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2 Press* Republican—Tuesday, August 14,1984 News in Brief I • - r < Ex-Sen. AAargiofta out of jail INTERNATIONAL Chinese freed from jail after hijack TAIPEI, Taiwan (UPI) — Six Chinese nationals who hijacked a jetliner and forced it to Seoul at gunpoint 15 months ago were par- doned and reiea&ed from jail Mooday and allowed to fly to Taipei to start new lives. When the six arrived in Taipei* they were each given the equivalent of $750 as \pocket money\ by the Free China Relief Association, a semi-official agency. Upon arrival in Taipei, Zhuo Chang-ren, 37, a former Peking government employee and one of the convicted hijackers, made an emotional appeal to the Chinese to allow his family join him. Iranian convicted in Italy of hijack ROME (UPI) — An Italian court Monday sentenced a dissident member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard to IVi years in prison for hijacking an Iranian jetliner but found another teenager innocent of the charges. As the trial was held, the Iranian Embassy filed a request for their extradition to Tehran, saying the pair wanted to go home. Italian authorities did not immediately respond. Vatican to try Brazilian priest for theology VATICAN CITY (UPI) — A Vatican department once known as the Inquisition will try a leading Brazilian priest who follows an unorthodox theology that seeks to reconcile Catholic teaching with Marxist revolutionary theory, Vatican sources said Mon- day. A commission of inquiry of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's watchdog body over matters of faith and morals, will try the Rev. Leonardo Boff, a Fran- ciscan priest, in the Vatican on Sept. 7, the sources said. Boff, 46, lives in San Paolo and lectures in theology at the Brazilian Catholic University of Petropolis. Lebanon accuses Israel of mass arrests BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — The Lebanese government Mon- day accused Israeli occupation troops in southern Lebanon of carrying out mass arrests and sealing off villages to avenge a rash of guerrilla attacks that wounded two Israeli soldiers. There was no immediate comment from Israel on the report. NATIONAL Incumbents get 83% of PAC money WASHINGTON (UPI) — Incumbents received 83 percent of the $48 million in special interest political action committee money contributed for this year's congressional elections. Public Citizen's Congress Watch reported Monday. The lopsided support for incumbents over challengers demonstrates the need to abolish PACs and instead provide public financing for congressional candidates, the public interest group said. Hart, Mondale meet; Hart pledges to help NORTH OAKS, Minn. (UPI) — Sen. Gary Hart met Walter Mondale Monday for the first time since the Democratic National Convention and said he will do whatever is asked to campaign for the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. The Colorado senator, who waged a sometimes bitter cam* paign against Mondale for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion, participated in a meeting with the victor and other leading Democrats on defense issues. Also joining Mondale were Rep. Joseph Addabbo, D-N.Y., chairman of the powerful House defense appropriations subcommittee, and several former of- ficials who served in the Carter administration, including Clif- ford Alexander, a former Army secretary, and Mitzi Wertheim, a former deputy Navy undersecretary. Paperboy still missing; father feared fate DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) - The reward grew to $30,000 Mon- day for leads in the presumed kidnapping of a paperboy, whose father had reluctantly allowed him to take the job despite the disappearance of another carrier two years ago. Eugene Martin, 13, was reported missing after he failed to pick up his newspaper bundle near his Des Moines home early Sun- day, becoming the second Des Moines Register carrier to disap- pear within two years. By HENRY G. LOGEMAN EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (UPI) — Former Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph M. Margiotta was released Monday from custody after serving 14 months of a tw<*-year prison term on federal charges of extortion and mail fraud. - \All I can say is that I'm delighted to be home with my family and my wife,\ said Margiotta, 57. He walked out the Nassau County jail gate at 5:55 a.m., smiled and waved at reporters, and quipped that he was \sorry I got you people up so early.\ Margiotta's wife, Dorothy, was waiting for him, seated at the wheel of the family Cadillac. He climbed into the passenger seat and kissed his wife. Dressed in a brown sports jacket and gray slacks, Margiot- ta looked fit and tanned and ap- peared to be slimmer than when he went to prison in June 1983. He left the jail for his home on Wheatley Road in exclusive 3rookville. ^le served one year in Penn- slyvanias Allenwood Federal Prison Camp and then he was permitted a transfer to a work- release program in the Nassau jail. He is on a good behavior parole for the next 10 months. Margiotta was convicted of for- cing a county insurance agent to split more than $700,000 of his •commissions with him. He then doled out these funds to party faithful who did little or no in- surance work for the money. At his trial. Margiotta testified that the fee-splitting was com- monly accepted and entirely legal political patronage. While assigned to the jail work- release program, Margiotta established a political consultant and public relations business, working out of his former law of- fice in Uniondale. Because of the felony convic- tion, Margiotta is disbarred from the practice of law and he has also been stripped, at least tem- porarily, of his insurance broker's license. Prior to the conviction, Margiotta was regarded as the most powerful political boss in New York state. But his political future is uncer- tain, because the conviction bans him from resuming his post as party chairman. He did not discuss his future when he was released. Officials of the party are reluc- tant to restore him to any kind of leadership role for fear of adverse public reaction. Sources close to Margiotta say he is miff- ed at this. A cocktail reception, organized by party leaders to celebrate Margiotta's release from jail, will be Tuesday night *n U*# plush Swan Club in Glenwood Landing. Among those invited are former President Richard Nixon, Lyn Nofziger, a political strategist for President Reagan, and CIA director William Casey, whose permanent home is in Roslyn Harbor. U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Araato, a political protege of Margiotta's, was not invited, because Margiotta felt that he did not pro- vide enough support for him dur- ing and after the trial. Joseph M. Mariotta, '81 IT'S INCREDIBLE! Illegitimate births on rise A HEARING SYSTEM LIKE NEVER BEFORE Th« Qualtone QC Hearing Aid. A Remarkable New Custom Made Hearing Aid Fitting AII-ln-The-Canal STATE Prosecution of self-abortionist 'needless' WHITE PLAINS. N.Y. (UPI) — Attorneys for a woman in- dicted on homicide and manslaughter charges for trying to abort her fetus described her prosecution Monday as needless and il- legal. The woman, Linette Jenkins, who worked in a White Plains dental office, is accused of locking herself in a bathroom May 10, injecting herself with an anesthetic, cutting open her stomach and stitching the wound. She began complaining of chest pains and was taken to St. Agnes Hospital, where she gave birth the next day to a 6-pound baby girl. The infant died the next day. Mother's Day. due to shock, lack of oxygen and hemorrhaging. 2 teens in county jail try to hang selves ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPI) - Two 17-year-old Monroe County Jail prisoners made simultaneous suicide attempts by hanging themselves with bed sheets strapped to the bars atop their cells, authorities said. However, other prisoners nearby screamed for help and deputies rescued the teenagers within four minutes of the at- tempt at 5:IS p.m. Sunday. The two, Donald Mikus and Gregory Cowl, both from Riverside, Calif., were in satisfactory condition in Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester and were undergoing psychiatric evaluation. The teenagers had been in jail since July 24 after being charged with two counts each of second-degree burglary by Brighton police. Second LILCO union approves contract MELVILLE, N.Y. (UPI) - The second of two unions represen- ting striking Long Island Lighting Company workers voted over- whelmingly Monday to approve a proposed contract and end the first strike in the utility's history. A spokesman for Local 13S2 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said LILCO clerical workers voted 742-2S3 to accept the tentative pact. The other unit on strike. Local 1049 of the International Bfotimhoud of Electrical Worken voted STO- day to approve tfce pact by a margin of 1.272 NEW YORK (UPI) - One baby out of every three was born out of wedlock last year* triple the ratio of just two decades ago, the city health department said. More than one-fourth of the 1983 out-of-wedlock births were to women 19-years-old or younger, city health department statistician Chih Hwa said. \It's a worsening problem,\ said Douglas Gould, associate director of Planned Parenthood of New York. \And the biggest concern is that it represents a disruption of the family.\ Twenty years ago, 11 percent of the 167,848 births in the city were to women who were not married. By 1973, the figure climbed to 25.6 percent and by 1978 to 33.7 percent Specialists point to a number of reasons for the increase, in- cluding society's less strict at- titude toward such births and that such children are now pro- vided with welfare and day-care programs. \There is a strong relationship between poverty and out-of- wedlock births,\ said Gould. \These people see nothing in life as advantageous as having children — they think they have little else to live for.\ In some low-income areas the figures for out-of-wedlock births soar. In central Harlem, the rate was 79.8 percent. In Morrisania in the Bronx, the figure was 72.2 percent. For the Bronx as a whole, the figures showed 55.4 percent of all babies last year were born out of wedlock. The city's poorer neighborhoods are not the only ones to experience the increase in out-of-wedlock births. In Kips Bay on the East Side of Manhat- tan, 12.6 percent of the births pie, were 59.$ percent, and in Baltimore, 58.1 percent. The days of Hester Prynne and the scarlet letter are over, Gould said, and the trend is towards more out-of-wedlock births for younger mothers. \We see kids in our clinic at 15 years of age accompanied by their mothers who are 30,\ he said. \This is the second genera- tion.\ He said the city has recently set up a curriculum in city schools for teaching basic sex education. This revolutionary hoarinq aid is almost totally concealed in the ecu ccnai. It is easy to use and aooroDriatefor many types of hearing losses. were out 6f wedlock. Out-of-wedlock births for the entire city last year were 41,578 — 37 percent of the total 112,353. Gould said the city's rate was actually lower than other urban centers nationwide. Births in Newark, N.J., in 1981, for exam- THE NEW WEIGHT WATCHERS' CK START PROGRAM. Limit spending before tax hike, D'Amato soys ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., said Monday the federal government should see what it can do to limit •pending before considering tax increases \The fint job is to fcoM spending down.'* D'Amato said, echo- ing the Republican line that tax increases should be a last resort N#w m#mb#rs pl#es# orriv* on«-holf hour •ariy. PLATTSBUftGH TrteHy Epbcopd CWc* t:15 AJ*. I 7:tiFJK. Thwn.SPM.t7fM. PERU H. AEfrttm O>wdi CHAMPIAIN CJirfet. 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