Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 119, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1986 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 3,1986

U.S. asks sanctions against Libya; Navy task force on move

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Libya’s staterun radio said Libyans staged giant antiAmerican demonstrations in all of the country’s major cities for a second day today, vowing to defend themselves against any attack by the United States and Israel. “We are ready to face any attack by the American imperialists and Zionists; we are ready to fight and to join suicide squads,” the demonstrators chanted, according to the Tripoli Radio report monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus. The State Department appealed Thursday for international sanctions against Libya. The United States and Israel charge Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy supports a renegade Palestinian faction headed by Abu Nidal, which they blame for the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports that killed 19. In Naples, Italy, a U.S. Navy task force led by the aircraft carrier Coral Sea left today for an undisclosed Mediterranean destination after completing a holiday port call, an American military spokesman said. Lt. Col. John Marchi, spokesman for U.S. Naval Support Activity in Naples, confirmed the task force departure and said it was scheduled. He denied Italian newspaper reports that all leaves had been canceled for U.S. military personnel in Italy. CBS News, quoting sources who asked not to be identified, reported Thursday that U.S. forces in the Mediteranean have

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been built up in case President Reagan calls for a retaliatory strike against Libya. A Navy source told The Associated Press in Washington that the Coral Sea’s battle group has been ordered to resume routine operations in the central Mediterranean, but refused to confirm that any order had been given involving a “massing” of Sixth Fleet ships. Tripoli Radio said Libyans also held mass meetings Thursday night and sent cables to Khadafy declaring they “are in the trenches and the front line ready to confront the Zionist ... and the American imperialist threats against the Arab Libyan people.” The radio said Palestinian groups in the Libyan port city of Benghazi also sent cables to Khadafy, stating their readiness to die in Libya’s defense. Austrian officials have said the two surviving terrorists from the Vienna attack identified themselves as members of Abu Nidal’s group. Rome’s II Messaggero and Milan’s Corriere della Sera newspapers today quoted unidentified judicial sources as saying that the judge investigating the Rome attack, Domenico Sica, has decided to seek an international arrest warrant for Abu Nidal. Khadafy was quoted by Libya’s official JANA news agency as telling a news conference Wednesday that if the United States retaliates against Libya, he will strike back at Americans “in their own streets” and plunge the whole Mediterranean region into “a war without end.” Asked about this Thursday, President Reagan replied, “I don’t answer fellas who think it’s all right to shoot 11-year-old girls.” Among the five Americans who died in the twin airport attacks was Natasha Simpson, 11, the daughter of The Associated Press’ news editor in Rome, Victor Simpson.

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Cattle graze at the Gallatin National Forest in Montana. The National Wildlife Federation has complained to President Reagan that artifically low fees paid by

NWF: Millions in grazing fees lost

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The National Wildlife Federation has charged that artificially low fees paid by Western ranchers for grazing their cattle on public lands have cost taxpayers SSOO million in the last seven years. In a letter to President Reagan, the federation’s executive vice president, Jay D. Hair, urged that ranchers be required to pay what it called fair market fees for grazing their cattle on federal range land. Hair complained that ranchers were now charged only a fraction of the fees paid on private land. As a result, he said, there has been severe overgrazing of the public range, with “detrimental effects on wildlife and Western natural resources.” Ronald A. Michieli, director of natural resources of the National Cattlemen’s Association, an industry group, said it was a “myth” that there was any relationship between the grazing fee and overgrazing. And, he said, the condition of the public range has improved substantially in the last 30 years.

Vigo coroner facing cocaine charges

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Police say Vigo County Coroner S. Thomas Ferguson was arrested in Florida on charges of possession of cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Ferguson, 37, and Dee Anne Berry, 28, were arrested Dec. 26 and released on bond, Sgt. Frank D. Lloyd Jr. of the Hollywood, Fla., police department said Thursday. The arrests followed discovery of drugs and paraphernalia on a dining room table in a resort apartment where the couple had been staying, authorities said. Police

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Western ranchers for grazing their cattle on public lands have cost taxpayers SSOO million in the last seven years. (N.Y.Times photo)

Michieli also said the current fees did reflect fair market value as established by Congress in 1978. He said his group had never agreed with the appraisals made by the Interior Department indicating that the fees paid for public lands were lower than fees for comparable private lane's. The Bureau of Land Management evaluated the fee this year as well as 7,000 comments on its preliminary findings and options for the future. According to the bureau, 80 percent of the comments favored the current formula. However, 60 percent of those commenting were in the livestock industry. Under the current program, ranchers pay $1.35 per cow per month. Fees range from $3 to $7 per cow per monm on private lands, according to the wildlife federation. Barbara Maxfield of the Bureau of Land Management confirmed the fedefation’s figures. , Under the formula, which is based on ranchers’ production costs and cattle prices, the grazing fee for public lands would drop to $1.02 next year.

accompanied Ms. Berry to the apartment after investigating her complaint that Ferguson had beaten her, Lloyd said. “She had signs of assault, and he appeared to have numerous bruise marks,” Lloyd told the Indianapolis Star. Ferguson’s brother, David, a deputy Vigo County coroner, said Ferguson was not due in Terre Haute until next week. David Ferguson said he did not know of the arrests until Wednesday. “He is still coroner, but while he is on

vacation, I’m in charge,” David Ferguson said. Ferguson, a Democrat, represents the third generation from his family to hold the coroner’s position. Miss Berry is the daughter of the late Ralph Berry, who was Vigo County prosecutor and county Democratic chairman for several years. Ferguson, an osteopath, recently was suspended from the staff at Terre Haute Regional Hospital because he had not maintained his medical records properly, William Giermak, director of the hospital, told the Star.

State judges' election focus of Harrison bill

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Attica Republican who thinks voters should have a say in who serves on the state’s highest courts has proposed a constitutional amendment to make those judges subject to nonpartisan elections. Sen. Joseph W. Harrison’s proposal, Senate Joint Resolution 8, also would drop the state’s chief justice from the Judicial Nominating Commission and would give the Legislature the power to impeach members of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Currently, members of the supreme and appellate courts are appointed by the governor from three nominees recommended by the nominating commission. The judges are subject to yes-no retention votes every 10 years. Harrison’s amendment would require the judges to run in districts. Each sitting judge who wanted to stay on the bench would be required to run, in a non-partisan election, against another candidate selected by the nominating commission. The terms would be for six years. The amendment would give the governor the power to fill court vacancies which occur within three months of the general election. The nominating commission would recommend three candidates to the governor, as is done now. The appointee would have to run in the next evennumbered year following the appointment. The nominating commission would still be composed of seven members four lawyers and three lay people with the chairman designated by the governor. Currently, the chief justice serves as chairman. The rest of the commission is

Inmates remain in control MOUNDSVILLE, L.Va. (AP) - Inmates “destroying everything in sight” remained in control of an outwardly calm West Virginia Penitentiary today after the slayings of two prisoners, but agreed to free the last of 16 hostages. The prison was quiet at dawn, although inmates could be seen pacing by the windows. State police and guards stationed outside the prison walls remained tightlipped. The settlement signed Thursday afternoon called for the last seven hostages to be released today and state control of the 120-year-old, fortress-like prison restored after nearly three days of rioting. In return, inmates were promised amnesty and a meeting with Gov. Arch Moore to discuss grievances, officials said. Thursday night, rioters swarmed through the penitentiary’s main building, raided the hospital drug dispensary and went on a rampage, officials said. “We understand there has been a lot of physical damage, rampage and wrecking, destroying everything in sight,” said records clerk George Massie. Six of the 13 hostages still held Thursday afternoon were freed after the negotiated settlement was signed by state officials and inmate representatives. “You never think you’re going to see your family after a thing like that,” Maj. Edward Littell, 33, said after being release. “I did a lot of praying. I had a lot of people doing a lot of praying for me.” Moore’s press secretary, John Price, said Thursday’s release was a show of good faith and officials believed the settlement would “produce a peaceful end to this situation.” Inmates remained in control of most of the prison Thursday night, however, and Corrections Department spokeswoman Jerrie Clutter confirmed that a second inmate had been killed by fellow prisoners. Clutter identified the victim as Richard Harold Dean, 31, who was serving a 15year sentence for kidnapping. “He looked like he had his throat cut. He had a rope around his neck, like a plastic clothesline,” said an ambulance driver who asked not to be identified. “He also had a puncture wound in his back. ” The Huntington Herald Dispatch reported today that Cabell County Circuit Judge Alfred E. Ferguson said Dean’s assistance to authorities in a series of drug arrests helped forestall a longer sentence in the kidnapping case. Inmate Kent Slie, 38, had beenukilled earlier. Officials were told his throat had been slashed but were awaiting autopsy results on both victims. Slie was serving a life sentence for murder. None of the hostages released so far was seriously injured, officials said. The six released Thursday afternoon were treated at Reynolds Memorial Hospital for “minor cuts, bruises and mental stress,” said spokesman Mark Snigocki. Prison guard Raymond Gaughenbaugh’s daughter, Patty, said her father was “shook up” but otherwise OK. “They all had prisoners guarding them, making sure none of the other prisoners touched them,” she said.

SEN. JOSEPH HARRISON Wants judicial control

comprised of three lay people and three lawyers. A controversy arose last summer over the nominating commission’s handling of a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Critics complained about the secrecy of the commission’s work and the apparent domination of the process bv plaintiffs lawyers. The secrecy issue isn’t addressed bv Harrison’s amendment, which is similar to one he introduced last year. In order to become part of the constitution, a proposal must pass two sessions of the Legislature, separated by an election, and then approved by voters in a statewide referendum.