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Show 2A The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, January 17, 1986 Spotlight Judge Dismisses Major Charges Leveled at Goetz Continued From l Ramseur, 19, and Troy Canty, 20, all from the Bronx. At least one of them had asked Goetz for $5. Cabey, the most seriously wounded d of the four, was and partially paralyzed by the shooting and is still hospitalized. Goetz, who fled after the shooting and surrendered nine days later in New Hampshire, told United Press International last month that his case "educated a lot of liberals. Its been a good thing for society. On Jan. 25, 1984, a grand jury decided not to charge Goetz with attmpted murder, instead charging him with illegal gun possession and reckless counts that still stand. Robert Morgenthau, saying he had new evidence, resubmitted the case to a second grand jury, which on March 27 indicted Goetz on four counts of attempted murder. Goetz lawyer Barry Slotnick said he would move in court Jan. 21 to have all charges against his client dismissed in the interest of justice. But Crane urged that the case go before a third grand jury. This case for all concerned, including the defendant, cries out for adjudication, not according to popular opinions, emotional reactions or political philosophy, but according to the evidence, properly and fairly admitted before the appropriate tribunal, and adjudicated in obeisance to the rules of law, Crane wrote in his decision. He said the man on the . . . subway galvanized the world. New Yorkers at first hailed Goetz as hero, calling him the Death Wish gunman after the vigilante in the movie by that name. Some wanted him to get a medal. Others wanted him to run for mayor. But the tide of public opinion turned against Goetz in the months A-- brain-damage- When little Johnny NEW ORLEANS goes to the doctor, he gets the attention of an entire medical staff. But the whole ex perience turned out to be a yawner for the heavily sedated gorilla, who was pronounced fit by Audubon Zoo veterinarians. Late to Launch, Late to Land: Shuttle Just Cant Get It Right SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -Rain and fog in Florida kept luckless Columbia from landing Thursday, and NASA said failure to bring the shuttle back to its home port Friday would force cancellation of a March flight devoted to Halleys comet. - The astronauts, who endured a record seven delays before finally launching their mission Sunday, were instructed to aim toward a 7:12 a m. EST landing on Friday at the Kennedy Space Center. But National Aeronautics and National Survey Reveals Much More Than t Comic-Stri- Loyalties p By Michael J. Robinson to The Los Angeles Times Special r' WASHINGTON If you are interested in trends, you probably - those articles in your local tjMper about whats in and Scat's out." And if you are a whats in whats out .Jype, you may have asked corn-knitte- d your-jM- f, as you turned to the comic ktafees in your newspaper, which Strips still set a pace. '"Have people grown tired of 'JOnonesbury since his return? If yuppie, you ;$ki are hard-cor- e 'Qight even wonder if Gary Larson's The Far Side has lost any 4f jts chic appeal. The Times Mirror-Gallu- p Poll released this week shows krvey Vhich comics are in, which are XJM. The survey of national tastes Shout mass communication a list of nine presumably jor comics. The academic point s to learn what motivates audiences. The side benefit was that we now know more about jibedia preferences that go beyond Mjie news section. The poll shows that it is not so 'much that cartoons like The Far I Side are out. Rather, they have to arrive. And so it is for Ijei iXathy, and even Doonesbury. ;Almost all the comics with sophistication and elan are not in yet, not for the vast bulk of the population anyway. Z' Beetle Bailey" has three times a s many readers as the chic Bloom County. Blondie" even Zbeats "Doonesbury by a ratio of 4 to 3. s This is supposedly the feminist era. And "Cathy" symbolizes cautious feminism. How is Cathy" doing? Not so well. In fact, Nan-- . cy," tired old Nancy," beats Cathy by a ratio of 3 to 2. Blondie, the unfeminist, outpaces Cathy by precisely 3 to 1. If it were not for Doonesbury, there would not be a political" or "contemporary comic worth mentioning. The most popular comic in the survey turned out to be Peanuts: 43 percent of the public says it sometimes reads Charles Schulz's classic about life in a playground. There was a time when Peanuts was contemporary, even considered political. $But to most mass media critics and theorists, Peanuts is to politics what Mr. Rogers is to machismo. (The popular comic strips "Beetle Bailey, "Blondie and Peanuts appear daily and Sunday in The Salt Lake Tribune.) There is something of a class base to these comic-stri- p loyalties. The professional classes, for example, follow the political and sophisticated comics more than does the general population. But even among the professionals, Beetle Bailey" has three times the readership of Bloom County or "Cathy. Among the rich, "Blondie" still wallops Cathy." One could interpret this as proof that America maintains a fairly those at the "classless society top and those at the bottom heap read the same funnies after all. An elitist would probably interpret these findings to mean that the American mass audience is not so much classless" as declasse. The lopsided victory of a "Blondie" over a Cathy" also proves that America does not drive the fast lane as often as mass culture buffs and pundits like to believe. of-th- e Michael J. Robinson Is a professor at Georoe Washlnoton University and participated In the survey. Space Administration officials said the Florida weather forecast was uncertain and it was expected to be even worse on Saturday. Officials said if the prospects appeared dim for Columbia being able to land in Florida on Friday or Saturday, it would be diverted to Edwards Air Force Base in California, landing there at 8:39 a m. EST Friday. Columbia's planned landing on Thursday was canceled just 19 minutes before mission commander Robert Gibson was to trigger rocket engine firings that would drop the winged craft out of orbit. The wave-of- f Thursday was the eighth operational delay for Columbia's flight. Launch of the mission was postponed seven times over 25 days before it lifted off last Sunday. Columbia is scheduled to be launched again on March 6, carrying into orbit an array of instruments focused on Halleys comet. The launch date was selected to coincide with the comet fly-b- y of Soviet and European satellites. , Officials said if Columbia is forced to land in California, it will take about six days to return the spacecraft to Kennedy. This would not leave enough time to prepare Columbia for its the March 6 launch date. As a result, the Halleys comet observation flight would be canceled. Columbia, with its crew of seven, including a congressional observer, originally had been scheduled for a five-daflight, but NASA ordered it to land on Thursday, a day early, to help relieve the schedule pressure. The landing delay restores the fifth day, but it came too late for the astronauts to accomplish much with their extra hours in space. They took some additional data with four experiments, but the rest of the science instruments had been turned off. Weather forecasts for Thursday landing had been favorable. y Norwegian Was First To Reach South Pole A story that appeared in The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday morning about three Britons reaching South Pole contained an A-- 1 ments in it that you could say, if you want to understate it, give people some concern. A great deal of it is not in any way new. A great deal of it is a restatement of what they have said many times. We have proposals on the table at Geneva that would enable a lot of these points to be reached." The administration has previously made clear its lack of enthusiasm for the Soviet proposal that both nations declare a moratorium on nuclear testing, and Weinberger said "we The dispatch from Reuter News Agency stated that Capt. Robert Scott was the first explorer to reach the pole. In fact, Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen was the first, beating Scott by one month to the Earths southernmost point in 1911. think testing is important if the weapare still possessed by anybody. Besides, he added in reference to the Soviets unilateral testing moratorium, Theyve made all their preparations to resume testing at a days notice." At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes repeated the administrations hopes that Gorbachev's latest offer would continue an increasingly positive process of give and take" in the arms negota-tionons Legalize Prostitution, N.Y. Bar Panel Says - A state Bar NEW YORK (UPI) Association committee Thursday proposed creation of red light districts where prostitutes legally could walk the streets at certain hours to solicit customers. The committee on the Revision of Criminal Law mabc the proposal at the associations 109th annual meeting in Tunes Square. The plan would ease the burden of a tremendously inefficient legal system" which processed 18,000 prostitution arrests in 1985, said committee member David Michaels. The report said the average time served for prostitution offenses is less than two days, promoting a "degrad- - ing impression of standardized turnstile justice." City and state law enforcement officials had no comment on the proposal. The association is scheduled to vote on the proposal in March and if accepted, it would be recommended to the state Legislature for approval. Michaels said city councils, planning commissions or cRy officials could decide which areas would be set aside for prostitution. The committee also proposed tougher penalties for prostitutes soareas and liciting in sencalled for a mandatory tence for prostitutes convicted three times in one year. y charges of racism, and Goetzs neighbor remembered him calling blacks niggers and Hispanics spies. - ATLANTA (UPI) The number of AIDS cases in the United States jumped 84 percent in 1985, and the number of AIDS cases linked to blood transfusions more than tripled, feder- al health officials said Thursday. Along with the increase in AIDS infections, the national Centers for Disease Control said the fatality rate from the disease, for which there is no cure or effective treatment, rose to 51 percent. The death rate for AIDS victims diagnosed before July 1984 was even greater, increasing to 79 percent. The CDC said 59 percent of the children who have AIDS die of the infection. Cases of AIDS related to blood transfusions increased from 56 in 1984 to 171 last year, despite the img plementation of a program that identifies those infected with the AIDS virus. The CDC said the impact of the program and deferral of those at increased risk probably werent reflected in national AIDS reporting because of the long period between infection with the vi blood-screenin- blood-screenin- g L K i Jimmy Carter was roasted by the likes of Henry Wolfe Tuesday at a taping Kissinger, John Kenneth Galbraith and Tom of Firing Line, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the PBS television talk show. The roast is scheduled to air in the last week of William F. Buckley Jr. February. Galbraith attributed Buckleys success to the incredible patience If he takes a position, you can take the of the American public. cannot be opposite one and know without troubling thought that you wrong. ... high school the p to student went cheers enthusiastic most but the audience, trumpeter invited on stage to perform a rap. Gillespie, featured in the first of a series of workshops and evening concerts designed to teach New Orleans students about jazz, didn t understand at first when Dewayne Clipps asked what he thinks of rap. 68. The 900 Rap is a personal friend of mine, answered Gillespie, or so students in Booker T. Washington High Schools auditorium burst into laughter, realizing he was talking about black activist H. Rap Dizzie Gillespie got a standing ovation from a a be-bo- ' ; Brown. Pianist Ellis Marsalis explained that Gillespie had missed the meaning of Clipps question. Its rap music youre speaking of! Gillespie exclaimed. I like that. I like the words they put to it. You do that? Clipps, a sophomore at Clark High School, nodded. Gillespie then invited the youth on stage. To the accompaniment of quick cymbal taps, Clipps rattled off a d minute or so of the rhymed verse known as rap. ; ; ; ; fast-pace- Jimmy Carter is scheduled part said. as to visit Mexico in of a swing through Latin America, sources at the U.S. Embassy The sources said the former president was touring Latin American nations in preparation for a series of upcoming seminars to be held at the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta. Tribune Wire Services rus and development of the disease. We would hope to see a decrease in the next two to three years, Morgan said. The incubation period for the disease can be as long as seven years, the CDC said, and the possibility of longer incubation periods cannot be excluded. Since June 1, 1981, there have been 16,458 AIDS cases reported to the I in 85 CDC, including 16,227 adults and 231 children. Of those, 8,361 have died. Dr. Mead Morgan of the CDCs AIDS activity branch said that early in the AIDS epidemic, the number of cases appeared to be doubling every five months. "More recently, the number of reported AIDS cases have doubled from about 8,000 to over 16,000 in 11 months. We expect doubling times to continue to lengthen, he said. Drinking Kamikazes? Hang On to Your Seat - Ever have a DETROIT (UPI) drink called an Upside Down Kamikaze? Jerry Pasciak did, and he claims in a lawsuit that it left him with 20 stitches, chipped teeth and a headache. Patrons who order the drink at Cagneys bar in suburban Westland are first seated in a barbers chair. As the drink is poured down the patrons throat, the chair is tilted backward and then propelled forward. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court, Pasciak, 22, said he was knocked uncon- - scious on Feb. 29, 1984, after being served the drink in the prescribed manner. Pasciak's lawyer, Hadley Wine, said stitches were needed to close a cut around one of Pasciak's eyes and his nose. The suit charges the bar and owner James Maceroni with negligence and seeks damages of more than 310,000. Despite the suit, Cagneys bartender Beth Blast said the drink is still popular. She said flipping the drinker forward in the barbers chair makes you swallow the drink faster. Worldwide Church of God Founder Dies at 93 After a Turbulent Life W. - Herbert PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Armstrong, who used radio, televi- sion and magazines to spread the Worldword of his wide Church of God, died Thurday after a life as stormy as his evangelistic fervor. He was 93. Armstrong died at his Pasadena home from "basically just the effects of becoming old, just old age, said church spokesman David Hulme. He was 93 years old and had lived a very long and full life, said Earl Reese, who works in the churchs legal office. Armstrong, founder and first pastor general of the church, was regarded by his followers as an apostle of Jesus Christ. The church received strong financial support that made it a powerful evangelistic organization. The Plain Truth and Quest magazines and hundreds of the World Tomorrow" taped television shows are part of the 80,000-memb- Pasadena-base- d announcing members. his choice to church Although television viewers saw videotape of Armstrong as recently as Sunday, he had taped his last telecast in August, Hulme said, adding that a decision will be made later whether to continue showing Armstrongs taped appearances. In recent months, attorneys for the church battled court orders requiring the elder Armstrong to give a deposition in a libel suit brought by a former church member. The attorneys argued that the church patriarch was physically unable to reply. ed, him. The churchs spending practices came under review by the state attor- generals office in 1979, when sev-- , eral former church members joined Garner Ted Armstrong in his allegations that Herbert Armstrong and Stanley Rader had spent 70 million of church dollars on personal expenses. The allegations triggered appointment of a receiver to take charge of the church's operaney t, L When Garner Ted Armstrong responded by publicly denouncing what he called the churchs lavish expenses, Herbert Armstrong banished his son from the church facilities and disfellowshipped, or excommunicat- - ger Armstrong said Thursday. I tried repeatedly to call him and get in touch through letters but he., refused to talk to me. My biggest re- gret is not being able to sec my father face to face during these past years," .' he said. churchs legacy, Tkach, 59, was appointed deputy pastor general of the church and its affiliated organizations, church attorney Ralph K. Helge said Tuesday. "I am in a very physically weakened state, enduring severe pain and with virtually no strength whatsoever," Armstrong wrote in a letter In 1978, the elder Armstrong accused his son of trying to put him aside, take over the church and move Ambassador College to Big Sandy, Texas, while turning the Pasadena campus into church headquarters. Herbert Armstrong was recuperatheart attack at ing from a near-fata- l the time. "The great feeling of sadness I feel is largely due to our inability to have a complete reconciliation, the youn- along with Ambassador College in Pasadena. Church publications are printed in several languages, and the television shows are seen widely in syndication. The churchs television spokesman for many years was Armstrongs son and Garner Ted Armstrong, until the two had a falling out in 1978. The younger Armstrong has conducted an independent ministry since then. Joseph K. Tkach, director of church administration for the past six years, was designated earlier this week to follow Armstrong as head of the Pasadena-basechurch. i 1 Dizzie Gillespie AIDS Cases Climbed 84 the error. Arms Talks Resume on Upbeat Note Continued From freeze on the nuclear arsenals of other' nations and the scrapping of all tactical nuclear weapons with a range of up to 600 miles. In the final phase, all remaining nuclear weapons would be eliminated. Members of the US. delegation here declined to comment publicly on the talks or the Gorbachev proposal. But in Washington, President Reagan added to his comments Wednesday that some parts of the proposal "may be constructive." Jn a brief exchange with reporters during a photo session, the president said he was encouraged by the Soviet proposal. It's different than things weve heard in the past from leaders in the Soviet Union," he said. "It is just about the first time that anyone has ever proposed actually eliminating nuclear weapons." Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, speaking at a Pentagon news conference, appeared less enthusiastic. "There are some . . . things in it that we find very worrisome, he said. Among these are "the continued linking of any arms reduction agreements to a ban, effectively speaking, on any klgd,of .(Air proceeding with the Strategic Defense Initiative program." Weinberger said. "There are ele after the shooting. There were William F. Buckley Jr. then-treasur- court-ordere- d tions. The case was dropped in October 1980 after the Legislature passed a law barring the attorney general from investigating religious organizations accused of misuse of funds or internal civil fraud. The law was Inspired by the Church of God case. Armstrong made headlines again divorced from his secretary after a two-yecourt battle. In 1984 when he was Victim of Just Old Age t ar t 9 |
