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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON Date: FEBRUARY 6, 1992 Edition:

Title: NORJACK 00:SE

Character: 164A-SE-81 or Classification: 80-715 Submitting Office:

Indexing: 164A-SE-81-43

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FEB 0 6 1992

FBI-PORTLAND

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The Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge issued a temporary restraining order this week, prohibiting sale of a book claiming a Utah man was the legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper.

But at an emergency Utah Supreme Court hearing a few hours later, an attorney for plaintiff Karen Burns McCoy withdrew the request for the temporary restraining order.

In the book, "D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy," co-authors Russell Calame and Bernie Rhodes say Cooper was really the late Provo skyjacker Richard Floyd McCoy. The book was published in September by the University of Utah Press.

Those who investigated the Cooper hijacking were skeptical of the book's claim. The book stems from an incident Nov. 24, 1971, in which a man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 during a flight from Portland to Seattle. He demanded $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes.

After the plane landed in Seattle, he released the 36 passengers and some of the crew in exchange for the ransom. Cooper ordered the crew to fly to Reno, Nev. Over southwest Washington, near the Oregon border, Cooper opened an exit door and jumped. He has never been located and his body was never found.

McCoy was convicted of a 1972 hijacking in which he bailed out over Provo with $500,000. He escaped from prison and was shot to death

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by FBI agents.

McCoy's widow, Karen Burns, sought the court order claiming the book is full of lies and violates her right to privacy.

Burns filed a lawsuit in 3rd District Court on Jan. 3, asking for unspecified damages and a jury trial.

After a hearing Tuesday, David Watkiss, attorney for the authors, said he was outraged at 3rd District Judge Homer Wilkinson's order.

Watkiss went immediately from that court to the Utah Supreme Court. He was granted an emergency hearing and after arguments, McCoy's attorney, Michael Morhman, withdrew the request.

Watkiss said the order was vague and a clear violation of the First Amendment.

"I am mystified," Watkiss said. "There was no justification for it as far I can tell. The book is out and it will remain out. One wonders what the point of an injunction against the authors is when the book is out."

The book is in its second printing and about 3,000 copies have been sold to wholesalers and individuals, said Nana Anderson, director of the University of Utah Press.

An agent has been hired to handle movie rights, but no deals are under way, she said.