Noriega plea bargain ruled out3A Owensboro trolley riding high1 OWENSBORO MBsspng5si MqpinfiircBir VOL 116 NO. 8 MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1990 35C Victim of 'brutal murder' discovered Colombia rejects U.S. drug ii ipn.iiui' 9 fi-w ii mm wi pwm wu mi 11 1 "imiw patrols Hands and feet removed from body in Daviess By Steve Hunt Messenger-Inquirer The body of a man beaten and shot, with hands, feet and teeth removed was found Sunday morning in south Daviess County. "It's absolutely a case of foul play," said Kentucky State Police public affairs officer Ed Brady. "Whoever did this attempted to obscure the identity of the body.
They didn't want any fingerprints; any identification from dental records. It appears that was deliberate." KSP Trooper Larry Abel described it as "the most brutal murder" he's seen in 15 years as an officer. "It's bizarre," said Capt David Osborne of the Daviess County Sheriffs Department The unidentified victim was described as being white, 25 to 35 years old, 125 to 140 pounds, and about 5 feet 7 inches tall with collar-length brown hair. Two hunters discovered the nude body under a pile of brush about 15 yards from Pleasant Valley Road just south of Hampton Road at about 11 a.m., authorities said. Brady said police are requesting See MURDERBACK PAGE Steve Hunt, Messenger-Inquirer Detective Jarold Nickens of Kentucky State Police clears the scene Road.
The man's hands, feet and teeth had been removed, apparently to where the body of a man was discovered Sunday near Pleasant Valley hide his identity, police said. 4 Evacuation key in nuclear war plan Daviess County Nuclear Fallout shelters Escape routes called likely targets Plans are based on worst-case scenarios, Cox said, and "nuclear war is the worst" In the past, officials figured an enemy resorting to nuclear weapons would strike mainly at large cities and military bases like Fort Campbell and Fort Knox. Now planners believe the enemy would hit the military installations, but also try to cripple the country, not wipe it out The other targets would be essential services like power plants and locks and dams, said Charles Bogart, DES' senior disaster response planner in Frankfort "Look at Charieston," Cox said, recalling the impact Hurricane Hugo had on the South Carolina See NUCLEARBACK PAGE By John M. Broder Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Colombian officials on Sunday accused the Bush administration of initiating a naval and 1. 1 i air DiocKaae oi uiuiiiiu vvi vii'wm i-' retusea to taKe part in American drug interdiction patrols off the Colombian coast Angered by the American decision to dispatch a flotilla of warships for Brent Scowcroft anti-drug patrols, Colombian officials Sunday complained that they had not been consulted.
"The government has not participated nor will it participate in any maneuver in international waters of the Caribbean Sea with U.S. naval or air forces," said a Colombian government statement published in the national newspaper El Tiempo. The statement added that the Colombian government has not authorized U.S. forces to operate in Colombian territorial waters "nor has (it) considered authorizing them." Although the statement did not call the U.S. action a blockade, Colombian press reports quoted government officials who referred to the action in those terms.
Meanwhile, an editorial in a leading Colombian newspaper, El Espec-tador, charged that the United States' military action was evidence of a new "imperial policy" in Latin America. "Colombia can in no way accept an armed intervention or blockade of its territorial waters under the questionable proposition of patrolling international waters," the editorial said. The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and the guided-missile cruiser Virginia left their home port of Norfolk, last Thursday for what was officially described as "routine training" in the Caribbean. But U.S.
officials confirmed Saturday that they would take up station off Colombia shortly to monitor and intercept airborne and seaborne drug traffic. anti-drug program also involves the use of airborne and ground-based Air Force radars to blanket Colombian air space in an effort to track suspected drug smugglers, sources said. White House announced late last week that the administration had "decided to take certain options to help the countries of Latin America interdict these supply routes. We are anxious to help Colombia." On Sunday, however, President Bush said that he has made no decision about the use of the Navy and Air Force to monitor Colombia. "I will address myself to that question at a future date," the President said while on a jogging excursion in the capital.
Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, in a television interview Sunday, rejected the Colombian characterization of the U.S. action as a "blockade." "Now that's a warlike, negative term. What we would be doing, if we did anything down there, would be a cooperative effort in conjunction with the countries there to help get better control of the drug traffickers," he said. SPORTS Curry resigns as Alabama coach1 si Source: Disaster and Emergency Services Daviess includes shelters, Murders soar in D.C. in spite of gun law By Carolyn Skorneck Associated Press WASHINGTON For the past half-year, as the District of Columbia's murder rate grew ever higher, actor Charlton Heston has noted ironically in a National Rifle Association television ad: "They banned guns in this city a decade ago." "And the criminals just laugh at their laws," he intones, sirens wailing in the background.
"That tells me guns aren't the problem. Criminals are." The District of Columbia has one of the nation's toughest gun laws, yet armed violence persists. Of the record 438 murders in the nation's capital in 1989, about 78 percent were committed with firearms, says Metropolitan Police Officer Quintin Peterson. In addition, he said, more than 1,300 people were shot and wounded. Police estimate that about 60 percent of the killings were drug-related.
The District of Columbia's Firearms Control Act of 1975, implemented in February 1977, banned the sale of handguns with a few exceptions for law enforcement and security personnel and required registration of all firearms previously purchased. Those seeking to register the weapons also had to submit to a thorough background check. So where are these guns coming from? The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which compiles an annual report on guns retrieved in crimes in Washington, found 52 per- See GUNBACK PAGE 6 Jesuits that killed the priests were heard. The woman, Lucia Ban-era, has been taken for her own safety to the United States, where she is under the protection of the Jesuits. Cristiani said in his speech Sunday that the work of a commission investigating the slayings "has been from the start professional and exhaustive." Agents from the United States, Spain and Scotland Yard have aided in the probe.
The president also said a "Special Commission of Honor," including high-ranking military men and respected civilian lawyers, has been created "to determine the exact circ*mstances (of the slayings) and clarify the truth in its complete Area power plants By Karen Owen Messenger-Inquirer Most Daviess Countians probably worry more about tornadoes or earthquakes than nuclear attack. But the government's plans to protect them from natural disasters are a result of the nation's efforts to prepare for nuclear war, state officials say. "Our plans are all-hazard plans," said Rick Cox, area coordinator for the state Disaster and Emergency Services. Different types of emergencies can require the same kinds of action moving people to safety, feeding them, providing safe drinking water and protecting them from the elements, officials say. Scenario for By Karen Owen Messenger-Inquirer The tension has been increasing for days.
Radios and televisions constantly interrupt programming to provide updates. Newspapers are full of the increasingly grim news. A crisis is brewing in the Middle East. Relations have suddenly soured between East and West in Europe. Or a dictator in Central America is making threats.
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War Preparedness Plan Jim Baumgarten, Messenger-Inquirer host areas will quickly mark fallout shelters, figure out a way of stocking them with essential supplies and train shelter organizers. County emergency services workers will be in charge of conducting an orderly evacuation. They will have to move quickly to prevent panic, though, because some residents will start leaving on their own. Traffic control stations will be set up in each county along primary routes. Evacuees with their own transportation will travel desig- See SCENARIOBACK PAGE men killed daughter, Celina, were also slain.
Ponce said in a telephone interview that the men being interrogated were members of the unit that conducted a search of the Jesuits' residence at the order's Central American University, or UCA, two days before the priests were slain. Ellacuria was the rector of the UCA, and Martin-Baro was its vice rector. Asked whether the battalion members were implicated by evidence other than the fact that they conducted the search, Ponce said he could not comment A UCA employee has said she saw men in military uniforms outside the residence shortly before the shots Then the word goes out The president of the United States or the governor of the state has ordered an evacuation. The nation is in a state of alert, prepared for nuclear war. State officials estimate 1.6 million Kentuckians would be at risk from the direct effects of an atomic blast should a nuclear attack occur.
Of those, 60,000 are in Daviess County and 3,500 in Hanco*ck County. Emergency planners think Indiana Michigan Power power plant at Rockport, would be a prime target for an enemy trying to cripple the U.S. electrical supply. Cristiani says military State and county officials are updating county plans to protect residents. The goals are ambitious.
The plans are supposed to include how to provide fallout shelter for all residents, host evacuees from other counties, maintain essential services, preserve property, maintain, the national economy and support the military. Daviess County's plan, updated last year, paints this picture of life in the shadow of the mushroom cloud: Once international tensions reach crisis proportions, officials staff, told The Associated Press that members of an elite battalion have been confined to their base and were being questioned in connection with the slayings. However, he emphasized that the 47 members of the elite Atlacatl battalion including two officers are not under arrest It was unclear whether those soldiers and officers were the ones to whom Cristiani referred. Priests and educators Ignacio El-lacuria, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Segun-do Montes, Amado Lopez, Juan Ramon Moreno and Joaquin Lopez were taken from their beds in their on-campus residence before dawn Nov. 16 and killed.
The priests' housekeeper, Julia Ramos, and her 15-year-old By Douglas Grant Mine Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -Military men committed the Nov. 16 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, President Alfredo Cristiani said Sunday night "It has been determined that there was involvement of some elements of the armed forces," Cristiani said in a five-minute nationally broadcast address. He termed the massacre "abominable." The president did not specify who was implicated in the crime, nor did he indicate the rank or number of those responsible. Earlier, Col. Rene Emilio Ponce, head of El Salvador's joint chiefs of.
