Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 113, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 January 1989 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 18,1989

Quayle wants America ‘to wait and watch’ him perform in VP’s office

WASHINGTON (AP) With only a few days remaining before he becomes vice president, Dan Quayle has given few clues about how he will carry out his new role, in effect telling Americans to wait and watch. Since the November election, the once-spotlighted Quayle has deliberately kept a low profile while President-elect Bush remained at center stage with personnel and policy pronouncements. UNTIL THE END OF last week, the former Indiana senator eschewed interviews, rebuffing reporters’ attempts to learn what specific goals or projects he has in mind for his vice presidential tenure. His standard reply is that he wants to do Bush’s bidding and become a close adviser to the president. He told The Washington Post, however, in an interview published Sunday, that he plans “crusades” in such areas as education, anti-drug and crime-fighting efforts, that could include personal visits to crime victims, drug users or school dropouts. BOTH QUAYLE AND Bush have said they want to build an easy-access relationship of the type Bush had with President Reagan. Bush met privately with the president once a week and said that was generally the opportunity he used to relay his views and advice. But how much Bush might rely

Three dead in Miami race riot; fires still burn

MIAMI (AP) Rioters set fires and looted stores early today as 700 police officers poured into two black neighborhoods, arresting hundreds in an attempt to halt two days of racial violence in which three people have died. The violence eased toward dawn, enabling police to reduce their presence. THE RIOTS, WHICH began Monday night in the Overtown section following the shooting death of a black motoryclist by a police officer there, spread to the Liberty City neighborhood Tuesday. The violence, which broke out as Miami made final preparations for Sunday’s Super Bowl, forced the cancellation of a National Basketball

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VP-ELECT DAN QUAYLE Still making plans on Quayle’s advice is an open question. His press secretary, David Beckwith, summed up the situation* this way: “Quayle comes to the job with certain strengths but he also comes to learn and to work hard. It’s not like he’s 65 years old and has a wealth of experience across the board like Bush had. On the other hand, he has a certain perspective that I think Bush values.” QUAYLE WILL BE chairman of the National Space Council and wants to spend several hours a week on Capitol Hill, working as

Association game Tuesday night. “Things have quieted a lot since about 2 a.m.,” said police spokesman David Rivero. “We have pulled back some of the blockades.” Rivero said some sections of Overtown’s business district were still closed to traffic at 6:30 a.m., but most roads were open in the mostly residential Liberty City area. TWO FIRES WERE burning in Liberty City at dawn, including a church that was being allowed to bum to the ground, Rivero said. The U.S. Justice Department began an investigation of the cyclist’s shooting, which led to the death of the man’s passenger after the motorcyle crashed. The city

an administration advocate with his former colleagues. The energetic 41-year-old politician also is expected to work with the Republican National Committee, making the rounds of the speaker circuit, raising money and courting supporters. Although a favorite of conservatives, Quayle has said he does not intend to be a mouthpiece for their interests with the more moderate Bush. RNC spokesman Mark Goodin contended that Quayle appeals to a Republican mainstream constituency beyond those who share his conservative ideology. GOODIN NOTED THAT Quayle managed to raise several million dollars for the party through high-roller campaign events after weathering the spate of negative publicity following his nomination. Quayle’s focus in Congress was on national defense, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and on job issues stemming from his co-authorship of job-training legislation. But Quayle spent most of the post-election period selecting his staff and meeting privately with officials and interest groups. Aides reject any notion that the Bush team wanted to keep Quayle under wraps, but say Quayle himself set the low profile during the period when he wanted to establish

also was investigating the shooting. “For the sake of our city, I appeal to every citizen, regardless of race to stay calm, get off the streets and stay in your homes,” said Mayor Xavier Suarez in a televised appeal Tuesday night POLICE, WHO EARLIER had stood by to protect lives and property, took a more assertive role late Tuesday, arresting troublemakers. By early today, 250 arrests had been made, mostly for burglaries, said police Sgt. Michael Mazur. Many were released after posting bond. The VA square mile Overtown section and a small part of Liberty City were cordoned off by police. The decision to sweep through the

his relationship with Bush. “WE’VE BEEN SENSITIVE to not try and handle him,” said Bush transition communications director Dave Demarest. Aides acknowledge that Quayle has an image problem stemming from the post-Republican convention furor over his National Guard service and poor grades in school. Opinion polls have shown that most Americans are doubtful about Quayle’s competence to assume the presidency should anything happen to Bush. Quayle’s image isn’t helped by the jokes perpetuated not only by late-night TV comedians, but by fellow Republicans. One was told recently by a close associate of President Reagan. BUSH PLANS TO ISSUE Quayle bonds, the joke goes. “There’s no principle, no interest and they never mature.” When President Reagan first took office in 1981, he assigned Bush to head a commission on deregulating the government. With that commission’s work mostly finished, Quayle apparently won’t take on anything similar. In his campaign, Bush initially said he would want his vice president to head administration antidrug efforts, but Quayle was edged out of that responsibility by congressional legislation creating a separate cabinet-level “drug czar” post.

areas and make arrests came after sniping incidents increased, police said. In Liberty City, several miles to the northwest, a 16-year-old black youth was killed late Tuesday in a shooting apparently unrelated to the rioting. Metro-Dade police Sgt. John Roper said Troy Robinson was shot to death during an argument over a stolen check-printing marchine. Howard Scippio, 37, of Miami, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. IN OVERTOWN, just north of downtown, two people were shot Tuesday, one of them in the leg by police. Five others were shot in Liberty Gity, including a police officer who was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not seriously injured by sniper fire. A white man in a luxury car fired a gun into a crowd of rock-throw-ing blacks, wounding a 19-year-old man who was hospitalized in fair condition. Gunfire and rock-throwing in the area of Miami Arena, which is in Overtown, forced the postponement of Tuesday night’s NBA game between the Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns. A white motorist whose car broke down was beaten but managed to run toward police for protection, and an Associated Press photographer was roughed up by a mob and his car torched.

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Police stalk clues in wake of school yard shootings

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) Police today were unraveling the steps that turned a young drifter with a long criminal record into a silent killer who opened fire on a schoolyard jammed with laughing children, killing five and wounding 30 before committing suicide. Patrick Edward Purdy, 26, killed himself with a bullet to the head after firing about 60 rounds from a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle at hundreds of youngsters enjoying recess on Tuesday at Cleveland Elementary School. The five slain were children of refugees from Southeast Asia. “I’M SHOCKED. It’s just horrible,” said Purdy’s grandmother, 63-year-old Julia Chumbley of nearby Lodi. “I don’t understand why and I probably won’t ever know why. It troubles me to think that such a terrible thing can happen. It’s like a nightmare. This sort of thing happens to others, not you. Your own grandson.” Purdy, who most recently listed his grandmother’s address as home, began his assault shortly before noon when he parked his station wagon behind the school. The car burst into flames in a fire possibly set as a diversion, said Deputy Police Chief Lucian Neely. THEN THE 5-FOOT-11, 140-pound killer, clad in camouflaged combat fatigues, a flak jacket and earplugs, entered the campus through a hole in a fence with the semi-automatic and two handguns and walked to several portable classrooms about 250 yards from the main, L-shaped building. He opened fire from the west side of the portable buildings, then moved to the east side and continued spraying the screaming children before turning the rifle on himself. In some cases, the bullets went through the walls of the main building and came out the other side to fall spent on the front lawn, Neely said. There was no apparent motive.

Bundy’s execution is set for Tuesday in Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Serial killer Ted Bundy’s death warrant for murdering a girl was signed minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal, and the mayor of the slain child’s town said the execution would prompt celebrations. In signing the warrant, Gov. Bob Martinez set the execution for Jan. 24 for the 1978 rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach, who was abducted in Lake City and was found dead in a pig sty. IT WAS THE FOURTH time the 42-year-old former law student has been scheduled to die in Florida’s electric chair. Bundy, whose case was depicted in the

“HE WAS JUST standing there with a gun, making wide sweeps,” recalled Lori Mackey, who teaches deaf students in one of the portable classrooms at the school about 80 miles southeast of San Francisco. “He was not talking, he was not yelling, he was very straightfaced, it did not look like he was really angry,” she said. “It was just matter-of-factly. “There was mass chaos. There were kids running in every direction.” Purdy, who also was known as Patrick West and Eddie Purdy West, had an “extensive criminal record,” said Neely. Many of the crimes were committed in the Los Angeles area and included soliciting for sex and narcotics and weapons violations, Neely said. AS POLICE cleaned up the carnage, a large handgun and the assault rifle were seen lying on the ground near a pool of blood. Written on the pistol’s handle was the word “Victory.” The letters SSA were printed on the rifle’s clip in letters IVi inches long. The assault rifle Purdy used apparently was purchased in Oregon as a semi-automatic in August, authorities said. THE TORCHED CAR was registered to Patrick E. Purdy, who lived with an aunt and uncle from July through October in Sandy, Ore. “She told me he was a loner and as a child he was an alcoholic,” Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel said of his conversation with the aunt, Julie Michael. Neely identified the dead students as Raphanar Or, 9, a boy; and girls Ram Chun, 8; Thuy Tran, 6, Sokhim An, 6, and Oeun Lim, 8. Pupil Ramon Billedo in described seeing a schoolmate shot “I just saw him fall down,” he said. “His head hit the ground. The teacher grabbed him and dragged him inside the other classroom.”

television miniseries “The Deliberate Stranger,” has come within hours of being executed only to win postponement. His attorneys said after Tuesday’s 7-2 high court decision they would pursue further appeals. Bundy also has also been sentenced to death for killing two women in a Florida State University sorority house in Tallahassee three weeks before Kimberly’s murder. He has been linked to up to 36 sex murders or disappearances of young women, most in Utah, Colorado and Washington state. “JUSTICE HAS BEEN on hold for a decade, and it’s about time Ted Bundy paid for his crimes,” Martinez said. “I have a strong feeling on Tuesday of next week, the state will be able to carry out its duty.” “There’ll be a celebration when he dies,” said Gerald Witt, mayor • of Lake City, a rural town of 11,000 people near the Georgia border. “He has such a terrible criminal record. It’s just impossible to have any sympathy for him.” “I can’t believe it’s finally going to come to an end,” said Eleanore Rose, whose daughter, Denise Naslund, was one of the eight “They keep giving him appeal after appeal after appeal. Now that it (the execution) may happen, I’m in a kind of shock. “It’s not going to bring Denise back. All of us who lost daughters,’ * we’re still going to have all those * unanswered questions.”

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