University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 28, 1990
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Poindexter eludes testifying in trial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The defense in John Poindexter's ien-trona cover-up trial rested its case yesterday without calling the former national security adviser to testify.
Defense lawyer Richard Beckler
said he didn't Poindexter on the stand because he didn't think the government proved its case.
Poindexter's lawyers sought to depict him
ed career Navy officer who never would lie to Congress.
"John Poindexter is and always has been a person of the highest
... truthfulness, honesty and integrity", testified retired Adm. James Holloway III, a former member of the Joint Chiefs of
Holloway was the last of 15 witnesses called by the defense during its 5/2-day portion of the 13-day trial.
Final arguments will be Friday morning.
Another character witness, Sen. John Chafee, R.-R.I., said yesterday that Poindexter had the highest reputation for truthfulness
Poindexter was administrative assistant to Chafee when he was secretary of the Navy in the Nixon administration.
and character.
North, who reluctantly testified against his former boss, was the prosecution's star witness.
Among the final wintenders for Poindexter was Rep. Robert K. Dornan, R-Calf., who testified about frequent meetings between North and 25 to 30 members of Congress in 1985 and 1986 during a congressional ban on military aid to the contra.
The members of Congress told North that they did not think he was limited by the ban and that it was permissible for him to help raise money for the rebels, Dornan said.
Defense attorneys indicated that it was Poindexter who approved giving the staff members the information, but no such evidence was presented at the trial.
He is accused of obstructing Congress and making false statements by allegedly telling them he didn't find out about the Hawk missile shipment until five weeks after it occurred.
Poindexter is charged with one count of conspiracy to obstruct Congress, two counts of obstructing Congress and two counts of making false statements.
Club left no escape from fire
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Prosecutors yesterday investigated the tangled ownership of the Happy Land Social Club to determine whether the landlords share responsibility for a fire that killed 87 people.
The district attorney's office also said a grand jury had started hearing evidence against Julio Gonzalez, a 36-year-old Cuban emigre who is charged with 87 counts of murder in connection with the fire.
The club had no emergency exits, no second-story windows and no fire sprinklers; the victims had neither the time nor the means to escape.
McCarthy said the issue of landlord responsibility was not clear. Prosecutors still had to determine whether anyone beyond the club operator, Elias Colon, who died in the fire, knew the building had been served with notices of building code violations.
District Attorney Robert Johnson said Gonzalez gave police a videotaped confession Sunday, admitting he torched the Happy Land with gasoline in a fit against his former girlfriend, Feliicano, who was the club.
Feliciano escaped the fire without serious injury.
NATIONAL GUARD: Governors interfered with U.S. foreign policy when they tried to stop state National Guard units from training in Central America, the Bush administration told the Supreme Court yesterday.
Solicitor General Kenneth Starr asked the court to squelch Minnesota Gov. Rudy Perich's challenge of a 1986 law that stripped all governors of their power to veto National Guard training missions.
The case has revived a controversy from the 1988 presidential campaign in which Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis denounced the Reagan administration for what he called a failed and illegal policy of supporting the Nicaraguan contra rebels.
GREYHOUND STRIKE: Grayhound offered $100,000 rewards yesterday for information about bus shootings during the nearly month-long driver's strike. The union called the move a play to keep negotiations stalled.
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P. Anthony Lannie, vice president and chief negotiator for Greyhound Lines Inc., said $10,000 would be paid for information leading to the conviction of those shooting at buses and terminals.
EISENHOWER HONOR: U.S. and British leaders lauded Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday, marking the centennial year of his birth, but Eisenhower's son said his father would have liked to be remembered simply as a good soldier.
"He was the vaunted warrior
who hated war," John S.D. Eisenhower told a joint meeting of Congress called in honor of the World War II leader and two-term Republican president.
MORE RELAXED NAVY: A former Navy secretary told Congress yesterday that the Navy should shift a significant portion of its fleet to reserve status in response to the reduced Soviet threat.
John Lehman, who as head of the Navy during the Reagan administration advocated increasing the fleet to 600 ships, said that the size of the Navy should not change, but half of the 20,000 sailors associated with ships near Europe should be shifted to reserve status.
Tapes reveal underworld of blood, silence
The Associated Press
indictment unsealed Monday.
BOSTON — Baptism traditionally promises the cleansing of sin. Not so for Carmen Tortora, whose alleged rebirth could mean 50 years in prison.
Authorities said the 43-year-old Tortora became a Mafia "soldier" during a secretly tapped blood initiation that confirmed an underworld of solemn oaths and codes of silence.
U. S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said the tape recordings of the secret, clandestine operation provided unprecedented proof that could help convict 21 accused mobsters, including the reputed boss of the Mafia in New England.
All but two of those indicted were in custody yesterday, a day after the FBI launched a dragged through investigation into cases and Connecticut authorities said.
"Carmen . . . You were baptized when you were a baby, your parents did it, but now this time we gonna baptize you," an alleged Mafia lieutenant told him during the induction detailed in a 113-count federal
They were held on charges including murder, racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking, gambling, obstruction of justice and witness
intimidation.
Thornburgh said Monday that in his 20 years investigating organized crime, people often had asked whether the Mafia blood rite truly existed. The question was answered once and for all, he said, on Oct. 29 in an unremarkable house on a modest street in suburban Medford.
Tortora and three other men allegedly were inducted at the boxy, clapboard home during a Sunday ceremony presided by reputed crime boss Raymond "Junior" Patriarca, who was arrested Monday at his Lincoln, R.I., home.
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