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Authorities foil
Trenton escape
By MIKE AVENENTI
TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) -
Authorities foiled an escape
attempt and regained control of
Wing Seven at Trenton State
Prison today after a two-hour
disturbance. An inmate who
tried to shoot his way out of the
walled fortress and flee in a
waiting van was killed.
Three prison guards were
wounded and another prisoner
was shot during a five-minute
gun battle at the maximum
security prison that touched off
an 11-hour disturbance. One of
the wounded guards was hit by
a homemade bomb.
After ordering 120 inmates in
three tiers to strip naked and
leave their cells, authorities
began tearing apart the cells in
a search for weapons believed
smuggled into the prison for the
escape attempt.
One .25-caliber pistol was
thrown from a tier by an
inmate during the uprising, a
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prison spokesman said.
A prison official said the dead
inmate, John Clark, 30, of
Newark, N.J. who was serving
a life sentence for the killing of
a policeman in 1973, had tried
twice before to break out of the
prison.
In his latest attempt last
year, Clark dug a tunnel
underneath the prison hospital,
but his passageway was discov
ered and he was caught.
State police said they learned
during the disturbance that a
van was parked near the prison
in a residential nighborhood.
They said they planned to
search the van for weapons
after obtaining a warrant.
Prison officials believed the
inmates had at least three hand
guns and a home-made bomb.
The weapons could have been
smuggled into the maximum
security wing during visits by
friends and relatives, according
to police.
State police said they be
lieved several inmates were
involved in the breakout be
cause other shots were fired by
inmates after Clark was killed.
He was shot five times, a
spokesman said.
At a 7 a.m. news briefing on
the front steps of the prison,
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missioner Ann Klein and other
officials said there were no
injuries other than those
wounded in the shootout and no
major damage during the
incident.
“It was just a break-out
attempt," a state police official
said.
The disturbance broke out
shortly after 8 o’clock Monday
evening and guards had the
inmates back in their cells
about two hours later.
Red soda pop may never be the same
By MICHAEL J. CONLON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Red
soda pop may never be the
same again, and some other
foods may wind up looking
strange as a result of the
government’s ban on Red Dye
No. 2.
But the cosmetics industry
says lipstick will be as red as
ever because it has already
found substitutes and has
virtually phased out use of the
controversial dye.
The Food and Drug Adminis
tration banned the dye from
foods, drugs and cosmetics
Monday because its cancer
causing potential has not been
proven and new studies have
raised additional questions as
to its safety.
The FDA ruled out a recall of
existing products, however, in
the absence of evidence estab
lishing a definite hazard.
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ATLANTA—Virginia H. Knauer (r), President Gerald Ford’s Special Assistant for
Consumer Affairs, said yesterday a “consumer advocacy office” would be handicapped
because it would become involved only after decisions affecting the consumer had been
made, and defended Ford’s veto of the proposed Consumer Protection Agency. Kathy L.
Moore (1), Chairperson of the Student Consumer Action Union of the University of North
Carolina, spoke in behalf of consumers. (UPI)
The National Soft Drink
Association said the dye is
currently being used in orange,
grape, strawberry and cherry
pop, which together account for
5 to 6 per cent of the $7.8 billion
annual wholesale soft drink
business.
A spokesman for the associa
tion said a “truly satisfactory
subsitute” for Red 2 has never
been found and “it’s going to be
Red dye banned by FDA
NEW YORK (UPI) - Many
manufacturers have eliminated
Red Dye No. 2, the coloring
agent banned by the Food and
Drug Administration, but some
gelatin desserts, beverages
mixes and drugs now on the
market contain the dye.
The FDA move Monday,
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troublesome — you don’t get
the same shade with Red No. 40
(a currently available sub
stitute) and it doesn’t mix as
well.”
Cola drinks, which account
for about 60 per cent of all such
beverages sold, are not affec
ted.
General Foods said it moved
promptly last week to shift to
substitutes. It said there are
which capped a 15-year debate
over the dye’s safety, had been
anticipated by manufacturers
of drugs, cosmetics and food.
They began substituting other
coloring agents up to four years
ago.
The dye is used in an
estimated $lO billion worth of
food every year.
General Foods, which a week
ago shifted to another coloring
for its few remaining products
containing the dye, said some
flavors of Kool-Aid and certain
fruit-flavored Jell-O desserts
now on the market contain red
No. 2. The dye also was used in
the company’s Gaines pet food,
both dry and moist.
“There is no evidence the
Eastern makes
51.7 million
in settlements
CHARLESTON, S.C. (UPI) -
Eastern Airlines has made out
of-court settlements thus far
amounting to $1.7 million in
connection with suits stemming
from a 1974 crash near
Charlotte, N.C.
The lastest settlement of
$450,000, agreed to Monday,
was paid to the family of
William Johnson Jr. The total
amount involves payments to
four families of persons killed
in the crash.
Seventy-two persons were
killed in the crash Sept. 11,
1974, when the plane plowed
into a cornfield more than three
miles short of the runway at
Douglas Municipal Airport.
The only one of the four suits
filed here to go to trial was
filed by the family of Frank
Ford. The jury awarded the
Fords $550,000. That verdict
was returned last Wednesday
but not announced until Monday
after the other three cases were
settled.
The airline settled with the
other two families late last
week, agreeing to a payment of
$315,000 to the family of George
Carswell and $480,000 to the
family of Navy Capt. Felix
Veccihone.
Eastern Airlines admitted
liability in connection with the
four suits in return for
promises the families would not
sue for punitive damages.
The only question was how
much the families should
receive in compensatory dama
ges. Compensatory damages
cover only actual damages such
as the loss of the victim’s
income. Punitive damages are
awarded to punish wrongdoing.
U.S. District Judge James B.
McMillan has ordered the
airline to tell attorneys for 14
plaintiffs who have filed suit in
Charlotte why it fired James
M. Daniels, the co-pilot who
was flying the plane when it
crashed.
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“going to be some differences”
as a result in some of its
desert, beverage and pet food
products.
The Cosmetic, Toiletry and
Fragrance Association Inc. said
Red 2 has become only a
“minor interest” to it because
manufacturers, including those
who turn out lipstick, have
shifted to other dyes.
food containing red No. 2 is
unsafe,” said a General Foods
spokesman. “Thus the public
can continue to use products
now in distribution with com
plete confidence.”
Kraftco said it eliminated red
No. 2 four years ago and
substituted red dye No. 40 and
paprika in its Kraft salad
dressings and barbecue sauce.
“The new coloring agents are
somewhat more expensive and
not as effective since they
fade,” a spokesman said.
Revlon eliminated the dye
from all its products over two
years ago, a spokeswoman
said.
Bristol-Myers, one of the
nation’s largest drug com
panies, said Red No. 2 still is
used for color coding in some
drugs.
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She was insulted
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo.,
says the treatment she received at the Touchdown Club’s
Bicentennial Awards dinner was an insult to all women
and especially female athletes.
Mrs. Schroeder said she was with her husband, James,
last Saturday night when six men calling themselves “the
floor committee” told her she could not attend the all
male banquet.
“We have never had a woman at one of these dinners in
40 years, and we’re not going to have one at the 41st,” said
one of the men after asking Mrs. Schroeder if she would go
quietly or “will we have to carry you out? ”
“The treatment I received was an insult to all women
and especially to the many great women athletes who
were also excluded,” Mrs. Schroeder said.
Book author sued
MANCHESTER, N.H. (UPI) - Gov. Meldrim Thomson
of New Hampshire is demanding $375,000 damages for
libel from newsman Kevin Cash, author of the book “Who
the Hell is William Loeb?”
A suit filed in Hillsborough County Superior Court
alleges Cash libeled the governor by stating he “took with
him certain accounts” of a law book publishing firm for
which he had worked, when Thomson moved to New
Hampshire to found his own publishing company.
Thomson, whose name appears in Cash’s book about the
life of William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union
Leader, said the book libeled him, held him up to public
scorn and ridicule and injured his personal good name and
professional reputation.
Berrigans jailed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Daniel and Philip Berrigan
are spending 30 days in jail for digging mock graves in the
White House lawn during a demonstration against nuclear
armament.
The Berrigans, of Baltimore, and Joe Maynes of Seattle
were sentenced Monday to either pay SIOO fines each or go
to jail. All three said they could not pay the fines in good
conscience and took the jail sentences instead.
Six others arrested at the Nov. 26 demonstration were
sentenced to either 10 days in jail or SSO fines. All six
elected to go to jail.
Young warns on arms
ATLANTA (UPI) — Weapons sent to either side in the
Angolan civil war will one day be pointed at American
allies in South Africa, Rep. Andrew Young, D-Ga., said
Monday.
Young, a black minister long active in the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, told the Atlanta press
club many African nations have ordered the Soviets to
leave after accepting arms from them in a civil war for
independence.
“The only way the Russians can stay there is if they’re
needed to supply arms,” said Young. “Once the fighting
stops, and the Soviets are no longer needed to supply
arms, the Russians are asked to leave.”