state/nation/world Diplomats do double- duty sans Soviet staff By ANDREW ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer MOSCOW U.S. Marines washed dishes at the American ambassador’s house, and diplomats who can handle a wrench were in demand yesterday as the Kremlin retaliated for the expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats from the United States. The scores of Soviets who work at the U.S. Embassy, ambassador’s res idence and American diplomats’ homes in Moscow and the U.S. consul ate in Leningrad quit yesterday on Kremlin orders. The Soviets also ordered five more American diplomats to leave and put strict limits on visas for temporary duty staffers and diplomats’ guests. American officials said they still were assessing the long-term impact of the Soviet actions. But the initial effects were obvious. “It will be a nightmare, for a few days anyway,” said one diplomat. At the embassy, a nine-story ochre building on Tchaikovsky Street, there was silence in the inner courtyard where Russian voices normally min gle with roaring engines and clanging hammers. Cars, trucks and buses normally driven by the embassy’s 50 Soviet chauffeurs stood idle. Parents scrambled to get their children to school and the ambassador had to drive himself to work. Gone were the Soviets who type and answer phones in the visa section, handle the Soviet bureaucracy for the administrative officers, keep ma- 14 jurors reunite NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) The jury that convicted Steven Benson of killing his tobacco-heiress mother and adopted brother, but then voted-to spare his life, has reunited briefly to reflect on the trial. The 12 jurors and two alternates spent four weeks this summer sitting together in a crowded courtroom. .During recesses, they laughed, played trivia and told each other about their children. On Wednesday night, more than two months after the verdict, the jury members gathered for dinner and cocktails at the Mariners Inn here. “We were together for 30 days. Sometimes, we were there for hours in that little (jury) room," recalled jury member Fred Kruger of North Fort Myers. “We had a coffee pot in there. The women would discuss their children. We’d play trivia. We got to know each other'really well, so here we are.” Bette M. Lithgow of Fort Myers, who arranged the reunion, said, “We got to be kind of close being together for four weeks.” Lithgow said three things con vinced her of Benson’s guilt: his palm prints were found on the invoices for pipes bought shortly before the bomb ing; Benson ran his mother’s burglar alarm business and was an expert on electrical wiring; records showed he had financial problems. “He was just a kid with too much money. His mother found out he was ripping her off and was going to disinherit him,” Kruger said. Kruger said he didn’t believe the defense’s contention that Steven’s adopted brother Scott Benson was involved in drugs and that his drug dealing friends may have committed the murders. “If a drug dealer is after you, he isn’t going to mess around with bombs. He’d take you out to the Everglades and put a bullet in your head,” Kruger-said. “Each day, more of it fit together,” said Ruth Ridings, of Fort Myers, said. The jury had also invited the judge, bailiff, prosecutors and defense attor neys for the trial to the reunion. But only Assistant State Attorney Jerry Brock and his brother, Assis tant State Attorney Dwight Brock, the prosecutors in the case, attended the reunion. “I’m surprised that 14 people from such diverse walks of life would want to (have a reunion),’ said Jerry Brock. “But they obviously formed some special bond during that month. It’s refreshing to see people take such a great deal of pride from within for what they did.” The jury found Benson, 35, of Fort Myers, guilty of first-degree murder in the pipe bomb slayings of his tobacco-heiress mother, Margaret H. Benson, 63, and his adopted brother Scott, 21, both of North Naples, in an attempt to seize her $lO million es tate. The two died the morning of July 9, 1985, when a pipe bomb exploded between them as they sat in her car. The jury also found Benson guilty of the attempted first-degree murder of his sister, Carol Lynn Benson Ken dall of Brookline, Mass. chinery in repair and haul away the trash. ‘ ‘We’re going to find out who among these diplomats around here can han dle a wrench,” said Ralph Goff, one of three Americans who once super vised dozens of Soviet plumbers, me chanics, carpenters and electricians. The Soviet sanctions weren’t sup posed to affect construction on a new U.S. Embassy building. But an em bassy source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the project’s translator and driver were with drawn yesterday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen nady Gerasimov, who announced the new measures Wednesday night, esti mated the U.S. missions’ Soviet staff at 260. Embassy spokesman Jaroslav Verner said he thought that was too high, but he did not give a figure. The order that five more U.S. offi cials leave the Soviet Union brings to 10 the total ordered out in a series of reciprocal expulsions. Washington has ordered a total of 80 Soviet diplomats to leave the Unit ed States, beginning with 25 diplo mats at the Soviet U.N. mission who the Reagan administration charged were spies. The Kremlin said the Soviet staff ers who quit can be replaced only with Americans. It wasn’t clear how the Kremlin would prevent non- Americans who already are living in the Soviet Union, such as dependents of other nation’s diplomats, from working at the U.S. Embassy. With the embassy and consulate limited to 251 American staffers, the United States faced the prospect of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., gestures as he speaks on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Bob Edgar, left, at a breakfast gathering in Erie. Company grounds copters By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK The operator of a helicopter that crashed into the Hud son River, killing a radio traffic re porter and seriously injuring the pilot, said yesterday it was grounding four similar helicopters. “We want to know what hap pened,” said Barbara Bilmes, exec utive vice president of Spectrum Helicopters of Ridgefield, N.J. “We want to know what was wrong with that machine.” The Wednesday crash was Spec trum’s third this year, and last year the Federal Aviation Administration, citing numerous violations of safety rules, restricted the company’s flights, for 45 days. Bilmes said the suspension resulted from poor paperwork not reflecting all the maintenance that was done. In the current case, she said, company records showed the helicopter had undergone proper maintenance. The helicopters grounded yester day, like the one that crashed, were piston-driven three-seaters made by Enstrom Helicopter Corp. of Meno minee, Mich. Bilmes said Spectrum was still flying two turbine-powered helicopters. National Transportation Safety Board investigators inspected the wreckage of the helicopter, but had no immediate comment on what may have caused the accident. Bilmes said, “We think it might have been something in the drive system,” based on a sound heard just cutting back on political and econom ic analysts, military and other ex perts to bring in people to replace the Soviet staff. Some embassy staffers were de fiant, like the military attache who said he hoped President Reagan would not back down. "I’m sure we can recover,” he said. Others were dismayed. “I never thought it would be like this," said Betty Franklin of Mesa, Ariz., a custodian for a private com pany that maintains the new embas sy. "We’re going to give it our best shot, but it’s going to be rough.” At Spaso House, Ambassador Ar thur Hartman’s luxurious residence, his wife, Donna, helped prepare a kosher meal for visiting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. Two Marine guards rolled up their sleeves to do the dishes. Hartman and an embassy aide cleared away the coffee cups. “I volunteer to do the gardening and the greenhouse and the snow removal, so long as they give me a machine. I want the kind you sit on, you know that’s long been a fanta sy of mine,” said the willowy, aristo cratic Hartman. Alfredo Colletti, who runs the em bassy snack bar, was shocked when his 14 Soviet employees did not come to work. “I don’t know what to do becuse I can’t run this place without them,” he said. Gesturing at a huge freezer, he said, “There are 400 stuffed quail in there and I guess that’s where they’ll stay.” before the crash occurred on live radio. The helicopter’s pilot, William Pate, 30, was hospitalized in critical condition after surgery Wednesday night to explore internal abdominal bleeding. The WNBC radio traffic reporter killed in the crash, Jane Dornacker' 40, was riding in another Spectrum helicopter earlier this year when it plunged into the Hackensack River in New Jersey. Dornacker escaped injury then, but one colleague said the crash left her “afraid of flying,” and that she had only recently resumed airborne re porting after several months of studio work. She died shortly before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, about four hours after the chopper went down. Hundreds of thousands of radio listeners heard her frantically scream to the pilot, “Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!” A Spectrum helicopter also sank in the Hudson River on June 25 when the pilot attempted to land amid strong winds at the West 30th Street heliport. All the helicopters, Bilmes said, were Enstroms. But she said the first crash involving Dornacker was caused by pilot error, the June acci dent by wind shear. Esther Helms, a spokeswoman for Enstrom, said having three crashes this year in the New York area was unprecedented. “We’ve never had anything like that happen before,” she said. “We have an excellent safe ty record.” Donna Hartman, cups after lunch wife of American Ambassador Arthur Hartman, in Spaso House, the ambassador’s residence in Wright's daughter charged FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) The daughter of House Majority Leader Jim Wright was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm yesterday, but prosecu tors said they have not decided if she will be charged with a narcot ics offense. A Lake Worth park officer stopped Alicia Carnes and her husband, John Thomas Carnes, on Sunday for driving erratically on a park road. He arrested the pair after see ing a gun barrel protruding from Carnes’ purse, said Marshall Hines, assistant Tarrant County district attorney. Hines said Carnes was charged with possession of a controlled substance after officers said they found 2 grams of amphetamines in the couple’s car. A green leafy substance and a syringe were found in Carnes’ purse, but prosecutors say they are awaiting lab tests before de ciding the next step. The Carneses were released Monday from the Tarrant County Jail after Wright arranged for an attorney to post a $1,500 bond, Hines said. Kennedy joins Edgar on campaign tour By JEFF BARKER Associated Press Writer JOHNSTOWN Sen. Edward Kennedy teamed with Democratic Senate contender Bob Edgar yes terday, telling campaign audi ences this election reminds him of his brother John’s 1960 presi dential contest. Kennedy, D-Mass., said during stops in in Erie, Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre that like 1960, a Re publican administration is paint ing an unrealistic picture of the nation’s economy. “The administration says now that we never had it so good,” Kennedy told 150 Democrats at a fund-raiser in Erie. “Bob Edgar says he can do better.” Later, at a Johnstown fund-rais er, Kennedy said Republicans were in the midst of “a period of self-illusion.” “They have not really come to grips with the economic crises we are facing,” he said. Edgar’s opponent, incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, greeted facto ry workers arriving for the day shift before dawn at a Wilkes-Bar re sewing shop. He is the'only Republican senator endorsed by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which has 9,000 members in Luzerne County. Vatican forecasts $56 million deficit By VICTOR L. SIMPSON Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY - The Vatican yesterday forecast a record $56 mil lion budget deficit for 1986 and made an urgent appeal for the faithful to contribute more money to close the gap- The Vatican also said in a statement it wanted to dispel the notion of “presumed Vatican riches.” It said the artworks and cultural artifacts owned by the Roman Catho lic Church constitute “a treasure for all humanity” and cannot be sold. The statement, issued a after a two day meeting of cardinals, said the Vatican forecast revenues of $52 mil lion and expenses of $lOB million this year, leaving a deficit of $56 million. The statement said the expected deficit was due mainly to increasing personnel costs. The Vatican’s budget pays for the Curia, the church’s central adminis tration, diplomatic missions, Vatican Radio and the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. In 1985, the Vatican had $45 million in revenues and spent $B4 million, leaving a deficit of $39 million. The Vatican originally had anticipated a deficit of more than $5O million. The statement said contributions from the faithful, the so-called Pet er’s Pence, amounted to $2B million, The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 24, 1986 No customers for cook's stuffed quail MOSCOW (AP) The U.S. Embas sy chef sat today in his empty kitchen wondering what to do with 400 stuffed, pre-roasted quail. “It was going to be the lunch spe cial today,’’ moaned Alfredo Colletti, the Italian who runs the embassy snackbar. Colletti’s lunchroom is a favorite midday gathering place for Ameri can diplomats, reporters and busi nessmen. The canteen usually serves American-style cheeseburgers and steak sandwiches, but the chef occa sionally produces a more exotic plate using local resources. But today it was shut down by the Kremlin’s order that all Soviet per sonnel leave the embassy, part of retaliation for Washington’s order Tuesday that 55 Soviet diplomats leave the United States. When Colletti, who has worked in the embassy for 24 years, arrived in the morning, his entire staff of 14 was not at work. “I don’t know what to do, because I can’t run this place without them,” he said. He gesturing at a huge freezer in one corner of the kitchen and said, “There are 400 stuffed quail in there, and I guess that’s where they will stay. Maybe tomorrow they will come to their senses.” AP Laserpholo cleats coffee Moscow. Specter later met with senior citizens in Scranton and granted several media interviews. Kennedy likened the 1986 elec tions to the 1960 contest in which his brother John defeated Vice President Richard Nixon. Then too, Kennedy said, a two-term Republican administration head ed by President Dwight Eisenhow er was painting a rosy portrait of the economy. Kennedy joined Edgar as part a hectic campaign tour. Kennedy, recovering from a bad cold, has traveled in the past week with Sen. Alan Cranston in California and Senate candidate Brock Adams in Washington. He said he flew to Pennsylvania yesterday morning after watching the Boston Red Sox play the New York Mets Wednesday night in the World Series at Boston’s Fenway Park. All of Kennedy’s Pennsylvania stops were fund-raisers. Edgar is expected to raise less than half the money of Specter. The three Ken nedy events raised more than $40,- 000, according to Edgar campaign aides. Notably absent during the day were attacks on Specter. Edgar barely mentioned his name and Kennedy never did. forcing the Vatican to cover the dif ference with the “by now reduced patrimonial reserves.” A Vatican official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Vati can sold some real estate and some stocks to help meet the deficit. The statement said 54 percent of the budget were spent to pay wages of 2,281 employees and retirement bene fits of 925 people. The administrators of Vatican City produced a modest surplus of $146,- 603, the statement said. The Vatican City administration runs the post office and sells stamps popular among tourists. The statement said the 1985 deficit was lower than anticipated because the Vatican cut expenses “whenever possible.” It said the budget could not be trimmed further and that its patrimo ny was being eroded steadily. As a result, the statement said, there was an “urgent need” for more contribu tions from the faithful. In 1981, the Vatican for the first time made public limited financial data. Vatican officials said at the time that it was part of an effort by Pope John Paul II to eliminate “the myth” that the Vatican is wealthy. The Vatican has extensive real estate holdings, stock portfolios and a priceless collection of artworks. state news briefs Repeal of law frees Gypsies PITTSBURGH (AP) The recent repeal of Pennsylvania’s little-used restrictions on Gypsies has removed an unwelcome shadow on members of the ethnic group. Until Gov. Dick Thornburgh signed a bill repealing Pennsylva nia’s Gypsy registration laws earlier this month, authorities were free to impound Gypsies’ property or run them out of town under a 1909 statute. State law also required Gypsies to obtain licenses to move about the state freely. Under another state law, any fellow county resident could inspect a Gypsy’s residence. “I remember in the middle of the night, sheriffs coming and banging on the door with a flashlight, telling us to leave,” said Steve Mitchell, a Gypsy- who eventually settled in Pittsburgh’s Overbrook section. “It’s good to see these laws gone.” One of the few times the law was used in court was when brothers Steve and Tony Demetro were charged with being unlicensed Gypsies three years ago in nearby Bridgeville. They also were charged with criminal trespass and impersonating public servants. The men’s truck was seized, $4,000 in cash was impounded and all their possessions were; placed in police custody. Bridgeville Police Chief Leonard Villani said an officer examined various legal statutes when the brothers were accused of trying to rob an elderly woman. When the patrolman discovered the 1909 statute, he said, “we were surprised. But we used it. It worked.” Teen shot to death ERIE (AP) A 15-year-old suburban Erie boy was shot at close range and killed as he played football with friends, and police charged another 15-year-old boy in the slaying, authorities said yesterday. Friends of the victim, Kevin Kelly of Millcreek Township, said Kelly and his assailant had taunted each other in the past about whose school was better. The shooting occurred around 5 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The suspect was arrested yesterday morning and arraigned as an adult before Magistrate Charles Wise on charges of criminal homicide and possessing an instrument of crime, a 12-gauge shotgun. Wise said he sent the boy to a juvenile detention center without bond to await a preliminary hearing Oct. 31. In capital cases against juveniles, such as Kelly’s death, prosecu tors charge the suspect as an adult, leaving it defense attorneys to petition to have the case sent to juvenile court, Wise said. The magistrate, nonetheless, declined to identify the suspect by phone because he is a minor. Kelly was an eighth-grader at J.S. Wilson Middle School, where Principal James Stevens said counselors were called on to help students understand their classmate’s death. nation news briefs Mexico improves drug destruction WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Mexico’s drug crop-destruction program has improved, but it is too early to tell whether the country will make substantial strides this year toward erasing its record as the No. 1 source of U.S. heroin, the head of the State Department’s anti-narcotics drive said yesterday. In recent weeks, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has verified that Mexico sprayed herbicides on 99 percent of the opium fields it told U.S. authorities it would spray during the current campaign, said Ann Wrobleski, assistant secretary of state for international narcotics matters. In an interview with The Associated Press, Wrobleski said that in previous years, Mexico would promise to spray a certain number of fields, but spot checks by the U.S. agents would show that only 20 percent of the fields on the Mexican list had actually been sprayed. She said the Mexicans also are using a more efficient herbicide mixture to kill opium, the raw ingredient in heroin, Carnegie grant helps school reform WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A New York-based philanthropic group yesterday offered $890,000 to help the nation’s governors in their quest to reform the American educational system. The Carnegie Corp. said it was presenting the funds to help the National Governors’ Association “assist states in strengthening the teaching profession and restructuring American schools.” “If we care about children, there’s nothing more important,” said New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, who accepted the money on behalf of his colleagues. The Carnegie Corp. said the one-year grant will be used to allow governors association staff to help with pilot educational reforms in several states. Matching funds will be available to states. “The states, as we know in every field, are great laboratories,” said Carnegie President David Hamberg. rl . .4 world news briefs 5 arrested Pinochet murder attempt SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Police have arrested five men they suspect fired rifles at President Augusto Pinochet’s motorcade during an assassination attempt last month, the military govern ment announced yesterday. The five young men were the first of 50 suspects identified by an army prosecutor as wanted in the assassination attempt, in which five presidential bodyguards died and 11 were wounded. Pinochet suffered only a cut on his hand. Francisco Cuadra, secretary general of the government, handed reporters a brief statement last night on the arrests. It said one suspect had received military training in Cuba and another is the son of a Communist Party official who disappeared after being arrested in 1976. All five suspects were said to be members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, the communist rebel group that claimed responsibility for the Sept. 7 ambush. The front is named for a Chilean independence hero. U.N. report calls for clean water NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Millions of deaths could be prevented each year if access to sanitation facilities and clean drinking water was considered a basic human right, according to a U.N. report issued yesterday. The devastation caused by contaminated water including an estimated 4.6 million deaths of small children annually from diarrhea was stressed in the U.N. Environment Program’s annual report. William Mansfield, a former U.S. State Department official who is deputy executive director of the Nairobi-based U.N. agency, said half the people in developing countries lacked access to clean drinking water and 75 percent had inadequate sanitation facilities. “The magnitude of the problem would make one pessimistic,” Mansfield said at a news briefing. “It is worldwide, and urbaniza tion is taking place so rapidly that it is hard to provide enough clean water. But we have to make the effort.” Mansfield said China provided a positive example for the Third World because it had overcome most of its water and sanitation problems despite a per capita income no higher than many other developing countries. Clean water and sanitation facilities “should be regarded as a basic human right and, in that light, lead to a re-examination by governments of the resources nationally allocated for their provi sion,” the report said. “A healthy environment pays,” the report added. “Venezuela, for example, found that the provision of clean-water paid for itself five to 11 times over in increased productivity that better health brought to the work force.” HAIRWORKS cy 112 Hetzel St. t fe 4 l L3lock E. of McDonalds V 238-4571 f^arnpoort^rcut'BrowWy"! | ' , $ll.OO. with coupon . . j I reg. $15.00 i I good tinUl "HalrPlaT? No Fullness? 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