Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 250, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 June 1980 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner Graphic, June 25,1980

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State will call 14 to stand in baby death frial

ZDECATUR. Ind. (AP)-Tes-timony was scheduled to begin teday in the the Adams Circuit Court trial of two youths accused of reckless homicide in tfie death of an Amish baby. t-Special Judge Hermann tjjusse of Allen Circuit Court was to decide on a defense motion limiting evidence to be introduced by prosecutors before (he first witness was called. >A jury of nine men and three women were selected Tuesday ftjom 76 prospective jurors in tljecase.

No hint hostages moved : RENSSELAER. Ind (AP> - Eleanor Kupke. the mother of one of the U S. hostages in Iran, says a recent letter from her son gives no indication he has been moved from the U S Em biissy in Tehran since the aborted rescue mission. The letter, which she described as “upbeat." did not indicate any change in routine for Fredrick Kupke. 33. she said. It was one of seven letters received in late May. and the State Department confirmed none of the letters indicated the hostages had been moved. After the rescue attempt. Iranian militants said they would relocate the hostages to prevent future attempts. Contacted by telephone at a vacation spot in Oklahoma, Mrs Kupke said she and her husband are waiting now “We're in the middle of a quiet time where we just have to sit back and w’ait. We’ve known this time would come for a longtime.” Mrs. Kupke said.

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Prosecutor Dan Sigler, who says he expects to call about 14 persons to testify, said the number of prospective jurors is unusually large for a case in this northeastern Indiana community. but “It’s an unusual trial." The defendants, Linn Rich, 18. of Berne and Kevin Rehm, 19, of Monroe, are the first of four young men to go on trial as a result of the Aug. 31 tilethrowing incident that claimed the life of 7-month-old Adeline Schwartz.

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House okays funding Draft sign-up approved

Bv TERENCE HUNT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress ended a long and heated fight over peacetime draft registration today and gave President Carter enough money to sign up an estimated 4 million young men in the weeks ahead. On a 234-168 vote, the House sent Carter a measure appropriating $13.3 million to take the Selective Service System out of “deep standby” and conduct military registration for the first time since 1975. The only remaining step is for the president to issue an executive order directing men born in 1960 and 1961 to register, and telling them when to report, perhaps as soon as late July. Selective Service officials have said they will start the program four to five weeks as-

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The baby’s parents, Levi and Rebecca Schwartz, were riding in a horse-drawn buggy on a country road north of Berne in northeastern Indiana when a pick-up truck drove past. A clay field tile was thrown from the truck and struck Adeline as she slept in her mother’s arms. Judge Herman Busse of Allen Circuit Court is presiding as a special judge in the trial. The defense filed an oral motion, which was granted, to prohibit Sigler from using any evi-

ter the money is received. Young men will be required to go to a local post office to sign a registration form. The program will be spread out over two weeks, with young men born in 1960 registering the first week and teen-agers born in 1961 registering the second week. Failure to register is a felony carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine. While the president has authority to order registration, he would have to win approval from Congress to bring back an actual draft. Women are not required to register. Despite Carter’s initial request to include women in the program. Congress made it clear it would not go along

dence that Rich and Rehm aided and abetted one another in commission of the felony. Sigler argued that he didn’t have to show which person threw the object that killed the baby. He claimed that under Indiana law both were guilty no matter who threw the object. Charles Leonard, Rehm’s defense attorney disagreed. He argued that for Sigler to in-

with that and the administration did not push the matter. The American Civil Liberties Union has promised to file suit challenging the constitutionality of an all-male program. Registration opponents vowed to conduct nation-wide demonstrations that could tie up -the post offices during the program, and also to protest at the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer. Opponents, led by the Committee Against Registration and the Draft, said they would distribute gummed labels to attach to registration forms, saying, “I am registering under protest.” They also are organizing a campaign to “register against the draft” inviting Ameri-

Starvation death probe is near end

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A grand jury report is expected next week in the starvation death of a retarded Sheridan man, and the report’s likely focus is what a county prosecutor sees as a great void in state protection of mentally retarded adults. Indiana has a “fine system for the protection of children, but nothing for the protection of incompetent adults,” says Hamilton County prosecutor Steven R. Nation. The grand jury has been looking into the death of Virgil Stuart, who Nation said served as a virtual slave for an elderly couple at Sheridan for more than 25 years. The grand jury is expected to conclude testimony Friday and a report probably will be issued next week. According to Nation, Stuart and his brother, Charles, and an unrelated woman, Wanda Watkins, all were released from the Fort Wayne State Hospital and Training Center into the custody of Willard and Olive Stafford, who put them to work on their 90-acre farm in the 19505. Nation said that during their stay with the Staffords, the three retarded adults lived together in an excrement-filled trailer with no running water or bathroom. Virgil Stuart died of severe

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troduce evidence showing aiding and abetting the prosecutor must first file a charge alleging that. Busse granted Sigler’s request for a hearing Wednesday to settle the dispute. Sigler said he may have to ammend the charges if the judge upholds his ruling. “I’m not going in there without aiding and abetting,” Sigler said. “I think I’m still entitled to that (file new charges). If he’s ruling I’ll have to file aiding and abetting then I’ll file it.

cans to print the words “I am registering against the draft” on a post card and to send it to the organization in Washington. Carter and his allies argued registration would save 90 to 100 days in mobilizing recruits in an emergency. But critics of the plan noted that a Selective Service report said registration would save only seven days. Selective Service officials disavowed the report’s conclusions after Carter endorsed registration. The House vote, coming on the heels of Senate approval June 12, marks the end of a chain of events that began Jan. 23 when Carter told a joint session of Congress the United States must renew registration as a signal to the Soviet Union of U S. resolve in the aftermath of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.

malnutrition in Noblesville’s Riverview Hospital. Authorities said Stuart apparently became ill sometime in January, could not retrieve meals left inside the trailer’s door, and was allowed to waste away for two months. He weighed only 67 pounds when he died, authorities said. Nation said several state social service agencies apparently were aware of conditions at the Stafford farm during the past several years, but none had the power under state law to do anything about it. The Staffords have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide in connection with Stuart’s death. Each is free on $50,000 bond. Their trial on those charges is set for Nov. 12 in Hamilton Superior Court. “Everybody who had any knowledge of it ended up saying, ‘lt’s not my responsibility; it’s yours’ and passing it on. Everybody investigated right up to the line, but nobody crossed over it,” Nation said. He said that it appears no one seriously neglected his duty in the matter but no one was courageous enough to go outside his jurisdiction to try to correct the situation, either. Nation earlier had said the jury might indict state employees who neglected their duties in the Stafford case.

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President Jimmy Carter joins Pope John Paul II in examining a precious Renaissance miniature Bible as the two met over the weekend in the Pontiff's private library at Vatican City. Carter visited the Pope and

Carter shows support for Spain joining NATO

MADRID,Spain (AP)—Jimmy Carter, the first American president to visit Spain since the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco five years ago, is showing U.S. support for a fledgling democratic government expected to seek membership in NATO. Carter scheduled meetings with King Juan Carlos I and leaders on both sides of the NATO question, including Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez and Felipe Gonzalez, head of the country’s Socialist Workers Party. Gonzalez opposes Spain’s entry into the Atlantic alliance. On the eve of Carter’s arrival today, Basque separatists declared they were ready to resume an anti-government bombing campaign, targeting a tourist area in Alicante province, 300 miles from the Spanish capital. Another topic likely to come up in Carter’s talks with the king, Suarez and Gonzalez is renewal of a 1976 treaty allowing the U.S. Navy and Air Force to use Spanish military bases. The treaty expires next year. Spain’s target date for applying for NATO membership, and the Spanish government is expected to seek a wider range of cooperation with less emphasis on U.S. arms support and more economic, cultural and technical aid. Carter also plans to work in a bit of tourism as he has done elsewhere on his European trip. With his wife, Rosalynn, and their 12-year-old daughter. Amy, Carter is scheduled to visit the famous Prado museum, concentrating on the

Viets widen military front along Thai-Cambodia border

BANGKOK. Thailand (AP) Vietnamese forces appear to have widened their military moves along Thai-Cambodian border, with clashes reported in at least two more areas today. The Thai command said Vietnamese troops fought a group of anti-communist “Free Khmer” guerrillas in the northern Cambodian province of Oddar Mean Chey, and sent them fleeing across the frontier into Thailand The command spokesman also reported Vietnamese clashes with guerrillas in rugged southwestern Cambodian border areas, but had no immediate details of the outcome of the battles The spokesman said more

joined his wife, Rosalyn, and daughter, Amy, in touring historic Rome before beginning an economic summit with leaders of six other major Western nations. (AP Laserphoto).

work of the Spanish masters Goya, El Greco and Velazquez. After a working dinner with Suarez, the president planned to overnight here, then fly to Lisbon for brief talks with Portuguese leaders on the last leg of his eight-day European trip. He is due back in Washington late Thursday. “Relations between Spain and the United States are better than at any time in recent memory,” Carter said in an in-

U.S. offers Soviets Afghan proposition

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) President Carter says the United States would like to discuss a “transitional arrangement” for instituting a new independent and neutral government in Afghanistan. Completing a 24-hour visit to Yugoslavia in which he repeatedly praised this non-aligned nation and its late leader, Josip Broz Tito, Carter was scheduled to fly to Madrid today and on to Lisbon for a brief stop Thursday : to show support for the fledgling democracies on the Iberian Peninsula. He is due home from his eight-day European trip late Thursday. in a toast at a banquet given in his honor Tuesday night in this communist capital on the Danube, the American president renewed a suggestion that apparently fell on deaf ears last February. The United States hopes it will be taken more seriously this time as it becomes increasingly evident to the Soviet Un-

elements of the Thai air force had been put on alert and that jet fighter-bombers were used to support Thai ground forces in fighting along the border He said intelligence reports indicated the Vietnamese had moved some jet fighters claser to the Thai border but that they had not been used so far in military operations. The three-day old border fighting has been concentrated along a stretch of frontier north of the key Thai frontier town of Aranvaprathet. 140 miles east of Bangkok. But the Thai command said more Vietnamese forces appear to be heading southwards inside Cambodia, possibly to strike at guerrillas who have been battl-

terview with the Spanish news agency EFE. The interview, t published Tuesday, took place in Washington before the presU dent’s departure. Carter praised King Juan Carlos, who became the Spanish ruler after Franco’s death, as being “central in the development of democracy in Spain.” And he noted “the vital role played by responsible political parties, both in position of leadershit) and of opposition.” '

ion that its military forces face a protracted guerrilla war and are unable to gain complete control of the southwest Asian nation. “We would be prepared to ex, plore a transitional arrangement, to be implemented along with the prompt withdrawal ofall Soviet troops from Aghanistan, for the purpose of restoring, peace and tranquility in that suffering country,” Carter told his host, Yugoslav President CvijetinMijatovic. Carter said the goal would be to help “establish a truly independent, non-aligned Afghanistan with a government acceptable to the Afghan people. ” As explained by other U.S. officials, the transition could involve a phased replacement of Soviet troops with neutral forces from Islamic countries who would provide security for a peaceful transition from the Soviet-backed Babrak Karmal government to a new group of leaders.

ing them since the ouster pft Cambodian Premier Pol Pot 18 months ago The command estimated thatl up to 10.000 Vietnamese troops were deployed along the border inside Cambodia to the north and south of Aranvaprathet Western relief sources said the Vietnamese were dug in just along the border and were inside Thailand in at least one sector the now deserted, ruined Cambodian encampment at Non Mark Moon The sources said large numbers of Cambodians, uprooted by the fighting, had gathered at several points and more were emerging from the battle zone The Thai command said 21 of its soldiers were killed