King faces prison
for drunken driving
LOS ANGELES (AP) Rodney
King was charged with misdemea
nor drunken driving yesterday and
ordered to spend at least 60 days at
a residential alcohol recovery pro
gram.
The charges were the first filed
as the result of King's four run-ins
with the law since his notorious 1991
beating by police after a freeway
chase.
City Attorney James Hahn charged
King with one count each of driv
ing under the influence of alcohol
and driving with a blood alcohol level
above the state's limit of .08 per
cent.
King had a blood alcohol level of
.19 after his arrest early Saturday,
police Cmdr. David Gascon said. He
was booked after a witnesses said
he was driving the Chevrolet Blazer
that crashed into a wall near a
downtown nightclub. King and two
other people in the vehicle weren't
hurt.
Released CIA documents
By JOHN DIAMOND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. A letter purpor
tedly from a Cuban to Lee Harvey Oswald
12 days before John F. Kennedy's assassi
nation praises Oswald's marksmanship a - .d
refers to an "affair" in which both are involved.
newly released CIA documents show.
The letter, dated Nov. 10, 1963, was described
in a secret Central Intelligence Agency memo
made public this week. Addressed to - Friend
Lee," the letter was written in Spanish and
signed by someone calling himself "Pedro
Charles."
"You ought to close the business as soon as
possible, like I told you before in Miami," the
letter states according to the ClA's transla
tion. "Do not be foolish with the money I gave
Anniversary
of hurricane
surfaces pain
By BILL BERGSTROM
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI Three hundred-sixty five
days later, Hurricane Andrew
remains a painful wound slow to heal.
Agonizing memories dog Jaime
Curet, who huddled with his wife in
their crumbling home on Aug. 24,
1992, watching their daughter's trailer
fly by their window in murderous
145 mph winds.
"I feel bad," Curet said yester
day. "I feel real bad remembering
it, looking back."
The anniversary yesterday of the
nation's most destructive natural
disaster was marked with a dawn
prayer service, ground-breakings and
block parties. The hurricane left
41 dead and $3O billion in damages
in Florida.
Curet and his wife Blanca are
putting their lives back together, with
help from the American Red Cross
and an $11,500 loan from the Fed
eral Emergency Management
Agency. They have moved into a
hurricane-damaged house they're
fixing up.
But like many of their neighbors,
any comfort is tenuous.
Reminders of the devastation are
everywhere. Hardly a single tall tree
remains. Many businesses have
closed forever, their empty hulks
lining streets.
An estimated 100,000 people fled
the area. Divorce is up 25 percent,
domestic violence cases soared,
schools reported suicide attempts and
increased discipline problems.
Virtually every block has at least
one rubble-strewn, abandoned house.
Homestead Air Force Base, where
8,000 people once worked, will stay
open, but in a shrunken form, no
longer an anchor for thousands of
military retirees.
Anniversary events began with a
sunrise prayer service in Home
stead's shiny, refurbished athletic
complex.
Gov. Lawton Chiles accentuated the
positive. Many of the 100,000
destroyed or badly damaged homes
have been rebuilt despite numer
ous hassles with insurance compa
nies and contractors.
Flattened citrus groves have been
replanted, and the construction boom
has created jobs.
"In the last few months, there is
a totally different look," Chiles said.
"There's a totally different feel.
Homestead is never going to be the
same, South Florida is never going
to be the same, but we are going to
make them better."
In Florida City, symbolizing the
healing, a lumber company and
volunteers were feverishly work
ing on "Miracle House," to be fin
ished in 24 hours. A block party was
planned in the city Tuesday night.
A few blocks away, Lt. Gov. Buddy
Mac Kay and Florida City officials
broke ground for a new civic cen
ter and police station.
"You can see now the composite
effect of all this energy and frus
tration," Mac Kay said.
Farther north, the temporary camp
at St. Ann's mission in Naranja has
vanished.
King faces a maximum penalty of
six months in jail and a $l,OOO fine
on each count. Arraignment was set
for Sept. 15.
His attorney Milton Grimes didn't
immediately return telephone calls.
King, who is on parole for a 1990
armed robbery conviction, had been
free on his own recognizance, but
has since been sent to a treatment
center, said Jerome Di Maggio,
regional administrator of the state
Department of Corrections.
He can receive no visitors at the
center other than his attorney and
is subject to arrest if he leaves before
completing the program, Di Mag
gio said.
King, 28, may he required to pay
the daily cost of S4O to $7O, and could
be ordered to stay in the program
for longer than the 60 days.
Since his videotaped beating at the
hands of white officers on March 3,
1991, King, who is a black man, has
had a series of brushes with the law.
ou. So I hope you will not defraud me and
that our dreams will be realized. After the affair
T LI! 0. going to recommend much to the Chief."
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Thu letter does not identify "the Chief." But
the .‘rriter says he told the Chief, "You could
put out a candle at 50 meters," an apparent
reference to Oswald's shooting ability.
The CIA memo raises questions about the
letter's veracity, noting that it is post
marked Nov. 28, 1963, six days after the
assassination.
The memo notes that the type face and
signature match that of another letter also
postmarked from Havana, Cuba on Nov. 28
and addressed to then-Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy, the slain president's brother.
That letter was gned "Mario del Rosario
Molina." The text of the letter to Robert
F. Kenney y was r..t included in the memo.
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Assassination experts said the letter has long
been known to investigators with access to
secret assassination files and they said it may
have been a fake, perhaps designed to fal
sely implicate the Castro regime in the
assassination.
"I suspect it's a fabrication or something
that could have been used to set up Oswald,"
said James Lesar, director of the Assassi
nation Archives and Research Center, a private,
Washington-based trove of assassination
records.
Gaeton Fonzi, a staff member of two
congressional inyestigations into the Ken
nedy assassination, said the letter was probably
connected to an elaborate misinformation
campaign directed by "assets" of the CIA and
designed to discredit Castro.
"The strategy is to inject confusion," Fonzi
said.
Other documents that are part of the 300-
plus boxes of CIA material available at the
National Archives included a CIA memo dated
March 18, 1964, that details Oswald's psy
chiatric record.
The analyst, Arthur Dooley, writes that, "All
available evidence points to a solitary act of
a mentally unstable person." The memo cites
psychiatric reports from counseling ses
sions Oswald underwent at age 13 in which
he revealed "a compulsive urge to kill peo
ple," and described "fantasies about being all
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hurting and killing people, he said that it did
on occasions."
As the assassination receded in time, the
CIA memos increasingly concerned the
agency's own image.
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weapons
for murder.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) A Penn
sylvania man accused of rape ws
charged yesterday with offeriftg
undercover federal agents guns'lf
they would kill his accuser along wfth
her husband and children.
Larry Labar, 25, was being held
on the rape charges in the Monroe
County Jail in Stroudsburg, when he
wrote two letters earlier this month.
He apparently didn't realize 'iris
intended assassins were agents - Of
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms.
He promised $5,000 worth of
weapons to the undercover agents,
with whom he had previouily
arranged also while in jail the
sale of an assault weapon. Labar
suggested that agents "eleminafe"
(sic) the family by detonating a hand
grenade near their home.
"As far as the kids, they'll
unfortunetely (sic) be at the wrong
place at the wrong time. I'm riot
letting two kids stop me from shutting
up two others ... I'm definately (sic)
not going to lose (sic) sleep over these
two rug rats," wrote Labar, of
Bartonsville.
The children are 13 and 1 1 / 2 ye - ars
old, according to a complaint filed
yesterday in U.S. District Court in
Newark
Also charged yesterday was
Dorothy Thorns, 30, of East
Stroudsburg. She is accused of
consummating the gun sale that Labar
arranged while in jail. Thorns got $B5O
for a Norinco 7.62-caliber Mac 90 on
July 26. The transaction took place
in Hope, N.J. The Mac 90 is among
the assault weapons banned in New
Jersey.
Labar faces up to 30 years in prion
and $760,000 in fines. Thorns faces
5 years and $250,000.
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