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Adventurer vows to
finish rowboat voyage

LIZARD ISLAND, Australia (UPI) -
Despite plans by Australian coast
guardsmen to rescue him, adventurer
Peter Bird vowed yesterday to cross
the treacherous waters of the Great
Barrier Reef unaided and complete a
9% month lone voyage across the
Pacific.
"I haven't spent three years battling
away at this thing to give in at the end,'
Bird said by radiotelephone to his sup-
port vessel as his rowboat was tossed in
stormy seas.
BIRD, a 36-year-old Briton, said he
would attempt to end his more than

10,000-mile crossing today, rowing his
32-foot boat, the "Hele-on Britannia"
alone and without maps throughout the
reef waters along Australia's northeast
coastline. "Hele-on Britannia" is
Polynesian for "Keep on truckin', Brit-
annia.
The London photographer, who left
San Francisco last Aug. 23, said earlier
that crossing the reef would be the most
dangerous part of the 293-day voyage.
Bird told his trip coordinator Ken
Crutchlow he has emergency supplies
for five or six days but his batteries are
low and his radio will soon fail.

Source denies suicide link

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According to the source, Walter Scott
has been hit hard emotionally by the
suit. "I thought he'd really lost it all for
awhile," the source said, adding that
"he's bitter about everything."
Both David Scott and Walter Scott
were unavailable for comment.
JACQUELYN Scott's husband is also
suing three pharmuacy officials at the
hospital for sexual harassment because
they failed to stop the supervisor from
sending the notes.
Michael Minerath, William Thayer
and Richard de Leon were aware of
Scott's actions and "either tacitly ap-
proved of them or, acting in concert
with Walter Scott, were also guilty of
sexual harassment," a court brief said.
The three pharmacy staff members
had advised Walter Scott to stop sen-
ding notes to the assistant, but accor-
ding to the document, the supervisor
did not stop sending the letters which

David Scott claims sexually harassed
his wife.
WALTER Scott was fired in April af-
ter the University received copies of
notes he had written Jacquelyn Scott.
Walter Scott has filed a grievance
against the hospital officials and
University President Harold Shapiro
for unfairly firing him.
Walter Scott is charging that the
University libeled and slandered him.
The University denies the charges
and has filed a motion defending their
right to fire employees.
University officials and hospital ad-
ministrators would not comment on the
case. -
U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner is
expected to hear two motions on the
case June 21. The full case is expected
to be heard after a key witnesses'
deposition is taken.

IN BRIEF
Compiledfrom Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Bomb blast kills 3 in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Three guerrillas with 220 pounds of TNT in the fuel
tank of their car blew themselves up yesterday on their way to car-bomb
Israeli troops south of Beirut, an Israeli army spokesman reported.
The car explosion occurred near Shweifat, a village five miles south of
downtown Beirut. An Israeli lieutenant at the scene said the explosive
charge, which he estimated at 220 pounds of TNT, had been placed in the fuel
tank of the Datsun, and all three guerrillas were killed.
"One body was thrown 100 meters in the air and another body was thrown
20 meters above a tree," said the lieutenant.
The officer said the guerrillas apparently were trying to bypass extra
checkpoints the Israelis set up on the Old Sidon Road after another car bomb
attack on the route last week killed two Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile, in southern Lebanon, Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships led
a hunt for dozens of Palestinians and Lebanese who Lebanese reporters said
escaped from the Israelis' Ansar detention camp.
Reagan asks mayors to hang on
DENVER - President Reagan asked the nation's mayors yesterday to be
patient while economic recovery takes hold, but leading mayors say their
cities are falling into depression while the administration has "washed its
hands of its cities."
"Our economy is on the mend," Reagan said in a letter to the mayors,
reflecting the approach taken by his Republican defenders here in a series of
losing battles to curtail resolutions critical of the administration.
"Inflation and interest rates are significantly lower, and the unem-
ployment rate is coming down, too," Reagan said. "We have reason to look
to the future with optimism.
"However, I recognize the problems of the cities and am very aware that
you are on the front line in facing them," Reagan added. "Be assured that
this administration will continue to work closely with you."
New vaccine may cure herpes
PORTON DOWN, England - British researchers announced yesterday
the development of a vaccine for genital herpes that may prevent recurren-
ces of the sexually transmitted disease that has afflicted millions of people
around the world.
Dr. Peter Sutton, director of the government Center for Applied
Microbiology and Research in Porton Down, said it could be two or three
years before enough vaccine is produced for clinical trials, and five years
before it is available to the public.
Professor Michael Adler of Middlesex Hospital, who has written about
herpes and sexually transmitted diseases, was more cautious about the
claims of a possible cure.
"I'd like to see some clinical trials done before we know whether it's effec-
tive," he said.
The vaccine has been tested on about 100 herpes sufferers with striking
results, Sutton said.
Pioneer 10 leaves solar system
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Pioneer 10 sped beyond Neptune's orbit for
an eternal trip through the Milky Way galaxy yesterday, becoming the first
man-made object to leave the solar system and reach outer space.
A tiny operations center speaker crackled with data from the spacecraft
as it sailed beyond the known planets at 8 a.m. on a journey that already has
taken it 3.5 billion miles since it left Earth more than 11 years ago.
"The spacecraft will probably survive forever," declared Alan Fernquist,
assistant flight director at the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration's Ames Research Center.
"It will not encounter any other objects," he said. "Over the next million
years it will not come closer than three light years to any known stars."
On Pioneer's hull is a gold-plated plaque engraved with the figures of a
man and a woman and a chart giving the location of the sun, the nine known
planets, and Pioneer's home planet.
"It's sort of like Columbus discovering the new world," Fernquist said.
DeLorean's pilot pleads guilty
LOS ANGELES - A co-defendant of John DeLorean in a $24 million
cocaine smuggling case pleaded guilty to six federal charges yesterday and
agreed to testify against the automaker in a deal in which prosecutors
agreed to drop more serious charges.
Prosecutors said William Hetrick, a 51-year-old pilot and former owner of
a small aviation company in Mojave, Calif., pleaded guilty in a plea bargain
to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute the drug, in addition to other.
charges.
The government promised, in return, not to prosecute Hetrick's three sons
for any role in the cocaine operation. The government also dropped two of
the most serious allegations against Hetrick, once the personal pilot of the
developer of the Lear Jet.
He was indicted Oct. 29 for conspiring with DeLorean and Stephen
Arrington to purchase and distribute 220 pounds of cocaine.

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