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Coded Mote Tells Secret Of Missing Book Comics Bengals Defeat Jets In Exhibition Game Sports, Page C-l POSTMASTER JANET BLACKBURN nn INNATI FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE $1 SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1984 A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Small Town Post Offices Cling To Life Metro, Page B-1 CINC A i jnwmmw i limn mm, "I-, I i i i i eavy Betting akes Agents 1 L-3 Sure Winners rr-M kr rT afiiP fr; inn'" t-i. 1 7 -1 iJr.fel -I Saturday's jackpot was pegged at $24,684,279, the largest ever offered in the United States. It will be presented to anyone or split among everyone who guessed the correct numbers: 4, 14, 26, 34, 36, and 40. ANNE BLOOMBERG, Ohio Lottery Commission spokeswoman, said the commission will not know until noon today whether anyone chose the correct numbers, and the exact identity of the winner or winners will not be known until after validation Monday. (See LOTTERY, back page, this section) BY LARALYN SASAKI Enquirer Reporter and ENQUIRER WIRES Ohio Lottery officials will not know until sometime today whether anyone picked the six winning numbers in Saturday's richest-ever Lotto drawing.

But even before the numbered ping-pong balls flopped out of the hopper Saturday night, the state had 5,600 winners the agents who doled out a record $24.5 million in tickets. Agents receive a 5.5 commission on every ticket sold. That translates into $1.3 million to be spread among them. fiiMKtl Mil The Cincinnati EnquirerDick Swaim A LINE OF Ohio Lotto players ringed the Miami Deli in Miamitown Saturday afternoon. Even brief afternoon showers did not disperse the crowd which formed before 7 a.m., owner Penny Oser said.

Lewis Takes Gold In 100-Meter Dash will hold an individual press conference later this week. "I ran a good race," Graddy said, "Carl just had a little too much. I don't think anyone could have beaten him today. I gave it my best shot." The 9.99 was .04 off the Olympic record, set in 1968 by the last American to win the 100-meter championship in the Summer Games, Jim Hines. Asked what makes Lewis such a dominant sprinter, Graddy chuckled.

"Technically, Carl is very sound," Graddy said. "He runs with very little wasted motion. Everything is straight down the track. "At this point, I don't see anything to stop him. I wish him well." Lewis' career best 100-meter time was a 9.97, done last year.

Friday's field ran into a 2.8-meter headwind, which converts to about 4.5 miles per hour. CONLEY, WHO jumped 57-5 in the U.S. Olympic Trials, was second at 56-4 Keith Connor of Great Britain was third for the bronze medal at 55-4' In all, Americans won seven golds Saturday-three in swimmingand pushed their total to 36. Romania won six golds, including five in rowing, and China's Li Ning won three in gymnastics. U.S.

swimmers Mary T. Meagher and Rowdy Gaines won their third gold medals and gymnast Peter Vidmar his second. The United States set a new world record in the 400-meter swimming medley relay of 3:39.30, with Gaines on the anchor leg. Li and American Peter Vidmar each won gold medals on the pommel horse. They shared perfect scores of "10," and then shared the victory stand.

BROWN, THE last man to defeat Lewis in a sprint, ran with a bad leg and just did make the finals. Brown said his problem is not precisely an injury, but a recurring inflamed tendon behind the knee. "It's fairly common to sprinters," he said. Lewis resumes his Olympic bid today with preliminaries in the long jump. He has 200-meter prelims Monday along with finals in the long Jump.

The fourth gold medal, according to Lewis' plans, would come on the 400-meter relay. The U.S. won a second track and field gold when Al Joyner of East St. Louis, 111., jumped a personal best 56 feet, inches to upset favored Mike Conley of Chicago in the triple jump finals. Joyner, 24, got off his best leap on the first of six attempts.

BY JIM MONTGOMERY Enquirer Reporter LOS ANGELES-The first one wasn't much of a problem. Carl Lewis of New Jersey, beginning his drive toward a possible four Olympic gold medals, won his first in the 100-meter dash Saturday night in 9.99 seconds, finishing about four feet ahead of second-place Sam Graddy, also of the U.S. Graddy was the early leader, blasting off the blocks and leading Ron Brown of the U.S. for perhaps 30 meters. Lewis then took control, his long and gliding strides devouring Memorial Coliseum's Rekortran track as he pulled away from the field.

Graddy was second in 10.19 with Ben Johnson of Canada third and Brown fourth. LEWIS DECLINED interviews after the race, sending word he OLYMPIC HIGHLIGHTS SWIMMING: Mary TV Meagher of Louisville, won her third gold medal and set an Olympic record in the women's 200-meter butterfly with a time of 2:06.90. Meagher broke the record by 3.54 seconds. Sports, Section Inmates Seize 9 Hostages BY MICHAEL BASS Associated Press BOYDTON, Va. -Inmates armed with handmade knives took eight men and one woman hostage Saturday at the maximum-security Mecklenburg Correctional Center, site of the largest death row breakout in U.S.

history in May, a prison spokesman said. Two male guards who had been stabbed were released by midaft-ernoon. The inmates later issued 15 demands that included removal of present prison officials, "halt of unjust treatment for certain acts," "more fruit and less pork," and an end "to harassment of death row prisoners." "Right now we have seven people held hostage in Building 5, six correctional officers and a food-service worker," said Corrections Department spokesman Wayne Farrar. "TWO OTHER officers were also taken hostage but were released because of injury. One guy had stab wounds around the head and the other had stab wounds around the head and abdomen and apparently had been beaten.

They let them come down in the elevator," Farrar said. "There has been no official threat of any bodily harm," said Jerry Davis, a spokesman for the prison. The inmates also asked for a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union to come to the prison to act as their spokesman, Davis said. Judy Goldberg, assistant director of the Virginia ACLU chapter, said Alan Bronstein of the group's (See PRISON, back page, this section) Watergate: Images Of Our Nation In Agony Sunday Special BY RICHARD L. STROUT WASHINGTON -Geraniums bloom in LaFayette Park.

People grasp the iron rails of the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue and stare at the reassuring tranquillity of the scene. It is 10 years ago July 10, 1974. At 20 minutes after 11 in the U.S. Supreme Court chamber, black-robed Chief Justice War- On The Inside Where are they now. Page A-4.

Nixon underrated. Page A-4. z. 1 i 'A y-xr- I i nit -v r. TV I :7 (A1 -v- Vv-yi-'f public a letter from one of the defendants charging that there was political pressure on him "to plead guilty and remain silent." Sen.

Sam J. Ervin D-North Carolina, chairman of a special Senate committee which came to be called "the Watergate committee," pushed an inquiry. THERE WAS an enigma in Washington an odd mood. People looked at the White House through the fence. It seemed so cool and calm.

Yet what were these reports? Surreptitious wiretaps had been ordered. The White House had set up its own agency in 1971 called "the plumbers." The government admitted to 17 taps without court orders. Demands grew for an independent inquiry outside the Justice Department, and Boston lawyer Archibald Cox was named as special prosecutor. President Nixon denied that he had known anything about the Watergate break-in. He fired Archibald Cox and then declined to release tapes of White House conversations subpoenaed by the new special Watergate prosecutor, Leon Jaworski.

THE TAPES: A stunned nation read the exchanges filled with interjections "expletives deleted." How could the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee vote on the now-pending demand for impeachment? This reporter, on July 10, 10 years ago, tried to capture the mood turmoil. On one day the stock market dropped 21 points. Political signals meant more. The nation "was numbed by incredulity," I wrote. "Disenchantment with the state of the country," a Louis Harris Poll reported, "has now reached such massive proportions among the American people that a record of 59 now feel disaffected." "The President's popularity JlJgX 1984 The Cincinnati Enquirer Five Sections, 144th Year, No.

1 18 WORLD NEWS A AREA NEWS SPORTS TEMPO BUSINESS REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIED E-13-58 Abby D-2 Horses C-2 Aging D-4 AAaslowski D-16 Art D-28 Movies D-24-26 Books D-23, 26, 27 Perspective A-14 Brides D-29 Puzzles D-12 Bridge D-12 Stamps Coin ll Caldwell B-7 Travel D-31 Commentary A-15 TV Corr'tns D-25 Deaths C-19 Update D-30 Editorials A-16 Weikel B-4 Garden D-10 Wheeler C-l Horoscope D-12 When A Boy D-8 ren E. Burger lifts his gavel and sums up, "Accordingly, the judgment under review is affirmed!" Crash comes the gavel. The audience stands. The justices file out. By unanimous decision the court has ordered the President to give up the confidential tapes that disclose the facts of the Watergate break-in.

IT BEGAN with an obscure notice about a weekend break-in, June 12, 1972, at the Democratic Party headquarters in the fashionable apartment complex called Watergate. Involved were four Cuban-Americans and James McCord, security co-ordinator for Committee for the Re-election of the President. Attorney General John Mitchell said that "this man and the other people involved were not operating either in our behalf or with our consent." Press Secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed it as a "third-rate burglary attempt." In 1968, Richard Nixon won the presidency by a hairline and four years later by a landslide (though in both cases Democrats got a majority in Congress). So now, in 1974. things should be settling down.

Were they? Hardly. Judge John J. Sirica, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, presiding over the original Watergate break-in case, made 1974. The Associated Press A SMILING Richard M.

Nixon gives his staff a characteristic "thumbs up" salute shortly before his resignation became effective on Aug. 9, 1974. His daughters and their husbands stand with him. ment confirming that there had been a wiretapping program, a domestic intelligence-gathering plan, and the "plumbers" operation intended to "stop security leaks and to investigate other security matters." Nixon asserted, "I took no part in nor was I aware of any subsequent efforts that may have been to cover up Watergate." (See NIXON. Page A-4) rating has dropped from a high of 60 after the election to around 26." So much for that.

Now it was up to the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee, voting on impeachment resolutions. "IT WAS AN awful moment," said Rep. Barbara Jordan. D-Texas. "I was unprepared for how I felt.

I thought, "We have gone through all this material and now we and it hit me so hard that I could barely get "aye" out of my mouth We went back behind the main committee hearing room, to the offices, and several of us cried. Absolutely shed tears. For Richard Nixon? No. But that the country had come to this." Being in Washington in 1973 and 1974 was like being on a bat-tlefront. In May.

1SI74, the President issued a 4.000-word state SPORTS RESULTS Telephone 369-1005 or 369-1006 Variable cloudiness with a chance of showers or thunderstorms today, tonight and Monday. The high will be in the mid-80s today and Monday. Low in the mid-60s tonight. Chance of precipitation 40 today and 30 tonight. See details, weather map on Page A-2..