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University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International Williams faces prosecutors contradicts parents' story
ATLANTA—Prosecutors began chipping away yesterday at Wayne Williams' testimony that he is a serious rock 'n' roll impresario, not a mass murderer who preyed on Atlanta's poor young blacks.
"I haven't done anything wrong," he said when the defense handed him over to grim-faced prosecutor Jack Mallard for what promised to be a conviction.
Williams spent nearly four hours testifying in his own defense beginning late November 27, and in his trial for the murders of Ninety-Four Cater, 27, and Jimmy Jay Burton, 23.
The 23-year-old Williams was a strong friend for himself but destroyed nearly everything his parents had told the jury about the hours leading up to his 3 a.m. appearance on the Jackson Parkway Bridge on May 22, when he first came under suspicion in the slavings.
During his testimony, Williams' recollection of May 21 differed considerably from that of his parents.
Williams said he was on the telephone from 10 p.m. until he left the house at "1" or 1:30" the morning of the 22nd.
His parents testified that Williams was in bed asleep when his father came home at 11:30 p.m. and that he then left bed at midnight or 12:30 a.m.
The times are critical because the state claims Williams killed Cater that night and had just dumped the body in the Chahachooche River when it was discovered.
Despite the discrepancies between Williams's story and that of his parents, neither complete version leaves room for him to be seen by one of the state's witnesses on a downtown street, holding hands with Cater, at 9:30 p.m. May 21.
U.S. spy ships watch El Salvador
WASHINGTON--U.S. destroyers have been dispatched to waters off El Paso on Wednesday and are now conducting manned administration officials and intelligence sources said yesterday.
The USS Deyo, a Spruance class destroyer specially outfitted with sophisticated electronic gear for spying purposes, is to dock at Charleston, S.C. today after having spent nearly two months on station in the Gulf of Fonseca, the body of water between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the sources
Another destroyer of the same class, the identity of which was not revealed, has taken the Deyo's position in the gulf, which Pentagon sources is said being used as a route to funnel Cuban-supplied arms from Nicaragua to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.
The Naval presence in the Gulf of Fonseca coincides with warnings by Secretary of State Alexander Haig of possible U.S. action in the Caribbean basin to intercept the arms traffic flowing from Cuba to Nicaragua. The gulf is on the Pacific ocean side of Central America.
The defense department has cautioned against setting up a U. Navy blockade unless the administration is prepared to order Navy ships to sink vessels carrying weapons to the guerrillas, incurring the risk of war. The Pentagon has warned the United States it is ill-prepared to go to war.
New busing amendment proposed
WASHINGTON -Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., proposed an amendment yesterday that would prevent courts from ordering school busing but that would allow them to take other steps to bring about desegregation of public schools.
The freshman senator offered his compromise as the senate leadership took steps to shut down a liberal filibuster that has prolonged for months the senate consideration of the most sweeping anti-busing legislation ever to move through Congress.
Gorton's "racially neutral" amendment would forbid the assignment of a student to a school by virtue of his or her race, but would not prohibit local school boards or the courts from ordering such devices as magnet schools or clustering.
Earlier, Howard Baker, senate republican leader, moved to strike all committee amendments to the bill.
Sen, Lowell Weicker Jr., R-Conn, has proposed hundreds of his own amendments as a device to delay a vote on the bill. These would be out of reach for all members of the House and Senate.
Use of Hinckley statements barred
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court yesterday barred prosecutors from using notes seized from John W. Hinckley's jail cell, or his statements to the FBI shortly after his arrest, when he stands trial for trying to kill President Reagan.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Barrington Parker in November that the information about Hinkley was illegally obtained and could not be used as evidence.
A Justice Department spokesman said the appeals court ruling is being studied and no decision has been made on whether to appeal. But further court action appeared likely, since prosecutors have said the material is crucial to their case.
Hinckley's trial on a 13-count indictment was delayed while prosecutors fought to win use of his statements to the FBI and documents obtained from him.
Bell officials testify for divestiture
WASHINGTON—The heads of several Bell System telephone companies said yesterday they believed their firms would remain strong after divestiture from the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. under a proposed government consent decree.
"Some people seem to believe that the proposed divergence of the local exchange companies will create an environment in which those companies cannot be viable," said Delbert Staley of New York Telephone Co. "I strongly disagree with that view."
The officials tested before the House Telecommunications Sub-committee, which is studying a proposed agreement under which the Justice Department would drop a 7-year anti-trust suit if AT&T divests its 22 companies. The companies represent two about 40% of AT&T's $120 billion in assets.
"New technology and the innovative use of existing plants place us in a strong position to serve well in the new environment." Staley said.
“There’s a sense they will go the way of the railroads,” Tauke said, because the firms still would be barred from providing information services by the railroads.
But Ian Ross, president of Bell Laboratories, said, "There is great potential for technological development in the local exchange services."
Rep. Thomas Tauke, R-lowa, said there had been "considerable concern" that the companies would be left at a financial disadvantage.
Lennon's killer on hunger strike
NEW YORK—Mark David Chapman, convicted of killing former Beaule John Lennon, has been on a hunger strike for the last 19 days, saying he
The state attorney general's office said it regarded Chapman's action as a "determined effort to commit suicide." It has won a court hearing on a
Chapman, an amateur guitarist who idolized Lennon, is serving 20 years to life for shooting the rock star no death Dec. 8, 1986, outside Lennon's posh apartment.
Chapman pleaded guilty to the killing last June against the advice of his lawyer. In entering the plea, Chapman said he was acting on instructions from counsel.
Gay Carl, the assistant attorney general in charge of the case, said Chapman began the hunger strike while at the Attica maximum-security prison.
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