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Show World Standard-Examiner Fnday. October 31. 1997 3A Au pair’s friends, neighbors outraged at verdict Hundreds of townspeople. reporters and camera crews ELTON, England - Dismayed and angry, Louise Woodward's friends and neighbors prayed, cried and started collectingamoney today to fight an crowded into a pub. The Rigger. early today to watch the court proceedings in Cambridge. this small north England town Mass., on a giant television screen. When the guilty verdict was announcedshortly after 2:30 a.m. British time, the pub erupted into sobs, groans and angry shouts of. “No, it can’t be true!” People hugged each other while they struggled to understand how the girl they knew as a wherethe teenagerlived. youngster, who went to America American jury’s murder verdict and bring the 19-year-old home. “We looked on America as our very close neighbor, yet their system has entirely failed Louise,” said Hazel Mayamba-Kasongo, a prominent supporter in to see a different country and to work as an au pair, could come to face life in prison there, convicted of shaking to death the baby in her care. Then phone calls started pouring in from America, Europe and all over Britain - with American sympathizers urging Britons to write protest letters to President Clinton. During the morning, the shops church for a prayer service. Andrew Miller, the local governing Labor Party lawmaker, spoke with Miss Woodward's mother, Sue, in Boston “She is in a daze ofdisbelief that such an unfair verdict emerged,” Miller said. He called the prosecutors’ actions an “obscenity,” designed to boost their re-election chances. in Elton, a town of 2,000 people 200 miies northwest of London, elected public servants. “If ever you wanted an argu- were quiet. People stood talking; ment against elected officials some gathered in the Anglican conducting prosecutions, this is WORLD BRIEFS: ‘Womanleading presidency vote in Ireland DUBLIN, Ireland - A woman. from Northern Ireland appeared poised today to claim the presidency of Ireland, after campajgning on a theme of“building bridges” between the island’s that ntry and from America, ifted everybody.” he ad- just | He spokein The Rigger where supporters, “Initially, the people here just couldn't believe the verdict.” said the Rev. Ken Davey, vicar of St James’ Anglican Church, where villagers said prayers for the tenager. her parents and her sister Vicky. “But when the phone calls started coming in from all over “ils al . the cou fund. an yarya Tenale Yall) ‘ ad dod CP wearing yellow ribbons. had waited for the verdict, confident Woodward would walk free Thank You Mayor Jerry Stevenson... for Managed Growth of Lavton Cit with No New Taxes & No Debt! Re-Elect Mayor Jerry Stevenson 2671 WASHINGTON BLVD., OGDEN (NEXT TO BOARD PLANET) peoples andreligions. An exit poll for staterun RTE oatSerta In Britain, prosecutors are non- it,” Miller said The village. which already raised $22.600 to help pay the au fares and hotel bills of the parents, carpenter Gary Woodward and his wife, Sue, started a new a The Assocaied Press showed Mary McAleese, a lawyer and academic, McAleese taking 46 percent of the first-prefer- SLICK “S” ence votes in SNOWBOARD Thursday’s election. oA SRC “790” wmSKI SUPER SIDE CUT zx 5g" ‘The next-closest contender, European Parliament member jue MabryBanotti, trailed with 29 per- cent in the exit poll. ‘After the lowest-rated candidates were eliminated, the exit poll suggested, McAleese would finish with 59 percent and would succeed the popular Mary Robinson, Ireland's first woman president. ‘The official vote count started this morning, with the final result S$ ss S's wy 5 °eF & a — a | in expected late in the day. Irish voters cast ballots for both first and second choices for the presidency, a largely ceremonial office whose prominence Robinson put to use on behalf of a numberof causes. MODEL“T SNOWBOARDS 120". SKI GOGGLES PRECISION MOUNTAINEERING ALBERTA: Woman whogavebirth on roadside: No one helped HOBBEMA - A western Canadian woman gave birth beside a gravel road while at least a dozen vehicles sped by her, ignoring cries for help, she said. The baby died hourslater. Squatting by the road, Lorna Okeynandelivered the child early Mondayas her husbandtried to flag down drivers at the Samson Cree reservation in central Alberta, 60 miles south of Edmonton. . “This car slowed down and he just looked at us and kept going,” Okeynan said, in tears. She and her husband, Paul, live on an isolated homeon the reservation, with no phone or car. ‘After she went into labor, the couple walked to a neighbor’s house for help but no one was home. They returned to the road and tried to walk to the town of Hobbema, three miles away, but didn’t makeit. After the delivery, two passing nurses stopped to help. An ambylance arrived 15 minutes later and took the family to a hospital, where the baby,a girl, died within hours. The case has prompted soul-searching at the Samson Cree reserve, whose oil reserves make it one of Canada’s richest reservations. 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