Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 278, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 July 1987 — Page 2
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Nagging 90-degree temperatures are enough to make anyone go to great lengths to cool off. But Janelle Pounds has gone to extremes in New Philadelphia, Ohio, where she rolls along in a large inner tube across a backyard water slide to cool off. Partner Parnel Scalambrino lends a wet hand to keep Janelle rolling. (AP Wirephoto)
Heat wave kills 657 in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Gravediggers worked overtime and tourists plunged into Athens’ fountains as temperatures soared to a high of 113 degrees in the eighth day of a heat wave that has killed 657 people. Forecasters predicted the blistering temperatures would abate today. Most of the 657 dead were elderly Greeks and people with respiratory problems, said city coroner Philippos Koutsaftis. No foreign tourists were reported to have died in the heat wave. As gravediggers worked overtime in the port of Piraeus, an Athens suburb, the coroner’s assistant at the Piraeus morgue said coffins were piling up in the open air. “It’s chaotic here. We’ve only got room for seven bodies in cold storage and we have another 12 waiting outside in the sun ... and the police stations calling us wanting to bring round more,” said the assistant. Elfesina, an industrial suburb 12 miles west of Athens, reported the heat wave’s highest temperature Monday - while the thermometer registered 109 degrees in central Athens, weather bureau officials said. They said, however, that cooler weather had already reached northern Greece and predicted a
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high of 99 degrees for Athens today, normal for late July. The heat wave hadn’t frightened off foreign visitors, tourism officials in Greece said Monday. “We haven’t had any cancellations and the heat wave doesn’t seem to have affected tourists, as the vast majority of them holiday on the islands, where temperatures have been much lower,” said a spokesman for the National Tourist Organization, who spoke on condition of anonymity. In central Athens, American and British tourists stayed cool by taking dips in the squares’ fountains or by remaining in airconditioned hotels. One British tourist, Joanna Galloway, a 20-year-old nanny from London, bathed topless in the fountain in central Omonia Square. “You don’t have any choice,” she said. “This heat’s just crazy.” Ted Isaac, who now lives in Hawaii, said: “This is really hot ... hotter than the dust bowl days of Kansas, where I used to come from. “We went to the island of Sifnos where it wasn’t so hot, but there wasn’t any air-conditioning. So we came to get some cool in an air-conditioned hotel before we go on with our travels,” he said.
L.A. area motorists on edge after latest highway slaying
c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service LOS ANGELES Motorists here, displaying hair-trigger impulses reminiscent of the frontier West, have tangled with each other in a string of highway shootings that have left two people dead and four injured over the past five weeks. The most recent confrontation came Sunday night on the Pacific Coast Highway when the driver of a sports car, angry after an exchange with the driver of a pickup truck, pulled a handgun and fired on the truck’s three occupants. Two suffered minor injuries. A separate shooting the same day, in which two men were shot dead on a San Fernando Valley street, might also have been caused by a traffic dispute, the authorities said, but
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Stark officers won't face court-maritials
WASHINGTON (AP) The captain and weapons officer of the USS Stark will not be court-martialed because they have accepted responsibility for the ship’s failure to defend itself against an Iraqi warplane and agreed to end their naval careers, the Navy says. Adm. Frank B. Kelso, the com-mander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, decided to issue letters of reprimand to Capt. Glenn R. Brindel and Lt. Basil E. Moncrief and forgo courts-martial because nothing further would be gained through legal action, the Navy said Monday. While confirming a military board of inquiry had recommended courtsmartial for the two on charges of dereliction of duty, the Navy said, “Both (men) accepted responsibility and both volunteered significant personal sacrifice in acknowledgement of accountability. Adm. Kelso, after a review of the investigation, felt that it was unlikely that any new facts would be uncovered in a (courtmartial).” Brindel, the Stark’s 43-year-old
they withheld judgment because one of the victims was identified as a gang member. Even so, law-enforcement officials in southern California agree that the nine separate shootings in recent weeks have made it the most violent period on the region’s freeways and highways that they could remember. So far two suspects have been arrested; both have been charged with attempted murder. The shootings come at a time when the rising population of the area has outpaced efforts to solve transportation problems on the region’s crowded highways. But psychologists in the area also blame societal factors. The police department’s chief psychologist. Dr. Martin Reiser, cited increased levels of
Wife lands plane after husband dies
GROTON, Conn. (AP) A woman took a quick lesson in piloting from an air traffic controller to guide a single-engine plane to a bumpy but safe landing as her husband lay dying in the pilot’s seat, authorities said. Francis Mohr, of Baldwin, N.Y., was pronounced dead on arrival at an emergency medical center shortly after his wife, Elizabeth, brought the PA-28 Piper Cherokee to a halt Monday at Groton-new London Airport. The couple departed Groton for Long Island when “about 10 minutes out, she called the tower, saying her husband was in distress, having a heart attack, and she couldn’t land a plane,” said Walter Knof, facility manager for the Federal Aviation Administration. Controller Jerome Tremblay, who is a pilot instructor, got on
skipper, has submitted a request to retire, the Navy said. By taking that step now, Brindel will have to retire with a pension pegged to the rank of commander instead of captain. Moncrief, 32, of Corpus Christi, Texas, th Stark’s tactical action officer, had served only about eight years in the Navy. He submitted a letter of resignation “and will be separated by the Navy,” forfeiting any opportunity to obtain a pension, the service said. Thirty-seven sailors died and 21 were injured when the Stark was struck by two Exocet missiles from the Iraqi plane on the night of May 17 while on routine patrol in the Persian Gulf. Iraq called the attack a mistake, an explanation the United States accepted. The Pentagon has said the attack occurred without the Stark taking any defensive action, in part because the Iraqi warplane was “presumed friendly.” Nonetheless, the ship’s failure to take standard defensive precautions became the central focus of the military inquiry.
violent crime across the nation, a self-centered attitude with roots in the 60s, the prevalence of violence in movies and on television, and even the breakdown of the family. “It comes in the context of the changes we’ve seen in our value systems over the last 15 or 20 years, ” Reiser said. “People are more selfcentered, narcissistically oriented. The attitude is, if it feels good, let’s do it, my needs come first and if that conflicts with society, that’s too bad.” The California Highway Patrol, which is responsible for policing the state’s freeways and highways, said the violence was unprecedented. “In my 15 years on the force, I don’t ever recall hearing about anything like this,” said a
the radio and instructed the woman, 62, how to turn the plane around, lined her up with the runway and guided her landing, officials said. “The controller managed to give confidence to the non-active pilot to find her way around the cockpit and to the airport,” said Ted Crosby, a pilot who was at the airport and heard Tremblay’s instructions. Airport manager Richard Pealer said winds blew the plane off the runway as it landed, causing it to hit two other parked aircraft. Pealer said Mohr was 65 and would have celebrated his 66th birthday today. Pealer said the Mohrs had flown to Groton from Farmingdale, N.Y., to have breakfast and were on their return flight when Mohr was stricken.
Meese defends own inquiry of Iran-Contra affair
WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 today defended the preliminary IranContra inquiry he conducted for President Reagan last fall, telling congressional investigators there was initially “no hint that criminal activity was in any way implicated.” Testifying under oath and without immunity at nationally televised hearings, Meese also said “my own counsel” was to support the secret sale of arms to Iran when his opinion was asked in January 1986. He said he advised the president it was legal to withhold notification of Congress for a brief period. “There was no one” among Reagan’s senior advisers who recommended that Congress be told immediately, Meese recalled. Meese was the second Cabinet officer to appear before the House and Senate investigating committees at hearings that entered the 11th week today. The attorney general sat alone at the witness table while several aides occupied seats one row behind him. Meese began by reading a 17-page written statement in which he stressed his “limited role in the events” until last November. He said he began his inquiry “plain and simple” to find out what the facts were and to report back to the president. “Indeed, on Nov. 21, 1986, there was no hint that criminal activity was in any way implicated in the Iranian arms transactions,” he said. Questioning of Meese was led by House committee counsel John Nields, who began by asking the attorney general whether he had any knowlege that the Israelis had sold American-made weapons to Iran in the summer and fall of 1985. As he has many times before, Meese said he was unaware of those shipments until November 1986. Nields led Meese through a long recitation of events and meetings leading to the attorney general’s disclosure on Nov. 25 that proceeds of the arms sales had been diverted to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Among the disclosures, Meese: Said he personally telephoned former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter after Reagan’s news conference last Nov. 19 to express concern that several of the president’s answers at the session were incorrect. He said Poindexter assured him that a “correction or a clarification” had been issued. Described attending a session the following day in Poindexter’s office at which White House aide
spokesman, Sergeant Mark Lunn, “and neither do the older guys. ’ ’ What has turned into a wave of violence began June 18 with a shooting incident on the Antelope Valley Freeway north of Los Angeles in which no one was injured. Two days later Rich Lase Bynum was shot and killed on the Santa Ana Freeway in suburban Santa Fe Springs by a gunman who apparently was angered that Bynum’s girlfriend, who was driving, did not pull over quickly enough to let him pass, according to the police. In another of the most serious incidents, Paul Gary Nussbaum, 28 years old, of the affluent Rolling Hills Estates community was shot in the neck while driving in heavy traffic on the Newport-Costa Mesa
Fourth-grader's essay, note reveal abuse by parents
PEORIA, 111. (AP) A fourthgrader’s essay on three wishes shocked her teacher with its revelation of a family torn by child abuse and resulted in jail terms for the parents. “She wished that her mother would stop beating her,” said the teacher, a 20-6 ear classroom veteran who spoke Monday on condition she not be identified. “She wished she could go to a foster home. It was definitely a shock to me.” In March, a week after their 9-year-old daughter turned in her essay, Roosevelt and Ruby Craine were charged with cruelty to children. They were accused of abusing the three oldest of their five children, ages 2 to 13. Mrs. Craine, 31, pleaded guilty to two counts and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Her husband, 29, pleaded guilty to one count and also received 30 days. The Craines’ attorney, Gerald Brady, said the couple believed they were disciplining their children, not
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EDWIN MEESE 111 Denies cover-up bid
Oliver L. North proposed having Poindexter and former CIA Director William Casey tell Congress the next day that “no one in the U.S. government” knew in November 1985 that an Israeli shipment to Iran contained U.S.-made missiles instead of oil-drilling equipment. That statement was false and some officials present knew it but Meese said he was unaware. Secretary of State George P. Shultz testified last week that Poindexter and Casey were engaged in an effort during this period to hide the true facts of the Iran-Contra affair. Shultz said those two sought to have Reagan make misleading statements to bail them out of difficulty with a policy that was becoming unraveled. In his statement, Meese said the entire policy of secret arms sales was made known within the Reagan administration on a “need-to-know” basis. “Indeed, I was not even kept advised” after the White House meeting with Reagan and his advisers on Jan. 7,1986, when the arms sales were discussed, he said. Poindexter and Casey “favored the initiative; Secretary Shultz and Secretary Weinberger opposed it,” Meese said, referring to the meeting in Reagan’s office where Meese said he first learned details of the arms-for-hostages plan. “My own counsel was that, while very close, the benefits seemed to outweigh the risks,” he said. As for not telling Congress right away, “I had the impression that a time frame of 30 to 60 days was contemplated and that the risks were, therefore, short-term.”
Freeway. Nussbaum was critically injured and partially paralyzed. Albert Carroll Morgan, 32, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder. Another killing occurred last Friday when Russell J. Pirrone, 17, was shot to in Pomona after he exited the Pomona Freeway onto another highway, pulling in front of a pickup truck. Reiser said that urged drivers to use safer ways of coping with frustrations on the road. “The average driver uses the whiteknuckle syndrome, ” he said. “They grip the wheel, gnash their teeth, even scream, if the windows are rolled up, to blow off steam. Nobody gets hurt. That’s in the normal range of dealing with frustration. ”
abusing them. Their children have been placed in foster homes and a hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 6, when a juvenile court judge will decide whether they can return home, said Assistant Ftate’s Attorney Kevin Eack. Trouble in the family first was reported when the 9-year-old wrote a note to a classmate describing abuse at home. The note ended up in the hands of the teacher, who turned the allegations over to child-welfare authorities in late January. The teacher said she believed the problems had cleared up after the state cited the Craines for neglect and took protective custody of the girl and her siblings for 48 hours before returning them to the Craine home. Then in March, the 9-year-old and her 28 classmates at Harrison Grade School were asked to write an essay on how they would use three wishes.