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N.Y. cops, robbers in fatal shootout

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK A gunman was killed and a second was captured in a high-speed chase and shootout in Queens Friday after the police linked their car's license plate to a gang that killed two policemen and an armored-car guard Tuesday. It was unclear whether the two men were among the four to eight gang members who escaped in Rockland County after the $1.6 million armored-car robbery and the shootings in Nanuet and Nyack. The slain man may have been wanted for armed robbery, the police said, and the captured gunman was identified as a former Black Panther. In Nyack, the four suspects who were captured after the holdup were arraigned in handcuffs Friday amid some of the heaviest security ever mounted in the Rockland County village 20 miles north of New York City. Dramatic descriptions of the crime were given in police testimony at the hearing, and the defendants Katherine Boudin, 38, Judith A. Clark, 31, and David J. Gilbert, 37, all members of the terrorist group known as the Weather Underground. and Samuel Brown, 41 were ordered held without bail on charges of murder and armed robbery. In Queens, the 20-minute chase, which began in South Ozone Park and sped up the Van Wyck Expressway, ended in a hail of gunfire at 12:50 p.m. in an industrial area just north of Shea Stadium in Corona, the police said. Cornered by a closing net of police cars, the gunmen leaped from their 1978 gray Chrysler Leßaron, the police said, and exchanged fire with pursuing officers in a footrace. One gunman, tentatively listed as Samuel Smith, 37, was killed. The captured man was later identified as Nathaniel Bums, 35, who was accused in a federal indictment of 21 Black Panthers of taking part in a 1969 bombing plot. Bums was said to have had $2,446 in cash in his possession.

Virginian indicted for part in training terrorists

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON A federal indictment was made public Friday accusing a 38-year-old Virginian of shipping explosives to Libya and training terrorists there as part of a conspiracy headed by two former Central Intelligence agents. The 10-count indictment also broadened the charges against the two former agents, Edwin P. Wilson and Frank E. Terpil, to include a shipment of explosives to Libya in April 1977. The last shipment listed in the original, April

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1980, indictment of Wilson and Terpil on the explosives charges took place in August 1976. The charges against the new defendant, Douglas M. Schlachter Sr., grew out of the testimony of “newly cooperating witnesses,” according to Carol E. Bruce, one of the assistant U.S. attorneys working with the grand jury investigating the Libyan venture. “The investigation has developed new targets” as a result of this cooperation, she said. “We consider it a breakthrough.” Meanwhile, the State Department said that it

Legionnaire's disease cases reported at Indy INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Authorities at the Veterans Adminstration Medical Center on Indianapolis’ near westside report the hospital has had five recent cases of Legionnaire’s Disease. Medical tests confirmed that at least five patients in the past month have had the disease, said Troy E. Page, the acting director of the center, on Friday. None of the cases were fatal and all the patients were responding to treatment, Page said. The hospital’s management has been trying to investigate it the cases more thoroughly since Tuesday, he said. The search for the bacteria focused on the water system to make sure it was contributing to the situation, he said. Page said the situation was not an outbreak because only five of the nearly 400 patients in the hospital were affected. “Management does not view it as a serious problem,” he said. “Because of the history of Legionnaire’s pneumonia, anytime an institution detects it, it becomes a concern to be investigated.”

The police said the license plate on their car New Jersey plate 573 LDU matched one on a maroon Ford sighted shortly before a raid Wednesday outside a suspected gang hideout in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The plate, which apparently had been switched to the gunmen’s car sometime after Wednesday, appeared to establish a link between the two men and the holdup gang, but the police said they had not identified either of the men as fugitives in the Rockland County robbery and slayings. The police said the suspects were armed with 9-millimeter automatic pistols, similar to some of the weapons used in the Rockland robbery, and were wearing bulletproof vests. The police said they found in the car a .38-caliber automatic pistol, 161 rounds of M-16 rifle ammunition, 80 rounds of 44-caliber Magnum ammunition, 75 rounds of M-l rifle ammunition and a bag with miscellaneous rifle parts. As the sprawling investigation continued and the manhunt for the gang spread to several states, unusual security precautions were being instituted in police stations and criminal court buildings as a result of the discovery, at a suspected gang hideout in New Jersey, of floor plans for at least seven New York City police stations and the Criminal Court building at Kew Gardens, Queens. Visitors at the city’s 73 police stations were being carefully screened by newly posted guards at the entrances, and officers on duty in the streets and in patrol cars were advised to be particularly careful about civilians who approach them with reports of crimes or who ask to accompany the officers in searching for street-crime suspects. Along with floor plans, authorities who raided the East Orange, N.J., apartment found notes on station house activities, rosters showing where officers were posted on duty and lists naming specific police officers. It was unclear, the police said,

had received “unconfirmed reports” that Americans might have taken part in airlifts to supply Libyan troops in Chad. The New York Times reported this week that pilots and mechanics recruited by Wilson were flying and maintaining aircraft in the Libyan air force. In other news articles, Wilson has been reported to have tried to sell restricted computer technology to the Soviet Union and to have been linked to the suspect in the attempted murder of a Libyan student in

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Air bag regulation rescinded due to 'passive' auto belts

c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The Reagan administration Friday withdrew the controversial regulation that would have required automobile manufacturers to begin putting airbags or other automatic crash protection in vechicles next year. Raymond A. Peck Jr., head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrtion, said the safety standard, which has been pending for more than five years, was rescinded because the automobile manufacturers were proposing to meet it by putting automatic wraparound belts in cars and that these devices would be ineffective because people could detach them. The automobile manufacturers decided to use the “passive” belts rather than the air cushion, which is concealed and inflates nearly instantaneously upon heavy impact, because the latter would be much more expensive. The airbags would cost S7OO compared to SIOO for the passive belts. The safety devices, especially the airbag, have been eagerly sought by the insurance industry and safety groups. While laudable in purpose, the devices that seemed most likely to be employed wuld not work, Peck said. “A rejected safety standard is no standard at all,” he said. Ralph Nadar, the consumer advocate, and others, including the casualty insurance companies, protested the announcement and several of the parties appeared likely to try to block the policy reversal in court. “It’s all over,” said Nader, who asserted that even a policy reversal would require starting the process of implementation all over again and thaT it was unlikely a re-instatement of the requirement before 1990 would be possible. “By then, 100,000 lives and 500,000 serious injuires

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whether these were “hit lists,” as described earlier by other police sources. In addition to the East Orange apartment, federal agents and the police had raided at least six other apartments in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Westchester County and on Long Island as suspected hideouts or locations used to make bombs. Weapons, ammunition, walkie-talkies, bomb manuals and literature espousing radical causes were found. At the hearing in Nyack Friday, several witnesses placed the defendants at various scenes of the crime. One witness, Officer Arthur Keenan, wounded in the gunfight that killed Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown, testified that he saw Samuel Brown shoot O’Grady after the suspects’ U-Haul truck rammed a police car at a Nyack roadblock. “I just about reached them when I heard a noise coming from the U-Haul truck,” Keenan said. “I saw a black male with a automatic weapon shooting at me and the other two officers. I hit the ground, rolled 30 feet and began returning the fire.” Then, Keenan said, “I saw Brown run around the car and shoot Officer O’Grady with a fully automatic weapon.” Moments later, he said he saw Miss Boudin being restrained by an offduty New York City corrections officer who had captured her. The hearing was technically held to determine whether the suspects should be held pending grand jury action on the robbery. A dozen state police cars accompanied the defendants on a three-mile drive from the Rockland County Jail at New City to the Nyack Village Hall, where the hearing was held in a tiny courtroom. Folding chairs accommodated no more than 75 spectators. On the bench was Village Justice Robert Lewis, a parttime judge.

Colorado. None of those matters were mentioned in the latest indictment. Schlachter was charged with supervising the Libyan end of the deal Wilson and Terpil supposedly struck to supply the Libyan government with explosives made in the United States and to train terrorists to use them at a camp near Tripoli in 1976 andl977. Schlachter, now thought to be in the African nation of Burundi, has no known connections with any intelligence agency, according to prosecutors.

that would have been avoidable will have occurred,” he said. Echoing that sentiment, Rep. Timothy E. Wirth, chairman of the House subcommittee on telecommunications, consumer protection and finance, said late Friday: “Ray Peck has today signed the death warrant of thousands of Americans, while sentencing millions more to a life of serious disability and injury.” On the Senate side, Sen. John C. Danforth, a Missouri Republican on the Commerce Committee, said he will introduce a bill Monday to restore the discarded auto safety standard. “Unless Congress reverses the decision to rescind the safety standard, thousands of Americans will die needlessly in automobile crashes and perhaps hundreds of thousands more will suffer disabling and disfiguring injuries,” he said Friday. The General Motors Corp., which had recommended the rescinding of the safety standard, praised the announcement Friday as “consistent with the best interests of the consumers who do not want to be forced into wearing automatic belts.” In Detroit, Roger E. Maugh, safety director of the Ford Motor Co., said: “We believe that NHTSA has made a wise decision and has committed its resources to the best strategy of all to get motorists to use the seat belts they already have.” A Chrysler Corp. spokesman greeted the administration’s decision as “a prime example of good judgment.” Peck said Friday that the agency’s research showed that only 11.4 percent of American drivers buckle their seat belts. “The usage of automatic belts may be only slightly higher than that of manual belts,” he said, “while costs would amount to approximately $1 billion.”

Chicago scientist stakes reputation on shroud hoax tag (c) 1981 Chicago Sun-Times (Field CHICAGO A Chicago scientist, considered by many colleagues the best microscopist in the world, is willing to stake his considerable reputation on his finding that the Shroud of Turin is a hoax. The scientist, Dr. Walter C. McCrone, once was a member of the Shroud<pf Turin Research Project (STURP). “I was independently operating (on the question) before they (the other scientific investigators) got into it,” said McCrone, head of the McCrone Research Institute. He continued: “We tried to get together and, for a while, we were getting along pretty good. They actually gave me the samples (from the shnud) that I was looking at. But then I started getting results that they didn’t like and from that point on our paths started to separate.” Ray Rogers, a member of the STURP team, calls microscopist McCrone “the best in the world” but thinks the Chicagoan is wrong about the shroud. According to Rogers, McCrone has “made sweeping statements on the basis of very nanow analysis.” McCrone believes just the reverse is true. “We ascribe the differences in our findings to the fact that we were able to examine much smaller areas” at higher magnification, he says. And while he considers it unseemly for scientists to “squabble” in public over what should be provable findings, he is more than a little miffed over his test results being dismissed by the STURP people. “I can’t sit still while my findings are ignored worse yet, said to be incorrect,” says the microscopist. “The 30 to 40 scientists who worked on this relic have concluded it is genuine that is, all except one. lam the only one who has concluded that it is a fake. How can this be...? Obviously, I, being the one, should fold my tent and silently steal away.” Then he summarizes the reasons: body image, blood image and control (no image) areas of the ‘shroud.’ paint pigment in a tempera medium in all image areas and none in non-image (control) areas. The image color is due to these pigments and the yellowed-with-age tempera medium. If this paint were removed, there would be no image. “There are no brush marks because watercolor paintings never show brush marks. “There is no mystery about the 3-D image or the partially negative character of the image (because) these are incidental and automatic when a shroud image is painted. In further defense of his findings, McCrone said, “The other scientists (who investigated the shroud) are archeologists, physicists, engineers, photographers, coroners, ministers, computer experts, atom bomb experts, etc. “They have not worked with tiny particles and microscopes for nearly 50 years, as I have. They have not studied hundreds of paintings from all ages to determine their authenticity, as I have. They have not used the microscope to determine composition, sources and history of innumerable substances, from atmospheric dust to particles from outer space, as I have. “I have applied all of this background very carefully to all of the sticky tapes brought back from Turin (Italy, and) have concluded the image is painted by an artist. “I can with absolute confidence stake my reputation on that conclusion. The ‘shpoud’ is a hoax, a fact that will be confirmed by the carbon-dating if the church permits that test to be performed.”

Nurse'sacquittal may alter care

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - The acquittal of a nurse who had been accused of murdering her cancer patient with an injection of morphine may improve the way hospitals care for patients, a defense lawyer says. “It will make hospitals more accountable,” lawyer Pat Piscitelli said Friday after a jury found nurse Anne Capute innocent of murder and illegal distribution of morphine. “It will make nurses careful. It will make doctors much more careful. It will, perhaps, better the whole medical profession, I’m sure,” he said. Bristol County District Attorney Ronald Pina, who contended Mrs. Capute intentionally killed Norma Leanues with a morphine overdose on May 18,1980, at a Taunton hospital, said that during the trial, his office received numerous calls from hospitals around the country. “This case is more than Anne Capute,” Pina said. “Who decides who lives and who dies? Does a nurse do it? There are no legal answers in this state.” Pina said regardless of the verdict, the “whole trial had an impact on hospitals and nursing procedures and it would help change policies around the country.” Mrs. Capute, hugged by four weeping daughters and her husband after the verdict was read, said she was grateful for the jury’s decision. “I just thanked them, what else could I do, they gave me my life,” she said of the jurors, who deliberated 13 hours over two days.

Mrs. Capute had no immediate plans, but said, “I love nursing. I still think it’s a great job.” Jurors said they quickly voted to acquit Mrs. Capute on their first ballot Thursday because of conflicting testimony from medical specialists on whether the victim was killed by a morphine overdose or died of cancer and other illnesses. “We couldn’t agree on what caused the death,” said juror Arthur Estrella. “I don’t know which killed her, but it wasn't just morphine poisoning.” Most of the deliberation, jurors said, concerned the drug charge. Two other nurses, Judith Foley and Nancy Robbins, also face murder charges in the case, but Pina said he will have to study the evidence before deciding whether to seek trials against them. Pina presented a string of witnesses and evidence seeking to show that Mrs. Capute gave the 51-year-old Taunton woman 195 milligrams of morphine in the six hours before her death and that the drugs killed her. Mrs. Leanues died 12 days after surgeons removed a portion of a cancer from her spine. Piscitelli called only three witnesses, all medical specialists who said the cancer condition plus severe heart and kidney disease and not a morphine overdose were the cause of death. The jurors said there was little doubt Mrs. Capute was innocent of murder “She didn’t kill her," said juror Annie Gafford.