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Bufeff THE TIMES HERALD PORT HURON, MICH, Wed, July 6, 1983 9A From our wire services Nation hi Mr "-rrT Weather The Forecast For 8 a.m. EDT Ram Thiirarlflv Jiih 7 1 Flurriesf) Low TerrtDeratures Showers j1 7 Ml Ik Casey denies wrongdoing NEW YORK CIA Director William J. Casey has denied he helped obtain President Carter's briefing book for a 1980 campaign debate, saying involvement in such a scheme by the Reagan camp "could have destroyed the campaign." "After being involved in seven presidential campaigns, I know that's dynamite," Casey, who served as Reagan's campaign manager, said in an interview in today's New York Times. "I wouldn't tolerate it. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole It could have destroyed the campaign." But White House chief of staff James A.

Baker 3rd said last week the Carter papers came directly from Casey. The debate strategy plans were used by Reagan aides during the campaign to rehearse Reagan for his campaign debate with Carter. Ex-mayor wins council seat CLEVELAND Former Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich, who governed Cleveland when it plunged into default, came in first in an eight-candidate council race. But he says the runoff election will be tough rtj.

ttii i a National Weathei Service NOAA. Depl ot Commerce Fronts: Cold Warm Occluded Stationary Ml- Hhlirrh Geor9ia Williams, right, a member of the Friendship Baptist Church in wnuiin Bryan, Texas talks with county officials about the interior of her blimcd church whicn was firebombed Tuesday. The church was one of three bombed Tuesday; four Texas churches were burned Monday. Because iuy nan is agauisi him. "This is a great victory for the people," Kucinich said before 250 cheering supporters at the Polish Falcon Hall after Tuesday's election.

"Your votes have shown that the people of Ward 12 will stand up to scare tactics, will stand up to threats, will stand up to intimidations, and I will stand up with you." Desegregation plan approved ST. LOUIS A federal ludge has approved the nation's most comprehensive, voluntary school desegregation plan between a major city school system and its mostly white suburbs. U.S. District Judge William L. Hungate on Tuesday approved a plan proposed in March to end an 11-year-old desegregation lawsuit involving the city and 23 school districts in St.

Louis County. Under the order, which takes effect in September, at least 15,000 city students must agree to attend predominantly white county schools to bring racial ratios to within acceptable limits. All transfers would be voluntary. Gov. Christopher S.

Bond immediately ordered an appeal, citing the cost of the plan. Children locked in trunk SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Three children were locked in the trunk of a car in a casino parking lot, then left for 10 hours in near-freezing temperatures, before passers-by heard their cries. Their parents, Juan Blancas, 54, and Maria Blancas, 46, were being held on $15,000 bail each after being charged with willful abuse of children and child abandonment, authorities said Tuesday. The children, ages 10, 8 and 6, survived overnight temperatures as low as 38 degrees, sharing a blanket.

They have been placed in foster homes. Dennis J. Kucinich AP There is a possibility of some afternoon cloudiness Thursday in the Blue Water Area with the high expected to be in the low 80s. Sunny skies and warm weather is also predicted for most of the country. The forecast BLUE WATER AREA It will be clear tonight with light and variable winds and lows in the upper 40s.

Thursday will be sunny with some afternoon cloudiness and highs in the low 80s. EXTENDED FORECAST It will be fair and warm Friday and Saturday, turning cooler on Sunday with a chance of rain. Lows will be in the mid 50s to lower 60s on Friday, the upper 50s to mid 60s on Saturday and in the mid 50s to mid 60s on Sunday. Highs will range from the upper 70s to low 90s on those days. LAKES Lake Huron: North to northwest winds will become variable 5 to 15 knots tonight with waves of 3 feet or less.

Lake St. Clair: Northerly winds will become variable 5 to 15 knots tonight with waves of 2 feet or less. Michigan forecast Lower Peninsula It will be clear tonight with lows in the upper 40s to low 50s. Thursday will be sunny with some afternoon cloudiness. Highs will range for the low to mid 80s.

Upper Peninsula Tonight will be clear with lows in the mid 40s to around 50. Thursday will be sunny with some afternoon cloudiness. Highs will be in the mid 70s to around 80. Across the nation Scattered showers and thunderstorms soaked the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine, as a cold front lingered along the Atlantic Coast. A few thunderstorms produced fierce winds Tuesday afternoon and evening in Georgia and the Carolinas.

Gusts blew in 15 store windows at Elizabeth, N.C., tore off a 100-foot section of a post office roof and damaged a police car. A tornado touched down near Beaver Dam, N.C., but no damage was reported. Thunderstorms "packing high winds downed trees and power lines west of Augusta, Ga. Elsewhere in Georgia, winds gusted to 63 mph at Macon and to 60 mph at Athens. Showers and thunderstorms also moved through southern Texas to the central Gulf Coast and southern Florida, Widely scattered storms dampened areas from New Mexico and Arizona through Utah and Nevada to the northern Rockies.

Temperatures at 3 a.m. ranged from 39 degrees in Pellston, to 97 degrees in Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz. Certified results of the non-partisan, special primary election showed Kucinich with 3,363 votes, or 53.3 percent. An Aug. 9 runoff will pit Kucinich, 36, against attorney Edward W.

Rybka, 28, who finished second with 1,596 votes, or 25.3 percent. Both are Democrats. Michigan fc rii i CL i km Elsewhere NATION Anchorage Boston Chicago 67. ,.59 clr Cleveland clr Dallas 89. .69 clr Honolulu Kansas City 82.

..63. clr Las Vegas 110.. .77 clr Los Angeles Milwaukee 61. ..55 clr New York 87. ..74 clr Orlando 92..

.75 rn St. Louis 84. ..64 clr San Francisco 69.. .54 clr Washington 85.. .72 clr MICHIGAN Hi.LO.Otlk Alpena 64..

.40 clr Detroit 71. ..48 clr Houghton 63. ..49 clr Jackson 70.. .45 clr Marquette 64.. .39.

Sault Ste. Marie 59. ..36.. Statistics Tuesday 1 p.m 58...15 5 p.m 57...14 9 p.m 55...13 Today 1 a.m 50...10 a.m 49...10 9 a.m 60...16 Hi Lo Tuesday 58(15) 53(11) Year ago 86(30) 64(18) Precipitation None Wind at 9 a.m NNE 6 knots Lake Huron 61 (16) Sunset 9:12 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:04 a.m.

Air pollution index at 9 a.m 3 Few youths violate curfew DETROIT A police crackdown to enforce a curfew ordinance aimed at keeping youths off city streets so far has netted just 36 arrests, no higher than usual. The arrests were made during the first four days of citywide enforcement of the curfew for people under age 18, Police Chief William Hart saia Tuesday. Parents as well as youths have responded favorably to the curfew, Hart said at a news conference, adding: "They kept their kids home." Three arrests were made Friday, the first day of the curfew. An average of 11 arrests were made the other three days, Hart said, which was not unusually high. Hotel climbers charged DETROIT Two urban mountaineers who scaled the 73-story Westin Hotel in downtown Detroit face a pretrial hearing Aug.

25 after their arraignment on trespassing charges. Judge Prentis Edwards also on Tuesday set bond for Ron Broyles, 29, of Los Angeles, and Kenn Rick, 32, of Lake Orion, at $1,500 each. Both men posted bond and were released. No charges were filed against Fred Jones, 29, of East Lansing, who was held with Broyles and Rick shortly after the pair completed their 6-hour ascent of the 740-foot hotel's glass-walled exterior on Monday. Jones was detained after he was seen speaking with the climbers via radio.

Police arrested Broyles and Rick at 2 p.m. when the pair reached the top of the Westin, the central structure in the Renaissance Center office, hotel and retail complex. Well fire forces evacuation LEOTA Eight Clare County families evacuated when a natural gas well exploded and caught fire may have to stay away for several days until the company that owns the well can arrange to cap it. "It's blowing wild out of the ground, but everybody's safe," Floyd Layton, a regional geologist with the state Department of Natural Resources, said Tuesday. The well, which Hunt Energy Corp.

described as fairly large, blew out early Tuesday afternoon. Cause of the blowout has not been determined, a company spokesman said. Five people were treated and released for gas inhalation. The residents, all living within a half-mile radius of the scene, were evacuated because of the possibility that the well might contain hydrogen sulfide. AP An employee of a Lansing tire store tries moving a 350-pound tractor Tired out l're' was ae ro" il on'y a 'eet efore tne more corv ventional method of pushing from the outside.

World Lake County sheriff shot BALDWIN Lake County Sheriff Robert Blevins was treated and released from Reed City Hospital after he was shot in the arm Tuesday night. Blevins, 39, was shot about 10:40 p.m. on U.S. 10 between Nirvana and Idlewild. But county authorities gave no other information about the Incident, saying it would be discussed at a news conference.

Authorities set up roadblocks throughout the county, but the sheriff's assailant or assailants escaped. A hospital spokeswoman, who refused to identify herself, gave no other details about Blevins' injuries. It was not immediately known if Blevins was on patrol at the time of the shooting or whether anyone was with him. Airman can't recall rampage LIVONIA A Livonia airman, who was ordered to stand trial on charges he killed his brother and shot and stabbed his parents, has no recollection of the alleged attack, his attorneys say. District Judge Robert Brzezinski on Tuesday ordered Airman 1st Class Dennis Helwig 21, bound over to circuit court for trial on one count of first-degree murder, two counts of assault with intent to murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Helwig's attorneys told Dennis Helwig Sr. and his wife that their son does not remember attacking them or killing his 16-year-old brother, Terry, May 11. The rampage left the couple critically wounded. Kohl optimistic MOSCOW West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said that talks with Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov left him hopeful an agreement could be reached by year's end on limiting nuclear weapons in Europe.

"I stressed to the Soviet leadership that we believe that between now in July and the end of this year there is a chance to come to a good result" in the deadlocked Geneva talks on limiting medium-range missiles, Kohl said today. Pressed for details, Kohl gave no indication, however, that there had been any change in the Soviet stand in the missile dispute. He characterized his visit more as a working trip, valuable because it afforded him a chance to get acquainted with Andropov. People Abortion clinic raided TORONTO About 15 police officers raided an abortion clinic that was opened last month as part of a national campaign to legalize abortion on demand, and charged two doctors with conspiracy to procure a miscarriage. Dr.

Robert Scott, 36, of Ste. Anne de Prescott, Ontario, was arrested at the clinic during Tuesday's raid, police said. A warrant on the same charge was issued for Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Montreal physician and pro-abortion campaigner who owns the Toronto clinic and similar facilities in Winnipeg and Montreal-Canada's criminal code permits abortions, but only if performed in accredited hospitals after a committee of three doctors finds the operation necessary to protect the woman's life or health. Yachtsman indicted TOKYO A well-known advocate of whipping emotionally troubled youngsters to make them behave has been indicted on charges of beating and kicking a boy so badly he died from the injuries.

Hiroshi Totsuka, 42, was charged along with six instructors at his Totsuka Yacht School near Nagoya with intent to inflict bodily harm resulting in the death last December of 13-year-old Ma-koto Ogawa, a school trainee. Witnesses said the boy was beaten with bamboo staves, kicked and thrown into the sea. Totsuka, winner of a 1975 Sah Francisco-Okinawa solo yacht race, has gained national prominence for his yacht school where he cures emotionally troubled young people through spartan, often physically brutal, training. Ogawa's is not the first student to die. Two students died, in 1979 and 1980, and two others were reported missing and presumed dead after jumping into the sea last year.

Richard Burton weds No. 5 The Liz-and-Dick Show is back on Broadway again, after a holiday weekend in which Elizabeth Taylor went to the beach and Richard Burton got married. 11-year-old knows class Klmberly Shuler learned Tuesday she won a $55,000 Silver Cloud III Rolls Royce, but it's too bad she can't use it. She is only 11. The Monroe, N.Y., youngster won the black-and-silver classic which is seven years older than she this week in a drawing sponsored by a Miami restaurant.

Kim submitted her name in the drawing in April, while visiting her grandparents. Even though she is young, Kim understands the difference between winning a Rolls and winning a Ford. "It's nicer and bigger and it costs a lot more," she said. Burton, 57, married 35-year-old Sally Hay in Las Vegas in time to return to Broadway's "Private Lives," in which he and Taylor, who were married twice in real life, play love-struck ex-spouses. Hay, 35, is a former British Broadcasting Corp.

production assistant who met Burton in Vienna last year. The couple wed on Sunday at the Frontier Hotel. It Scouts join jamboree KANANASKIS COUNTRY, Alberta Almost 4,000 U.S. Boy Scouts, their legs cramped from days-long bus rides, scattered like buckshot as they arrived in the Canadian Rockies for the 15th World Scout Jamboree to prepare for tonight's opening ceremonies. The Americans came from all 50 states, making up nearly one-third of the international gathering of teen-age boys and girls.

English and French are the official languages of the iamboree, but for the 3,832 boys here from the United States, scouting is the common tongue as they swap badges, pins, patches and shirts with scouts from 105 other countries. "The things that scouts do really are universal," said James Van Schaick, 15, from Thief River Falls, Minn. 1 AP Devilish dancer Sally Hay Zonker Harris goes Broadway Garry Trudeau has turned lyricist to bring his "Doonesburv" comic strip to Broadway as a musical next fall. He has taken a leave of absence from writing the strip in order to write the book and lyrics for the show. Elizabeth Swados will compose the music.

Casting will be completed this month for the roles of Mike Doonesbury, Boopsie, Zonker, Duke and more. Mikhail Baryshnikov dances the role of the devil in "Three Virgins and a Devil" during a rehearsal for the American Ballet Theater production which opened Tuesday at Lincoln Center in New York. With Baryshnikov is dancer Ruth Mayer. was Burton's fifth marriage, and the first for Hay. Burton and Taylor, 51, appeared in Tuesday evening's performance of the Noel Coward revival, which had been temporarily suspended because pf Taylor's throat infection..

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