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Director aids in testimony for Redgrave
By United Press International
Redgrave, who claims the BSO fired her as a narrator for Igor Stravinsky's opera, "Oedipus Rex," because of her support for the PLO, is suing the orchestra for the $31,000 she was to get for narrating five performances.
BOSTON — Calling Vanessa Redgrav "one of the best actresses in the English-speaking world," film director Sidney Lumet testified yesterday that the award-winning film star should be command a salary of $20,000 per film, despite her activist politics.
Lumet, testifying before the U.S. District Court jury in redgrave's lawsuit challenging the Boston Symphony Orchestra for firing her as narrator of a 1980 production, which was entitled to about $200,000 per film.
He said she could command such salaries after winning the 1978 Academy Award for the title role in the anti-Nazi film "Julia." Redgrave earned $100,000 for her role in "Steaming" and $60,000 for "The Bostonians," both made in 1983.
Lumet agreed Redgrave's support of the Palestine Liberation Organization had sparked controversy, but described her as "one of the best actresses in the English-speaking world."
She is also seeking unspecified damages for roles she said she might have received.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge refused yesterday to stay the execution of Margie Velma Barfield, but gave the poison killer hope of avoiding a lethal injection tomorrow by asking a higher court to rule on a motion for a new trial.
By United Press International
U. S. District Judge Franklin Dupree, after denying Barfield a stay, referred her motion for a new trial to the Justice Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.
Judge wants higher ruling in killer's case
The appeals court scheduled a hearing on the case for 7:30 a.m. today — 17½ hours before Barfeld was scheduled to become the first woman executed in the United States in 22 years.
"However, he has ruled there is probable cause to appeal on the issue of competency. I feel hopeful," Burr said.
"THE JUDGE HAS DENIED a stay," defense attorney Richard Burr told reporters outside a closed federal courthouse yesterday.
Defense attorneys were unable to explain why Dupree referred the motion for a new trial to a higher court without ruling on the issue
Dupree's ruining came after a 2½ hour hearing in which defense attorneys argued Barfield was incapable of assisting in her trial defense because she was withdrawing from the Valour and other prescription drugs.
Barfield was convicted of murdering her boyfriend with rat and ant poison in 1789 to keep him from learning she had stolen his money to get back it. She was a tomorrow by lethal injection.
THE 32 YEAR-OLD grandmother has also confessed to killing her 74-year-old mother and two elderly Lumberton, N.C., residents — all with poisons that caused slow, bloody death. She is under her care as a private nurse.
Barfield, in a "dawn watch" cell at North Carolina Central Prison, was writing letters and reading the Bible, prison officials said. She had wanted to crochet dolls for her grandchildren, but prison officials took her crochet hooks away for fear she would attempt to harm herself.
Barfield lost two appeals in state
courts Tuesday before her attorneys took the legal fight to save her back into federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case three times.
In legal papers filed with Dupree, attorneys for the former nurse claim they were not aware before her trial that she was suffering withdrawal from an addiction to Valium and other prescription drugs.
"THIS GROUND WAS not raised in her previous , .petition, because neither she nor counsel were aware of the longing to claim until recently," attorneys said.
Barfield's family planned to visit her in prison.
"If she ever needed us, it's now." said Faue Paul. Barfield's sister was there. "She needs me."
what's ahead — even though she wants to live a few days extra."
Meanwhile, the Charlotte Observer, a major state newspaper, called for the execution to be stayed, either by a judge or Gov. James Hunt, who earlier refused a request to allow an ex-felon been a potentially hot campaign issue in Hunt's torrid Senate race against Sen. Jesse Helms.
The newspaper cited the testimony of a New York University psychiatrist that Barfield was mentally ill when she killed Taylor.
"If Velma Barfield is as sick as Dr. Dorothy Lewis contends, she should be treated for her illness and locked away for society's protection," said the Observer. "But she should not be put to death."
Index predicts signs of economic expansion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The sensitive index of leading economic indicators gained 0.4 percent in September, its first increase in four months and a sign the economic expansion will continue, the government said yesterday.
"The September pickup in the
leading index should ease concerns that the economic expansion is coming to an end." Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige said.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the indications 'show the economy is maintaining its and heading in the right direction.
Neither Baldrige nor the White House commented on two other less
favorable reports out yesterday,
showing the nation's trade performance
continuing to deteriorate and
factory orders dropping 1.8 percent.
The merchandise trade deficit for September was the second highest on record, $12.6 billion, $2.8 billion higher than August. The red ink is expected to reach $130 billion — nearly twice last year's record — by year's end.
Six of the 11 leading indicators that were available for September contributed to the increase, led by the formation of new businesses.
Of the five negative indicators, new orders for factory goods were the
The composite index, designed to look ahead to where the economy will be in the coming weeks and months, is down 2.3 percent in four months.
This decrease is more than the decline that served as a forewarning of the 1981-1982 recession.
Besides the rate of new business formation, the positive indicators for September were a slowing in the pace of deliveries, a likely sign of greater demand; an expansion in the money supply; an expansion in outstanding credit; a longer average workweek