Show Measuring Up on Wasteful Spending fltaetw GOP swept Mo Witness for the Execution If the film Dead Man Walking heated the over the death penalty a uSSSi new documentary called Pmcedure 769 should fan the flames The film which airs Wednesday on the Cinemax cable channel explores the execution of Robert Alton Harris four yean ago today in the San Quentin gas chamber What makes it different Is that the documentary focuses on the perceptions of the 49 witnesses who watched as California executed its first man in 25 yean Harris was convicted in 1979 te too won (kited ‘Taxpayer SMpmfcano' lOO&Repi naribshM kjmped on fto who actual? bandstagon has been saufctgfia taxpayers nwmey and who’s just talking? Mark SandordSuCJ and Houm Speaker liwat Gtapfch on 45 House of abducting and shooting to tarot weak death Michael Baker and John Mayeski both 16 Five witnesses at the execution represented This the victims including Mayeski's mother and his sister Linda Herring (who said Harris didn't suf-- t fer enough) and Baker's father ( And five witnesses represented the killer including Harris’ brother and a cousin The others included a psychologist journalists the San Diego police chief and a few influential Californians who wanted to watch After four postponements a fax arrived: “There will be no further stays" Harris uttered his last words: "You can be a king or a street sweeper but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper" The cyanide solution was released at 6: 10 am on April 21 1992 and the killer died within minutes TWo years later the gas chamber was deemed cruel and today: unusual punishment California now uses lethal injection WwMRt aHelAbereiwnMe(4Jl Fora cotnpfaN c mu— kadi $5tw DC Taxpayer Hero’ gbwntotwee 20090-822- 2 Misses His Mother Escaped Panther Bmt—the Black Panther who hijacked a plane j last-minu- te Sunday Freebie: Volunteers I Start Young recent snney of nearly 1000 young people 95 said they IsappavStof mbinteerimg and 7 saiitkey ahead deeded time ate volunteer activities Where can yoang volunteers start? Ai the nearest Hand bank marring home or emergency tfnod at a tan nr animal shelter as a coach or tutor or planting trees (see our story on the Tree JfnirtNnjL 1b learn mare there a new l&pnga hooUet pat amt hy the Department of Edncatiem anJ Pi Wnfi’d Insmance Company of America tided “Catch the taiwtm tatlLS i Spirit-Be- get year fire copy write to Consumer IrnMcS!TioS!‘ Bill Cuba in 1969 rather than face trial for his role in shootout that left two San Francisco police officers seriously wounded —told me a few weeks ago that he’d return to the US if he could but “it wouldn't be wise to go back and let them put me in the penitentiary “I’d like to be able to see my mother in Oakland who is very ill and do the things sons do with their mothers" added Brent “I can’t help but fed bad about that" As for his actions 27 years ago Brent said: MI don’t regret having been a Black Panther If I had it to do over again I’d probably do something different but Id do it After the hijacking Brent spent two years in a Cuban JaQ then toiled in the sugarcane fields and at a soap factory He graduated from the University nf Havana was a teacher and then became a broadcaster for Radio Havana using die name Bill Beaumont Brent is now 65 retired and living in Havana I met him at the Hotel National in that city to talk about hb new autobiography Long Time Gone just out from Times Books Brent decided to trD hb own story after books were published by two other old Panthers — David HQliard the former chief of staff of the militant black group and Elaine Brown who took over the Black Panthers after her lover Huey Newton fled to Cuba In 1974 BiQ Brent one of 91 Americans in Cuba today who fled the US to avoid prosecution or jaiL Among the most wanted is Robert Vescn a swindler and suspected agent for the Soviet bloc who wns jailed by Castro last May after 13 years of political asylum And there’s Joanne Cheslmard a of the Black Liberation life Sentenced 1973 killing of a New to in for the Army prison Jersey state trooper she escaped in 1979 and was granted political asytom in Cuba where she b now a poet known as Assati Shakur a er vttJ Looking For Patterns Up Tb 100 Years Old? V“ 1 Find jour patterns here 3200000 pieces - 62000 patterns Call toll-fre- e today for FREE lists of pieces in your patterns H H Replacements Ltd DtacarUnued & Active China CryOaL Flatware & CbOKtUrs 1089 knox Road FOBos 26029 DcptXH Gccerehoro NCrtM $ k |