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Tuesday, May 9, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Berkowitz pleads guilty to killings
NEW YORK (AP)--Without the slightest indication of emotion, David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty yesterday to the six random 44-caliber killings committed during a year-long reign of terror as the furtive Son of Sam.
"I'm an excellent shot," Berkowitz said quietly at one point in a unique interrogation by three different judges.
Berkowitz cooolly detail the slaying of 18-year-old Joan Laurie of the Brians, the bride of a young man.
Kissinger calls for more jets to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger urged the Carter administration yesterday to increase sales to Israel in its Mideast jet fighter package amid growing signs that a compromise along that line is under discussion.
Kissinger appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which decided to delay until today a planned closed session for further discussion of the administration's plan to sell fighters to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
When asked about the significance of the postponement of the private session, Senate Minority Leader *U. Howard H. Baker Jr.* JE, said, "You would assume something is going to happen."
The former secretary of state strongly endorsed increasing the number of planes to be sold to Israel.
be 500m² and fit the 75 F-15s and 15 F-15F fighters were at the lowest end of the range of numbers of planes that could be sold discussed during the Ford administration.
Sen. Jacob Javits, a prominent Israeli
backer, the reported administration compromise offer would be well received on both sides.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meanwhile, were preparing to ask Kissinger why he did not tell them three days earlier that advanced U.S. founters to Saudi Arabia.
Kissinger also endorsed the sale of planes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, said last week that he was unaware Kissinger had made a commitment to Saudi Arabia. Church, who opposes Carter's plan, said such a promise would not be valid unless Congress approved it.
He said the plane of 50 F-15s, a less sophisticated plane than the F-135 and F-16s, to Egypt was a symbolic gesture that could only marginally affect the military.
Unless both houses disapprove the proposal by May 28, the administration may go ahead with the planned sale of F0-152A to a developer and the sales of F7-158 to a hotel and OF 5-18 to Egypt.
Transportation secretary urges Amtrak routes cut
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Transportation Secretary Brock Adams recommended yesterday that almost one-fourth of the Amtrak passenger train network be discontinued in 1979-80—an economic move he acknowledged as a "political hot potato."
Adams emphasized his recommended passenger system still would be national in scope, serving 160 major metropolitan areas. But its implementation would add Arkansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Nevada and Utah to the current list of states—Maine, New Hampshire and South Dakota—with no passenger train service.
Not once in his lengthy question and answer session was Berkowitz asked, nor did he volunteer, information about his widely publicized role as Son of Sam. He has said previously that he had been driven to kill hordes of demons. He was not a victim of any devil incarnate whom he identified as a Yankers neighbor, Sam Carr, 64.
Among the major routes Adams recommended dropping were Chicago-San Francisco via Denver; Chicago-Florida; Chicago-Texas via Little Rock; one of the two Chicago-Saultie routes; and two of three routes across West Virginia.
In a study ordered by Congress, Adams recommended dropping seven long-distance flights.
New York abandoned capital punishment several years ago. Gov. Hugh Carey recently vetoed an attempt by the legislature to reinstitute the death penalty.
The study is the first step in a lengthy debate over Amtrak's future which will include public and congressional hearings. Even if the proposal is agreed to, the first route eliminations under the plan would occur no earlier than July 1, 1979.
Strong opposition can be expected in Congress, which will have the final say on discontinuities and will have to come up with money for the routes it wants to keep
THE INTERROGATION of Berkowitz moved from his final victim, Stacy Moskowitz, a 20-year-old Brooklyn girl, to the original Bronx shooting of Laura on September 13.
because the Son of Sam slayings occurred in three of New York City's five boroughs, three judges took part in the interrogation of killer before allowing him to change his pleas.
BERKOWITZ FACES a maximum of 25 years to life in prison for each of the six sailing and a maximum of 25 years in prison for the attempted murder of seven victims who escaped with injuries. Sentencing on all of the counts was set for May
Berkowitz, 24, was an ex-serviceman and a former postal clerk.
However, under New York State law, any cumulative sentence cannot exceed 30 years to life, making him eligible to apply for parole when he is 54.
THE ONLY SURPRISE in the two and one-half hour hearing came when Bronx District Attorney Maria Merola revealed that Berkowitz kept a diary in which he claimed to have set as many as 2,000 arson cases against him predominantly in the Bronx, from 1974 to 1977—a period overlapping his career as the nighttime Son of Sam.
Robert Lewis, co-director of the Homophile Alliance of Sedgwick County, sees it differently "Civil rights is the one he said." "Morals are an individual matter."
WICHITA (AP) — The Rev. Ron Arian, campaigning to repeal an anti-discrimination law that protects the rights of any may be calling a "conservative voice for moral decency."
Amtrak was guarded in its comments, only saying that it would study the plan
Moral, civil rights battle in fight for gay rights law
Today, the voters of Wichita will decide in a special election whether to repeal an amendment to the city's civil rights ordinance that has made it illegal to against homosexuals housing, employment or public accommodations.
Adrian, 35-year-old pastor of the Glennville Bible Baptist Church, cites "the word of God" as he leads the Concerned Citizens for community Standards.
HIS GROUP was formed about two years ago to fight pornography and X-rated theaters. Bryant's "Protect Our Children" group has contributed $10,000 to the current
drive, the Miami group's executive director,
Edward Rowe, says.
Adrian dismisses the notion that civil rights are involved: "A true minority is born a minority, like blacks or Indians," he says. "These people choose the way they live." He argues that of a small group of people to ask to approve of their immoral lifestyle."
Lewis, on the other hand, insists that since the law was adopted, the gay community has established itself as a viable part of this community and he insists that civil rights is
"I certainly stand up for their opponents' right to believe the way they do. I morally feel that homosexuality is all right," he said.
Bribe memo destroyed, Textron document says
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon Inc. said yesterday that evidence showing a company unit had paid a $300,000 bribe to sell helicopters in Ghana was destroyed the day after. William Mir was asked about the incident. He heardings to be Federal Reserve chairman.
Texton, the parent corporation of Bell Helicopter, made the disclosure in a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Miller is former chairman of Texton.
Textron's SEC filing said there was no
indication that Texton officers including Miller knew that a bribe had been demanded by a high Ghanaian military officer, and the funds had been made available to pay it.
However, Sen. William Promise, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, called on the Department of Justice to determine whether the bank constituted an internal Bell memo constituted the basis for criminal prosecution.
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