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Father found guilty, sentenced to 18 month J
HEBRON — A man who left the body of his
young son in a roadside ditch to “let God take
care of him” was sentenced Monday to 18
months in prison.
Eli Stutzman, 37, pleaded guilty in Thayer
County Court to misdemeanor charges of aban
doning a body and concealing the death of his
9-year-old son, Danny.
After Stutzman pleaded guilty to the misde
meanor charges, County Attorney Dan Werner
asked the judge to dismiss a more serious
charge of felony child abuse. However, Werner
said no plea bargain was involved.
Danny was identified only last month and
his name was added to the tombstone. Stutzman
was arrested in Azle, Texas, by authorities
acting on a trip.
In court Monday, Stutzman calmly told of
his son’s death the night of Dec. 14, 1985, as
they were driving form Wyoming to Ohio.
Stutzman said Danny had developed a respi
ratory problem early that month while staying
with foster parents in Lyman, Wyo. Danny was
given antibiotics and appeared in good health
and spirits when they began the trip the morning
of Dec. 14, Stutzman said.
They drove east on Interstate 80, then turned
southonU.S. Highway 81 toget to Interstate 70
for the remainder of the trip to Ohio, Stutzman
said. Danny was napping in a sleeping bag in
the back of the car, a 1975 Gremlin.
The last time he talked to his son was “a little
bitty conversation” which they had in the car
after stopping for dinner at a truck stop,
Stutzman said. As midnight approached,
Stutzman said he tried to awaken Danny to take
his medication.
I reached back while driving and got a hold
of him and couldn ’t get him awake,” Stutzman
said.
He said he pulled the car to the side of the
highway and saw that Danny’s eyes were rolled
back in his head, his face was white, he had no
pulse and wasn’t breathing.
“I was shocked to see that there was no
response at all,” Stutzman said, adding that he
tried desperately to revive him with mouth-to
mouth resuscitation and heart massage. Realiz
ing the child must have died, Stutzman said he
drove about a mile farther before turning onto
a side road.
“I had difficulty facing the fact that he hacH
died,” he said. “I couldn’t understand, «
couldn’t figure out why.”
Stutzman said he prayed and stayed withB
Danny for several hours before placing theB
body in the ditch. Stutzman said he had given®
Danny the pajamas he was wearing as a Christ-1
mas gift.
“I decided to leave him and let God take care ■
of him,’’Stutzman said.
Asked by County Attorney Daniel Werner I
why he didn’t seek medical help or report the I
death, Stutzman replied: “That’s what I still I
keepasking myself today. I wish I would have.” I
Werner said autopsy results were inconclu- I
sive and that the state could prove no specific I
reason for why Danny died.
Soviets to compete
MOSCOW — The Soviet Un
ion said Monday it will send a full
squad of 500 athletes to the Sum
mer Olympics in Seoul, ensuring
Soviet and U.S. athletes will face
each other at the world games for
the first time in 12 years.
The Soviet Olympic Commit
tee urged that some Olympic
events be held in communist North
Korea instead of pro-West South
Korea, but made it clear that Soviet
athletes would participate regard
less.
“Soviet athletes will take part in
the Summer Olympic Games of
1988,” said Marat Gramov, chair
man of the Soviet Olympic Com
mittee.
All Soviet bloc nations except
Romania boycotted the 1984
Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Hart says he would not be
only adulterous President
IOWA FALLS, Iowa — Demo
cratic presidential contender Gary
Hart, in an emotional interview pub
lished Sunday, said if he’s elected, he
“won’t be the first adulterer in the
White House.”
But he said American voters ap
pear to be prepared to understand the
personal problems that forced him out
of the race last May.
“The people of this country in the
last three weeks have been tremen
dously warm and accepting,” said
Hart, who rejoined the Democratic
field last montb “It’s great to be back.
We’ve had some great times here.”
Hart and his wife, Lee, met Satur
day with the editorial board of the Des
Moines Register during a campaign
swing in Iowa.
“Whatever personal pain, or what
ever you don’t want personally to do,
is nothing comparison to what is
important in life,” Mrs. Hart said.
Hart asked that his personal life be
kept in “perspective.” At one point
during the session, he wiped away
tears, the newspaper said.
“If I am elected I won’t be the first
adulterer in the White House,” Hart
said. “I may be the first one to have
publicly confessed, but I won’t be the
first.”
He insisted that he wanted to be
held to the same moral standards as
other politicians — “a normal, tradi
tional, fair political standard, not a
higher one.”
Fears of another ‘blue Monday’ dispelled
NEW YORK — Blue chip stocks
rallied in late trading, dispelling fears
of another “blue Monday” on Wall
Street as the market showed signs of
steadying after last Friday’s sharp
drop.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in
dustrials, down 140.58 Friday for its
third-largest point loss ever, re
bounded 33.82 to 1,945.13. Other,
broader market measures were less
strong, however.
Declining issues slightly outnum
bercd advances on the New York
Slock Exchange, wilh 759 up, 844
down and 381 unchanged.
Big Board volume totaled 158.98
million shares, down from 197.30
million in the previous session.
Wall Streeters came to work
braced fora volatile day after Friday’s
sclloff, which evoked vivid memories
of the sequence of events that led up to
the market crash on Oct. 19.
The sudden drop Friday wiped out
ali the gains recorded in what had
looked like a promising rally over the
first four sessions of the new year.
Analysts said traders were upset by
a jump in bond market interest rates
and worries over the likely content of
the monthly report due out this Friday
on the nation’s trade balance.
However, no severe selling carried
over to the opening Monday, and blue
chip issues came on strong toward the
close.
Government not
responsible for
effects of tests
The Supreme Court Monday
refused to hold the government
financially responsible for deaths
and diseases allegedly caused by
years of open-air atomic weapon
tests in Nevada.
The court, without comment,
turned away an appeal by some
1,200 people who themselves
lived downwind from the test site
or had relatives who lived in Ne
vada, Arizona and Utah.
The federal government, under
the aegis of the Atomic Energy
Commission, conducted over 100
atomic weapon tests between 1951
and 1962.
A 1979 lawsuit filed in Utah
contended that the radioactive
fallout from those tests caused
numerous deaths and diseases,
such as cancer and leukemia.
The suit charged that the gov
ernment negligently failed to
monitor test results and to warn
about the fallout hazards.
A federal trial judge, after re
viewing the claims of 24 of the
plaintiffs, ruled that 10 of them
could recover monetary damages.
U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins
said the government was liable for
a negligent failure to follow the
commission's public-safety
guidelines.
The judge said the claims of the
other plaintiffs could proceed
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under the Federal Tort Claims Act,
a law that allows people to sue the
otherwise legally immune federal
government
But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals reversed Jenkins’ rul
ing last April 20.
The appeals court said that the
atomic testing program’s public
information plans could not be
held liable under the FTCA be
cause it amounted to a “discretion
ary function.”
“These plans clearly fall within
the discretionary function excep
tion” to government liability, the
appeals court said.
In a concurring opinion, Judge
Monroe McKay said, “While we
have great sympathy for the indi
vidual cancer victims who have
borne alone the costs of the AHC’s
choices, their plight is a matter for
Congress.”
Woman arrested for 1986 German discotheque bombing
BERLIN — Police arrested a 27-ycar-old woman suspected in the
April, 1986 attack on a West Berlin discotheque that led to the U.S.
bombing of Libya in retaliation.
Officials continue to probe whether Col. MoammarGadhafi’sagcnts
were behind the terrorist blast.
Reagan claims huge deficit not necessarily bad
CLEVELAND — President Reagan said Monday that the nation’s
huge trade deficit and big foreign capital investments in the United
States “arc not necessarily a sign of an economy’s weakness” and can
even be desirable.
In a speech to the City Club of Cleveland, Reagan said that trade
deficits should be reduced over lime but that the United States has a big
imbalance now “because our growing economy enables us to buy their
goods” from other countries.
Dukakis ridicules Bush and Dole for mud slinging
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential hopeful Michael
Dukakis ridiculed Republican rivals George Bush and Bob Dole on
Monday for acting like little boys “throwing mud pies,” while sources
said the vice president took questions from lawyers for the Iran-Contra
independent counsel.
Dukakis threw hisdart as he, Richard Gephardt, Sen. Paul Simon, and
Bruce Babbitt converged on Sioux City for a two-hour debate.
World military spending soars in 1987
WASHINGTON —Global military spending soared to a new high
in 1987 of about $930 billion, or $1.8 million a minute, an annual study
found Monday.
The 1987 total was $50 billion more than in 1986.
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More Killed in Israel
BETIN, Occupied West Bank —
Two prominent Jewish settlers shot
and killed a Palestinian teen-ager
Monday in the West Bank, and Israeli
troops killed an Arab who tried to grab
a soldier’s rifle in the Gaza Strip, the
Army said.
It was the first confirmed instance
of Jewish civilians killing Arabs in the
violence that began Dec. 8 in the
occupied lands, where 1.5 million
Palestinians live. Israel captured the
West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jor
dan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East
war.
Many ol the 65,000 Jewish settlers
in the territories carry weapons.
Army spokesmen said the settlers
opened fire on Arabs who stoned their
car outside Betin, 10 miles north of
Jerusalem. Ahed Motti Nabnam, 15,
and other Arab witnesses said the
youths did not throw stones and the
civilians started shooting after their
car was stopped by a roadblock of
burning tires.
Soldiers shot another Palestinian
dead in the Gaza Strip city of Khan
Y unis when he tried to jump a trooper
and seize his automatic rifle, the army
said.
A third Palestinian died Monday of
wounds he suffered last week, bring
ing the official count of Palestinians
killed to 31 since Dec. 8. More than
200 have been wounded and about
2,000 arrested.
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