Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 306, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 August 1986 — Page 2
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THE BANNERGRAPHIC. Auguste, 1966
Had claimed flight from East Berlin
Dramatic escape story was a hoax
BERLIN (AP) A man who claimed to have escaped from Communist East Berlin by dressing himself and three mannequins in Soviet military uniforms admitted to police today that his story was a hoax, a West Berlin Justice Ministry spokesman said. Heinz Braun, 48, told police he made up the tale that he drove through a Berlin Wall crossing in a station wagon painted to resemble a Soviet patrol vehicle to call attention to the wall’s 25th anniversary, which is Aug. 13, the spokesman, Volker Kaehne, told the Associated Press. The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviets in 1961 in an attempt to prevent people from fleeing the city’s Communist eastern sector to the West. Braun told police the car in which he claimed to escape was painted in West Berlin and the mannequins and Soviet uniforms were obtained there, according to Kaehne. Braun told his escape story to a news conference arranged in West Berlin last Friday by a reputable human rights group, the August 13 Working Group. He claimed to have been assisted by Wolf Quasner, a West Berliner. Kaehne said police still were looking for Quasner today to question him. The chairman of the August 13 Working Group, Rainer Hildebrandt, said today he believed the escape story because he had worked with Quasner earlier. The escape story came into question in some West German media after it could not be confirmed. A West Berlin police spokesman, Dieter Piete, said no Soviet patrol car passed from East Berlin at the Invalidenstrasse crossing point on the night of July 30, when Braun claimed to have escaped. Braun was interrogated by the Western Allied powers in Berlin over the weekend, said Tom Homan, a spokesman for the U.S. mission. Homan refused to comment on what Braun said. But the ARD television network on Tuesday quoted unidentifed Allied
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Heinz Braun (right), who claimed to have escaped from communist East Berlin by dressing himself and three mannequins in Soviet military uniforms, has admitted his story was a hoax, a German television network has reported. In its public affairs program "Contrast,” the ARD network said Braun, 48, gave an "oral confession" during questioning by military authorities of the
sources as saying Braun confessed the hoax during the questioning. Kaehne said Braun is not under arrest, but prosecutors are investigating him for wearing a Soviet uniform. It is illegal for Germans to wear Allied uniforms. Prosecutors also are investigating whether Braun forged a Soviet license plate, Kaehne said.
Mixed bag of results in Tuesday primaries Michigan GOP nominates black for governor
By The Associated Press A black former Democrat is the choice of Michigan Republicans to challenge Gov. James Blanchard and backers of three GOP presidential aspirants are seeking a silver lining in a murky delegate election that pushed the 1988 campaign off to an early start. In Kansas, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole crushed a Republican primary opponent Tuesday and now faces a general election campaign against Guy MacDonald, an unemployed Wichita schoolteacher, who was the surprise winner of the Democratic primary.
Western Allies last weekend. American, British and French authorities who oversee Berlin's Western sector agreed to make no statement on the matter. West German police said they did not register passage of a Soviet patrol car at the Invalidenstrasse crossing point on the night of July 30, when Braun said he passed through it. (AP Laserphoto)
Braun wore a Soviet uniform and drove the alleged escape car with the Soviet plate for a film that purported to show his escape but actually was made in West Berlin. The film was shown on West German television last weekend. East Germany on Saturday denounced Braun’s escape story as a “swindler’s tale, fabricated from A
A surprise loser in Michigan was three-term Rep. Mark D. Siljander, upset in the Republican primary by Fred Upton, one-time aide to David A. Stockman when he represented the district in the House. William Lucas, the Wayne County official whose conversion to the GOP was hailed last year by President Reagan, defeated three rivals Tuesday in the Michigan gubernatorial primary. Bidding to become the nation’s first elected black governor, Lucas was receiving 44 percent of the vote to outdistance Richard Chrysler, a businessman who spent nearly $3 million of his own money. Vice President George Bush, Rep.
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toZ.” Uniformed military patrols of the Soviet Union and the three Western Allies Britain, France and the United States may pass freely between the divided city’s Eastern and Western zones under the terms of post-World War II occupation agreements.
Jack Kemp of New York and the Rev. Pat Robertson were watching the slow tally of votes in the election of thousands of Republican precinct delegates in Michigan, the first step in a process that will determine the makeup of the state’s delegation to the 1988 GOP National Convention. Results of the contests may not be known for days but that didn’t stop all three camps from declaring how pleased they were. “The vice president’s support is a mile wide and a mile high here,” said Rich Galen of Bush’s Fund For America’s Future. But W. Clark Durant, spokesman for Kemp’s Michigan Opportunity Society, said Bush did not do as well
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Trial of alleged mercenaries goes to jury Thursday
ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) The jury in the trial of an Indiana Reformatory inmate and eight men accused of plotting to free him during a violent courtroom takeover will likely begin deliberations on Thursday, the judge in the case says. The defendant accused of helping inmate Roger Jaske recruit gunmen for the plot, meanwhile, testified that he at one point became concerned that people might be hurt when the men stormed the courtroom. Richard D. Alery, 28, of Anoka, Minn., is accused of helping direct the plot to free Jaske during the inmate’s March trial in a Madison County courtroom on an unrelated manslaughter charge. Alery took the stand Tuesday at the conclusion of the defense’s one-and-a-half day case. The jurors also heard from Robert E. Underwood, 25, of Greenville, Texas. Alery was asked at what point he became concerned that someone could be hurt in the escape. He said that in the fall of 1985 he received plans that mentioned taking hostages. “I told Roger (Jaske) I didn’t like that idea,” Alery testified. “He assured me that it (taking hostages) wouldn’t happen.” As the March date for Jaske’s manslaughter trial neared, Alery said, he noticed that Jaske began talking about possibly shooting people during the escape and taking
as expected. In lowa City, lowa, Robertson said he was “enormously encouraged.” ‘“The reason that I am encouraged is because No. 1, the evangelicals in Michigan got into the political process with great gusto,” he said. Blanchard received more than 93 percent of the Democratic primary vote against a follower of political extremist Lyndon Laßouche. The Siljander-Upton contest was dominated by a controversy over a tape recording on which Siljander, who won a special election to succeed Stockman in 1981, asked local ministers for support to help “break the back of Satan.”
Schroeder stabilizes
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The family of the world’s longest-living artificial-heart recipient, William J. Schroeder, has been called to his bedside as Schroeder has taken a turn for the worse, a hospital spokeswoman said. Schroeder’s condition stabilized Tuesday night after deteriorating sharply earlier in the day, said Donna Hazle, spokeswoman for Humana Hospital-Audubon. Schroeder’s family was called to the hospital Tuesday morning and planned to spend the night there, Ms. Hazle and family members said.
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hostages. “I had some doubts (then),” Alery testified. The men were arrested the weekend of March 2-3 as they arrived at an Anderson motel. Police confiscated military-style, semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, pistols and knives from members of the group. The inmate’s plans called for the men, described as mercenaries by police, to take thrg a life sentence for murder when he recruited the men through an advertisement in Soldier of Fortune magazine. During his testimony on Tuesday, Underwood said he thought he was being hired for a job outside the United States, possibly having something to do with the sister of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Underwood said he thought the ad mentioned that a battalion of mercenaries was being formed. “I didn’t know any place in the U.S. that could use a battalion, so I figured we was just going overseas,” he said. “I figured we were just going overseas and were going to need the firepower,” the defendant said, explaining why he brought an array of handguns and rifles to Anderson. The defense has maintained throughout the trial that the men arrived at an Anderson motel without knowing what they had been hired for.
Upton said the message unfairly equated him with Satan. Conceding defeat, Siljander said, “The tape did it. That’s just the way it goes.” Missouri also held primaries and former Republican Gov. Christopher Bond and Democratic Lt. Gov. Harriett Woods brushed aside opponents and resumed attacking each other in the battle to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Thomas Eagleton. Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden topped a field of seven Republicans and will run against Lt. Gov. Tom Docking to determine who succeeds Democratic Gov. John Carlin. Docking is the son and grandson of former governors.
“We don’t know for sure what’s happened, we just know that it is serious and that it was important for them to come to the hospital,” said Patti Schroeder, the artificial-heart recipient’s daughter-in-law. The family of the 54-year-old Jasper, Ind., man asked hospital officials not to release detailed information about his health. Ms. Hazle did say it is rare for family members to be summoned as they were Tuesday. “The only times they’ve been called in is during emergency situations like the strokes,” she said.