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OMAHA, Neb. The former husband
of Stella Almarcz says she i3 being
released from a mental health center
too soon after killing their four
daughters.
Mrs. Almarez, who was found innocent
by reason of Insanity In the 1980
killings, was ordered unconditionally
released from the Lincoln Regional
Center by a Madison County district
judge Wednesday. She was committed
to the center Jan. 9, 1981.
"It's only been four years," Anthony
Almarez said Wednesday in a telephone
interview from his home near Denver.
"She took four girls' lives. I think they
were worth more than that,"
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Canadian premier calls it quits;
Almarez, who has remarried since
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TORONTO Rene Levesque is quit- authoritarian churchmen, erupted in speaking minority and frightei
ting politics today, after a quarter
century in which he more than
anyone transformed life in his native
Quebec and came close to making it an
independent country.
Pierre Marc Johnson, leader of the
Parti Quebecois' moderate wing which
would rather talk about economics
than separatism, is to be sworn in today
as premier with a new cabinet. John
son, the 39-year-old justice minister
under Levesque, was elected as his
successor by party members on Sunday.
Levesque, 63, who was in power nine
years, plans to leave later this month
for an extended vacation, traveling to
England, Scandinavia and southern
Europe before returning home to write
a book and take up other projects.
"Whatever happens to me," he told
reporters Monday, "I'll become again
what I once was professionally an
observer."
In the 1950s, he became Quebec's
best-known television journalist, as host
of a hit weekly public affairs show,
"Point de Mire" or "On Target."
When he entered politics as a Lib
eral candidate in the 1960 provincial
elections, he was the party's star per
former. That election was the beginning of
what is called La Revolution Tran
quille, or the quiet revolution. Almost
at once, a previously backward society,
ruled by tyrannical governments and
Missing official is suspect
WASHINGTON FBI agents
searched a former federal official's
home and car in New Mexico for code
pads, microdots and other spy para
phernalia under a warrant seeking
evidence of a plot to deliver national
defense information to a foreign
government.
The search, which occurred between
last Friday and Tuesday, became known
as evidence emerged Wednesday that
the official, Edward L. Howard, 33, who
was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow as recently as 1983, flew to
Texas more than a week ago leaving
even his wife in the dark about his
whereabouts.
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John Hinckley Jr., 34, who shot President Reagan in
1981 is engaged to be married to a 41-year-old patient at
the New York mental institution where they are committed.
Elizabeth Cruicksh&nk Kilmer, of Brady, who
recently celebrated her 104th birthday, attributes her
long life to a balanced diet of meat, potatoes and fresh
vegetables from her garden and never touching liquor.
Bruce Grummert, 34, of Lincoln, who attends an
average of five wrestling events each month and spends
his vacations traveling to matches around the country has
been named Wrestling Fan of the Year by Wrestling Fans
International. Grummert became a fan when he was 9.
The 1980s will not be remembered as a conservative
period in Amercan history, despite what some social
"divorcing Mrs. Almarez, said he would
be "a little worried" if his former wife
decided to move to Colorado after
leaving the mental health center. Mrs.
Almarez's attorney, Ron Albin, said she
is considering moving to southern
Colorado to be near several of her
relatives.
"There's nothing I can do about it,"
said Almarez, a night foreman in Denver.
"Just so she doesn't come bothering
me."
In ordering Mrs. Almarez's release,
Judge Merritt Warren said there was
little or no evidence that the 34-year-old
woman is dangerous to herself or
others.
authoritarian churchmen, erupted in
cultural, intellectual, political and
social innovation.
In 1968, Levesque split with the Lib
eral Party and, the following year,
founded the Parti Quebecois, commit
ted to what he called "sovereignty
association" a sovereign Quebec
that would retain some ties to what was
left of Canada.
In its early campaigns, the PQ built
on a widespread feeling among French
speaking Quebecers that the English
speaking minority held all the eco
nomic power a humiliation symbol
ized by clerks in downtown Montreal
who refused to speak French.
The new party fared poorly in its first
two elections, then astounded everyone
Levesque included by sweeping
to power in 1976. Some militant party
members had wanted the electoral vic
tory to be considered sufficient man
date for a declaration of independence,
but Levesque insisted on presenting
the issue for a vote.
In the May 1980 referendum that
apparently settled Quebec's future,
voters opted by a 3-2 margin to refuse
Levesque's proposal for authority to
negotiate with Canada toward sovereignty-association.
Much of what the Parti Quebecois
government accomplished in nine years,
especially in laws making French the
language of private business and pub
lic signs, alienated Quebec's English-
There were other developments in
the case of the missing official suspected
of being a spy for the Soviet Union:
Colleagues who worked with him in
the New Mexico state government said
he traveled widely on state business to
economic conferences in San Francisco,
Boston, New Orleans, El Paso and
elsewhere. They also said his work led
him into close dealings with some
workers at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory where top-secret weapons
research is done.
The CIA, the Justice Department,
the State Department and the Senate
Intelligence Committee all declined to
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observers might think, says author Tom Wolfe. The period
represents anything but renewed conservatism, Wolfe
says, "It's crazed."
Miss America Susan Akin, 21, says the arrests 21
years ago of her father and grandfather in connection with
the slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi
should have no affect on the way she is judged. "I'm Miss
America and my family is not," she says. Pageant Chair
man Albert Marks Jr. says the charges will not affect her
relationship with the pageant.
Larry Holmes says he's mulling over a rematch with
Michael Spinks, who upset Holmes in a boxing match last
month, keeping him from matching Rocky Marciano's 49-0
record. "If I do fight him it would be for one reason,"
Holmes said. "It would be to prove that I ain't shot."
Almarez, 35, said he doesn't think
his former wife would harm anyone, but
added, "You can't ever tell what a
person will do."
Testimony during Mrs. Almarez's trial
indicated the killings occurred after
Anthony Almarez told her he was leaving
her to marry a friend of the family.
After killing her children, Mrs.
Almarez shot herself in the head but
wasn't seriously injured, authorities
said.
In an apparent suicide note, Mrs.
Almarez had written, "I know what I
am doing. I told you I will not raise my
daughters on welfare. . .1 don't want to
end up like my mom, all alone and old."
speaking minority and friehtened Eng
lish Canada, and those laws were blamed
for driving many corporate headquarters
from Montreal to Toronto.
Most English-speaking Quebecers
who chose to stay now are bilingual,
and many say the atmosphere of res
entment between French and English
speakers that existed in the 1960s has
virtually disappeared.
Young French-speakers, once virtu
ally barred from Montreal's business
world, are now founding their own
enterprises and enrolling in record
numbers in business schools.
Overall, Levesque's efforts seemed
to convince French-speaking Quebec
ers who represent 80 percent of the
province's 6 million residents that
they could control their own affairs and
protect their culture without changing
the nation's political structure. Recent
public opinion polls have found as few
as 4 percent of Quebecers supporting
independence an attitude which
places the future of Levesque's party in
doubt.
The new Parti Quebecois premier,
Johnson, engineered the decision ear
lier this year to drop sovereignty as an
immediate goal from the Party Quebe
cois' platform. The goal is not dead, but
Johnson's interests are clearly else
where. Levesque still thinks a sovereign
Quebec will come some day but not
now, not yet.
in spy case
discuss the case. The Senate panel and
the State Department said they were
awaiting an anticipated justice state
ment, but justice spokesman John
Russell said: "Everyone wants us to
make a statement and if we're going to
make a statement, we'll make one
when we're ready."
Although Howard was officially listed
in federal government documents as a
State Department budget analyst in
Moscow, some State Department
positions are used as cover for CIA
agents abroad. The New York Times
said an intelligence source identified
Howard as a member of the CIA's
clandestine service.
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