Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 20, 1991
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Miami
Noriega witness given immunity
The government gave $170,000 and immunity for hundreds of drug deals to a key witness against two of Manuel Noriega's co-defendants, prosecutors acknowledged yesterday.
The co-defendants, David Bawidow and William Saldarriage, will go to trial Monday on
charges that they conspired to import more than 700 pounds of cocaine aboard a freighter in March 1986. The deal was allegedly pro-
duced by the manian dictator. Noriega will be tried separately in June.
Manuel Noriega
One of the co-defendants' chief accusers is Ramon Navarro.
Prosecutors have given the defense a list of persons accused of poisoning animals and other agencies accounting to $710,000.
"Navarro has made 20, 30, 50 shipments of cocaine, he's made umpty-nine millions of dollars — not one penny of which they've taken from him in income taxes," said Davidow's attorney, Richard Sharpstein. "As a matter of fact, they've paid him $170,000."
Navarro allegedly witnessed meetings in Panama between the defendants and engaged in dialogue.
Hong Kong
Bridge failure leaves 23 dead
A suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd celebrating the Lunar New Year, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100 others near the site of the city of Xian, newspapers reported yesterday.
The newspapers, quoting China's semi-official Hong Kong China News Agency, said authorities blamed Friday's accident on a large holiday weekend when the city got to get a better view of a popular Taoist temple.
There were no foreigners reported among the casualties.
Xian, a former Chinese capital in the central province of Shaanxi, is a popular tourist city. It has a population of 18 million.
The report did not say how many people were on the bridge southwest of Xian when it collapsed, dropping the crowd into a valley. The report gave no further details.
Discovery door hinges damaged
Cape Canaveral. Fla.
NASA's first shuttle flight of the year, a March military mission, could be delayed up to a month because of cracked door hinges that limited it to the Discovery, officials said yesterday.
A quick check of the other two shuttles uncovered chipped paint on the hinges but no cracks, said launch director Bob Sieck. Those shuttles will be examined more thoroughly and their inspection records will be reviewed, he said.
Cracks were found in two out of Discovery's four door hinges. The doors on the belly of the shuttle are supposed to close once the big external fuel tank drops off shortly after liftoff,
Engineers feared Discovery's other door hinges also were cracked, but further inspection showed they were fine, said Charles Stevenson chief of the orbiter mechanical systems branch.
From The Associated Press
Soviets increase patrols in cities; crime also up
MOSCOW — Authorities have doubled the number of cities in which the military and police are on joint patrol, although the controversial tactic has not cut crime, Interior Minister Boris Pugo said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Pugo said the crime rate increased by 18 percent since patrols began Feb. 1, but the jump came because the economic situation worsened and economic crimes increased.
Pugo, speaking at a news conference, also said the retusal of Lithuanian authorities to release Mr. Mihailovich's arrests was main broadcast tower in Vilnius was complicating a Soviet prosecutor's investigation of the incident.
Lithuanian officials and Pugo have said 13 people were killed in the attack. A 14th person died Monday. But Pugo said central authorities needed more information to whether all 14 died as a result of the attack.
Pugo's discussion of the joint patrols by Soviet soldiers and Interior Ministry police appeared designed in part to calm objections to the patrols and also to increase support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's law-and-order campaign by publicizing the rising crime rate.
Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin and leaders of some of the other 14 Soviet republics have criticized the patrols, which began after the recent crackdown in the rebellious Baltic republics. The patrols are viewed by many reformers as a prelude to martial law or other severe measures taken to prevent the further collapse of the Soviet Union
Soviet police arrested 2.3 million criminals in 1990, increased 13 percent from the 1989 level of 2.5 million, and 40 percent above the 1.9 million arrested in 1986, according to statistics Pugo
Salvation Army will open soup kitchens in Leningrad The Associated Press
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Salvation Army plans to open 50 soup kitchens next month in Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second-largest city, the largest Internet Interfaex news agency reported yesterday.
Charity organizations in Hamburg, West Germany, will supply the food, Interfax said, quoting Leningrad city council Alexander Rodin, a Salvation Army member.
Rodin said the Salvation Army would seek to use local military field kitchens staffed by servicemen. It said 300 people would be needed to staff the kitchens.
The agency gave no other details.
Large-scale food rationing began in Leningrad in December for the first time since the 90-day Nazi siege during World War II. Food has been in short supply in Leningrad, Moscow and other major Soviet cities, and many have accepted food aid and credits from abroad.
released.
The joint patrols have detained 16,000 people, of whom 601 were criminals and 300 were army deserters or soldiers absent without leave, said Interior Ministry Gen. Eduard Kolochov, appearing with Puga.
The number of cities being patrolled increased from 262 two weeks ago to 484 as of Feb. 15, and this is expected to continue in the near future.
Murder convict pardoned
Virginia governor blocks execution conditionally
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov L. Douglas Wlder yesterday offered to spare the life of a jailhouse lawyer whose celebrity supporters at both ends of a trial on a man said was wrongly convicted of a double murder.
Joseph Giarratano, 33, had been scheduled to die in the electric chair Friday.
The governor issued a conditional pardon, which commuted Guirrattano's sentence to life in prison with parole after 25 years and allowed him to seek a new trial.
Wilder, a first-term Democrat, said in a statement that he was not influenced by suppor
Douglas Wilder
porters' pleas but by the facts of the case
that he has given until 3 p.m. "too early to accept the attorney's excuse." The execution defense attorney Gerald Zerkenkelt. "This is not what we asked for. He has not decided what decision he is going to make."
Griarantao was convicted of the 1979 murder of Barbara Kline, 44, and the rape and murder of her 15-year-old daughter. Michelle. The two were his sons in Norfolk, where he was a part-time (isherman).
Giarratano has said he does not remember
committing the killings, though in the past he confessed several times. He said he was abusing drugs heavily at the time of the murders and that he had turned his life around while in prison.
He has become a prominent jailhouse lawyer whose writings appeared in such publications as The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Giarratano's case drew the support of a variety of celebrities, including conservative columnist James Kilpatrick and liberal entertainers Joan Baez and Mike Farrell.
Supporters had claimed, among other things, that Giarratano's confessions did not match the evidence gathered at the scene and that there was evidence the stabbing of the woman was committed by a right-handed person. Giarratano is left-handed.
"This is an incredibly brave move on behalf of the governor, and I'm really pleased," said Julie McConnell, director of the Virginia Association to abolish the Death Penalty.
Earl Jones, brother-in-law of Barbara Kline,
said: "I want to thank the state of Virginia for
helping me with my work."
It was the first time, Wilder had blocked an execution since he took office in January 1990. There have been three executions in Virginia during his term.
Wilder, the nation's first African-American elected governor, had opened the death penalty to blacks in the 1960s.
Wilder had received 5,978 telephone calls and letters from people urging him to stop Giarratano's execution, a representative said.
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