Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 105, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1983 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 10,1983

Face-to-face talks at Sing Sing Prison

OSSINING, NY. (AP) Corrections officials and inmate negotiators faced each other through steel bars today in talks aimed at fi eeing 17 guards held hostage after a “spontaneous uprising at the maximum-security prison once known as Sing Sing. fr ace-to-face talks between five inmates and the members of a special hostage negotiation team began about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, nearly 24 hours after convicts armed with broom handles and night sticks took over the Cell Block B at the state s Ossining Correctional Facility. All the hostages were reported safe, the rest of the prison was calm and there was only one minor injury, officials said. Negotiators did their bargaining over tables separated by a barred gateway in a narrow prison corridor. The state’s team, established three years ago and not tested until now. was trying to persuade convicts to free the guards taken prisoner Saturday night. An ABC television crew also was allowed in the cellblock for a time late Sunday night in response to the inmates’ demands. State Sen. Ralph Marino said overcrowding “is one of the big gripes. They are just very uncomfortable in there.” The prisoners also were

Describing the scene of the Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse on July 17, 1981, Kansas City's Royce Monroe was among those filing a claim for an out-of-court settlement in the case. Persons who signed a sworn statement that they were in the Hyatt lobby when the tragedy occurred collected checks for SI,OOO under terms of the plan. (AP Wirephoto).

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asking for amnesty, he said. “Most of the inmates locked in there really don’t want any part of this,’’ Marino said. “Eighty percent want the hostages released immediately and returned to their cells.” State corrections spokesman Lou Ganim said one reason for the unrest was prisoner “idleness.” He said inmates’held in that cellblock were awaiting transfer to other facilities and “don’t have a lot of activities.” Officials originally reported that 16 guards were taken hostage, with one of them later freed. But early today, a state spokesman said that two other missing guards were also hostages. “Two guards were missing and believed to be in hiding in the cellblock,” said spokesman Peter Johnson. “We did not include them in the direct number count at the time in the interest of their safety.” Marino, who heads the Committee on Crime and Corrections, said the hostages were being guarded by a group of prisoners he described as “Muslims.” Authorities believe it was a “spontaneous and unplanned” uprising, Ganim said. The situation was “calm and the hostages are

Determining liability central issue in federal suit over Hyatt disaster

C. 1983 N.Y. Times KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jury selection is to begin Monday in a suit to determine liability and punitive damages in the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster, which left 114 people dead when two aerial walkways collapsed. The trial before Federal District Judge Scott 0. Wright is expected to last several weeks, and damages could run into the millions of dollars. As trial preparations were being made last week, attorneys for the defendants and plaintiffs, who are joining in a class action, continued negotiations toward an out-of-court settlement of the federal cases. Defendants are expected to continue seeking an agreement this week in an effort to head off testimony and accusations in open court. “We want to end this and get it behind us,” an attorney for Hallmark Cards Inc. and the Crown Center Redevelopment Corp., two of the defendants in federal court, said Friday. In what has been described as the nation’s worst structural failure, two of three skywalks spanning the hotel’s atrium lobby collapsed on the evening of July 17, 1981 as about 1,500 people packed the lobby area for a tea dance. The accident occurred barely one year after the hotel opened July 1,1980. Seven months after the collapse, the National Bureau of

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safe," he said. No serious injuries were reported, although an unnamed guard was hurt by a blow to the head during the takeover. He was released early Sunday, about eight hours into the siege, in exchange for some prescription medicine. Officials had been talking intermittently with the inmates by telephone. Sunday afternoon, an unidentified prisoner speaking through a loudspeaker said an inmate committee wanted to meet with the prison administration and reporters. About 200 of the cellbloek’s 618 inmates were out of their cells for recreation when the incident began, Ganim said. “What happened was essentially, there was a lot of loud complaints. One inmate started it. He didn’t want to go down the hall to the recreation area he wanted to stay in the gallery,” an open area in front of the cells, Ganim said. After a sergeant and a lieutenant tried to talk to them, one of the inmates began yelling and breaking furniture, he said. Hostages were taken during the melee. None of the inmates or guards has been identified.

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Standards concluded that the walkways’ original design had not met Kansas City building code requirements, and that a design change made during construction had aggravated what it called "an already critical situation.” In recent months, attorneys for the class action have accused the defendants of withholding crucial evidence, a charge that the defendants have denied. In October, notes and a tape recording were released regarding a meeting among hotel interests held in November 1979 after a part of the atrium room collapsed during construction. The hotel’s structural engineer is quoted in the information as calling 36 steel connections in the hotel an “abomination.'' The reference included those connections attaching the skywalks to the hotel walls. Since the accident, about 200 claims for more than $33 million

At one point Sunday, an inmate told reporters through a loudspeaker: “W'e don’t wish to harm anyone. That would be our last alternative.” Inmates unfurled banners from broken windows saying, “We Don’t Want Another Attica,” an apparent reference to a 1971 riot at Attica state prison where 43 inmates and state employees died. “We live like animals in here,” one prisoner shouted through a window. Ganim said that nine inmates had left the cellblock since the siege began. An inmate who complained of chest pains was carried from the cellblock Sunday by four other prisoners who did not rejoin the others. Ganim said prison officials spoke with one guard over the telephone Sunday afternoon. The hostage told officials he was fine, Ganim said, and asked that electricity be turned back on in the cellblock. Ganim said the request was granted. State Corrections Commissioner Thomas Coughlin was at the scene and had briefed Gov. Mario Cuomo, who set up what an aide described as a “command post” at his New York City office.

have been settled out of court. Last week, the redevelopment corporation pledged $1.5million toward a fund to settle the federal class claims before going to trial. The pledge came after an offer late last year by the Hyatt Corp. to contribute $1 million toward an out-of-court settlement for the same claims. Hallmark Cards is the parent company of the redevelopment corporation, which owns the hotel. Other defendants include the Hyatt Corp., which operates the hotel, as well as the hotel's contractor, steel fabricator, architect, and other concerns associated with the hotel’s planning and construction. In the federal trial, jurors would determine which defendants are liable for the collapse and the total assessment in punitive damages. Wright would determine how that money is allotted among the class, which represents about 20 people. Opening arguments are

to begin Jan. 17 before a jury of six members,four alternates. In addition to the suits filed in federal court, about 200 cases have been combined in a state class action in Jackson County Circuit Court in Kansas City. Last week a circuit judge certified a settlement in those cases, under which a S2O million punitive damage fund would be shared among members of that class. Defendants also agreed to pay SI,OOO to any witness of the disaster who signed a release against any further damage claims. Witnesses agreeing to the SI,OOO payments do not have to provide proof of injury. About 1,000 witnesses have received SI,OOO checks, and many other claims are being considered. The state court settlement prompted a flurry of activity in federal court, because the membership in the two classes overlaps, thus creating jurisdictional problems.

Shortage of cash causing unrest in Khaddafy camp

Daily Telegraph, London TRIPOLI, Libya Moammar Khaddafy, the unpredictable young ruler of Libya, is facing growing unrest as a result of a problem he thought would never arise: shortage of cash. With a peak oil revenue of sl2 billion and a population slightly under three million, Col. Khaddafy calculated that he would always have the money to keep his people quiet - guns for his army and butter for the people. But world recession and the virtual collapse of OPEC have made him think again. Lines form quickly now on the streets of Tripoli when word

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Eastern time won't: kill tomato crop, Alabamans assured BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Bancroft Timmons has been accused of messing with the tomato crop and being in league with the devil, when all he really wants to do is move Alabama’s clocks ahead one hour. Timmons, executive director of the Alabama Motorists Association, spearheaded an unsuccessful campaign in 1971 to get the Legislature to adopt Eastern time in place of Central Time. Now he supports a second effort to make the switch being led by a state lawmaker. “A primary reason we got into it was because we thought it would add to the quality of life in Alabama,” Timmons said. “People would have more time in the afternoon to fish, tend to their gardens, golf, whatever they wanted to do. “Most businesses Alabama does business with are in the Northeast, Atlanta and Florida,” he said. “It’s a constant battle getting in touch with the Eastern financial market and with our congressmen due to the different lunch hours and working times. A freshman state lawmaker, Lester White, has taken charge of the renewed campaign. White said he would introduce legislation to move the time line west from the Alabama-Georgia border to the Alabama-Mississippi border. Owners of outdoor theaters and restaurants and Alabama Farm Bureau Federation leaders had opposed the change more than a decade ago. So did many letter writers, one of whom already was upset about daylight-saving time. “The extra hour of day that we now have is about to kill my tomato plants,” one man wrote. “I know they can’t stand another extra hour.” A minister wrote that “he was going to pray for my sinfulness the next Sunday,” Timmons said. “Time lines are not God’s doing,” said Timmons. “Why the churches care is beyond my comprehension.” In fact, it was the railroads that established the nation's four time zones in 1883, he says. They wanted to end timetable problems stemming from the confusing mix of times on which cities and states operated. Milton Parsons, a lobbyist for the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation, said that although his group traditionally opposes extending daylight time beyond the Memorial DayLabor Day period, he saw no problems with Eastern time because farmers “work from sunup to sundown, anyway.”

Barrage of quakes winding down?

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) A swarm of 3,000 small earthquakes that heightened concern about possible volcanic activity in this resort area is showing signs of winding down, scientists say. The trembling that began Thursday “is certainly continuing,” said seismologist David Hill late Sunday by telephone from the U.S. Geological Survey center in Menlo Park, near San Francisco. Quakes registering between 1 and 2 on the Richter scale slowed considerably, he said, while “the ones between 2 and 3 (still too small to be felt) are still popping along at about three or four an hour.” Asked if that meant the

spreads that a shop has a supply of eggs or meat. Cigarettes are often difficult to find. Much of the trouble has been caused by Libya. Col. Khaddafy refused to abide by the quota system devised by OPEC, or to fix the price of Libyan crude in relation to the OPEC “benchmark” Saudi light crude. Instead, Libya pushed production up to the present 1.7 million barrels a day. And because it has good quality, low sulphur oil in close proximity to European markets, Libya also tried to maintain the price. Officially, Libya is still selling on the Rotterdam spot market at $2 above the Saudi price. In

swarm might be ending, Hill said, “I think that’s everybody's first guess.” If so, he said, it probably means “whatever process was driving this thing has reached equilibrium (and stopped> at least for the moment. Then our concern would fall back down.” - But, he added, even if the, swarm ended, “Our long-term concern would not change.” Last May the USGS issued a “notice of potential volcanic hazard” the lowest of three official levels of concern for the area. While the swarm continues. Hill said, “The chances of this developing into something are greater than when there are no earthquakes.”

fact, Libya is offering so many discounts and special arragements that it is probably actually undercutting other Arab producers as well as exceeding its quota. For all the grassroots democracy he claims to have introduced, Col. Khaddafy takes a lot of precautions. When he unexpectedly visited the “popular congress” in al Dahra in Tripoli last week, a considerable number of men wrapped in the traditional Libyan cloak were seen to have knives at the ready. Col. Khaddafy has chosen to live in the main army barracks in Tripoli.

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