Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Suspect's wife consented to abduction of sex slave
United Press International
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The wife of a lumber mill worker accused of kidnapping a young woman and holding her as his sex slave for seven years testified yesterday that she and her husband agreed to the abduction so he could have a bondage mate while she had a baby.
Janise Hooker, 27, a mother of two, was the first prosecution witness in the San Mateo County Superior Court jury trial for her husband, Cameron, 31, on 16 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 110 years in prison.
Mrs. Hooker, under immunity from prosecution, testified that in 1975 she and her husband discussed "having another person that he could put in bondage. I wanted a child and I had been pressing him. He said I could have a child if he could have a sexual slave."
She testified that she met Hooker when she was 15 years old. "We had a sexual relationship that concerned bondage," she said.
Hooker was accused of abducting a 20-year-old Southern California
woman in 1977 and using her as his sex slave until she fled in 1984.
His wife, who had a 20-month-old girl at the time of the abduction, testified that her husband tied her between two trees 35 to 100 times at the same time. She handcuffed her to a stretching "rack" at their home five times.
Mrs. Hooker, who left her husband at the time the victim fled, also told the jury that he tied her to the rafters "so my feet could not touch the ground" 20 times. She described this as the "most painful" act of bondage to which she submitted her.
Earlier, Deputy Teham County District Attorney Christine McGuire said in her opening statement that Hooker once made his victim place a pistol barrel in her mouth and pull the trigger in an obedience test.
Defense lawyer Roland Papendick said in his opening statement that Hooker admitted to the kidnapping but only because the statute of limitations had run out on the crime. He added he would show that the victim fell in love with Hooker and staved him with her of own free will.
The prosecutor said that in March 1981 the victim was told she would be
taken to Riverside County to visit her family. But first, McGuire said, the women was required to take "an obedience test."
Hooker told the victim to place a pistol barrel in her mouth and pull the trigger to show that she trusted him, the assistant district attorney and the woman complied, she added, andHooker felt he then could "trust her."
On March 21, they visited her parents and Hooker was introduced as her boyfriend, McGuire told the jury.
The prosecutor said that, after the
kidnapping, Hooker at times placed in a coffin-like box under his waterbed and kept her in a hole beneath a shed on his home.
"He forced her into sexual acts," McGuire said.
McGuire said Hooker and his wife agreed to kidnap a young woman to serve as his sex slave because his wife could no longer tolerate the pain suffered in her husband's sadomasochistic practices. However, the deputy district attorney said, Hooker had told his wife that he would not engage in sexual intercourse with the victim.
Early warning system criticized
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The systems that would alert Washington to a nuclear attack and would carry the order to fire U.S. missiles are vulnerable to failure or sabotage, military leaders told Congress yesterday.
One critic, appearing before a House subcommittee, said the system was so weak that if the president had to "push the button, it might not work."
The military officials, responding to warnings that terrorists could easily knock out vital links in the early warning system or in the communications linking the president to U.S. strategic forces, said the computers and communications in the so-called "C-cubed" system were being upgraded gradually.
The command, control and communications system links warning sensors around the world and in space with the Air Force center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., and with Washington.
"The biggest vulnerability is in communications," Air Force Gen. Robert Herres, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Government Operations subcommittee of Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas.
Brooks said some satellite relay stations, undersea cables, telephone switching centers and other equipment were easy targets. He said they were as "vulnerable as can be to sabotage, to any half-way organized bunch of nuts."
Controllers' skill examined
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The suspension of an air traffic controller in this week's near collision of an Eastern Airlines jet and a helicopter raises new questions about controller stress and training — and concern over the limitations of the air traffic control system since a 1981 strike.
Today only 14,064 controllers are working in airport towers and enroute centers, and of them about 70 percent are qualified to handle traffic without supervision. Before
11,400 experienced controllers were fired in the 1981 strike, about 80 percent of the 16,412 controllers were considered fully qualified.
Since the strike, the volume of air traffic has increased by about 9 percent, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. At the same time, the airlines have begun adopting a more efficient system that concentrates more planes in certain areas during certain times of the day.
This has prompted concern among aviation safety experts about
whether controllers are able to deal with traffic in congested airports and in crowded air space nearby.
Such is the case at Washington's National Airport where on Tuesday evening, as an Eastern Airlines "shuttle" roared down the runway, a helicopter lifted off and began to cross its path. The Eastern pilot slammed on the brakes and aborted the takeoff, resting his Boeing 727 on a grassy area beyond the runway only 40 yards from the Potomac River.
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