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Show 4A Sunday, July 12, 1992 NATIONAL Standard-Examiner Revenge possible motive in Exxon case NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The $18.5 million from the company secunty division. “There may be somebasis for saying that Seale wanted somerevenge against Exxon,” said Ton- man charged with the kidnap and murder of Exxon International Co. president Sidney J. Reso may have wanted revenge against the company for his 1987 firing, an FBI spokesman said Saturday. betrayed a profound animosity toward Exxon and the FBI. Reso, 57, who had a heartailment, died May3 inside a dingy, stuffy storage locker four days af- kin. “That's certainly one of the motives we're looking at as to why Exxon was chosen.” But Tonkin said anytheories Until now, authorities portrayed former Exxon security offi- ter he was abducted from his $650,000 home in Morris Town- about Seale’s motivation must be ship. “characterized as speculation at this point.” cial Arthur D. Seale and his wife, Irene Jacqueline Seale, as fortune-hunters motivated by greed. The Seales were unemployed and living at his parents’ home in Lebanon Township when the cnme occurred. Reso was shot in the arm dur- ing a struggle in the Seales’ van quoted FBI sources it didn’t iden- minutes after his abduction, the FBI said. He was bound, gagged, placed in a wooden box where the ufy as saying Arther Seale was temperature reached 100 degrees, obsessed with retaliating against Exxon for his firing. and left in the shed, the FBI said. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in a story in early Sunday editions, Bill Tonkin, spokesman for the FBI in Newark, said Seale was angry at Exxon and resented the Tonkin confirmed Reso’s body was found June 27 the in a grave in the Pine Barrens. Irene Seale directed authorities Inquirer's report that a review of what the agency called Seale’s written ransom demands seeking FBI because former agents were promoted over him at the Exxon theresafter agreeing to cooperate. She later pleaded guilty to extor- Richard S. White, M.D., EA.C.C. tion and conspiracy Seale, a former police officer in Hillside, began working for Exxon as a chauffeur in New York City in 1976, was promoted to a security position in Florham Park and then fired after conflicts with colleagues, the FBI said. Seale used phones at Exxon service stations to place many of his ransom calls, the Inquirer said. Tonkin also confirmed that it appeared Seale selected Reso because of where the executive hasjoined Gary V. Petersen, M.D., FA.C.C. as an associate in the practice of diagnostic and consulting cardiology located at: 5405 South 500 East, Suite 204 Medical Arts Building St. Benedict’s Hospital Ogden, Utah 84405 (801) 479-0184 lived, not because of who he was. “It’s accurate that that place had been reconnoitered, surveilled,” said Tonkin. “It lent itself because the houses are far apart ... it’s a cul-de-sac with low Specializing in comprehensive diagnostic and interventional cardiology including angiography, angioplasty, pacemaker traffic volume.” implantation, atherectomy, echo cardiography, stress testing and Holter monitoring. Mining seen as major threat to Third World WASHINGTON (AP) — Mining and smelting are a major threat to the environment in Third World countries, an environmental group Among the examples of envifonmental damage, the report pointed g Two nickel smelters in Russia, 120,000 acres of tropical forest a said Saturday. near the borders of Norway and Finland, that produce 300,000 tons of sulfur dioxide a year. About year if wood is obtained locally for 480,000 acres of nearbyforest is pected to produce for 250 years. gw Waves of gold miners in Indonesia, the Philippines, Zimbabwe to: A 53-page study by Worldwatch found mining and smelting generate 2.7 billion tons of waste a year, much ofit hazardous. That dwarfs the amount ofcity garbage, which is | billion to 1.5 billion tons, said John E. Young, author of the study. river system. A civil war resulted often use high pressure jets of wa- that closed the area in 1989. w The passible destruction of ter outlawed as too destructive in smelting iron ore on the Carajas project in Brazil. The mine is ex- dying. w One copper mining operation on Bougainville, near Papua New and Brazil, inspired by the big Guinea, that dumped 130,000 tons of tailings a day into the island’s Dr. Petersen and Dr. White are currently price rise since the price of gold was freed in the 1970s. The miners on staff at St. Benedict’s, McKay-Dee and Humana Davis North Hospitals. California over 100 years ago. Much of the damage is done in eight countries, most of them in Africa, where half the exports come from mining: copper in Botswana, Zambia, Zaire and Papua New Guinea; diamonds in Botswana, Zaire and Liberia. Young said mineral wealth helps foreigners more than people who live in mining countries. 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