Thursday, Nov. 14, 1985
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Police commissioner resigns, is criticized
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○ PHILADELPHIA — Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor resigned yesterday as head of a department harshly criticized for the May 13 MOVE battle that took 11 lives and burned down a city neighborhood.
"There will be many who will second guess this decision and many who will deny that it is mine," said Sambor, who was rumored to have been close to being fired by Mayor Wilson Goode. "But the simple truth of the matter is that it is time."
The resignation as head of the 7,000-member police department by Sambor, a 35-year police veteran who authorized the dropping of a bomb onto the roof of the MOVE house, will take effect at the end of the month.
Deputy commissioner Robert Armstrong, 56, a 31-year veteran of the force, will temporarily assume Samber's position.
Sambor, 57, appointed to serve as commissioner by Goode shortly after Goode became mayor in November 1983, submitted his resignation to Goode.
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Sambor met with police officials early yesterday but later refused to comment to reporters about his resignation. He told officers at the meeting he would "begin an immediate transition effort" with his successor.
"As I leave here today, I can say without reservation that I have never been prouder than I am today for the honor and privilege of having your commissioner and a member of Pennsylvania's finest." Sambor told his men.
Sambor's department in recent years has been plagued by police corruption. A total of 26 officers, including a former deputy commissioner, were convicted of taking part in extortion schemes in which officers solicited payoffs in return for protecting illegal gambling and prostitution operations.
resigning.
"We want to emphasize that this man served our city with honor and dedication for 35 years," the FOP said. "To have him leave now under a cloud of created suspicion does a disservice to his record."
Michael Lutz, vice president of the Fraternal
Order of Police Lodge 5, said the union was disappointed with Sambor's decision and blamed the news media for pressuring him into resigning.
Sambor directed operations during the May 13 police battle with the radical cult MOVE. After a daylong siege, police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified MOVE house, sparking a fire that killed 11 MOVE members, including five children, destroyed 61 houses and left 250 people homeless.
Former City Managing Director Leo Brooks and Mayor Wilson Goode testified before a special panel investigating the MOVE incident that it was Samber's idea to use the explosive on the roof of the radical group's house.
The bomb was used with the intent of destroying a fortified rooftop bunker and blowing a hole in the roof through which tear gas and water could be dispersed.
Sambor said he approved of the idea before it was mentioned to Goode because the head of the bomb squad assured him the explosives would not spark a fire. But once the fire started on the MOVE roof, Sambor recommended to fire officials it be allowed to burn in an attempt to destroy the bunker.
"The plan for May 13 was the most conservative, controlled, disciplined and safe operation which we could devise." Sambor told a commission investigating the May 13 conflict. "I approved the details of the plan to the extent where it can fairly be called my plan."
Brooks, a former Army general, announced his resignation from office nine days after the MOVE battle.
Search for hunters resumes
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YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima county officials declared a state of emergency yesterday, enabling the National Guard to resume its search for as many as 100 elk hunters thought to be stranded in the Cascade Mountains where two people already have died.
The state earlier grounded the National Guard helicopters because no official emergency existed, said Col. Bill Watling of the state National Guard.
said cow. Bill Wittings,
Karen Dean, a spokeswoman for the Yakima
emergency management office, said the mid-
afternoon declaration followed a meeting between
county and state officials and representatives of the
Guard.
She said the helicopters would be used to search for five known groups of missing hunters.
Dean said, adding that the search of about 600-square miles could turn up still other hunters who have been stuck in the snow along with hundreds of others since the weekend.
Sgt. Ken Irwin of the 'Yakima County sheriff's department said his crews wanted assistance from the National Guard helicopters for a third day because "we would like to go in and identify anybody stranded in this deep, deep snow . . . before they run out of food and there is a dire emergency."
"Four of the groups have a total of 16 people in them, and we don't know how many are in the fifth group."
The helicopter crews on Monday and Tuesday lifted 45 stranded hunters from the east slopes of the Cascades, where more than 4 feet of snow fell over the weekend.
Hundreds of other elk hunters were contacted in the past few days but refused to leave their equipment behind. An estimated 200 hunters appeared to have dug their way out.
U.N. urges Soviet withdrawal
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution yesterday calling for the Soviet Union to immediately pull its troops out of Afghanistan.
The resolution "calls upon all parties concerned to work for the urgent achievement of a political solution, in accordance with the provisions of the present resolution, and the creation of the necessary conditions which
By a vote of 122 to 19, with 12 countries abstaining, the General Assembly approved a resolution its seventh on the issue — demanding the "immediate withdrawal of the foreign troops from Afghanistan."
would enable the Afghan refugees to return voluntarily to their homes in safety and honor."
Last year's vote on a similar resolution was 119-20, with 14 abstentions.
Yesterday's vote ended the 159-nation assembly's annual debate on the Afghan crisis.
The resolution also reaffirmed the right of the Afghan people to "determine their own form of government and to choose their economic, political and social system free from outside intervention, subversion, coercion or constraint of any kind whatsoever."
Soviet troops invaded the south Asian country in December 1979. The Soviet Union maintains an estimated
120,000 troops there who are battling Islamic rebels.
Afghan delegate Mohammad Farid Zarif said before the vote was taken that the resolution "will in no way be binding" on his country.
Zarir said the "Afghan people have already chosen the government and will continue with it despite the undeclared war launched against our people."
Vasily Safronchuk, the Soviet Union's delegate, accused the General Assembly of interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs and accused the CIA of using "unsavory devices" to subvert the Soviet-backed Afghan regime.
Marcos' opponents discuss amendment
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MANILA, Philippines — Opposition leaders said yesterday they were discussing the possibility of amending the constitution to allow President Ferdinand Marcos to remain in office during an early presidential election.
An agreement with the ruling party to amend the constitution by plebiscite would settle intense debate over the constitutionality of Marcos' call for a "snap" election Jan. 17 when his refusal to vacate the office.
The constitution now states that an early presidential election can only be held if the president dies, resigns or is impeached or disabled.
Marcos' current six-year term does not expire until 1967 but he has called early elections for Jan. 17 in an attempt to show his critics that he retains popular support despite a growing communist insurgency and political opposition.
Marcos, who has ruled the Philippines for 20 years, Monday submitted a letter of resignation to the National Assembly. But it would become effective when it is delivered in the presidential election, which raises the constitutional question now being addressed by the two political parties.
Opposition members of Parliament said they were hopeful of reaching an agreement to limit the ruling party on a governmental amendment by today.
with ruling party officials concerned "whether we can agree on terms and conditions for the holding of snap elections with Marcos remaining in office."
He said he expected the opposition to support the immediate convening of Parliament as a constituent assembly to add an amendment to allow Marcos, 68, to remain in office during an early election.
Adaza said a plebiscite on the amendment could be held by mid-December. That would delay holding the election Jan. 17, but the ruling party already has indicated the date is negotiable.
Former Sen. Salvador Laurel, a potential presidential candidate, returned from a two-week trip to the United States yesterday and was greeted by about 3,000 cheering supporters at Manila Airport.
Homobono Adaza, an opposition
Parliament member, said the tails
"My co-defendants are ordinary citizens," Edwards, a lawyer, said in a statement that took about two minutes. "I, on the other hand, am governor of the state. There is more at stake than the important question of my guilt or innocence, that I must have the opportunity to refute the charges in this forum.
"Against the advice of my attorneys, I withdraw my motion for accuital filed on my behalf."
Edwards followed attorneys for his co-defendants, all of whom argued for directed verdicts of acquittal with the jury absent from court. The motions were filed after the prosecution rested its case Tuesday in the 8-week-old trial.
Before Edwards spoke, U.S. Attorney John Volz rose to complain that the governor was not enrolled as an attorney of record in the trial and that no notice had been given to the prosecution.
Livaudaais said he might call the attorneys back for further arguments today before making a ruling. He must rule on the motions before the trial can move to the defense phase.
Edwards and the others are charged with taking part in an illegal conspiracy to obtain and sell state hospital and nursing home construction permits for $10 million in profits.
NEW ORLEANS — Saying he had more at stake than his seven "ordinary citizen" co-defendants, Gov. Edwin Edwards yesterday withdrew his request for acquittal of racketeering and fraud charges.
Representing himself before U.S. District Judge Marcel Livaudais Jr., the governor said he wanted the chance to refute the charges against him in court.
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