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Early parolee
kills Boy Scout
STROUDSBURG (AP) A
man released from a prison boot
camp eight days before authori
ties say he participated in the
execution-style slaying of a Boy
Scout epitomizes problems with
the parole system, according to a
state senator.
Jason P. Bader, 20, and Steven
Margretta, 21, pleaded innocent
Monday to the execution-style
shooting death of 16-year-old
James Gromes in the woods of
Monroe County.
Bader, who had been convicted
twice for burglary and had a
history of juvenile offenses, was
paroled Jan. 11 from the state
Department of Corrections boot
camp at Quehanna.
Police say he and Margretta
kidnapped Gromes as he left his
job at the Brodheadsville Burger
King on Jan. 18, held a gun to the
crying teen-ager’s head and
ordered him to drive his moth
er’s minivan.
Bader, 26 cents short of bus
fare from Brodheadsville to
Stroudsburg, told state police
that the eye glasses-wearing
Ross Township teen seemed like
an “easy target.” Police said
Bader and Margretta shot
Gromes 10 times after making
him lie down in a Stroud Town
ship field early on Jan. 19.
Gromes’ body was found by
hunters on Jan. 23.
Pork panic hits
West York again
WEST YORK (AP) For the
second time in two days, officials
and residents joined forces to
corral a 100-point Vietnamese
potbellied pig with a propensity
to escape captivity.
After the second breakout on
Monday, the pig Willie Watters
was keeping as a pet was turned
over to the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Police Chief S. Marshall Roser
Jr. said that he’d warned Watters
after the pig escaped Sunday that
the borough has a ban against
pigs as pets.
After the pig escaped Monday,
several people corralled the pig
in a yard and helped Roser and
SPCA humane officer Cindy
Reese lift the struggling animal
into the back of a truck.
Chelsea impresses
Pakistani leader
WASHINGTON (AP) Chel
sea Clinton apparently made
quite an impression during her
spring break visit to South Asia.
Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto
brought up the 15-year-old’s
knowledge of Islam when the
prime minister met with Presi
dent Clinton yesterday at the
White House.
“We found the first daughter
very knowledgeable, we found
Chelsea very knowledgeable on
Islamic issues,” Bhutto said dur
ing a news conference. “I’m
delighted to learn from the
president that Chelsea is study
ing Islamic history and has also
read our holy book, the Koran.”
During an Oval Office photo
session earlier in the day, Clinton
told Bhutto that Chelsea was “a
deeply religious child” and that
she attends school with many
Muslims.
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Heart heals while
on assist device
BERLIN (AP) A man’s heart
healed itself while a machine
helped pump his blood for five
months, doctors said yesterday,
suggesting that such devices
may help some heart patients
avoid transplants.
For five months, a left ven
tricular assist device took over
most of the work of the patient’s
left ventricle, the main pumping
chamber of the heart, Dr. Roland
Hetzer of the German Heart
Center said in a statement.
The devices are used as a
temporary measure to help
patients survive while waiting
for donor hearts. The natural
heart is left in the body.
Hetzer said the case was the
first in the world in which the
patient’s heart healed itself while
the device was in place.
France opposes Burundi mission
By CHRISTOPHER BURNS
Associated Press Writer
PARIS France expressed doubts yes
terday about sending a multinational force
into Burundi, but sought to play down any
rift with Washington after one French offi
cial called the U.S. ambassador to Burundi a
“warmonger.”
France contends that no foreign countries
are willing to send troops to deter ethnic
violence in the central African country.
On Monday, Cooperation Minister Ber
nard Debre went a step further, criticizing
the U.S. ambassador to Burundi, Robert
A group of DePaul University students stand outside the building of their student newspaper in Chicago
The students, angered over coverage of blacks in the DePaulia, continued their sit-in yesterday.
Congressional upheaval has
Democrats looking to future
By JILL LAWRENCE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressional Demo
crats are trying to make the best of their new,
virtually powerless status. Everyone should expe
rience a forced march through enemy territory,
they suggest, but not for long.
Forcibly relieved of running the House after
40 years, Democrats say they have new freedoms
—from responsibility, from compromise, from
producing results, from having to hold their tong
ues.
But as the song goes, freedom’s just another
word for nothing left to lose. Particularly in the
House, where Democrats have been frustrated
bystanders at a Republican revolution.
The 104th Congress had barely opened before
Democratic Rep. David Bonior was angrily com
plaining about rules limiting debate and shouting
“I object!” at Republicans presiding over the
House for the first time.
Outwardly, it was hard to tell that 203 of the
204 Democrats had never before served in the
congressional minority. Many knew what to say on
the floor; they just played back what they’d heard
Republicans saying for years.
But the inner adjustment was more difficult. Not
only had they lost control, their new speaker was
the man who’d been attacking their ethics, their
leaders and the very institution of the House for a
decade. There were recriminations, there was
confusion, there was disbelief.
“It’s like death and dying,” said Rep. Bob Wise,
D-W.Va. “Denial, depression, rejection and then
finally acceptance. That’s when you begin to
function again.”
No new Democrats were elected to the Senate
last year. The Democratic freshman class in the
U.S., Turkey begin talks about Kurds
By ZEYNEP ALEMDAR
Associated Press Writer
ANKARA, Turkey A top U.S.
official opened talks with Turkey’s
foreign minister today in an effort
to persuade Turkey to end its mil
itary incursion in northern Iraq.
Four weeks ago, Turkey sent
35,000 soldiers to wipe out the
bases of Turkish Kurdish guerril
las who have attacked Turkey
from across the Iraqi border. The
campaign has drawn strong crit
icism from Western countries.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Strobe Talbott, who arrived in
Ankara on Monday, met today with
Foreign Minister Erdal Inonu.
Next week, Prime Minister Tansu
Krueger, for purportedly urging interven
tion.
Krueger “wants military intervention but
doesn’t want to send any men,” Debre said.
‘lt’s warmongering.”
The U.S. Embassy in Burundi denied
yesterday that Krueger was pushing for
intervention in the former Belgian colony,
where an aid convoy was attacked last
week. There have been a surge of serious
ethnic battles in the past month, leading
some, to compare Burundi to neighboring
Rwanda.
“There are several options being dis
cussed by the U.N. Security Council to help
House was so small 11 compared with 73 for the
GOP that a non-partisan orientation was
canceled; only a conservative seminar featuring
talk-show host Rush Limbaugh was available. Nor
was much guidance forthcoming from their more
senior colleagues.
“We wanted to know where to go and what we
should be doing and they didn’t even know what
they were going to be doing,” said freshman
Rep. John Baldacci, D-Maine. “We were always
looking for a base of experience and they couldn’t
offer any.”
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, who
turned over the gavel to House Speaker Newt
Gingrich three months ago “with resignation,” said
his party’s reduced circumstances sank in grad
ually.
“Almost unconsciously you believe that you have
a majority,” said Gephardt, D-Mo. “It took a while
to understand that we weren’t going to win. We
could make a point, we could make arguments, we
could say what we would like to do, but we were
not going to win.”
Morale has worsened with a stream of defec
tions. Rep. Nathan Deal of Georgia became a
Republican this week. Two Democratic senators
have switched to the GOP since the election, when
Republicans recaptured the chamber after a six
year absence. And four Senate Democrats from
competitive states have announced retirement
plans, with more departures a distinct possibility.
Unlike House Democrats who are totally shut
out of the legislative process, the 46 Democratic
senators have a shot at some real influence.
Ciller is to visit President Clinton
at the White House.
The content of today’s talk was
not immediately disclosed, but
Talbott, in a speech at an Ankara
university today, said the U.S.
position was clear.
“The United States understands
Turkey’s needs to deal firmly with
... a vicious terrorist organiza
tion,” he said, “but at the same
time we attach great importance to
the assurances of the Turkish
government that the operations
will be limited in scope and dura
tion.”
He said the United States was
reassured by the withdrawal last
week of 3,000 soldiers from Iraq.
The offensive in northern Iraq
News analysis
targets bases believed operated by
some 2,800 rebels. It involves the
part of northern Iraq controlled by
Iraqi Kurds who want indepen
dence from Baghdad. The area is
protected by a U.S.-led allied air
force and is out of Iraq’s reach.
The State Department said
recently that the United States
opposes an independent state for
ethnic Kurds and might favor a
system of self-government in
states where Kurds live.
In the past, Turkey has opposed
similar scenarios.
Turkey has 12 million Kurds,
about 20 percent of its population.
Sizeable Kurdish populations also
live in Iraq, Iran, Syria and
Armenia.
bring peace and security back to Burundi
and the U.S. government has not decided on
any one course of action,” said Gordon
Duguid, an embassy spokesman.
“We are working with the French, the
Belgians and the United Nations to reach a
decision on which is the best way forward.”
Washington has yet to decide on a multi
lateral force proposed by UJI. Secretary-
General Boutros Boutros Ghali, Duguid said
by telephone from Burundi.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Richard
Duque said France believes there are still
some “possible preventive diplomatic mea
sures” that could avert major violence. He
Police
incites
DePaul University
students protest
derogatory phrase in
school newspaper.
By LINDSEY TANNER
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO M-B’s. That’s
police talk for “male blacks,” and
when the phrase cropped up in a
story about a fight at a campus
party, it led to a sit-in that has shut
down the student newspaper at
DePaul University.
Last week, dozens of DePaul
students, most of them black,
stormed the office of the weekly
DePaulia, ordering staff members
to leave. About 20 students have
been holed up ever since, with no
resolution in sight. Negotiations
are continuing with the adminis
tration.
Last week, DePaul’s president,
the Rev. John Minogue, asked
newspaper staffers and protesters
to reach an agreement, then sus
pended publication of Friday’s
edition.
The protesters, who include
some whites and Hispanics, are
demanding the ouster of DePau
lia’s editor in chief, 21-year-old
Trouble continues
for Pa. parolee
By MARLENE AIG
Associated Press Writer
NEW CITY, N.Y. Reginald
McFadden, the murderer who was
released from prison in Pennsyl
vania and is suspected in three
killings since then, has been
moved to a maximum security
prison after battling with guards
and trying to escape.
“He’s a professional con who is
well used to the system,” Rockland
County Undersheriff Tom Guthrie
said yesterday. “He knows how to
literally drive us crazy.”
McFadden, 42, was moved from
the Rockland County Jail on Mon
day to the Sullivan County Cor
rectional Facility in Fallsburg.
Guthrie said McFadden had
threatened “everyone from the
judge to the district attorney; he
was stopping up his toilet with
toilet paper, soaping the floor of
his cell so people would slip if they
came in, and he was throwing
urine and feces at the guards.”
McFadden was also charged with
trying to escape last month, he
said.
He is awaiting trial in the Sep
tember rape and robbery of a
South Nyack woman and the mur
der of a computer programmer.
At the Sullivan County facility,
McFadden is being kept in “disci
plinary housing,” in a cell covered
with a Plexiglas shield, said Jim
Flateau, spokesman for the state
Wednesday, April 12, 1995
made clear Paris has doubts about military
intervention.
“The French government is looking into
some very numerous questions about such
an intervention: what would be the mandate
of such a force, its mode of operation, how
many people involved, the political and
military objectives,” Duque said.
Duguid declined to comment on the
remarks by Debre, who said Monday that
neither the United States nor Europe want
to send troops to Burundi
“You’d have to declare war again# the
Burundi army,” said Debre, whose ministry
is concerned mainly with aid to Africa.
report
protest
Zack Martin, who is white. They
are also demanding that the paper
publish weekly articles on minori
ty concerns and that the school do
more to curtail racism and punish
offenders.
The takeover came after weeks
of bickering over the Feb. 17 front
page article about a brawl at a
campus party. The story quoted a
police report describing “several
M-B’s throwing chairs and trash
into the crowd.”
Black students complained that
the excerpt from the police report
the only mention of race in the
story was irrelevant and per
petuated negative stereotypes
about blacks.
Black students also have
charged that campus security
officers who broke up the Feb. 10
fight made racial slurs that
weren’t reported in the article.
Following the complaints, the
newspaper published an editorial
saying the two reporters who cov
ered the fight did not intend to
write an unbalanced or insensitive
article.
Racial tensions had been sim
mering at the Catholic school on
Chicago’s North Side before the
protest brought the issue to the
fore.
"He's a professional
con who is well used
to the system. He
knows how to literally
drive us crazy."
Tom Guthrie
Rockland County undersheriff
Department of Correctional Serv
ices.
“If he throws things at correc
tion officers, they will bounce off
the shield and stay in his cell until
he cleans it up,” said Flateau. “If
he soaps down the floor, it will
stay soapy until he gets tired of
slipping on it. If he burns blankets,
we’ll take away his blankets. If he
stuffs toilet paper in the toilet,
he’ll get sheets, not rolls.”
McFadden is locked in his cell
23 hours a day, said Flateau, and
has no contact with other inmates.
McFadden had been serving a
life prison sentence in Pennsylva
nia for the 1969 murder of a Phil
adelphia woman when the sentence
was commuted and he was freed
July 7, 1994. His trial judge and
others testified that prison life had
rehabilitated him.
He came to New York where
authorities alleged he killed at
least two people, including an
elderly Long Island woman, and
raped another.