The Michigan Daily-Saturday, October 4, 1980-Page 5 STRANGLER IMPOSTER ARRESTED Actress posed as murderer BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP)-An ac- tress who visited confessed Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi in jail has been arrested for allegedly trying to strangle a young woman to make it ap- pear the "real strangler" was still at large, authorities say. Veronica Lynn Compton, 24, was arrested Thursday at her residence in Carson, Calif., by Bellingham police and was booked at the Los Angeles County Jail on a Washington warrant carrying $500,000 bail. BELLINGHAM Deputy Police Chief Dan Fitzgerald said Compton, who describes herself as an actress, was ac- cuaed in a warrant of trying to strangle Kim Bred, a 26-year-old Bellingham resident and a maintenance worker for the Bellingham parks and recreation department. Authorities said Compton would be arraigned Monday on an attempted fir- st-degree murder charge, and it would be determined at the arraignment whether she would fight extradition. The Hillside Strangler killings-so named because bodies of the young female victims were dumped on slopes in the Los Angeles area-occurred from late 1977 to early 1978. Most of the vic- tims were sexually abused and all were strangled. BIANCHI MOVED from Los Angeles i to Washington in 1978, and two female college students in Bellingham were later strangled. In a plea bargain last year following his arrest, Bianchi said he killed two of the students, and said he was involved with Angelo Buono in the Los Angeles killings. In return for his promise to testify against Buono, Bianchi was given a life sentence in- stead of facing the death penalty. Buono is charged with all 10 Los Angeles murders and could face the death penalty if convicted. Bianchi pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison for five murders. Bellingham police said yesterday they became interested in Compton af- ter investigating some anonymous cassette recordings which contained the message that police had the wrong man and the real Hillside Strangler would strike again. FITZGERALD said the tapes were mailed to various locations in Bellingham and Los Angeles. He said Compton dropped one tape off at Bellingham airport Sept. 2, and asked that it be delivered to law enforcement authorities. Los Angeles detectives said they suspect Compton was acting at Bian-- chi's direction to make it appear the "real strangler" had not been cap- tured: If the real killer were still at large, it could jeopardize the case against Buono. Fitzgerald said that in the alleged at- tempted slaying, "Kim Breed met a person known only as Karen in a local tavern atone p.m." After luring Breed back to the Shangrila Motel, where Compton was staying, Breed was attacked, her hands Were tied behind her and a rope was tightened around her neck until she couldn't breathe, police said. After a struggle and a second strangulation attempt, authorities said; Breed freed herself and escaped to the tavern to get a friend for help. When they arrived at the motel, Compton and her belongings were gone, the report said. WASHTENAW BUS CENTER SPECIALS (transportation by Michigan Trailways) RESERVATIONS REQUIRED MC109173 Florida Express.otalGm Oct. 6 & Oct. 28 Nov. 22 49°0one way 2500 round trip Iv 7:30 am stops available en route Iv 7:30 am return after game FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 662-5212 or 662-5513 Tickets may be purchased at Washtenow Bus Center only 116W. Huron Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 It's More For Your Morning! IRAQI SOLDIERS aRd fescue , workers rush toward an electricity plan near Baghdad Tuesda after a bombing raid during the Iran-Iraqi conflic Iranians attempt to retake several cities in first counterattack From AP and UPI - BAGHDAD, Iraq-Iranian troops backed by zealous civilians launched counter-attacks yesterday, shelling a major Iraqi port on the Persian Gulf and claiming victories in the battles for four besieged Iranian cities. Heavy fighting raged around two cen- tral battlefronts in Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province on the 12th day of the Persian Gulf war. The com- muniques of both sides-and as far as they could be verified by reporters in the field-supported Iran's claim that its forces were finally counter-at- tacking. 0'.,,.TEHRAN RADIO said Iranian "didiers forced Iraqi troops to withdraw from the city on the Shatt al-Arab waterway and, in another action far- ther north, reopened a railroad cut by .paqi forces last week. But Baghdad ,said Iraqi troops controlled the city and Myere digging in to consolidate objec- ,tives gained in 12 days of fighting. Iraq insisted it had achieved its x ilitary goals and apparently planned 4p go ahead with a four-day truce on §pnday. Iran has rejected the Iraqi of- ,fer of cease-fire and proclaimed the war will go on until Iraqi forces are ;driven from Iranian soil. , The Iraqi ambassador to Jordan, ,abah Hourani, said yesterday in a statement that Baghdad was "ready for long confrontation with Iran. All our needs for this war are ensured." -BUT IRAN HAD different thoughts. Rejecting an Iraqi truce offer, he military command in Tehran said civilians called to arms in a general mobilization Thursday had joined Iranian troops and Revolutionary Guards and were fighting "big battles on the southern frnt" to break the Iraqi sieges of Abadan and Khurram- shahr and Ahvaz and Dizful further north: It asserted that civilians heeding Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's exhor- tations for a "holy war" against Iraq were "fighting with matchless courage" alongside the troops. Tehran radio said Iranian forces reopened a strategic railroad reported cut by Iraqi forces near Dezful, 15 miles north of Khorramshahr, and that a train left Tehran for Ahwaz, resuming service between the two cities. Iraq insisted "there is no trace of any Iranian soldier left in Khorramshahr" and that "the town is under Iraq's firm control." Baghdad radio called Iranian claims "hallucination" and said only "a few so-called revolutionary guards are left in hiding" in Khorramshahr. The oil port, only 10 miles from the Iranian refinery of Abadan, has been a focus of Iraqi attacks aimed at gaining control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. One of Iraq's was aims is to wrest con- trol of the entire estuary from Iran, which seized half of the waterway from Iraq in 1969 when the lateShah of Iran abrogated a 1937 treaty that had awar- ded it to Iraq. ol t t n 1ti 0 Northville resident, 26, kills self near railroad You can have the U. of M. student newspaper delivered to your dorm or door, Tuesday thrniuah Stundau before 810 a~f m A man killed himself Wednesday evening with a .22-caliber rifle, police said yesterday. Ronald Breakie, 26, of found next to Breakie's body. A receipt in the box showed that the man pur- chased the rifle on Sept. 29, police said.