state/nation Nicaragua denies killing 2 U.S. journalists By FREDDY CUEVAS Associated Press Writer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Nicaragua denied yesterday that its forces shelled and killed two American journalists near the Nicaraguan border, and implied that Hon duran gunners or U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels were responsible. An air force helicopter flew into the capi tal with the bodies of the two identified by military authorities as Dial Torgerson, Los Angeles Times bureau chief for Mexico and Central America, and free-lance photogra pher Richard Cross who had been on assign ment for U.S. News & World Report. Honduras accused Nicaragua of a cross border attack, but the Sandinista govern ment said “at no time has there been an attack against Honduras.” The Sandinistas accuse the U.S. and Hon duran governments of supporting anti-gov ernment Nicaraguan insurgents and allowing them to use Honduras as a base. Nicaragua also charges that the Honduran Banks sentenced to death By LEE LINDER Associated Press Writer WILKES-BARRE George Banks, a former prison guard convicted of killing 13 people, including five of his own children, was sentenced to death yesterday by the jury that had found him guilty. After jury foreman Thomas Boory read the death sentence for each of 12 first-degree murder verdicts, the defense asked that the jury of eight men and four women be polled. In all,, the word “death” was spoken 156 times. One juror, Nancy Young, cried as she pronounced it. Banks then cried out to the juror, “It’s not your fault, you were lied to, ma’am.” Banks, who turned 41 yesterday, had said in pretrial interviews that he expected to receive the death sen tence. Over his lawyers’ objections, he had taken the stand to testify that he shot all 13 people, but that someone else had fired at least nine of the shots that proved fatal. He was convicted Tuesday of 12 counts of first-degree murder for the premeditated slayings of the children, ages 1 to 6, the four women who bore them and three other people related to a former girlfriend. Truce offered to PLO chief by rebel leader Abu Mousa By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon Rebel lead er Sae’d Mousa offered Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yas ser Arafat a truce yesterday, say ing the mutiny could be resolved by “democratic dialogue.” There was no immediate re sponse from Arafat at his new headquarters in the north Lebanese port of Tripoli. But another spokes man for the mutineers, Jihad Sa leh, charged that Arafat was regrouping his forces in northern Lebanon in preparation for “some action that will result in violence.” Tripoli already is the scene of a local civil war between pro-Syrian Alawite and anti-Syrian Sunni Mos lem militias vying for dominance of Lebanon’s second largest city. Po lice reported 10 people killed and 27 wounded in fighting from midnight to dawn. In southern Lebanon, an Israeli military supports the insurgents with cross border fire. A statement from the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said “The false accusation made by the government of Honduras lies in the plans for escalation made by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, which has as its objective justifying greater aggression against Nicaragua.” Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d’E scoto appeared at a news conference and said the Honduran charges are “the most reprehensible cynicism.” “Everyone knows that it is the Honduran army, which supports the mercenaries di rected and financed by the CIA to provoke Nicaragua, and I hold thfe governments of the United States and Honduras responsible for the death of the journalists,” he said. Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica said Torgerson and Cross were killed around 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday, by anti-tank fire from Nicaraguan troops across the border. He said an anti-tank shell shattered the journalist’s automobile as it drove a dirt He also was convicted of third-degree murder for gunning down bystander Raymond Hall, 24, in the street after shooting eight of the victims in his Wilkes- Barre home last Sept. 25. The third-degree conviction means the jury felt the death was not premeditated. Luzerne County Court Judge Patrick Toole told Banks he had 10 days'to file a motion for a new trial and for arrest of judgment. Otherwise, the verdicts and sentences will stand, he said. District Attorney Robert Gillespie Jr. had sought the death penalty, telling jurors earlier in the day that Banks had shown “no mercy, no sympathy for his victims. Show him no sympathy, no mercy.” The defense had failed to convince the jury that Banks was insane, and defense attorney A 1 Flora Jr. said he was disappointed that the jury didn’t vote for life imprisonment. The state’s last execution was in 1962, when Elmo Smith died for the rape and murder of a young girl. Pennsylvania dismantled its electric chair before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that the death penalty was'being applied unequally. was sentenced under a capital punishment law approved by the state Legislature in 1978. guard was killed and three were wounded when guerrillas am bushed a border patrol near the village of Arab Salim. It was the fourth attack on Israeli forces in Lebanon in two days. Mousa, better known by his code name of Abu Mousa, told reporters at his headquarters in Hammara, in the Bekaa Valley, “there is no need for more fighting” between the mutineers in the Fatah faction of the PLO and those still loyal to Arafat. *• “We advocate continued warfare against Israel,” he declared. “We advocate continued Palestinian presence in Lebanon. We will never leave Lebanon as long as there is a vein throbbing in us.” Both Abu Mousa and the Syrian government news agency denied Arafat’s charge that Syrian tanks led the mutineers early Tuesday when they seized the positions held by pro-Arafat forces along the Bei rut-Damascus highway through the road a few yards from the border. The road runs between the villages of Cifuentes and Las Trojas, about 75 miles ’ directly east of Tegucigalpa but 215 miles by car because of the winding, mountainous road to the region. Fellow reporters said the newsmen left Tegucigalpa early Tuesday in a car that did not carry any of the “international press” or other .precautionary signs that journalists use in El Salvador. President Reagan was informed of the incident Tuesday night and said he “deeply regrets the loss of life of two outstanding journalists who were carrying out their professional responsibilities in a>ery diffi cult situation,” White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. He added, “The president joins with all who believe in a free press in paying tribute to these professionals who were the tragic and unfortunate victims of violence.” The Hondurans originally said Time mag azine reporter William McWhirter also was killed because they thought he was traveling central Bekaa Valley. But Arafat’s top military aide, Khalil Wazir, told a news confer ence in the Bekaa Valley' town of Baalbek the local Syrian army command admitted the Syrian tank support for the mutineers’ attack and told him it was “the result of the individual behavior of one Syri an officer.” “Arafat was preparing his forces to attack and overrun our posi tions,” Abu Mousa said. “He then positioned forces to block our sup ply routes and began an advance toward our positions, so we staged a counterattack, throwing his forces back and reopening our sup ply routes. We threw them back very far.” After the attack Tuesday, the pro-Arafat majority on A 1 Fatah’s Revolutionary Council authorized Arafat and the other 12 members of the Fatah central committee to do whatever was necessary to end the mutiny. world >.vvV* ~ '■- ■■ ' ■-‘ ‘ ■ -4£&: „ : •,. • 3, Antlers up! Two plastic reindeer statues hold their ground yesterday as flood waters rise to three-foot levels in Gayland Brock’s back yard in Garrett, Pa. Twenty-five homes were flooded but no one was injured in the rising waters. .with Torgerson and Cross. But it was learned later that'McWhirter had flown to Miami Monday night, and Honduran offi cials retraqted the report. Twelve foreign journalists, including two other Americans, have been killed since revolution brought violence to the region in 1978. The army declared the area where the reporters were killed a zone of high danger yesterday and sent officials to warn people that it is dangerous to go there. A protest note from Honduras said “the Honduran government. . . holds the govern ment of Managua responsible for whatever incident that may occur as a consequence of the constant harassment by the Sandinista army against the territory and population of Honduras.” A brief ceremony was held at the air base, where military chief Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez said, “The situation with Nicara gua is extremely serious. The Sandinistas are attacking us constantly without any justification. Because of that, we are going /•& ■ : : iy ' ■V' •;;../,* r \i=/;fc&y-- r n , f , ; * v t - - p,■ • ■ ■■ • * -s, ...***• to take actions rapidly.” He did not explain what those actions would be. The bodies were taken to a funeral home to be turned over to relatives arriving from Mexico and the United States. Torgerson was born April' 19, 1928, in Southport, N.C., and was graduated from the University of Southern California in 1951. He had worked for The Los Angeles Times since 1967 and was named bureau chief for Mexico and Central America in March 1981 after foreign assignments in Africa and the Middle East. He worked for The Associated Press in Los Angeles from 1954-66. Cross, 33, was born in Kansas City and .worked through the photo agency Black Star for a number of publications, including Newsweek. He lived in Mexico City and had gone to Honduras last weekend on assign ment for U.S. News & World Report. Cross was a free-lancer for the AP during the 1978- 79 Sandinista revolution. 1fv,..?-* 4t »~~*wg)D | g ',? :t . The Daily Collegian Thursday, June 23, 1983 1 5 -< v i - „ & * ' 1 * V*l AP Laserphoto i'fl Bill would prohibit teachers' strikes HARRISBURG, (AP) The right to strike for public school teachers would be severely limited under legislation introduced yesterday in the House. The seven-bill package is designed primarily to prevent teacher strikes. State employees would also be affected by some of the legislation’s provisions. Reps. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, and Joseph M. Gladeck, R-Montgomery County, said they “completely and un equivocally oppose” giving public employees the right to strike. The legislation introduced yesterday would: • Amend the state constitution by permitting contract set tlements for all public employees by final, best-offer arbitration. • Prohibit teachers from striking unless a court has ruled that a school board has been bargaining in bad faith. • Impose strict fines on striking teachers. • Make such issues as class size, school calendars, reductions in force and teacher evaluation matters of managerial policy, not subject to collective bargaining. Floods cause $lO million damages N BEDFORD (AP) Bedford County officials yesterday esti mated flash floods caused more than $lO million in damage, including at least $2 million in damage to the grounds of the historic Bedford Springs Hotel south of this Allegheny mountains commu "'officials asked state and federal governments to declare parts of Bedford County as disaster areas following cloudbursts that dropped more than four inches of water on central Pennsylvania before dawn Tuesday, according to National Weather Service estimates. Rainfall in the Bedford area was measured unofficially at 5.26 inches. , - No one was injured in the downpour and subsequent floods. AMA questions danger of dioxin CHICAGO (AP) There is no scientific evidence that dioxin contamination poses imminent danger to people, the American Medical Association said yesterday as it approved a publicity campaign to counter news reports about the chemical. “The news media have made dioxin the focus of a witch hunt by disseminating rumors, hearsay and unconfirmed, unscientific reports,” says the resolution approved on a voice vote by the AMA’s 151-member House of Delegates. The campaign is intended “to get accurate information before the public to prevent irrational reaction and unjustified public fright,” it said. . However, one of the resolution’s sponsors, Dr. George Bohigian, said dioxin’s longterm effects on humans are not known. Dr. Paul Wiesner, an assistant director of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said that while he couldn’t comment on the AMA resolution because he hadn’t seen it, “evidence is increasing that there is an association with a rare form of tumor called soft tissue sarcoma after occupational exposure (to dioxin.) Wiesner also said studies clearly show that dioxin is poisonous to - animals and that this suggests caution in human contact with it. Possible herpes cure investigated WASHINGTON (AP) A New York pharmaceutical company said yesterday it will seek government clearance to sell, over the counter, a possible cure for genital and oral herpes. But at least one herpes researcher greeted that announcement with caution. Arthur Colon, president of Dalin Pharmaceutical Co. of Farming dale, N.Y., said that the product, known only as herpes formula 1423 A, had been successful in treating the disease and preventing its recurrence when tested on more than 1,800 persons in the Bahamas Dr. Gregory Mertz, a researcher at the Herpes Research Clinic at the University of Washington, said he could not offer an evaluation of such a drug without having more specific information on it. world news briefs ; : . Public health doctors continue fast TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Nearly half of Israel’s 4,500 public health doctors were reported fasting for higher pay yesterday, and there was speculation that the army would put them on reserve duty to keep hospitals from shutting down. The protesters said four of the 17 major hospitals in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and the Galilee - were rapidly closing depart ments as almost 2,000 of the nation’s public health doctors observed a water-only fast. Some began their hunger strike eight days ago. Israel radio reported that' the director-general of the Health Ministry, Dr. Baruch Modan, met with the directors of the nation’s hospitals and the head of the army medical corps, stirring specu lation that the army would order the doctors onto reserve duty to staff the hospitals. The doctors vowed to go on fasting until the Treasury offered a substantial pay raise. Prime Minister Menachem Begin met with Finance Minister Yoram Aridor and a delegation of doctors during a heated debate in Parliament on a no-confidence motion over the strike that the government easily defeated. South American storms rage on RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Unprecedented storms and drought liave taken hundreds of lives and left millions without homes or jobs across South America. Weather experts say they cannot predict when the freakish conditions will end ‘■‘This pattern could continue until the end of the year, or even longer,” said Meteorologist Vernon Kousky of Brazil’s Space Research Institute. ‘‘There is simply no way to tell.” The mixture of cold air and warm water south of the jet stream unleashes punishing rain storms, and to the north little precipita tion can break months or even years of drought. Most of the damage in southern Brazil has been to agriculture. The grain crops are hard hit, and produce prices are rising sharply in Brazil’s cities. Market shows I Volume Shares ~ 1 heavy trading r 128,649,130 NEW YORK (AP) - The !, gBl stock market turned in a ’ mixed performance in heavy Up ===_ trading yesterday as broad 890 jggg indicators continued to shatter records while the Dow Jones Unchanged gggg average retreated from new 343 heights. §S|gj Analysts said yesterday’s Down seesaw session indicated that 748 traders still remain wary about the course of the econ- • NYSE Index omy, despite a series of 99.01 + 0.30 glowing reports that the re- • D OW j on es Industrials covery from recession is broa- ,-p 1,245.69 - 1.71 dening. DON"RDON'T!DON'T!DON'T! AFTER INVENTORY BARGAIN BONANZA! Here’s Just a Sample of Our After Inventory Bargains— Shop Early for the Best Selection! MEN’S DEPARTMENT: • Haggar Whisper Poplin Separates . 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