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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 18, 1993
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Bail denied in Jordan case
The Associated Press
LUMBERTON, N.C. — Two teens accused of murdering Michael Jordan's father had no idea who they had shot until they rummaged through his belongings and found, among other items, his son's NBA championship ring, said Hubert Stone, Robeson County sheriff.
"They couldn't believe it happened," Stone said.
Daniel Andre Green, 18, of Lumberton and Larry Martin Demeny, 18, of nearby Rowland, N.C., were ordered held without bail Monday.
"I didn't do it," Green said as sheriff's deputies led him in shackles through the courthouse.
Demery also denied involvement. He wept as the judge warned that the case potentially could include the death penalty.
Investigators traced the crime to the
suspects using records from James Jordan's car phone.
The defendants also showed off the championship ring, which Michael Jordan had given his father, after the slaying, investigators said.
"We'll have witnesses showing they were wearing the ring," Stone said.
The ring was on James Jordan's finger when he was shot, NBC reported. Stone said the ring was buried in a plastic bag, and Green helped detectives recover it. Investigators are still looking for Jordan's watch and the murder weapon.
Stone said Jordan was asleep in his car July 23 near Lumberton, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, when two men approached to rob him.
"He started to wake up and the gunman got scared," Stone said. "He was shot inside the car."
The sheriff would not say which
Neighbors said the two teen-agers went joy-riding through their mobile-home community in Jordan's Lexus 400 luxury car in the days following the slaving.
man allegedly pulled the trigger
Janice Graham, who lives across the street from Green and his mother and sister, said Green and a carload of friends drove the car so hard they burned rubber from the tires. At night, they allegedly hid the car in the woods. The car was found stripped Aug. 5.
Jordan was shot in the chest with a 38-caliber pistol and his body was dumped in a creek near McColl, S.C., where it was discovered Aug. 3. The body was identified using dental records Aug. 13.
Four men accused of vandalizing the car pleaded innocent Monday.
ABC links Sudanese to bombing
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — At a taped conversation between the alleged ringleader of a plot to bomb the United Nations and a federal informant implicates two Sudanese diplomats as accomplices, ABC reported.
The two men were intelligence officers for the Sudanese government and were assigned to the Islamic nation's U.N. mission in New York, ABC said Monday, citing U.S. intelligence sources.
It identified the two diplomats as Siraj Yousif, the counselor to the Sudanese Mission, and Ahmed Mohamed, the third secretary.
According to ABC, the diplomats were to help get the suspects into a U.N. garage under the building by supplying them with diplomatic plates. When the task was complete, the mission would help them escape.
ABC said there was no evidence that Sudan's U.N.
ambassador. Ahmed Suliman, knew of the plot.
a telephone interview from his New York home, Yousif told The Associated Press that "everything mentioned by him was true."
AIDS. We now acknowledge that "Ahmed Mohamed and I are not intelligence officers." Youfis said. He said he had never been questioned about the case by U.S. authorities.
In Washington, FBI spokesman John Collingwood had no comment on the report. The State Department also would not comment.
Five Sudanese men were among 11 suspects charged with conspiring to bomb the United Nations, two New York commuter tunnels and other sites. The alleged plot was uncovered in June with the help of an informant, Emad Salem.
U. N. security sources have said in the past that investigators were looking into the involvement of employees of the Sudanese mission.
Kevorkian given charge in suicide
'Dr. Death' vows to test Michigan law
The Associated Press
DETROIT — A reluctant prosecutor gave Dr. Jack Kevorkian what the retired pathologist has been looking for yesterday — a felony charge that will test Michigan's new law banning assisted suicide.
A warrant was issued charging Kevorkian with assisting in the
death of Thomas Hyde, 30, of Novi. Hyde, suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, died Aug. 4 after inhaling carcinoma
Jack Kevorkian
ide in Kevorkian's van on Belle Isle in the Detroit River.
Kevorkian then challenged prosecutors to make him the first person charged under the six-month law, saying he intended to ignore it because he considered it immoral.
though he disagreed with it and it may be overturned.
Kevorkian was arraigned yesterday before a magistrate, who ordered him freed on $100,000 bond and scheduled a preliminary examination for Aug. 27.
Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair said he could not let Kevorkian disregard the law, even
At a news conference later, Kevorkian said he would continue to help "suffering patients."
"This is not a matter of law, governors, legislators, politicians, ethicists, religionists, theologians, philosophers. It's a medical matter," Kevinkian said. "We need no laws, no regulations, no initiatives in any state."
He urged the medical establishment to push for an end to "all ill-advised laws" and regulate the practice like other medical procedures, such as heart transplants.
Kevorkian, 65, faces up to four years in prison if convicted, but O'Hair said he would not ask for iail time.
At a news conference announcing the charges, O'Fair said assisted suicide should be legalized. But he said the way Hyde killed himself was improper.
"When you think of Thomas Hyde on Belle Isle with essentially a stranger, in Kevorkian's rusty, broken-down van, inhaling carbon monoxide as a means of ending his life, it seems to me that this is exactly the kind of thing we want to avoid." O'Hair said.
"The violation of the law is clear. There should be a conviction."
Pilot calls Tailhook frightening
The Associated Press
Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin said her ordeal was "very, very frightening."
QUANTICO, Va. — The officer who blew the whistle on the 1991 Tailhook sex scandal testified yesterday for the first time, saying a captain groped inside her bra while someone else tried to remove her undemands.
"I had the feeling things were going very badly for me," she said at a preliminary hearing for Capt. Gregory Bonam.
Bonam, a jet pilot assigned to the Marine Corps Combat Development Command at Quantico, is charged with assault and conduct unbecoming an officer. He could be court-martialled and imprisoned five years if convicted.
He testified that he did not assault Coughlin and would have tried to protect her had he witnessed such an attack.
"I would have at least done something to prevent the attack." he said
Coughlin, a helicopter pilot, was an aide to Rear Adm. Jack Snyder, commanding officer of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.
According to a Pentagon report, 83 women said they were sexually assaulted during the Tailhook convention at a Las Vegas hotel. Many said they were forced to run a gantlet of groping aviators. Coughlin said that Bonam participated in the gantlet.
He was relieved of his command after falling to take quick action on her complaints after the convention.
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