The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 11, 1980
News briefs
U.S. seeks allies commitment
BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI) The
United States sought a commitment
yesterday from its European allies
that Soviet intervention in Poland
would automatically trigger political,
economic and diplomatic sanctions,
U.S. officials said.
"The more agreement we can
reach here, the greater the deter
rence," one senior official said refer
ring to possible sanctions allied
foreign ministers, including
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie,
will discuss today and tomorrow.
Secretary of Defense Harold Brown
warned that a Soviet invasion of
Poland also would spur . the 'arms
race. He was addressing NATO
defense ministers who ended their
two-day meeting by stepping up the
watch on Poland.
The precautionary measures they
adopted included deployment of four
U.S. Airborne Warning and Control
aircraft along the East-West frontier
Lennon fans commit suicide
By United Press International
A 16-year-old Florida girl and a
30-year-old Utah man both despon
dent over the murder of John Lennon
killed themselves in separale in
cidents, authorities said yesterday.
Jean Costello, of Brooksville, Fla.,
said Lennon's death was the "straw
that broke the camel's back" and led
to her 16-year-old daughter's suicide.
She found Colleen Costello dead on
the floor of her bedroom when she
Leaders want
PEKING (UPI) Impatient
reformers in China's Communist
Party leadership appear to have ac
celerated their drive to remove
Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was
handpicked by the late Mao Tse-tung,
diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The reformers led by Vice Chair
man Deng Xiaoping apparently are
aiming to oust Hua frqm the party
boss position earlier than expected,
possibly before the end of the year,
the sources said.
If successful, the drive would effec
tively complete the placement of
Deng's proteges and intimate allies
at the top of China's party and
government leadership and signal an
end to the reign of top leaders iden
tified with Mao.
The plan appears to entail having
Hua replaced by Hu Yaobang, a Deng
associate for some 40 years and cur
rently mentor of daily party affairs
as secretary general' of the
secretariat.
Hua would be shunted to the side,
Jenrette submits resignation
WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. John
Jenrette, D-S.C., convicted on an
Abscam bribery charge, announced
his immediate resignation from Con
gress yesterday, thus preventing an
expected House vote to expel him
during the final days of his term.
The third-term congressman an
nounced his resignation in a choked
voice at the end of 45 minutes of
testimony in his own defense to the
House ethics committee, which was
trying to rush House action before
Congress adjourns.
"I am submitting my resignation to
the speaker," Jenrette said.
Jenrette, speaking almost in
audibly, added the words: "Pain . . .
more than you will ever know . . .
Wish you godspeed."
But Jenrette's letter of resignation
did not get to the speaker's office
before it closed for the night yester
day. Aides said the letter had not
been completed in time.
A prolonged ethics investigation,
which had already resulted in a com-
Solidarity risks more tension
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) In a
move that could sharply increase the
tension between Polish workers and
the government, the nation's indepen
dent union leadership yesterday call
ed for the release of political
prisoners and accused authorities of
"continuing acts of oppression."
Meeting in Gdansk, leaders of the
10-million member labor coalition
Solidarity said they would set up a
commission to defend political
prisoners, whose imprisonment it
called "unacceptable."
The Solidarity statement was
issued just hours after the official
newspaper of the Polish army warn
ed the unions to confine themselves to
labor matters and not associate with
"anti-socialist forces," the govern
ment's euphemism for political
dissenters.
It was one of a number of similar
warnings issued recently by the
Polish army newspaper, by the
government and by Poland's Warsaw
Pact neighbors.
In Moscow, Soviet Union Defense
Minister Dmitry Ustinov also issued
a fresh warning on Poland, saying the
Kremlin would never allow
"imperialist forces" to undermine
"the positions of the socialist coun
tries, specifically of socialist Poland,
the Soviet Tass news agency
reported.
"In this situation," Ustinov said,
"the CPSU (Communist Party) is
to eavesdrop on Soviet troop
movements.
A U.S. spokesman in West Berlin
said the Soviet Union had lifted
restrictions for Western military
observers along the Polish-East Ger
man border, closed to them since
Nov. 29.
The ban expired yesterday and has
not been renewed, the spokesman
said, refusing to give further details.
The NATO ministers were careful
to avoid any military action that
might inflame the tension. However,
Muskie said NATO must not ignore
the possiblity of an invasion of Poland
by the Soviet Union.
"Poland is 200 miles from NATO
territory. NATO is created to defend
the territory and there is the possibili
ty of the use of force," Muskie told
reporters aboard the plane that took
him to Brussels.
"NATO cannot be insensitive to the
use ..of military force. NATO cannot
prudently ignore the use of force."
came home for lunch Tuesday
afternoon.
In Salt Lake City, a 30-year-old man
despondent over the murder of Len
non placed a pistol in his mouth and .
pulled the trigger, police said.
They said Michael E. Craig died
about 11:35 p.m. Tuesday from a,
.25-caliber bullet wound in the head.
Witnesses told police Craig became
upset after learning Lennon had been
shot to death.
Hua out soon
perhaps as a vice chairman, the
sources said.
Deng reportedly told visitors that
Hu is due for a promotion. Hu has
been performing some of the func
tions once reserved for the chairman
and has hosted Communist Party
delegations from Spain and Italy, a
role usually played by Hua. He also
has made a number of key policy
speeches.
Hua, by contrast, has "dropped out
of sight" recently, the sources said.
So far, these indications amount on
ly to what one source called "straws
in the wind." But he said they have
been coming "thick and fast" in re
cent weeks that diplomatic analysts
believe they signal an accelerated
campaign to unseat Hua.
"There seems to be a momentum
building up," one source said, adding
the momentum has become so strong
that some analysts are revising their
earlier belief that Hua would remain
chairman until at least the next party
congress, expected in the first half of
1981.
mittee finding of guilt, will end today
at a meeting called to decide what to
report to the House.
Jenrette said he is resigning to
devote full time to preparation for a
hearing next Wednesday before U.S.
District Judge William B. Bryant on
his motion to set aside his conviction.
Seated with elbows on the witness
table, frequently appearing to be
close to tears, Jenrette predicted
Bryant will set aside the verdict on
grounds the prosecution violated his
due process rights in staging the
sting.
But that will be too late to salvage
his final days in Congress, as Jenrette
pointed out. He was defeated for re
election, an event he blames on the
Abscam conviction.
Jenrette and John Stowe, a former
South Carolina millionaire whom
Jenrette described as now "not worth
two nickels," were convicted in Oc
tober of accepting a $25,000 bribe
from undercover FBI agents in their
Abscam sting.
conducting a consistent and firm
policy of peace, combining it with the
strengthening of the defense potential
of the Soviet state . . . perfecting the
armed forces and supplying them
with everything necessary."
In Brussels, Belgium, NATO
defense ministers met to draft
economic and political sanctions that
could be imposed on the Soviet Union
should it decide to send its troops into
Poland.
Fears that the Soviets would in
tervene militarily last week pro
mpted Solidarity, the nation's largest
labor coalition, to counsel its member
.unions against "unauthorized"
strikes. Since then, the labor situation
has been calm.
However, Solidarity appeared to
have again put itself on a collision
course with the government by issu
ing a statement with clear political
overtones.
The statement signed by Lech
Walesa and other national labor
leaders accused the government of
"continuing acts of oppression" but
stopped short of making a strike
threat.
"Releasing political prisoners and
stopping repression for convictions is
a necessary condition for restoring
the climate of confidence between the
authorities and society and this will
serve to deepen the process of
democracy in Poland," the statement
said.
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Paul Gore!, an amateur photographer, took this picture Monday night of John
Lennon siping a copy of his latest album, "Double Fantasy," for Mark David
Chapman,ite man accused of shooting Lennon to death outside his apartment
building her that night. Goresh said Chapman urged him to stay at the Dakota
for the siifer's return. "I'd wait," Goresh quoted Chapman as saying. "You
never knq if you'll see him again . . . It's. possible he could go to Spain or
somewhe tonight and you'll never get your album signed." At about II that
night as ennon returned to his apartment where Chapman was waiting.
Chapmaqillegedly pulled a gun out of his jacket and shot Lennon five times in
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Chapman 'couldn't help' himself
NEW YORK (UPI) Authorities
yesterday tried to piece togbther the con
flicting identities of the man who
reportedly told police he shot and killed
rock idbl John Lennon because "I
couldn't help myself."
Mark David Chapman, 25, an
unemployed security guard from
Honolulu and ardent fan of the Beatles,
was examined by psychiatrists in his
second-floor cell at Bellevue Hospital,
where he was confined for 30 days of
court-ordered observation to determine
his competency to stand trial.
A small group of mourners stood out
side the Manhattan funeral home where
Lennon's body was taken, but two
policemen told UPI the body was moved
from the funeral home at mid-afternoon
in extreme secrecy for cremation in
suburban Hartsdale, N.Y.
Friends and acquaintances described
Chapman, who faces 15 years to life in
prison if convicted of the second-degree
murder charge against him, as a drug
user, "born-again" Christian, jilted
lover and child of a broken home.
"I couldn't help myself," a police
source quoted Chapman as saying im
mediately after Lennon was shot to
death Monday night. "Most of me didn't
want to do it, but a little of me did."
Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, said she was
asked about the killer by her 5-year-old
son, Sean, and told him "he was pro
bably a confused person."
"I told Sean what happened," she said.
"I showed him the picture of his father
on the cover of the paper and explained
the situation. I took Sean to the spot
where John lay after he was shot.
Lennon's fortune estimated at $235 million
UN wirephoto
NEW YORK (UPI) John Lennon, who considered
himself a socialist and a "working-class hero," amass
ed a fortune of up to $235 million.
Lennon owned - luxury apartments, mansions,
estates, farms, pure-bred cattle, a twin-engine plane
and a 62-foot yacht.
He also owned 25 percent of Apple Records, which
holds copyrights to the Beatles' music, and received
"Sean wanted to know why the person
shot John if he liked John. I explained
that he was probably a confused
person."
Ono announced a 10-minute silent
prayer vigil for the slain rock star at 2
p.m. Sunday "wherever you are." There
will be no funeral.
Lennon's body was taken from the city
medical examiner's office about noon
yesterday to the Frank E. Campbell
Funeral Chapel in Manhattan and later
moved again for cremation.
A prison guard one of four assigned
to a continuous suicide watch on Chap
man said he had not heard the accus
ed killer say "two words since this morn
ing" when he was screened by hospital
psychiatrists.
The television in the day room near
Chapman's room was turned down so
Chapman could not hear news reports of
Lennon's death.
"We're being really careful because of
the nature of this," Bellevue Hospital
spokeswoman Sandy Smith said.
"He's not a screaming crazy," Smith
said. "It was an uneventful night.
Everything is really normal."
Dr. Henry Weinstein, of the Forensic
Psychiatric Unit at Bellevue, was ex
pected to head the psychiatric examina
tion of Chapman, but the hospital said it
would have no comment on the results
until
. they were presented in court.
Dr. Marvin Stone, a ward doctor at
Bellevue, said Chapman seemed "a little
bit depressed. He would like to know how
his family is doing. He has asked about
his wife and his mother." •
Stone added Chapman's appetite "is a
$l2 million a year in royalties.
In an interview in the current edition of Playboy
magazine, Lennon called himself "an instinctive
socialist."
"That meant I think people should get their false
teeth and their health looked after," he said. "But
apart from that, I worked for the money and I wanted
to be rich."
little off . . . At the moment he doesn't
seem to have any active plans for
suicide. He asked for less noise."
A police source who was present when
Chapman was interviewed immediately
after Lennon was shot to death said the
suspect told detectives, "Most of me
didn't want to do it, but a little of me did.
I couldn't help myself.':
In Chicago, David Moore, the ex
ecutive director of the Duncan YMCA,
remembered Chapman as a "fantastic
kid" when they worked together in Fort
Chaffee, Ark., at an Indochinese reset
tlement camp in 1975.
"He was one of the most compas
sionate staff members we had," Moore
said. "He came to be a team coor
dinator, one of five in the entire camp. It
was a pretty responsible job for a guy on
ly 20.
"He was a dedicated Christian who
had been !born again' with a firm
religious faith," Moore said. "He was
very much a Beatle fan and played their
music constantly. I can remember one
night we had a discussion at home, about
that comment by one of the Beatles
(Lennon) that they were more important
to the world . than Jesus Christ.
"I can remember him saying, 'Who
the hell are they to compare themselves
to Jesus?' He harped on it a little. He
thought they were being arrogant."
Moore said Chapman was "madly in
love" with a girl named Jessica but said
he "became unglued when he couldn't
cut it in school and the girl told him to
pack off. That's when he headed for
Hawaii, where he learned his parents
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were getting divorced. Then he had a
nervous breakdown."
Moore said the last time he saw Chap
man was in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland.
"He told me he had tried to commit
suicide in Honolulu, that he felt life
wasn't worth living," Moore said.
At Chapman's arraignment, his court
appointed lawyer, Herbert Adlerberg,
said his client had attempted suicide a
second time within the last six weeks
with the same .38-caliber Charter Arms
revolver he allegedly used to kill Lennon
on Monday night.
Detectives continued their search for
clues to a motive for the slaying, but ap
peared as baffled as Chapman's friends
and acquaintances.
"We don't know why (he did it),"
Deputy Inspector Peter Prezioso said.
Police said it was not known how he
smuggled his snub-nosed revolver onto
the flight from Honolulu but pointed out
that baggage which is not carried on the
plane is not subjected to the xray ex
amination of hand baggage. Chapman
was carrying the purchase slip for the
gun when he was arrested, police said.
Chapman, who played Beatles music
at high volume for hours a day and, like
the slain rock star, married a woman of
Japanese descent, eventually became so
obsessed with his idol that he signed out
from his last job in Honolulu as 'John
Lennon."
Chapman was lurking arouna Len
non's apartment building for three days
before the shooting to get the musician's
autograph on his comeback record,
"Double Fantasy."
When the Beatles were at the height of their populari
ty, the Rev. David Noebel, a right-wing Christian
crusader, described them as a Communist plot "to
make a generation of American youth mentally ill and
emotionally unstable."
To that, Beatle Paul McCartney replied: "Us Com
munists? Why, we can't be Communists. We're the
world's number one capitalists."