The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, February 1, 1983-Page 5
Hostages released after
prison takeover in
Wis.
WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) - About 140
inmates took over two buildings at a
state prison and took 15 people hostage
yesterday, but the hostages were later
released unharmed and the disturbance
was ended.
Twelve Waupun State Prison em-
ployees were released about 2 p.m. af-
ter police equipped with riot gear stor-
med the prison school building,
Assistant Superintendent Carl Manthe
said. He said he knew of no injuries.
About 11/z hours later, prison officials
persuaded the inmates to release three
staff members held in the prison's
recreation building, and the end of the
siege was announced at 4:05 p.m.
Several hours after the .8 a.m.
takeover, firemen had gone to one of
the buildings to put out a small fire,
draping their hoses over the prison
wall from hydrants outside.
No injuries were reported in the
takeover or in the fire at the maximum
security prison.
THE INMATES, who had taken
guards and other employees hostage,
were Hispanics reacting to the suicide
of prisoner Rafael Martinez, 26, said
Ron McCrea, news secretary for Gov.
Anthony Ear.
Martinez, a Cuban refugee serving a
life term for murderering a fellow
Cuban in Madison, hanged himself in
his cell last week. The men had arrived
in Wisconsin in 1980 when Fort McCoy
became a resettlement center for
Cubans who came to this country in the
Freedom Flotilla.
Warden Thomas Israel said Martinez
had been responsible for disturbances
which led to a security lockdown in the
prison's segregation unit. Yesterday's
outbreak apparently did not involve the
men in the segregation unit.
ONE OF THE buildings taken over
includes a recreation room, carpentry
repair shop, a music room and a dor-
mitory. The other building is a school.
Prison officials said they were ex-
panding the previous lockdown in an ef-
fort to determine how many prisoners
and hostages were involved. Streets
around the prison, located within the
city limits of this community of 8,000
were blocked off.
At least three busloads of riot-
equipped police arrived at the prison
after the disturbance began. Dodge
County Sheriff Ted Meekma called in
two dozen off-duty deputies and State
Patrol officers were sent to the prison,
located in eastern Wisconsin about-85
miles northwest of Milwaukee.
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Ray Babb, an independent trucker from Des Moines, Iowa, said yesterday he will 'wait it out at home' if the strike by
independent truckers shuts things down.
Trucks come to a halt nationwide
in protest
By The Associated Press
An independent truckers strike pun-
ctuated by the bullets of snipers
brought business to a crawl at many
truck stops nationwide yesterday but
apparently had little immediate impact
on shipments of food and factory goods.
Gunfire hit at least 11 tractor-trailer
rigs in scattered violence in nine states
as members of the Independent
Truckers Association began parking
their rigs at midnight to protest the 5
cent-a-gallon increase in the federal
gasoline tax and proposed hikes in
highway user fees.
An official of a truckers' association
said up to 70 percent of the independent
drivers were participating in the strike,
but the government estimated only 20
percent were taking part.
Mike Parkhurst,, independent
truckers president, estimated that
50,000 to 75,000 Truckers had pulled off
of higher gi
the roads yesterday. But police in
several states reported truck traffic
was still moving briskly.
Most branches of the Independent
Truckers Association started their
strike at midnight Sunday. Others, in-
cluding the Ohio unit, were planning to
go out midnight yesterday.
One driver in Mississippi got into a
running gun battle with three assailants
in a car. An arsonist burned down the
$250,000 home of a trucking firm owner
in Portland, Ore., authorities said, and
three shots were fired into the repair
shop of a trucking firm in Chamber-
sburg, Pa.
The 35,000 members of the Pen-
nsylvania Teamsters union, which op-
posed the strike, organized unarmed
"Swat teams" to cruise the highways
and be on call in case someone tried to
interfere with their trucks..
Ty McCue, a spokesman of the Team-
als prices
sters Joint Council 40 in Pittsburgh,
said that if there is a problem, "Our
guys will go there and tell them as
nicely as we can not to block our people
from running."
A half dozen rigs were struck by
rocks hurled from bridges. Three were
sabotaged in a Pennsylvania garage,
their windows smashed, air hoses cut
and gas caps taken. Nails were spread
on an Oregon highway.
The reports of violence came from
Pennysylvania, Maryland, Illinois,
Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Utah,
Oregon, and Florida.
In Florida, at least two gunshots hit
trucks in Miami and Jacksonville and
others were pelted by rocks from an
overpass near Stuart.
About 20 truckers pulled off a high-
way north of Steubenville, Ohio, pitched
tents, and urged other drivers to join
them.
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Blanchard supports permanent
'tax increase despite opposition
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LANSING (UPI) - Governor James
Blanchard, preparing to embark on a
statewide tour to boost his $900-million
budget bailout plan, said yeterday he
would veto any bill calling for a tem-
porary rather than a permanent in-
come tax increase.
The Legislature "might as well do it
} right, get it right the first time" and
approve a plan which will guarantee
the state financial stability for several
years, the governor said.
WHEN ASKED if he would veto a
temporary income tax increase Blan-
chard said "yes" and added "why
would we want to fight for something
that won't do the job?"
"I don't see how it can be tem-
porary," Blanchard said at a news con-
ference held as he ended his first mnth
inoffice. "My plan is for it to be per-
manent. .. if we are fortunate and the
revenue picture changes, wouldn't it be
wonderful to hand out a tax cut."
HIS COMMENTS came as
Republicans said in their response to
Blanchard's State of the State message
they would not support a permanent in-
come tax increase. In a program to be
broadcast statewide, Senate
Republican Leader John Engler of
Mount Pleasant said a permanent tax
nie nas tew DacKers.
"I think it should be made clear from.
the beginning that there is little support
in the Republican caucuses for a per-
manent tax hike," Engler said.
He said there is also little support
among Democratic lawmakers, ad-
ding, "we're probably talking a tem-
porary tax of some nature."
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