Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 January 1987 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC, January 23.1987

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State officials kills self with revolver at press conference

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania’s treasurer shot himself to death at a crowded news conference after saying he was wrongly convicted of bribery and that the judge who was to sentence him today imposed “medieval sentences.” R. Budd Dwyer pulled a highpowered revolver from a manila envelope Thursday morning and waved off frantic onlookers in his office, some of them screaming “No! No! Budd, don’t do this!” About two dozen horrified reporters, photographers and aides watched as the 47-year-old Republican put the gun barrel into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Cameras recorded the act. Dwyer died instantly, said Dauphin County Coroner William Bush. The state attorney general had ruled Wednesday that Dwyer would lose his job after being sentenced for awarding a state computer contract in return for a promised $300,000 payoff. No money changed hands. Dwyer, who was to have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Malcolm Muir, had faced up to 55 years in prison and a $305,000 fine on 11 counts. “I’ve repeatedly said that I’m not going to resign as state Treasurer,” Dwyer said in a suicide note released after his death. ‘P ease tell my story on every and television station and in every newspaper and magazine in the U. 5.... Please make sure that the

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sacrifice of my life is not in vain.” Dwyer purchased the .357-caliber Magnum revolver in 1982 and had it properly registered, state police said. Rob Dwyer, 21, said his father had given no indication of what he intended to do. “We’re pretty broken up,” he said, his voice breaking during a telephone interview. He said he heard the news at home with his mother, Joanne, 47, and sister, Dyan, 18. Mrs. Dwyer, her eyes swollen from crying, talked briefly with reporters at the door of the family’s Hershey home. She said only that she was sorry about what had happened. Before pulling the gun, Dwyer read for more than 20 minutes from a statement proclaiming his innocence and criticizing the news media, the federal attorney who prosecuted him and Muir, who he said had a history of imposing stiff sentences. When he took the gun out of the envelope, several reporters pleaded with him not to do anything. Dwyer waved off someone who appeared to move toward him. “No,” he said. “This will hurt someone.” Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Fred Cusick, who was sitting on the floor at the front of the room, said: “I should have run and grabbed him when he pulled out the envelope. I knew that was it.”

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'Classic Nor'easter' paralyzes Atlantic

By The Associated Press A paralyzing blizzard blamed for at least nine deaths hammered New England early today as plows and road-sanders moved up and down the snowed-in Atlantic Coast to clear blocked roads and open airports. “It’s a classic Nor’easter,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Thomas in Albany, N.Y. “On the way it buries everybody.” Wind-whipped snow lashed New York state and New England early today as blizzard warnings issued by the weather service remained in effect over much of Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut. Wind gusts up to 76 mph were

NewW-4's to the rescue WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service has been told to consider designing a simpler W-4 form for workers to calculate the proper income tax withholdings from paychecks following widespread complaints that the new form is too complicated. The IRS already has mailed out about 300 million of the four-page documents, which are designed to help taxpayers adjust their 1987 paycheck withholdings to square with the tax law revisions passed by Congress last year. But Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 111 said Thursday the current form and the lengthy worksheet that it includes for calculating the scores of changes in deductions and tax rates that Congress made is “entirely too complicated.” “I have asked that there be a review of the W-4 form with a view toward changing it, seeing if we can simplify it,” Baker told the House Budget Committee. “We’re going to ... see if we can’t come up with a better form,” he said.

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clocked late Thursday at Chatham, Mass. “They still have the brunt of the storm to bear,” said Paul Fike, of the weather service’s Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Mo. The forecast called for up to 2 feet of snow over inland New England. Winter storm warnings also were posted from Pennsylvania and New Jersey into New York state and much of New England. “We’re concerned that the temperature is going to drop and we’re going have the whole metropolitan area turn into an ice-skating rink,” said Boston police Lt. Gerald Burke. The storm, which brewed in the Gulf of Mexico

Panel probes foreign policy 'seriously out of control'

WASHINGTON (AP) A special Senate panel will expand its investigation of the Iran-Contra affair following State Department acknowledgement that the Reagan admnistration continued secret contacts with Iran as recently as last month. Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said the fact that State Department and CIA officials were meeting with Iranian representatives a month after the disclosure that arms sale profits were diverted to Nicaraguan rebels indicates that President Reagan’s foreign policy is seriously out of control. State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said Thursday Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz consider Iran a strategic country and believe the United States has a “legitimate interest” in better relations with Iran. But the U.S. official i iicated the talks were broken off in December. “We will'not discuss further arms shipments with Iran,” he said. “And we are exerting all our influence to discourage arms sales to Iran by other countries.” Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of a select committee probing the Iran-Contra affair, said he will expand the investigation to include the disclosure. He said he “had no inkling” of the contacts between U.S. and Iranian representatives in December, and added that “nothing surprises me.” On Wednesday, Shultz told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter assured him last May that the United States was not providing weapons to

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JOHN POINDEXTER 'Assured' Shultz

Iran to try to gain the release of American hostages, according to an informed source. Poindexter, who was then President Reagan’s assistant for national security affairs, told Shultz “it wasn’t so” and Donald T. Regan, the president’s chief of staff, said he was alarmed and concerned about reports of a deal, the source, who requested anonymity, said Thursday. Actually, the U.S. weapons shipments had begun in February, three months earlier, while Israel had sent arms to Iran in September and November 1985, with the Reagan administration committed to replenishing Israel’s armories. Shultz testified he had been alerted by a cable from Charles H. Price 11,

Military 'overreacted'in shooting Philippine farmers

MANILA, Philippines (AP) The military said today troops “overreacted” when they fired on militant farmers marching toward the presidential palace, killing at least 12 and wounding 94. Leftists denounced the shooting and threatened more protests. The regional military commander for central Luzon, Brig. Gen. Eugenio Ocampo Jr., placed troops in the six provinces north of Manila on full alert against “disgruntled elements of the military and unscrupulous civilians” who may try “to destabilize the present government.” The clash Thursday on Mendiola Bridge about 300 yards from the palace was the bloodiest street battle since President Corazon Aquino took office Feb. 25 following a near bloodless people’s revolt that toppled President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The government said 12 people were killed and 54 others remain hospitalized, most with gunshot wounds. Hospitals had the same

In parts of the Eastern United States and Canada, this may be the best mode of travel today. A blizzard that dumped two feet of snow, powered by winds gusting up to 76 mph, has pounded the area. Heavy snows may make travel difficult for some, but not Joan Tysen of Kingston, Ontario, who just turns to “Zeke,” her Alaskan Malamute and orders, "mush." The two were romping in Kingston's Victoria Park. (AP Wirephoto).

and began blanketing Dixie with snow Wednesday night before developing into a blizzard, pounded states from Mississippi to New Hampshire, dumping at least 20 inches in some areas. The storm closed airports, schools, businesses and government offices. As of early today, Dushore, Pa., had 21 inches of snow; Eagles Mere, Pa., 20 inches; Spruce Knob, W.V., 18 inches; 16 inches at Muncy, Pa., Middletown, Vt., and Williamsport, Pa.; 15 inches at LaPorte, Pa.; 13 inches at Albany, N.Y., and Snowshoe, W.Va.; and 12 inches at Cherry Hill, N.J., Pottstown, Pa., Manchester, N.H., and Lewisburg, W.Va.

the U.S. ambassador to Britain, while attending the economic summit meeting in Tokyo May 3-6. He sought out Poindexter and Regan, who also were in the Japanese capital with President Reagan. According to the source, Shultz also testified that Poindexter had informed him in February that the Americans held hostage in Lebanon would be freed soon. The presidential assistant made no mention in the Feb. 28 conversation with Shultz of the fact that U.S. weapons were being shipped to Iran, the source said. Shultz has not commented on the testimony he gave the Committee. But in a session last Friday with reporters at the State Department he indicated his displeasure with Poindexter, who resigned in November when the secret shipments were made public by Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese 111. “I confess, I would have a hard time working with John Poindexter right now,” he said. In other developments: —lntelligence sources, speaking on grounds of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Nicaraguan rebels set up a bank account to handle $lO million in “humanitarian” aid from the sultan of Brunei, but that a senior State Department official instead gave the sultan a Swiss account number controlled by thenWhite House aide Oliver L. North. U.S. officials have said they do not know what happened to that money. North’s Swiss bank account number was supplied by Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for interAmerican affairs, the sources said.

death count, but said 94 people were wounded. Government radio put the death toll at 15, and some newspapers counted 16 dead and 15 others in critical condition with gunshot wounds. An estimated 10,000 protesters, organized by the militant Movement of Philippine Farmers, marched on the palace after holding a rally downtown to demand land reform. Elite Philippine marines guarding the palace following recent coup rumors opened fire when the marchers tried to push through police ranks. The Armed Forces General Headquarters blamed the incident on a “lack of dialogue.” “It was further observed that the peacekeeping forces overreacted to the situation,” the military said in a statement issued today. It said military chief Gen. Fidel V. Ramos ordered commanders to cooperate with a presidential commission investigating the shooting.