Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 258, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 July 1987 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 3,1987

Officer in trouble over fireworks

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) Discovery of unapproved fireworks in his home has triggered the suspension of a Michigan City policeman, authorities said. Deputy State Fire Marshal Stan Gibson said police searched the home of Patrolman John Carpenter after undercover officers bought unapproved fireworks at a fireworks stand operated by Carpenter at U.S. 20. About 48 cases were found in his home, officials said Thursday. Carpenter was suspended with pay. Unapproved fireworks include those that explode or fly uncontrollably through the air. Indiana law prohibits retail sale or use of any fireworks device that explodes, flies through the air or flies uncontrollably on the ground. The law allows resident licensed fireworks wholesalers to sell such items to people who sign affidavits saying they won’t use them in Indiana and will remove them from the state within five days of purchase. No charges have been filed against Carpenter. Capt. James Mann, acting Michigan City police chief, said Car-

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penter was relieved of his duties pending determination of his guilt or innocence. He will continue to be paid unless further disciplinary measures are taken, Mann said. Carpenter is on vacation and not scheduled to return to work until July 12. Mann said Thursday that to avoid questions of possible coverup when a Michigan City patrolman is accused of wrongdoing, the department contacts outside sources to investigate. Mann said state police were asked to handle the Carpenter case. State police investigator William Krueger said his office would consult with the LaPorte County prosecutor early next week about possible charges. Prosecutor Walter Chapala said sale and possession of unapproved fireworks .devices are Class A misdemeanors, punishable by a maximum fine of $5,000 and one year in prison. Gibson said state officials have seized about four tons of unapproved fireworks this year, and they expect to seize that much more before the end of summer.

Challenger tapes targeted

Govt, appeals decision

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The federal government has appealed a court decision that would require it to release a tape recording of the astronauts’ voices aboard the space shuttle Challenger before it disintegrated. The Justice Department has also asked the Federal District Court here to delay a previous order that the tape must be released, pending completion of the appeal process. The tape contains conversations among the astronauts during the short, disastrous flight of the

Reagan to speak at Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) President Reagan is expected to address the National Association of Counties during its annual convention in Indianapolis July 13, according to representatives of the organization. On Thursday, G. Thomas Goodman, media relations coordinator for NACO in Washington, D.C., said the White House informed the group the president plans to speak to the convention. The White House would not confirm the visit. Richard J. Cockrum, executive director of the Indiana Association of Counties, said Reagan is expected to speak during an 11 a.m. meeting at the Indiana Convention Center. The four-day convention, which begins July 11, will draw more than 4,000 delegates, the NACO has announced. Already scheduled to speak at the conference are presidential

Challenger in January 1986. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released what it said was a verbatim transcript of the tape, but The New York Times sued last October seeking the release of the tape itself under the Freedom of Information Act. NASA argued that the tape should be withheld under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act that are designed to protect personnel records or “similar files” whose disclosure would constitute an “unwarranted invasion of privacy” for the astronauts and their families.

Marine faces hearing for Soviet contact

WASHINGTON (AP) Another Marine who once was a security guard at the US. Embassy in Moscow is facing charges, this time for allegedly failing to report contacts with Soviets, copying classified documents and dealing on the black market. Kenneth J. Kelliher, 32, of Hinsdale, 111., was not charged with espionage, the Pentagon said Thursday. But he faces a hearing Monday at the Marine Security Guard Battalion at Quantico, Va., to review the charges against him stemming from his tour of duty at the U.S. embassies in Moscow and Bern, Switzerland,

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hopefuls Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois, Sen. Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee and former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig. Dukakis, Simon and Gore are Democrats. Haig is seeking the Republican nomiation for president. State Republican Chairman Gordon K. Durnil said Reagan’s staff has been studying a presidential visit either to the NACO convention or to the bicentennial celebration of the Northwest Ordinance at Vincennes July 13. He said he had not received confirmation that the president would visit the state. Durnil said he was certain Reagan would not visit both Indianapolis and Vincennes. Durnil noted there has not been the usual pre-advance or Secret Service activity that normally precedes a presidential visit.

The Times argued that background noises and other sounds on the tape could prove crucial to understanding the course of the accident and possible safety provisions to prevent a recurrence. The Times said such information outweighed any right to privacy the families of the astronauts might have. / On June 2 a federal district judge here ruled that NASA must release the tape because it did not qualify for withholding under the act. The court directed NASA to provide the tape to The Times within 30 days.

the Pentagon said. The investigation against Kelliher continues, it said, and he is “not confined or on restriction.” While Kelliher is not technically under arrest, said Marine spokeswoman Maj. Kathy Robbes, the hearing against him is the military equivalent of a grand jury and could lead to a court-martial. Kelliher’s Moscow assignment overlapped with those of three other Marines who have been under investigation: Staff Sgt. Robert S. Stufflebeam, Sgt. Clayton Lonetree and Cpl. Arnold Bracy. Kelliher was assigned to the Moscow embassy from September

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Aliens expire 'little at a time'

By JENNIFER DIXON Associated Press Writer SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) Eighteen illegal aliens trapped in a locked steel-walled boxcar “started to get crazy” and fought each other in 130-degree heat as they died “little by little,” the lone survivor says. Border Patrol agents on a routine inspection of a freight train near this city 87 miles east of El Paso found the bodies some with their tongues chewed inside the bloodsplattered boxcar. The car had been locked from the outside, apparently by the smuggler who brought the 19 into the country, and was littered with a bag of animal crackers, six cans of com, bags of toiletries and six empty jugs, the officers said. The men, ranging in age from about 21 to 35, had clawed at the wood-lined door as the temperature rose as high as 130 degrees, according to Border Patrol agent Stanley Saathoff. The aliens had boarded the train late Wednesday afternoon at El Paso, authorities said. The only person found alive inside the car Thursday, Miguel Tostado Rodriguez, 21, of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, survived by breathing through an opening punched in the floor of the boxcar with a railroad spike, Saathoff said. “People started dying little by little, little by little,” Tostado said. “They started fighting with each other because they were desperate to breathe and (for) water,” he said. “They didn’t have any water. So they started to get crazy and fight each other. They didn’t have any oxygen so they started fighting each other.” Tostado spent the night at an illegal alien detention center in El Paso, and was to undergo further questioning today, the Border Patrol said.

1984 to March 1986, and to the Bern, Switzerland, embassy from March 1986 to March 1987. He went to Quantico on a routine reassignment in April, the Pentagon said. Lonetree, 25, who faces espionage charges, was in Moscow from Sept. 27,1984 until March 10,1986. Bracy, 21, against whom all charges have been dropped, was in Moscow from July 26,1985 until Sept. 18,1986. Stufflebeam, 25, has been charged with failing to report his contacts with Soviet women. While in Moscow, the charges said,

Stark crew tested during Iraqi attack?

SAN DIEGO (AP) The USS Stark’s crew was conducting a demanding test of the ship’s engines at the time of the Iraqi missile attack, putting the frigate in a state of reduced alert, a newspaper reported today. The test, ordinarily performed in peaceful waters, was conducted seven weeks ago while the Stark was patroling the war-torn Persian Gulf, The San Diego Union said, quoting Navy sources it did not identify. Navy spokesmen refused to comment on the possibility, the newspaper said. “It’s unbelieveable that the commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet surface forces had the Stark scheduled for a propulsion exam, while they were near or inside the Persian Gulf, but that’s what they were doing,” an unidentified admiral in Washington told the newspaper. Thirty-seven men were killed May 17 when the frigate was hit by two missiles fired by an Iraqi warplane

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Tostado said that in desperation the men tried to get air by jabbing the spike into the floorboard, but that it was much too late for the rest of them. “We all took turns, but as the water ran out, the others lost strength,” he said. “With the darkness inside, I couldn’t tell about the others,” he said. “I thought some of them would be alive, but when the doors were opened, they were all dead.” Two of the dead apparently were part of a smuggling ring and were guiding the others to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for S4OO to SSOO per person, said Hudspeth County Sheriff Dick Love. “We do know someone had to close the door and lock it, and we know it had to be a smuggler,” said Michael G. Wheat, an attorney for the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector. The boxcar was of a type “that once the door is closed, it automatically locks. You cannot open it from the inside. Whoever closed that door knew that,” said Border Patrol agent M.S. Dudley. Some of the men had been dead for several hours when the gruesome discovery was made a17:20 a. m., six miles east of this town of 700 people, said Wheat. Tostado told investigators others were breathing up to an hour or two before, the attorney said. “As the heat grew in the boxcar, they began to shed clothing; some went into convulsions and bled. It was very messy ... and most don’t have identification,” Wheat said. Saathoff said he decided to inspect the boxcar after noticing one of the doors lacked a seal. “I could hear Miguel’s pleas for help: ‘Please help us. We need help,”’ Saathoff said. “I opened the door and saw Miguel standing at the end of the door he was very wet, in his underwear, crying some, visibly shook.”

Kelliher failed to report contacts with “Oleg”, “Sasha” and “Ina,” identified only as “citizens of a communist controlled country.” It was not clear whether Sasha was the same as “Uncle Sasha,” or Alexei G. Yefimov, identified as Lonetree’s alleged KGB handler. Sasha is a nickname that is as common in Russia as Jim or Joe are in the United States. Kelliher also is charged with engaging in blackmarket currency and goods transactions with Anna Novikoff during his stay in Moscow, but officials did not identify her further.

in what was called a case of mistaken identity. The full-power engine drill, administered by fleet commanders every 18 months, is the primary measure of a ship’s ability to function. The ship’s commander, Capt. Glenn Brindel, decided to conduct the test in the gulf, the newspaper said, quoting an unidentified source knowledgeable about the Navy inquiry into the attack. Brindel and two other officers were relieved of duty after the attack. Under Navy policy, such tests should be performed on the voyage to its home port. The test is usually done when the ship is out of dangerous military situations, officials said. The drill could have consumed the crew’s attention because it tests sailors’ knowledge and proficiency, a Navy source told The San Diego Union.