European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday october 14, 1985 american Arab organization received repeated threats stateside Santa Ana. Calif. A the american Arab Ami discrimination committee office devastated by a bomb blast received repealed threats before the explosion which killed the organi action s regional Leader and injured seven people a group official said. Our office out there in Santa Ana has received Contin Ual threats and harassing Calls James Abourizk nation Al chairman of the committee said in Washington . Abjure a also said Alex och. The commit acc s slain West coast director had received Calls at Home in which they said they were going to kill him. Abourizk a former senator from South Dakota blamed the Friday bombing on the eagerness of americans to punish the palestini an hijackers of the italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro. I m jus sitting Here watching the news on this ship hijacking Over there. There is this sense of a kind of Lynch mob from president Reagan on Down it s Cowboy Lime on the part of the president on the part of the Media on the part of Congress he said Fri Day. In that atmosphere there seems to be a mood of go ahead and kill some arabs it s of Abourezk said. Friends and relatives said they had feared for Odeh s life after he appeared on news programs praising Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat s role in gaining the release of hostages from the Achille Lauro. During a televised interview thursday night och said och the Media had mistakenly connected the Plo to the hijacking of the ship. He also predicted the spread of terror ism. We arc witnessing that violence Breeds violence Odeh said. Och 41, was fatally wounded when the bomb exploded As he opened the door to the committee s office in Santa Ana. 35 Miles Southeast of downtown los Angeles. The blast rocked the three Story building hurling debris into the Street and knocking Over one bystander who May have been waiting for a bus. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Santa Ana police the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms the arli terrorist division of the los Angeles police department and the Fri arc investigating the bombing. The Fri which is looking into the possible involvement of terrorist groups has no evidence that the attack was linked to Odeh s remarks. Fri spokesman John Hoos said. In Washington White House spokesman Larry Speaks said Reagan had instructed Federal authorities to provide the fullest possible support to local police in their investigation. The administration deeply deplores this tragic event and condemns in the strongest possible terms the criminal use of violence and terrorism to achieve political ends Scakes said. The anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith a jewish group on saturday condemned the bombing As Domestic terrorism which cannot be however the militant jewish defense league while disclaiming any responsibility in the blast said it could not condemn it. Veteran Price is right announcer Johnny Olson Dies Fow owing stroke Santa Monica. Calif. Up television announcer Johnny Olson whose booming come on Down thrilled game show contestants on the Price is right for 14 years died saturday of complications from a stroke a lbs spokesman said. He was 75. Olson died at St. John s Hospital in Santa Monica where he was taken after suffering a stroke oct. 6. Marc Broslow director of the popular lbs game show featuring Host Bob Barker said. Hospital officials said Olson who lived in West Virginia and com muted to a Hollywood apartment died of a brain Haemorrhage. There in t a single person at lbs who did t love Johnny i Breslow said. There was Olson Only one Johnny Olson he was t just an announcer. He was a performer. He could sing opera. He did character parts on the the Price is right " Mark Goodson whose Goodson Todman productions produces the show said Olson can never be Olson who was recently saluted at the daytime emmy awards banquet for his 40 years in the entertainment business had worked on the Price is right since its lbs premiere in september 1972. The game series previously aired on Abc from i956 to 1965 with Bill Cul in As the emcee. Olson s last show which will be broadcast in about five weeks was taped oct. 2, Breslow said. Until he suffered his stroke he had t missed a show. His familiar phrase come on Down you re the next contestant on the Price is right " entertained television viewers across the nation for More than a decade and sent excited contestants screaming Down the aisles. According to his wife Olson repeated the line More than 42.000 times. Johnny and i worked together for 14 years on the Price is right Broslow said. He worked the past 14 years As the come on Down Man. He coined that Olson had worked As the announcer on the Jackie Gleason show in the 1960s and had served As the off camera announcer for what s my line to Tell the truth i be got a secret and the match he is survived by Penny his wife of 46 years and his brother Richard of South Dakota. No formal funeral is planned but Breslow said Olson s body will be cremated and the ashes sent to West Virginia. A memorial service May be held he said. 400 leap for controlled terror Fayetteville , a More than 400 peo ple leaped 876 feet from the new River Gorge Bridge into a Boulder strewn Canyon saturday the Only Day of the year the parachutists May legally experience what some Call controlled police estimated More than 100,000 people crowded onto the 3.030-foot-Long Bridge the longest single Arch steel Span in the world and second tallest in the country to watch the leaner on the annual Bridge Day Celebration. Most of the parachutists screamed As they jumped on by one toward the swiftly moving River whose rapids Are favored by while water rafters. But there was no other noise until the whap of their opening chutes three seconds later. As you get closer to jumping your heart starts pounding. It beats faster. You see people pacing Back and Forth and looking hyper. But once you get up there you re Calm said Tom Phillips a postal service worker from Annapolis my. I watched a girl in front of me go and i became More scared then because her Knees were physically knocking together said Al Jones of Jacksonville. Fla. The Only time i glanced Down was when i got my the ground starts coming up so fast it starts zooming by. It s hard to describe. It keeps coming at you and coming at you said Phil Smith of Houston. It s controlled terror laughed a Friend watching Smith pack his Chute for another jump. Yeah Smith said smiling controlled several injuries were reported saturday when a 15-Mph wind whipped across the Bridge and blew some jumpers into the Rushing River instead of a targeted Sand bar in the Canyon through the appalachian mountains. One Man broke his leg when he landed in Trees and several people were treated for shortness of breath said Sandy Bryant of the local ambulance service. Two years ago a jumper died on Bridge Day when he was dragged into the current. This year organizers hired extra boats to pull jumpers from the water. The Bridge completed in 1977, is closed for the annual Bridge Day on the second saturday of october to allow pedestrians to stroll across and take in the View. Hair Salon agrees not to base haircut Price on customer s sex Beverly Hills Calif. Up the settlement in a lawsuit that charged a hair Salon of sex discrimination for charging More for cutting girls hair than it did for boys advanced the rights of females a lawyer said. Gloria Al Rcd who represented Yacc Miller in the Case said the yellow balloon Salon will no longer charge $2 More for girls haircuts agreeing instead to base their prices on the time and expertise required for the Cut. The settlement of this lawsuit is another step to and Vance the rights of females Al Rcd said. Miller won a similar settlement last year against a dry cleaner who charged More for women s clothes than for men s. Publishers will revise books rejected by California schools , Calif. A All sex publishers of Junior High science textbooks rejected by California for allegedly glossing Over evolution and human reproduction arc revising their books a stale official said. The slate Board of education last month rejected All the Junior High science texts submitted by Macmillan publish ing co. Holt Rinchart and Winston Charles e. Merrill publishing co. Scott Forssman and co. Prentice Hall inc., and . Heath and co. The Board said the lexis failed to meet state standards for treatment of evolution human reproduction and other matters such As air and noise pollution. Couple s Shotgun wedding was t for the usual reason Houston up a policeman and his Bride were married in his Hospital room after he was removed from the critical list Only three Days since he was shot in the Back by a burglary suspect. John Bailey 31, a patrolman in Lake Jackson in South East Texas and Marcy Brown 30, were married in a room full of friends at Hermann Hospital. I got married today because i thought 1 was a dead Man the other night Bailey said from his Hospital bed. You never know what can happen. I want to Start my life . Returns 900 acres of land to Narragansett Indian tribe Providence . A More than a Century after it was stripped from their ancestors by Rhode Island lawmakers surviving members of the Narragansett Indian tribe have received 900 acres of land from the state. This is the first time in our history that we have gained anything Back. We have reversed a process said Lloyd g. Wilcox. Wilcox the Narragansett Medicine Man is charged with keeping intact the tribe s traditional ceremonies. He said the wooded land in Charlestown in Touth Western Rhode Island was the heart of our last let gov. Edward dip rely signed Over the land ending a Legal fight that dates to 1975, when the tribe filed against the stale seeking return of the land. Unclaimed painting Worth $20,000 if it s by Chagall san Francisco a a police officer rummaging through unclaimed goods found a wat Creolor that May have been painted by Marc Chagall the late russian bom Painter. I looked at it out of curiosity and saw in was signed by Marc Chagall said it. Mike Para. It looks like some thing a kid did in the second Grade. Except that a second grader would probably do it the simple line drawing Over a Wash of Light blues and greens shows a peaked roof House with a woman on the right and a Man sitting on the Chimney with a rooster on his head. After the discovery police called in Art experts to deter mine its authenticity. If genuine the painting could be Worth up to $20,000, according to one dealer consulted by police
