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Show Friday, November National News THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 11, 1988 Page urvtm-Ki ine mtesi m news train arross 21 . the United States provided by Associated Press. g Educator accused of Forest Service criticized also defended by parents; outgunned by 'Rambo' types drug-buyin- NEW YORK (AP) An elementary school principal arrested for allegedly buying two vials of crack was vilified Thursday by parents demanding his removal and defended by shocked as he awaited arraignment on dru charges. Matthew Barnwell, 55, the first city principal ever arrested on drug charges, remained on the Board of Education payroll following his arrest Wednesday, one week after Schools Chancellor Richard Green announced a drug . uat&uuwn in scnoois. " ' "This is a terribly shocking incident. It's : distressing," said Ted Ellsworth, head of the Council of Supervisors and Administrators. Ellsworth said the arrest for criminal possession of a controlled substance was the first drug arrest among his member4,600-memb- B li II , , Harlem streetcorner near Barnwell's home sparked angry comments from parents with children attending P.S. 53 in the Mcrrisania section of the Bronx, while came to Barnwell's defense. . Parents and school officials charged Barnwell, was frequently late or absent from school. He had been suspended for 10 days in a on-- I A - I I F r WAVERLY, Texas Swelling troops of deer hunters in east Texas, including "Rambo" types in military dress armed with weapons, are outmanning and outrunning UJS. Forest Service agents on public lands, officials say. semi-automa- It y f-- ' 's'' 1 f I- - ' lated by policy with "jimJ i - "I don't like everyone talking against my principal," said Elizabeth Galloway, a school aide at the elementary school, which has 1,300 here now." Desiree DeLoach refused to let her daughter Shamieka inside the school building Thursday. "I was very angry. I came here this morning and made a lot of noise," she said. Ellsworth, however, called Barnwell's arrest an isolated incident which shouldn't reflect poorly on the rest of the city's school : : employees. "While this is terribly disturbing, we have thousands of workers fighting to keep drugs out of the schools and get rid of the problem," said Ellsworth. li Li f V I r J - -- Y V Sabine, Davy Crockett, Ange I V i fSi A A . e - New York public school principal Matthew Barnwell is escorted to a precinct station after his arrest. under thick the smoke produced by forest fires sup- port the theory that the firestorm of a nuclear war could lead to an artificial winter of cold, crop failure and starva-,tioaccording to a study published today. n, Alan Robock, a professor at the University of Maryland department of meteorology, said temperatures dropped as much as 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 degrees Celsius, below normal 'in California mountain valleys that were shrouded for days last year by smoke from forest -- The studies are based on temperature readings taken in the Klamath River Canyon of Northern California starting on Aug. 30, 1987, after lightning triggered forest fires that burned for more than a month. Robock said smoke from the fires was trapped in the valleys of the area by a tempera- ture inversion. The smoke blocked much of the- sunlight - from reaching the valley and the temperatures there dropped dramatically. "Virtually all the sunlight that is not reflected by the smoke is absorbed before it floors, reaches the ground, thereby strongly cooling the ground while slightly heating the air," Robock wrote in the journal Science. Temperatures, he said, dropped swiftly. By Sept. 7, a week after the fires started, the high temperature readings at Happy Camp, a point noar the Oregon border, had cooled to 62.6 degrees, 36 degrees below the normal maximum for the season. Happy Camp, in a valley covered with smoke, became much cooler than Slater, a town on a ridge to the north that was not covered. Normal- -, ly, he said, Happy Camp would have higher maximum temperatures than Slater cause of the difference in be- ele- vation. Robock said tomato plants in Happy Camp gardens, hit by the sudden chill and dense smoke, produced no fruit and died. Following a nuclear war, said Robock, the effect would be much more widespread and much more severe. Nuclear wars, he said, would set cities on fire, causing a smoke that would be much denser and darker. This would block out even more sunlight and cause an even deeper temperature drop. dismissal of North's charges Judge: No WASHINGTON A (AP) federal judge says he rejected defense motions to dismiss the case against former presidential aide Oliver L. North because they reflected a cynical deattempt by the fendant to put himself above Iran-Cont- ra the law. Gesell wrote that North's Qrottmonto fnr iiemiocino A. ' fires. 1 1 1 A. 11 .. A ney General Edwin Meese HI and destroyed National Security Council documents "reveals a: skewed attitude toward our form of constitutional government." North is accused of obstructing a November 1986 presidential inquiry into the affair by lying to Meese Iran-Cont- ra about diverting U.S.-Ira- n profits to Nicaragua rebels. North contends he committed no crime because Meese lacked legal authority to ques- the Constitution, federal statutes or applicable decisions which warrants this cynical approach. To merely state it provides the response. This I court must reject it totally. In a separate development, Justice arms-sal- e the tion him. touched off a confrontation with independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh by objecting to a brief he filed in North's case. It said the brief "mischaracterizes basic constitutional principles," but Walsh issued a statement rejecting the accusation. "Ours is a country governed by the rule of law," Gesell said in his opinion released Thursday. "There is nothing in Department Gesell said North, in seeking to have the case against him dismissed, was arguing that "he had the absolute right to lie. to obstruct such inauiries. and to remove or destroy offi cial NSC records because he had not been warned that if he did so he might be indicted." North "fails to appreciate the gravity of his alleged con- duct," the judge said. "North did in fact have fair warning that mendacity and obstruction, coupled with destruction of official documents, was illegal," the judge wrote. Mack claims Senate seat; Democrats plan challenge and insurance commissioner Democratic Sen. percent, - III the also percent. That races than declared MIAMI (AP) Republican was U.S. Rep. Connie Mack his transition for making plans to the Senate today as Rep. Kenneth "Buddy" MacKay and Democratic Party officials c&nsidered a legal challenge to Mack's narrow victory. MacKay refused to concede Thursday even after absentee ballots gave Mack a 'clear victory, saying he and his attorneys were discussing voting "irregularities" that he might challenge. Mack's victory decided the Ion . voar'a 3.1 Rpnnfo means the Democrats tViia races. It will have a - 55-4- 5 majority, a gain of one seat, in the new Senate. Mack, who replaces retiring three-ter- m himLawton Chiles, self the winner when the absentee votes were announced. "It's very exciting," said the grandson of the Baseball Hall of Fame manager. "It's been long; it's been tough. But I felt all along that my message of more freedom, free markets, freedom from taxes, freedom as an objective of cur foreign policy, would come through clearly." President Reagan, who did a television satellite feed for Mack's campaign Monday, called the Cape Coral congressman to congratulate him. The AP's latest tally showed Mack with 2,044,575 votes, or semi-automat- ic away from the traditional weapons to a military look, dress, weapons. We call it 'the Rambo syndrome.' They get their faces painted up and they're In the deer season's first weekend, law enforcement officers received death threats from hunters, a boy was wounded by a hunter firing at a wounded deer, and another hunter was found unconscious after falling 30 feet from an illegal deer blind, or a platform devised to hide hunters from deer. wild-looking- ." Briefs -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 'l- - lina and Sam Houston during the firearms deer season that began last weekend. "I wouldn't go out there myself nor take my family," said Carl Gidlund, a UJS. Forest Service public information officer. "It's turning into an arsenal out there." "What's changed on the forest is that we're seeing a lot of military weapons," or weapons, instead of rifles, Ball said. "We seeing people moving 17 injured in printing plant fire Forest fire smoke study supports of nuclear winter long-hel- d theory - DraWASHINGTON (AP) matic drops in temperature All of which has put increased pressure on east Texas' four national forests I v- -f six-shooti- ng pop pistols." Last year, Texas moved past Pennsylvania to become the state issuing the most hunting licenses. But as the ranks of hunters have grown and become unruly, a situation aggravated by alcohol and drug use, some private land owners have been restricting access to their property, officials say. 1975. pupils. "If something is wrong, he should be given an opportunity to get himself well." Agreed school administrator Robert Hannibal: "This is getting blown out of proportion." But Elizabeth Mack, who has two girls in the fourth grade at the school, demanded Barnwell's removal. "He should have never had the job in the first place," said Ms. Mack, standing outside the school with her daughters. "He was endangering our kids' lives. I'm glad he's not tic "It's scary as hell," Billy Ball, special agent for the Forest Service, said Thursday. "These guys are carrying cannons and we're regu- r x n I 'lit fX';vyS h fr y't I ;sn ' A A 4rtf 1 NEW (AP) I i - f j i er ship. . The bust , to MacKay's 2,014,-92- 4 50 votes, gave Mack a margin of nearly 30,000 votes, more than enough to avoid an automatic recount that would be triggered if the difference was less than one-ha-lf of 1 percent. About 5,000 absentee votes still were out in Bay County, a Mack stronghold in the Panhandle. "We may have to ask the 'fat lady' for an encore," said 50 MacKay campaign manager Greg Farmer. "Something's screwy with those numbers. MacKay, 55, estimated that up to 170,000 Senate votes may be missing in the state's four largest counties. He said there were more votes in those counties fcr the secretary of state Senate. for MacKay told reporters his lawyers would study possible challenges to the vote, such as statewide re count or a manual count of a a court-ordere- d random selection of ballots in the four counties. "We don't intend to drag this out," he said at his Ocala home. "I regret this has come up in this campaign, but I do feel that I owe it to those people whose votes were not counted." Farmer said the way races were listed on the ballots may have confused voters in some counties, or there may have been computer problems. Fire touched off a chemical explosion at a printing plant Thursday, sending 17 people to hospitals with burns, cuts and bruises and forcing an evacuation at the state's largest newspaper. The injured included 15 firefighters who were blown through the air by an explosion as they used water and chemicals to fight the second of two fires at the plant, said city fire Capt. Keith Milliner. He said none of the firefighters' injuries were believed to be serious. Two pressmen at the Stan- dard Gravure plant were taken to hospitals for treatment of second-degre- e burns on their arms and faces, officials said. Production of the newspaper, was disThe Courier-Journa- l, of evacuation the rupted by the building, which is adjacent to the printing plant and also houses the main office of. The Associated Press for the state. Workers were allowed back into the building at 10 p.m., but power was not fully restored immediately. George Gill, president and publisher of The Courier-Journasaid his staff was "going to go back to the way" to put out Friday's edil, ed tions. Courier-Journ- al staffers set up with typewriters and telephones in an old company-owne- d street. building across the Bakkers must repay $7.7 million COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -C- iting the biblical wisdom that people reap what they sow, a judge ordered Jim and Tammy Bakker and a former top aide to repay $7.7 million to PTL for taking undeserved profits from the TV ministry. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ru-fReynolds said he determined that the Bakkers and former PTL vice president David Taggart were overpaid during their last four years at the ministry. "In conforming with the religious overture of this case, us this court observes that James Bakker either overlooked or ignored parts of the Bible, including 1 Timothy 6:10 ... 'For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows,'" Reynolds said in his order, filed Thursday. Reynolds said Galatians 6:7 should also be applied to the PTL case: '"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."' California issues 'stinging' ruling - In ruling, the state Supreme Court said parents have no right to "make martyrs of their children" by placing their physical health entirely in the hands of faith healers. The court Thursday allowed the involuntary manslaughter prosecution of Laurie Walker of Sacramento, a Christian Scientist whose daughter died of meningitis in March 1984, 17 days after being taken to a faith healer. The court rejected arguments that a parent cannot be SAN FRANCISCO (AP) a stinging prosecuted for choosing prayer rather than conventional medical treatment for a child when the choice is made in accordance with church beliefs. Mrs. Walker's lawyer, Thomas Volk, said he would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if the state court refuses to reconsider its decision. "Spiritual healing is an part of Christian Science religion," Volk said. Allowing the prosecution of a sincerely believing church member for resorting to spiritual healing "threatens the very heart of Christian Science," he said. EPA: 500 chemicals in buildings WASHINGTON Environmental (AP) - The Protection Agency said Thursday its sampling of the indoor air in 10 public buildings around the country turned up traces of more than 500 different chemicals. Though the concentrations were generally small, some- times they reached 100 times the levels found in typical outdoor air, the agency said. "No one knows what the health effects are at those concentrations," said Chris Rice, the agency's spokesman on air pollution. The agency released a re port on its surveys of indoor air in 1983 through 1987 in 10 buildings around the country, together with a pamphlet of advice for homeowners on indoor air quality problems. The pamphlet generally advises homeowners to try to get rid of the sources of air pollutants indoors, such as stopping smoking; to use judicious ventilation such as kitchen exhaust fans; and not to keep unused products that might give off contaminants, such as leftover paints and aerosols. - |