Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 246, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 June 1987 — Page 2
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THE BANNER GRAPHIC June 19.1967
Skateboarding has taken on a new dimension. The youngsters call it "wall-riding.” Danny Moulder of Jackson, Miss., illustrates the newest craze on a graffiticovered wall in his hometown recently. Skateboarders roll across an asphalt approach, glide up a plywood ramp and sail across the wall's face, he explained. (AP Wirephoto).
Pentagon reviewing Persian Gulf safety plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon will review its Persian Gulf plans to make sure U.S. servicemen and ships are safe from terrorist attacks in the face of CIA warnings that such strikes are likely, congressional sources say. The reassessment was promised during an informal meeting Thursday between top administration national security officials and a group of senators worried about President Reagan’s plan to protect 11 Kuwaiti tankers starting next month, the sources said.
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“It is clear that the risks are larger than the administration is willing to concede at this point,” said Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., one of the participants in the closed-door, two-hour session. Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “We need to get all the intelligence together. I want to see an integrated analysis of the threat, one that includes not only military risks, but also the capabilities and intentions of carrying out the threats.
Tug o'weary
After 88 days 'Break of Dawn' abandons barge
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In recent days, differences have developed between the CIA and the Pentagon over the threat from Iran. The Pentagon says the risk is low to moderate from direct military-type attacks. But the CIA says the risk is higher because Iran may use a terroriststyle attack such as an explosivesladen speedboat, either against U.S. ships or against oil tankers that won’t be protected by the United States. The controversy surrounds
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Reagan’s plan to put U.S. captains and flags aboard the Kuwaiti ships and have them escorted by Navy ships. Kuwait is an ally of Iraq, leading to congressional fears that the United States may be drawn into the 6M>-year-old Iran-Iraq war, particularly since Iran has threatened to attack the tankers. The worries were heightened by Iraq’s May 17 attack on the Navy frigate USS Stark, in which 37 U.S. seamen were killed. Iraq said the incident was a mistake and U.S. officials agree.
reached an impasse and few officials expect a speedy resolution. Since it left Long Island City, Queens, on March 22, the barge has been spurned by at least six states, two countries and one city, the Big Apple. “Those guys have had their share of New York for a long, long time,” Robert Vosbein, a lawyer who represents Harvey Gulf, said about the tug’s captain, Duffy St. Pierre, his wife, Esther, and the tug’s three crew members.
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Bergland boosting
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —A former U.S. secretary of agriculture says rural electric cooperatives’ efforts to bring new jobs to farm areas could be hurt if an Indiana co-op is denied the chance to serve the SSOO million Subaru-Isuzu factory near Lafayette. Bob Bergland, agriculture secretary from 1977-81 under President Jimmy Carter, testified before the Public Service Commission for three hours Thursday on behalf of Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Cooperative. The 13,000-member co-op is trying to win PSC approval to serve the 869acre plant site, 75 percent of which lies in Tipmont territory. Public Service Indiana, the state’s largest utility with 542,000 customers, serves the other 25 percent of the plant site and wants PSC approval to provide electricity to the entire complex, expected to be complete by 1989. “If this cooperative is denied the opportunity to serve this load because it’s industrial, it tends to discourage other cooperatives from attempting to diversify the economies of their service areas, because they may have reason to
Jury convicts Lee of murder
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) The jury that convicted a man in a dismemberment slaying he detailed in a manuscript three years ago returns today to hear the state’s case for a habitual offender ruling. Robert E. Lee appeared to be trembling as the Monroe Superior Court jury of seven women and five men jury returned the verdict Thursday night after about seven hours of deliberations. Lee, 32, was charged with murder in the September 1986 death of Ellen Sears Marks, 31, a former Indiana University graduate student who was living in a packing crate. Prosecutors linked Lee to the slaying through the manuscript, in which Lee detailed plans for the slaying and dismemberment of a woman. Martha M. Clark, the victim’s sister, was in court and said she, too, was shaken by the verdict. “This is sort of emotional. I think I’m
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Defense minister pleads for Glass
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The defense minister today asked religious leaders and Syrian officials to help free his son and U.S. journalist Charles Glass, whose abduction brought to nine the number of Americans held hostage here. Glass, a 36-year-old Los Angeles native, was kidnapped Wednesday along with Ali Osseiran, the 40-year-old son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran. Their abduntion was disclosed. Thursday. The two men were riding in the younger Osseiran’s chauffeur-driven white Volvo sedan in a suburb of Syrian-policed Moslem west Beirut when 14 gunmen stopped the car, grabbed Glass, beat him and stuffed him into the trunk of another car, police said. They said Osseiran tried to intervene and was also abducted, along with car’s driver. The gunmen, who were traveling in four cars, staged the kidnapping only 350 yards from a Syrian army checkpoint, police said. Adel Osseiran, 79, “stayed up all night on the telephone, urging that no effort be spared to gain the release of the two unharmed,” and won pledges of “unlimited assistance” from commanders of Syria’s peacekeeping contingent in Moslem west Beirut, said an aide to the minister. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity. Among those contacted by Osseiran between Thursday and this morning were Shiite Moslem 1 amin Fadlallah and Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam. They both promised to help find the men. The elder Osseiran’s daughter, Afaf Saidi, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview today: “We’ve made the necessary contacts
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believe that if they do succeed in attracting a business enterprise, they may lose it,” said Bergland, now executive vice president and general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. “We’re trying very hard to create jobs in rural places and this would serve as a precedent,” he said. “Seldom does one of the magnitude of this plant come along.” The commission already has granted PSI temporary authority to provide power during factory construction. The current hearing is being held to determine whether Tipmont, PSI or both will serve the factory on a permanent basis. Subaru-Isuzu wants PSI to serve the plant. The Subaru-Isuzu automobile and truck assembly plant is expected to employ 1,700 workers when it opens in late 1989. A projected second phase of the project would boost total employment to 3,000. Under questioning by PSI attorneys, Bergland conceded that if Tipmont does not serve the factory, the cooperative still would benefit from substantial growth expected near the plant site. Bergland also acknowledged to
relieved.” During closing arguments Thursday, special prosecutor Stanley Levco told jurors Lee, who lived near Marks, planned the murder for three years. “It has to be someone from the neighborhood who knew of Ellen Marks and of her lifestyle, someone who had been thinking about it for a long time and it had to be done by a sexual deviate,” Levco said. Referring to a script for the torture, murder and dismemberment of a girl or woman that was written by Lee in 1983, Levco told jurors, “After reading that letter for five minutes you can tell that Robert Lee is a sexual deviate. You know the same person who wrote that committed the crime.” Defense attorney Clarence Frank argued that the evidence, particularly the manuscript, was not enough to convict Lee. While calling the document a
with all sides but no results have been accomplished so far.” Glass was the first Westerner kidnapped in west Beirut since Syria sent 7,500 troops there Feb. 22 to quell anarchy that erupted after militias wrested control of the Moslem sector from the Lebanese army in February 1984. The Iranian-backed Shiite Moslem Hezbollah, or Party of God, has a base a few yards from the site of the kidnapping. Hezbollah is believed to be an umbrella for several small underground factions that have claimed responsibility for many of the abductions in the past two years. Syria has had about 25,000 soldiers controlling north and east Lebanon since 1976 in addition to the force in west Beirut. Beside Glass, twenty-four other foreigners are missing after being abducted in Lebanon. Glass, who has worked for the ABC television network, was in Beirut researching a book he is writing on the Middle East. In Washington, ABC spokeswoman Elise Adde said Glass was on a leave of absence as a full-time ABC correspondent “but we have retained his services on a free-lance basis.” Glass became the second American journalist held hostage here. Terry A. Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted from a west Beirut street on March 16, 1985. He has been held longer than any other hostage. In addition to the foreign hostages, Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite disappeared in Lebanon in January while trying to negotiate the release of the American captives.
REMC's
Subaru-Isuzu attorneys that REMC electric rates are typically up to 15 percent higher than rates of in-vestor-owned utilities nearby. He said REMC rates are higher because the cooperatives serve rural areas that are less densely populated that many investor-owned utility areas. Earlier in the PSC hearing, an engineer consulting on the SubaruIsuzu project estimated PSI rates would be about $1.17 million cheaper than Tipmont rates during the first five years of plant operation. PSI officials estimate SubaruIsuzu’s electric bill could range from $2 million to $3 million annually. The Subaru-Isuzu plant would constitute about 25 percent of Tipmont’s electric load and generate 25 percent or more of the cooperative’s revenue, Bergland said. Previous witnesses for SubaruIsuzu have argued that Tipmont has no track record of supplying large industrial customers and that it would be unfair for such a large customer to have just one vote among 13,000 votes when Tipmont members decide policy. The association that Bergland directs represents 930 rural cooperatives in 46 states.
“terrible, obnoxious, disgusting piece of garbage,” Frank pointed out that police were aware of the document shortly after it was written, and that Lee was aware they knew. Under such circumstances, it would have been ridiculous for Lee to act out the actions in the manuscript, Frank argued. Co-defense attorney Michael Hunt told the panel, “We don’t know much about this case. We’ve seen a lot of evidence, but it doesn’t mean much. We’ve got five pieces of evidence pointing away from Mr. Lee that are gone, lost. You don’t just lose two tapes, two reports and a master tape in a murder investigation. They were destroyed. Why?” Three felony convictions are needed to prosecute a habitual offender case. Lee’s prior felony convictions include attempted rape in 1974 in New York and attempted theft in 1981 in Owen County.