Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday February 10 1987—5 Liberace did Soviets die of AIDS dissidents releasev - coroner says - MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union has released 140 political dissidents in the past eight days as part of a limited amnesty a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today Gennady Gerasimov told a Moscow news conference that another 140 cases were under review and more releases are INDIO Calif (UPI) Liberace died of AIDS and there was a deliberate attempt to “pull a fast one" on authorities by covering up the true cause of the flamboyant entertainer’s death a county coroner lays “In layman’s terms he died of opportunistic diseases caused by AIDS’’ Riverside County Coroner Ray Carrillo told a crowded news conference Monday When Liberace 67 died Feb 4 at his home in Palm imminent Gerasimov’s remarks were the first official confirmation from Moscow of a large scale release of political prisoners first revelled Saturday by Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident Andrei Sakahrov In Vienna on Monday the justice minister of the Soviet union’s largest republic con- His doctor listed the cause of death as heart failure brought on by a degenerative brain disease complicated by emphysema But Carrillo rejected the death certificate and ordered an autopsy “Mr Liberace did not die (of the diseases) certified by the physician on the death certificate’’ Carrillo said “Our post mortem has precluded any conjecture He did die of firmed that at least 50 dissidents had been freed Russian Minister Justice Republic Aleksander Sukarev said Monday the release of the dissidents was part of an overall attempt to “humanize” AIDS “I firmly believe that somebody along the line wanted to pull a fast one on us They probably pulled something they thought they could get away with Fortunately it was in a case where there was a lot of publicity’’ Carrillo said “Somebody was trying to play fast and loose with the Riverside County Coroner's Office" Uberace’s manager Seymour Heller and his lawyer Joel Strote had denied a Jan 24 article in the Las Vegas Sun quoting sources as saying the famed pianist known as “Mr Showmanship” was dying of AIDS He had been hospitalized the day before for what was described as evaluation of anemia that a spokesman said was brought on by a watermelon diet Four days later Liberace returned home and his New d publicist Denise Collier said he was dying of pernicious anemia heart disease and emphysema Leu than an hour after the recorded time of his death Liberace’a body was taken to Los Angeles County where it wu embalmed at Forest Lawn Memorial Park ' When Los Angeles County health officials called Carrillo’s office to confirm the death certificate so they could issue a burial permit to Forest Lawn Carrillo ordered the body returned for an autopsy Carrillo said Monday the original cause of death “didn’t make sense” The entertainer’s body was returned to Forest Lawn after Friday’s autopsy and entombed Saturday beside his mother and brother George the Soviet penal code Gerasimov said two large groups “of prisoners serving sentences in labor camps and prisons mostly under Article 70 of the Russian Federation's Criminal code the agitation and propaganda” statute were released on Feb 2 and on Monday “til in all 140 people have been released” Gerasimov said He said the releases were connected with a review of the Soviet criminal code by the Ministries of Justice and Interior and each case was being reviewed individually Gerasimov said that in most cases prisoners made a written anti-Sovi- et York-base- UPI Riverside County Coroner Ray Carrillo speaks at a news conference Monday Twelve youths face indictments in racial attack - Eleven (UPI) most of them accompanied by their parents today hustled into a police precinct investigating the Howard Beach racial beating to face grand jury indictments on charges official say include NEW YORK teenagers imurdier'fv The youths and a twelfth person already in custody on a weapons-relate- d charge were named in indictments to be unsealed at their arraignment later today in state Supreme : ! Court sweatshirt hoods closed over their faces and put on aun- gin— to hide thelr faces as their parents urged them to avoid being pi raphed while the entering charge A report in The New York Times said the dozen youths not facing identical charges but an unnamed official told the newspaper the charges “run the whole gamut” and attack Jndude murder a special b!n Charles Hynes December voted indictments last Friday and handed them up in the Queens court cm Monday Among those indicted were three youths already charged with reckless endangerment in the Dec 20th incident One of news conference to discuss Jon Lester 17 has been elopments in the case which in custody on a weapons-relate- d began when a band of white - i -- dev-the- Hustling past reporters and photographers the teens pulled m youths chased Michael Griffith 23 to his death in the path of a car on a Queens highway Gov Mario Cuomd appointed Hynes when Cedric Sandiford a key witness in the case refused to cooperate with Queens District Attorney John Santucci u- Sandiford Tone 'of the two survivors of the' attack said he rebuffed investigators because he ’said the inquiry was being mishandled Sandiford’s refusal to cooperate with investigators resulted in the dismissal of murder - arrested shortly after the attack Lester and Scot Kern" 17 and Jason Ladone 16 both of Howard Beach were still charged with reckless endangerment The latest indictments come as a Tesultof new information youths uncovered by Hynes’ investigation reports said said Griffith Authorities Sandiford and Timothy Grimes 20 were accosted by a group of whites because they entered a pizza parlor in the preHoward white and assault dominantly manslaughter charges against three Queens Beach section of Queens appeal for release and promised with crimes against the state once they were freed "It is a case by case basis As soon as the appeals come through the figures will in- -' crease” he said adding about 140 appeals were currently underconsideration Gerasimov said the review of the criminal code was aimed at easing the law against dissent and would continue despite resistance from some government factions who actually want the law strengthened :) v?(Some think: the laW should be stricter The review is aimed at softening the criminal law so we will nave fewer people behind bars and barbed wire” he said Estimates of the number of political prisoners in the Soviet Union range from about 300 to several thousand not to continue Group charges administration with glossing over abuses - A (UPI) human rights group is accusing the Reagan administration of glossing over human right! abuses by the Contra rebels and those by exaggerating Sandinista govNicaragua's ernment “The Reagan administration systematically acts as an apologist for the human rights violations of the Contras” WASHINGTON Watch Americas Vice Chairman Aryeh Neier laid Monday as his private organization issued its 10th report in five years on human rights in Nicaragua The study covering February to December 1968 Contras found the engaged in “selective but systematic killing of persons they 170-pa- US-back- ed perceive as representing the government and indiscriminate attacks on civilians” The report further cited “widespread kidnapping of civilians” Including children by the rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua 'sleftist government The Sandinista regime said “does not engage in systoe laws of tematic violations war in the course of military actions” — though it should probe alleged violations by the military and try those rethat have sponsible Sympathetic Understanding Service of the administration including its conduct during congressioNeier told a news conference nal debate last year on toe 6100 the Sandinista record is a million aid package now being “mixed bag” with aome re- dispensed to the rebels versals ana some improveopposition newspaper La Pre-ns- a ments during the period covered by the report But he said investigators who made frequent factfinding tours of Nicaragua Honduras and Costa Rica were “unable to find any improvement” by the Contras The report charged the Reagan administration with in engaging “deceptive settees” by claiming toe re-undoubtedly occurred” The report also criticized the E have taken steps to end Sandinista government for abuses though they took “no meaningful ateps to investigate abusing the right of due proand punish those abuses” last cess using “abusive interrogation tactica” against prisoners year The report was highly critical and closing the last remaining Nelson Funexal Home Be My Valentine Say it with Les SSI s 1s 5MLB Valentines Lunch & Dinner Specials Klw Ukra IFelfl) Our Famous Crepes Crab & Shrimp or Turkey Almond Fillings Both ore in a Special Sauce Evening Al-A-Co- rtn Dinners alto availabUlrom 'SM per mnal I CENTER STREET RESTAURANT TuM-Thu- rt Fri-S- vt IsOO 1:06 AM-fsO- O AM-ISsO- O T62-I90- 0 129 N let Matter Chart VlM PM PM gnaffliKPCBBiaaD'SiiiEHiaaiininniD © |