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Thursday, January 15, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Alien leaves U.S. for surgery
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Mexican national may have forfeited his chance to become a U.S. citizen when he was forced to return to Mexico City for treatment of a disease that could have left him a paraplegic.
Juan Diaz, 27, underwent surgery Friday for a rare form of spinal tuberculosis known as Pott's disease that forced him to quit work in the soybean and corn fields of western Kansas last summer to seek treatment at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Diaz entered the United States illegally in May 1981 and had been living with a brother and other relatives in Sublette.
Under immigration guidelines signed into law in November by President Reagan, Diaz would have
been eligible to seek temporary U.S. residency later this year and permanent residence in another 18 months. The law grants aliens temporary residency if they can prove they had lived in the United States without interruption since Jan. 1, 1982.
Henri J. Watson, a lawyer representing Diaz, said yesterday that there was no time before the quickly scheduled operation for Diaz to seek permission from the State Department in preparation Naturalization Service to leave the country temporarily.
Watson said he must try to persuade immigration officials to grant Diaz retroactive permission to leave the country, but he has any hope of returning soon.
The disease, which causes spinal deformity, was diagnosed in November at the Med Center. Charles Hartman, chief of the medical staff, said
U. S. surgeons rarely performed the operation that Diaz needed. Without it, he said, Diaz would have ended up a paraplegic.
"We have cleaned out his tuberculosis and corrected his deformity. He's ready to walk," Luque said. He said Diaz should leave the hospital this week or early next week.
Mark Asher, the medical center doctor who diagnosed the disease, said he contacted Eduardo Luque at the German Diaz Lombardo Hospital in Mexico City because Luque specialized in a corrective technique for the disease.
Doctors at the KU Medical Center tried to raise the more than $45,000 needed for the operation in the United States, but Luque agreed to perform the five-hour operation for $5,000.
Federal informant wants protection
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The ringleader of an arson-for-insurance scheme who became an informant for the government and later expressed doubts about that decision is considering placing his family in the federal witness protection program, an assistant U.S. attorney said yesterday.
During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge D. Brook Bartlett sentenced Jack Williams, 56, of Peculiar, Mo., to 18 months in federal prison. After his release from prison.
Williams will begin five years probation.
Williams helped the government successfully prosecute 11 of his associates. But he said that if he had known that he would be prematurely revealed, exposing his family to possible retaliation, he would have acted differently.
"He's had a lot of threats," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Schneider said in a telephone interview. "We don't know who's making them. We've had some information that there's going to be some revenge. We can't substantiate of it right now."
Schneider said Williams was considering whether to place his family in the federal witness protection program. The assistant U.S. attorney also said Williams would not be imprisoned at a facility where any of his associates were serving their sentences.
Williams, who agreed to be indicted with ring members to avoid exposure as an informant, told authorities he committed arson about 300 times to collect more than $3.5 million dollars from insurance companies over a 28-year period.
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