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Ariz. man faces bigamy charges
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)- An ex-convict who once marriage to Patricia Gardiner, 41, a real estate agent "HE REMEMBERED every one of those women,
told authorities he had married 82 women around the from Mesa. where he had met them and what they were like," one
world went on trial yesterday for fraud and bigamy Gardiner said she married Vigiliotto following an police officer said at the time.
stemming from his 1981 marriage to an Arizona' eight-day courtship after they met at a local swap That was in 1976, when Vigliotto was going into a
woman. meet, something like a flea market. She said he federal prison for his third conviction in connection
Giovanni Vigliotto, 53, who authorities say may vanished with $36,500 she received after he convinced with scams involving crossing state lines with stolen
have used as many as 100 aliases, had pleaded with a her to sell her house. property.
judge to postpone his trial and move it to another city, GARDINER SAID in a December 1981 interview, After charges stemming from the Mesa marriage
saying, "The state's own witnesses are on record as "He stripped me ... He took my daughter's money were filed, he was arrested Dec. 28, 1981, in Panama
writing books about me and negotiating contracts for her wedding. He even took a bedspread that had City, Fla., having been tracked down by Sharon
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." been made for me as a present by my grandmother Clark, a Fremont, Ind., trader's market operator he
- BUT MARIOPA County Superior Court Judge when she was blind." allegedly married June 13, 1981, in Angola, Ind.
Rugus Coulter refused to delay the trial and ordered Vigliotto has pleaded innocent and has denied. RETURNED HERE for trial, Vigliotto was held in
deputy public defender Richard Steiner to take over allegations that he has wedded 83 women. lieu of $28,000 bond. He secured a postponement Dec.
the defense. Vigliotto had been acting as his own But authorities said more than six years ago 13, saying he had an upset stomach.
lawyer. Vigliotto said he had married 82 women over a period On Tuesday, Vigliotto told Coulter he had been ad-
Vigliotto was charged with one count each of fraud of 20 years, most of them in the United States but mitted to mental hospitals on eight occasions and no
'and bigamy in connection with his Nov. 18, 1981 some in Argentina, Brazil, Hong Kong and Japan. longer felt capable of handling his own case.
WMU to require knowledge of computer functions
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IN BRIEF
to computer science believe such a
"requirement might be a waste of time.
Leonard Suransky, a University of
Michigan lecturer in South African
^studies, said, "I don't feel it is
necessary for a person in literature to
be familiar with computer skills."
But Powell, of WMU's math depar-
tment, said having a computer will be
just the same as having a textbook -
only better. "You will be able to ask
your computer questions and it will be
able to tell you if your answer is right
and, if you're wrong, where to look for
it," he said. "It will be like a tutor.
Maybe it willsay read page 23 of text for
the answer. "
Powell said to have some computer
skills will make a student more
marketable and Combs agrees.
"I think most of the students
minoring or majoring in English are
concerned about jobs," Combs said,
"so I think anything that will increase a
student's marketability is going to be
favorable to students."
FOR UNIVERSITY of Michigan
students, a computer requirement ap-
pears unlikely. Charles Judge, director
of LSA's counseling services and a
member of the curriculum committee,
said a requirement is a nice idea but an
impossibility.
"I certainly see the value in it, but
right now we simply do not have the
staff to make it a requirement," Judge
said.
Paul Scott, associate professor of
Computers and Communications
Sciences, agrees. "I doubt if we could
insist on a requirement at the present
moment because our computer classes
are so overloaded already," he said.
At WMU Powell said that only 30 per-
cent of the students aren't already
taking computer courses.
"Since a lot of students in high school
are being required to take a computer
course, in a few years 90-95 percent of
students coming to college will have
computer literacy," Powell said.
POETRY WORKSHOP
by Seamus Heaney
Tues. Jan. 25-Fri. Jan. 28
Application for workshop submitted to
English Department, Undergrad secretary
7607 Haven Hall
Deadline: Wed. Jan. 12
Applications must include: name, address, phone number
and three poems
For further information see Mr. Zebraun,
Department of English
Lost elderly couple drives
in circles for nine days
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STATE POLICE Capt. Noel Oliver
said Grafton and his wife "seemed con-
fused about all the fuss, but they agreed
to wait for relatives."
"It may sound crazy," said a nephew,
Melvin Grafton of Oquawka, "but we
checked the odometer in the truck and
it appears they drove some 4,000 miles.
"We found hand-drawn maps which
indicated they were in Missouri and
possibly Indiana."
MELVIN GRAFTON said a water
dowser he identified only as a family
friend from Rushville tried to locate the
missing couple. The dowser tried using
his forked stick, over a road map,
hoping to determine the Graftons'
location.
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The couple apparently ate some
meals in their Ford Bronco, but stayed
in motels several nights.
THE TRAVELS began Christmas
Day, when the Graftons drove 40 miles
south to Augusta to visit friends. They
evidently forgot a present, drove home
to get it and returned to Augusta. Two
days later, they left Augusta and
"began doing a number of things that
were totally out of character for them,"
said the younger Grafton.
"They had a routine, and they were
always home before dark," said Melvin
Grafton, whose uncle has farmed 1,500
acres in Henderson County for more
than 40 years.
The next report came Dec. 29 from
state police who saw the couple in
Casey, about 150 miles east of Rushville
near the Indiana border in eastern
Illinois. A state trooper told Oliver the
couple seemed "disoriented and con-
fused," but he was not aware that they
were missing persons.
"They were just obviously wandering
about the countryside," the nephew
said. "They didn't have any landmarks
they recognized. They've pretty much
stayed close to home in the past.
"She said they were in Paducah, Ky.,
and Chicago during the trip," he said.
"But we may just never know."
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Robbery in Summit Park
A 30-year-old Hell, Michigan man
was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday after-
noon in Summit Park in Ann Arbor.
Police said the man was walking
through the park when he was ap-
proached by two men in their 20s who
asked for directions.
The men then produced a gun and
demanded the victim's watch and
wallet. The thieves fled with the wat-
ch and some cash from the wallet and
are still at large.
Woman assaulted in home
Police are seeking a man on charges
of second-degree sexual assault after
he assaulted a 22-year-old Ann Arbor
woman in her apartment Sunday night.
The victim returned to her apartment
in the 1200 block of E. University to find
a man visiting her roommate. After the
roommate had gone to bed, the man
allegedly assaulted the woman. The
man fled when the woman resisted the
assault.
Woman watches thief in
dismay
A 41-year-old Ann Arbor woman was
robbed of some small change Tuesday
afternoon, after a thief forced his way
into her home in the 1500 block of Ot-
tawa St. Police said the woman an-
swered a knock at her door, only to
have the thief push past her and into the
house. The woman then stood by as the
thief searched her purse for money, and
finding only some spare change fled the
scene.
TV, computer stolen
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Civil rights leaders demand
Miami police chief's resignation
MIAMI- Civil rights leaders called on Miami officials yesterday to fire
Police Chief Kenneth Harms, who says "hoodlums"-and not his depar-
tment-were responsible for two days of rioting ignited when a Hispanic of-
ficer shot a black man.
"We have called for his resignation," said Ray Fauntroy, director of the
Miami chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Fauntroy
blamed Harms and his lack of "control over patrolmen" for last week's fatal
shooting of Nevell Johnson, a resident of the Overtown slum in the shadow of
downtown.
"The officers in the Johnson case came off their beat uncalled and un-
provoked," said Fauntroy. "Harms, as head of that organization, should
bear that responsibility:"
Reacting to earlier criticism of his force, Harms said "200 to 250
hoodlums" were to blame for the melee in Overtown, in which a suspected
looter was killed, cars were torched and rocks and bottles thrown.
"The police did not cause the riot," the police chief was quoted as saying in
yesterday's Miami News. "I understand the frustration of people in the
community. But there is no justification for robbing, looting and torching."
U.S. officials eye failing orbit
of nuclear Soviet spy satellite
WASHINGTON- A Soviet spy satellite equipped with nuclear-powered
radar is tumbling in orbit and may fall into the Earth's atmosphere late this
month, U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday.
An official Pentagon statement did not describe the satellite's trouble, but
did confirm that a part of it "which we believe contains a nuclear reactor as
its power supply will probably re-enter the earth's atmosphere in late
January."
It may not be possible to determine where the ocean surveillance satellite
will come down until perhaps a dozen hours before it happens, said sources,
who declined to be identified.
In Kettering, England, private astronomer Geoffrey Perry, renowned for
his hobby of tracking satellites, said "The Cosmos malfunctioned on Dec. 28.
It split into its three component parts as normal, but instead of the nuclear
reactor being raised to the 'safe' orbit at 95 kilometers (595 miles), from
where it will decay naturally in the next few weeks unless the Russians are
able to remedy the fault."
Perry agreed with the assessment of the U.S. officials and said "it could
prove very dangerous" if Cosmos 1402 crashes in an inhabited area.
Texas representative resigns,
voices plan to change parties
BRYAN, Texas- Rep. Phil Gramm, a "Boll Weevil" Democrat whose
party ousted him from the House Budget Committee, resigned his seat
yesterday and said he would try to win it back in a special election as a
Republican.
"I recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down
into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in Novem-
ber. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is
an honest one."
Republican Gov. Bill Clements, who accepted Gramm's resignation, set
the special election for Feb. 12.
Gramm was kicked off the budget committee by the Democratic leader-
ship in Congress for championing President Reagan's economic programs.
Lebanese cease-fire violated
TRIPOLI, Lebanon- Fierce fighting between rival Moslem militias raged
into the night yesterday despite announcement of a new cease-fire. Police
reported 13 more people killed, but one militia leader said the body count
was much too low.
In Tel Aviv, the military command reported an Israeli truck driver was
kidnapped and killed south of Beirut and two soldiers wounded by a bomb in
the same area. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, U.S. special envoy Morris Draper
presented new ideas for breaking the impasse in the Lebanese-Israeli talks.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami returned to Tripoli from
a one-day trip to Damascus in the early afternoon and told reporters there
would be an immediate truce. He said Syrian army officers would help en-
force it in the pro-Syrian Alawite Moslem neighborhood of Bal Mohsen.
But shooting continued past the 3 p.m. announcement, and Lebanon's state
radio said that the fighting grew fiercer after nightfall.
The battles pitted fighters of the Alawite Arab Democratic Party against a
Sunni Moslem coalition called the Popular Resistance Front. Police said the
latest deaths raised the toll to 157 in seven weeks of fighting.
Pope names 18 new cardinals
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II yesterday named 18 new cardinals
including'an American, the primate of his native Poland, and the first Soviet
cardinal to be publicly named while still living in the Soviet Union.
The pope, speaking at the end of his weekly general audience, said the 17
Roman Catholic prelates and one Maronite patriarch will be elevated to the
rank of cardinal during a special consistory at the Vatican on Feb. 2.
In his address the pope said he named the cardinals from five continents to
underscore the church's universal aspect.
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