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Sprung
New laws mean increased
FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. -Armed
with a new law that bans
drinking on or near the beach,
police say they are nearing last
year's total for spring break arrests
of college students even though the
invasion is expected to last another
four weeks.
Since Feb. 21, police have reported
830 spring break-related arrests,
Capt. Ed White said Monday night.
No new figures were available
Tuesday.
Last year, there were 889 arrests
for the unofficial spring break period,
said White, commander of law en
forcement at the beach.
This year's total included 200
arrests over the weekend, White
said.
Arrests are up because of several
new laws, including one that bans
drinking in the beach area or in cars
Vietnamese
WASHINGTON - The Vietnamese
government, as part of what appears
t o be a great er effort to locate miss
ing American servicemen, soon will
turn over the remains of 21 additional
people and begin investigating live
sighting reports, a Pentagon official
said Tuesday.
The Vietnamese also are planning
to conduct their own excavation of a
possible U.S. airplane crash site, have
accepted for study a list of five crash
sites the Pentagon would like to
excavate, and have agreed to send a
team to Hawaii to study U.S. investi
gation and identification techniques,
he said.
Richard L. Armitage, assistant
defense secretary for international
security affairs, also announced
Tuesday that an Army laboratory has
identified five of seven remains repat
riated from Vietnam in December.
Armitage discussed the latest
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along "The St rip," the street parallel
to the beach. Violations of that law
recovery effort growing
developments in the long-running
effort to locate missing servicemen
during a briefing on the outcome of a
recent meeting of technical experts
in Hanoi.
That meeting, which ended Feb.
28, was the 11th technical meeting
between the two sides since 1982, but
the first since a new pledge by Viet
nam to resolve the status of missing
American servicemen within two
years.
Armitage called the session "the
most substantive talks held to date,"
but stressed that the United States
will "not have full confidence" in
Vietnamese efforts "until all discre
pancy cases have been discussed and
resolved."
In a related move, Armitage said
the Pentagon is forming a panel to
conduct an independent investigation
of efforts by the Defense Intelligence
Rulo witness testifies
Ryan laughed at torture
OMAHA (AP) Survivalist cult
leader Michael Ryan and his son laughed
and joked about the death of a cult
member allegedly tortured and killed
on a farm near Rulo, a woman testified
Tuesday at the Ryans' murder trial.
Cheryl Gibson, who left her husband
to live on the cult's farm with her five
children, said the Ryans appeared
"happy and pleased" following the
death of James Thimm last April.
Gibson, 30, told a Douglas County
District Court jury that Michael Ryan
said his son participated in Thimm's
torture.
"(He) talked about how willing
Dennis was to participate, how eager
he was to learn how to torture and
abuse a person," she said.
Gibson testified that Michael Ryan
was upset that cult members John
David Andreas and James Haverkamp
were hesitant to torture Thimm and
said he would kill the two cult members
if they didn't "straighten out."
Michael Ryan, 37, and Dennis, 16,
are charged with first-degree murder in
Thimm's death. The bodies of Thimm,
26, and 5-year-old Luke Stice were
found in unmarked graves last August
on the farm near Rulo.
Michael Ryan also is charged with
first-degree murder in the Stice death.
He will be tried later on that charge.
Gibson, who has reunited with her
husband, said she saw Michael Ryan
fasten a belt around Stice's neck and
lift the child off the ground by the belt.
The child was wearing only under
shorts at the time, she said.
Gibson said Ryan also told her and
other women at the farm that he gave
the child ice-cold baths and showers.
She had testified earlier that Ryan
thought Stice, Thimm and the child's
beach arrests
will account for about 20 percent of
the arrests this year, White said.
Agency to resolve the status of miss
ing Americans. The panel is being
formed "to deal with what we recog
nize as a vocal minority who have
leveled conspiracy and cover-up
charges," Armitage said.
The panel will be led by retired Lt.
Gen. Eugene Tighe, a former director
of the DIA, and will include as a
member H. Ross Perot, the Texas bus
inessman who has financed his own
investigations of reported sightings of
live Americans in Southeast Asia.
No date has been set for returning
the 21, but the United States hopes it
will be within three weeks. The larg
est repatriation of remains occurred
last August and involved 24
Americans.
The Pentagon lists 1,792 Americans
as missing in Vietnam as a result of
the war. An additional 644 are listed
as missing in Laos, Cambodia and
China.
father, Rick Stice, needed to be pun
ished because Yahweh was angry at
them. Yahweh is the Old Testament
name for God used by cult members.
Gibson and other former cult mem
bers say Ryan thought he could com
municate with Yahweh through arm
contact.
Testifying during the second day of
the trial, Gibson said Michael Ryan
married her mother and two of her sis
ters in informal ceremonies. She also
said Ryan tried to convince her that she
was in love with him.
"I prayed 24 hours a day to tell
myself that I loved him because I didn't
want to go to hell," she said.-
Under questioning from Richard Goos,
one of Michael Ryan's attorneys, Gib
son admitted that she lied last year to
law enforcement officials about life at
the Rulo farm and her relationship with
her. husband, Lester.
Gibson said she lied or exaggerated
in statements to Richardson County
authorities and the FBI because
Michael Ryan had convinced her that
law enforcement officials were "Satan's
people."
In the statements, Gibson said her
husband had abused her and her child
ren and that no one at the farm was
tortured or abused.
Gibson said Michael Ryan "went
over each paragraph with me and told
me what to write."
"A lot of these paragraphs are
Michael Ryan's exact words," she said.
Michael Ryan could be executed if
he is convicted. The maximum sent
ence his son could receive is life in
prison.
The trial was moved to Omaha by
Richardson County District Judge
Robert Finn because of publicity about
the case.
Steel piece found in Girl Scout cookie
COLUMBUS Police reported Monday that a child found a piece of
steel in a Girl Scout cookie, and a Girl Scout official said the case was
being treated as an isolated incident.
Police Chief Wes Baxa said he heard about the steel in the cookie
Friday from a woman who called to say that a child in the apartment
complex where she lived had found the foreign object.
No one was hurt, Baxa said. He did not reveal the name of the woman
who called him.
Helen Kampfe, executive director of the Prairie Hills Area Chapter of
the Girl Scouts, said the steel was found in a cookie called a Pecan
ShorTee.
Kampfe said the cookie was distributed by the Prairie Hills chapter,
which covers 19 eastern Nebraska counties. The chapter receives its
cookies from the Little Brown Bakers Co. in Louisville, Ky., and Marietta,
Okla., she said.
"We firmly believe this is an isolated case " she said. "We are very
confident of the high quality of our product."
Videotapes show Marcos family
MANILA, Philippines Ferdinand and Imclda Marcos dominated
television for 20 years, but now other films provide glimpses of such
private moments as the party where a fat man in baby clothes burst from a
giant cake.
The videotape, obtained by CBS television from the presidential palace
library, shows a birthday party late last year for Irene Aranata, youngest
daughter of the ousted president and his wife.
Ray Conso, who is in charge of the radio and television equipment at the
palace, said the palace library contains at least 500 videotapes of the
Marcoses. Officials of the Marcos government said he taped palace
functions and his conversations with official and unofficial callers.
Use of 'Huck Finn in schools debated
LINCOLN The book "Huckleberry Finn" uses the word "nigger"
more than 100 times and is an embarrassment to many black students,
said a member of the Lincoln schools Multicultural Affairs Advisory
Committee.
The book by Mark Twain perpetuates negative stereotypes of blacks
common when the book was written in 1884 and still prevalent today,
Leola Bullock said at a meeting Monday.
The parents of some students asked the school board either to remove
"Huckleberry Finn" from required reading lists or give teachers guidance
on how to teach it.
The use of the book in junior and senior high was defended by Lincoln
Northeast and Lincoln High students.
The book, which deals with the relationship between a white boy and a
black man in the mid-1800s, raises issues of racism that students need to
confront, the students said.
Teachers also spoke in favor of keeping the book on the list of books
recommended for use in senior high schools, but not in the lower grades.
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Tornado weather has arrived
WASHINGTON - With spring come tornadoes. This year, weather
watchers and emergency service workers are eyeing the onset of tornado
season warily, recalling the last two years when twisters brought devasta
tion far from the usual Midwestern "tornado alley."
Those storms helped remind Americans that tornadoes pose a threat in
every state, not just that famous tornado alley stretching from Nebraska
south through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where they are traditionally
most common.
On Monday, at least 20 tornadoes sliced through Indiana, Ohio and
Kentucky, killing six people and injuring 70 more. Tornadoes are the
offspring of changing weather. The warmth that replaces winter cold can
spawn twisters, making the violent storms most common as spring arrives
across the nation. ,
Kremlin counters U.N. staff cut order
MOSCOW The Kremlin countered a U.S. order to cut Soviet staff at
the United Nations with an official protest Tuesday warning Washington
that its "illetiniate demand" could jeopardize U.S.-Sovkt relations and
the next summit
The official r.es agency Tass distributed a text cf Moscow's pretest to
the United States. Parts cf it were iezi cn EaSio Moscow.
The protest accuses the United States cf viciilin inicrrxtior-d agree
ments on the United Nations, headquartered Ln New York, and denies U.S.
accusations that spies are' among the Soviets'1 275 U.N: employees.
The U.S. government on Friday ordered the Soviet Union to cut its U.N.
staff tp 170 over the next two yesrs, a 33 percent reduction.
Congress notified of oalcslo Saudis
WASHINGTON The Reagan administration is informing Congress it
intends to sell Saudi Arabia $354 million in antiaircraft and anti-ship
missiles, the White House announced Tuesday.
Notice of the sale will be sent later in the day by the Defense Depart
ment in a classified "pre-notification" followed 20 days later by a formal,
public notification. Congress will have 30 days after that to approve or
veto the sale.
The proposal is likely to touch off another political fight with Israel's
supporters on Capitol Hill despite administration efforts to minimize
.congressional resistance by trimming an even larger request that would
have included advanced electronic gear for the Saudis U.S.-build F-15
fighters.
