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<br />those irrigation systems back in
<br />operation and get water on the beets
<br />to finish out the year," Abrams said,
<br />Ron Goheen farms one of the
<br />Roth Fanns about four miles nor-
<br />thwestofGill.
<br />"It hailed off and on for about an
<br />hour and a half. I think we lost about
<br />50 percent of our com, beans, beets
<br />and alfalfa." Goheen said. The
<br />wind, in places. blew com to the
<br />ground. Lower ends of fields were
<br />still under water this morning, msk.
<br />ing it difficult to assess damage.
<br />Jim Wirshborn, meteorologist at
<br />Mountain States Weather Services
<br />in Fort Collins, said the sloms were
<br />triggered by an upper level low
<br />pressure.
<br />"We've had the moisture over the
<br />Slate for. the past two or three weeks.
<br />but dido't have anything to drive it
<br />out onto the plains until Saturday,"
<br />he said. He had reports of nearly a
<br />half inch of rain falling in five
<br />minutes and more than 1 inch of rain
<br />in Jess than 30 minutes in some
<br />areas ofGreeJey and Weld.
<br />"There is the potential for more
<br />over the next 24 hours and they
<br />could be slow moving, just like they
<br />were Saturday, which could mean
<br />large amounts of rain in a very shon
<br />period," Wirshborn said.
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<br />TAX-FEE HIKES
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<br />To make up for a predicted reve-.
<br />nue loss caused by the diesel fuel
<br />laX cut, truck registration fees will
<br />increase starting Jan. I, 1990.
<br />The new taxes and their schoo.
<br />uled increases in 1990 and 1991 are
<br />projected to raise $78.5 million in
<br />fiscal year 1990.91 and $97.S
<br />million in 1991-92.
<br />State Highwa~' District 4, which
<br />includes Weld, Larimer and seven
<br />other Eastern Slope counties, is
<br />estimated to receive $5.9 million in
<br />new money the first year, according
<br />to Hall.
<br />He said the Highway Commission
<br />recently decided to take 10 percent
<br />from the new highway funds for the
<br />next six years to improve surface
<br />conditions on Slate highways in the
<br />Denver area. He said 40 percent of
<br />slate roads in the Denver area are
<br />rated as poor, a higher percentage
<br />than in other parts of Colorado.
<br />Several planned highway projects
<br />in Weld County could be completed
<br />sooner with the new funds, said
<br />Hall. Among, those projects is a
<br />study of the U.S. 85 corridor from
<br />Greeley to the future interchange
<br />with E-470 south of Brighton.
<br />Other projects that could be ac.
<br />celerated with new money is the
<br />upgrading of Colo. 14 through Ault,
<br />resurfacing of U.S. 85 from Pial-
<br />teville to Oreeley"and upgrading of
<br />U.S. 34 west of 35th Avenue, where
<br />it is beginning to deteriorate.
<br />Hall said the timetable for com.
<br />plelion of U.S. 34 from Greeley to
<br />Inters tale 76 will nOl be affected by
<br />the new funds because the project is
<br />already in the Highway Depart-
<br />ment's 5-ycar plan.
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<br />HUD PROBE
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<br />riddled with favoritism. Federal of.
<br />ficials have said they've found no
<br />evidence actions taken under the
<br />pmlmlm were iJ1ef!~J.
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<br />Monday,July31,1989
<br />
<br />Higgins headed U.N. peacekeeping force
<br />
<br />THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
<br />U.S, Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins.
<br />who was taken hostage lYl years ago in
<br />Lebanon by Shiite Moslems who now claim to
<br />have executed him, headed a 75-member force
<br />or U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon.
<br />After he was kidnapped, his uncle said Hig-
<br />gins had fulfilled his goal of making his family
<br />proud.
<br />"He loves his country," said Delbert Eagle
<br />of Lancaster, Ky. "He is capable of standing
<br />up as well as an ordinary man will under the
<br />circumstances. ... I don't think they could br-'
<br />ing enough pressure or pain to cause him to
<br />betray his country in any way." Eagle died
<br />four months ago.
<br />The Shiite Moslems holding Higgins had
<br />said Sunday they would hang him unless Israel
<br />released a Shiite Moslem clergyman kidnap-
<br />ped Friday by Israeli commandos. Today, the
<br />group claimed it had 'carried out the executio.n
<br />to retaliate for the Israeli kidnapping of Sheik
<br />Abdul Karim Obeid.
<br />Earlier today, however, Israeli analysts
<br />queslioned whether Higgins was alive before
<br />Obeid was cap lured:
<br />"During the negotiations which are likely to
<br />open in the wake of the kidnapping of Sheikh
<br />Obeid, 'Higgins' captors will have to prove he
<br />is indeed alive," military analyst Zeev Schiff
<br />wrote in the daily Haaretz. .
<br />When he was abducted Feb. 17,1988,'Hig-
<br />gins, 44, headed the observer group assigned to
<br />the U.N. peaCekeeping force in south Lebanon.
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<br />had sentenced him to death as a spy for Israel
<br />Their statement at that time did nOl give ar:
<br />execution date for Higgins, it one--time aide te
<br />. for'.Iler U.S. .}~efens~,,_. ,~~r~~>C~pal
<br />Welllberger. ~,> ....--, "t,~'';.$tlr.J--!;'ri-k1.,~f'-',
<br />0", Higgins, _,in Dan, viii, "~<mal ir
<br />'i,SOUlbem}efl'enortOlu>>ll'..KSi ..,,'" i
<br />:-- By the lime he left for'coUcge~ he.... weL
<br />on the way to fuIfllling the ambition' he ex-
<br />pressed in his senior yearbook.:_~'For my fami-
<br />ly to always be proud of me."..oJ, .-'''c'--
<br />He won appoinunent to West Point, but he
<br />_ chose instead to study at Miami University of
<br />Ohio on a Navy ROTC SCholarship. .
<br />. :" He was commissioned as a second lieutenanl
<br />'when he graduated in 1967 with a business
<br />, degree, and he later earned master's degrees
<br />from Pepperdine University and Auburn Uni-
<br />;versity in Alabama.
<br />Higgins served in Vietnam in 1968 and 1972
<br />and later was a rifle company commander in
<br />Okinawa, Japan, an instructOr at the staff
<br />non-commissioned officers academy- at Quan-
<br />tico, Va., and a rifle company commander at
<br />Camp Lejeune, N.C.
<br />Higgins served in various staff positions at
<br />, Marine.Corps headquarters in Washington and
<br />APLASERPHOTO -'.-at the Pentagon. He graduated from the Na-
<br />American Marine Col. William R. Higgjns-~,~' lional WarC?lle~ein 1.985. .' .
<br />He and hiS flIst wife, Bomta Spaldmg of
<br />He was returning from talks with a moderate Louisvi!Ie, 'Ky., had a daughter, Christine
<br />Shiite Moslem militia leader that reportedly;,~ Lynn. She is 17,
<br />-touched on foreign hostages. '. His second wife, Marine Maj. Robin Hig-
<br />1n December, Higgins' kidnappen said~' gins, works at the Pentagon.
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<br />HOSTAGES IN LEBANON
<br />
<br />THE ASSOCIATED PREss
<br />Foreigners believed held by kidnappers in
<br />Lebanon:
<br />AMERICAN
<br />1. Terry Anderson, 41, chief Middle East
<br />correspondent of The Associated Press, kid.
<br />napped March 16, 1985. A Shiite Moslem
<br />group, the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad, or Isiamic
<br />Holy War,claims to hold him.
<br />2. Thomas Sutherland, 58, of Fon Collins,
<br />Colo., Scottish-born acting dean of agriculture
<br />at the American University of Beirut (on leave
<br />from his post at Colorado State University),
<br />June 9, 1985. Islamic Jihad claims to hold him.
<br />3. Frank Herben Reed, 58, director of the
<br />private Lebanon International School in Beirut,
<br />kidnapped Sept. 9, 1986. A pro.Libyan group
<br />called Arab Revolurionary Cells-Dmar
<br />Moukhtar Forces claimed responsibility.
<br />4. Joseph James Cicippio, 58, acting comp-
<br />troller of the American University of Beirut,
<br />kidnapped Sept. 12, 1986. The pro-Iranian
<br />Revolutionary Justice Organization, a Shiite
<br />group, claimed responsibility.
<br />5. Edward Austin Tracy, 58, author of
<br />children's books. Date of kidnapping unclear,
<br />bUl the Revolutionary Justice Organization
<br />claimed responsibility OCl. 21.1986.
<br />6. Jesse Turner, 42, visiting professor of
<br />mathematics and compuler science at Beirut
<br />University College, kidnapped Jan. 24, 1987,
<br />from university campus along with Robert
<br />POlhill, Alann Steen and Mithileshwar Singh,
<br />by gunmen posing as policemen. Pro-Iranian
<br />Shiite faction, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation
<br />of Palestine, claimed responsibility.
<br />7. Alann Steen, SO, journalism professor al
<br />Beirul University College, kidnapped Jan. 24,
<br />1987,
<br />8. Robert Polhill, 35, assistant professor of
<br />business and lecturer in accounting at Beirut
<br />Universily College,kidnappcd Jan. 24, 1987
<br />9. Marine Lt. Cot William R. Higgins, 44,
<br />head of a 75-man observer group attached to
<br />the U.N. lmerim Force in Lebanon. kidnapped
<br />
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<br />
<br />APLASERPHOTO
<br />Thomas M. Suther!and of Fort Collins
<br />Feb. 17, 1988, near Tyre. Claimed by the pro-
<br />Iranian Organization of the Oppressed on
<br />Earth, a Shiite faction. The group said April
<br />21, 1988, that Higgins would be put on trial for
<br />spying.
<br />BRlTISH
<br />1. Alec Collett, 67, New York-based jour~
<br />nalist on assignment with the United Nations
<br />Relief and Works Agency, kidnapped March
<br />25, 1985. The Revolutionary Organization of
<br />Socialist Moslems. believed 10 be linked to
<br />Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, claimed on
<br />April 23, 1986, that he had been hanged in
<br />retaliation for th.e April IS U.S. air raid on
<br />Libya. It released a. videotape purponedly
<br />~hnl',j..." rnllpff h:ml!'IDl!' from II ~cllffnkl, t>nt
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<br />his body was never found. His family and Brit-
<br />ish Foreign Office believe he is dead.
<br />2. John McCarthy, 32, producer for Lon
<br />don-based Worldwide Television News .age"
<br />cy, April 17, 1986. No group has claimed hi
<br />abduction.
<br />3. Terry Waite, 50, envoy of the Anglica:
<br />Church who had been seeking the release ('.
<br />foreign hostages, disappeared Jan. 20, 198'
<br />after leaving his west Beirut hotel to negotim
<br />with Islamic Jihad. He .'is believed held b'
<br />Islamic Jihad, though 'DO group has claime
<br />responsibility for his abduction or made de
<br />mands for his release.
<br />4. Jack Mann, 75, missing in west BeirL
<br />since May U. 1989. Cells of Armed StruggJ
<br />claimed same day it had kidnapped a Britor,
<br />but did not name him.
<br />IRISH
<br />. Brian Keenan,' 32, an English language
<br />,leacher at the American University of Beirul
<br />kidnapped April 11, 1986. No group ha~
<br />claimed to hold him, but he was seen beint
<br />seized by armed men in Beirut He comes frorr,
<br />""'British-ruled Northern .Ireland, but also hold$
<br />an Irish passport
<br />ITALIAN
<br />Alberto Molinari, age unknown.
<br />businessman who dealt with insurance ano
<br />import-expon trade, kidnapped Sept. 11,1985.
<br />No claim of responsibility for his kidnapping.
<br />WESTGERMAN
<br />_, West Gennan relief workers Heinrich
<br />Struebig, 48, and Thomas Kemptner, 28, kid-
<br />napped with nurse Petra Schnitzler near Sidor;
<br />May 16, 1989. ~truebig and Schnitzler ha('.
<br />been seized May 4 with another German, bu'
<br />were freed May 5. In second abduction
<br />SChnitzler freed few hours later wheT
<br />militiamen stopped car in which she was hid
<br />den in ttunk. Kidnappings reportedly linked t(
<br />lrial in West Germany of Mohammad AI;
<br />Hamadi on charges of involvement in 198~
<br />TW A hijack. He was sentenced to life im
<br />prisonmem May 17,,1989, one day after Be.
<br />cond kidnapping. No group has claimed rc
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