Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 198, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 April 1989 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 27,1989

Chicago man unhooks son’s life support out of love

CHICAGO (AP) A gunwielding father who tearfully unhooked his comatose son’s lifesupport system and held him until the baby died has been charged with murder for an act he said he committed “because I loved my

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son.” Rudy Linares entered the hospital room of his 16-month-old son, Samuel, and unhooked the boy’s ventilator, holding hospital workers at bay with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun, police said.

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“NO ONE HAS THE right to take the law into his own hands,” said Cook County State’s Attorney Cecil Partee. “The facts of this case clearly dictate the filing of first-de-gree murder charges.” At the hearing Wednesday night, prosecutors said the 23-year-old Cicero house painter should be held without bail on the murder charge because the gun was cocked and Linares had threatened to “kill anybody who interfered.” But Judge Marvin Ruttenberg ordered Linares released on a $75,000 recognizance bond, which means he does not have to put up any money unless he fails to appear at future hearings. The judge told him to return to court today. FOLLOWING Ruttenberg’s order, Linares was taken into custody by police from Cicero on an unrelated December warrant of battery and resisting a police officer.

Chinese students ignore ban, rally for democracy, human rights and history

BEUING (AP) More than 150,000 students and supporters of their pro-democracy campaign burst past a police line today and triumphantly filled Tiananmen Square, defying Communist leaders’ threat of a crackdown. “We have created history today.

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He was released early today after posting SI,OOO at the suburban jail, police said. Linares’ wife, Tamara, joined close relatives and about 20 friends at the hearing. “Nobody has a right to call him a murderer, because Sammy was already dead,” said Linares’ 22-year-old brother, Robert. “He was hurting. Put yourself in his situation. It was his son. “FOR EIGHT MONTHS he went through so much pain and agony. ... This was killing and eating my brother away inside.” “I did it because I loved my son, alright? I love my wife,” Rudy Linares shouted to reporters after his arrest. At 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, Linares ordered hospital staff out of the pediatric intensive care unit at Rush-Presbyterian-SL Luke’s Medical Center, where the boy’s breathing had been sustained on a ventilator since August, police said.

History will not forget us. The people will not forget us,” a student leader shouted through a megaphone to students in the 100acre square, China’s symbolic seat of power. A LINE OF TRUCKS filled with soldiers had circled the square to act as a barricade, but the marchers swarmed onto the trucks. They shouted “Welcome 38th Army,” a<< ’ handed out leaflets to the soldiers explaining their demands foi sweepings changes in China’s autocratic system, including press freedom and accountability of the country’s leaders. The trucks were immobilized by the mob, and within minutes the vast square was turned into a sea of waving white and red student banners and protesters chanted proreform slogans. THE STUDENTS did not try to occupy the square, but continued their march down Changan Boulevard, the capital’s main thoroughfare. Students said they had scored a victory by reaching the square and wanted to continue their march around the city to reach as many people as possible. The Communist Party and Beijing government had on Wednesday issued stem warnings that the student protests, now in their 11th day, are illegal and further street demonstrations wou’d be crushed. But students and a growing hoard of supporters pushed their way through police barriers across half a dozen intersections along the nine-mile route from campuses in northwest Beijing to the center of the city. WHEN THREE truckloads of armed police pulled up at one intersection, they were surrounded by a crowd shouting “People love the people’s police, the people’s police love people.” By the time the students reached the square, more than eight hours after the march began, they were far outnumbered by workers and residents who joined them, and the soldiers who had been guarding the square faded out of sight. Thousands of people had leaned out of windows and cheered as the marchers surged by. Kindergarten children stood at the gate of their school and applauded, and patients wearing bathrobes emerged from a hospital to accept pamphlets the students were handing out. A SEA OF RED and white banners calling for democracy, human

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He then unhooked the boy from the life-support system and sat crying with his son in his arms, police said. LINARES EVENTUALLY allowed nurses to enter and remove three other youngsters. Sgt. William Rooney said the child died about 30 minutes after the incident began. “He never pointed the gun at anyone other than the child,” Rooney said. “He sat there in a chair until the baby had expired, then turned the gun over to the officers.” Linares was “calm at times ... he did a lot of crying,” said Detective Gary Bulava. Later, Mrs. Linares said: “This is the best thing. Sammy is out of his misery.” LINARES HAD unhooked his son’s life support system during a Dec. 30 visit, but staff members reconnected the apparatus, Bulava

rights, and an end to corruption and bureaucracy were visible in the crowd. Students with arms linked sang the national anthem and shouted “Long live democracy.” Others shouted “Down with bureaucracy, down with corruption,” oft-repeated phrases during the past 11 days of demonstrations and class boycotts that have shaken the Communist government. The Beijing city government has declared the protests illegal. On Wednesday, Beijing Communist Party Secretary Li Ximing told a

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said. A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said no charge resulted from the earlier incident because police had not been notified. Rush-Presbyterian spokeswoman Carolyn Reed said Samuel had been brought to the hospital last summer with a blocked windpipe after he swallowed an object, believed to be either a balloon or a small piece of aluminum foil. Oxygen deprivation left him “partially brain dead,” according to Ms. Reed, and the boy had been in a coma since his arrival eight months ago. The Linares family previously had asked about disconnecting the life-support system, but the medical center told them it could not do so without a court order because there still was some sign of brain activity. The family had been scheduled to meet with a lawyer Friday to discuss the matter.

special meeting of 10,000 party officials, “We must firmly stop such riots.” EARLIER, loudspeakers at Beijing University appealed to the students “to think what kind of problems will arise if you leave the university. Think what kind of effect this will have on your family and parents.” The students have called for Premier Li Peng to resign and say .senior leader Deng Xiaoping, 84, is too old to rule. But most say their campaign is not anti-government.