Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 304, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1985 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Friday, August 9,1985
From his hands-on-the-hips stance, architect Eugene Futterman doesn't seem too impressed with the quonset-hut style of Robert Motherwell's home in East Hampton, N.Y. But that stands to reason. Futterman has been hired by the homeowners to construct a new house on the site. It won't be a quonset hut. (N.Y. Times photo).
Bovine bingo a direct 'hit' PIERZ, Minn. (AP) When Betty the Holstein couldn’t pass muster, May the brown Swiss brought relief to spectators eagerly watching a barnyard scene turned spectator sport. The name of the game was bovine bingo, featuring cows that trotted around parking lot and favored fivefoot numbered squares with the sort of stuff you take care not to step in. It was introduced Wednesday at Crazee Days, an annual sidewalk sale in this central Minnesota community of 900 residents. To the suprise of Hartman’s department store, in whose parking lot the game was held, no one complained, said store spokesman Maurice Faust. “Of course,” he noted, “we’re a completely rural farm area.” The rules were simple: The squares were pinted on the parking lot. Hartmann’s customers got a ticket bearing a number for each item they bought, and well-fed cows trotted around and determined winners by depositing a little you-know-what on squares.
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Peace group freed; ARDE not involved
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) An American peace group says 29 activists and 18 reporters were freed after day of captivity by “independent anticommunist” rebels and not by the secondlargest Contra guerrilla force, which it first had blamed. Patricia Manning of the Witness for Peace group said in Managua that the American activists and the reporters accompanying them arrived Thursday night at El Castillo after spending the day sailing down the San Juan River that divides Nicaragua and Costa Rica. She said the boat was to leave early today for San Carlos, a town on Lake Nicaragua at the mouth of the river 125 southeast of Mangua. “The group arrived without any accident and in a good state,” Ms. Manning said, adding she could not learn more about the situation because of poor radio communications. The Witness for Peace activists are in Nicaragua to protest the Reagan administration’s support for the rebels and to campaign for peace between the United States and Nicaragua, the group’s Washington office said. On Thursday, President Reagan, who
Incident killed 2, injured 20
Terrorists claim bombing responsibility
FRANKFURT, West Germany <P) The leftist terrorist groups Red Army Faction nd Direct Action claimed joint responsibility today for the bombing of a U.S. Air Force base that killed two Americans and injured more than 20 people. Kurt Rebmann, West Germny’s chief federal prosecutor, had said Thursday that the Red Army Fction was suspected in the attack. Police named 12 terrorists being sought in connection with the bombing. This morning. The Associated Press received a letter signed by Direct Action a French leftist extremist group, nd the Red Army Faction, West German organization, taking responsibility for Thursday’s bombing in the name of “Com-
has hailed the insurgents as “freedom fighters,” signed a $25.4 billion foreign aid bill, providing for a resumption of nonlethal U.S. aid to the Contras. The peace group had blamed Wednesday’s abduction on the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, an anti-Sandinista rebel group commonly known as ARDE. The rebel group’s leader, Eden Pastora, had threatened that his guerrillas would shoot at the activists if they made their trip. But Witness for Peace released a transcript of a radio conversation to The Associated Press late Thursday in which an activist aboard the boat said the abductors identified themselves as “independent anti-communists” rather than members of Pastora’s group. In Washington, the State Department said a spokesman for the group in Nicaragua informed U.S. officials Thursday they had been held by an independent group and not by ARDE. ARDE consistently has denied any involvement in the incident, saying it took place in territory held by the government, and that it was “show” put on by the Sandinistas to discredit the rebels.
mando George Jackson. ” Jackson was a militant blck activist in California in the early 19705. The three-page typewritten letter, postmarked in West Germany, dated Thursday and written in German, said the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base, is “the biggest military freight base of the U.S. forces outside the USA, is a turntable for war in the Third World directed from Western Europe.” The letter continued: “The air base is a secret service nest. Here stand computers, airplanes, helicopters ready for missions by the Special Forces.” “We attacked the Rhein-Main Air Base today with the Commando George
ISTA, others urge state board to relax rules
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Although they said a longer school day may have some merit, two teachers’ organizations told the Indiana State Board of Education to give local districts more flexibility in determining the day’s length. “The Indiana State Teachers Association recognizes the tremendous value of Prime Time and gains made for children by eliminating pep sessions, athletic contests, and decorating for the prom from the permitted activities during instructional time,” Roger Williams, ISTA’s director of governmental relations, said Thursday during the board meeting in Indianapolis. However, he added, “we believe that in-
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U.S. preparing to resume direct aid to Contras rebels
WASHINGTON (P) - The Reagan administration is preparing to resume direct aid to rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist government amid renewed allegations tht White House officials never stopped assisting the insurgents even after Congress cut off funds a year ago. President Reagan on Thursday signed a $25.4 billion foreign aid bill for 1986 and 1987, saying he was “particularly pleased” that the bill provides $27 million in nonlethl assistance for the estimated 15,000 Nicaraguan Contra rebels an aid resumption cleared by Congress last month. The bill signing came as White House spokesman Larry Speakes denied that officials of the president’s Nationl Security Council had violated “the spirit or the letter” of laws restricting U.S. military aid to the Contras. According to published accounts by The Associated Press and The New York Times, NSC officials provided advice on how the rebels could raise money following the congressional cutoff. The Times also said advice was given on military operations. Both reports said NSC officials began giving the advice last year after Congress refused Reagan’s request for more military aid. Congress also barred any “agency or entity of the United States involved in intelligence” from helping the rebels militarily. Administration officials have argued that the ban does not apply to the NSC, which advises the president on in-
Jackson,” the letter said. Explosives packed into a Volkswagen sedan with forged American license plates were detonated at the Rhein-Main base on Thursday morning, the West German Federal Criminal Office said. The Red Army Faction is an anarchist group that has terrorized West Germany with bombings and assassinations for more than decade. It frequently has directed attacks at U.S. facilities. Police said they were looking for the terrorist gang’s hideouts in the rea, and security was tightened at the base, located about six miles from Frankfurt. The U.S. military’s European Command headquartes in Stuttgart identified one of
creasing the time has real advantages, but there is limit beyond which more time is not really productive.” The Legislature has given the state board until next July to adopt revised rules determining length of the school day and what activities can be included in the instructional day. The board’s rule adopted two years ago excluded such activities as lunch, recess, pep sessions and hall passing time from the minimum hours of required instructionl time. The effect of the ruling lengthened the school day 15 to 40 minutes. When the rule was adopted, school officials complained it created problems in scheduling buses nd negotiating teachers’
ternational and defense issues. But Rep. George E. Brown Jr., D-Calif., a House Intelligence Committee member, challenged any NSC exemption from the ban, noting that CIA Director William J. Casey serves as an adviser to the security council. “They’re up to their ears in intelligence,” Brown said of the NSC, although adding that it would be difficult for Congress to investigte the NSC’s role because the principle of executive privilege prevents presidential advisers from being forced to testify. But Brown said that despite that problem, the intelligence committee and the House Judiciary Committee might investigate the NSC role. He said the NSC’s actions could involve “aiding and abetting violations of the Neutrality Act,” which bars attacks on governments at peace with the United States. Brown said the possible offenses “could be impeachable” if proven, but he doubted Congress would press an investigation that might lead to such a confrontation. Speakes said the NSC has made contacts with the rebels “from time to time for the purpose of receiving informtion and for fostering contacts,” but he added: “No member of the National Security Council staff has at any time acted in violation of either the spirit or the letter of the existing legislation.” Administration officials also said Thursday that work was nearly completed on a mechanism for distributing the non-lethal aid, which will include food, medicine, clothing and transportation for the rebels.
the dead as Airman Ist Class Frank H. Scarton, 19, of Woodhven, Mich. The military said in telex that Scarton, a member of the 437th Militry Airlift Wing, was on temporary duty at Rhein-Main. Scarton’s fther, Frank, said his son was a supply specialist who entered the Air Force after graduating from high school in 1983. He said he never imagined his son would be in danger. “I really never gave it much thought,” he said. “I’m just sorry it happened. I’m just glad he died serving his country.” In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Richard L. Ziegler identified the other victim as Becky Jo Bristol, the wife of Senior Airman John R. Bristol.
contracts. Williams said Thursday the board should set a minimum number of hours per year, not a minimum number of hours per day or days per year. “An hours-per-year basis would allow local school corporations the flexibility to adjust the day’s length and still meet a state minimum,” he said. Williams recommended the state continue excluding lunch and recess periods, pep sessions and non-academic actvities from the instructional day. But he said passing periods between classes and parent-teacher conferences should be counted and academic-oriented activities, such as debates and music.
Indiana boy and abductor found at Illinois State Fair
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) - An Indiana boy abducted in June and the man charged with his kidnapping were found at the Illinois State Fair after two runaway girls reported they had seen the pair, police said. Byron A. Coy, 42, is wanted in Indiana on warrants charging him with criminal confinement and child molestation, nd on federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Coy was being charged with abducting 15-year-old Johnny Ron Travis from Evansville, Ind., on June 10. Coy was found by state trooper John McAllister of Peoria in the “Happy Hollow” area of the fairgrounds Thursday, working a concession stand. The boy was found in the same area. McAllister said he found Coy after being alerted to his presence by two runaway girls who were also found at the fair Thur-
Rider shot in argument overseat c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK A passenger on a crowded East Side subway train Thursday morning suddenly rose to his feet, pulled out a small handgun and fired at least two shots at a rider with whom he had been arguing over a seat, the police said. The victim was wounded in the neck and abdomen, and five other passengers were injured in the stampede that followed. A spokesman for the transit police said Thursday night that no arrest had been made in the shooting, which occurred at about 7:45 a.m. as a southbound No. 5 express train was approaching the station at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue. The victim, identified as 20-year-old J,unior Besson of the Bronx, was listed in guarded but stable condition at Lenox Hill Hospital, Five other commuters were treated at Metropolitan Hospital for minor injuries suffered when scores of passengers tried to flee the shooting. It broke out in the last car of a 10-car train that originated at Dyre Avenue in the Bronx and was headed to Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. The police said the dispute began when Besson asked the assailant and his companion to slide over on a subway bench so Besson would have room to sit. “The guy didn’t like the way he asked,” said Officer Barney Paguaga, a transit police spokesman, referring to the assailant. “He turned to the other passengers and said: ‘I ought to pop this guy. I have my piece with me. I ought to pop this guy. The first exchange between victim and assailant occurred near the 125th Street stop of the train, and the argument continued as it approached 86th Street, Silberfarb said. “There were some harsh exchanges,” he said. After the shots were fired, someone pulled the emergency cord, stopping the train with two or three cars, including the last car, not yet into the station, Silberfarb said. The police believe the assailant and his companion escaped through the station, going unnoticed in the confusion that followed as passengers rushed for the doors of the train. “I didn’t believe it at first that somebody was really shooting,” said Willie James Stoudmire, 43, a passenger in the car. Stoudmire, a Bronx resident, said he did not see the shooting or the assailant. He said he heard a shot, then heard a voice saying, “You’re animals, you’re nothing but animals,” then more shots. Stoudmire, who was treated at Metropolitan Hospital for neck and arm injuries and released, said he was standing near a door of the subway car when he saw a crowd of commuters rushing toward him. “Everybody just panicked,” he said.
Richard B. Miller, new executive director of the Indiana Federation of Teachers, said it considers lengthening the school day a low priority and not “the best solution to a real problem.” The issue the board should be addressing, he said, is how to improve pupil performance. “We do not believe it is necessary to extend the school day to improve pupil performance. Such additions might even be counterproductive.” Miller said better school management, greater academic freedom for teachers, stricter student accountability and higher student standards are measures the federation believes would more likely improve performance.
sday. I-SEARCH, a national clearinghouse for finding missing children, “puts a great deal of emphasis on fairs,” according to James Zagel, director of the Illinois Department of State Police. He said runaways often congregate at fairs. A state trooper identified the two runaways from the descriptions ISEARCH had provided. The girls saw the flyers featuring the photos of Coy and Travis, and told police they had seen them at the fair. Coy has a criminal record which included conviction for sexual perversion and incraceration as a sexually dangerous offender in California in the late 60s. He also was convicted in Michigan in 1972 for contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, and in Texas for auto theft.