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Show br FROM PAGE ONE 2A Sunday, May 24, 1992 Standard-Examiner Perot cited slack Navy morals Guif in asking for discharge, file shows Capital independent presidential candidate Ross Perot sought a discharge from the Navy in 1955, in part because he was upset by slack morals aboard his ship, accordingto letter to his congressman. The Texas business tycoon — ; duties. : tive : officer had directed ; : to nior him The Associated Press last week reported that Perot had sought an early release from the Navy before his four-year service commitment was up. Perot, through his campaign carry out what he viewed asillegal acts. Attorneys involved in the cases charged May 15 with killing Joyce say the seemingly heavy load of Yost, 39, of South Ogden, in 1985. : : in prison ©Pital cases don't‘ ah imply lecayye ae feee wanted to leave the Navy to work to drunken tales of moral emptiness, passing out penicillin pills and seeing promiscuity on the part of married men.” tions were based on merit instead of seniority. He also said the Navy should in an environment where promo- made a commitment to serve two years after graduation. That hitch, however, was extend- continuing to stand on the quarter- insisted on speaking anonymously, ed to four years because of the Ko- eign ports, being subjected to immature for the responsibilities of leadership at sea” and recommended a transfer to administra- rean War, he said. Since the war had ended by 1955, Perot said he felt that he had fulfilled his service commitment. Perot also said a se- drunken tales of moral emptiness, eber County Public Defenders Association, which is involved in all four cases. “It’s just unusual to have them all in the system at the sametime,” said Reed Richards, Weber County attorney the last five years and a public defender the 10 years prior to that. “I don’t ever rememberever having this many in the system.” Neither can Allen, a public defender the Jast 11 years. The biggest previous volumeeither man recalled were the occasional years when _ Onesenior military officer, who said top Pentagon leaders want to keep the warofficially open-ended because Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hasn’t kept the promises he made underthe U.N.cease-fire agreements. deck as Officer of the Deck in forpassing out penicillin pills and see- ing promiscuity on the part of married men.” two or maybe three capital cases were winding through the judiciary, and they said usually they were companion cases, with perhaps two defendants for the same ofiense. And neither man is enjoying the Treaty workload of four separate, new po- From 1A tential death penalty cases, Allen said the last time anyone in the defender’s office was involved in a capital defense on a private small arsenal of 72 strategic nuclear warheads, the three newly independent states have promised to become nuclear-free by the end of the century. Baker will meet on Sunday with Kozyrev to begin planning basis instead of as court-appointed representatives, it cost the client $50,000. “It’s all-encompassing,” Allen said. “You're traveling, you're talking to any witness you can. You're doing everything you can think of because you’ve got the guy’s life in your hands,” | Three of the four pending cases have public defenders appointed from the association as defense for a new round of missile cuts. Baker aides said they did not know when the administration would begin its drive for Senate ratification. “The window forratification of START Is not going to be open all that much longer,” he said. Signing the protocol with Baker and Kozyrev were Foreign counsel, while the fourth, Toan Hua’s, is being handied on a private basis by the association's ccordinator, Martin Gravis. Hua, 27, is accused in the April 26 bombing that killed his ex-wife, Le Cam Thi Nguyen, 21, and her mother, Ut Thi Nguyen, 41, and one her father Dan Dang Pham, Ministers Anatoliy Zlenko of Ukraine and Petr Kravchanka of Belarus and State Counselor Tulegen Zhukeyev of Kazakhstan. When the Soviet Union fell apart it left behind some 27,000 nuclear weapons — about 12,000 of them long-range warheads. Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bela- rus are eliminating about 3,250 Strategic warheads as well as all their battlefield nuclear weapons, = Holida fhe! U.S. Secretary of State James Baker Iii (right) crosseshis fingers as Russian Foreign Minis- Lured to Pineview for the day by friends with a boat, Johnnie and Debbie Bordelon noticed what may be an emerging social ploy: single fathers having their young children invite bikini-clad females to go boating. “It doesn’t seem to work,” From 1A ple and growing Saturday as reservations showed up. Neil said the ranger at Cemetery Point on Pineview’'s east side, pop- ular day-wse beach site, told him he'd probablyissue about 2,400 vehicle passes by the end of the day. At Willard Bay State Park an ex- Johnnie Bordelon said. pected crowd of 4,500 showed up City, were praising the setting at Anderson Cove, the only overnight The Bordelons, of Salt Lake at the park's north marina, the oth- public campsite on Pineview Res- er hot spot. Counting fishermen, inside a clock radio at their home START agreement Saturday in Lisbon. as the climax of a lingering, bitter dispute that began before he was divorced from his wife, : According to preliminary hearing testimony by police Thursday, Hua confessed to a police detective the Carol Stone said. They are doing aimost ali the work themselves except for laying the foundation, “We've been working on it for about a year now, and this weekend is our first break in about a year, so it’s important,” Carol said. At Willard Bay, Ben Booth's group was enjoying some boating, water-skiing, volleyball, Dutch-oven cooking and trying out the family's new “water rockets,” They are inflatable single pontoons, ing for the full weekend, were Plain City’s Hank and Carol Stone. They had their golf clubs out and were whacking whiffle balls about next to the reservoir, “Quite a water hazard,” said Hank. “We've never been able to clear it,” quipped Carol. The Stones and a group of §-6 other couples congregate regularly in Upper Valley campgrounds for Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, the gatherings highlighted by a traveling trophy horse- Babeview (with apologies to Wayne and Garth of Wayne's World). Police say he placed a gunpowder pipe bomb activated by and hidden ter Andrei Kozyrev smiles during signing of a Also at Anderson Cove,butstay- was no official word on any plans to change the name ofPineview to dies to haul riders behind a boat water-ski style. OGDEN — An explosion and fire heavily damaged a northern Ogden home late Saturday, and a fire battalion chief described the cause of the blaze as suspicious. Battalion chief Lee Rosenlund said one man suffered burns in the fire and was taken to a focal hospital. Others in the house when the blast oceurred escaped unharmed. oneofficial with the state Division of Wildlife Resources, distributor ervoir. “It’s been a blast,” Debbie Bordelon said. “It’s our first time, but we'll definitely be back.” cent years, with the Stones winning q pretty big event,” said Booth. Of hour later, Rosenlund said investi- might be a million people out there,” referring to counties north of Salt Lake. Having moved from Louisiana last fall, Johnnie Bordelon noted, “For us, used to the South, it was regularly. This get-away weekend was more critical than others, the Bennion, Salt Lake County, Booth was joined by his wife Susan, neighbors Richard and Carol Bos- gatorsstill had been unable to thorOughly check the interior of the home to find out more about the of fishing licenses, said, “There And the bikinis were out, with the boys keeping track. But there WEATHER : i ape neeepeteror em nlan nas Shen rasai GED Se si ee,57 on UL Monday a “ei 8253 T-storms Tuesday 81/52 Se ee ..| Elko ~| 83/42 erent : on - UE : Temperature Wednesday Aeucnge hgh era ow aoe ocd —"* Seas : €£j[---- urseay 84/53 at... f= Partly cloudy oj = : Recreation areas 75° 49 Arches 85° P.M. t-shrs. Bear Lake 75° Partly coudy 83° PM 3 3 f LO? Pee tehr Colorado - Var. clouds, scat. sive, 65-75". idaho — M. sunny, warm, BOs South, pt! 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That involves a penalty hearing following the trial to present evidence on the severity of thé crimejustifying an execution. es ms 4 fin > Nek. i 22,4 Vernal Wetzel’s alleged involvement until ge T2—" °°" 78/44 do so, is now a witness against him. At a preliminary hearing, Eakes testified that following prior advice from Wetzel to think of Sharoi Wetzel as the mother she hated, she shot her in the forehead with a pistol. Eakes confessed to the shooting two days later, but never related Editor and Publisher . eee West today Ste Provo 84/51 = ae teh Lake Powell owell és’* .PM M. t-shrs Svawberry Res. 68 op t-shrs Yellowstone 68" sunny trom KUTV a Py n Flaming Gorge 78° P.M. t-shrs, ae ® allegedly paid her almost $1,000 to i | EERES NS yet tagonism of the Scott family toward Price. Police say Price put a pistol to her head and shot as they argued outside her West Ogden apartment where he appeared suddenly as she was with another man who had just taken her to a movie. Shortly thereafter he telephoned police and turned himselfin, police said. His trial is set for Aug. 3. Jon Thomas Wetzel, 40, is accused of paying to have his wife, Sharol A. Wetze!, 36, shot on Nov. 20, 1985, to avoid a divorce and hold onto herassets. Kitty Eakes, the woman convicted and currently in prison for carrying out the murder after Wetzel Gene Glasmann Hatch este Ly 1l-month-old daughter. Their es- trangement was fueled by the an- President 50s Sao sy sy s City t Katherin Minette Scott, 25, during an argumentover custody oftheir * cit Pte ben, — of one of her earringsafter her dis- appearance. His preliminary hearing is June 16. Billy Joe Price, 30, of Salt Lake City, is charged in the Jan. 5 shooting death of estranged girlfriend eeSay anti GOS Set co y-1966.-.. 34° High XL later in Uintah, Herbody has nev- er been found. Evidence against Lovell includes his alleged wearing The Standard-Examiner is pub- 7H Rs 78/53 HI : Conditions ish Lake $) 81/55 : AAS 50 : Salt Lake Wendover 82/56 80/60 , Sun Fant gden 60s She disappeared Aug. 10, 1985, her abandoned car found 10 days HOW TO CALL “S$° 70s e ¥ : J j Low today vice : Cause. But Rosenlund said the nature of Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. | temperatures for today in ye artly cloudy Ares 82/51 : 00m e To date Average % of normal Partly cloudy RSS: Tonight's lows Logan @ it 91% —---- 6B : 7 SE Tomorrow's highs Water year started Oct. 1, 1991 ; A Raa Ee , well, and a collective brood of seven children. “OUTLOOK 84/46 ttati Precipitation Cids., t-storms coo Stones said. “We're building a log house and we're taking a break,” sae ee id “Our 7-year-old went on one of The fire was reported about the water rockets alone, so that was__11:45 p.m. at 547 Eighth Street. An Og on RO im Today 82 54 an extremely long winter. So we were ready for this.” keep her from testifying in the rape case, which was prosecuted success- Fire crews battle blaze in Ogden missileeshaped rubber, with han- shoes tournament, The trophy hasn’t been traveling much in re- cutors allege he murdered her to fully anyway from a transcript of doesn’t mean this is a dangerous Yost’s preliminary hearing testimolace,” said Bernie Allen of the: ny. _ Congress also could approvelegislation, the spokesman said. Keeping the region a combat zone enables U.S, military personnel still in the Persian Gulf region to receive special benefits such as $150 a monthin “hostile fire and imminent danger pay,” known to the public as combat pay. hardship exists.” And a commander, according to a letter written by Perot’s father, found the young lieutenant “too one to removeit,” Hart said. my),” Perot wrote in giving the specifics. “I do not enjoy the prospect of entered the Naval Academy he anything about Weber County, its lifestyle, pace or people, It’s just unusual to have so many in court at the same time. “That's a fairly heavy dose, but it combat zone, and in orderfor that to go away, there has to be another fairly Godless organization (with the exception of the Naval Acade- have let him go because when he Perot was denied the discharge because the Navy found that “no 5 order made it a’ an executive for wanting to leave the Navy, according to a letter found by The AP in the files of the late Rep. Wright Patman, who wasPerot’s congressman. “I have found the Navyto be a staff, said last week that in 1955 he then a 25-year-old Navy lieutenant — complained of being “subjected man, Air Force Lt, Col. Doug Hart, But Perot had additional reasons Douglas A. Lovell, 34, was From 1A From 1A zone,” explains Pentagon spokes- AUSTIN, Texas (AP) af Likely day of the bombings, saying he was ready to die for the crimes. His district court arraignment is May 27, 2a(M 75 ook “© Indicates missing information) ; i Wookie ate a Editorials, letters 625-4205 Saturdays 11:30am ts 2pm. Weekdays 8 am. to 5 p.m. & Switchboard Weekdays 8 am. to § _ Sond rections '9 Standard-Exaaunee (USPS 403-840),402. P.O. Box 981, en, Second class postage paid at Ogden, Utah |