of practicing \voodoo economics\ because by proposing a balanced budget by cutting taxes while in- creasing military spending. Bush, after joining the Reagan ticket, recanted. \As you may know, I've called for six debates with Ronald Reagan but today I'm adding a seventh,\ Mondale said. \1 believe that Ronald Reagan and George Bush should have a na- tional debate on television.\ \Mr. Bush, who just came from a lunch with Mr. Reagan, said that Mr ^Reagan's going to raise taxes. 4 He must know something and I'd like to know what it is \ \Mr. Reagan says that he won't cut the defense budget. Yesterday he said he won't raise taxes. He says he won't cut the safety net and he says we'll have a balanced budget in this next term. How's he going to do that?\ Mondale demanded. Good Morning bam. cfficaen sfcoc tfce alligator •ad 4ramd him to store. Weather Mostly sunny and warm but less ham id today with highs in the *0s and light north winds Katr and a bit cooler tonight with lows aeariO. Lotteries The daily number drawn Tuesday in the New York state lottery was 023 The Erma Bombeck Business News Classified Comics Date Calendar 11 10 l*-23 18 Fifth* P»WK* P >AA»^ 4L Editorial Entertainment Family Life Horoscope Ann Landers Speakout Sporti Weather 4 17 r 6T ' i: is 9 14-16 11 • Soviets build new car- rier; threat seen — Page S. • Wall Street's summer rally cools off — Page 10. • Mass \hysteria\ spurs many to report sjghtjag of UFOs — Page 11. • United States adds gold in women's basketball, show jumping — Page 14.
