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Show Saturday to Brief Saturday March 23, 1991 A3 marl convicted; sentenced to life in prison witfiou? parole Pamela EXETER, N.H. (AP) Smart, the high school instructor accused of manipulating her student-lover into murdering her husband, today was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. e, She was found guilty of y and murder-accomplic- murder-conspirac- witness-tamperin- charges. g A Rockingham County Superior Court jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for more than 12 hours over three days. Flanked by her lawyers, Smart, 23, sat motionless as the verdicts t I lifer i l V V AP Laserpboto William Smart, facing camera, hugs a relative at his murdered was convicted of son's grave Friday after his daughter-in-lahelping plan and carry out the murder. w World Gregg Smart, a insur- ance agent, was murdered six days before his first wedding niversary. an- non-cred- Pamela Smart's parents, John and Linda instructors in a program at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton in late 1989. She worked in the program, intended to discourage drug and alit cohol use, and worked in student video projects. Prosecutors said the former high school cheerleader and college honor student tantalized and seduced Flynn, then 15 and a virgin, then threatened to end their affair unless he murdered her husband. Smart testified that she broke off the affair just before the murder. S3 Wojas, were stone-face- d as they left the courthouse. William Flyna "You know how I feel about that," Wojas said when asked if her daughter had gotten a Prosecutors said Smart feared losing everything in a divorce, including her Shih-Tzdog and furniture. The defense called Flynn and two confessed accomplices "thrill-killers- " who shot Smart on their own last May 1, then framed his widow to avoid life prison terms. In plea bargains, they face minimum sentences ranging from 18 to 28 years. u 'We're going to tell Gregg ... We're going to tell him that, by God, she did do it.' William Smart were read, her back to the spectators. But the victim's mother, Judith Smart, cried out and hugged her husband, William. The Rockingham County Superior Court jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for more than 12 hours over three days. Jurors got the case Wednesday afternoon after more than two weeks of testimony and two weeks of jury selection before that. Judge Douglas Gray immediately sentenced Smart to the mandatory term of life in prison without parole. An appeal is virtually certain. "She got what she deserved," said Judith Smart. She and her husband left the court for the cemetery where their son is buried. "We're going to tell Gregg," William Smart said. "We're going to tell him that, by God, she did do it." fair trial. Mrs. Wojas wore a yellow ribbon every day, symbolizing her belief that her daughter was a hostage of the judicial system. "I feel terribly bad for the Wojas family," Judith Smart said. "I can imagine how I would feel and I feel very, very bad for them." The jury, which heard three weeks of testimony, deliberated 12 hours over three days before returning its verdict. Smart also was g convicted of for to encouraging her student-inter- n lie to police. Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Douglas Gray immediately announced the mandatory life witness-tamperin- sentence for the charge. accomplice-to-murd- An appeal is er ex- pected. Smart was school district media coordinator when she met teenager William Flynn as one of his Testimony was broadcast live by in Manchester. The Boston Herald, which dubbed Smart, the "Ice Princess," invited readers to "be the judge" by calling in their verdicts on a They voted guilty, 543 to WMUR-T- V 101. Flynn said he lost his virginity to Smart after they watched and parts of the erotic movie "9 Weeks." She denied anything. The most damaging evidence against Smart were four secretly recorded conversations she had with Cecelia Pierce, 16, her student-intern and confidante. The profanity-lade- n tapes made after the murder show that Smart urged Pierce to lie to police, that she feared being jailed herself, and MWUnilMIHIM 200 miles 200 km AgpJ rioting. "Everyone has TamakolT W phone from Abidjan. Witnesses said students with firebombs set govern- ment buildings S)i fASO 1 J IVORY vM TOGO r ...MyaupLl.l. COAST 33 X- -' I AP ablaze and looted and burned gas stations, shops and cars belonging to senior officials of President Gen. Moussa Traore's ruling party. Students demanding the resignation of the education minister were joined by tens of thousands of people shouting for multiparty democracy and an end to Traore's rule, said Demba Diallo, president of the Malian Human Rights Organization. Traore announced a state of emergency and imposed a a.m. curfew in the main towns of Mali, a West African nation of 8 million people. Violent demonstrations on a smaller scale were reported outside the capital. 9 p.m.-to-- 5 U.S. to restore aid to Haiti - Haiti (AP) The U.S. government will provide direct aid to Haiti's government for the first time since the November 1987 presidential elections were shattered by violence, Ambassador Alvin Adams said Friday. Haitians in December overwhelmingly elected the d Rev. Aristide, a leftist Roman Catholic in the nation's first democratic elections since priest, independence from France in 1804. Adams said on independent Radio Inter that U.S. willingness to help Haiti was due to the "free, honest, and credible elections and the legitimate mandate" of the new government of President Aristide. This poor Caribbean island country of about 5.5 million people has been ruled by despots throughout most of its history. Adams said U.S. aid to Haiti will be around $84 tnillion this year, $30 million more than last year. Washington suspended government-to-governmeaid after thugs with the help of the military killed 34 Voters at the polls during Nov. 29, 1987 elections. Since then, the United States has channeled its exclusively humanitarian assistance through private organizations. E, Ketchikan, Ark., resident Cindy Moody be- friends a male black bear cub at Temsco Airlines Freight office in Ketchikan. Jean-Bertran- nt d, The cab was on a stopover on his way to Bear wildlife refuge in Country, USA, a privately-ru- n South Dakota. $207.86. -- H! (AP) - The WASHINGTON (AP) Utah's congressional delegation has launched an effort to change federal education funding formulas that give Utah less per student than any other state. Utah receives $130.26 per student, far below the national average of AP Laserphoto Bear hug MALI five-poun- taken to the streets. It's anarchy out there," said a witness in Bamako reached by tele- CITY Education funding NT I LAKE cutors researched whether or not his latest death sentence will be appealed. Earlier, appeals attorneys cited the revocation of law requiring judicial review of death penalties in cases where the inmate wants to die as possibly expediting the execution. Friday, however, Assistant Utah Attorney General Sandra Sjogren said she believes another statute may require the case to go before the justices regardless of whether Holland wants to die. Holland, 51, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death for the 1986 murder of Sandy Patt, who he met at an Idaho rest stop. Part's body was found alongside Interstate 84 near Echo Junction. Holland, who has spent most of his life in prison, has repeatedly stated he wants to be executed. least 22 protesters killed N condominium through a basement door that Pamela Smart had left unlocked for them. They said they stole some of her jewelry to make the crime look like a botched burglary and waited for Smart to arrive home. They also said they forced him to his knees as he begged for mercy. SALT wounded. The measure is likely to come for a vote at Sunday's weekly Cabinet session, Israeli radio said. government protes ters in the Mali capital of Bamako on Friday, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and doctors said. The slayings set off widespread He and Patrick Randall, 17, testified that they entered the Smarts' likelihood that condemned killer James Louis Holland will be executed April 10 diminished Friday as prose- said Friday. The measure would be the first blanket ban of a whole category of Arabs since the capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Arab armies in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinian bachelors have been singled out because police say most attacks were carried out by Arabs in their who had not yet married. late teens or mid-20- s The move could further reduce the Palestinian work force from the occupied territories. Before the Persian Gulf War, about 110,000 Palestinians worked in Israel; now, just work passes because of 40,000 have been given army-issue- d tightened security. Israeli radios reported that the idea of banning bachelors came up at a closed-doo- r meeting of police commanders Thursday night, after three stabbing attacks in two days. One Israeli was killed in the assaults, and three were f er Holland execution (AP) Security forces may bar young and unmarried Palestinian men from working in Israel in a step to curb a surge in knife attacks on Jews, officials JERUSALEM ABIDJAN, Ivory I Coast (AP) Sol diers fired on anti - 17....... that she knew her husband would be murdered. Asked what was the deciding evidence in their verdict, one juror, Charlotte Jefts, said, "The tapes. They told the truth." On the stand, Smart said she pretended to know more about the murder as a "game" to get Pierce to tell everything she knew. Flynn, sobbing as he testified on March 12, his 17th birthday, admitted pulling the trigger on a pistol he held to Smart's head. State Nation Ban on Arabs entering Israel? At Pamela Smart . Alaska gets the most at according to interim results released last fall in a study Congress ordered at the urging of Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and Democratic Rep. Wayne Owens. The delegation has proposed changes that would give Utah 21 percent more per student, or $3.73 million more pur year. But because giving Utah more aid would mean $971.92, Alzheimer's drug - WASHINGTON (AP) Federal officials Friday invited the maker of an experimental drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease to propose a study that would allow more people to get it. In a letter to Warner-LambeCo., the Food and Drug Administration suggested the company "consider discussing a proposal for a program" similar to ones that have been used for AIDS drugs. These expanded-acces- s programs have given thousands of people drugs before they were approved. Controlled clinical trials usually are limited to several hundred or fewer patients, testing a drug in one group of patients against a "control" group that does not get the drug. Warner-Lambe- rt wants to its drug, tacrine, to be approved as the first treatment for Alzheimer's disease, which is believed to afflict about 4 million people in the United States. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel last week refused to recommend approval of the drug tacrine. Panel members said the small benefits the drug showed for some patients were not great enough to overcome the uncertainties that still surround the drug. rt Exxon pleads guilty Exxon ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Corp. and its shipping subsidiary pleaded guilty Friday to misdemeanor violations in the nation's worst oil spill under a plea agreement with the federal government. U.S. District Judge Russel Holland allowed the pleas but delayed sentencing until he gathers public comment on the plea asreement. "I will accept a change of plea," he said. "We will not impose any sentence. I will not decide today whether I will or will not accept the plea agreement." If Holland rejects the agreement, the nation's third largest corporation can withdraw its pleas. If he accepts it, federal felony charges against the oil company will be dropped. "I intend to solicit information about the impact of the spill from individual victims," the judge said. The court will advertise for comment in newspapers and accept written remarks from the public until April 11. Holland set sentencing for April 24. Exxon President Lawrence Rawl entered the company's guilty plea to a misdemeanor violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Exxon Shipping President Augustus Elmer entered the subsidiary's guilty pleas to three misdemeanor violations of the Refuse and Clean Water acts. On Thursday, the Alaska Legislature asked the court to delay consideration of the plea agreement until May 3 to give lawmakers time to review it. Holland said he was concerned that the Legislature was trying to threaten Exxon. Twin Peaks' freaks - Our story thus NEW YORK (AP) far: ABC, possibly under the demonic influence of low ratings, put the odd, broody little nighttime soap opera "Twin Peaks" on hiatus. The result: 10,000 pieces of odd, broody fan mail. How odd and broody? Well, in addition to the petitions, postcards with Laura Palmer's image, banners, and letters from as far away as Germany, Colombia, Guam and Australia, ABC on Friday reported that it received: A fireplace log (much like one toted by the character known only as the Log Lady, with a letter of protest nailed to it): boxes of doughnuts; 60 cents in coins so that ABC Entertainmen President Robert Iger can buy "a damn good cup of coffee"; a can of corn labeled Twin Peaks Quality, with instructions on how to promote the series; two dozen used golf balls (like those used for living room putting practice by Laura-kille- r Leland Palmer); a formal resolution from the Michigan Senate ("WHEREAS, many of the people of Michigan are desirous of the immediate return of the series ..."); an document with the phrase "Bring Back "Twin Peaks'" imprinted more than 1,500 times. cutbacks elsewhere, the members predicted a long, tough fight. "While we seek to increase the funding that Utah receives on a basis funding that is vitally needed in our state the change we are proposing ... is fundamentally fair for all states," Hatch said per-stude- nt Lady loosens lips SALT LAKE CITY (AP) 'MacGyver' bombs lady loosened - A n enough to latch onto tongue-twistcontest. Camille Holt beat Guinness Book of World Records record holder John Moschitta in a contest, talking herself into $1,000 in prize money. Moschitta is considered the world's fastest talker and is the pitch man in Federal Express television commercials. "He seemed like he was as thrilled as I was," Holt said of Moschitta. Holt danced over the tongue-twistin- g advertising script in 15.73 seconds, while Moschitta made a stumble, finishing in 16 seconds flat. "He was a good sport," said Holt, who credits her talking speed to natural ability and her years as an educator, which included eight years of elementary school teaching in er Children in(AP) jured by homemade bottle bombs say they learned how to make the devices from the television series "MacGyver," but the producers of the series deny that claim. At least eight youngsters in the Baltimore area have been seriously hurt by the bombs in separate incidents. The youngsters told authorities they got the idea for the bombs from an episode of the ABC series that first was broadcast in November and was recently repeated. "The show's producers have no knowledge that such a device was ever used in an episode, and they've always taken great care never to divulge a complete formula so it could be duplicated at home," Carol Ames, spokeswoman for Paramount Pictures, said Friday. BALTIMORE Lay-to- her lips long a lot of loot in a fast-readi- 120-wor- d, two-seco- |