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rnd acquittalfor VA nurses
Ugandan prof lectures on Amin
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hypnotized witness to make incrim-
ating responses. Since the hypno-
sm session had been video-taped,
nd defense attorneys had seen the
ipe, Yanko told the jury, "If there
as anything improper," done to the
itness while under hypnosis, "rest
ssured that Mr. (defense lawyer'
dward) Stein would have brought it
;he video-tape) into the courtroom.
ATTORNEYS FOR Narciso and
erez objected "to the prosecutor
Yanko) implying that the defense
as to prove anything in this case."
Judge Pratt upheld the objection
hen, cautioned Yanko, and told the
iry to disregard the statement. Still
he defense insists that the prosecu-
r' s remarks, the last the jury heard
efore b e i n g sequestered, are
grounds for a mistrial.
THE DEFENSE, by law, is not re-
quired to produce any evidence in a
criminal case, the burden of proof
being on the prosecution.
Judge Pratt has tentatively set
October 11 as the date for both sides
to argue Monday's defense motions.
"If either of those motions are
denied," defense lawyer Thomas
O'Brien said last week, "That's our
basis for appeal."
Narciso and Perez were found
guilty of poisoning their former
patients at the Ann Arbor VA hospital
during the summer of 1975. The
prosecution built a circumstantial
case, admittedly with "no smoking
gun testimony," to prove that the
women, both natives of the Philip-
pines, injected Pavulon, a powerful
muscle-relaxant, into the victims'
intravenous medication lines.
BOTH WOMEN were convicted on
three counts of poisoning and one
count of conspiracy. A jury of nine
women and three men deliberated
for some 92 hours spread over two
weeks before reaching the guilty ver-
dicts.
Last Thursday, Judge Pratt de-
ferred sentencing of Narciso and
Perez, and ordered the women to
report tomorrow to the federal
penitentiary for women at Alderson,
West Virginia "for observation and
study."
The two will be sentenced following
their stay at Alderson, not to exceed
90 days, during which time they will
be treated "just like regular prison-
ers."
If their motions and appeals fail,
Narciso and Perez face up to three
life sentences each for each of their
poisoning convictions, plus five years
apiece for conspiracy.
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Amin was respected because he
brought "magnanimous moves of
forgiveness" to Uganda, according to
the Kenyan-born professor. Mazuri said
that one of his first moves after
reaching power was to release those put
in prison by his predecessor without a
trial. Also, he ordered the body of the
former exiled Ugandan king back to
him home soil.
HIGH PRICE TAG
ON KEEPING COOL
TOLEDO* Ohio (AP) - Many
Americans will pay more to cool
their homes this summer than they
did to heat them last winter, says
Charles Hartman, of Owens-Corning
Fiberglas Corp. who says "people
generally don't conserve the elc-
tricity used to run their air condition-
ers because they don't equate it with
the fuel used to heat their homes."
i lectricity rates have risen 7.1 per
cent in the past year Hartman
'points out, and adds, "more than half
of all U.S. homeg remain uninsulated
or under-insulated and are, there-
fore, wasting energy."
Attic insulation alone can shear
surprising amounts of money off
summer fuel bills, Hartman notes.
"Since a home gains most of its heat
through the ceiling, thus lbeeping the
home more comfortable and reduc-
ing the amount of air conditioning
necessary."
MAZURI SAID these moves were
effective public relations efforts, as
Amin portrayed himself as a - "lov-
abld buffoon.",
Mazuri said Amin achieved his
power throughout the world through
"symbolic embrace." Amin would
make statements about more power-
ful leaders that were so out of the
ordinary that he himself became the
subject of attention and even gained
power, Mazuri explained.
Mazuri acknowledged that Amin is
looked upon with terror from all
parts of the world. He said 50,000 to
200,000 people have died because of,
Amin - either directly or indirectly..
"AMIN HAS orchestrated decen-
tralized brutality, taking place at the
grass roots level," Mazuri said.
Mazuri presented seven scenarios
about what could happen to Amin in
the future, but said only two of them
have a chance of coming true -
either his assassination or a split
within the armed forces which would
lead to his collapse.
But, headded, even those possibili-
ties aren't highly likely because,
Amin has a "sense of self-preserva-
tion that is.. . highly developed,"
meaning he knows how to escape
assassins. In the second scenario
Mazuri explained that Amin has
"always triumphed in power splits
"and there is no reason why he won't
do so in the future."
In closing, Mazuri said Amin's
popularity even in the third world has
been "drastically reduced" because
of his brutal way of running Uganda.
He likened him to Satan in John Mil-
ton's Paradise Lost: "Satan, choose
to reign in hell rather than serve in
heaven and, like Amin, deteriorated
in quality."
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