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Brink's robbery probe leads to bomb factory
NEW YORK (API Police investigating the bloody ambush of a Brink’s armored car found a bomb factory equipped with floor plans for six police stations and identified two of the suspects as members of the radical Weather Underground. Authorities said the gang may be associated with two militant groups the Black Liberation Army and the May 19 Coalition, which takes it name from the birthdate of Ho Chi Minh and may be linked to four other armored car heists in the New York area in the last two years. Meanwhile, the search continued for up to eight more suspects in Tuesday 's $1.6 million holdup and gunbattle in Nanuet which left two policemen and a Brink’s officer dead. Four people were arrested. Although they identified two of the suspects as members of the long-dormant Weather Underground terrorist group which sprang from the anti-war protests of the 19605, police were unsure of the identity of one of the people in custody. Charged with three counts of murder Wednesday was Katherine Boudin, 38. who had been a fugitive ever since she fled naked from a bomb factory in a Greenwich Village townhouse that exploded on March 6,1970, killing three people. Also charged was Judith Clark, who served nine months in jail following the “Days of Rage” demonstrations in Chicago in 1969. Miss Clark's last know radical association was with the May 19 coalition, which takes its name from the birthdates of the late North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and the late black militant Malcolm X, according to The New York Times. The Black Liberation Army has been linked to attacks on police officers and bombings and the Times said police had been
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searching for links between it and the Weather Underground. There was “no hard evidence that radical factions have joined forces” or that the Weather Underground had turned to robbery, New York City Police Commissioner Robert McGuire said Wednesday. All of the $1.6 million taken in the Brink’s robbery was recovered in a rental van and a getaway car that crashed, authorities said. FBI spokesman Joe Valiquette said Miss Clark and Miss Boudin had been associates "for years,” but added that “we haven’t been investigating the Weatherman since July 1979.” The Weatherman, a violent offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, changed its name first to Weatherpeople and then to the Weather Underground to eliminate sexist terminology. Police and Brink’s officials said Wednesday that the methods and circumstances of the ambush of the Brink’s truck in Nanuet were nearly identical to those in a holdup that left one guard dead and netted $292,000 in the Bronx on June 2. Authorities also drew parallels to armored-car holdups June 11 in the Bronx, last December in Brooklyn and in April 1980 on Long Island. Police were unable to catch one getaway car after Tuesday’s robbery, but its license number led them to an East Orange, N.J., apartment where authorities found 9mm automatic weapons, bomb supplies, a bomb manual and floor plans of six New York police stations, officers said. Another of the getaway cars was registered to Eve Rosahn, who was arrested at a New York airport during a protest of the Springboks rugby team from South Africa in which a caustic substance was thrown at police, authorities said. Lawyer Leonard Boudin and his wife, Jean, went to see their daughter Wednesday at the Rockland County Jail, where Miss Boudin, Miss Clark and the two other suspects are being held on the triple murder charges. Attorney William Kunstler accompanied them. “I and my wife met with our daughter Kathy and we had a long, personal discussion and we are going to defend her as best we can,” Boudin said after the 90-minute visit. Kunstler said he would represent Miss Boudin at a hearing Friday afternoon and would confer with lawyers for the other three suspects. The Brink’s guard, Peter Paige, 49, of East Brunswick, N.J., was shot to death and two other guards were wounded in an ambush Tuesday afternoon at a Nanuet shopping mall about 25 miles north of mid-Manhattan. The robbers fled in a red van and then split up into three groups, some driving off in an Oldsmobile and the others in a yellow sports car and a rental van. The car crashed in Nyack and police arrested Miss Clark, a man who gave his name as James Hackford, 33, of New York City, and a man who gave his name as Sam Brown. The name and address given for Hackford proved to be that of a retired New York City police officer who said he did not know how or why his name had been used. Police said they were not sure who the man who said he was Hackford really was. The rental van was halted at a roadblock at the New York Thruway in Nyack, about five miles from the holdup scene, when robbers with automatic weapons jumped out and began firing. Nyack police officers Sgt. Edward O’Grady, 32, of Pearl River, and Waverly Brown, 45, of Spring Valley, were killed. Most of the gang members escaped in the confusion, but a woman who gave her name as Barbara Edsen and later identified through fingerprints as Miss Boudin was seized by an offduty prison guard as she ran down the highway. Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, who fled the Greenwich Village bomb factory at the same time as Miss Boudin, came out of hiding last year and pleaded guilty to possession of dynamite. She began serving a three-year sentence last January. In 1978 Miss Clark and nine others sued the federal government for SIOO million, charging that the FBI had illegally opened their mail, tapped their telephones, and broken into their homes during investigations of the Weather Underground. The FBI, asked if there was any information to connect Hackford and Brown with radical causes, declined comment.
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House Demos want concession
'Reagan must admit changes'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan must acknowledge that he “has to change course” and publicly endorse any new budget plan before majority House Democrats will accept it, the chief budget-writer in the House says. “I don’t think he needs to scrap everything, and the point is our goals are the same,” Rep. James R. Jones, D-Okla., chairman of the House Budget Committee said in an interview Wednesday. “But I think there has to be a recognition that not all the ways to attain those goals are working and we have to change the mix of policies.” Reagan’s latest package of sl6 billion in budget cuts and selected tax increases has divided House and Senate Republicans, and the White House has said it’s up to Congress to find an alternative.
Orr signs tougher hazardous wastes bill
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REP. JAMES R. JONES Change the course
Even before GOP leaders were going back to work on that task today, however, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., conceded that Reagan’s pledge to a
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balanced budget by 1984 “is going to be very difficult to achieve.” And Jones said that despite earlier budget battles when conservative Democrats broke party ranks to support the administration, no Republican plan can pass the House now without Reagan’s clear endorsement. “Unless the president calls the group together and acknowledges he has to change course, as a practical matter we don’t have the votes in the House to do anything,” he said. “If something is going to be worked out, I want to make sure that this is not a political setup to embarrass Democrats or those who want to take a responsible course in straightening out the economic mess,” Jones said. “I’m open to trying to work out a way to prevent the
April 1,1982, to become familiar with the new law. “This is a problem which plagues the country and has plagued the state of Indiana and probably will continue to do so,” Orr said. Orr said he thinks businesses will recognize it is an asset for a state to have a plan for disposal of hazardous waste. Recalling
(president’s) economic recovery program from failing,” he added. “But I’m also sensitive to the fact that I tried this before and at the last minute the advisers to the president who felt a political victory was more important than a substantive victory won out. And I don’t want to put the House through that sort of thing again.” Domenici told reporters at a breakfast meeting Wednesday that wiping out the federal deficit in three years may be less important than shrinking it year by year and demonstrating a clear trend toward a balanced budget. He repeated his own commitment to whittling the deficit with a combination of more spending cuts and higher taxes but said Congress is unlikely to approve legislation this year to raise taxes or cut benefit programs such as Medicare or food stamps.
his days as a businessman in Evansville, Orr said there were times when his firm had small amounts of wastes that had to be disposed. At the time, Orr said, he was concerned “just exactly how to deal with a bucketful of something or other that might contaminate something.”