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NEW YORK (DPI) — Police said yesterday they did
not believe the story of the "mystery woman " who had
provided them with their best lead in the investigation of
the Dec. 29 bombing of LaGuardia airport which killed 11
persons and injured 75.
A police spokesman said authorities questioned the
woman and her mothe r , who called police about 40
minutes after the blast and said the younger woman had
overheard two men in an airport phone booth warn
authorities a bomb had been planted.
But , the spokesman said, after interrogation detectives
concluded neither woman-had been at LaGuardia at the
time the bomb blew apart the TWA baggage area.
"The - usefulness of the mystery woman has been
negated ," said Del. James T. Sullivan of the New York
detective bureau. "We don]t think she was ever at the
airport because of the inconsistencies in their stories.
Further , we don't think the bomber ever called police to
warn them about the bomb. •
"We haven 't yet tried to analyze their motive for telling
the story, " he said, and added police did not plan to bring
criminal charges against them.
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LaGuardia tip
Sullivan said the mother- finally came forwa rd this
week in response to repeated pleas is local media for the
woman who telephoned police thle night of the blast to call
again. i
"These are definitely the same people who made that
call from the Bronx ," Sullivan said, "but their stories
don't match and we just don't believe they ever saw
anyone making a call from the ai port. " r
Sullivan said authorities are xmtinuing to trace hundreds
of tips they have received via a special phon e
number set up for the LaGuardia investigation.
"We 've received about 150 phone calls and talked to
hundreds of people," he said. He said failure of the
"mystery woman" connection tq produce a solid lead dio-f
not leave police completely empty handed.
. "We have lots of leads we're s^ill working on," he said.
"We 're not at all back at square one." I
The airport sustained about $750,000 worth of damage,
according to the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey. Shattered glass panes fleW hundreds of feet and a .
ceiling in the baggage area caved in from the force of the '
blast. i
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Lebanese Christians hold siege
BEIR UT . Lebanon (UPIi -
Palestinian guerrillas battled
with rifles , mortars and
machineguns last night
against Christian militiamen
blockading a refugee camp,
pushing Lebanon to the brink
of full-scale civil war. *
The fierce fighting pitted
guerrillas from the Tal
Zaatar refugee camp-on {he
eastern outskirts of Beirut
against militiamen from the
neighboring Christian enclave
of Furn El-Chebaak.
Clashes in the same area
last April touched off the ninemonth-old
civil war between
Moslems and Christians in
the divided nation of 2.8
million.
Moslems and Palestinians
vowed to launch a full-scale
offesnive if the Christian
gunmen refused to end the
four-day old blockade , which
has halted food supplies to Tal
Zaa tar 's 6,000 residents.
Defying the ultimatum ,
Christian forces repulsed
armored cars sent by Moslem
Premier Rashid Karami to
escort food trucks into the
encircled camp.
Killings and kidnapings
swept Beirut' s shuttered
streets as tension mounted
over the blockade.
"Armed men are
everywhere ," the radio said.
"Please get into the safety of
your homes."
Police said at least 75
persons were kidnaped and 12
killed in the past 48 hours ,
raising the toll since April to
more than 8,000 dead and
17,000 wounded.
Moslem and Palestinian
leaders walked out of an
emergency meeting of the
Supreme Coordination
Committee charged with
resolving cease-fire
violations in the capital ,
making all-our warfare appear
imminent .
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A senior government
source said "the situation is
rapidly deteriorating and
explode at any
Sould loment. "
The Christian Phal angist
art y refused ' to "remove
(heir roadblocks before the
Palestinians evacuate the
Christian areas they occupied
{ast year '.' and allow
Christian refugee s to return
to their homes.
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Issam Al-Arab, leader of
leftist Nasserite , movement
responded , "This time we will
teach them (the Christians) a
lesson they will not forget for
tens of years. "
Nixon's appraise/ fined $10,000
CHICAGO (UPI ) — A
federal judge yesterday fined
literary appraiser and Lincoln
scholar Ralph G.
Newman $10,000 for his role in
backdating Richard M.
Nixon 's personal papers to
give the former preside nt an
illegal $450,000 income tax
deduction.
U.S. District Court Judge
Frank J. McGarr ruled tha t a
prison sentence was not the
" app ropriate " punishment
for Newman and said the 64year-old
president of the
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Chicago Library Board
^doesn 't need the supervision
" of proba tion.
The judge said that in "the
somber and critical post-
Watergate days" it is difficult
to remember "the prestige of
being chosen to help-x the
President. "
Newman was convicted by
a jury last Nov. 12 of
falsifying an affida vit that
was attached to Nixon's 1969
federal income tax ret urn and
of lying to Internal Revenue
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Service agents when they
questioned him about the
document in 1973.
The affidavit said Newman
had made a "rough survey "
of the Nixon papers on April 8,
1969, after they allegedly had
been delivered to the National
Archives. Jay Horowitz , the
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prosecutor , said the gift in
fact was made after a July 25,
1969, cutoff date and Nixon
was not entitled to the
deduction. ', f
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! McGarr ordei ed Newman
to pat a $5,000 fine on each of
the two counts.
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