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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, September 20,1984

Embassy bomb kills 23 people

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A van filled with explosives crashed into the U.S. Embassy annex in east Beirut and blew up today, severely damaging the six-story building and reportedly killing 23 people and wounding 60, including the U.S. ambassador. The Christian-owned Voice of Lebanon radio said the casualties included people inside the annex compound and outside, but it did not give a breakdown of the victims’ nationalities. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Sondra McCarty said she had received reports that Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew walked out of the compound and was being treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Lebanese military sources said the ambassador had sustained head and chest injuries and was in intensive care. About 90 minutes after the explosion, a man telephoned the Beirut office of the French news agency Agence FrancePresse to claim responsibility on behalf of Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War the same group that claimed responsibility for the suicide car-bomb attack on the former U.S. Embassy in west Beirut on April 18, 1983, that left at least 63 people dead, 17 of them Americans. The wreckage of the vehicle used in the attack lay about five yards from the main entrance to the annex building, inside the compound. The Dodge or Chevrolet van apparently exploded only a yard from the annex entrance. One diplomat on the scene said: “Our guards shot at the car and tried to stop it,

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but it got into the compound and exploded right here” pointing to the spot in front of the entrance. The building did not collapse, but there was severe damage to the ground floor, and considerable damage to the other five stories. The embassy recently moved some of its offices and personnel to east Beirut for security reasons. Damage from shrapnel could be seen 500 yards away from the building. Three bodies were being carried away from the scene. U.S. Marine guards said there were about 20 wounded. But the military sources reported 23 killed and 60 wounded. It was unclear how many were Americans and how many Lebanese. The announcement attributed to Islamic Holy War said today’s attack was carried out “to prove we will carry out our previous promise not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil.” No member of Islamic Jihad has ever been identified. Lebanese and American officials have said there may not actually be such a group, and that the name may be used by many individual attackers or small independent groups. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman McCarty said: “Apparently a car did approach the embassy, went through the gate and blew up ... the embassy annex. There was some severe damage. There are injuries and deaths, but we have no figures now. As of right now, there are no known American deaths. Our security people there are coordinating the evacuation.”

$34 billion compromise for farmers WASHINGTON (AP> A House-Senate negotiating panel has agreed to a $34 billion compromise for next year’s spending by the Agriculture Department, including money to finance part of President Reagan’s new program to help debt-ridden farmers. But in agreeing on the farm, food and nutrition bill, the conference committee scrapped a proposal to create a major new soil conservation program designed to protect erosion-prone farmland. Senators on the conference committee pushed for approval of the “sodbuster” measure, but House members resisted on grounds that it was improper to attach legislation for a new program to an appropriations bill. The action came Wednesday during an afternoon-long session to work out differences between the House and Senate on spending for programs administered by the Department of Agriculture in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the conference, said he hoped both chambers can vote on the committee’s recommendations and send the measure to the president before the planned adjournment of Congress early next month. Although precise final spending totals were not available Wednesday, committee staff members estimated the measure provided for spending of about $34.5 billion, or nearly the same amount requested in President Reagan’s 1985 budget.

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Empire State Building will lose 18 feet by renovation

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK The Empire State Building, epitome of the New York skyscraper, has shrunk. Workers have begun taking apart the graceful steel television mast that tops the building, and when renovation is complete, officials say, a full 18 feet will have been lost a diminution that will not affect the building’s status as the world’s third tallest. Since 1951, the grapefruit-size blinking red light atop its mast has sat 1,472 feet above Fifth Avenue. But about a month ago, workers began dismantling the 58-foot pole and batwing-shaped antennas that

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Sailors safe at home after week in Siberia

GAMBELL, Alaska (AP) Five tired but smiling American sailors said they were glad to be back on American soil today after a week in Siberia, where they were taken by a Soviet warship that seized their supply ship during a souvenirhunting jaunt. The seamen, released Wednesday in a rendezvous between an armed Soviet icebreaker and a Coast Guard cutter in the Bering Sea, were not harmed during their detention, said Tabb Thoms, skipper of the 120-foot Frieda K. With his crew by his side, Thoms spoke to a mob of reporters and villagers Wednesday night after the freed vessel beached on Gambell, located on St. Lawrence Island about 50 miles east of the rendezvous site where the vessel and crew were freed earlier in the day. Coast Guard officers who boarded the Frieda K were met by five armed Soviet crew members, said Chief Petty Officer Dan Dewell.Thoms said the Soviets confiscated film from cameras, the ship’s log and charts from the Frieda K. Thoms said the crew was pressured to sign papers admitting an intentional

Florida executes convicted killer

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - James Henry, who denied killing an 81-year-old civil rights leader, died in the Florida electric chair today, the seventh person executed in the state this year. Henry, 34, electrocuted minutes after a court-imposed stay expired, was the ninth person executed in Florida since 1976 and the second this month. The Supreme Court on Wednesday tur-

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belonged to WNBC, which, like all but one New York City television station, has moved its transmitter to the World Trade Center. The shrinkage had escaped the notice of most ground-level New Yorkers, including the members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which designated the building and its antenna as a landmark in 1981 and began checking Wednesday to see whether the alteration presented any problems. But the change caught the eye of one passer-by, who called Empire State Building officials Wednesday to find out what had happened. “Architecturally, to the naked eye, 18

violation of Soviet territory, but refused to do so. “We collect T-shirts and sweat shirts from where we go, from time to time, and this was our intention” when the encounter with the Soviet warship occurred Sept. 11 in the Bering Strait, said Thoms. The crew, which delivers supplies to remote villages, was heading for a village on Little Diomede, an Alaskan island only miles east of Soviet-owned Big Diomede, when the boat was stopped and boarded by “many, many” Soviet soldiers, Thoms, who did most of talking for his crew, said they were approaching the narrow passage between the two islands when he saw a gray ship approaching. He said he steered the Frieda K closer and saw an officer on the bridge. “As we neared the ship...one of the officers on the vessel motioned” and Thoms interpreted that to mean they should tie up to the vessel. “So we threw our lines on and before the wink of eye, you could say, there were many, many soldiers on board, armed with guns, knives and pistols, and they seized my crew.”

ned down Henry’s appeal in a 7-2 decision. But the court prevented the first double execution in the nation in 19 years when it rejected 8-1 a request by state officials to electrocute convicted child-killer Aubrey Adams today. Henry was under his second death warrant for the March 24,1974, murder of Zellie Riley of Orlando. He was pronounced dead at 7:09 a.m.

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feet of a structure that was added on won’t make a difference,” said Robert L. Tinker, the building’s vice president. “Long ago, when we lost the title of the world’s tallest, we decided that we could validly describe it as the world’s most famous.” For a while, the building, minus the pole, will be a mere 1,414 feet tall. By midOctober, WWHT, a subscription television service, expects to start installing its own steel antenna, six inches in diameter, sheathed in fiberglass, topped with lightning arrestors and 18 feet shorter. Tinker said that he had explored the possibility of maintaining the mast at its full height of 1,472 feet. But he found that

One victim tells how it happened

Publisher’s note: Reported instances of child sexual ?buse are surfacing across the country in record numbers, but authorities say official statistics account for only 10 per cent of actual cases. This is the fourth in a series about the problem. Readers are cautioned that the series contains graphic language and descriptions. ROSEMEAD, Calif. (AP) - Raul says his Uncle Alex started the seduction with “all the things that interest kids," things like modeling clay, toys and electric trains. Next, Uncle Alex brought out his camera, which he used to take harmless candids of Raul doing ordinary things smiling, sitting, playing with toys. The pictures were shown at holiday gatherings where family members noted “what great photos Uncle Alex took” and “how cute Raul looked.” Eventually, Uncle Alex .asked his nephew to take his clothes off for the camera. Next came fondling, and finally, sex in the bedroom. Raul Hernandez was 12 at the time. Last year, eight years after the molestation began and four years after it stopped, Raul broke his silence and turned his uncle in to police. The statute of limitations had passed on the allegations Raul made against his uncle. But as a result of a subsequent investigation, court records show, Alex Mora Hernandez, a former third-grade teacher and Scout leader, was arrested on sex-related charges involving four otner boys in alleged incidents dating back to 1981. Those youngsters, now aged 11 to 14, include two former pupils of the defendant. For turning to the police, Raul and his parents were banished from the previously tight-knit Hernandez family. The rest of them didn’t believe. Alex Mora Hernandez declined to be interviewed for this story, but defense lawyer Stanley Berg contended that “admissions made by my client” after a search of his house should be inadmissible, Berg said the search warrant was improperly issued since it was based on Raul’s 4-year-old information. “I’m not excusing the allegations,” Berg said. “I can’t deny that he made admissions; that’s part of the case. But you’re not going to get me to say my client is a pedophile.” The story of Raul Hernandez, now a 21-year-old college student, in many ways fits a pattern that is frequently employed by child sexual abusers, a process of slow, careful seduction. “If any of this is typical, this would be a typical case,” said Bill Dworin, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department’s sexually exploited child unit. “It is very typical for the abuser to slowly build up trust.” And that is how Uncle Alex won over Raul’s affection, according to the

extending the antenna beyond the station’s technological needs, combined with the weight of other communications equipment on the mast, would have required expensive structural reinforcements. After it opened in 1931, the 102-story Empire State Building reigned as the world’s tallest for four decades measuring 1,250 feet to the lo2d-floor observatory, not counting the 222-foot broadcast mast, added in 1951. “The Empire State Building has gained the affection of New Yorkers not because ot its great size but because of its great beauty,” he added, “and I don’t think this will diminish it.”

young man’s version of events. In a two-hour interview in the living room of his parents’ middle-class home in this suburb of Los Angeles, Raul and his father recalled how the Hernandez clan had always been a very close, extended family. “He was an accepted member of the family. He made sure he was always there to help everyone out,” Raul said. “When I was 12, Alex began priming me for his intentions,” said Raul. “He had a house. He lived alone. He had model railroad sets, toys, play clay all the things that interest kids. He got me used to being around.” Uncle Alex also was “into photography. He had a darkroom,” said Raul. “He first took legitimate pictures, developed them and sent them to family members." “After taking pictures with clothing on, then he had plenty of bathing suits. He got me used to changing in front of him. ... When he got me used to that, he wanted me to try it nude. I had a lot of problems with that and I refused. “But eventually, he got what he wanted,” Raul said. In the coming weeks, Uncle Alex set the automatic timer on his camera and "started getting into the photos himself,” Raul continued. "It kept progressing. He had it set up so one thing just naturally flowed into the next.” . What occurred next was “touching and fondling,” which eventually progressed to “numerous sex acts, like oral sex,” according to Raul. On the day his uncle persuaded him to engage in oral sex, Raul said, “sex in the bed actually began.” While being sexually violated, Raul said, “I was overcome by tremendous feelings of guilt and shame and wrong. It hit me like the bleakest thing of all. I pulled away confused. My head was buried in my hands. “Then he began to talk to me. He sat on a stool before me and made me stand there for 45 minutes. He lectured me over and over again how there was nothing wrong with what we were doing but how bad it would be if someone found out. He switched the tables on me and told me how much trouble I’d be in if I told anyone. “After the lecture I was at his disposal,” said Raul. “The whole thing was always under his control. He didn’t have to worry about that.... I was in too deeply to know any better. There was no one to turn to. ” Raul said the molestation continued nearly four years. He asserted that his uncle showed him pornographic films and other sexually explicit materials to try to enhance the sexual encounters. Some of the material involved other children, which in Raul’s eyes justified his involvement with his uncle. He also admitted that his uncle “incited in me the enjoyment of having sex. I did enjoy it. A child does.”