The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida (2024)

January 21, 1988

Publication:

The Miami Heraldi

Location:

Miami, Florida

Issue Date:

Thursday, January 21, 1988

Page:

440

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16A The Miami Herald International Edition Thursday January 21 1988 NATIONAL BRIEFS Compiled from Herald win services and bureau reports US judge orders Duvalier to return $504 million in plundered Haiti funds sugar cane fields in the Dominican Republic Lalanne was jailed and tortured by Duvalier's men the suit says He left Haiti in 1981 and was granted political asylum in the United States ruling was based primarily on the testimony of attorney Michael Hooper who presented documents based on cancelled checks and other transactions showing that Duvalier his wife and ee of their personal agents more than $504 million from public monies and the Haitian treasury Scott wrote that the Duvaliers probably netted much more through bribes kickbacks and tax breaks The order included an economic development plan designed primarily by Kurzban and Hooper The plan calls for a seven-member Commission for a New Haiti to administer the recovered money The task would be to stretch the funds over five years and concentrate on emergency programs for the poorest Haitians Wiping out childhood diseases malnutrition and illiteracy would be top priorities at internationally and will be prosecuted Kurzban said is unheard Jean-Juste said of the decision very uplifting for the soul of the Haitian Kurzban said he took the case to the US district court under an 18th Century law that allows foreigners to file suits over violations of human rights in federal court Duvalier and his wife Michelle were served with the suit in Grasse France Duvalier did not offer any defense to the suit but he could look for relief in French courts when lawyers come calling for his money Kurzban said have to see whether the French courts will enforce a US Kurzban said In his four-page ruling US District Judge Thomas Scott wrote that Jean-Juste executive director of the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami deserves $1 million of money because he was blocked from practicing his religion in Haiti and forced into exile To Lalanne Scott awarded $750000 An advocate in the late 1970s for Haitians working By TINA MONTALVO Herald Staff Writer A federal judge in Miami ruling that former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier plundered the nation during his 15 years in power has ordered that $504 million be recovered from Duvalier and his wife and returned to the Haitian people The trick will be prying the money from Duvalier who sought refuge in France after fleeing Haiti nearly two years ago optimistic that going to be able to recover at least some of the said Miami attorney Ira Kurzban who represented the Rev Gerard Jean-Juste Etzer Lalanne and the Haitian people in the suit filed in March 1986 one month after downfall Kurzban said he is contacting lawyers in Europe and throughout the United States to determine and under what circ*mstances we can get the money the real significance of this decision is it should send a signal to the present government of Haiti that the present corruption and denial of human rights will be looked BUS KILLS PEDESTRIANS Rescue workers aid people injured by a Samtrans bus in San Francisco The runaway bus struck a car and plowed into a group of pedestrians during the height of the afternoon rush hour Tuesday killing three people and injuring at least nine 1j J-f' Leslie Manigat: Gets large margin in small vote count Manigat gets a wide lead in Haiti vote Election figures released by junta HAITI from 1A said was fraudulent The first vote count represented less than 1 percent of the approximately three million eligible voters Gerard Bretous spokesman for the Electoral Council handed out the data at 7:30 pm more than 48 hours after polls closed The tabulations were from four ol nine geographical departments Bretous said the council would issue additional results soon Under the election law the council is not required to issue complete results until Sunday Bretous refused to estimate the voter turnout Balloting was for a president and National Assembly to replace the junta led by Lt Gen Henri Namphy that has ruled since President Jean-Claude Duvalier fled to France on Feb 7 1986 Leaders of the opposition Civil Society said in a statement read at a news conference: ask every country that respects the Haitian people and their own constitutions to denounce the masquerade of Jan 17 and refuse to recognize the support as army truck passes presidential candidate right in Port-au-Prince United Press International I TENNESSEE I Shotgun deaths NASHVILLE A former county judge who resigned hours after he was indicted for accepting bribes shot his estranged wife to death with a shotgun Tuesday and then committed suicide police said Police Chief Joe Casey said Sterling Gray 44 a former Davidson County Criminal Court judge shot and killed his wife Kristin Gray in the parking lot of an apartment complex then turned the shotgun on himself Casey said the couple had been separated about a week Gray was indicted Nov 17 on charges of accepting $28000 from two criminal defendants TEXAS Challenger suit HOUSTON Morton Thiokol Inc has agreed to settle wrongful death claims lodged by the parents of two astronauts killed in the explosion of space shuttle Challenger an attorney said Tuesday The amounts agreed on by the company and Sarah Resnik Belfer mother of mission specialist Judith Resnik and Bruce Jarvis father of payload specialist Gregory Jarvis are confidential said attorney Ronald Krist He said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is not contributing to the settlements Morton Thiokol officials in Chicago would neither confirm nor deny the reported settlement I UTAH Shots fired MARION Shots were fired Tuesday evening from a house where a polygamist clan believed responsible for a church bombing was holed up after authorities sought to end the four-day standoff with floodlights and low-flying aircraft The six to 10 shots from the log house on the 2 4 -acre compound were fired within a brief span of time as police positioned a pair of floodlight banks near the homestead No one was injured and it was not clear if the shots were aimed at the officers or the lights Vickie Singer 44 whose polygamist husband John Singer was slain by lawmen nine years ago outside the same rural compound and her son-in-law Addam Swapp 27 are wanted on state warrants charging them in the bombing early Saturday of a Mormon chapel about a half-mile away They were holed up with 13 other people nine of them children authorities said I ETC ALASKA Alaska has surpassed Texas as the biggest oil-producing state officials in both states confirmed Tuesday daily average oil production in November amounted to 2068009 barrels topping the Texas total of 1960-610 barrels CALIFORNIA A runaway commuter bus plowed into a group of pedestrians in downtown San Francisco during the Tuesday afternoon rush hour killing at least two people and injuring five HAWAII The Navy on Tuesday identified an enlisted man lost at sea when a plane rolled off the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and sank off the island of Kauai He was Paul Elliot Miller 19 of Grand Junction Colo ILLINOIS Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Herbert Martin chained himself to the front door of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development office Tuesday calling for more federal dollars for public housing LOUISIANA Terrebonne 42 schools were closed for a second day Tuesday and teachers vowed to stay off the job indefinitely if the school board fails to address their wage demands MINNESOTA Two 16-year-old boys have been accused of stabbing Mike Linard Fink 86 to death with a hunting knife while robbing him of a can full of pennies Austin police said (ALABAMA Sending a message EUTAW State NAACP President Thomas Reed says he believes God allowed former Gov George Wallace to survive an bullet so he would suffer and a message to Reed a state representative from Tuskegee made the comment at a Martin Luther King Jr birthday celebration in Greene County on Monday He said King John and Robert Kennedy and Malcolm were assassinated any but Wallace who he said hatred racism segregation and has been made to suffer comments drew criticism from state Sen Earl Goodwin D-Selma a long-time Wallace supporter Calling Reed a Goodwin said Reed dishonored King with his statements about Wallace I INDIANA board me GARY A construction worker nailing up a window of an abandoned house found a 9-year-old girl locked inside and doctors said Tuesday that her frostbitten toes and feet may require amputation Jeff Griffin said that as he was nailing a board over the window of an attic bedroom Sunday he heard a voice say board me The girl Darlwin Carlisle who said she was waiting tor her mother to come back with food was Tuesday at the University of Chicago's Bernard Mitchell Hospital said Dr David Teplica Gary police Cpl William Burns said authorities had been unable to locate the child's mother or any other relative I KENTUCKY Diocese established LEXINGTON Pope John Paul on Tuesday established the new Diocese of Lexington and named a cleric serving in Covington as its first bishop The Vatican said the Lexington diocese was created from territory in the dioceses of Louisville and Covington The new bishop is Monsignor James Kendrick Williams 51 promoted from auxiliary bishop in Covington I MARYLAND Mysterious visitor BALTIMORE For the 39th year a mysterious stranger visited the grave of Edgar Allan Poe on Tuesday to pay the poet a predawn birthday tribute placing three red roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac near his modest headstone Jeff Jerome curator of the Poe House said the stranger wearing a long gray coat black hat and white scarf arrived about 2:30 am to continue an eerie tradition started in 1949 Jerome said no one knows the Identity of the stranger PENNSYLVANIA Co-anchor criticized PITTSBURGH A civil rights leader called Tuesday for the firing of a local television news anchorman who discussed on the air a radio announcer's suggestion that cats be sent to feed the hungry in Africa Harvey Adams president of the Pittsburgh branch said remarks by veteran KDKA-TV anchorman Bill Burns co-anchor Patti father were and inflammatory one of the most crass and insensitive remarks ever uttered over the airwaves of the city of Bums and his daughter made the comments after a story about a cat that survived in the cargo area of a Pam Am Boeing 747 on nothing but water for more than a month according to The Pittsburgh Press Bums quoted KDKA radio personality Mike Levine as saying all cats should be frozen and sent to Africa take care of the hunger over there" Study: Cuban journalists censor State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the results were by lack of a secret ballot and the absence of some candidates with popular followings After voters marked ballots election officials inspected them before they were put into the boxes the union the report said The union can remove members from prestigious positions if it is deemed they are wavering Given that series of controls there is no need for a centralized mechanism of censorship is no criticism of the system and no criticism of the said Harbron The study said that while Cuban newspapers tend to be dull they contain a great amount of information such as figures on sugar production and profiles of Communist leaders But more disquieting news such as the conflict in Angola never gets to readers Associated Press Redman said suspension of more than $75 million in US aid will continue but the United States expects to maintain relations with the next government Canada issued a statement Monday saying it would not accept the election results and would review its relationship with Haiti themselves Harbron predicts that as Western anti-Communist messages reach Cuban ears especially the messages from nearby Miami pressures on the state to open up the media will increase Castro is gone the Cubans are going to demand an awful lot of press said Harbron who did post-graduate studies at the University of Havana from 1947-48 and is a longtime expert on Cuba hear Radio Marti and other Span-ish-language radio and TV and they know what missing The stranglehold on Cuban life is really awful really Richard Aloy was a student at Southridge Senior High School would hurt himself before he would hurt anybody said Doris Torres 15 a classmate His pals called him He told friends he was having trouble at home He turned up at house about 10:45 pm Saturday Police said the kids call the place the It is a hangout for neighborhood teen-agers and out-of-town runaways police said bunch of kids were all sitting around smoking said Homicide Sgt David Rivers guy was putting empties and lives into the gun and put the gun to his head He may have got them mixed Toxicology results are incomplete Margarita husband said Aloy played Bala Si Bala No Bullet yes bullet no a Hispanic version of Russian roulette Every other bullet is live think the first time he tried a witness said knew he want to die He said it a Haitian soldier shows his Gerard Philippe-Auguste bogus government that will About 50 business labor and religious groups belong to the alliance In Washington the State Department said: is not possible to portray voting as fully froo anH Anon vehicles in one way or another of the central committee not real journalism as we understand 20-page report said three factors are responsible for control of newspapers and electronic media in Cuba: Senior management positions on newspapers are held by old comrades of Fidel Castro a high percentage of staff and managers of Cuban newspapers and radio stations are members of the Communist Party and the Union of Cuban Journalists maintains complete control over working journalists and journalism students All journalists must belong to killed while She at home when the second suicide occurred Jose Peraza the first victim was a lOth-grade student at Homestead Senior High School His friends called him was a macho kid real said his sister had no reason to be sad He was going to get married to his At school he worked on science projects and looked for ways to skip class to be with his girlfriend his sister said liked working on On Jan 8 Peraza arrived at the house about 6:45 pm with a bag of groceries in his arms His cousin Luis Marin 21 was in the house playing with a toy pistol Marin said Peraza a real a 44-caliber Charter Arms Bulldog special kept in a kitchen cabinet Peraza twirled it on a finger like a gunslinger like a Western said the cousin Marin saw two bullets standing on end on a kitchen counter Peraza turned and walked into the kitchen About 30 seconds later the cousin followed came in and there was only one bullet on the counter He spun the playing Russian roulette BY FELICIA LEE Herald Staff Writer A new study of post-revolution media says that because journalists are virtually handpicked by the government there is no need for censorship The Journalism in Cuba report was conducted by Canadian journalist John Harbron under the auspices of the Research Institute for Cuban Studies of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Miami Cuba's press is said Harbron foreign affairs columnist for the Thomson Newspapers in Canada all Two students By JOAN KITE And CARLOS HARRISON Herald Staff Writers Playing Russian roulette two teen-age boys killed themselves eight days apart in the same rundown Miami area house Met-ro-Dade police said Tuesday Two seconds before he died last Saturday Richard Aloy 18 asked his friends a question: wonder if God wants me to Then he spun the chamber on the 22-caliber revolver in his right hand pressed it to his temple and pulled the trigger He died 14 feet from where Jose Peraza 16 shot himself Jan 8 Police said both youths were part of a group that played Russian roulette regularly Some spun the cylinder with three bullets in a five-bullet chamber a witness said The site of the two suicides is 11755 SW 185th St home of Margarita Peraza sister of the first victim She was in a bedroom with her husband and two children watching a video tape of Dirty Dancing when her brother killed himself Metro-Dade homicide detective John Butchko said chamber once put it to his head and The bullet embedded itself in a hallway wall after ripping through a kitchen cabinet Peraza died 11 hours later at Jackson Memorial Hospital the funeral I heard he did it a lot with his Marin said Butchko said a neighborhood boy told an officer at the scene play a lot out in the sister said she knew nothing about anyone playing Russian roulette in the house The three-bedroom house one block from Eureka Drive is surrounded by a chain-link fence in a multi-racial neighborhood of broken-down cars parked on unkept lawns Gates for the driveway and the walkway are missing The front door is off its hinges Black ornamental iron stretches the length of the house-front from roof to ground After the first suicide the sister said she took her children to Orlando think the house is she said The second suicide occurred at 11:05 pm Saturday.

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