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Kean undecided on
Williams successor
By JIM MANION
Associated Press Writer to talk to a few other people, I want to
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) New Jer- get some advice . ," he said. "I
sey Gov. Thomas H. Kean said yester- haven't given it the kind of deep and
day he has not decided whom he will important consideration that an ap
: appoint to serve out the term of Sen. pointment of this kind deserves."
Harrison A. Williams Jr., who re- The governor is empowered to
signed rather than be expelled for his name a successor to Williams imme
conviction in the Abscam scandal. diately, but Kean said he would put no
In a brief statement released after time limit on his decision.
the resignation yesterday, the Repub. Kean could name a "caretaker" to
lican governor said the action by the fill the seat through the end of its term
Democratic senator "brings to an end next January. That would be someone
a sad and tragic chapter in New who would not seek election in the
Jersey political history. June Republican primary for the seat.
"The senator has been judged both Kean said he has received about 50
by the legal system and his peers in names recommended for appoint
the United States Senate," Kean said. ment to the seat.
"In light of those judgments, there is Asked about a "caretaker" appoint
nothing further to add." ment, Kean said, "That's an alterna:
Williams was in the last year of his tive."
fourth term. FivE candidates have filed so far for
Since Kean would be expected to the Democratic nomination. Under
choose someone from his own party, state law, Williams conceivably could
much of the speculation has centered seek re-election to his own seat,
on the two contenders who have filed according to the New Jersey elections
for the June 8 GOP senatorial prima- supervisor, George Bloom. Williams,
ry Rep. Millicent Fenwick and however, has not indicated he will do
conservative Jeffrey Bell, a former so.
speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. "Anyone can file a petition for a
A third possibility is Rep. James A. Senate primary as long as he is not
Courter, who was chairman of Keim's serving a jail sentence, on probation
election campaign and who is ex- or on parole," Bloom said.
petted to announce Monday whether Williams was sentenced to three
he will seek re-election or try for , the years in prison and a $50,000 fine on
Senate nomination. his conviction in the bribery and con-
But at a news conference, Kean spiracy case, but execution of the
said, "I'm not ready to make any kind sentence has been delayed pending
of an announcement at the moment." appeal.
Watchful eye
A Polish army major watches as a woman buys bread in a Warsaw shop. Martial law authorities have appointed a special detail to
police transactions and insure fair trade.
Democrats warn Reagan to break budget stalemate
•
By DAVID ESPO is not reviving the economy, issued a similar made, sources said one approach the GOP current spending level. • social programs could have to be increased
Associated Press Writer warning. leaders were discussing would mean tax in- No increase in the gasoline tax is being rather than cut.
WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats told Pres- "The president sees today's economic chal- creases of between $125 billion and $l5O billion considered, the sources said. He told a group of National Newspaper Asso
ident Reagan yesterday he is risking a year- lenges as a test of strength, between him and over three years and spending increases of Baker, who issued a letter to all 52 of his
ciation members at a White House reception
long paralysis. in Congress unless he "forgets the Democrats," O'Neill said. "As long as he roughly twice that amount. Republican colleagues soliciting their views on that an informal poll of House committee and
about victories" and begins negotiating keeps his political saber drawn, I see no hope Proposals to raise excise taxes on consumer the budget, hopes to have a list of possible subcommittee chairmen showed "they're dis
changes in taxes and defense spending. for compromise ...It is time for the president goods such as tobacco and alcohol to reduce changes ready by next week. cussing and entertaining proposals to add $29
Sen. Ernest Hollings, the top Democrat on the to forget about victories." deficits in Reagan's proposed budeget were The White House indicated yesterday that billion dollars to the spending of the budget as
Senate Budget Committee, said a "stalemate" Meanwhile, sources said influential Senate being considered, the congressional sources Reagan is less willing to bend on his budget than we sent it up."
that could last until late in the year is likely Republicans were considering a package of said. some might believe.
unless Reagan indicates a willingness to alter changes designed to reduce the budget deficit to They said a group of five senior Republicans "We're not interested in any fundamental Reagan called the actions "imitations of just
the administration's 1983 spending plan a $B6 billion in 1983 and about $2O billion in 1985. headed by Senate Leader Howard Baker of retreat," said David R. Gergen, the president's what's been done for the past years that led us
blueprint that Democrats and Republicans al- Reagan's budget anticipates a $7l billion deficit Tennessee also is contemplating a recommen- assistant for communications. "We are holding to this business as usual and politics 'as usual
ike find upalatable. in 1985 but the Congressional Budget Office dation to limit cost-of-living increases in Social firm on that." kind of a situation."
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., estimates it will be $l4O billion. Security and other benefit programs and to Reagan himself took a slap at statements by "They will, if allowed, bring higher inflation,
saying it is "clear as a bell" that Reaganomics While cautioning that no decision have been freeze hundreds of domestic programs at their key House Democrats that funds for certain higher taxes, and yes, bigger deficits," he said.
No verdict reached
in v.n Bulow's trial
By LARRY LAUGHLIN
Associated Press Writer
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) A jury began deliber
ations in Claus von Bulow's attempted murder trial
yesterday, but retired after five hours without decid
ing whether he was a loving husband or a clever
schemer who twice tried to kill his heiress wife with
insulin.
The seven men and five women considered the case
from noon until 5 p.m., after being told by Judge
Thomas H. Needham that they "do not have to solve
any mystery" in determining whether the defendant
tried to murder Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
"You do not have to decide, really, anything except
. . . whether this defendant did what he's accused of,"
Needham told the blue-and white-collar jurors, who
sat through five weeks of testimony that jolted this
seaside playground of the wealthy.
Von Bulow, a 55-year-old financial consultant born
in Denmark, is charged with trying to murder his
wife with insulin injections during Christmastime
visits to their walled Millionaires Row mansion in
1979 and 1980.
Needham, sending jurors back to their hotel rooms
for the night, called their initial attempts to reach a
verdict a "shakedown cruise."
"You have at least scratched the surface as to how
each of you feel," the judge said.
The jury resumes deliberations at 9:30 a.m. today.
Shortly after jurors got the case, prosecutor Ste-
"This has just occurred and I want
phen R. Famiglietti said he thought they would "be
awhile because there is a lot of evidence to be
evaluated." .
Defense attorney Herald P. Fahringer said: "I'm
optimistic . . . hopeful."
During the afternoon, a solemn von Bulow smoked
cigarettes in the hallway and then went to a second
floor conference room of the courthouse. He broke
into a smile once when he and his attorneys looked
onto the street and saw a woman wearing a T-shirt
and carrying a handbag with his likeness on it. On the
back of her handbag was the inscription: "INNO
CENT March 1982."
He left court in a taxi for his hotel, shaking off
reporters' questions and saying only, "No, please,"
The defendant, once a top aide to the late oil
billionaire J. Paul Getty, chose not to take the stand
in his own defense. Needham cautioned jurors not to
conclude that "he must have something to hide."
Mrs. von Bulow, 50, has been in a coma for nearly
15 months.
"It is necessary for the state to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that the defendant injected his wife
and, at the time he did it, he intended by means of
that injection to take her life," said Needham, issuing
instructions standing, arms folded, at the bench.
"Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is not proof
beyond all doubt. It is not a fanciful doubt. It is not a
doubt conjured up in one's mind to avoid the responsi
bility of making a judgment," Needham said.
Abscam net catches big fish
By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) Operation Abscam may best
be remembered for its agents in sheik's clothing.
The biggest catch in the Abscam net was Harrison
A. Williams Jr., the four-term Democratic senator
from New Jersey who resigned his seat yesterday.
Abscam began following the 1977 fraud conviction
in Pittsburgh of con man Mel Weinberg. Seeking to
avoid prison, Weinberg volunteered to rat on fellow
crooks.
Weinberg, who considers himself the world's best
con, joined forces with the FBI in a free-wheeling
enterprise. .
According to trial testimony, Weinberg started off
helping the government recover stolen art and secu
rities in 1978.
It did not take Weinberg long to steer the probe
from the peddling of phony certificates of deposit to
politicians willing to peddle their office.
In November 1978, undercover agents working with
Weinberg in a front called "Abdul Enterprises" were
introduced to a businessman named William Rosen
berg, who would later plead guilty to various Abscam
charges in the case of former Rep. Richard Kelly, R-
Fla.
Rosenberg told the agents, who posed as American
agents for an Arab sheik looking for investment
opportunities, of a number of sweetheart deals he had
Surinam rebels
attempt coup
PARAMARIBO,. Surinam (AP) Rebel troops firing
submachine guns took over Paramaribo's main barracks
and business district yesterday , but Surinam's left-lean
ing military leader said he was trying to put down the
coup.
Witnesses said the rebels seized control of Paramaribo's
streets and important downtown buildings, including the
telegraph exchange, after firing into the air. Shooting at
the barracks was reported intense in the pre-dawn hours,
but casualties were not known.
The small, bauxite-rich nation on South America's
northeast coast is a former Dutch colony.
Witnesses said the shooting at the barracks broke out
about 4 a.m. At about 12:30 p.m. a radio announcement by
the rebel "National Liberation Council" proclaimed a
dusk-to-dawn curfew, said schools were closed until fur
ther notice, and banned gatherings of more than three
people.
The communique was issued by a Lt. Rambpcus, appar
ently the rebel chief. But the station quickly went off the
air, and reporters said Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse, Surinam's
leader, and his deputy military commander, Maj. Roy
Horb, surfaced at a military housing complex some four
miles from the barracks.
AP Laserphoto
The reporters, who said they visited the complex, said
Bouterse was accompanied by loyal soldiers with at least
one armored personnel carrier, and that Bouterse's com
Superior Court Judge
Thomas Needham
with Angelo Errichetti, then the mayor of Camden,
N.J.
Errichetti, according to Rosenberg, was getting
kickbacks. From that moment, Operation Abscam
turned decidedly political.
In December 1978, Errichetti met with the under
cover agents, explaining he had wide influence
throughout New Jersey. The mayor said he could
arrange for the sheik to "buy" an Atlantic City casino
license.
It was not long before the name of Errichetti's "old
and dear friend," Harrison A. Williams Jr., was
mentioned.
At about the same time, arrangements were made
for the sheik's men to meet with a couple of coun
cilmen from Philadelphia. They could clear the way
for the sheik's desire to build a hotel in the City of
Brotherly Love.
The councilmen had friends in Congress,.and they
too were pulled into the Abscam net for taking bribes
in return for promising to introduce immigration bills
for the sheik.
On March 23, 1979, undercover FBI agent Richard
Farhart made his acting debut as "Sheik Yassir
Habib," meeting on a yacht in Florida with the four
term senator from New Jersey and several other
Abscam marks.
Williams' judgment of the phony Arab, right down
to his posed photos with the kafiya-clad Farhart,
manders issued a statement calling on the public for calm
and promising to do all in their power to restore order.
A diplomatic source who requested anonymity said the
rebels apparently were rightists attempting a coup aimed
at reversing Bouterse's leftward drift in Surinam, the
world's fourth largest producer of bauxite, the ore from
which aluminum is made.
After securing the barracks, rebel troops broadcast a
call for a return to civilian government, and rebel soldiers
cleared the streets on occasion firing single warning
shots the source said.
Reagan, Mitterrand
to discuss conflict
By R. GREGORY NOKES The French recently concluded a
Associated Press Writer deal to provide $2O million in arms,
WASHINGTON (AP) President including shoulder-mounted rockets,
Francois Mitterrand of France will to Nicaragua, which the Reagan ad
make a quick trip to confer today with ministration contends is directing and
President Reagan in an effort to supplying arms to rebels in El Salva
soothe irritations over mounting dif- dor.
ferences on Central America, Libya France also has joined with Mexico
and the Soviet Union. in calling for recognition of the Salva-
Mitterrand is scheduled to arrive in doran rebels as a legitimate political
Washington mid-morning today for a force and is backing the Mexican
visit lasting only about 10 hours. He is initiative for a negotiated solution to
scheduled to spend three hours with the conflict. The Reagan administra-
Reagan, at a White House meeting tion has rejected recognizing the re
and lnch. bels as a legitimate force.
While Mitterrand's socialist govern- The State Department official said
ment has agreed with the United he expects the French to, take some
States on some key issues, the Reagan action in the near future that will
administration has been dismayed by show support for Fidel Castro's Cuba,
the French stand on others, partic- which the Reagan administration
ularly in Central America.. " blames, along with the Soviet Union,.
One high-level State Department for instability in Central America.
official, asking not to be named, said "We disagree with what they are
the French stand on Nicaragua and El
Salvardor, , threatens to undercut doing," the official said.
American policy in the region. Differences have emerged else-
He said the lengthening list of dis- where. The French have resumed
agreements, if the trend continues, arms shipments to Libya's Moammar
could change the over-all good Khadafy at a time when the United
relationship between Washington and States is seeking to isolate Khadafy
Paris. and has cut off imports of Libyan oil.
.proved to be one of his biggest mistakes.
On the boat, "Yassir" nodded as if he did not speak
English. In early 1980 a change in strategy dictated
that the sheik speak to Williams. The Democratic
senator later remarked on how Yassir's command of
the language had improved.
With news leaking and pressure building, the
Justice Department decided to take Abscam public
on Feb. 2, 1980.
That afternoon Philadelphia lawyer Howard Cri
den sat in a Kennedy International Airpoit lounge
with Weinberg and a man he knew as Tony DeVito,
Yassir's bagman.
Criden was a little nervous, as he was finally to
meet the sheik. But in between inquiring about how to
address his highness, Criden pulled potential deal
after potential deal from his suit pockets.
Then the phone rang. Weinberg answered, saying
aloud: "He's here" and left.
Now it was the bagman's turn to pull something out
of his pocket an FBI identification for undercover
agent Anthony Amoroso. Criden slumped in his chair.
Unlike Williams he never got to meet the sheik.
All told, six members of the House, one senator, an
Immigration and Naturalization Service investiga
tor, a big-city mayor and several Philadelphia City
councilmen were convicted. All are appealing; the
cases are expected to reach the Supreme Court.
BRAZIL Ap
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Energy department plans TMI core disposal
HARRISBURG (AP) The federal insure safe removal of the core."
Department of Energy is working on a For several months, the Energy De
plan to dispose of the entire damaged partment has been negotiating with Gen
reactor core at Three Mile Island, drop- eral Public Utilities Corp. on the issue.
ping its earlier opposition to taking full "We've been trying to get them to do
x, responsibility, Gov. Dick Thornburgh more," said GPU spokesman Phil Fine.
said yesterday. "It's an important breakthrough."
Thornburgh said he was informed this Robert C. Arnold, president of GPU
week that Energy Department will go Nuclear Corp, the plant's operator, said
beyond its earlier statements that it the company had reached a "prelimi
would handle no more than 15 percent of nary understanding, which should be
the damaged core. able to form the basis for a contract. The
„ He called the move "an important first company was very pleased with the
step in achieving a formal agreement to department's assistance in the matter."
Survey shows incidence of elderly abuse
HARRISBURG (AP) A survey of en (76 percent). Those in their 70s were
, more than 1,000 people who work with the most commonly abused age group; 88
aging Pennsylvanians showed 41 percent percent were white; 85 percent were
knew of elderly persons who were physi- physically disabled; and 69 percent lived
cally or mentally abused, the Depart- with the person who abused them.
ment of Aging said yesterday.
Of those cases, 90 percent of the vic- Police officers, social workers, law
tims required medical treatment or serv- yers and employees of the state's 49 Area
ices to protect them from further abuse, Agencies on Aging reported that more
P.the study said. than half of the victims had been abused
The majority of the abused were worn- at least twice previously.
Lottery fix planners begin prison sentences
' HARRISBURG (AP) --- A former tele- Perry and Plevel went to jail maintain
vision host and an ex-lottery official were ing their innoence.
put in prison yesterday for rigging the The drawing was rigged April 24, 1980
Pennsylvania lottery two years ago with through the use of weighted pingpong
weighted pingpong balls. balls that allowed only those with the
The imprisonment of Nick Perry, 65, numbers 4 and 6to be drawn from a
the host of the nightly Daily Number machine. Lottery officials reported a
lottery show on WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh, record payout on that night's winning
.; and Edward Plevel, 53, who was in combination, 6-6-6.
charge of lottery security, closed the The state accused Perry of master
state's case. Four other people were minding the schemed and Plevel of being
convicted in the scheme. the inside man.
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Pentagon rejects new GI education bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon woman in the service contributes a dollar
rejected yesterday the need for a new GI for each $2 in benefits received for
bill to pay for veterans' education, con- schooling beyond his or her military
tending recent recruiting successes show career.
* such a program is not needed to maintain The Defense Department's position
a quality volunteer military force. comes despite strong congressional sup-
The Pentagon decided to stand pat on port for revival of a modernized GI bill
its present program which centers which would not require a serviceman or
around a Veterans Educational Assis- woman to pay out of his or her pocket for
tance Program, under which a man or college benefits.
" Rely tampons go on trial in toxic shock case
DENVER (AP)
who specializes in toxic shock syndrome
"Yes, sir, I believe (the Rely tampon)
testified yesterday that he believed the
,
Rely brand tampon can "unquestionab- can be a cause of toxic shock syndrome
~ ly" be one cause of the disease. . . . unquestionably," Tierno said in re-
Despite repeated objections by attor- sponse to questioning by an attorney for
neys for Procter & Gamble, makers of Deletha Dawn Lampshire, 18, who con
the tampon, Philip Tierno of the New tends she contracted the rare, sometimes
York University Medical Center said deadly, disease after using Rely.
Rely tampons created a walled-off envitt Attorneys for Procter & Gamble con
ronment in the vagina and that its corn- tend there is no proof of a cause-and
, ponents fed bactera linked TSS. effect relationship between Rely and
He also said the tampon has a unique TSS. Defense lawyers argue Miss
high salt concentration that can be con- Lampshire suffered from the flu. •
Use of cocaine and heroin mixture increases
LOS ANGELES (AP) "Speedbal- professor of pharmacology.
' ling," the simultaneous use of heroin and "It's like one drug is pulling you down,
cocaine blamed for the death of comedi- while the other pulls you up and you're
an John Belushi, was popular in the 19605 going sideways," said Alan Davidson, a
and is making a resurgence among well- former drug addict who now is a drug
to-do drug users, drug experts said. counselor at Lifeline Outreach, an East
For those who could afford it, "speed- Los Angeles program.
balling" offered what users might feel John Kramer, ,a professor of psychia
was the best of two drug worlds heroin, try and pharmacology at the University
a depressant that creates a sensation of of California at Irvine, said a "speed
euphoric calm, and cocaine, a stimulant ball" usually is mixed with water and
that speeds the body's metabolism, injected into the bloodstream. However,
according to former drug users and a he said, it can be snorted.
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Official reports massacre in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP)
armed band attacked two isolated vil- Guatemala, said yesterday, "In Zacual
lages in northern Guatemala's Quiche pa, Quiche, unknown persons cut the
Province and slashed the throats of more throats of 200 persons."
than 200 men, women and children, a The massacre was reported in a tele
local official said yesterday. gram from Jose de Jesus Gomez Bochon,
The official said some of the dead had municipal secretary of the nearest town,
been decapitated. Zacualpa, to National Police headquar-
An army spokesman first said the ters in the provincial capital of Santa
$ government had no information on the Cruz del Quiche, 100 miles north of the
reported murders but minutes later capital.
called the report "completely false."
Poles denounce French balloon propaganda
WARSAW, Poland (AP) The martial sands of multi-colored, helium-filled bal
, law regime yesterday bitterly attacked a loons carrying messages of support,
balloon propaganda campaign by a suggestions on how to resist martial law,
French group as a "hostile act" toward and copies of statements on Poland made
Poland. It also accused a United Nations by Polish-born Pope John Paul II since
agency of bending to American pressure. martial law was declared Dec. 12.
The Polish press has been filled with
denunciations of the balloon campaign The balloons were launched from a
by a pro-Solidarity French group called Danish island in defiance of Denmark's
' "Freedom Balloons for Poland." civil aviation authorities and have been
The group last weekend launched thou- drifting into northwest Poland.
Militants mob archbishop during service
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) A hun- moved in to enable him to drive away,
"''dred Protestant militants shouting but did not intervene during the demon
" Traitor!" and "Judas!" drove the stration inside the Liverpool Parish
Archbishop of Canterbury out of a church Church. Runcie told a Press Association
pulpit yesterday and halted his religious reporter that the protesters had tried to
service to protest the upcoming visit of "desecrate" the church.
Pope John Paul 11. The demonstrators opposed Runcie's
Outside, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, decision to welcome the Roman Catholic
a, • 60-year-old head of the Protestant state pontiff May 28, the start of John Paul's
•'Church of England and the worldwide historic five-day visit to this country,
Anglican Communion, was jostled by an which broke with the Vatican in the 16th
angry crowd as he neared his car. Police century.
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