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Court delays execution
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — A fed- ’
eral appeals court temporarily blocked
the execution of double killer Robert
Alton Harris Monday, less than six
hours before he was to die in the gas
rhamhor
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals halted the execution when
one of its 28 judges asked for a vote of
the full court on a claim by Harris’
lawyers that his brother may have
shotonc of two San Diego teen-agers.
Under the court’s rules, the stay
would remain in effect during the
vote, potentially as long as seven days.
Harris’ death warrant was to expire at
the end of Tuesday.
The execution would be the state’s
first since 1967.
“We’re doing everything we can
to get it back on schedule, said Denise
Davis, a spokeswoman for Attorney
General Dan Lungrcn.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a
state request to overturn the appeals
court order, said court spokeswoman
Kathy Arberg.
Also pending before the appeals
court was a defense claim that execu
tion by lethal gas constitutes cruel
and unusual punishment.
Harris was allowed Monday to be
visited by family, friends and attor
neys.
One of his recent visitors has been
his older brother Randy, who told the
San Jose Mercury News he tried to be
positive.
“I talk about the weather, fishing.
I’d rather try to make him laugh,” he
said.
According to trial testimony, Har
ris and his brother Danny were look
ing for a getaway car after a robbery
when they came upon John Mayeski
and Michael Baker eating hamburg
ers in a parking lot.
Harris forced the 16-year-old boys
to drive to a rural area, ordered them
to get out of the car and walk up a fire
trail and then shot them, authorities
said. According to Danny Harris, who
testified against his brother, Harris
laughed after the killingsand finished
off the boys’ interrupted meal.
At the lime of the killings, Harris
was on parole for a 1975 manslaugh
ter conviction.
Opponents of capital punishment
gathered outside the prison, includ
ing 13-year-old Julie Briggs of Dan
ville and her three teen-age sisters. “I
just don’t think, morally, you should
take human life.”
Sharron Mankins, Baker’s mother,
said she wanted to attend the execu
tion “to know firsthand that justice
has been served."
Defendants executed
Black t3.2% Total. 220
Penalties by state r\
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Death penalty, but not used
^ ~ □ No death penalty
Methods of execution
METHOD-) TOTAL DEATH ROW INMATES
Alabama E 115 Louisiana LI 40 Pennsylvania LI .40
Arizona GC 101 Maryland GC 14 South Carolina & 46
Arkansas LI 35 Mississippi GC 52 Tennessee E 100
California GC 323 Missouri U 82 Texas U 349
Colorado LI 3 Montana H, LI 8 Utah FS, LI 12
Connecticut E 4 Nebraska E 12 Virginia E 47
Delaware LI, H 6 Nevada U 60 Washington LI 9
Florida E 315 New Jersey U 8 Wyoming U 0
Georgia E 110 New Mexico LI 1 E-Electrocution
Idaho LI, FS 21 North Carolina GC, LI 105 FS-Firing squad
Illinois U 145 Ohio E 104 GC-Gas chamber
H-Hanging
Indiana E 52 Oklahoma U 125 ULethal injection
Kentucky E 29 Oregon U 16
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Court to review
defendant’s rights
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court said Monday it will
consider restricting defendants’
opportunities to
complain that
their right to
remain silent
was violated.
At issue is
whether severe
new limits
should be
placed on federal courts’ power to
reverse slate criminal convictions.
The justices agreed to hear Michi
gan authorities’ arguments that
federal courts should not be al
lowed to second-guess state judges
who uphold police interrogation
tactics.
In its 1966 ruling in Miranda vs.
Arizona, the high court said sus
pects in police custody may not be
Sjcstioncd unless they arc told of
cir rights to remain silent, have a
lawyer present and have a free
lawyer appointed if they cannot
afford one.
Confessions or other evidence
obtained in violation of the Mi
randa ruling, which is based on the
Constitution’s Fifth Amendment
protection against self-incrimina
tion, cannot be used at trial.
The Supreme Court in 1976
barred federal courts from review
ing Fourth Amendment claims by
state prisoners who say their con
victions were lainicd by unreason
able police searches, after state
courts have rejected those claims.
The high court several limes in
recent years has declined invita
tions from state prosecutors to extend
its 1976 decision to alleged Fifth
Amendment violations. In the
Michigan case it now will consider
taking that step. A decision is ex
pected sometime next year.
The court also acted on four
race-relations cases Monday, two
school desegregation disputes and
two affirmative action controver
sies.
The court set aside a school
desegregation ruling from Topeka,
Kan.
The justices told a federal ap
peals court to restudy its ruling that
Topeka school officials have not
done enough to counter past inten
tional bias against black students.
The high court let stand rulings
aimed at assuring that 25 percent
of the teachers and administrators
in Boston public schools arc black,
and that 10 percent arc from other
racial minorities.
The court also left intact an
affirmative action plan aimed at
increasing the number of black
police officers in Philadelphia,and
let stand a San Francisco plan to
funnel more public works contracts
tocompanies run by minorities and
women.
Russian gas prices jump
MOSCOW — In ihc latest blow to
pricc-batlcred Russians, Moscow
authorities unexpectedly increased
gasoline prices fivefold on Monday.
Now it costs the average Russian a
week’s salary to fill the gas tank.
Motorists grumbled they would
have to take on extra jobs to pay for
gas — or just stop driving.
“I can’t do without my car," moaned
mechanic Vladimir Markarov. "We
arc going somehow to find ways to
cope.” He said he might use his caras
a private taxi,or moonlight with extra
car-repair jobs.
Prices for everything from cloth
ing to cabbage have skyrocketed in
Russia since January, when President
Boris N. Yeltsin lifted decades of
government price controls on most
goods and services. Gas prices had
already tripled before Monday.
Despite the latest price increase,
there were long lines at Moscow gas
stations. Some frustrated drivers
complained that state-owned gas sta
tions shut down over the weekend
rather than selling gas at the old prices.
Moscow has suffered gas short
ages in recent weeks, with fuel being
diverted to southern regions for spring
planting. Russia, which has one of the
world’s largest known oil reserves,
has seen production drop in recent
years because of outdated equipment.
Before Monday, it cost about 48
rubles to fill the standard 10-gallon
tank with the most commonly used
gasoline. Now it costs 240 rubles —
only $2, but about a week’s salary for
the average Russian worker.
Workers begin draining tunnels beneath Chicago
CHICAGO— Workers began slowly pump
ing water out of a network of flooded tunnels
under the downtown business district Monday,
while watching for any new problems with
buildings or the city’s underground lifelines.
The immediate danger from further flood
ing was over since crews during the weekend
stopped up a riverbed hole that allowed Chi
cago River water to gush into the tunnels one
week ago. The flood brought the Loop to a
standstill because the tunnels now house major
electrical equipment and telephone cables.
The University of Illinois and the Federal
Reserve Bank prepared a joint study estimating
that the city lost $1.5 billion in business be
cause of the flood.
Two downtown landmarks—City Hall and
Marshall Field’s flagship department store —
rc-opcncd Monday for the first lime in a week.
Both buildings still had water in their sub
basements.
The Chicago Board of Trade ran its futures
and options markets on an abbreviated sched
ule but said it would return to a normal sched
ule Tuesday.
Pumping was slow to prevent further dam
age to the tunnel wallsor building basements as
the pressure and weight of the water was re
moved from waterlogged structures.
The risk of any part of the tunnel collapsing
is a “small risk, but it’s a risk we don’t want to
chance,” said Army Corps of Engineers Lt.
Col. Randall Inouye. “We’re going to continue
this drawdown at a very slow rate.”
Engineers said the draining process could
take 12 days.
The water was being pumped up to street
level and dumped into access shafts leading to
the vast Deep Tunnel storm drain system.
The DccpTunncl is still under construe lion,
but the part being used for flood relief has been
operational since 1985 and cost about $1 bil
lion. It runs 250-300 feet below the surlacc,
depending on location.
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CIA looking for some old-fashioned spies
Company warns
recent recruits
of job hazards
WASHINGTON — The 35 men
and women listened tensely as the
CIA recruiter told them they would
be working secretly overseas getting
foreigners id spy for the United States.
‘‘I don’t want to scare you off. You’ve
got to understand what you're buying
into,” the recruiter said.
The group was invited to the ses
sion in a northern Virginia office
building after responding to a classi
fied ad.
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A few will survive the rigorous
selection among the growing number
of applicants who send their resumes
to the CIA each year..
Those who make it will find that
despite the radical changes wrought
by the Soviet Union’s demise, their
jobs will have much in common with
the espionage practiced in the heyday
of the Cold War.
In fact the methods, to hear re
cruiter Bob Simpson describe them,
sound like a page taken from John Le
Carre.
The 18-month training, said the
Washington area’s chief recruiter, will
include surveillance techniques, safe
houses, encryption and agent meet
ings.
Trainees will then receive a spe
cific assignment, learning about the
country and the cases.
“Then when you’re ready, you n
pack up your household and go over
seas,” said Simpson, a 30-ycar agency
veteran.
Abroad, CIA case officers lead a
double life. By day, embassy clerks
or diplomats. By night, spymasters.
It’s called “cover,” Simpson explained.
Only your spouse and agency col
leagues will know that you real >
work for the CIA and not for the State
or Defense departments as you say
you do, he said.
Your main job will be to lind agents
willing to pass secrets to the Unitcc
States, Simpson said.
