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Senate committee attaches strings to MX fundin•
By TIM AHERN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee voted yesterday to approve $9BB million for produc
tion of the MX missile, but said none of the funds can be
spent until Congress approves a basing plan for the new
nuclear weapon.
By a 16-12 vote, the panel approved an amendment
that goes in the same direction as a compromise Presi
dent Reagan had suggested to save funding for the MX,
but it does not give the president the specific time limit
for start of the MX a program that he wanted.
Money to build the weapon still faces floor votes in the
Senate and the House, and House opponents say they can
defeat the measure.
The proposal voted by the Appropriations Committee
was sponsored by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., an
opponent of the weapon who said the vote "locks in" the
position of the Senate against the dense pack basing of
the missile that Reagan favors.
Lawyers promise surprises
Tylenol suspect confessed, prosecutor claims
By PAUL SERAFINI
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK Two lawyers for Tylenol extortion
suspect James W. Lewis said yesterday the govern
ment may be overstating the evidence against him and
claimed there will be "surprises" in the case.
The attorneys made their comments after a prosecu
tor in Chicago charged that Lewis wrote an extortion
letter that amounted to a confession to the seven
Tylenol poisoning deaths in late September.
The prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb, also
alleged during a bond hearing for Lewis' wife, Leann,
that Lewis, while a fugitive, threatened to kill Presi
dent Reagan.
Lewis is being held in New York in lieu of $5 million
bail pending government proceedings to have him sent
to Chicago.for prosecution on the extortion charge.
Attorneys Frank Lopez and Harry Batchelder ap
peared with Lewis yesterday before U.S. Magistrate
Nina Gershon at the federal courthouse in Manhattan
to clear up who was going to represent him.
Lopez told the magistrate that he and Batchelder
were old friends and that Lewis, 36, agreed to have
them jointly represent him while he is awaiting remov
al proceedings.
Atlanta murders:
ATLANTA A judge yesterday
denied a motion for a new trial for
convicted murderer Wayne B.
Wil
liams,turning aside defense argu
ments that new evidence and trial
errors warranted a retrial.
Superior Court Judge Clarence
Cooper denied the motion after a
six-hour hearing, saying he found
no validity in the defense argu
ments.
Williams, a 24-year-old black
free-lance photographer, was sen
tenced to two life terms in Feb
ruary after he was convicted of
murder in the slayings of Nathaniel
Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne,
21, two of 29 young blacks whose
deaths during a 22-month period
were investigated by a special po-
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Lewis, who was arrested Monday, agreed at the
hearing to accept the two lawyers. He told the magis
trate he had abandoned his earlier intention to file an
affidavit indicating he had no funds in order to be
provided with a court-appointed lawyer.
Outside the courthouse, Lopez and Batchelder de
clined to reveal any defense plans.
They said they would hold conferences before decid
ing whether to contest the government removal effort
and expressed confidence Lewis would accept their
advice when they reached a decision.
Lewis, who was arrested at a New York Public
Library branch after eluding a nationwide manhunt for
nearly two months, is charged with writing a $1 million
extortion demand to Johnson & Johnson, makers of
Tylenol, in which he threatened a second wave of
poisonings.
Webb said Tuesday in Chicago that in the extortion
letter Lewis "confesses" to poisoning seven people in
the Chicago area who died between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1
after taking cyanide-tainted capsules of Extra-
Strength Tylenol.
Webb said the letter threatening Reagan "alluded to
Tylenol" and apparently was motivated by a dis
"agreement with unspecified Reagan administration
policies.
Judge denies new trial for Williams
lice task force. Georgia Supreme Court rulings
Homer and Faye Williams, par- that criminal defendants have no
ents of the defendant, were in the right to attend post-conviction
courtroom yesterday as a team of hearings.
defense lawyers argued their new Defense lawyers alleged numer
trial motion, alleging 78 instances ous instances of prosecutorial mis
of error during the sensational, conduct during the trial and argued
nine-week trial. that a drawing posted in the jury
Mrs. Williams said she was not
dining room during one day of the
surprised by Cooper's ruling. trial should in itself warrant a new
"He's very biased and controlled trial
by the prosecution team," she said.
"He has no right to be a judge. The
only thing he's interested in is sav
ing his face. I'm very glad it's
moving out of his court. Maybe we
can get justice now."
Williams, who is being held in the
Fulton County jail, was not present
for the hearing because of earlier
Hollings' amendment to a stopgap money bill would
retain $9BB million in the measure to buy the first five of
the 100 planned missiles. But it also bars any use of the
money until Congress approves a basing plan, with no
restriction on when that might be.
A day earlier, President Reagan had proposed retain
ing money to buy the missiles, but freezing it only until
next spring, when Congress would vote on a new basing
mode.
Hollings' move was accepted after only brief debate.
His margin of victory came when four Republican
senators, some of whose votes were unknown, sided with
him. They included Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon,
Lowell Weicker of Connecticutt, Arlen Specter of Penn
sylvania, and Mark Andrews of North Dakota.
"This pretty well locks in the position of both houses
against dense pack," Hollings said. "I don't know
anybody in the Senate who likes dense pack."
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., argued against Hollings'
proposal, saying "we would be misunderstood at home
and abroad if we adopt this."
Defense attorney Lynn Whatley
also cited an affidavit from a teen
ager who claimed he saw someone,
but not Williams, stab 15-year-old
Joseph "Jo-Jo" Bell to death. Bell's
murder was one of 10 other task
force cases introduced at the trial
to show a pattern of killings.
MX supporters have said any congressional action
against housing a new land-based missile in the United
States might upset NATO allies who have agreed to
accept new land-based U.S. nuclear weapons starting
next year.
That is a "valid concern," Hollings said, explaining
why he had not tried to eliminate production money.
Hollings also criticized the president for renaming the
MX the "Peacekeeper," saying, "next thing, they'll be
calling the B-1 bomber the Virgin Mary."
The Reagan administration shrugged off the commit
tee's action and said it would fight for the compromise
the president announced yesterday. White House spokes
man Larry Speakes said chances were good for passage
of the Reagan-backed proposal when it comes to a vote
before the entire Senate.
Speakes said that if the committee's plan became law,
"Congress could postpone indefinitely a vote on a new
missile."
"A filibuster could keep Congress from voting, and the
American people deserve a vote on the missile," Speak-
Gdansk dockworkers lay wreaths at the base of a monument to workers slain during rioting in 1970. Today is the 12th
anniversary of the uprising. Lech Walesa is scheduled to speak at ceremonies today.
Walesa spurns official's summons,
plans speech for labor anniversary
By W. JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland Labor leader Lech Walesa
spurned a summons from the public prosecutor's office
in Gdansk yesterday on the eve of his first public
speech in more than a year, sources in the Baltic port
reported.
The sources said Walesa, in a letter to the prosecutor,
complained that the summons was improperly drafted
and vaguely worded.
Plainclothes police were in evidence around Wale
sa's apartment house in Gdansk last night, and in-
formed sources said he spent the evening conferring
with a lawyer about the summons.
The summons did not specify what the prosecutor
wanted to question Walesa about, the sources said.
There was speculation that the government wanted to
pressure him to call off the speech he plans in Gdansk
today or to grill him about irregularities which PAP,
the official news agency, reported Tuesday had been
found in the finances of the Gdansk chapter of the
Solidarity labor federation.
Gdansk, a traditional hotbed of labor agitation, was
reported calm, with extra troops and police patrolling
the city, on the eve of the anniversary of the 1970 clash
there between police and shipyard workers. Scores of
Walesa's fellow workers at the Lenin Shipyards were
slain.
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him a mention in the Foreign
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naval attache Anatoly Zotov for der Clark, the army attache, and
spying. Col. Van Niererk, the armed
The South African official was forces attache.
named as Joseph Klue, a security
However, the British domestic
police warrant officer at the
news agency Press Association
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bassy. A Foreign Office spokes
quoted British government
man said Klue left Britain
sources as saying Klue was "felt
following an approach by British
to be engaged in espionage in only
authorities to South Africa's Am-
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bassador Marais Steyn. fairly limited way.”
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lt the South Africans had not with- Klue was the organizer of a South
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The Foreign Office spokesman ering part of Western Europe."
A delegation from Britain's
refused to give 'details of the al- Anti-Apartheid Movement led by
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departure. Hughes met British Home Secre
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AP Laserphoto Klue "is known to have run a complain about alleged activities
network of agents spreading fear of the embassy. PA said investiga
in Britain and in Europe from the tion of Klue's background by Brit-
London embassy in Trafalgar ish authorities began from that
Square." date.
The Daily Collegian
es said, reading a statement he said was approved by
Reagan. "If it becomes law, it would leave uncertain the
question of America's resolve to rebuild its national
defense."
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., meanwhile, said he has
14 co-sponsors for an amendment he plans to offer on the
floor to delete the MX production funds. The co-sponsors
include 12 Democrats and Republicans Charles McC.
Mathias of Maryland and Larry Pressler of South
Dakota.
"The administration's compromise proposal is merely
a delaying tactic," Cranston said. "It is postponing at
great cost to the taxpayer our facing the inevitable:
that no invulnerable basing mode for the MX has yet
been devised or is likely to be devised."
The stopgap bill must also be voted in the House, which
last week defeated MX production money in a separate
Pentagon spending measure. With the lame-duck Con
gress hoping to adjourn quickly, it now appears that
there won't be a Senate vote on that separate Pentagon
money bill.
The government has not said whether it would waive
martial-law restrictions to permit the memorial meet
ing today at which Walesa planned to speak before the
monument to the slain workers. Sources in Gdansk
close to the government said there were strong indica
tions he would not be allowed to address the gathering,
but added that nothing definite had been decided.
PAP reported that Mariusz Wilk, former editor of the
Solidarity weekly Samorzadnosc, and six other people
were arrested in Gdansk and Warsaw on suspicion of
possessing and preparing illegal publications "con
taining false information likely to stir up public un
rest."
The official media reported the government held a
brief, sparsely attended memorial ceremony at the
monument yesterday.
Walesa, chairman of the outlawed independent labor
federation who was released last month after 11
months internment . , planned in his speech to urge his
followers to pursue peacefully the ideals and ambitions
of the independent labor movement.
"Our workers' issue is still open, and ours will be the
victory," he said in an advance text of the speech given
Tuesday to Western correspondents in Warsaw.
PAP reported on Tuesday that government auditors
uncovered "many irregularities" in the administration
of funds by Solidarity's Gdansk local, including "unjus
tified expenditures, violations of financial regulations
and rules of record-keeping."
Thursday, Dec. 16
state news briefs
PUC wants no one left out in the cold
HARRISBURG (AP) The
Public Utility Commission wants
to know how many Pennsylva
nians face being left in the cold
this winter.
The PUC has sent inquiries to all
gas, electric and steam heat corn
panies in the state asking them
how many of their ratepayers are
without service.
The commission regards heat as
an "essential service," PUC
Chairman Susan Shanaman said.
"In the absence of a commis
sion-ordered ban on service termi
nation, this commission expects
Unemployed eligible for surplus food
HARRISBURG (AP) Unem
ployed Pennsylvanians will be eli
gible for government surplus
cheese and butter under an
agreement between state and fed
eral agriculture officials, Rep.
James Manderino, D-Westmore
land County, said yesterday.
Manderino, who will be House
majority leader when Democrats
take control in January, had urged
state Agriculture Secretary Pen
rose Hallowell to distribute sur
plus dairy products to the
unemployed, along with the needy,
nation news briefs
Unsatisfactory bonus results in death
NEW YORK (AP) A 38-year
old law clerk who complained
about the size of her Christmas
bonus shot and killed one of the
firm's partners yesterday, police
and a 'company spokesman said.
Barbara Austin was charged
with murder after she allegedly
fired three shots into Jay Jacobs,
50, at the offices of Burke & Burke
on Fifth Avenue, police said.
"Afterward, she was heard to
complain that the amount of her
2 nuns convicted in child abuse case
WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) A
nun accused of slamming a young
student into a wall and punching
another in the stomach was con
victed of child abuse yesterday.
The district attorney's com
plaint alleged that Sister Lourdine
Sok threw an unidentified 9-year
old girl against a wall and hit 8-
year-old Michael Garza in the
stomach, pulled his hair, pinched
him, stomped on his' foot, and
grabbed him by the cheeks and
lifted him off the ground.
Following four days of testimo
world news :briefs
Leftists kidnap president's daughter
GUATEMALA CITY (AP)
Government security forces
searched yesterday for the kid
napped daughter of Honduran
President Roberto Suazo Cordova,
held under threat of death by
leftist guerrillas demanding publi
cation of a political manifesto.
The government announced
Tuesday night that 33-year-old
Xiomara Suazo Estrada, who lives
in Guatemala City, was kidnapped
by an unidentified guerrilla group
that identified itself to local media
by the initials CDT.
A Honduran government corn
munique said the kidnapping took
Sadat's brother charged with fraud
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) The
Egyptian government yesterday
formally charged Esmat Sadat,
half-brother of the late President
Anwar Sadat, with corruption,
fraud and influence-peddling and
demanded that he and two sons be
imprisoned for one year.
Prosecutor Abdel-Kader Ahmed
Aly ordered Sadat, 58, and mem
bers of his immediate family to be
tried by the ethics court, estab-
that the utility companies' will
exercise the utmost restraint in
using their powers of termi
nation," Shanaman wrote in a
letter to the companies.
PUC regulations require that a
utility representative meet with
the delinquent ratepayer before
turning off the heat during the
winter months.
The company must also attempt
to negotiate a reasonable payment
plan and, if no agreement is
reached, must submit the case for
PUC review before terminating
service.
in food giveaways that began last
February.
Hallowell had felt that giving the
food to the unemployed would vio
late federal 'regulations, the law
maker said.
But Manderino said U.S. Agri
culture Department officials met
with state officials Tuesday and
made clear unemployed people
could qualify.
Surplus foods will be distributed
to union food banks as soon as the
state gets written confirmation,
Manderino said.
year-end bonus was unsatisfacto
ry," Michael A. McElroy, a firth
spokesman, said.
McElroy said that after shooting
Jacobs in his office, Austin re
turned to her desk outside and sat
down.
Police said that after the shoot
ing, Austin was taken to Bellevue
Hospital for treatment of an ap
parent drug overdose. She was
reported to be in good condition.
ny, a jury found Sister Sok guilty
of child abuse and Sister Urban
Maureen Molitor guilty of failing
to report child abuse, Deputy Dis
trict Attorney David Velasquez
said.
The nuns' attorney, Joseph
Brandlin, called the verdict "an
absolute travesty."
Earlier, Brandlin said the
charges were "fabrications
brought on by a group of dissident
parents on a vendetta against the
two sisters."
place early Monday. It said "the
crime is doubly unjustifiable be
cause Dr. Suazo has no official
relation with the government of
Honduras, nor does she partici
pate in any way in the decisions of
the administration."
Foreign Minister Eduardo Cas
tillo Arriola said the Guatemalan
Cabinet was meeting with the
president to consider the govern
ment's response. He said govern
ment position has, been "not to
deal with guerrillas, but the case
of Dr. Suazo Estrada is special,
since it involves the daughter of
the leader of Honduras."
lished several years ago to fight
corruption. Hearings are sched
uled to begin Saturday.
The charge sheet also asked the
court to confirm Aly's decision of
Oct. 20 to sequester the property of
Esmat Sadat, his two wives and 15
children.
Cairo newspapers estimate the
Esmat family wealth at about $6O
million. Until 1973, Esmat earned
$lOO monthly as a bus driver.
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