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Theodore Bundy got Hinckley letters
.By JAMES ROWLEY
'Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON,D.C. Triple murderer The
odore Bundy told Secret Service agents that he
'received three or four letters from presidential
:assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. during an ex
:change of mail last year, prosecutors said yester
day.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Adelman said in
'court that Bundy, awaiting execution in Florida
for three 1978 killings, told the Secret Service that
Hinckley began writing him in May, 1986.
"The Bundy letters... certainly bear some simi
larities" with Hinckley's previous obsessive writ
: ings about the movie "Taxi Driver," Adelman told
U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker.
Prosecutors and psychiatrists say Hinckley shot
President Reagan in 1981 to impress actress Jodie
Foster, who played a prostitute in the violent
movie.
Bundy "claimed that in 1986, he received three
or four letters from Mr. Hinckley," Adelman said.
"He claimed he wrote to Mr. Hinckley two or
three times," Adelman said.
The correspondence "was initiated by Mr.
Hinckley in May, 1986, Mr. Bundy stopped writing
last October, 1986," he said.
Bundy told the Secret Service he threw out the
letters he received from Hinckley, Adelman said.
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In Texas
By EVANS WITT
AP Political Writer
AMARILLO, Texas Gary Hart
declared yesterday that every "se
rious leader of either political party"
believes new federal revenues are
necessary to cut the budget deficit
and that to say otherwise is irrespons
ible.
"I am unalterably opposed to any
income tax increase for middle and
low-income Americans," Hart said.
But he said a combination of an oil
import fee, luxury taxes, user fees
and perhaps a temporary surtax on
Americans in the top income tax
bracket would raise a needed $lB
billion to $25 billion.
Last Thursday, the Democrat-dom
inated House approved a $1 trillion
budget proposal, without Republican
support, featuring a call for $lB bil
lion in unspecified new taxes, plus $1
billion in increased tax enforcement
Judge asked to force open records
By JAMES ROWLEY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON,D.C. The Sen
ate urged a skeptical federal judge
yesterday to order retired Air
Force Maj. General Richard V.
Secord to release foreign bank re
cords believed linked to the Iran-
Contra arms deals.
U.S. District Judge Aubrey E.
Robinson Jr. said he would rule in
the case, but he called the order the
Senate was seeking "a charade,"
said the Swiss might reject it and
suggested whatever decision he
makes will surely be appealed.
Senate attorney Michael David
son said the Tower commission,
appointed by President Reagan to
investigate the Iran-Contra affair,
had identified Secord's "promi
nence in global arrangements with
Hart begins campaign
and $2 billion in fees and premiums
for government services.
As Hart, the Democratic front-run
ner, kicked off the first official trip of
his 1988 presidential campaign, he
tackled the tax issue that bedeviled
the Democratic ticket in 1984.
The former Colorado senator also
plunged into other issues, talking
about such matters as AIDS, arms
control and agriculture.
At a barbecue on Roy Walls' farm
in the shadow of a grain elevator in
this Texas Panhandle town, Hart
pledged emergency debt relief and
reforms of the farm credit system "to
turn the credit system into a system
to help the farmers and not help the
speculators and help the land grab
bers."
Facing a 30-knot wind, Hart said he
would do his best for the farmers, "if
I don't get blown off this platform."
Hart saved his harshest rhetoric for
President Reagan and his insistence
respect to shipment of arms to
Iran."
The commission's report also
said Secord was involved in a net
work supporting the Nicaraguan
rebels known as Contras. It said
contributions appear to have been
routed to the Contras through a
series of private organizations,
some of them linked to Secord-con
trolled bank accounts by a chart
found in the safe of fired National
Security Council aide Oliver North.
In another development Tues
day, a Justice Department spokes
man said North received an FBI
investigative report last year on a
criminal probe of alleged gunrun
ning to the Contras.
The document was written by an
FBI agent working in Miami, said
federal law enforcement sources,
speaking on condition they not be
identified. It allowed North to keep
The judge convened the emergency hearing
after Hinckley's lawyers complained that Secret
Service agents served their client with an unautho
rized subpoena earlier in the day.
Federal prosecutors, who Monday night ob
tained two letters Hinckley received from Bundy,
are seeking more evidence of correspondence with
the Florida death row inmate, who is linked to 36
other murders.
During a hearing Monday, a psychiatrist unex
pectedly revealed that Hinckley had written Bun
dy, had sought the address of mass killer Charles
Manson and had received a letter from Manson
follower Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, impris
oned for trying to kill President Ford in 1975.
The government is seeking the letters to docu
ment its opposition to Hinckley's bid to make an
unescorted family visit from St. Elizabeths Hospi
tal, where he was sent for shooting President
Reagan in 1981.
The letters "bear directly on his state of mind,"
Adelman said.
Hinckley was acquitted by reason of insanity in
the March 30, 1981 shooting of Reagan, presi
dential press secretary James S. Brady,•a Secret
Service agent and a city policeman.
Adelman said the two Bundy letters, dated July
21 and Aug. 7 of last year, indicated a more
extensive correspondence between him and Hinck
ley.
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that no tax increases be enacted to
ease the federal deficit.
"I think it is irresponsible to say
you can balance the federal budget
without additional revenues. I don't
know one serious leader of either
political party and I underline
serious who believes you can,"
Hart told a Denver news conference.
"The question is are they willing, are
they brave enough to tell the Ameri
can people that."
"The president, to the detriment of
the country, has skewed this debate
by saying all taxes are income
taxes," Hart said, "and that he alone
as opposed to the whole political
process, including the leadership of
his own political party stands in the
breach against those income tax in
creases."
Hart sad he is not taking the same
position that caused former Vice
President Walter Mondale so much
trouble .
tabs on an investigation that poten
tially could have revealed his own
possible role in assistance to the
Contras during a two-year congres
sional ban on. U.S. military aid to
the guerrillas.
The sources said the document
was found in North's files at the
NSC after the Iran-Contra affair
was uncovered last November, but
spokesmen for the FBI and Justice
Department declined to confirm
that.
The spokesmen said it is unclear
how the document wound up in
North's hands. But it appears to
have been supplied to him through
the FBI field office in Miami, said
the sources.
Attorney General Edwin Meese
111 acknowledges he asked U.S.
attorney Leon Kellner in Miami
about the status of the investiga
tion a year ago.
Secret Service agents who interviewed Bundy
earlier Tuesday found a piece of paper with
Hinckley's address and notations indicating the
dates Bundy had written the two letters,
. Parker issued an order directing Hinckley to
turn over notes, documents, letters, writings,
postcards as well as poems that he keeps in his
room at St. Elizabeths.
The judge also ordered the hospital's legal staff
to examine all audio and video tapes that Hinckley
may have in his possession. He also directed the
hospital lawyers to compile a list and brief de
scription of books in Hinckley's room.
Parker said he would review all of the materials
to determine if they would be relevant to Wednes
day's hearing on Hinckley's application for the
Easter weekend visit.
"If he wants to leave he is going to have to
cooperate," Parker said.
Judith Miller, one of Hinckley's lawyers, had
complained that the government was invading her
client's privacy by trying to obtain letters he had
written to Leslie deVeau, a former mental patient
identified by prosecutors as his girlfriend.
The 43-year-old former socialite was acquitted
by reason of insanity in the 1982 shotgun slaying of
her sleeping 'lO-year-old daughter. Ms. deVeau
met Hinckley at St. Elizabeths, from which she
was released in 1985.
Suspended
theologian
will teach
at Cornell
By ROBERT FURLOW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON,D.C. Theolo
gian Charles Curran, suspended
from Catholic University of
America for his dissent on sexual
issues, will take a post as visiting
professor at Cornell University,
officials at the New York school
said yesterday.
Curran, a Roman Catholic
priest, is fighting the suspension
from his tenured professorship at
Catholic University in court and
has said repeatedly he has no
plans to leave the school perma
nently. Supporters said he would
not be available for comment on
the Cornell post before a news
conference in Washington on
Wednesday.
A news release from Cornell
said he will take a position as
visiting professor of Catholic
studies for the next academic
year and will also be a senior
fellow in Cornell's Society for the
Humanities.
"Professor Curran's presence
will add a highly desirable di
mension to the intellectual life of
the university," the release
quoted Cornell President Frank
H. T. Rhodes as saying.
"Curran plans to teach courses
concerned with the Second Vati
can Council's renewal of Roman
Catholicism, Roman Catholic so
cial teaching and moral theolo
gy," the release said. In addition,
he is to deliver a series of public
lectures.
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The Cornell release noted that
the school has no department of
religion or theology, but it quoted
Rhodes as saying "the university
has from its inception acknowl
edged religion as an appropriate
object of academic study."
Curran was suspended in Jan
uary though he remains on the
Catholic University payroll and
still lives on campus morelhan
seven years after the start of a
Vatican investigation of sexual
ethics views that church leaders
find too liberal.
Church authorities in Washing
ton began proceedings for revok
ing his "canonical mission."
Bomb rips
By ANDY LIPPMAN
Associated Press Writer
KOKOMO, Ind. A man on trial for dealing drugs was
believed killed yesterday when a briefcase he was carry
ing exploded in the Howard County courthouse, injuring
at least five others, including the sheriff, officers said.
The defendant, Robert Gray of Marion, was "believed
to be dead" in the blast, prosecutor James Andrews said
at a news conference. However, he refused to comment
further, and other law enforcement officers would not
comment.
Police said the courthouse was sealed off because they
feared more explosives might be inside. Authorities also
feared that the building had received severe structural
damage that could endanger searchers.
Andrews said confirmation of a fatality would come
only after the county coroner was allowed into the blast
site, but by late afternoon the coroner still was not
allowed into the building.
Andrews said Gray had the briefcase with him when he
went into Sheriff John Beatty's office with his attorney
shortly before his trial was to resume about 2 p.m.
The prosecutor said authorities had expressed "some
concern about that briefcase," which was near Beatty
when the explosion occurred.
Your taxes are
today,
be paying
By JIM LUTHER
AP Tax Writer
WASHINGTON,D.C. Just
when you had finished your 1986
return and thought it was safe to
forget about taxes for awhile, the
Tax Foundation predicted yester
day that the typical American will
have to work another 19 days to
pay up for 1987.
Tax Freedom Day 1987 is May 4
two days later than last year.
Economists at the non-partisan
research' organization calculate
that if every cent a worker earned
during the first part of the year
were earmarked for federal, state
and local taxes, he or she would
have to toil for the tax collectors
through May 3. Viewed another
way, an average person will have
to work two hours and 43 minutes
of each eight-hour day to pay
taxes.
"This year, the American tax
payer has returned to the same
point he was at prior to passage"
of the 1981 federal tax cut, the
foundation said. Those across-the
board reductions were wiped out
by subsequent federal tax increas
es and a growing tax burden at the
state and local levels, the analysis
said. '
The news came a day before the
deadline for filing federal tax re
turns a chore that perhaps 10
million Americans were putting
off until the last hours. Returns
must be postmarked by midnight
Wednesday.
As the deadline approached, fi
nancial institutions were doing a
booming business in ' Individual
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Members of the Kokomo, Ind., police secure the outside of the Howard County
Courthouse after a person awaiting trial set off a bomb on the third floor of the
building yesterday.
Indiana courthouse
The other known injured were identified as Jack Ad
ams, a Kokomo police officer; Indiana State Police
Trooper Doug Schultz; Charles Scruggs, Gray's attorney,
and Beatty.
Katherine Walsh-Miller, a spokeswoman for Methodist
Hospital in Indianapolis, said Beatty was in serious but
stable condition, and would undergo surgery "to clean the
wounds."
She said Beatty was burned over 25 percent of his body,.
suffered numerous burns and embedded fragments of
metal on his torso, arms and legs and multiple lacera
tions,
The other injured were listed in either good or fair
condition at St. Joseph Hospital in Kokomo, said
spokeswoman Mary Lindgran.
Gray was on trial on two counts of dealing in controlled
substances. He had been accused of selling LSD to
undercover agents in 1983
His trial had started Tuesday morning, and the jury had
returned to the jury room from lunch when the bomb went
off.
"Everyone, was stunned," said Roger Grady of Koko
mo, a juror. "We thought it was a sonic boom or a tornado
or thunder. But I knew it was too loud to be a sonic boom."
Sgt. Fred Biggs at the state police post in Peru said
authorities received a bomb threat.
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Wednesday, April 15, 1987
you will
till May
but
Retirement Accounts, which
after these returns will no long
er be universally deductible. Pro
fessional returns preparers had all
the business they could handle and
Internal Revenue Service offices
were swamped with last-minute
pleas for advice.
The IRS expects 6.5 million cou
ples and individuals to avoid the
filing deadline by mailing a Form
4868, which will bring a four
month extension. But that form
must be accompanied by a check
for any estimated tax due.
There's another way to stay the
inevitable. Any taxpayer who is
out of the United States or Puerto
Rico on April 15 gets an automatic
two-month extension in the time to
file and to pay any tax.
The IRS has been processing
returns without any major hitches
this year, but the agency says
anyone who waits until the last
day to file should expect to wait
longer for a refund. Although most
refunds will be processed in six to
eight weeks, IRS spokesman Lar
ry Batdorf said Tuesday, some
may require up to 10 weeks.
Through April 3, the IRS had
received more than 58 million re
turns, and 78 percent of them had
resulted in refunds totaling just
under $3O billion. For all of 1987,
the IRS expects 105.5 million re
turns.
The federal tax bill this year is
less than it was in 1981 but higher
than ldst year. Calculated on the
basis of an eight-hour work day,
the foundation estimated the aver
age worker will have to work one
hour and 46 minutes to pay the IRS
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state news briefs
Pope appoints Greensburg bishop
GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) New Castle native Anthony G.
Bosco, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pitts
burgh, was named bishop of the Greensburg Diocese by Pope John
Paul 11.
Bosco, 59, becomes the third bishop of Greensburg since its
establishment in 1951. He succeeds Bishop William G. Connare, 75,
who announced his retirement in December after 25 years as head
of the diocese that represents 215,743 Catholics in Armstrong,
Fayette, Indiana and Westmoreland counties.
Bosco is to be installed as bishop on June 30 at Blessed Sacrament
Cathedral in Greensburg,
3 charged in alleged murder plot
HARRISBURG (AP) A Pittsburgh-area landfill operator
already sentenced to serve up to 18 years in prison on bribery and
toxic waste convictions was charged Tuesday with planning to kill
a state environmental official.
William Fiore of suburban Pittsburgh was charged with conspir
acy to commit murder for allegedly contracting for the attempted
killing of Charles Duritsa, a regional solid waste manager for the
Department of Environmental Resources.
Duritsa were involved in enforcement efforts agaidst Fiore's
Pittsburgh-area landfill, Municipal and Industrial Disposal Co.
"The evidence that these two public officials were targeted for
death because they insisted on carrying out their official responsi
bilities makes this an especially serious case," , Zimmerman said,
Train's wheel scrutinized
PITTSBURGH (AP) A broken steel wheel was undergoing
laboratory tests Tuesday as a leading clue to why two Conrail
freight trains derailed, releasing toxic fumes that chased 16,000
residents from their homes.
Meanwhile, blood and urine samples from .the seven crew
members of the two trains have been sent to a laboratory in Utah to
be tested for alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and other illegal drugs,
said Thomas Simpson, spokesman in Washington, D.C., for the
Federal Railroad Administration.
The type of stresses that fractured the wheel into three pieces
might indicate whether the wheel broke during the crash or fell
apart beforehand, he said.
nation news briefs
Ads seek to stop tampering
CHICAGO (AP) The scene is a phone booth, and a caller is
threatening to poison a food or drug product.
"Make a product tampering threat from this box," warns the
voice of actor Dennis Franz, Lt. Norman Buntz on "Hill Street
Blues," as the scene shifts to a prison cell, "and you'll end up in this
box, for five years."
The 30-second TV commercial is part of a planned nationwide
advertising campaign to curb the growing number of product
tampering threats.
The campaign being launched this week in Chicago, where seven
people died in 1982 after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, is a
cooperative effort by the Food and Drug Administration, the FBI,
the Advertising Council and several industry associations,
Toxic chemical spill kills one
NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) Some 2,000 gallons of a toxic
chemical spilled from a ruptured pipe Tuesday and the fumes
killed one man, injured six and forced evacuation of about 1,000
people from an industrial park, officials said.
Crews from seven local and state agencies were "just working
down there feverishly" to contain the spill, said Davis County
Sheriff's Capt. Bud Cox. Crews also worked to stop the chemical
from eating through a warehouse's concrete floor and plugged
drains to keep it out of sewers, officials said.
Thirty businesses and four homes in a two-square-mile area were
evacuated, said police Sgt. Paul Arnold.
1,000 evacuated
GARY, Ind. (AP) A leaking storage tank sent a cloud of
hydrochloric acid across part of Gary on Tuesday, injuring 13
people and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 more, officials said.
"It does not appear there were any serious injuries," said Mayor
Richard Hatcher.
The spill apparently was discovered Monday night by an employ
ee of Gary Products Inc. who tried to fix the leak, but failed and
went home without telling authorities. The city was not notified
until Tuesday morning, Hatcher said.
"That's one of the things we're upset about," he said
Tuesday afternoon officials discovered two more of the five tanks
on the site were also leaking. Emergency workers were sealing the
leaks and bringing in tanker trucks to transfer the acid,
U.S. household size at record low
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of people living in the
average American household has dipped to its lowest level ever, as
the nation's maturing population is setting up new homes faster
than it is growing overall.
The typical household included only 2.67 people as of last July 1, a
number that has been declining steadily over the years, the Census
Bureau reported Tuesday. The average was 2.76 in 1980.
The major reason for the decline is the fact that America is aging
the share of adults in the population is growing in contrast to
younger people, said Campbell Gibson of the bureau.
world news , briefs
Moscow queried on nuke levels
BONN, West Germany (AP) West Germany, which was in the
path of Chernobyl radiation, said Tuesday it is asking Moscow
whether higher radioactivity levels detected in Europe last month
were caused by another Soviet nuclear accident.
West Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and France con
firmed Tuesday that varying increases in atmospheric radiation
were recorded in March, but reported no damage or injuries.
Kremlin officials denied the Soviet Union was the source.
The Soviets were criticized for a delay of nearly three days in
reporting the explosion and fire last April at the Chernobyl nuclear
power plant in the Ukraine. It killed 31 people and spewed an
invisible cloud of radiation over Europe that eventually worked its
way around the world.
Officials in Bonn said unusual levels of the radioactive element
iodine 131 and four to five times the normal amounts of xenon gas
were measured in West Germany between March 9 and March 15,
9 hurt by dynamite during march
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Dynamite sticks and a gasoline bomb
hurled Tuesday during a protest march by 12,000 workers and
students injured at least nine people, including two men guarding
the U.S. Embassy, witnesses said.
None of the injured was severely hurt, hospital officials said. The
march called to protest the government's austerity measures.
In Washington, the State Department said an explosive device
was thrown by a marcher at the U.S. Embassy, hit the building and
then bounced back and exploded. The statement said an embassy
regional security officer, an American, was slightly injured along
with a Bolivian policeman guarding the embassy.
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