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SPORTS: Tech Winning With Diploma 1 A 5 WORLD: Politics Spark Soviet Riot TV: Jazz Man inally Arrives NATION: Actor Son Cleared 9 What happens the 10 A 10 A 11 8 A 3 A 2 1 11 1 4 5 2 A 11 1 PARTLY CLOUDY Alabama 1 2 Ann Landers 10 Business Classified Comics Deaths Doonesbury Duncan Editorials Georgia Living Today 10 Movies Nation People Sports TV Atlanta Hawks 5 I 11 Colutnta inquirer Jtlk jxir Sections 25 Cents METRO EDITION Columbus Ga riday December 19 1986 Our 159th Year 173rd Issue 1986 RW Poge Corp Retired Post Commander Tarpley Dies By Bill Winn Staff Writer Retired Maj Gen Thomas yGggitef Tarpley 64 commanding general of ort Benning 7 from 1 973 to ft 1975 and for mer first vice president of irst National TARPLEY Bank of Columbus died in his sleep Thursday morning at his See TARPLEY Page A 8 Casey Brain Tumor Removed Hospital Says CIA Cancer Appears to Be Treatable Condition Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON Surgeons removed a cancer ous tumor Thursday from the brain of CIA Director William Casey 73 who had been hospitalized since Monday after suffering two seizures A statement released by Georgetown University Hospital said the tumor was removed from the inner side of the left brain the area affecting movement and sensation on right side The one page statement attributable only to the hospital said the surgery was performed from 7:40 am to 1 pm without complication and that Casey was in condition and doing The statement added that cancer pears treatable" and that his doctors (he) will be able to resume his normal activi will be no further medical details avail able on Mr Casey before the test results are final The length of his hospitalization will be determined at that At the White House spokesman Albert Brashear said there was about condition but added that are confident that the CIA is still doing its business competently and it is in good WILLIAM CASEY: CIA Director in 1981 photo Harris Officials Give OK To Rock Quarry Opening By Harry ranklin Assistant State Editor HAMILTON Ga Georgia Marble nearly three year battle to open a rock quarry off US 27 at Grey Rock Road moved a big step closer to vic tory Thursday The Harris County Commis sioners meeting for 45 minutes in executive session with their at torney voted 5 0 to drop all charges against employees and contractors of Georgia Marble and to issue the permits and licenses the company needs to resume work The workers had been charged with violating county ordinances by working on a lake for the quarry without obtaining rezoning of the land work permits or business li censes The news was greeted with delight by Georgia Marble attor See QUARRY Page A 4 I J' Sf I WH' MS IB kflHbS XXwX Y'" 4B Iff BtKo tJA SJrWsW'B 7 A a A 7 Performers include (back r) Nicole Dondehnger Tehea ulkerson Sean Ray Yamilette lores Christian Nahas (front) Brooke Wilson Carrie Houston Carson Givens Lonnie Collins and Erika Matos Song Dance And Cheer With her shoe laces flapping as she pranced around the stage 3 year old Brooke Wilson was a stealer of scenes as Perform ers entertained at the School of the Americas staff Christmas party last week The youngsters are under the direction of Libbie Kurinec They work out of Academy of Modeling Most of them are ele mentary school age but Brooke the daughter of Mr and Mrs Dean Wilson has a few years to go before she starts to class That stop her from taking part in the show however By Lawrence Smith Ledger Enquirer Soviets Say Nuke Tests To Resume Associated Press MOSCOW The Soviet Union said Thursday its unilateral ban on nuclear testing will end with the first American blast in 1987 The Kremlin said an extension of its nearly year old moratorium could damage national security In a government statement distributed by the Tass news agency the Soviet leadership deemed it regrettable that the current US adminis tration has never given a positive response to the Soviet appeal for joining its peace initia US sources have said an underground nuclear test is planned in Nevada on Jan 29 The Soviets first announced a moratorium start ing Aug 6 1985 to commemorate the 40th anniver sary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima Japan It was extended three times to run through Jan 1 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev described the unilateral move as a goodwill gesture and a step toward breaking the disarmament impasse In the statement issued Thursday the Kremlin called on Washington to begin immediately new talks on banning nuclear tests and offered again to observe a joint moratorium USSR is prepared to continue to respect its moratorium Yet it will resume nuclear testing after the first nuclear explosion carried out by the US next said the statement a time when the United States stubbornly continues to fulfill its nuclear test program to develop new nuclear weapons and build them up the Soviet Union cannot show unilateral restraint indefinitely If this situation is continued grave damage can be caused lo the security of the USSR and its The Soviets said the decision against extension of the ban was exclusively by security The Reagan administration has rejected the test ban arguing that some testing is necessary as long as nuclear weapons are deployed and because the test blasts are part of research into Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative or proj ect Washington also has cited what it considers difficulties in verifying compliance with a test ban Phenix City Losing METRA Bus Service Phenix City riders tell their story A 2 Constance Johnson Staff Writer METRA bus service for Phenix City will end Dec 31 leaving hundreds of riders without public transportation Columbus Mayor eighner has said that Phenix City plans to stop paying its share of operating deficit at the end of the year thereby stopping the buses METRA service in Phenix City was cut to two routes last December the level of service for which the Phenix City Council agreed to pay Before that Columbus had paid half of the ArtPTD A cctom operating ueiicn lor me eiiuiv By Richard ThomasonLedger Enquirer See METRA Page A 2 METRA bus on Phenix City route Thursday IflHSB fey a I St Hasenfus Back in US And Heading Home Knight Ridder Newspapers MIAMI Convicted American gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus pardoned by Sandin ista government arrived in Miami Thursday en route home to Wisconsin for his youngest 7th birthday and the Christmas holidays Hasenfus 45 and his wife Sally arrived at 2:55 pm at International Airport flying first class aboard a Pan American World Airways flight from Guatemala where they had spent the first night after his release from 72 days in a Nicara guan prison REAGAN CRISIS Reagan gave OK after arms shipment: Regan A 4 Pro contra group denies it got supplies from US mili tary units A 3 After clearing customs Ha senfus was greeted by about 80 journalists who gathered for an anticipated press conference in an airport warehouse building but they were largely disap See HASENUS Page A 8 REAGAN CRISIS.
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