12—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1978
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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richard, accompanied by pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of possession of heroin,
the Stones' executive secretary Jane Rose, grins optimis- and is due to return Tuesday for sentencing.
tically while leaving a Toronto court yesterday. Richard
Richard confesses heroin use
TORONTO (UPI) Rolling Stones
guitarist Keith Richard pleaded
guilty to possession of heroin
yesterday and prosecutors im
mediately withdrew the more serious
charge of drug trafficking that could
have sent him to jail for life.
County court judge Lloyd Graburn
said he would pass sentence today.
The maximum penalty for simple
possession is seven years im
prisonment, but the prosecution
sought a sentence of six months to one
year.
The 34-year-old founding member
of the British rock group surprised
about 80 spectators in the.courtroom
by pleading guilty to the reduced
charge.
Looking neat in a beige, three-piece
suit, Richard stood in the prisoner's
dock and nodded his head when
Graburn asked him if he would admit
owning nearly one ounce of heroin
police took from his hotel room 20
months ago.
The lanky, ashen-faced musician
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had been charged with possessing
heroin for the purpose of trafficking,
which could have brought a life
sentence.
The guilty plea to the lesser charge
came after a pre-trial bargaining
session with crown attorney Paul
Kennedy, who agreed to accept the
plea. The prosecution also dropped a
charge of cocaine possession.
Kennedy said the cocaine count
was dropped because "my evidence
was stronger on the heroin charge.
The documents showed the heroin
was for his own use, and I accepted
that."
Defense attorney Austin Cooper
submitted documents from a New
York psychiatric clinic stating
Richard was undergoing treatment
for heroin addiction, but had kicked
the habit now.
Calling Richard "a special person
with emotional dislocations," Cooper
said Richard had used heroin since
1967 because he was "a creative,
truly tortured person who used heroin
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to prop up a rather sagging existence
and he had a poor self-image
trouble relating to people."
Kennedy told the court the Stones
played music telling young people "of
the benefits of using drugs," and
urged Graburn to impose a sentence
of six to 12 months.
The charges stem from a search
made when the British band arrived
in Toronto February 24, 1977, to
record an album. Customs officers at
Toronto International Airport found
about 10 grams of hashish in the
purse of Anita Pallenberg, Richard's
common-law wife of 10 years.
Three days later Royal Mounted
Police raided a hotel suite Richard
shared with Pallenberg. While the
musician slept, they seized 22 grams
of poor quality "street" heroin, about
five grams of cocaine and a brass
cigaret lighter and switchblade knife
bearing traces of heroin.
Pallenberg was charged with
possession of hashish and the heroin
traces on the knife.
China and Japan sign
historic friendship treaty
TOKYO (UPI) China and Japan
signed a historic peace and friendship
treaty yesterday and Chinese Vice
Premier Teng Hsiao-ping told Emperor
Hirohito his country would now "let
bygones be bygones."
The Chinese vice-premier and
Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda
smiled as their foreign ministers signed
the treaty ratification papers in a simple
ceremony at Fukuda's official
residence.
Then the champagne flowed and Teng,,
who masterminded the pact, gleefully
shouted the traditional Japanese toast:
"Kampai!"
The 10-year treaty is designed to end
three decades of mistrust between
Asia's two giants as a result of Japan's
attempt to conquer China during World
War 11.
Pilot who saw UFO is missing
MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) The Australian Air
Force yesterday launched a, renewed search for a pilot who
radioed that a UFO with four green lights was pursuing his
plane and "playing some sort of game."
"It isn't an aircraft. It's . . . " Frederick Valentich radioed
an Australian control tower. Moments later the transmission
was cut off and nothing more was heard from him or his single
engine Cessna 182
The air force ordered a full-scale search for the missing
plane and its lone occupant, whose last known position was
over the Bass Strait, 130 miles south of Melbourne. .
Rescue planes sighted an oil slick about 18 miles north of
King Island, but officials said it was not made by a light air
craft.
One official theorized that Valentich may have become
disoriented Saturday evening, flown upside down and
mistaken reflections against the clouds for the lights of a flying
saucer.
Valentich's father'said his son has been interested in UFOs
for many years, and reported sighting one about 10 months
ago.
Transport Department spokesman Kenneth Williams said
The 'Sun' will not be out today
NEW YORK (UPI) The Sun, a new
daily newspaper planned by New York
Post publisher Rupert Murdoch, will not
be out today, as originally announced.
A spokesman for Murdoch said
yesterday no day has been set for the
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It binds the nations not to go to war
and settle all disputes peacefully.
f To the anger of the Soviet Union, it
contains a clause saying that both Japan
and China oppose hegemony China's
code word for Russian aggression by
any nation in Asia.
Already, it has brought brought cries
of condemnation from diehard anti-
Communists and cold, angry silence
from Moscow.
Imperial Household Agency officials
said Teng Was later a guest at a luncheon
given by Hirohito at the moated Im
perial Palace. •
The officials said the 77-year-old
Hirohito welcomed the 74-year-old
visitor and the emperor told Teng,
"there was a temporary unfortunate
event in the long history of relations
between our'two nations."
Hirohito's reference apparently meant
start of publishing for the morning
tabloid.
Murdoch met yesterday with George
McDonald, president of Mailers Union
Local No. 6, one of five unions who want
separate contracts with the Sun before
they start work. Talks were to resume
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Teng today is scheduled to pay a
courtesy call on disgraced former Prime
Minister Kakuei Tanaka in a gesture
that recalled the red carpet welcome
China accorded former President
Richard Nixon in 1976.
Tanaka is now standing trial in
connection with the $l2 million Lockheed:
payoff scandal. As prime minister in'
1972, Tanaka severed relations with -
Taiwan and recognized Peking. •.,
Police mobilized a huge security force:
of 16,000 men each day to protect Teng -
and his entourage. They said about 470:
rightists aboard 88 sound trucks cruised
Tokyo Tuesday blaring, "Down witfi:
Communist China." • .
Valentich radioed Melbourne Flight Service Control Saturday:
evening and reported a UFO was following him at 4,500 feet. -
He'described his pursuer as having "a green light and sort 61,
metallic light on the outside "
Ground control said there was no air traffic in the area below
5,000 feet.
But Valentich disagreed
"It has four bright lights appear to be landing lights.
Aircraft has just passed over me about 1,000 feet above."
"It isn't an aircraft. It's . . . " Then silence.
Two minutes later, Valentich's, voice rasped over the radio'
again
"Melbourne, it's approaching from due east toward me . . .
It seems to be playing some sort of game . . . Flying at a speed
I cannot estimate . . . It is flying past . . . It is a long shape . . ..
Cannot identify more than that . . • coming for me right now.
. . . It seems to be stationary . . . I'm orbiting (circling) and:
the thing is orbiting on top of me also . . . It has a green light
and sort of metallic light on the outside."
Suddenly, Valentich reported his engine was coughing.
Metallic scratching replaced his voice. Then there was no
sound at all. .
Japan's aggression against China that
developed into World War 11.
Teng, in reply, said Peking will let
"bygones be bygones" and try to build
peaceful relations.
today.
Over the weekend, Murdoch said plans
to publish the Sun have been jeopardized
by the "resistance" of the unions, which
also want job security clauses to protect
their members at the Post in case the
afternoon paper should fold.
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