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NEWS IN BRIEF
MONDAY, DEC. 10, 2001
LAWRENCE
Professor's house catches fire yesterday, no one injured
A Lawrence resident reported a fire at the residence of Saeed Farokhi, professor of aerospace engineering, in the 2000 block of Hogan Drive at 10:58 a.m. yesterday, said Jerry Karr, Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical battalion chief.
County Fire & Medical butcher, Jennifer Cappo, Farokh's neighbor, called 911 after noticing smoke coming from the house when she was taking her daughter's friend home.
When the fire truck arrived, Karr said there was a working fire and heavy smoke in the south end of the second floor.
No one was in the house at the time of the fire, he said.
Karr said the cause of the fire was unknown and that the damage was estimated at $200,000.
Farokhi could not be reached for comment.
—Michelle Burhenn
NATION
'America's Most Wanted suspect found, convicted
PRINCETON, W.Va. — A Mercer County man captured in Kansas after being featured on America's Most Wanted has been convicted of 105 counts involving the sexual abuse of his four stepchildren.
Barry White was found guilty Friday by a jury in Mercer County Court Court.
White faces up to 30 years in prison on each of 30 counts of first-degree sexual assault and up to 20 years on each of 75 counts of child abuse by a custodian. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 28.
Prosecutors said White sexually abused his stepchildren and forced them to have sex on each other.
The charges involved four children between ages 2 and 11. They had been in foster care and since have been adopted by their foster mother.
by their roster here. After the Whites fled Mercer County, prosecutors contacted the Fox network's America's Most Wanted program and provided details of the case, descriptions of the Whites and their car, and photographs.
The Whites were arrested in March at a mobile home in Toronto, Kan., after a neighbor saw the TV program and called police.
Prosecutors ask court to refuse Nichols' request for new trial
DENVER — Federal prosecutors have filed papers asking an appeals court to reject Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols' latest bid for a new trial.
Issues raised in Nichols' appeal have already been settled, prosecutor Sean Connellly argued in the documents filed Nov. 30 with the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The documents were made public Friday.
Defense lawyers have said Nichols deserves a new trial because of withheld FBI documents and a legal technicality that jurors should have determined whether Nichols knew the attack would be deadly.
Nichols, 45, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, which killed 168 people. He was sentenced to life in prison. He still faces state murder charges in Oklahoma.
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NATION&WORLD Woman tried in murder may be set free by judge
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LANCASTER, Pa. — John Show wanted the death penalty for Lisa Michelle Lambert in 1992, after a judge found the woman guilty of murdering his 16-year-old daughter with a butcher knife in a jealous rage over a man both women had dated.
Instead, as the 10th anniversary of Laurie Show's murder approaches, her family faces the possibility that Lambert will be set free by a federal judge who has ruled twice that she is an innocent victim of misconduct by police and prosecutors.
"If she gets out, it'll be a nightmare," said Show, who has written to Congress seeking an investigation of U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell's actions in the case. "It will be an outrage to us, to this community."
After being stunned by Lambert's killing on Dec. 20, 1991, this quiet farming area had to face a reminder last year with the airing of a television movie, The Stalking of Laurie Show.
"It's the case that won't go away," said Dale Jerchau, police chief for East Lampeter Township.
Lambert was 19 and living with her boyfriend, Lawrence Yunkin, when she learned that Yunkin had previously dated Laurie Show.
Laurie Snow.
Prosecutors said the liaison enraged Lambert. They said she lured Show's mother away from the condominium they shared in East Lampeter Township, and that Lambert and a friend, Tabitha Buck, then entered the home while Yunkin waited in a getaway car.
Show was stabbed several times, and her throat was slashed.
Although Lambert has admitted accompanying Buck into the apartment, she said she only intended to play a prank on Show by tying her up and cutting off her hair, and that she was framed by corrupt police.
John Show Father of murder victim
"If she gets out, it'll be a nightmare."
Hazel Show, however, told police that when she returned to her apartment, her daughter's last words were: "Michelle did it."
Lambert was convicted in 1992 and sentenced to life in prison. Buck was convicted of second-degree murder and also sentenced to life. Yunkin pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and is serving a 10- to 20-year sentence. All three remain in prison.
Lambert appealed, and in 1997 Dalzell concluded that she was a victim of "wholesale prosecutorial misconduct."
A federal appeals court later ruled that Dalzell overstepped his authority because Lambert had not yet exhausted her state appeals. The case was returned to state courts, where Lambert has lost several appeals. She also lost a bid for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Lambert's case is again before Dalzell, who last month reinstated his 1997 findings.
Lambert claimed that former Assistant District Attorney Jack Kenneff tried to coerce an expert witness — Dr. Isidore Mihalakis, a forensic pathologist called by the defense to testify about Show's ability to utter her dying words — to change his testimony. Dalzell cited that claim as one example of prosecutorial misconduct.
misconduct.
Asked last week if Kenneff had asked him to alter his testimony, Mihalakis said: "Of course not. I had already submitted a [written] report of my testimony."
New York officials visit Israel
Kenneff noted that an FBI investigation — recommended by Dalzell in 1997 — resulted in no findings of wrongdoing.
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JERUSALEM — New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his successor, Michael Bloomberg, showed support for Israel yesterday by taking a heavily guarded tour of Jerusalem that included stops at the sites of recent Palestinian suicide bombings.
Accompanied by New York Gov. George Pataki, they planted trees, shook hands and kissed Israeli admirers at an outdoor mall where two bombers blew themselves up Dec.
1. killing 11 Israeli teen-agents.
"After the attack on New York on Sept. 11, I think we realize even more than we did before just how closely connected we are," Giuliani said. "So we wanted to come to show our support."
port.
The group also visited a central Jerusalem pizza parlor where another Palestinian bomber killed himself and 15 other people on Aug. 9, including a U.S. citizen.
Earlier, the New York leaders inserted notes into crevices in the sacred Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Jewish tradition says wishes placed in the cracks will be granted by God.
Giulani, who has been widely praised for his calm handling of the World Trade Center attack, received a hero's welcome at many stops along the tour, led by Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.
Security was tight all along, especially at Zion Square where the New Yorkers donned skullcaps and stood alongside Olmert. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau to watch the lighting of candles for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
the start of the jersey The ceremony drew only a small crowd, with those attending required to pass through metal detectors.
hear these declarations. Sharon said Israelis felt a special affinity for New Yorkers after Sept. 11. The Israeli leader compared Israel's fight against Palestinian militants with the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
rish. "This is a war of fighters — for freedom, for liberty and for democracy — against the turant." Sharon told the crowd.
The three Americans also met privately with Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Demonstrating a clear preference for Israel in the 14 months of clashes with the Palestinians, Giuliani said "there is no moral equivalent" between the Jewish state and the Palestinian Authority.
He criticized Arafat and said he had not kept to his commitments to crack down on Palestinian militants.
Bloomberg also hinted support for Israeli missile attacks against Palestinians, saying countries that have been victims of terror should "strike back."
NATION
Intel co-founder pledges $261 million to conservation
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A foundation set up by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore has pledged $261 million over 10 years to Conservation International, the largest gift to a private environmental group.
The grants, announced yesterday, will help researchers identify and protect biodiversity hot spots areas that cover 1.4 percent of the Earth but are home to more than 60 percent of its terrestrial species.
species. Moore, who co-founded Intel Corp. in 1968, said his interest in the environment stems from the changes he noticed while returning to favorite vacation spots in Mexico over the years.
spots in Mexico cover the year. "Places like Cabo San Lucas have become high-rise hotels and golf courses — not at all like it used to be," he told The Associated Press. "Just seeing how fast the changes were got me interested in the problem."
Moore's gift is the largest to a private environmental organization, according to the New York-based Foundation Center.
The gift to Washington-based Conservation International will help fund a global initiative based on the theory that conservationists can be most effective by targeting imperiled areas of the greatest biodiversity.
The money will help the group, which was founded in 1987, set up field stations in several at-risk areas, said Peter Seligmann, Conservation International's chief executive.
WORLD
Two charged in assassination of Israeli tourism minister
JERUSALEM — Two Palestinians were formally charged yesterday in the Oct.7 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, the first Israeli Cabinet minister ever killed by Palestinians.
Neither is accused of pulling the trigger — prosecutors say they assisted the gunmen. In the Jerusalem District Court, Mohammed Rimawi, from the West Bank village of Beit Rima, was charged with murder. Saleh Alawi, from east Jerusalem, was charged as an accomplice.
The assassination triggered Israeli incursions into six Palestinian towns, a move hotly criticized by the United States.
The charge sheet said Hamdi Koraan, from the West Bank town of Ramallah, shot Zeevi, and Basal Samer accompanied him. Koraan and Samer are believed to be still at large in Palestinian-controlled areas.
The prosecution said Koraan, a member of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, recruited Rimawi into the organization with the offer of carrying out an attack on a prominent Israeli.
Rimawi, whose role in the operation, according to the indictment, was to aid the escape of Koraan and Samer, later allegedly enlisted Alawi and asked him to harbor the fugitives in his home in the neighborhood of lizariya on the edge of Jerusalem.
The charge sheet said Koraan and Samer fled from Alawi's house during the early hours of the morning following the assassination when they spotted Israeli security forces approaching the hide-out.
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