University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1983 Page 10
NATION AND WORLD
Tylenol firm told not to mail extortion money, lawyer says
By United Press International
CHICAGO — An attorney for the maker of Extra-Strength Tyleneol testified in the extortion trial of James Lewis yesterday that the FBI told the firm not to pay a $1 million demand to stop a wave of cyanide killings.
George S. Frazza, general counsel for Johnson & Johnson, said the FBI instructed the company not to wire the money to the bank account listed in the extortion letter, which the defense admitted Lewis wrote.
"I if the FBI had not given that instruction, Johnson and Johnson would have wired the money." Frazza testified for the prosecution.
LEWIS' ATTORNEY conceded in opening arguments that his client wrote the letter demanding $1 million to stop the poisoning deaths. He said, however, the government must prove Lewis actually intended to commit the extortion.
"This case is not about the seven people who died from taking Tylonel or who wrote the stupid letter. It's about proof," Michael Monico said in his opening statement to the seven-woman, five-man jury.
"I stand before you today to tell you Jim wrote the letter. The government must prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Lewis intended to commit the crime. He is accused of attempted extortion." Monico said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Giachetti said exertion was used in an attempt to "twist" its victim into submission.
She said Johnson & Johnson Co. manufactured Extra-Strength Tylenol and other products "people depend on. But the deaths that paralyzed this community made their products agents of death."
THE FIRST WITNESS, James Zagel,
a special investigator on the Tylonel
task force that sought the killer,
described the testing procedures Johnson & Johnson adopted to determine whether cyanide had been put into the capsules.
Lewis, 36, is accused of sending a hand-printed letter to Johnson & Johnson, the parent company of the maker of Extra-Strength Tylenol, demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." Seven people died after taking the poisoned capsules a year ago.
No one has been charged in the deaths
Prosecutors said Lewis also was suspected of mailing a death threat to Mr. Ruffalo.
After the letter to Johnson & Johnson and the subsequent publicity, Lewis wrote letters to the Chicago Tribune disclaiming any part in the poisonings.
LEWIS IS BEING HELD IN THE Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago in lieu of $5 million bond. He was arrested in New York last December and pleaded innocent to federal extortion charges Dec. 29.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan cuts the cake at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 25th anniversary celebration at the National Air and Space Museum.
Island leader dies in attempted coup
Bv United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Prime Minister Maurice Bishop died yesterday after he was freed from house arrest by more than 3,000 demonstrators and recaptured by troops who fired into the crowd in support of a coup attempt by his deputy, Radio Free Grenada said.
The government radio said that the 39-year old Marxist leader who has led the tiny Eastern Caribbean island of Grenada since a political violence." Three former. Cabinet members died with him.
Troops loyal to Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Cardon opened fire on the crowd that freed Bishop from house arrest, killing at least four people and wounding 47 others. The police and Caribbean Broadcasting Corp. the station was quoting sources in Grenada 150 miles to the west.
THE REPORT SAID that as many as 11 people migt have been killed in the shooting.
A government spokesman also said on the radio that the army had imposed a 24-hour curfew and that
anyone caught leaving his home would be shot on sight.
The three Cabinet members reported to have died yesterday were Foreign Minister Jacqueline Craft and Housing Minister Nirain Bairn.
All schools and businesses except for those "essential to the health of our community" should be closed until further notice, the government spokesman said.
"Our main task now is to defend ourselves against imperialist attack," the spokesman said.
Last week, Coard, a hardliner who favors close ties with Mexico, led a coup to seize control of Grenada's government. Whiteman, Craft and Bain had resigned to support Bishop, along with Agriculture Minister George Lewis and Tourism Minister Lyden Radmhanny.
EARLIER YESTERDAY, Grenadians declared a general strike that closed Pearls airport and stores. Witnesses living in the hills surreptitiously reported seeing plumes of smoke rising from various parts of the city.
Thick black smoke billowed from downtown Fort Rupert, the headquarters of the People's Revolutionary Army.
Court asked to hear Indian religious rights case
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A group of widely disparate religious organizations said yesterday that they had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in a case involving the religious rights and practices of two Indian tribes.
The case. Crow v. Gullett, involves a conflict between the development of Bear Burke, a 40-acre site in South Dakota, as a tourist attraction and its use in the religious life of the Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne peoples.
"This case poses fundamental issues of religious liberty, particularly because of the intrusive practice of the state," said William Thompson, co-stated clerk of the newly formed Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Thompson and the Rev. James Andrews, the chief counsel to the filing of the friend of the court brief on behalf of the 3.2 million-member church.
"It is as though the government were to build hot dog stands and photography platforms inside St. Patrick's cathedral and deny that religious liberty was permitted to worshipers still had physical access to the building, Thompson added.
THE BUTTE, NEAR RAPid City, S.D., is the site of an annual ceremony in which the leader of the Lakota, after a purification rite, goes up onto the hill and stays for four days and four nights to renew contact with the spiritual
world, according to lawyers for the Indians.
In 1962, South Dakota purchased the traditional ceremonial grounds and created a state park. In 1982, the state began erecting tourist shelters and camera platforms and paved part of the ceremonial site for a parking lot.
The Lakotas brought suit to enjoin the state from building further structures and seeking the dismantling of the existing ones.
The case was first heard in the U.S. District Court in South Dakota and the court's decision in favor of the state was rejected. In the 1974 Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit,
ferenze with Indian religious prac-
tices?"
ANITA PARLOW, director of the Oglaia Lakota Legal Rights Fund, said the Supreme Court "has yet to review a land theology lawsuit and we are of the view that it is high time that the highest court squarely confront the problem of the protection of traditional Indian religion."
extraordinary step in the belief that Crow v. Gullley raises issues of immense constitutional concern; ... the right of a people to freely exercise their religion without interference from government authorities."
It contends the court "has never decided the important question: what constitutes a sufficiently compelling state interest to warrant state inter-
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