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Show STATE/NATION / AUTHORITIBS: AIR FORCE MAJOR PLOTTED TO KILL WIFE FOR ROMANIAN LOVER: Air Force Maj. Lest r Keith Haney told bi wile that his late-night phone calls from a woman in Romania weren't uspicious, ju ta friend from hj over a as ignments. he believ d him. But that was before a mail bomb exploded in her hand in wh t authoricic say wa Haney's attempt to get her out of the way for hi Romanian lover. Haney, a 21-year Air Fore v teran, was charged with sending a mail bomb to his Major lester wife, Patty, with intent to injure or kill. Keith Haney - - - - - - - Mrs. Haney said Wednesday she didn't connect the late-night caller and the bombing until federal inve tigators a kcd whether there were probl ms with her marriage. NEW CATHOLIC LITURGICAL GROUP FORMED Defense attorneys Charles Gessler, left, and Leslie Abramson, center, listen to pro ecution witness Det. Leslie H. Zoeller of the Beverly Hills police department discuss the crime scene during the first week of testimony in the Menendez bothers second trial in Van Nuys, Calif., yesterday. Menendez retrial continues LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents "in a storm of gunfire," turning their home's TV room into a scene of carnage, a prosecutor told jurors as the brothers' retrial began. "Large pieces of their mother's body were blown away and they kept firing," Deputy District Attorney David Conn told the jury in his opening statement Wednesday . Erik's attorney, Leslie Abramson, repeating the defense used in the first trial, said the brothers had been the victims of sexual and emotional abuse and killed their parents out of fear for their lives. " Manslaughter is all we're asking of you . We're not going to get up and say you must acquit because the gloves don' t fit or anything like that," she said, referring to the closing argument of O.J. Simpson's defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr. Lyle's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Charles Gessler, was cheduled to begin his opening statement yes terday. Two juries in the brothers' first trial were unable to reach verdjcts last year and mistrials were declared. Only one jury was chosen to hear testimony in the retrial. Unlike the first trial, TV cameras and recording devices have been banned. Still photography is allowed. Conn opened his case by showing graphic pictures of victims Jose and ~i tty Menendez, who were shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion six years ago. "We will show they were ambushed in a storm of gunfire," Conn said. "They shot their parents in the anns, legs, torso and heads." Erik, 24, looked down at the table when the pictures were shown and Lyle, 27, looked straight ahead, apparently not glancing at them. The prosecution contends the brothers killed because they feared they would be cut off from th e family fortune . Conn said that within 24 hours of the slayings, the brothers carried their parent's safe to the home of a probate law yer and opened i t, believing they bad already been excluded in their parents' will. FBI broadens sear.ch for saboteur HYDER, Ariz. (AP) - The FBI broadened its search ye t rday for the saboteur who derailed an Amtrak train, checking tire track in th de ert everal miles away, knock ing on doors in the parsely populated ar a and interviewi ng railroad emp loyee . Abou t 40 of the 90 ag nt who have been working near the it of Monday' crash fanned out to interview residents and others, said Robert Wal h, the FBI agent running the investigation. About 20 other ag nt were sent back to their home offices from the crash scene 55 mile southwe t of Phoenix, where Amtrak' unset Limit d derailed on a sabotaged stretch of track and tumbled into a gulch . One crew m ember was kill ed and at least 78 people were injured. The saboteur unbolted a bar that holds two rails together, loosened or removed spikes and used a wire to bypass a system intended to warn crews of a break in the track. Several copies of a letter alluding to the . . . ,. federal sieges at Waco, T exa I and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and signed "Sons of Gestapo" were found at the cene. Agents have been given acces to Amtrak personnel records and are interviewing employees f the rail company and outhern Pacific Railroad, which owns the track, aid Wal h, wh o heads the FBI' San Diego office. He cautioned again t interpreting that to mean inve tiga tors have fixed on the theory the saboteur was a disgruntled railroad employee. "That would be quite a stretch . If they really wanted to target the railroads, l think that's what they would ha.ve focused on more in the let ter, '' Walsh said. Agents also have collected information on anti-government militia groups, he said, again warning against concluding the FBI is leaning toward that theory. "It's very broad. It's still open to everyone," Walsh said. IN UTAH: A mul tidisciplinary organization dedicated to review of the Roman Catholic Church' prescribed ritual fo r public worship has b en formed in Utah. The ociety for Catholic Liturgy is compri ed not only of profc ionaUy trained liturgists but includes theologian , social dentist , histori ans, Patristic scholars, architects and musician , said Monsignor M. Francis Mannion. Mannion, rector of Salt Lake's Cathedral of the Madeleine, was elected president of the society, the Intecmountain Catholic n wspaper reported in its Oct. 6 issue. FCC FREES BIGGEST LONG-DISTANCE COMPANY FROM RATE CAPS: AT&T, Like its longdi tance rivals, soon will be able to charge what it wants. Federal regulators agreed yesterday to lift rules controlling the rates the telephone giant charges its 80 million residential customers. Low-income customers and those who make few long-distance calls would be protected. The Federal Communication Commission, citing a more competitive long-distance market, voted 5-0 to lift price regulations on AT&T. The change takes effect 30 days after the FCC makes the written order public. WEBER STATE APPROVES DELTA OPENING A RESERVATION CENTER ON CAMPUS: Weber State University has cleared the way for Delta Air Li.nes to open a student-staffed reservation center on the campus. If the state Board of Regents consents, Delta will rent 3,WO square feet in one of the residence halls and tum it into a center where operators answer thousands of calls daily from travelers trying to book sea ts or asking when a plane will land. The center will hire students exclusively. " It's not a moneymaker for us," aid J. Lee Peters, dean of students. The university will get $27,200 annually in rent, but Peter said it will break ev n after utilities are paid. owever, it is a great deal for student I who will be able to gain experience in a job that is conveniently located, has flexib le hours, comp titive salaries and travel benefits, Peters said. SIMPSON SAYS HE WAS WRONG TO 'GET PHYSICAL' WITH NICOLE: Shu1ming a live TV interview for a tel phone call on his own tem1s, 0 .J. Simp on told The New York Times that he was wrong to "get phy ical" with Nicole Brown impson and that he's willing to meet with battered women to talk about the relationship. In a 45-rninute di cussion with the Times - hi first extensive interview ince his arrest last year Simpson proclaim d his innocence but did not address unanswered questions about OT Simpson the killing of Ms. Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldn1an. Simpson pulled out of the live, no-holdsbarred interview on "Dateline NBC" hours before it was to air Wednesday night, saying he didn't want the network to "retry m e" and that the interview could have damaged his chances in wrongful-death lawsuits filed by the victims' families. |