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release was linked to a Lebanese
Shiite on trial in West Germany
for the 1985 hijacking of the TWA
jet and the shooting death of U.S.
Navy diver Robert Stethem.
In a note issued in Beirut, they
said if Mohammed Ali Hamadi’s
release cannot be gained legally,
“then we shall be obliged to
again resort to violence. ’ ’
Officials said Cordes was in
good health after his ordeal.
“He had a nice, comfortable
sleep,” one Syrian official said
today.
After the airport reunion, the
former hostage, his wife and
West German State Minister for
Chancery Affairs Wolfgang
Schaeuble were scheduled to go
to the Foreign Ministry where
Foreign Minister Farouk al-
Sharaa will formally hand Cor-
des over to West German
ambassador George Hermann
Schlingenspiepen.
The ceremony had been
scheduled for this morning, but
was postponed until Cordes’ wife
arrived.
Cordes and his wife were ex-
pected to drive from the Foreign
Ministry to the airport to take off
in the Canadian-built twin-
engined jet for the five-hour
flight to a military airbase near
Bonn
“I started acting when I was
very young and I never gave a
thought to films or television. It
wasn’t part of my dream," she
said in a recent interview.
“I don’t really feel that film
has tapped my potential,” said
the star of such movies as
“Honeysuckle Rose," “Voices,”
“The Competition” and “The
Fury.”
“I kind of got swept up in it
(making films),” Miss Irving
said. “After the fifth film I did,
‘The Competition,’ I said to my-
self, ‘Something is not being
fulfilled here and I went off to
think about it all.’ And the next
move I made was to do ‘Am-
adeus’ on Broadway. And sud-
denly I went,1 Ahh, that’s what’s
been missing.’
“I felt more gratification on
stage than in front of a camera,”
said the actress, wife of mov-
iemaker Steven Spielberg.
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Associated Press Writer
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) —
Freed West German hostage
Rudolf Cordes was reunited with
his wife Marlene today after she
flew from Bonn with senior
government officials to take him
home.
“She fell into his arms and
they kissed each other for a long
time,” an official who witnessed
the reunion told The Associated
Press.
He said Mrs. Cordes turned to
Syrian army officers who es-
corted her from the airport to the
government guest house when
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Author Barry Sadler, who com-
posed the "Ballad of the Green
Berets,” was listed in critical
condition at a veterans hospital
today after being shot in the head
in Guatemala
Sadler, who has written 20 ad-
venture books, was flown to the
Veterans Administration Medi-
cal Center here Monday so he
could get proper medical care,
said his literary agent, Bob Rob-
ison.
He had been hospitalized in
Guatemala City after being shot
Thursday during an apparent
robbery attempt, Robison said.
Sadler has been unconscious
since the shooting, Robison said.
Hospital officials said today his
vital signs were stable.
“From what we know, it was
an attempted robbery. He was on
his way home in a cab,” Robison
said.
“He’s been living there. He
writes down there and lives there
temporarily, on a ranch outside
of Guatemala,” Robison said.
“Barry’s always traveled.
LONDON (AP) — Pop singer
Michael Jackson wrapped up his
43-date European tour with ex-
pressions of concern about the
thousands of fans injured at his
Liverpool concert.
"I’m very sad about it,” the
30-year-old rock star said in a
husky whisper Monday as he
rushed through London's Heath-
row Airport to catch a super-
sonic Concorde flight to New
York.
An estimated 3,400 fans were
treated for minor injuries during
Jackson’s open-air concert at
Aintree horse racing course in
Liverpool on Sunday night, offi
cials said. Organizers said
125,000 people attended the con-
cert, the largest audience ever
for a European pop show.
Four of the 40 people taken to
Liverpool’s Walton Hospital
were held but none was in serious
condition, police said.
By STEVE GEISSINGER
Associated Press Writer
LAKE WILDWOOD, Calif.
(AP) — An out-of-control wild-
fire zeroed in on hundreds of ru
ral dwellings in the rugged
Sierra Nevada today after
leveling nearly 100 homes and
forcing the evacuation of at least
8,000 people.
The warm, dry winds that
drove the fire across 40 square
miles of terrain covered with
timber and brush continued this
morning as sleep-starved fire-
fighters struggled to hold their
own against the 70-foot-high
flames.
At least 149 structures, in
eluding 92 homes, were des-
troyed in an area about 60 miles
northeast of Sacramento, au-
thorities said. Some of the homes
were valued at $1 million.
A preliminary estimate by the
U.S. Forest Service put the loss
in structures alone at more than
$9 million, and the figure was
expected to climb much higher.
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By DON KENDALL
AP Farm Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
huge losses to 1988 harvests
came mostly in June and July,
when drought and searing heat
shriveled corn and soybean
yields across much of the nation,
new Agriculture Department es-
timates show.
Assistant Secretary Ewen M
Wilson, the department’s chief
economist, said total grain pro-
duction this year is expected to
drop to 191 million metric tons,
down 31 percent from 1987.
Total supplies of grain for
1988-89, which include inven-
tories at the beginning of the
season, are forecast at 366 mil-
lion tons, down 24 percent from
last year.
Wilson said at a news con-
ference Monday that “crop de-
velopment now has progressed
to the point where production
can be forecast with a reason-
able degree of conf idence. ”
The com yield, for example,
was estimated at 78.5 bushels per
harvested acre, down from 119.4
her husband had been resting
and said: “Thank you. Thank
you so much.”
Cordes, 55, was released late
Monday in Beirut by pro-Iranian
Shiite Moslem extremists who
kidnapped him in January 1987.
He was driven to Damascus by
Brig. Ali Hammoud, Syria’s
military intelligence chief in Be-
of the building, as well as to find
the parade grounds where sol
diers performed military drills.
But in the course of their work,
the archaeologists discovered
artifacts and sites dating back
nearly 4,000 years.
For instance, near the south-
west section of the building,
workers found projectile points
— some resembling arrowheads
— and other artifacts dating
back to 2000 B.C., said Dick Re-
gensburg, a prehistoric special-
ist working on the project.
Historians are excited by the
finds, said museum director
Cynthia Koch.
“We’ve had a lot of prehistoric
archaelogists from all over the
state coming over to look,” she
said.
Near the southeast part of the
building, archaeologists dis-
covered part of an Indian hearth
from between SOO and 700 A.D.
Workers also uncovered a piece
of a clay tobacco pipe, carrying a
design that dates it to between
1000 and 1500 A.D.
The findings suggest the area
was a popular settlement used
over arid over by succeeding ge-
nerations because it sits on a
bluff near the Delaware River
and between two streams — the
Assunpink Creek and Petty’s
Run.
“When people started to think
about it, it made perfect sense,"
said Ms. Koch.
As for the original renovation
project, Burrows and his crew
have found evidence of support
posts for the second-floor
balconies, a possible staircase in
the front of the building, and
ground-level windows which
seemed to have been bricked up
about 20 years after the struc-
ture was built.
on television,” said insurance
agent Don Sanzone, 41.
Jim Mowner, a state forestry
spokesman, said the continued
stiff winds and low humidity
were hampering firefighting.
“I would say the fire will bum
actively overnight,” he said
early today.
Before dawn, Mowner’s pre-
diction was borne out, as De-
partment of Forestry officials
reported that the fire had grown
overnight from 25 to 40 square
miles.
The only good news, Mowner
said, was that the fire was
spreading into an area east of
Beale Air Force Base, where
there were fewer homes.
“That could help us,” he said.
“We've been spending an awful
lot of time and manpower pro-
tecting structures, so the main
fire has been burning relatively
freely.”
More than 1,000 firefighters
had been added to the lines Mon-
day and today, bringing the total
to nearly 2,800 battling the blaze,
said forestry department
spokeswoman Karen Finlayson.
WHITMAN, Mass. (AP) —
Two clowns who fell in love at a
clowns’ convention took a shot at
tying the knot in a ceremony that
was a regular circus.
“I take Chubby Cheeks to be
my awful wedded husband,”
Sparkles the clown said in the
weekend ceremony. “I promise
to love, honor, and bathe him...
And I will not nag at him for eat-
ing candy bars, ice cream and
cookies.”
The bride clutched fake
flowers and sported gold tinsel
hair, twinkling gold eyelashes
and size 18 shoes.
Before the vows, Chubby
Cheeks, trembling from matri-
monial jitters, tried to make a
run for it.
“My mother cooks better than
her!” he shouted as he tried to
wobble to freedom in his white
baggy pants and oversized
shoes.
He was headed off and re-
turned to the side of his bride,
where he said: “I take Sparkles
to be my lawful-wedded wife, I
promise not to eat peanut butter
and cookies before going to bed, I
will help with the housework, I
promise to take out the garbage
and hang up my clothes every
night, and I promise to visit her
relatives without any argument
whatsoever.”
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mainder of the season. In
August, the forecast was
lowered to 4.48 billion bushels,
the smallest harvest since 1983,
when drought and federal ac-
reage curbs reduced output to
4.17 billion bushels.
The soybean harvest was es
timated at a 12-year low of 1.47
billion bushels, down 23 percent
from 1.9 billion bushels produced
last year but virtually un-
changed from the August fore-
cast. Estimates last spring
called for about 1.88 billion bush
els, and the July projection was
1.65 billion bushels.
Production of all wheat was
projected at 1.81 billion bushels,
down 14 percent from 2.1 billion
produced in 1987 and 1 percent
beiow the August forecast.
In May and June, USDA fore
cast this year’s wheat output
would be up slightly . The July
projection was 1.84 billion bush
els, and the August forecast was
1.82 billion bushels
Corn is the largest and most
important crop grown by Am-
erican farmers and, as a feed
bushels last year, the largest ingredient, is essential to the
drought-induced reduction in production of meat, poultry and
yieldonrecord.be said. dairy products.
From 1965 to 1987, the Sep- Soybeans, which provide
tember estimate overstated corn high-protein meal and quality
production on nine occasions and vegetable oil used in food pro-
understated it on 14 occasions, cessing, also are vital to U.S.
Wilson said. In the case of food production.
soybeans, the September esti No new estimate of winter
mate overshot final production wheat production was included,
in 12 years and understated it in Last month s forecast, which
II was carried forward into the
Wilson said rainfall in the last September report, was 1.55 bil
month “has improved the condi- lion bushels, down 1 percent
tions of pastures and ranges, from last year.
although more precipitation is New estimates for spring
needed to restore them to planted wheat included durum,
normal.” 492 million bushels, down 47
Wilson said he is holding to an percent from 1987 production
earlier prediction that consumer and the smallest harvest since
food prices will go up an average 1961 The new estimate was also
of 3 percent to 5 percent this down 10 percent from August.
year, with about 1 percent of the Other spring wheat was esti-
rise caused by drought. A further mated at 206 million bushels,
increase is expected in 1989. down 54 percent from last year
The new USDA estimates and 3 percent below the August
showed the corn harvest, which forecast.
is under way, is expected to be at Cotton production was esti-
a five-year low of 4.46 billion mated at 14.7 million bales, down
bushels, down 37 percent from 2 percent from August but only
7.06 billion bushels harvested in slightly below the 1987 crop. The
1987. Even so, that was down by crop was projected at 13.7 mil-
less than 1 percent from the fore- lion bales in July.
cast a month ago. Overall, the department’s
In May and June, before the Agricultural Statistics Board
drought tightened its grip, USDA said U.S. crop production this
projected the corn harvest at 7.3 year is expected to drop to 88
* billion bushels, based on trends percent of a 1977 base used as a
and an assumption of normal comparison. That would be the
1 weather. lowest since 1983.
Those projections were re- Crop production last year
vised downward in July to 5.2 averaged 106 percent of the base
billion bushels, assuming farm- year. The record was 117 percent
ers got normal weather the re- reached in 1985, 1982 and 1981.
LONDON (AP) — Ex-Beatles NEW YORK (AP) — Actress
drummer Ringo Starr halted the Jessica Lange says she sees the
auction of a 1965 bass drum bear- family unit disintegrating in the
ing the famous British rock United States and fears that it’s a
group’s logo because of a “signal of the end."
wrangle over its ownership. “You know, if you don’t like
The drum was expected to your wife, you can get rid of her;
fetch $50,000 in a rock’n’roll if you don’t like your husband for
memorabilia sale at Sotheby’s a day, you can get rid of him,”
auction house Monday. Lange says in the October issue
The auction catalog said the of Vanity Fair. "The family’s
drum was given to George Peck- become disposable.'
ham, who worked in the group’s “I think that’s what’s wrong
Apple Recording studios. with civilization in America,”
A spokesman for Starr’s law- Lange said.
yers, Frere Cholmeley, said The star of "Frances,” “Toot-
Starr won a court order Friday sie" and “Sweet Dreams” says
preventing Peckham or she fears the erosion of the fam
Sotheby’s from selling the drum. Uy unit is “a signal of the end, of
Auctioneer Hilary Kay said she this whole kind of apocalyptic
learned of the court order just feelingthatisintheairnow.”
minutes before the auction be- Despite her feelings, Lange
gan. has resisted remarrying. She
Cholmeley said Starr would lives with playwright Sam
agree to the sale going ahead Shepard and they have two chU
only if the proceeds went to a dren. She has a third child by
children’s hospital in London, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.
_____ Her marriage to a Spanish
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amy photographer ended before she
Irving, who stars in the film became an actress.
"Crossing Delancey,” says she The “Seven Sister- colleges are
gets no kick from the camera Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke,
and that it’s the stage that truly Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and
By NICHOLAS G. KA
TSARELAS
Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-Ar-
chaeologists sifting through the
rubble of a colonial barracks
that housed Hessian soldiers de-
feated by George Washington in
the Revolutionary War have
found some surprises: pre-
historic artifacts almost 4,000
years old.
“It’s really turningout to be a
very exciting project,” project
director Ian Burrows said Mon-
day. “It shows there are well-
preserved prehistoric remains
right underneath Trenton. ”
The dig by the Hunter Re-
search Associates archae-
ological firm began about four
weeks ago in this state capital as
part of the $2.4 million renova-
tion of Old Barracks Museum.
The barracks—a bunkhouse
where soldiers lived joined to an
officers’ house — was built in
1758. It was used at various times
through history to house British
and American soldiers,
smallpox victims and single
women and widows. The original
no longer stands, and a recon-
struction forms the museum.
However, the structure is best
known for its significance in the
Battle of Trenton in 1776. In De-
cember of that year, Gen.
Washington’s war-weary sol-
diers crossed the Delaware
River into New Jersey and de-
feated Hessian troops stationed
at the barracks.
It marked the first time Hess-
ians — West German mer-
cenaries who fought for the
British — were defeated by
Washington, who went on to win
several key victories.
The state hired Burrows’ firm
to determine the original layout
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