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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Thursday, December3, 1998 Annan PlansTrip To Libya To Nail Lockerbie Trial LOS ANGELES TIMES TUNIS, Tunisia — With Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi apparently close to surrendering two suspects to stand trial in the Netherlands for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan was making arrangements Wednesday to fly to Libya this weekend to try to close the deal. Annan’s mission to Libya — within days of the 10-year anniversary of the explosion of the jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people — could markthe endin the long quest by the United States and Britain to bring the alleged perpetrators to justice. A New Trial for Dr. Sam Sheppard? KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE AKRON, Ohio — The Ohio Su- He was 68-year-old Richard Eberling, the Sheppards’ window right to bring new evidence be- washer at the time of the 1954 murder, who in recent years evolved as the prime suspect. Eberling was serving time for Sam and Marilyn Sheppard the fore a Cleveland court to prove thathis father should be declared innocent of his mother’s 1954 murder, The 4-3 decision was a setback for entrenched Sheppard foes and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, who has ing Ohio’s best-known murder public denials, Eberling had privately let it be known not only case. Sam Sheppard, an osteopath who was convicted of his wife's prison before he was acquitted in a 1966 retrial. He died of a liver ailment four years later. Annan’strip wasnotbeing offi- the U.N. sanctions committee. If Gadhafigives the go-ahead to surrender the two suspects, they conceivably could be flown with a U.N. escort to the Netherlandsin a matter of days. The United States and Britain agreed in August, after long resisting the idea, to allow the Libyans to be tried in the Netherlands under Scottish law and before Scottish judges. to say about the historic Sheppard case. Yet stories persisted among Nations, Gadhafi also would obtain a long-sought goal: the suspension of the U.N. sanctions that Libya since 1992 au unrelated murder and died in state custody with authorities ap- parentlyfailing to do anything to documentwhathe might have had repeatedly fought and lost legal attempts to prevent the son, Sam Reese Sheppard, 51, from retry- beating death, served 10 yearsin havebarredair travel to and from This summer, the mystery man manyconsidered the most-important still-surviving witness died. granted the son of the late Dr. By cooperating with the United cially confirmed by aides accompanying him this week on trip in northern Africa out of fear that there could bea last-minute snag. But planning for a one-day trip Saturday to meet Gadhafiin Sirte, in eastern Libya, was in the advanced stages. The tentative plans were for Annan to fly to Libya on Saturday under an exemption granted by Leavitt Says He Learned Lessons In Leadership From Israel Tour Ohio Supreme Court grants sonthe rightto present newevidence in 1954 murder preme Court on Wednesday ‘The Sheppards’ son, whois pur- suing a wrongful imprisonment suit against Ohio, said yesterday from his home in Oakland,Calif., that heis willing to settle the matter. But to do so, he said, the state would have to agreeto “somesort of laid-out document that states that by the evidence we have, my dad wasinnocent.” Sam Reese Sheppard expressed surprise at the longawaited ruling that has lan- those who knewhim that, despite that he wasthe true killer of Mari- lyn Sheppard, but also that he had also killed at least four other wo- men. Tohis premature death, at 46, Sam Sheppard insisted the true killer was a bushy-haired intruder who murdered his wife in their bedroom The prosecution never pro- link the doctor with the murder, presenting instead a circumstan- tial case that dismissed the possi- bilityof anothersuspect. Thetheory was that Sam Sheppard was the only one who could have been the killer because he and 7-year- old son Sam weretheonly ones in the house at the time Marilyn Sheppard wasslain. Evidenceof fresh pry marks on Their discussions touched on all sorts of subjects, everything from BY JUDY FAHYS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE education to water policy to pro- tecting borders Gov. Mike Leavitt returned to Utah fromIsrael on Wednesday a basement door, documented by a Cleveland Policedetective, was never presented at trial. Like- with a few ideas about goodlead Said Leavitt: “I came back a better governor than when I left.’ ership, Youcannot sit at the kneeof walls and trailed from the bed- room where Marilyn Sheppard five or six great statesmen and not come away with a senseofprinci- particularly struck by the chal- wasbeatento death wassaid to be the victim’s blood alone. ened,” the Utah governorsaid wise, blood that spattered the The prosecutionexplained that the blood had dripped fromthe murder weapon — a weapon that was never found. Sam Sheppard was examined hours after the murder and was shown to haveno open wounds But test results releasedea this year byIndianapolis D. = pert Mohammed Tahir disclosed that blood spatters from a third person werepresent at the murder scene — findings that, if cor- rect, would debunk the prosecu tion’s theory According to Tahir, even though genetic markers proved the bloodin question belongedto neither Sam nor Marilyn Shep- duced any physical evidence to All pard, the DNAof Richard Eberl. ing could notbe excluded Furthermore, he said the trail of blood that led from the bed room to the basement — blood the prosecution said camefrom Mari- lyn Sheppard — clearly did not The Utah governor said he was lenge theIsraelis face in keeping the country secure. the governors’ group astheir heli- copter alighted briefly on the For three days, Leavitt was a guest of the National Jewish Co- West Bank, and guards accompanied schoolchildren on a field alition, a group with ties to the national Republican Party. trip. The organization also played host to Republican governors We areblessed to have secure borders,” Leavitt said. “Security has to be an obsession” in Israel. George W Bush of Texas, Mare Racicot of Monten and Argeo Paul Cellucci Leavitt brushed aside sugges- f Massachusetts tions that he participated in the trip to strengthenhis relationship The governors traveled throughout Israel. They visited with Bush, religious sites in Jerusalem, the chambersof the governing Knesset, the embattled settlements of who is lately often namedas a possible GOP nominee for the presidency It would be a mistake to read anythinginto that,” the West Bank and the homeof Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The groupalso stoppedat said Leavitt He insisted the four governors spoke rarelyof Americanpolitics. Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center, where students Although the Utahn said his re- spect for Bush grew during the trip, he noted that the Texas gov- sang for the high-profile Americans. 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