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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

AAIm
June 15, 1977

Perez denies descrepancy Detroit second-graders identify

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collection of secret information
of a political and military char-
acter."
WHILE AN investigation con-
tinues, "his departure from
Moscow .. . is not desired," the
note read.
Toth was then summoned to
Moscow's Lefortovo prison
where he said a KGB major in-
terrogated him throughout the
afternoon and told him to re-
turn at 10 a.m. He was not
told the charges against him.
He said the interrogation had
to do entirely with an incident
last Saturday when he was
seized on the street by five
KGB security policemen mo-
ments after receiving a docu-
ment from a Soviet scientist
about parapsychology, the study
of mental telepathy and extra-
sensory perception.
Toth said he had been intro-
duced to the scientist, Valery
Petyukhov, six months ago, and
Petyukhov telephoned him Sat-
urday to offer his article.

The document purported to
prove that parapsychology is
genuine, but Toth said he held
it for only a few moments be-
fore the KGB men appeared
from a car and seized him.
He said he was interrogated
Tuesday byy Maj. 0. A. Dobro-
volsky, chief of the KGB inves-
tigating group, and the only
other person present was an in-
terpreter from the Soviet travel
agency Intourist.
U. S. EMBASSY Second Sec-
retary Larry Napper was bar-
red from accompanying him.
Napper said he was told that
under Soviet law a witness does
not have the right to represen-
tation during an investigation.
Robert Gibson, foreign editor
of the Times, said in Los Ange-
les that the newspaper was
"shocked and dismayed" by
the decision not to allow Toth
to leave the Soviet Union "and
to subject him to accusations
and interrogation in connection
with his legitimate journalistic
activities.

teacher's husband as murderer

DETROIT (P)-Fidgeting and
whispering, three nervous first-
and second-graders took a court-
room witness stand yesterday
and pointed to the defendant as
the man who shot their teacher
to death in front of her terrified
students last fall.
The defendant, .Al Lewis, 47,
is charged in Recorder's Court
with first-degree murder in the
death of his estranged wife,
Bettye McCaster, 45.
SEVEN OTHERS who saw the
shooting said they did not see
the killer in the courtroom.
McCaster was killed Nov. 10
as her class at Burt Elementary
School looked on. She died of
five gunshot wounds to the had.
Only the 29 children in the class
witnessed the shooting.
"She got shot," was seven-
year-old Robert Snow's terse
memory of the incident as he
twisted in the swivel witness
chair during questioning by As-
sistant Wayne County Prosecu-
tor John Thompson Jr.
THE BOY testified in a firm
voice for a child. He was the
first youngster to testify and the
only one of the first five to point
out Lewis.
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Thompson's questions, with
this young witness and the
others, led quickly to the point:
Do you go to school? Where? Do
you like your teacher? Did you
used to have aonther teacher?
Who was the other teacher?
Were you in the room when
something happened to Mrs. Mc-
Caster?
The children's answers were
often inaudible, forcing the five
men and nine women in the jury
box to lean forward to hear. One
little girl was so scared she
could only nod her head up and
down to the instruction. "You
have to say yes or no out loud."
Another girl smiled constantly
but hid her face behind her
hands. Others cried after they
stepped down.
THOMPSON always a s k e d,
"What happened to Mrs. Mc-
Caster?"
The answers were -stark.
Eight-year-old F r e d Mrozek
jiggled in the chair-up and
down, back and forth-and then
took a deep breath, replying,
"He walked in and said Mr.
Kline (the school principal)
wanted her. Then he pulled out
the gun and shot her."
Laura Denomie, eight, testi-
fied, "The guy walked in and
said, 'I want to speak to you.'
And Mrs. McCaster sent Billy
down to the office because she
knew there was going to be trou-
ble. And he shot her."

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PAMELA BURNETT, eight:
"Somebody came in and said,
'Your husband wants to talk to
you,' and he came in and took
the gun out and shot her."
As the first five children tes-
tified, Lewis sat writing at the
defense table, partially turned
away from the witness stand.
Judge Patricia Boyle ordered
him to change seats with his
lawyers after the midmorning
recess so the witnesses could get
a better view of his face. After
that, Lewis watched the wit-
nesses.
AT THE LUNCH break, chief
defense lawyer Wilfred Rice
said, "We were willing to stipu-
late who could make an identifi-
cation and would could not. We
didn't want to put them through
this.
"I think reliving it is very de-
pressing to them and certainly
not helping them at all."
Many of the students suffered
severe psychological disturbance
for some time after the shooting.
Special counseling was begun
for them, and a psychiatric so-
cial worker visited their class-
room once a week.
Soviets call
U.S. reporter
an agent
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The government contends the
nurses injected Pavulon, a pow-
erful muscle relaxant into the
intravenous medication tubes of
their former patients. Perez
faces three poisoning charges,
each of which carries a maxi-
mum 1 i f e sentence. Narciso
stands accused of four poison-
ings and one murder.
Throughout h e r testimony
which ended yesterday, Perez
maintained her innocence of any
wrong doing. At one point, Bur-
gess asked her directly "Did
you ever give anyone Pvu-
Ion ...?"
Perez snapped back "abso-
lutely not!"
. other than doctor's or-
ders?," Burgess continued.
"No, I wouldn't do that,"
Perez'said.
"Did you ever in your life hurt
a patient?" the defense attorney
asked his witness.
Perez r e s p o n d e d, "No, I
wouldn't hurt anyone."
IN HER testimony yesterday
Perez also told the court she
never reported the FBI threats
against her to the grand jury
because the two agents who
threatened her were present in
the grand jury room while she
was testifying.
"So when Mr. Deloni said
that the grand jury proceedings
are secret, that doesn't include
Mr. (Daniel) Russo and Mr.
(Richard) Guttler (the two FBI
agents in question), does it?"
Burgess said.
Perez also told prosecutor De
lonis she thought he had"threat-
ened" her during the grand jury
testimony.
pelonis asked Perez if she
iemembered him giving her an
opportunity at the grand jury to
change her story. Pere said
she remembered: "You gave me
three minutes."
A total of 10,817 academic de-
grees were granted by the Uni-
versity during 1975-76, Nearly
half went to graduate' students