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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune, Tapes Accepted As Evidence in Donovan Trial - two-mont- ovans trial. The district attorney predicted there would be more legal maneuvering by defense attorneys before a trial date is set. A final pretrial conference for Jan. 6. Merola and Assistant District Attorney Stephen Bookin said the tapes give the flavor of the case. Anybody listening to the tapes would get a good indication of what went on, Merola said. Theodore Wells, an attorney for Schiavone, said he was disappointed in the courts decision. He said he would have no further comment until decision. he studied the lift 3 inmates from prison, is led to jail after her arrest. Four fuWOODBINE, Ga (AP) gitives who vowed they'd never be taken alive after a bold helicopter escape from a South Carolina prison Monday got a rude awakening when officers surrounded their stolen car at a Georgia rest stop and recaptured them, authorities said. The groggy outlaws crawled out of the car, fumbling to put on their shoes, under the glare from spotlights on three state police cruisers, said Camden County Sheriffs Sgt. Charlie Easterling They surrendered peacefully, giving up their knives and pistol, he said. Easterling and Trooper Joe Cunningham had spotted the car at the rest stop along Interstate 95 near the a border at 3 30 a m., Georgia-Flondand discovered it was stolen, said Sheriff W.E. Bill Smith. Reinforcements were called in, and the subjects of a nationwide manhunt were given a rude awakening by officers over a cruisers public address system, Cunningham said. They were shocked, Easterling said. I think the situation was that they saw three cars there with the lights flashing, and they knew they had been caught. They had been caught asleep." The three convicts and a blonde who allegedly hijacked a helicopter Thursday to help them break out of the Perry Correctional Institution near Pelzer, S.C., were turned over to federal authorities, who took them to Savannah for a hearing on air piracy charges, Smith said. Charged With Tapping Into Pipeline 4 Plead Innocent to Stealing Crude Oil Four men, LOS ANGELES (UPI) including a man and his two sons, pleaded innocent Monday to federal charges they stole $4 million in crude oil by tapping an underground desert pipeline near Palm Springs. The men, indicted last week by a federal grand jury after a yearlong investigation by the FBI and the Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., were accused of illegally siphoning 140,000 barrels e of crude from a interstate pipeline for three years. 600-mil- Investigators said the four pumped the stolen oil into leased tanker trucks and then sold it to several in dependent refineries under the guise of a small oil company. Appearing before U.S. District Judge Wallace Tashima were Mose Allen Geter, 44, of Morongo Valley, his sons, Mose Allen Geter Jr., 25, of Palm Desert, and Christopher Geter, 23, of Palm Springs, and Konrad Prager, 35, of Morongo Valley. Tashima scheduled trial for Feb. 25 and allowed the men to remain free on $50,000 bail, which they posted after their arrest last week at their San Bernardino County homes. Each was charged with conspiracy and 10 counts of theft from a government shipment. Jury Says Reynolds Tobacco Co. Not Liable For Smokers Death, But Decries Smoking FBI agents said the four carried out their theft scheme for three years, tapping into a segment of pipeline buried beneath a parcel of land about 15 miles north of Palm Springs in the Morongo Valley. The pipeline, about 16 inches thick, is owned by an Arco subsidiary and is used by several oil companies. It carries about 50,000 barrels of crude each day from Long Beach to Red Mesa, Utah. Arco notified the FBI late last year after company officials conducted their own investigation and tracked mysterious oil losses to the tapped section of pipeline. Dennis the Menace Bv The four were identified as Jesse Glenn Smith. 36, of Easley, SC; William Ballew, 42, of Greenville, SC; convicted murderer James Rodney Leonard, 20, also of Greenville; and Joyce Bailey Mattox, 40, of Wellford, SC At a hearing in Savannah, U.S. Magistrate Spence Grayson ordered them held without bond and returned to South Carolina. US. marshals said the four would be held in the Chatham County Jail in Savannah to await the trip to South Carolina. The time of the trip was not set immediately. The four were under heavy guard during the hearing, and the three men were chained together. Federal officials charged Mattox y with violation of laws and the three men with conspiring to aid and abet her in air piracy. In addition. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -J- Reynolds Tobacco Co. is not liable for the death of a man who smoked for five decades, but took pains to emphasize their misgivings about cigarettes. We want to stress that we dont like smoking and we feel smoking is harmful, jury forewoman Stacy Proft said. The only reason we didnt go to that verdict was the evidence wasnt there. She and other jurors said they were swayed to the Reynolds position because they were unconvinced that the man, whose survivors alleged wrongful death and had sought $1 million in damages, was addicted to cigarettes. The Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury, which included two smokers, received the case Thursday and deliberated more than eight hours before voting 3 vote in favor of Reynolds. Only nine jurors were required to agree to return a verdict in the civil case. The product liability case brought by survivors of John Mark Galbraith, who died at age 69 after smoking for 9-- more than 50 years, was watched toclosely by the $60 billion-a-yebacco industry, as it was the first of 45 similar recent suits to reach a jury. An observer from a New York investment banking firm raced out of the court as soon as the verdict was read to telephone the results to his company. A federal judge in Knoxville, Tenn., recently dismissed a $55 million liability suit against Reynolds, saying a amputee had not proved the companys cigarettes were defective and unreasonably dangerar ous. Melvin Belli, the Galbraith fam- ilys attorney, had argued that Reynolds was to blame for Galbraiths 1982 death because its warnings of the dangers of smoking were insufficient. He said he would appeal the verdict. Belli complained that Judge Bruce Dodds had excluded from evidence key documents including U.S. surgeon generals reports on smoking. 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The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use or reproduction of oil locoi news printed in this newsooper os wen as oil A P news dispatches 237 2990 237 - 2990 1 - 800 - 662 - 9 86 1 J Member Audit Btneou ol OcuHi tlons Cigarettes Alive - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan signed legislation Monday that extended the cigarette tax through March 15. The bill, making the extension retroactive through last Thursday at midnight, prevented the cigarette tax from dropping to 8 cents a pack. Congress rushed through the emergency measure in the final hours prior to adjournment after the Senate and House failed to agree on a $74 n billion bill that included the higher cigarette tax. The tax was kept alive through a series of extensions, the last of which ended at midnight last Thursday. At that point, technically, the government could collect only 8 cents a pack. If Congress had not passed and . Reagan signed the extension, many states would have put into effect provisions enacted bj their legislatures under which the states would have taken the defaulted 8 cents. The bill also provided an extension through March 15 of Medicare payments for doctors and hospitals. But a number of other provisions, which also expired Dec. 19, were not given an extension. They included the trade adjustment assistance program for people who lose their jobs due to increased trade and authority to borrow under the raiFoad unemployment Insurance fund Congress also did not provide extensions for a numbei of tax revisions that expire at the enl of the year. deficit-reductio- . , . v The four allegedly stole the motorf ist's car after the auto in which they had fled South Carolina apparently : 1 broke down. i - SAN PABLO, Calif. (AP) A man charged with murder for forcing a nurse at gunpoint to disconnect the machines keeping his comatose father alive had promised not to let him linger, a relative said. Edward T. Baker held a pistol against the nurse's throat Saturday and told her to shut down his father's systems, said police Detective Larry Hunt Baker surrendered when he was sure his father was dead. He was being held without bail on Monday and was to be arraigned Tuesday. His father, Edward C. Baker, 69, was suffering from cancer of the esophagus. He had been admitted to Brookside Hospital on Nov. 20 and had been in a coma since undergoing surgery Dec. 11, Hunt said. Velma Brown said her brother-in-lahad asked his son not to let him machines. linger on er life-supp- The son spent Saturday drinking at the Eagles Lodge, where he had been an employee, said Mike Carlson, the mans former boss. At about 10 p.m., Baker rose from his chair and said, I figured out what I'm going to do and Im going to do it, Carlson said. Baker entered the intensive-car- e unit at 10:59 p.m. and kept about a Hank ketehain dozen patients and staff members prisoner for 15 minutes, repeating over and over that "he wanted his father to die with dignity, officers said. He surrendered without a struggle machines after the were disconnected and he was certain his father was dead, authorities said. The hospitals chaplain, the Rev. Palmer Watson, spoke to Baker shortly after he surrendered and said the man believed he did the right thing. He felt the situation was pretty much useless, Watson said. He begged the doctor that day to let him disconnect the machine. The doctor said hed have to go through the courts. He promised his father he would never let him be kept alive by a machine, Watson said. A physician can order a unit turned off if the family requests it and if the doctor believes there is no hope for improvement, life-supp- said hospital spokesman Fraser Felter. While the police statement referred to the fathers condition as Felter would say only terminal, that the type of ailment involved is fatal if not treated soon enough." Doctors were to conduct further tests in the next few days, he said. .. , Original Rudolph Gets A Delicate Touch-U- p - A middle-age- d Rudolph the Reindeer, in danger of wearing out, is under the scrutiny of experts anxious to restore his vigor and luminance. Its a difficult problem, acknowledge conservators, but one theyre confident of overcoming by ensuring the enchanting creature remains intact for generations of Christmas Eves to come. Rudolph emerged in 1939 in a free Montgomery Ward handout to customers during the holiday season. Robert Lewis May, a copywriter for the stores retail sales department in Chicago, wrote and illustrated the ' story about the reindeer with a remarkable nose that lighted the way for Santa's sleigh one foggy Christmas . - -- u eve. ANDOVER, Mass. (UPI) Galbraiths widow, Elayne, and their two children showed no reaction to the verdict. Reynolds attorney Thomas Workman had told jurors that Galbraith smoked because he loved it, he knew the risks involved and took them. He suggested that Galbraith died of hereditary illnesses, including heart disease, rather than smoking. Every case is flawed because science doesnt know the real cause of cancer, Workman said. He said he believed the Galbraith case centered on the issues of freedom of choice and addiction. At least one of the holdout jurors said she believed cigarettes had killed Galbraith. I believe he was addicted to smoking and thats where most of his problems were, said Roberta Coyne. Reagans Action Keeps Tax on Mattox was charged in South Carolt-.- , na warrants with aiding and abetting an escape and assault and battery with intent to kill, and the inmate were charged in state warrants with escape and assault and battery with, intent to kill. Mattox is accused of hijacking a helicopter and forcing its pilot to land at the prison. The three inmates were airlifted out of the prison yard in a hail of gunfire that left a guard, wounded, authorities said. ,r FBI agents said the fugitives had been seen early Sunday in Mobile; Ala., when they bragged about the escape to a motorist they flagged down, on Interstate 10, vowing they would .. never be taken alive. Police Say Son Forced; Nurse to Let Dad Die Red-Nose- urors decided Monday that R.J. A3 Fugitives Get 4Rude Awakening; Police Find Them Asleep in Car NEW YORK (UPI) Tapes from FBI wiretaps used to obtain a fraud indictment against former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan may be used in his trial, a judge ruled Monday, rejecting defense contentions the tapes were illegal. The ruling by state Supreme Court Justice John Collins of the Bronx came after a h hearing on admissibility of the tapes of wiretapped conversations of Schiavone Construction Co. officials. Donovans voice is not heard on the tapes but he is mentioned frequently and prosecutors say they give the flavor of the case. Donovan, a former Schiavone official who resigned as labor secretary March 15, could not immediately be reached for comment. His attorney, William Bittman, said he had not yet read the decision, but said, This doesnt change anything. Despite the ruling, the judge criticized the FBIs handling of the case, saying the investigation involved just plain disorder and lack of leadership. But he said poor management of the case should not prevent the use of the wiretapped conversations at DonDonovan and other Schiavone officials are charged with bilking the New York City Transit Authority out of $7.4 million for a subway construction project Donovan, who was indicted Oct 3, 1984, has said he had little to do with the subway project in question. Neither Donovans voice nor that of Ronald Schiavone, head of the Secau-cu- s, N.J., firm is on the tapes but other Schiavone officials can be heard, said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola. Donovan, however, is repeatedly referred to on the tapes, he said. "The result of this puts us another step forward to a trial, Merola said. Its crucial and important Tuesday, December 24, 1985 d ' A fire on Christinas Eve? Are you outta your mind or somethin? Much to the amazement of the store and author, thq handout was grabbed up so quickly a second edition was printed, and the legend of Rudolph was born. His fame sparked a musical version of the story by Johnny Marks that was sung by Gene Autry in 1949. The enduring charm of the tenacious reindeer led to the first technicolor short in 1948 followed by a deluge of film productions. r Health, Housing Programs Await Verdict Reagan to Referee Budget - Cut Disputes - Otis R. Bowen, over proposed deep WASHINGTON (AP) President cuts in Medicare and other health Reagan has been called upon to rule in a handful of key disputes between programs appeared headed for a federal agency directors and the presidential verdict. White House budget office over next The budget offices first draft of the 1987 budget reportedly calls for a reyear's package of $50 billion in production in Medicare payments to posed spending cuts, administration officials said Monday. physicians by nearly $500 million and a drastic scaling back of the amount The sources, who spoke only on the of money the federal government condition that they not be identified, contributes for hospital construction said battles over sweeping cuts in and major medical-equipmehealth and housing programs are purchases. unresolved issues the requiramong The sources also said the budget ing a presidential decision. office's proposal to scrap community-developOnly a few Cabinet members have chosen to appeal to Reagan specific grants and curtail a wide variety of other housing procuts proposed by budget director James C. Miller III, said Edwin Dale, grams also remain a controversy within the administration that may spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget. require Reagans intervention. Under the review process set up by Dale would not say which Cabinet officials nor what issues were involved. However, he said the internal budget review process is in its final stages, and that most disputes over As part of WASHINGTON (AP) spending cuts have already been settled short of requiring personal interthe effort to reduce the national defivention by the president. cit, the White House proposes to cut Dale said it was hoped that the $480 million of the $580 million NASA process could be wants in the next fiscal year to develop a space station, an industry magawrapped up this week. President Reagan will submit his zine said Monday. Such a huge cut, at a time when the budget for fiscal year 1987 to Congress in early February. Miller has program Is about to get into high gear n with the start of hardware developsaid that to meet targets of the recently enacted ment, would delay the space station budget by three years, said Aviation Week and Space Technology. balancing act, approximately $50 bilPresident Reagan last year made lion in budget cuts will be required in fiscal 1987, which begins next Oct. 1. building the space station, an $8 billion project, a national goal. It is to be Administration sources said a dissecnew operational in the early 1990s. the and Miller between pute Neither the National Aeronautics retary of health and human services, ment the White House, agency chiefs who' appeal proposed budget cuts cannot' be upheld unless they come up with reductions of the same size in other' areas under their jurisdiction. A budget review panel headed by White House chief of staff Donald Re--' gan heard most Cabinet agency ap-- 1 peals last week. Those unhappy with the results may go to the president as a court of last resort. However, very few Cabinet members are taking this route and some including Energy Secrehave pret-- . tary John S. Herrington ty much agreed to accept the budget; offices cuts without major protest I sources said. "The agencies are having to swal--r low hard, but basically theyre doing; it, said one administration official. Space Station May Lose Funds; and Space Administration nor the' White House Office of budget-c- l Management' and Budget would comment on the) report, which cited no sources. ut-appeal deficit-reductio- Gramm-Rudman-Hollin- "Agency managers believe such a! severe slip and funding reduction! would seriously damage the project, reduce the efficiency of NASA cen-- !' ters, harm the U.S. internationally and thwart initiatives to draw in' more commercial space inveht- ment, the magazine said. j Agency requests are now before OMB, which is working on the budget the president will propose to Con-- '; gress that in February for the fiscal year -- begins next Oct. 1. |
