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'Wednesday, May 13,1981

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Pope John Paul shot

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He was hit...we saw him fair

Vatican Radio said the pope

fell into the arms of his
secretary, Don Stanislaw
VATICAN CITY (UPI) - Vati- Dziwisz. The jeep in which he
can Radio said today the condi- was riding drove off at break
tion of Pope John Paul II, shot by neck speed
a gunman in St. Peter's square,
Witnesses said blood could be
was "grave."
seen flowing near the pope's
neck. Vatican security guards
FROM WIRE REPORTS
apprehended one man who was
with a pistol, witnesses
VATICAN CITY - A gunman armed
said
shot at Pope John Paul II in St.
An ambulance rushed into the
Peter's Square Wednesday, and
Vatican Radio said the pope was Vatican where the pope was
taken shortly after the incident.
hit by the gunfire.
The pope's condition was not
"He was certainly hit. We saw
immediately
known
him fall from the shots, four or
five shots," the Vatican Radio
SHORTLY AFTER the inciannouncer said.

Bulletin

dent, a special announcer came

on the Vatican radio and said:
"As you know, the Holy Father
has been wounded. Let us pray
for his health."
It was the first time a pope
had been the object of an
assassination attempt since a
lone man disguised as a priest
tried to stab the late Pope Paul
VI at Manila airport on a trip to
the Far East in 1970.
"It seems he was hit by at
least one shot in the abdomen,"
the Vatican radio announcer
said
THE ANNOUNCER said the

60-year-old pope was being

taken by ambulance to Rome's
Policlinico Gemelli hospital.
The pope was in St. Peter's
Square to hold his weekly
Wednesday audience.
As soon as confusion over the
incident subsided, thousands
gathered in the square for the
audience began praying along
with a priest using the church's
public address system Many
fell to their knees and sobbed.
John Paul, 60, the former
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of
Poland, became pope hi the fall
of 1978 at the age of 58 the
first non-Italian pope in 455
years.

POPE JOHN PAUL It SHOT IN THE ABDOMEN

$100,000-a-day losses feared

Record rains peril corn crop

By PHIL HICKS
C-T Staff Writer

statewide average of 7-9 percent of

the corn crop planted

Record rainfall in the last six

weeks is threatening local farmers
with corn crop losses reaching as
high as $100,000 a day, according to
Loram County Extension Agent
Jerry Long.

"FARMERS WONT be able to get

onto their fields until Saturday, and
they'll have to skirt around a lot of
wet spots," Long said
Long said farmers have had only
about three good days for field
preparation for planting, adding that
"the 30-day weather forecast doesn't
look good "
Long said agriculture researchers
have shown that in this area, corn
yields drop on every acre planted
after May 10, adding that losses in
corn production are up to an
additional 26,000 bushels everyday
the planting is delayed. With the
current market price at close to

Muddy fields this spring have

prevented fanners from planting
their corn crop by the May 10
optimum planting date Last year,
Long said, area farmers had almost
80 percent of the corn planted,
compared to 5 percent this year
Due to this area's naturally wet
soils, the county is behind the

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Cloudy with a chance of showers

late tonight Lows will be in the mid
40s.
Showers likely Thursday with
highs in the low 60s.
The probability of precipitation is
40 percent tonight and 70 percent

$3 50 a bushel it adds up to almost

$100,000 a day.
Adverse weather will force most
farmers who had planned to raise
corn this year to either use corn with
shorter maturation or switch to soy
beans, since the optimum planting
date for that crop is still a week
away, May 20.
Depending upon the variety of
corn, about 100 days are needed from
planting for corn to mature With the
delay, farmers would be betting
against the fall's first killing frost by
planting corn any later
LONG SAID this year's soy bean
crop is not yet affected by the
weather, but added that all the
standing water may cause this
summer's wheat production to drop
Loram County normally has
26,000 acres in corn, and 56,000 acres
in soy beans

Record rainfall in April amounted

to nearly five inches, 40 percent
moT t^ap norms) according to
Winds will be variable 10 mph or North Ridgeville Weather Observer
less today and tonight.
Ray Diederich.
Sunrise today: 6:11 a.m. Sunset
In May. slightly more than an inch
tonight: 8:37 p m. Details on page A-3. has fallen, about normal, he said

MISSILE SYMBOLS rrart approximate sites of the three SAM batteries that Syria moved into Lebanon late
last month. Israel says Syria has deployed eight more missile batteries on the Syrian side of the border. It
was from one of the Lebanese sites that the missiles were fired Tuesday at Israeli jets but missed their
mark. (UPI)

U.S. cracking the whip?

Begin denies he's underpressure to curb flights
Our new 'baby'
arrives Friday:
Cable listings

The Chronicle-Telegram this

today will expand its television
irogram listings both in the
weekly TV Pullout in Encore and in
he daily C-T - to include northern
)hio's most complete and easy-toollow cable schedules
While some other newspapers are'
isting some cable programming,
none is offering such a complete
>#ckage. And nose is in the "grid"
format where you can see at a glance
- each day just what is on all the
channels regular and cable - at
each hour and half-hour.
None of this leafing from page to
page or referring to several different
sources justlo find out what's on TV.
THE CTS SCHEDULES are
custom-designed to include the cable

systems serving various communities in this area.

And of course we'll continue to
list, as always, the programming on
Channels 3,5,8,25 and 43
Tne new cable listings, as you can
see from the sample above, will
include Channel 61's pay-TV offerings as well as the complete offerings from Ted Turner's WTBS in
Atlanta, the special ESPN sports
newtwork, the Nickelodean network
geared to children's programming,
and WOR from New York.
And we'll show you at a glance
what movies and special attractions
are on Showtime, on Home Box
Office, on Cinemax.
We'll also include in each week's
TV Pullout on Fridays a channel
guide so you can fit each program
with your particular system. For

instance, the same cable feature,

such as Cinemax, could be on, say,
Channel 9 on one system and perhaps
Channel 4 on another.
OUR NEW listings service was
packaged by Shannon Jewell, Encore
editor, and George Popovich, of our
production staff, working in conjunction with TV Data, a subsidiary of
United Media Enterprises.
We think you'll appreciate the
added listings now ihai cable-TV' is
here or on the way for many of
you. We'll be happy to get your
reactions and suggestions.
Cable-TV. Complete. And easy-tocomprehend Starting this Friday in
the C-T.
-ARNOLD MILLER
Managing Editor

United Press International

JERUSALEM (UPI) - Prime
Minister Menachern Begin, denying
the United States wants Israel to
curb flights over Lebanon, said today
he hoped Syria would go along with
U S efforts to avert war over the
missile crisis
The Israeli military command
denied a Damascus report that
Syrian gunners downed an Israeli
pilotless drone over Lebanon Military sources said wreckage shown on
Syrian television apparently was of a
drone shot down more than a year
ago
BEGIN SPOKE to reporters as
U S Presidential Envoy Philip Habib
returned to Beirut on a trip to
Lebanon and Syria for further talks
on the missile crisis Begin said he
expected Habib back in Israel Friday
to report on his talks in Lebanon and
Syria

Habib is trying to defuse the worst

threat of hostilities since the 1973
Middle East War caused by Syria's
installation of Soviet-made antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon's Bekaa
Valley and Israel's insistence that
they be removed
Habib's return to Lebanon coincided with reports of fighting
between the Syrian peacekeeping
forces and rightist Phalangist militias on the slopes at Mount Sannme
overlooking the Bekaa Valley, northeast of Beirut

more missiles But of course we will

try our best"
Begin denied the American formula for resolving the missile crisis
entailed curbs on the Israeli flights
over Lebanon

MILITIA OFFICIALS said the

Syrians pounded the Sannme slopes
with heavy artillery, but reported no
casualties
" Let us hope he will help to
prevent even military actions, not
only general war," Begin said "We
want a solution, a peaceful solution
But much time we don't have,
because the Syrians all the time send

"We agreed that Mr. Habib go to

Beirut and Damascus and await his
return Until we reach real agreement on the return to the status quo,
we cannot say anything about the
results," Begin added. "If he brings
the news that there is agreement
with the Syrians. I will be able to say
that we have now a peaceful solution
to the problem."

"I want to assure you there is no

American proposal to limit our right
for the overflights in Lebanon in
order to discover what is going on
and to prevent the attacks of
terrorists against Israeli citizens," he
said.

U.S. halts Soviet jet, seizes 'items'

WASHINGTON (UPI) - US Customs agents delayed the departure of
a Soviet airliner from Dulles International Airport and seized three
"defense-related" items from passenger baggage, the State Department said today
Spokesman Joe Reap said the
agents ordered passengers and
baggage aboard Aeroflot Flight 318,
bound for Moscow, unloaded shortly
before the plane's scheduled 5 p.m
EOT departure Tuesday from Dulles,
about 45 miles outside Washington.

THE SEARCH, which delayed the

takeoff for about four hours, yielded
three "defense-related" items, which
Ppap <wnd could have been anv of a
variety of items banned for export to
the Soviet Union without a license
"The items found were not licensed They needed to be licensed or
documented," he said "Clearly, this
was illegal"
Reap said he had no additional
information about the items seized,
adding the State Department was

aware of the search as it occurred,

but took no part in it.
He also said he could neither
confirm nor deny Soviet allegations
that diplomatic baggage normally
exempt from customs inspection
was searched.
A full explanation will require
"coordination between the State
Department, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and Customs,"
he said However, he insisted the
Customs Service was acting within
its legal purview