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2 Press-Republican—Friday, August 10,1984 News in Brief De Lorean crashed in life's fast lane INTERNATIONAL Iraqis ignite Iranian oil platform KUWAIT (UPI) — Iraqi warpianes attacked an Iranian oil platform Thursday, setting it ablaze in the second confirmed Ira- qi airstrike in the Persian Gulf in 48 hours. Both Iran aad_lrjULMfaLth£jiid CUM around 5;50 a.m. (10:20 p.m. EDT) near Kharg Island, Iran's principal oil exporting ter- minal and the target of a continuing Iraqi siege aimed at cutting off Iranian oil revenues. Ulster rocked by anti-British protests BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) — Mobs hurled gasoline bombs, barricaded streets with stolen cars and fired on police Thursday in riots against British rule that rocked 11 Northern Ireland towns and claimed the life of a youth killed by his own bomb. At least seven people were injured and more than SO were ar- rested, including an American student, in what police described as the worst rioting this year. Two young boys were burned by gasoline bombs and four civilians were hit by police plastic bullets. One officer was struck by a car. Solidarity adviser freed; vows to fight on WARSAW, Poland (UPI) — Jacek Kuron, a leading Polish dissident and former Solidarity union adviser, was freed from jail Thursday and vowed to resume active opposition to Poland's communist government despite threats of reimprisonment. Kuron, 50, one of the four founders of a dissident workers group that led to the formation of the Solidarity union in 1980, was released under a government amnesty and driven from the prison to his home by police. Kuron said he was \blind deaf and in a state of shock\ after nearly three years in Warsaw's Rakowiecka jail. Japanese remember Nagasaki victims TOKYO (UPI) - With pealing bells, fluttering doves and prayers for \eternal peace,\ 22,000 mourners gathered in Nagasaki Thursday to remember what Japan can never forget — the nuclear bomb 39 years ago that killed 64,000 people. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone laid a wreath of white chrysanthemums at the base of a monument where mourners en- shrined the names of 2,217 victims who died this year of bomb- related illnesses. They were added to the list of 61,969 other vic- tims of \Fat Man,\ the bomb that, along with the one dropped three days earlier on Hiroshima, ushered in the atomic age. By United Press International John De Lorean got on the auto world's fast track in a hurry and never slowed down until the crashing demise of his sports car firm. He was born in Detroit on Jan. 6,1925, the oldest of four sons of a Ford Motor Co. foundry worker. He grew^ up~iir working-class NATIONAL Shuttle bock on pad for Aug. 29 launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - The space shuttle Discovery, thwarted in its first two attempts to launch its maiden voyage, was hauled back to the launch pad Thursday for a third try— with a double payload — Aug. 29. Mounted atop the space agency's ponderous crawler- transporter, it took about-seven hours for the shuttle to complete the 3-mile trip to the elevated concrete pad after leaving the huge Vehicle Assembly Building at 11:36 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Bleeding sores laid to video games IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) — A video game addict who developed stigmata —- circular, bleeding wounds on her palms — was the victim of excessive play, not metaphysics, a bemused researcher said Thursday. \My secretary came to work one day with these bleeding sores oa her hands/' said Nils Varney. of Iowa City's Veterans Ad- ministration Medical Center. The secretary and her husband had been playing \Space Invaders\ for \the better part of 26 hours,\ he reported. The \joystick* 1 unit dug into her palm after the first IS hours or so, he said. Reagan Tor rich, Democratic poll says WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Democratic campaign committee released a poll Thursday showing nearly two-thirds of those surveyed nationwide think Ronald Reagan is a \rich man's president.\ But the survey, conducted by Democratic pollster Peter Hart, found more than one-half of those questioned believe Republicans would do a better job of handling national defense than Democrats. CHICAGO (UPI) — A bout of severe depression can snowball into a years-long problem without prompt treatment, and depressives who delay seeking help run a higher risk of long-term illness, a doctor said Thursday. A study of severely depressed patients who required hospital care showed 20 percent had not recovered after two years, said Dr. Martin Keller, one of the study authors. The patients who began treatment months or years after their depression began tended to be the ones who remained depressed, Keller reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Syracuse U. settles suit over Dome exhaust SYRACUSE, N,Y. (UPI) — Syracuse University has reached an out-of-court settlement with neighbors of the Carrier Dome who claimed fumes from buses idling near the stadium made them sick and reduced the value of their property. Five members of the John Connelly family sued for $213,000. University lawyer Thomas Myers Wednesday declined to specify the amount of the settlement, but said it was less than it would have cost to take the case to court. Attica inmates sentenced for disturbance ATTICA, N,Y. (UPI) — Twenty of 1S2 Attica prison inmates who refused to return to their cells following a July disturbance at the maximum-security facility have been sentenced to 30 days confinement to their cells* A spokesman for the state Departm ent of Correctional Services Thursday said the remainder of the 1S2 inmates who had disciplinary hearings were ordered kept in their cells from 10 days to fewer than 30 days. Fftemon electrocuted during home repair UTICA, K.Y. (UPI) - A Jf^year veteran erf the Otica Fire Department was electrocuted wkile repairi&g a waUr cooler ** his North Utica home, police said. Anthony Laxzaro. tl, who retired as deputy fire chief June I, was fooad lying next to his house by his wife shortly before 6 p.m. Wed&etday, police said. He was proaou&ced dead at the scene. Authorities said the water cooler was pfegfed in while Laxzaro ki t Cuomo soys he's aiming for tax cut ROCHESTER. NY (UPI) - GOT. Mario Crao says he would fflfce to propose a tax cut in IMS. bat will not km nftil later if the itatecaa afford oae. \It's too early to say. What I said is 'S3 (daring the guber- •atonal campaign) was that's what I desired. I certainty hope Caomo said Wedaeaday in a private meetiag of editor* aad of die Democrat and Chroaicle aad the Tiam-Oaioa If the state caa affori a tax art aext year. Gmao wwld prefer cmmg the persoaal acoae tax rntrad of neighborhoods of the Motor City and Los Angeles, dividing time between them during his parents' frequent separations. They were eventually divorced. De Lorean won an engineering scholarship to the Lawrence In- stitute of Technology in Detroit, where he earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineer- ing. He earned pocket money playing saxophone in area jazz clubs, landing his first job with a big automaker at age 24 as a Chrysler staff engineer. A prolific inventor who holds over 100 patents, De Lorean pick- ed up his master's degree in in- dustrial engineering from the Chrysler Institute and in business administration from the University of Michigan by atten- ding night school. He left Chrysler at age 27 to design transmissions for the Packard Motor Car Co. Soon, he was put in charge of research and development. He moved to General Motors to head up the Pontiac division's newly created \advanced engineering\ department. In 1961, he became chief engineer of Pontiac, then saddled with a line of dowdy, family-sized cars. He dropped an oversized engine into a mid-sized car, the Le Mans, and produced the GTO, a \mus- cle car\ that sold beyond GM's wildest expectations and put De Lorean on the industry fast track. In 1965, De Lorean became the giant automaker's youngest divi- sion head, promoted to general manager of Pontiac at age 40. He moved up to general manager of the Chevrolet division in 1969 and three years later became head of GM's North America car and truck operations. Even as he steadily rose in GM's executive ranks, De Lorean would say later, he had increasing doubts about the \morality\ of the firm and big business in general. The silver-maned model of the perfect exeuctive said when he quit GM in 1973 he passed up a 50- 50 shot at the presidency. He later tattled on the automotive giant in a ghost written, kiss-and- tell book, M On A Clear Day You Can See General-Motors/' Years of generous bonuses Kin cut from will as von Bulowally NEWPORT, R.I. (UPI) - Claus and Martha \Sunny\ von Bulow's teenage daughter, Cosima, was cut from her grand* mother's will for siding with her father in his high society attempted-murder case, her rtuiav V^NH^* Annie-Laurie Crawford Aitkin reportedly left an estate estimated worth at least $50 million when she died in April. Russell Barnet Aitken said Thursday his wife disinherited Cosima von Bulow, now 17, because of her devotion to her father during the scandal which rocked the wealthy oceanside community. \My wife's attitude was that her only connection with Mr. von Bulow was through her daughter Sunny.\ Aitken told UPI. \When Cosima went to her father during this terrible time, my wife decid- ed that she no longer had any in- terest in Cosima.\ Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage — Alexander von Auersperg and Annie-Laurie von Auersperg Kneissl — remain in the will. They and Mrs. Aitken began a private investigation of Sonny's illnesses and took the case to state police. Lisk Wyckoff, of the New York City law firm of KeUey and Drye, said Mrs. Aitken's will was filed May 25 in a New York state Pro- bate Court in Manhattan and was certified July 20. \My wife was a great lady and Sunny was a great lady/' Aitken said. \One is dead and the other is worse than dead, thanks to Clans voo Butow He if si evil a man as I have ever met. He's a .Cambridge-educated con-man/' _ Voo Bulow, 57. was convicted in March 1112 of twice trying to kill his wife with overdose* of in- sulin in 1979 and lM at their Newport mansion. The Daaishborn financier was sentenced to H years ia prison. The Rhode Islaad Supreme Covt reversed the coovkrtk»s last April aad ordered a new trial police illegally had from GM — in addition to a six- figure salary — made De Lorean a wealthy man by the time he opened his car factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, intent on creating the perfect sports car. The first stainless steel De Lorean hit the market in 1980. Pent-up demand resulted in brisk first-year sales, but cost overruns, high import tariffs and the worst U.S. auto market since World War II hastened the De Lorean Motor Co/s demise. By the time his drug trial got under way, attorneys said De Lorean was a pauper — his 25- room mansion in Bedminster, N.J., an apartment on New York's pricey Fifth Avenue, and a Southern California ranch all tied up in bankruptcy pro- ceedings. Valcouflpdge Din* on tooutif u! Lak« Chomplotn Pittsburgh 's Only Lakeside Dining F Now Serving SUNDAY BRUNCH 11 A.M.-2 P.M. Enjoy Something Different and Relax Viewing h Lake Champlain AL D'LANO AT THE PIANO BJ W«d**t4oy thrv Svnd«y Ev^nluft SERVING DINNER 7 DAYS A WEE $*M472 Lafc* SKor« to prnratety-Mtied evideact teted wTtfeoqt • icarcti warrant, Oa Jmly 23 the state attorney geaeral filed aa appeal wit* tfce U-5. 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