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Mideast ministers confer in Lebanon
BREEDTIDEN, Lebanon - Lebanese leaders conferred here yesterday with ministers from Saudi Arabia, Syria and Kuwait, seeking a formula for addressing the ongoing conflicts in the region.
According to diplomats in Damascus, the Be廷edtn conference is crucial to the success of U.S. envoy Phillip Habib's mission to mediate a settlement between Syria and Israel over Syria's deployment of Soviet-made missiles in Lebanon.
The Christian Voice of Lebanon radio said that security measures for the meeting and been planned, and included a cease-fire throughout Lebanon.
Phalang Party militia commander Bachir Gemayel, leader of the largest Christian group, said the conference was characterized by "good will and good intentions among all, and I am optimistic. It is a new opportunity of understanding the crisis. We accept it and are willing to come to an understand."
Syria maintains a 22,000-man army in Lebanon, obtensily to police a truce between that country's civil war combatants.
80 perish in Indian bridge collapse
NEW DELHI, India- Indian authorities Sunday said the death toll may run into the hundreds following the collapse of a bridge into a swollen river in
Reports said that a locomotive pulled a crowded train plunged into the Bagmati River, about 246 miles northwest of Calcutta. According to United Railways, it was one of the worst accidents in India.
The news service also said that the locomotive and one coach were still hanging from the damaged bridge. Gale-force winds started the 164-foot-wide collapse.
Irish prisoner joins hunger strike
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Another Irish Republican Army fighter serving a senior role in the north near here was to begin a hunger strike. He was taken into custody four other days.
Twenty-three-year-old Tom McClwee, convicted on 19 counts ranging from malaulance to arms offenses, is protesting being classified as a criminal. He and the other strikers, like the four hunger strikers who died at the Maze in Harwell, want the prison to recognize IRA members as political prisoners.
The reclassification would allow the prisoners to wear their own clothes, associate freely and refrain from work. Britain, of which Northern Ireland is a part, has rejected the demands, saying the prisoners are common criminals.
McIwee was arrested after a bomb exploded in his car in 1977, injuring him and killing a bystander. Police said McIwee had planned to use the firearms. He did not.
12 more arrested in Moslem 'plot'
MANILA, Philippines—Twelve more people accused in an alleged plot by a member to kill President Ferdinand Marcos have been arrested by Philippine police.
Authorities have also accused the twelve of bombing polling places during last June 16's presidential election.
The arrests bring to 20 the number of Moslems being held in what is being called 'a military mastermind' by opposition. Benigno S. Guzman, a former prisoner in Boston, was one of them. He was in the Middle East.
Aquino, Marcos' chief political rival, was jailed by Marcos for seven and three years but has been accused by Marcos of being involved in terrorist attacks.
The presidential palace said the 20 were arrested in military raids May 23-28 in Manila and its suburbs.
Baseball owners reject proposal
NEW YORK—A proposal made by the Major League Players Association that could have ended the stalemate between players and management on the issue of free agent compensation was rejected yesterday by owners, but could provide the basis for further negotiations.
The proposal was to create a pool of players to offer to teams losing free agents, rather than requiring that a team signing a free agent compensate for the loss.
"Theowners' argument for compensation has been you've got to fill the hole left by free agents leaving their teams." Marvin Miller, executive director of the players union, said. "We've tried to accommodate them from this standpoint."
Management's position is that a pool with all teams contributing players would be unfair to teams not signing free agents. The union plan would limit losses to one player per team with a payment of either $20,000 or $40,000 for each selection, depending on team standings.
Negotiations will resume today while a federal judge considers an injunction that could delay the issue for a year. If he rules against the injunction and agreement is not reached, the players can strike within 48 hours.
John Paul II surprises worshipers
VATICAN CITY—Pope John Paul II made a surprise address yesterday to emerent alumn 300,000 persons celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday.
In his first public address since the shooting, the Pope spoke briefly toward the end of the service marking the Pentecost.
"I wanted to be with you. It is with great affection for all the faithful that I give the benediction," he said while leaning on a balcony for support.
The mass marked Pentecost, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit to the An apostles and the establishment of the Church.
minutes later, John Paul leaned out of the papal apartments overlooking St. Peter's Square to bless the crowd of 80,000.
Atlanta victorv is 3rd for Watson
ATLANTA—Tom Watson sat off local favorite Vortale Valentine and won the Atlanta Golf Classic on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.
Valentine, a 31-year-old native of nearby Gainvillea, Ga., forced the playoff by birding the final hole of the four-day event. Still without a victory on the PGA tour, Valentine more than doubled his season's earnings with the $32,400 second-place prize. Watson collected $54,000.
The victory was the third of the season for Watson, the leading moneywinner on the tour this season and over the last four years.
Coal miners approve new contract
Coal miners were ready to return to work today following a 10-week strike, while coal owners threatened by stalled contract negotiations with mine construction workers.
While miners are accepting a new contract that will increase their wages and benefits by almost 40 percent, construction workers of the United Mine Workers of America are still struggling.
The workers have threatened to picket today if agreement was not reached, and most UMW miners would not cross those picket lines, a UMW
The 180,000 UMW members who had been on strike marked their new pact Saturday night by a 2-1 margin, ending a strike marked by shootings at non-UMW workers and other sporadic violence.
Plea bargaining needed despite problems
News Analysis
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
Plea bargaining. More mention of the public cynicism toward the criminal
The image of defense and prosecuting attorneys huddling together in an effort to strike a deal that defies a defendant's trial runs rampant in the minds of cynics.
The prosecuting attorney, bent on relieving his case load, is willing to make concessions to the defense, dropping charges that the defendant may be guilty of committing. He then asks the defendant to give up his constitutional right to trial and plead guilty to the remaining charges.
For his part of the bargain, the charges and a less severe punishment.
The cynical image places the defense attorney in the light of convincing his client to make the bargain. Rather than pursue the case to the end, the defense attorney pressures his client to make sure that so he can get on to his next case.
If he pleads guilty, the state is spared precious time in processing the case, and in the process, it saves money. With that in mind, the judgment may not be as harsh if he cooperates and pleads guilty during the preliminary process.
The model appears to penalize the individual who exercises his right to trial. The defendant, unfamiliar with the intricacies of the court system, is wary of how harsh the judgment may be if he goes to court.
Regardless of the cynical attitude toward plea bargaining, local legal authorities maintain that it is an asset to judicial administration, a necessary practice that is inherent in the judicial system and here to stay.
The precept of punishment as a deterrent appears to have been compromised.
If all cases were to go to court, the system, with its dockets already overflowing with more cases than it can handle, would overload. he said.
the system would probably collapse in
months." Paul Wilson, professor
law and ethics.
"The question is whether the people of this country are willing to pay the cost of granting everyone their constitutional right to a full trial jury."
'If plea bargaining were removed,
"Most offices are terribly understaffed, and underfinished," he said. "The prosecuting attorney has a responsibility to an overload of cases, and he may have to take cuts to the plea system or access to meet that responsibility."
"Our office is horribly underpowered," he said. "Sometimes we have little choice but to take a plea as opposed to a jury trial.
District attorney Mike Malone echoed Wilson's concern about an overhead of cases.
"We file well over 1,000 cases a year.
With only five attorneys on our staff, we are experiencing an overload."
A United States Justice department report does, however, cite Alaska as an example where the elimination of plea bargaining has been successful.
In 1974, Alaska's attorney general, Avrum Goss, banned plea bargaining in the state.
The Justice Department's 1978 report found that after the ban, there was no decline in the amount of guilty pleas before a case went to court. The police and district attorneys of the state were credited with filing viable charges, and with thorough investigation in preparing their cases.
At the same time, the rate of cases went to trial increased as number of patients small. The
report also found that the conviction and sentencing of serious crimes remained the same.
At the start of the study, the department speculated that the number of trials would increase substantially, but no such increase was system. It also assumed that there would be few convictions of major crimes because of the lost opportunity for prosecuting attorneys to induce employers to bargain by dropping lesser charges.
"Most of our original hypotheses were disproven and we were frequently surprised by the discrepancies between expectations and the actual effects of Alaska's prohibition," the report concluded.
According to Malone, the Alaska system induces "under the table" negotiations.
"It's a hypocritical system that bastardizes the term 'no plea bargaining.'" he said.
"There are circumstances where the district attorneys don't file cases that
should be, and they file cases at a reduced level."
That practice, Malone said, encourages the district attorney to strike up compromises before the case is filed. The district attorney may file an order that orders the district be easily proved, and other charges that should have been filed are ignored.
Malone said the most distressing aspect of plea negotiation was in a case when a reduction in charges might lead to a lesser punishment.
"I feel very uncomfortable about dropping the level of the charges and the eventual sentencing," he said, indicating that we are better off doing so.
A dropping in the level of charges can mean a significant difference in the punishment the defendant who pleads guilty would receive.
A common form of a sentence that is reduced, according to Wes Norwood, a Lawrence defense attorney, is the reduction of charges from possession of
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Broadway salutes year's best
NEW YORK—Broadway's best were put to the test last night at the Tony awards ceremony honoring the year's best plays. The top awards went to "42nd Street," named best musical, and to the English import, "Amadeus" winning the best play award in the drama category.
Elizabeth Taylor, nominated for Broadway debut in a revival of "The Little Foxes," received the award for went to Jane Laporte, star of "Pifa."
Lauren Bacall, a 1979 Tony-winner for her starring role in "Applause," won last night for "Woman of the Year," a musical in which she stars as a TV anchorwoman who falls in love. A movie that starred Katherine Hearn
The award for best actor in a musical sent to Kevin Kline, who played the swabbuckling Pirate King in the revival of "The Pirates of Penzance." The show also won Tony's for best revival and for director Wilford Leach.
"Aradeau" took five Tonyi altogether, winning for direction, lighting and its author, Peter Shaffer, a winner in 1975 for "Equus."
An emotional moment occurred during the ceremonies when an award was presented posthumously to Gower Champion for his choreography of "42nd Street," a show based on the movie classic.
Ian McKellen was chosen as the best actor in a play for his performance in "Amadeus," in which he plays Antonio Carlo, a rival of composer Wolfgang Mozart.
'WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?'
Psalm 2:1 and Acts 4:25
Some years ago, a young man around 20 years of age, asked for work on the farm. After he had worked several days I learned he was out of jail on bond, having been charged with taking part in a houpain of a store, which he admitted. I called together the few workers on the farm together with "Mr. Holup", and advised them of the kind of man we were working with. Mr. Holup said we should not go to work on Saturday. "Certainly I do not want to work you. Last Saturday I put you and a high school boy out splitting wood with axes, wedges, and a maul. A man with such devil and hell in him as you might have split the boy's head open with the axe in order to take his money! You also worked with another man using showels. Is it right for me to ask that man to work with you when you might knock him in the head with the shovel, since you have chosen to try to make a car, but you have made their money honesty to give it to you, killing them if necessary?
Genuine Christianity don't tolerate evil! One branch of Christianity is charged by God Almighty to take vengeance, and do away with evil and rebellion against law and order. Read the 13th chapter of Romans. The Bible clearly says: "Resist the devil!" it also says: "Give no place to the devil."
From the President of our great nation on down to the humblest citizen we should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves for the great crime and violence abroad in our land. We would be much better off if a great drive was launched even in open evil, poverty stricken, so that it would parish from famine and hunger.
"Mr. Holiday" was paid for his time, and asked to get off the place, and stay off. However, we told him that those who were in authority saw fit to let such a dangerous man "run on the matter," I would cooperate as far as I could. If he thought over the matter and would come back in three days and express his purpose, determination, and make a promise to go right and act a commander, would go back to work. He did not come back, but hope he is going straight.
"Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgement run down as waters, and righteousness a mighty stream." Amos 5.23. Bail this passage down, and in plain language God says to us: "Your worship is offensive to Me unless you put away the evil from among yourselves, stop crime, murder, immorality, violence, etc."
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