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Woman sits on man,
charged with assault
NORRISTOWN (AP) A
woman who returned from
prison to find her boyfriend had
strayed sat on the man until he
promised to take her back, police
said.
Juanita Winston who at 170
pounds outweighs William Narr
by more than 40 pounds was
charged with assault, reckless
endangering and stalking.
Police said Winston, 27, cor
nered Narr, 37, Saturday in the
storeroom of the liquor store he
managed, picked him up and
threw him onto a ramp, then
wrapped an apron around his
neck and forced him into a chair.
Then she sat on him, police
said.
“He finally gave in and told
(Winston) that he would like to
renew their old relationship,”
according to court papers.
Effects of closed bases
helped by new group
HARRISBURG (AP) Gov.
Tom Ridge has reorganized a
committee first formed to pre
vent military base closings to
help communities facing the loss
of jobs following Pentagon cuts.
“We fought for every job and
every base during the most
recent base closure process and
we will fight equally hard for the
communities that need and want
assistance in the wake of these
closures,” Ridge said.
The Base Retention and Con
version Pennsylvania Action
Committee was formed from a
group known by the same
acronym BRAC PAC that
aided communities with military
installations targeted by the fed
eral Base Closure and Realign
ment Commission. Ridge
announced the new group
Wednesday.
The new team has two mis
sions to help communities that
still have military facilities and
to provide guidance and support
to areas losing bases.
The areas of the state hit hard
est by Pentagon recommenda
tions, now accepted by President
Clinton, are Philadelphia and
Chambersburg.
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Teacher charged with
possession of drugs
SLIDELL, La. (AP) A former
teacher of the year was arrested
along with her weightlifter hus
band yesterday after deputies
found 10 marijuana plants grow
ing in their home.
Laurie Wilder Maschek, a
fifth-grade teacher, and her 34-
year-old husband, James
Maschek, were charged with
marijuana cultivation and other
offenses carrying a total of more
than 50 years in prison.
Mrs. Maschek, 32, was named
teacher of the year by her St.
Tammany Parish school system
in 1992.
“There’s no indication that
they were selling at the school or
out of their house at this point,”
sheriff’s spokesman Larry Ciko
said.
The marijuana, worth about
$15,000 on the street, was grow
ing in a room with a 1,000-watt
light bulb, deputies said. Offi
cers also seized two shotguns
and two bottles of bodybuilding
steroids.
The couple were jailed on
$15,000 bail each.
World ;
Mir crew stuck in orbit
due to lack of funds
MOSCOW (AP) The three
man crew aboard the space sta
tion Mir will have to stay in
space an extra month, reportedly
because of a shortage of funds to
build the rocket transporting a
replacement crew.
Russian space officials con
firmed yesterday that they plan
to keep the two Russian cosmo
nauts and a German astronaut in
orbit 39 days longer than their
original four-month mission.
The delay was caused by fund
ing problems that prevented the
booster rocket for the crew’s
replacements from being ready
on time, the' ITAR-Tass and
Interfax news agencies said.
Mexico quake aftershock measures 6.1
By SUSANA HAYWARD
Associated Press Writer
MANZANILLO, Mexico A
strong aftershock rattled this
Pacific resort town yesterday just
as rescue workers clearing the rub
ble of a flattened hotel neared a
lobby where 20 earthquake victims
are believed buried.
Yesterday’s quake lasted for
more than five seconds, causing
panic but no reports of serious
injuries or deaths.
At least 55 are known to have
died in a stronger quake Monday,
and that number is expected to rise
U.N. officials
By PATRICK QUINN
Associated Press Writer
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia’s most hopeful cease-fire to date qui
eted almost all battlefields yesterday, but
the government insisted Serbs must do more
to lift the siege of Sarajevo before peace
talks can start.
After weeks of heavy fighting, U.N. offi
cials called yesterday’s cease-fire violations
insignificant. The government and rebel
Serbs accused each other of new attacks in
the bitterly contested northwest, but sat
down to discuss how to firm up the U.S.-bro
kered truce, scheduled to last 60 days.
With Washington leading the peace drive,
this cease-fire is given more chance than
previous truces in the 3Vi-year war.
“There are good reasons to believe that we
are approaching peace in Bosnia,” so long as
the world remains firm with the Serbs,
Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic said in Brus
sels.
“The cease-fire has more chance than pre
vious ones, because the readiness (for it) is
greater than before,” said Momcilo Krajis
nik, a Serb leader.
But the Bosnian government warned it
would boycott peace talks, due to begin Oct.
31 in the United States, unless further condi
tions are met. The talks may lead to an inter
national peace conference in Paris.
Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey said
the Serbs must open a road to the eastern
enclave of Gorazde and another road out of
besieged Sarajevo.
Serb soldiers at a checkpoint on the road
indicated they would not clear the road a
condition of the cease-fire agreement.
A Serb soldier, Miroslav Cvoko, said Serbs
would inspect any U.N. convoys to make
sure the government wasn’t using them to
smuggle weapons to Gorazde.
Restoration of gas and electricity to Sara
jevo was a key condition of the truce, which
took effect just after midnight (7:01 p.m.
EDT Wednesday). While access to Gorazde
was part of the truce agreement, an open
road out of Sarajevo west to Kiseljak was
not.
The truce has not ended the siege of Sara
jevo, and its residents cannot travel freely in
and out of the city because the roads, which
U.S. mediator goes to Moscow,
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Ameri
can mediator Richard Holbrooke
said yesterday he intends to keep
Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia
engaged in U.S.-led peace talks
“until we get results.”
Before leaving for Moscow to
plan for peace talks due to begin
Oct. 31, Holbrooke said cease-fire
Attorney testifies he told prison
officials to open Abu-Jamal mail
By HENRY CUTTER
Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH State prison
officials opened Mumia Abu-
Jamal’s mail and passed legal docu
ments on to officials in a position to
advise the governor about issuing a
death warrant for the condemned
journalist, a lawyer for the prison
system testified yesterday.
Attorney David Horwitz said that
in August 1994, he ordered prison
guards to open letters from
lawyers to Abu-Jamal, copy the
contents and pass them along.
Horwitz spoke under questioning
by Timothy O’Brien, a civil attor
ney for Abu-Jamal. In a lawsuit,
Abu-Jamal is asking U.S. Magis
trate Kenneth Benson to stop
prison officials from opening his
mail, denying him access to parale
gals and preventing him from
meeting with reporters.
“What I am suggesting is that
information pertinent to his legal
strategy wound up in the hands of
people who could make decisions
that were adverse to his interests,”
O’Brien said outside the court
room.
A former radio reporter, Abu-
Jamal was convicted of the 1981
murder of Philadelphia police Offi
cer Daniel Faulkner. He is seeking
a new trial, saying his first trial
as rescue workers pry through the
wreckage to reach the lobby of the
fallen hotel.
Yesterday, workers recovered
two more bodies including that of a
boy, age undetermined, from what
had been the third floor. They said
the boy had been dead only a few
hours because rigor mortis had not
set in.
Mexico’s National Seismological
Institute reported that yesterday’s
quake measured 6.1. The U.S. Geo
logical Survey in Golden, Colo.,
gave it a preliminary reading of
5.5.
“Since Monday, the ground has-
say cease-fire violations not serious
cross through Serb-held territory, can be
dangerous or barricaded.
Sacirbey said it was vital for Sarajevans,
after 3V4 years of Serb siege, to “feel free
dom and safety again.”
“We will not attend the next round of
peace negotiations if the roads from Saraje
vo to Kiseljak and Gorazde are not opened,”
he told the Croatian weekly Globus.
In recent weeks, the government has had
to drop similar demands under pressure
from Washington to keep peace talks alive.
The United Nations said it registered 15
cease-fire violations across Bosnia yester
day two detonations in a Sarajevo suburb
and 12 in northeastern Bosnia.
The United Nations has no presence in
northwestern Bosnia, where the government
and its Croat allies reported grabbing two
Serb-held towns, Sanski Most and Mrkonjic
Grad, in heavy fighting this week.
The Bosnian army accused the Serbs of
breaking the cease-fire around Sanski Most.
The Bosnian Serb army responded that gov
ernment and Croat forces were jeopardizing
the cease-fire in unspecified ways.
U.N. officials suggested skirmishes would
not necessarily jeopardize the peace efforts.
“We cannot militarily expect people who
are within 200 meters of each other fighting
suddenly to put their rifle in the air and say,
‘Thanks very much, I’m walking back
wards,”’ said U.N. military spokesman Lt.
Col. Chris Vernon. “It doesn’t happen like
that.”
Aid workers were concerned yesterday
with the fate of up to 400,000 refugees
chased from home over the past three
months. Most are Serbs routed from Croatia
and northwestern Bosnia.
“We are very, very concerned now what is
going to happen to many of these people dur
ing the winter,” said John Sparrow,
spokesman for the international Red Cross.
“It is quite clear that there will be insuffi
cient accommodation and people will be
dying this winter as a consequence.”
The Serbs, meanwhile, are rushing to
expel up to 20,000 non-Serbs from Serb-held
northern Bosnia, aid officials said.
Draft-age men were being separated from
their families, and there were reports of
rape, robberies and executions, U.N. offi
cials said.
violations would not disrupt the
talks. But he said they could
prompt new NATO airstrikes.
“The United States will take
swift action,” he warned at a news
conference. U.N. officials said,
however, that cease-fire viola
tions reported yesterday were
insignificant.
White House press secretary
Mike McCurry said “things seem
to be better” in Bosnia, especially
was tainted by racism. Abu-Jamal
is black.
Horwitz said he ordered the mail
copied because he suspected Abu-
Jamal of violating a rule forbidding
inmates to pursue professions
while behind bars. He had learned
that National Public Radio planned
to broadcast a series of Abu-
Jamal’s radio commentaries, titled
“Live From Death Row.”
NPR later decided not to use the
commentaries but paid Abu-Jamal
$9OO for them, Horwitz said.
One intercepted letter dated
Aug. 16,1994, included information
about legal tactics that Abu-
Jamal’s attorneys planned to use in
their bid for a retrial, Horwitz said.
Horwitz said he “skimmed” that
letter, concentrating on two para
graphs he said would affect his
investigation. He also sent it to
Brian Gottlieb, an attorney in then-
Gov. Robert P. Casey’s general
counsel’s office.
Lawyers in that office advise the
governor on legal issues related to
issuing death warrants.
After the hearing had adjourned
for the day, Tom Halloran, a
lawyer defending the prison sys
tem in Abu-Jamal’s civil suit, said
corrections lawyers routinely pass
documents to the general counsel’s
office.
“That’s because every state
n’t stopped shaking,” said house
wife Maria Morelos, one of hun
dreds of people camping out in
dozens of makeshift shelters after
their homes were damaged or
destroyed in the Monday quake.
“My God,” she said. “When is it
going to stop?”
At least 26 aftershocks have rat
tled this town of 60,000 since the
7.6-magnitude earthquake struck
along some 200 miles of the west
ern Mexican coastline Monday
morning.
With cranes, drills and pickaxes,
rescue workers continued their
day-and-night quest to dig through
in the capital of Sarajevo, yester
day as a result of the cease-fire,
which took effect at midnight
(7:01 p.m. EDT Wednesday).
“But, by no means will we pro
nounce this a 100 percent success
until we see in coming days how
the parties honor their obliga
tions.”
He said, however, the cease-fire
“does create an opportunity for
our diplomacy to continue.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal
convicted murderer
department has an attorney in the
general counsel’s office,” he said.
“It’s not unusual. Every depart
ment has coordinating counsel.”
He said he did not know whether
Gottlieb had passed on the letter
within the general counsel’s office.
O’Brien said prison officials took
no action even though Horwitz’s
investigation of Abu-Jamal showed
he was paid for his NPR commen
taries in an apparent violation of
prison rules.
He said officials acted only after
learning in February that Abu-
Jamal planned to publish “Live
From Death Row,” a book highly
critical of the prison system.
the rubble of the flattened Costa
Real hotel, where at least 20 bodies
have been recovered.
Workers briefly stopped their
labors to wait out the morning
aftershock.
National Protection engineer
Arturo Lopez, one of hundreds of
workers trying to pull bodies from
the hotel’s ruins, said about 20 peo
ple were believed buried in the
lobby.
Officials doubted any survivors
would be found.
Wednesday night, two passports
discovered under mounds of
crushed cement led officials to
Mara Misic, 41, of Zivinice, near Tuzla in northeast Bosnia, looks through her
bedroom window after her house was hit during suspected Bosnian Serb shelling.
Since the cease-fire began in Bosnia yesterday, some minor violations have
occurred.
plans for Bosnian peace talks
Holbrooke is to meet in Moscow daunting challenge” to try to end
with Russian, British, French and the war in Bosnia.
German officials and also try to However, he said Presidents
resolve differences over how Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and
Russian peacekeeping troops Franjo Tudjman of Croatia had
would be used to help ensure a promised “not to threaten to
settlement. leave” the talks, and that Presi*
American troops will make up
one-third to one-half of a NATO
force, the Pentagon said this
week.
Holbrooke stressed “it’s a
FBI still searching for clues
about Amtrak derailment
By MICHELLE BOORSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
HYDER, Ariz. The FBI broad
ened its search yesterday for the
saboteur who derailed an Amtrak
train, checking tire tracks in the
desert several miles away, knock
ing on doors in the sparsely popu
lated area and interviewing rail
road employees.
About 40 of the 90 agents who
have been working near the site of
Monday’s crash fanned out to inter
view residents and others, said
Robert Walsh, the FBI agent run
ning the investigation.
About 20 other agents were sent
back to their home offices from the
crash scene 55 miles southwest of
Phoenix, where Amtrak’s Sunset
Limited derailed on a sabotaged
stretch of track and tumbled into a
gulch. One crew member was
killed and at least 78 people were
injured.
The saboteur unbolted a bar that
holds two rails together, loosened
or removed spikes and used a wire
to bypass a system intended to
warn crews of a break in the track.
Several copies of a letter allud
ing to the federal sieges at Waco,
Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and
signed “Sons of Gestapo" were
found at the scene.
Friday, Oct. 13, 1995
identify two Vancouver, Canada,
tourists, whose bodies had been
found earlier and were being kept
in a refrigerated trailer morgue
beside the hotel.
The families of Dirk Jan
Boswyk, 58, and Judy Jang, 68,
were notified and expected to take
the bodies home, Public Ministry
officials said.
At a news conference Wednes
day night, the governor of Colima,
Carlos de la Madrid Virgen, said
the earthquake destroyed 17
schools, three health clinics in
nearby communities and hundreds
of homes.
dent Alija Izetbegovic would keep
senior officials at the table if he
returned home.
“We are going to go as far as we
can,” Holbrooke said.
Agents have been given access to
Amtrak personnel records and are
interviewing employees of the rail
company and Southern Pacific
Railroad, which owns the track,
said Walsh, who heads the FBl’s
San Diego office.
He cautioned against interpret
ing that to mean investigators have
fixed on the theory the saboteur
was a disgruntled railroad employ
ee.
“That would be quite a stretch. If
they really wanted to target the
railroads, I think that’s what they
would have focused on more in the
letter,” Walsh said.
Agents also have collected infor
mation on anti-government militia
groups, he said, again warning
against concluding the FBI is lean
ing toward that theory.
“It’s very broad. It’s still open to
everyone,” Walsh said.
Agents even copied the sub
scriber list of an obscure railroad
magazine that published an article
detailing a 56-year-old case of
track sabotage in Nevada that par
alleled the Amtrak case down to
disabling the warning system.
The magazine, Southern Pacific
Trainline, which has 30 subscribers
in Arizona and 1,800 total, was put
in the mail in Kansas on Oct. 3, less
than a week before the wreck.
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