Show Page 13 Student Life Monday May 17 1976 PORTLAND ore (AP) — The trial of Dennis Banks and three other members of the American Indian Movement on explosives and firearms charges started in US Dist Court here amid speculation that the government seek dismissal The charges stem from a shootout in November 1975 near Ontario Ore with state police will Russ Redner Kenneth 28 Moses Loudhawk 21 and Banks’ wife KaMook 20 were arrested at that time Banks 39 was arrested in January in California A fifth defendant Anna Mae Aquash 30 was found shot to death in South Dakota in March The four are accused of illegal possession of explosives and of firearms from which the serial numbers had been filed Earlier Federal Compufers wasting millions leader trial opens AIM Robert Judge C Beloni of US Dist Court supressed as evidence seven cases of dynamite state police said they seized at the time of the arrests The dynamite was destroyed a short time after the arrests by police who said they lacked adequate safe storage facilities Sidney Lezak US attorney for Oregon is seeking a continuance while the supression order is appealed but Judge Beloni said earlier the trial would start on schedule Prosecutors have said they would rather dismiss the charges and try to reindict later than go to court without the dynamite as evidence The appeal of the supression order could take months Lezak said Belloni said no further delay is justified under the Speedy Trial Act Lezak contends a reasonable interpretation of the act does not force the government to go to trial without supressed evidence that is the subject of an appeal Banks has been charging Lezak with trying to delay the trial until after the presidential elections which Lezak angrily denies Banks has been free on bond on the federal charges and on an extradition warrant from South Dakota where he is sought for sentening on riot and assault convictions He says he fled South Dakota in fear of his life and has met with Gov Bob Straub of Oregon to ask that he not be returned there He told Straub he would like to retire from leadership of AIM and teach if he is permitted to stay in Oregon Other AIM leaders accused Banks of trying to sell out the movement Straub who has received the extradition papers says he will not decide on the matter until after Banks’ trial — WASHINGTON (AP) issue which Federal computers now initiating “more than $17 billion in payments and other checks and make decisions automatically are wasting millions of dollars each year because of mistakes programmed into their systems congressional auditors say The General Accounting Office said that in one instance the Navy took five years to fix a computer that was — on its own — initiating “at least S3 million in annual unnecessary costs” The GAO an investigatory arm of Congress made the findings in an analysis of the increasing use of computers in the federal government The study said automated computer systems are actions a year without anybody reviewing or evaluating whether they are correct” To insure more accurate computer calculations the GAO proposed closer monitoring of computers that make decisions on their own And it said that independent auditing teams should study new automated systems to make certain errors are not programmed into them In almost all cases the GAO said incorrect computer decisions are due to improper programming and faulty data within the systems HODSft Country music draws Fender Haggard Cash and Coe ex-co- ns Tenn (AP) — Fender Merle Haggard Freddy and David Allan Coe have something in common other than being established country music singers They’re all Johnny Cash and Johnny NASHVILLE ex-co- Rodriquez served ns brief jail sentences and Johnny Paycheck once was indicted on a check forgery charge and received a suspended sentence seem to “These understand the human emotions and feelings of country music fans” said Larry Baunach a vice president for ABC Dot records “This has always been the greatness of country music: people listen to the lyrics “These men have had highs and lows and they know what life is all about and seem to be able to convey it more emotionally than others They know emotion- alism” Fender served three years in Angola State Prison in Louisiana on a 1960 marijuana possession conviction Released in 1963 he toiled for 12 years until “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” became a hit and was voted 1975 single of the year by the Country Music Association “I don’t think there’s a better place for inspiration than prison” said Fender who says he was “set up” for his arrest “My time in prison was hard but music made it better “I wrote some songs in prison and my time there did mature me I was not as irresponsible after I got out I began to feel very responsible” Coe has spent 20 of his 36 years behind bars and spent some time in a death row cell “In some ways it hurt and in some instances it helped” Coe said about how his string of jail terms affected his career “It was hard to get credit for instruments and things like that when I got out But a lot of people identified with it as an image “When I got out on parole I went to West Virginia and played in little places — bars places like that” he said “I went to Nashville in 1968 when I got off iUJ parole” Haggard began serious performing and writing between 1958 and 1960 while serving two years and nine months in San Quentin for burglary and escape He was chosen entertainer of the year by the CMA in 1970 and his “Okie from Muskogee” is a classic GHeoDfei? Cash contrary to popular belief has never served time in prison But he has said he spent seven different "one nighters” in various jails fps Rodriquez was jailed in the Austin Tex area on a charge of stealing three goats when a Texas ranger heard him singing called a country music promoter who later became his manager and got him on his way to success at Roskel ley's Paycheck was indicted in Nasville in 1972 on a check forgery charge He received an th 29-da- y suspended 11N sentence and was placed on three years’ probation ii MAIN ) Dutch Heart Association flys "p r m nn members to Texas for treatment AMSTERDAM Netherlands (AP) — A The Dutch association of heart patients plans to begin airlif'io Texas where it says members will undergo open heart surgery Airlifts of 25 persons a month have been arranged by the Dutch Heart Patients Association which has 30000 members because Duth clinics can’t handle them a spokesman said The $10000 price is only slightly more than the cost of treatment here and even that might be covered by insurance The patients will be flown to St Luke’s Hospital in Houston where the operations will be performed by Dr Denton A Cooley and his team the spokesman said - Henk Fievet chairman of the group said his association has already received hundreds of applications for the Houston flights from persons unable to get an operation in the Netherlands The first group of 25 will leave next month and another 80 are on the waiting list for later flights the association said Fievet said Dutch clinics could perform only 1600 operations last year while 6000 were requested He said Cooley and his team performed 4000 operations last year "Thousands of people here are just left to get on with it” Fievet said “People could lead a normal life after a heart operation instead of dying prematurely “I saw the way things should be run while I was in Houston making final arrangements with Dr Cooley” Fievet said “It shows what can be done if hospital personnel are prepared to work hard instead of attending endless meetings as they do Enjoy the luxury & privacy of townhouse living here” The patients’ association is demanding that health insurance companies to which all Dutch citizens belong foot the bill for the airlift The companies have said they will need time to consider the matter Such operations are normally covered only if performed here If the companies refuse the association says it will demand that the government force them to pay Under Dutch law the minister of health can order the companies to pay for the trip All new this k year Convenient location Plenty of parking & storage Apply now for fall quarter siiiinis amnB vcssn mss oeeiiss! mV 17Ck3 - Contest County Clsrh for fitnss & pieces (Sponsored by College Republicans) |