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ERA faces stif f battle in N.C.
GRAND RAPIDS MYSTERY:
Murders ha
RALEIGH, N. C. (P) - The
battlefront in efforts to ratify
the Equal Rights Amendment
has moved to North Carolina, a
southern state which supplied
a woman to Jimmy Carter's
cabinet and where the new gov-
ernor's wife is an outspoken
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advocate.
Prpponents are well organiz-
ed and predict a narrow vic-
tory, but the opposition' to the
ERA is also potent, led in spirit
by retired U. S. Sen. Sam Er-
vin Jr. ,
ERA's CHANCES in the leg-
islature are too close to call.
Carl Stewart, speaker of the
state House of Representatives,
said the issue may be decided
by "who's absent and who's
present" when it comes to a
vote.,
It has passed a House com-
mittee and awaits floor debate,
but also must pass the Senate.
"Everyone has focused at-
tention on North Carolina be-
cause if North Carolina passes
it, we have built sufficient mo-
mentum to get those other two
states," said Lillian Woo, a
staff consultant for North Car-
olinians United for ERA.
THIRTY-FIVE states
have ratified ERA and three
more are needed by March 22,
1979, fortit to become part of
the Constitution.
House members, confronted'
daily by billboards, bumper
stickers; mass mailings, tele-
phone drives and newspaper
ads, begin floor debate next
Tuesday on the ERA, which
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"Without any question, the
rest of the country is looking
to North Carolina," said Rep.
George Miller, a Durham Dem-
ocrat and sponsor of the ERA
ratification bill.
The state Senate rejected
ERA in 1973. A second attempt
in 1975 resulted in defeat in the
House. The votes were close
both times.
SINCE THE last rejection,
moderate Denocrats have tak-
en control of Istate government.
Gov. Jim Hunt called for ratifi-
cation of ERA in his first State
of the State address three
weeks agotand hiswife, Caro-
lyn, spoke in favor of it in a
public hearing last week.
"If we ratify the ERA we'll
show we are ready to start a
new beginning in North Caro-
lia"Carolyn Hunt said.
"We've never had as much
sunnort as we have now," Woo
said.
"It's going to be tough sled-
ding in the South - there's no
onestion about it - because of
the traditional roles for wom-
en," she said.
Most of the state's political
leaders favor ERA. But, Ervin,
o, row a Morganton attorney,
bitterly doposes it. This year
lie sent an 18-page position pa-
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objections.
GRAND RAPIDS (UPI) - Police call them the Hill
Murders..
Seven young women slain over the past six years - some
were stabbed, others strangled. All are unsolved.
THE FItRST was Shelley Mills, 19, found stabbed Sept. 15,
1970, in her apartment in the Hill District, a neighborhood of
stately but deteriorated old homes neardowntown.
The latest was Nancy Beth Sweetman, a 20-year-old col-
lege student, stabbed to death last Christmas Eve as she
walked home from a chich service in the Hill District.
Between them, five other young women lwere slain:
Laurel Jean Ellis, 20, stabbed, May 29, 1975; Linda King, 24,
stabbed, Dec. 9, 1975; Kathryn Lynn Darling, 17, strangled,
March 19, 1976;'Lois DeRitter, 22, strangled, May 17, 1976,
and Barbara Larqon, 25, bludgeoned, Nov. 16, 1971.
EACH OF them either lived in the Hill District or had
some connection with it.
Former Kent County prosecutor Harold S. Sawyer, now
a congressman believes the slayings may be the work of
one man, "a kook" who is still at large and may strike again.
"I don't have the concurrence of the detectives in this
belief," said Sawyer, who as prosecutor oversaw a grand
jury probe ;into a number of unsolved slayings in Grand
Rapids.
"IN NONE OF the cases was robbery an apparent mo-
tive," Sawyer said. "In none was there evidence of sexual
penetration. In three of the murders, the victim had her
skirt or blouse pulled up around her neck."
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"The truly frightening thing about these murders is that
once you have eliminated sex and robbery as motives, and
then you eliminate any personal animosities as motives, you
are leftwith a kook.
"And if it is a kook, and we can't find him, we continue
to run the risk of losing more young women.
SAWYER NOTED that there 'have been at least three
other incidents in the Hill District in which an" intruder en-
tered an apartment or house after the husband had gone to
work and confronted the wife.
In one case. a woman woke up to see a man at the foot
of the bed holding a knife in one hand and a length of cord in
the other. She screamed and he fled.
Still, the slayings have had little visible impact on resi
dents of the Hill District, an area targeted by a'citizens
group as an historical renovation site.
SGT. LORIS PAFFHAUSEN and other policemen think
the whole matter has been blown out of proportion. At best,
according to Paffhausen, two of the murders appear related
by such factors as position of the bodies, location of the
wounds and time of the slayings.
"I think all the other local killings were done by differ-
ent people," Paffhausen said,
Detective Richard Bewell agrees with Paffhausen. "Even
if you assume all the killings are related, it doesn't help you
unless you have a suspect," Bewell said.
"I would rather work with facts than theories any day.
Spinning theories is like chasing butterflies. You can't arrest
a theory."
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ()-
Rival factions in Ethiopia's rul-
ing military council shot it out
yesterday at council headquar-
ters. The winning group said the
chief of state and six other
members of the council were
executed afterward.
An official statement issued
after the battle accused Brig.
Gen. Teferi Bante and the others
of plotting to eliminate "pro-
gressive" members of the 40-
man Central Committee and
move the Ethiopian revolution
to the political right.
IT SAID te shooting took
place after the seven were ex-
posed as secret members of an
underground political move-
ment, the Ethiopian Peoples
Revolutionary Party (EPRP)
and as supporters of the Ethio-
pian Democratic Party (EDU).
Earlier yesterday, Radio Ethi-
opia said an attempted coup was
foiled after a group of counter-
revolutionaries tried to surround
the headquarters. The radio said
there was scattered and sporad-
ic gunfire in Addis Ababa, but
the city was calm.
Residents living near the mili-
tary council's headquarters re-
ported hearing heavy firing yes-
terday morning, while govern-
ment troops manned strategic
points throughout the capital.
THREE LOYAL members of
the council, known as the Der-
gue, also died in the shooting
while struggling with the plot-
ters, the statement said. The
three included Col. Daniel As-
faw, the council's security chief
and a key member of the Der-
gue, which has ruled Ethiopia
since the late Emperor Haile
Selassie was deposed in 1974.
The statement said Col. Meng-
istu Hailemariam and Aten
Abate, the first and second vice
chairmen of the ruling Central
Committee, "are safe and'
sound." Observers said the two
men, regarded as strongmen in
the Dergue, apparently would
continue to lead the council.
THE STATEMENT added that
one reason the government could
not crack down on the EPRP
was the secret membership of
many senior officers in the un-
derground movement.
Ethiopia has been in a state
of internal turmoil for years,
with an attempted coup last
July, executions of dissidents
last November, assassinations,
secessionist guerrilla conflicts in
the north and constant infighting
among military leaders.
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Balloonist stravels
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YUMA, Ariz. OP) - Balloon zona city,
ist Karl Thomas went "south of ERR ATIC winds blew Thomas
the border" early yesterday in 60 mi'es off course Wednesday,
his effort to float his hot-air forting him to set down in a
balloon from California to nearly, inaccessible area just
Florida. short of a Marine Corps 'gun-
Thomas, piloting his yellow nery range.
Limited Edition Sail, took off Larry Weis, a spokesman fo
yesterday to use prevailing' Thomas, 28, said it was possibl
winds to blow him around the the balloonist could be. out o
Gila Mountains, about 20 miles( communication with other tha
east of this southwestern Ari- his flight crew for almost tw'
days during his Mexico leg.
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as 18,000 feet," Weis said in de
scribing Thomas' plans to cats
T. prevailing winds. He said Thom
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container but probably woul
not have to use it.
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Mexico, then swing east on
8 :30 p.m. crescent-shaped course throug
Nogales and un through Texas,
said Weis. "He will probabl
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way through Sonora, Mexico.
Thomas, an airport own
from Troy, Mich, got abo
three hours sleep Wednesda
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tonight."
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friend may have been drinking only
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Maybe it would keep him awake
long enough to have an accident.
But that's about all.
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