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Show QjEOLB occistcd brothor r FBI of Rich dcssorts mako birthday parties a hit Sightings of cougars on tho incrooso bombing suspoct Page A4 Page Spurs hand Jazz 1 setback 92-9- Page C6 Page CI B1 QYT Retrial stirs memories of 10 years 1 to be Amoirieainis l? ago Editor '$ note: Kris Radish, former Provo bureau chief of The Deseret News, remembers uw well the 1984 ''' murders of Brenda and Erica Laffer- -' ty. Mow an author and free-lanc- u e ' writer living in Wsconsin, Radish covered the case in detail for more ' than a year. Sews of Ron Lafferty's current retrial in connection with the murders prompted Radish to write the following reminiscence. Worst fighting in years erupted on Saturday w There was barely a whisper of wind blowing across Utah Valley on July 24, 1984. In this Western comer of the world it seemed, for this one quiet day. as if life itself were pausing in midstride to lie in -- w MONROVIA. Liberia (AP) The United States has approved the evacuation of Americans from the embattled capital of Liberia and the first Americans could begin leaving as early as today, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. "There is going to be an evacuation. It it ap Pnoio of rebel leader Roosevelt Johnson march around his former residence in Monrovia, Liberia, last month, as West African peacekeepers surrounded the house preparing to search it for arms. Today, rebels were holding hundreds of Uberian, Lebanese and other foreign civilians, as well as African peacekeepers, at a military barracks in the capital, apparently using them as human shields. Supporter Dy Iris QctHob sun-warm- day. On that hot summer day the chaos of crime reached into a small duplex in American Fork and wrenched apart a community, a region and an entire state. There were few people who lived in Utah that July who were not touched in some way by the murders of Brenda Wright Lafferty, 24. and her daughter Erica Lane. It was early evening, 7:55 p.m., when Allen Lafferty pushed through the doors of his home and called for his w ife, Brenda. and his baby girl. He was not greeted that night w ith the warm and tiny hands of his daughter or a welcoming call from his wife. Instead there was blood on the living room walls, the lifeless body of his w ife lying on the kitchen floor w ith a cord wrapped around her neck and a halo of blood arching from her body. Dow n the hall he found the unmoving body of baby Erica, w ith her head tipped slightly to one side, and a thin, red line running from ear to ear. Minutes later, the screaming sirens of the American Fork police department cars shattered the silence of the remaining hours of the holiday evening. News of the murders spread from American Fork to Provo. up to Salt Lake and finally past the border and into Idaho where Brenda s family w as awakened from a restless sleep and into a living nightmare. In the sickening and painful moments that it took for Brenda and Erica to die, listening to each others screams, watching the hateful eyes of two men whom they knew, lives and hearts in a dozen different directions broke and shattered. Suddenly, people w ho had never thought of murder w ere touched by an event that ricocheted from American Fork like a cannon shoL Relatives and friends of Brenda and her baby fell into the arms of each other. Her college and high school classmates sank to the floor in disbelief. The woman who checked out her groceries the Friday before the murder rushed to her neighbor's house for comfort. Brcnda's friends from church w ho had held her baby and walked w ith her through the church parking lot were overwhelmed with grief. People whispered. "I knew her, I knew her. as if they w ere uttering sacred prayers. I By the follow ing morning, half the country was scurrying to And Ron and Dan Lafferty and two mysterious and bearded accomplices w ho had been seen leaving the scene of the murders. Police moved quickly to interview Lafferty relatives, friends, anyone who had know n them. The entire valley held its breath. Then acollective whisper moved (Sec RETRIAL, Page At) town, capital of neighboring Sierra Leone, were bringing in U.S. military specialists to plan the evacuation of the 470 Americans trapped in the capital of the West African nation. The worst fighting in Monrovia in three years erupted Saturday, with rebels and the gov emment engaged in fierce battles. Sims said the plan war. to allow 50 Americans to return to Freetown with the helicopters tonight. He said he had no details on how the evacuation would (See LIBERIA. Page A2 Leaks not uncommon in sensational cases By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press Writer the sun and wait for absolutely nothing. Normally the state holiday is a day for quiet family celebrations, picnics in the canyons and remembering the pioneers who pushed across the mountains to settle a land as dry' as dust. But this pioneer day, almost 12 years ago, forever changed the meaning of what had always been a welcome holi- - ? will not get under way until the assessment team comes here." said Dudley Sims, the embassy spokesman in Monrov ia. However, at the State Department, a U.S. official, asked whether a decision to evacuate had been made. said. "1 don't think we're at that point yet." Officials at the Liberia task force at the State Department were not immediately available for comment. Sims said U.S helicopters in Free- A week ago. AmerWASHINGTON ica never heard of Theodore Kaczynski. Now the country knows all about him: his rickety bicycle, the contents of his cabin, his telltale typewriter, his travels to California, his body odor. Officially, none of this came to you from your government. Some of it came from acquaintances and yearbooks and the local librarian and professors who knew Kaczy nski. But much came from the gov- ernment unofficially from "federal officials" and officials "who spoke on condition of anonymity." People in the government have leaked and leaked again. "And I think it's criminal," says David Goldberger. an Ohio State University law professor and former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Illinois. "This is a recurring catastrophe in our legal system." He said U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell, before whom Kaczynski appeared Thursday, "should be holding an inquiry at this moment. He should be going after the leakers and putting them in jail." Leaks in sensational cases the OJ. Simpson double murder trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, even the Lindbergh kidnapping in the 1930s and the Sam Sheppard are a fact of murder case of the 1950s life. But few cases have brought such a rush of detailed information as the Unabomber affair, in w hich Kaczynski officially is not a suspecL He has been charged only with possessing bomb components. Even Anthony Bisceglie, the lawyer w ho w as a conduit between Kaczynski 's brother. David, and the FBI. deplored the leakage. "I have never seen so many unnamed federal officials in my life." he told a Washington news conference Monday in which he laid out David Kaczynski's role in pointing to his brother as a suspect. "And given some of the information that has been coming out of those unnamed federal officials, if I were you all. I'd be very careful about what I reported." Carl Stem spokesman for the Justice Department, said no leaks came from high officials. "The problem is that y ou cannot restrain an entire federal work force from commenting." he said. Using your head ooDvoloirsos P 11 ft hi 11 vg'I i By RON FOURN1ER Associated Press Wnter ASHINGTON Handing the presidency unprecedented power over federal spending. President Clinton todav signed the veto bill and said it would help slash "special-intereboondoggles, tax loopholes and pure pork." The pens used to sign the historic legislation were dispatched to former Presidents Reagan. Ford. Carter and Bush all of whom sought the authority to cut specific items from spending bills. "I thank them and our country thanks them." Clinton said in an Oval Office ceremony. "Their successors will be able to use this power that they long sought to eliminate waste from the federal budget." The bill, which fulfills a GOP "Con- W line-ite- st 5 Daily Hmfc) PhoWJoftn Biodgvn Daniel Christensen practices heeding a soccer ball at Rock Canyon Park in Provo Monday afternoon. Monday's temperature hit the low tOs In some areas of the county. Increasing clouds and winds are expected Wednesday. Tonight fair and mild with lows near SO. For more weather, see Page AS. (Sw BII.l Page A2) Lawmakers' trips irritate diplomats , By LARRY MARQASAK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The cable from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago w as diplomatic, but the message was clean Easter weekend was a bad tinve for Sen. Mark Hatto bring his traveling delefield, gation to Chile. The delegation, with four of its five Senate travelers retiring this year, went anyway. They rented a commuter plane for SI. 200 to view a forestry project, and a boat for $1,800 to see a Penguin colony the latter "added as a suggestion by the embassy," Hatfield's office said. U.S. difdonuts say they're frustrated with congressional delegations that arrive at the wrong time, cancel meetings at the last minute and expect embassy escorts for stopping and sightseeing. The frustrations were described, often with cynicism, in interviews and in memos and cables obtained by The Associated Press. Foreign service officials are angrier now than in the past, because of congres-sionallordered budget cuts, furloughs and recent government shutdowns, the diplomats would discuss their frustration only on condition of anonymity. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago "has been called upon to organize what are essentially vacation plans" for the Hatfield delegation, said a cable from the embassy about the Hatfield tnp that had been postponed during one of last winter's government shutdowns. In planning for that trip, a diplomat recalled seeing a congressional advance staffer reading from Fodor's travel guide. An embassy cable said spouses wanted a YPing Qp. but diplomats were cautioned that "the word 'shopping not y appear in any official communication." The rescheduled trip arrived in Chile for Easter weekend. In February, the embassy cabled the State Department because that weekend is very solemn for religious Chilean officials and "a three-da- y weekend" for others, the visit should occur only "during working days." Hatfield spokesman Ken Hart said that in the second round of planning the delegation "asked for minimal embassy assistance." The Easter weekend arrival was unavoidable, he said, because "unless you do Monday to Friday in three countries, you're Koine to get a weekend involved." Hatfield s delegation was in Sout America visiting conservation and natural resource devekpmcnt projects. Members of Congress insist such Mips are for impor- (See TRIPS, Page A2) Find it Arts CS Business Classified Ads. Comics C9 Crossword B5 B4 D5 C9 C3 C5 Igals Lifestyle Movies Obituaries B2 ,A8 Opinions State BJ Television C5 Weather Tonight fair and mild, 50. See Page A5. taws near |