Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 196, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 April 1989 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 25,1969

Takeshita takes blame for Recruit scandal; submits his resignation

TOKYO (AP) Linked to a spreading influence-peddling scandal and immensely unpopular, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced his resignation today but left the timing of his departure and the succession unclear. The Recruit scandal, which has bedeviled Japanese politics for half of Takeshita’s 18-month tenure, leaves Japan in a state of political uncertainty and it appeared possible that an elder politician might become a sort of interim prime minister until the situation is sorted out. THE CANDIDATE mentioned in many news reports today was former Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, whose health was in question he is a diabetic. “I think it should be a young person. It’s time for a young person to be in charge,” said Ito, 75, who chairs the executive council of the governing Liberal Democratic Party. Other powerful figures in the party that has governed Japan since 1955 are as tainted by money from the Recruit Co. as Takeshita, including his rival and party secretary general, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe. “THE RECRUIT question has caused a grave crisis for the nation’s parliamentary democracy,” Takeshita, 65. said in a live nationwide television broadcast after telling the Cabinet of his intention to resign. “I have decided to pull out in or-

Fusion seen as last, greatest energy source

WASHINGTON (AP) The year is 2089 and fusion power plants are energizing the world, bringing the benefits of virtually unlimited electricity to countries everywhere. Earth’s sky is crystalline blue, purged of the gases and gunk that soured the atmosphere above whole continents a century before when fossil fuels were the main energy of civilization. CONCERNS ABOUT the greenhouse effect and problems of acid rain are now only academic curiosities. An atmosphere once choked with the combustion gases of fossil fuels is slowly cleaning itself. And life is returning to lakes and streams that previously were acid-filled. Such is the world that scientists and engineers envision with the advent of fusion, the process by which atoms are fused together to

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NOBORU TAKESHITA: Details are unclear

der to retrieve the public’s trust in politics,” he said. “As the chief executive of government and president of the ruling party, I deeply apologize.” Asked about the succession, he declined to comment, saying “it is not the place of one resigning to express such opinions.” ONCE TAKESHITA resigns, governing party members would choose their next party president, who would in turn become prime minister due to the Liberal Democrats’ majority in both houses of Parliament. His resignation would also mean

release energy. Their visions are not just wishful thinking, but goals that must be achieved, according to some experts, because the age of fossil

“The most likely thing will be fusion. The present projections are that by the year 2040 or 2050, there will be a divergence between the energy required for a growing population and the energy available from fossil fuels, easily obtainable uranium and other sources. “There will be quite a calamity unless something new is ready,” he added. —Harold P. Furth, Princeton University

fuels is expected to start drawing to a close within only a few decades. And when fossil fuels are gone or become impractically expensive, something must be ready to take their place. “THE MOST LIKELY thing will be fusion,” Harold P. Furth, director of the Princeton University plasma physics laboratory. “The present projections are that by the year 2040 or 2050, there will be a divergence between the energy required for a growing population and the energy available from fossil fuels, easily obtainable uranium and other sources. “There will be quite a calamity unless something new is ready,” he added. The “cold fusion” process announced last month by the University of Utah is still controversial and unproven. But Furth and others believe a fusion process based on compressing deuterium plasma and heating it to 100 million degrees can be developed within two decades or less. THOUSANDS OF researchers working at both federal and university laboratories are moving closer and closer to the point where the

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his entire Cabinet’s leaving office. The party leadership also would be expected to resign, news reports said. Prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange surged after the announcement. The Nikkei Stock Average rose 1.34 percent, the year’s third largest one-day gain. TAKESHITA’S APPROVAL rating in a recent poll by Kyodo News Service slumped to 3.9 percent, making him Japan’s most unpopular postwar prime minister. In addition to the scandal, he was hurt by the introduction on April 1 of an unpopular 3 percent sales tax,

fusion fires will ignite and bum, powered by deuterium or hydrogen, chemicals easily extracted from seawater. Most experts believe the fusion

future lies with the high-pressure “hot” process, but they would welcome convincing proof that Utah’s cold, room-temperature fusion works because it possibly could be developed more quickly. Eric Storm, a fusion research project leader at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, said that researchers could have a fusion-fired power plant operating by the year 2020 if the industrial nations of the world would commit the resources. “FUSION IS THE energy source that nature prefers. It’s the one that drives the sun and the stars,” said Storm. “And nature is efficient.” “We could have fusion in just 15 years or so,” said Stephen Dean, president of the Fusion Power Association, a non-profit education foundation, “but the government hasn’t put a high priority on it so it will take 30 years or more.” Dean said an investment by the federal government of $1 billion a year for 15 years would bring fusion power to reality, but he said that isn’t likely to happen “until there’s an economic incentive.” MOST EXPERTS believe there

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a pet project of Takeshita’s accompanied by income tax reductions. And rural voters a bastion of Liberal Democratic strength were disaffected by moves to liberalize agricultural imports. Takeshita said he would leave office after Parliament passes the 1989 budget. But Parliament, or the Diet, has been stalled by a boycott by opposition parties demanding that former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone testify on his link to the scandal. TAKESHITA SAID he would go ahead with a planned nine-day trip to five Southeast Asian nations starting Saturday, indicating he hopes the Diet will pass the budget in early May. The last straw was his acknowledgement that he had received even more money from the Recruit Co. than the more than $1 million in what he called legal political donations that he earlier this month admitted getting. Over the weekend it was reported that he had also received a loan of $381,700 from the informationpublishing giant in 1987. Admitting the reports were true further embarrassed Takeshita. The Recruit scandal broke last summer with revelations that the company had sold cut-price shares in a real estate subsidiary to more than 150 politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and media executives.

will be a slow phase-out of fossil fuels as they become more expensive, and that the 21st century eventually evolve into an all-fusion civilization. Once that time comes, according to scientists’ visions, oil spills will be obscure footnotes in history texts. A fusion-driven world could have automobiles and trucks running on nearly silent electric engines, leaving in their wake only eddies of clean air not the rank clouds that trailed vehicles of an earlier, gasoline-burning age.

Quayle pays respects to Reagan in Calif, before leaving on 12-day tour

LOS ANGELES (AP) Vice President Dan Quayle was headed to Australia today after paying a courtesy call on Ronald Reagan and praising the former president’s support for anti-communist rebels around the world. “President Reagan didn’t just say that freedom works here in America,” Quayle said in remarks late Monday to Citizens for the Republic, a fund-raising group that Reagan organized in 1976. NOTING THAT REAGAN fought for aid to anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, Quayle said the expresident “wasn’t content to sit back and wait for history to do our work for us; he wanted to give history a little nudge now and then.” Nowhere was the so-called “Reagan Doctrine” more successful than in Afghanistan, where Soviet occupation troops withdrew after long-running battles with U.S.-backed rebels, Quayle said. “I believe that the defeat of Soviet forces in Afghanistan is having a profound impact on the evolution of the Soviet political system,” Quayle said. “For in Afghanistan, the central myth of Soviet rule, the myth of the inevitability of Soviet triumph, was shattered.”

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After 20 years in prison, an innocent man hopes to gain his freedom

ARCADIA, Fla. (AP) After more than two decades behind bars for the fatal poisoning of his seven children, new evidence suggests James Richardson didn’t do it. Today, he headed to court hoping a judge will set him free. For months, the once-hearty fruit picker who is now a graying 53-year-old man has been inching toward freedom with evidence suggesting he did not poison his children to collect on a life insurance policy. THE STATE Supreme Court in March appointed retired Circuit Judge Clifton Kelly to hear the appeal. Earlier this month, special prosecutor Janet Reno said the 1968 conviction should be overturned because evidence was withheld and witnesses lied under oath with the prosecutor’s knowledge. Kelly has said he would like to make a decision today. If the ruling were to go in Richardson’s favor, he could be released from prison immediately. The state would then decide whether to have another trial, which may be difficult with a 21-year-old murder case. Richardson’s lawyers believe their client will be free when the hearing ends. ‘THIS COULD BE the happiest day of my life,” said MarlLane, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who has been on the case since he first alleged a frame-up in the 1971 book “Arcadia.” “It’s the reason I went to law school. I love that man.” But the man who put Richardson behind bars sees his possible release as a miscarriage of justice. “I am just as convinced today of the defendant’s guilt as I was 20 years ago,” said former state attorney Frank Schaub, who is suing Lane and attorney Ellis Rubin for alleged defamation of character. DEFENSE LAWYERS claim baby sitter Bessie Reese poisoned the children while

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VP DAN QUAYLE Reagan nudged history

THE FUND-RAISING group also presented Quayle with its “Ronald Reagan Award.” At a 30-minute meeting in Reagan’s office in a skyscraper with an ocean view, Quayle presented the former president with the American flag that had flown over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul until the Soviets invaded the Afghan capital in 1979. The flag was later hoisted May 15, 1988, when the Soviets announced they would leave the

Richardson and his wife, Annie Mae, were working in citrus groves miles away. Reese, who is in her late 60s and is immobile in a nursing home, has confessed to nurses to the 1967 deaths, according to an affidavit from nurses. No charges have been filed against her and prosecutors have said she has become confused. In a 200-page document filed with the court, Schaub, 67, called for the conviction to stand. ‘TO REALLY TRY to understand how a human being could kill those innocent, defenseless little children, we must first realize exactly who and what James Richardson really was, this 32-year-old man who had more than 10 children,” Schaub wrote. He also listed charges that Richardson refused to support his children, refused to work regularly, neglected the children, deserted his first two wives and their children and was arrested for minor crimes. Deputy Attorney General Jim York s?'d Richardson’s character is not the issue. ‘THE QUESTION IS whether he received a fair trial, and everyone deserves a fair trial,” York said. Richardson, a black man convicted by an all-white jury in this southwest Florida farming community, was originally sentenced to death. That sentence was commuted to life in 1972. His lawyers said Richardson was an easy target because he was illiteidte, poor and black. They said prosecutors suppressed evidence that would have shown Richardson had not yet purchased the insurance and that a cellmate of Richardson’s has recanted statements that he heard Richardson confess. Richardson was transferred Sunday from the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach to the county jail in Arcadia so he can attend the hearing.

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