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'Vigilante'declines citizen's offer of $50,000 life savings to pay bail

By MARCIA CHAMBERS c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Bernhard Hugo Goetz, who is charged with shooting four teen-agers on a subway train, Friday turned down offers from a private citizen and his own family to pay his $50,000 bail. He said that while he appreciated the efforts to free him, he wanted to arrange his own bail. The private citizen, Jose M. Gonzalez of New York City, a telephone systems technician, told correction officials that the $50,000 cashier’s check he offered represented his life savings. Goetz was informed of his bail offer by Walter Simmons, a deputy warden at the Rikers Island jail where Goetz was being held, shortly after Gonzalez appeared at the offices of the city’s Department of Correction on Centre Street with the check. ‘Mr. Goetz told Mr. Simmons that he appreciated the individual’s concern,” said Edward Hershey, a Correction Department spokesman. But he said he did not want to accept his offer

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The view of the Atlantic Ocean from Molly Wilmot's home in Palm Beach, Fla., has been biocked by the Mercedes, a 230-foot Venezuelan freighter, since the ship was driven onto the beach

Shultz leaving with 'Star Wars' support

WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George Shultz sets out tonight for arms control talks in Geneva claiming strong backing in Congress for the “Star Wars” anti-missile program which the Kremlin insists must be abandoned if U.S.Soviet negotiations are to progress. Shultz and a delegation including White House national security adviser Robert McFarlane and arms negotiator Paul Nit-

Aspin heads House Armed Services panel

WASHINGTON (AP) Many House Democrats predict President Reagan’s defense inititives will be subjected to tougher, more critical scrutiny as the result of the generational battle that brought Pentagon gadfly Les Aspin to the chairmanship of the House Armed Ser- , vices Committee. In a series of votes that ignored the pleas of House elders and battered the traditions of the congressional seniority system, > Aspin on Friday unseated ailing, 80-year-r old Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois and I* bypassed other committee veterans. The Wisconsin congressman, a former Pentagon official who ranked only seventh ; in seniority among the committee’s Democrats, said his election on a 125-103 ; secret tally by the House Democratic Caucus is “a sign we ought to be taking a

Schroeder displays grip

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) William J. Schroeder is showing off a firm hand grip as he continues his recovery from a paralyzing stroke, and he still longs for his Jasper, Ind., home, the artificial heart recipient’s priest said Friday. “His grip was fantastic,” said the Rev. Joe Kirsch, of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Jasper. Kirsch visited with Schroeder and his wife, Margaret, for about 45 minutes Thursday afternoon and gave Communion. The priest said Schroeder, 52, asked him to “take my hand. He really grasped tightly.'' “He was really proud of that,” Kirsch said in a telephone interview. Schroeder, who suffered a series of strokes Dec. 13, remained in satisfactory condition Friday, according to a Humana Corp. spokesman. Schroeder’s memory seemed clear, although he hesitated when speaking. Schroeder “at times was kind of

or any “publicly raised bail money,” Hershey added. “He wants to do it his own way,” said Frank Brenner, who said he had been formally retained by Goetz as his lawyer. Officials would not say whether Goetz planned to use his own funds to make the cash bail. But officials said they expected that the 37-year-old electronics specialist would be released this weekend. A cousin of Goetz, Ludwig Goetz Jr. of Orlando, Fla., said that the family had the money and had offered to pay the bail but that the suspect had rejected that as well. “The bail is not the problem, it’s Bernhard,” the cousin said. Goetz is charged with attempting to murder four teen-agers, who he says tried to rob him on a southbound IRT No. 2 train in Manhattan on Dec. 22. Two of the teen-agers remain hospitalized and one is paralyzed from the waist down. The others are home. The case has elicited a wave of support for Goetz Friday, sub-

by a freakish tropical storm the day after Thanksgiving. The Mercedes lodged against a seawall only a few feet from Mrs. Wilmot's swimming pool. A salvage firm which has a $250,000

ze were to leave Washington this evening and arrive Sunday in Geneva. Talks between Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko open Monday, with at least three meetings planned over two days. The discussions, aimed at establishing a framework for resuming arms negotiations that broke off more than a year ago, are to begin in the Soviet mission to the United Nations on Geneva’s Avenue

serious look at defense...trying to balance the federal budget deficit and national security interests.” But one Democrat, echoing the party’s conservatives, said that in choosing the 46-year-old Aspin, the Armed Services Committee now has as its chairman “a person who doesn’t support an adequate defense.” Under Price’s leadership, the committee leadership had been criticized by younger and more liberal Democrats for showing little or no vigor in examining the Reagan administration’s military policies and programs. “Only time will tell, but I bet there are people at the Pentagon bashing their heads saying, how do we play the game now,” said Rep. David Garcia, D-N.Y, a member of the Democratic Steering Committee. “There’s no question in my mind that

hestitant, you could tell his mind was working,” Kirsch said. The priest said Schroeder’s speech and physical condition appeared to have improved since Christmas, when he visited with him. Kirsch said Schroeder, who had the plastic and metal heart implanted on Nov. 25, was anxious to return home to Jasper. Kirsch said he told the federal retiree, “We’re keeping your bench warm in church.” Humana has purchased a house near Humana Hospital Audubon where Schroeder a,,d family members will stay after his release. No date has been set for Schroeder’s release, Humana spokeswoman Linda Broaddus said Friday. Schroeder’s vital signs remained normal and no special activities other than his usual speech and physical therapy were planned, she said.

de la Paix (Peace Avenue). Upwards of 650 reporters and technicians were descending on Geneva to cover the meetings. Shultz and McFarlane held a final conference with Reagan on Friday and also briefed congressional leaders on their mission. Twenty-six members of the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, were invited to the White

Congress finds itself now with a chairman who’s going to question from time to time what goes on in the Pentagon (and) I think that’s healthy,” he said. Rep. Nicholas Mavroules, D-Mass., an Armed Services committee member, said he ultimately voted for Aspin in the caucus because of Aspin’s support of a plan to put the panel on record on overall national defense policy instead of dealing with Pentagon recommendations piece-by-piece. “It’s vital that we not be a rubber stamp to the Pentagon or to the White House, any White House for that matter. Republican or Democrat,” Mavroules said. Mavroules said he hopes the committee now can take the lead in mandating the cuts in defense spending he said are needed to reduce the looming federal budget deficit.

Climbers near jet crash site

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Three veteran Bolivian mountaineers climbed toward the wreckage of an Eastern Airlines jetliner on an icy Andean mountain today, despite a driving rain and snow that forced cancellation of two other expeditions. The Boeing 727 slammed into the 21,000foot peak Tuesday night, minutes before it was to land in La Paz, and officials say there is no hope that any of the 29 passengers and crew, eight of them Americans, are still alive. U.S. Counsul Royce Fichte, an experienced climber who started up the mountain Thursday afternoon, returned to his base camp Friday because of the bad weather, said Steve Seche, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. The three veteran Bolivian climbers who were with him continued up the mountain and said by radio that they hoped to reach the crash site today. The climbers included Bernardo Guarachi, who has led more than 30 expeditions up the mountain.

way riders donated dollar bills toward his defense, according to Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, a civilian group that conducts crime patrols. By day’s end, the Guardian Angels said, they had collected S7OO in cash and received 200 telephone calls asking where donations could be sent. The money, Sliwa said, will be given to the B.H. Goetz Legal Defense Fund. The fund was started by several of Goetz’s friends. Its cochairmen, Bernard Goldstein and Dennis Corsalini, said they had collected $1,400 by 4 p.m. Friday. Goldstein, who owns Leeds Electronics, at 57 Warren Street in Manhattan, said Friday that Goetz was a customer who over the years had become a friend. Gonzalez said he wanted to use his life savings for Goetz’s bail because he had been assaulted and robbed in his apartment building and he “identified” with Goetz’s situation.

contract to remove the vessel began surveying the situation this week and predicted that at least nine weeks will be needed to get the job done. (N.Y. Times photo)

House meeting in the Cabinet Room. White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said House Democratic Leader James Wright spoke up in praise of the “Star Wars” plan officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and other congressional leaders indicated similar feelings. “I would say there was a nodding approval around the table,” Speakes said.

Garcia noted that “there are people on the Armed Services Committee who are 180 degrees opposed to each other,” and that Aspin will have his work cut out as he attempts to reach some sort of accomodation between them. One of those who opposed Aspin’s successful takeover bid. Rep. Sam Stratton, D-N.Y., said it took place only “because there were more anti-defense liberals in the Democratic caucus than people who support an adequate defense.” And he said of Aspin: “I think it’s urfortunate that we have a person who doesn’t support an adequate defense in the face of the Soviet threat.” “We have elected the representative of those Democrats in the House who don’t think that defense is necessary, and don’t support it,” Stratton said.

His team was at about 18,150 feet on Friday. The wreckage has been sighted at 19,600feet. A Red Cross team also began climbing the mountain on Thursday, but it turned back after several hours because of hail, rain and fog. A team of mountaineers and journalists reached a height of about 18,810 feet on the 21,000-foot mountain before being forced back Friday by bad weather, said Ricardo Albert, who led the group. Officials said a Bolivian helicopter tried to drop mountaineers high on the mountain, in the hope that they could ski down to the wreckage. But they said that effort also failed because of the weather. The Eastern jetliner crashed on a flight from Asuncion, Paraguay, to La Paz and Miami. Just before the plane disappeared, its pilot contacted El Alto airport by radio, but reported no problems. At 12,000 feet, La Paz is the highest

At Goetz’s arraignment Thursday in Criminal Court in Manhattan, neither Susan Braver, the prosecutor, nor Judge Leslie C. Snyder placed any travel restrictions on him if he posted the cash bail and left jail. Goetz has family in Michigan as well as in Florida, officials said at his arraignment. Goetz was described by prison officials as in “reasonably good spirits” after spending his first night in a special Rikers Island infirmary unit. The unit houses 13 defendants, all of whom are segregated from the general prison population because of the notoriety of their cases and the fear they may be subjected to random violence. Among those in the unit are Emmanuel Torres, who is charged with the West Side rooftop murder of Caroline Eisenberg last month, and Chrisopher Thomas, who is accused of killing 10 people, including women and children, in Brooklyn last year.

Hostages safe after police rush jetliner

CLEVELAND (AP) - SWAT teams stormed a jetliner six hours after an armed woman took seven hostages on board, wounding her once in the chest after she became tired and threatened to harm an 8-month-old baby girl, authorities said. The woman, who had demanded to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was shot in a gunbattle with the officers, one of whom was grazed by a bullet that ricocheted off his bulletproof vest, authorities said. The hostages were unharmed. “The SWAT teams engaged in a gunfight with the subject," said Joseph E. Griffin, head of the Cleveland FBI office. “The subject was hit.” The woman took control of the Pan American World Airways plane around 3 p.m. Friday after she pulled a gun at an airport boarding gate, shot a gate attendant and forced her way aboard the waiting plane, authorities said. The woman, identified by police spokesman Robert Bolton as Oranette Mays, 42, of Cleveland, was listed in stable condition today after surgery at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. Ten officers, including FBI agents and city police, entered the Boeing 727 after 9 p.m., when four of the seven hostages were still aboard. Negotiators had persuaded the woman to release three people about two hours into the ordeai, leaving an elderly couple, a woman and her baby, said police Sgt. Roger Dennerll. Dennerll said no one knew why she chose to let the three people go. “She seemed to have her wits about her,” said Cecilie Todd of Great Britain, one of 19 passengers evacuated shortly after the woman went on board. “She didn’t seem to be fanatic at all. She didn’t seem to me to be berserk.” The request to go to Brazil came early in the ordeal and was not repeated, Dennerll

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REP. LES ASPIN Wins chairmanship

capital in the world and the approach to the airport is over craggy, snowcapped mountains. Rainy weather has kept Bolivian air force planes and helicopters from being mobilized, said Col. Grover Rojas, who was coordinating air force rescue efforts. “It is very likely the plane collided headon with the mountain and exploded on impact,” he said, adding he doubted anyone survived. Among the passengers was Marian Davis, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Paraguay, Arthur Davis. Other Americans on the plane were William Kelly, director of the Peace Corps in Paraguay; Jonathan Watson, a U.S. Marine; and a group of Eastern employees that included Campbell, Ist Officer Kenneth Rhodes and 2nd Officer Mark Bird, all based in Miami, Capt. J.B. Loseth of Miami and Haywood H. Hargrove Jr. of Houston.

said. Authorities had not determined a motive. “She was irrational at first,” he said. “She calmed down later. But she continually had the gun pointed at the (front) door, at an agent and myself.” Officers decided to storm the plane because the woman, in negotiations over a telephone hook-up, was again becoming irrational, he said. “Over the past half hour in our negotiations, she started making threats, saying ‘When I get tired, it’s all over,’ and threatening the little baby,” Griffin said. He said the woman fired one shot as the special weapons and tactics teams entered the plane, striking the bullet-proof vest of Officer James Gnew, 38. The bullet ricocheted and grazed Gnew’s leg, but he managed to grab her. Gnew was not badly hurt, Bolton said. Two of the final four hostages Cynthia Shisler, 27, of Huber Heights, and her 8-month-old daughter Laura were examined and released from University Hospitals. The other two hostages were treated and released from Southwest General. They asked that their identities not be disclosed, a hospital spokeswoman said. The wounded gate attendant, Jeanette Rivera, 32, of Bay Shore, N.Y., was in fair condition at Southwest General Hospital with gunshot wound to the hip, a hospital spokeswoman said. Pan Am said she was employed by USAir, which handles ground services for Pan Am at the Cleveland airport. Pamela Hanlon, a spokeswoman for Pan Am in New York City, said 32 passengers, four flight attendants and three cockpit crew members were aboard Flight 558 when it left Cincinnati en route to New York. Ten passengers and three crew members disembarked routinely before the incident began. Bth District recounts still pending EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Both candidates for the disputed Bth District congressional seat are making plans to act like congressmen pending a House decision on who will take office. Democrat Frank McCloskey said Friday his campaign staff has set up an office in Bloomington to monitor the continuing recount and handle other political chores. McCloskey lost by 34 votes to Republican challenger Rick Mclntyre, who said he has yet to decide what type of district office to maintain. The Democratic-controlled House refused Thursday to seat Mclntyre pending an Administration Committee ruling on an election challenge by McCloskey. Both candidates will receive congressional pay in the meantime but cannot vote on legislation. McCloskey, who has served one term in the House, said he would return to Bloomington over the weekend and remain there until the recount is completed. “I think my best bet is to be in Indiana visiting the people in the district and trying to help in any way I can," he said. Mclntyre planned to return to his home in Bedford next week, a secretary at his law office said. McCloskey’s House staff was kept on the payroll to continue administering constituent services, but those staffers are now working for the House clerk on a nonpartisan basis. Recounts still are pending in five of the district’s 15 counties. According to official returns from the 10 recounted counties, McCloskey leads Mclntyre by 47 votes. But both sides concede McCloskey is behind in the uncompleted recounts. Nevertheless, Mclntyre’s lawyers plan to challenge recounts in Pike, Greene and Gibson counties.