The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 17, 1983 - Page 5 Ginny Foat cleared of murdering businessman , : From AP and UPI GRETNA, La.-A jury found Califor- nia feminist leader Ginny Foat innocent yesterday of murdering an Argentine businessman 18 years ago, rejecting as lies the testimony by her ex-husband who had implicated her. "Thank you, thank you, everyone," Foat, 42, said to friends and supporters who cheered in the packed state District Court chamber as the jury returned its v.erdict after less than two hours of deliberations. THE SIX-MAN, six-woman jury had gotten the case after a plea from Foat's attorneys to look on John Sidote, her ex-husband and the prosecution's star witness, as "a crazy man and a liar." Foat was charged with clubbing Argentine toymaker Moises Chayo to death with a tire iron in a New Orleans suburb in 1965 while robbing him of $1,400 cash. "It's the first time I've had to tell my story to the people," Foat said, adding that previously when she had told her story it had been to police and prosecutors who did not believe her. HER SISTER, Emilia Guidi, said, "She's finally free. She's finally free. It was the last time he (Sidote) could do this to her." Jurors said they reached the verdict on their first vote and one juror, Melba Sowell, said, "I didn't decide until we sat down and considered all the facts." Defense attorney Robert Glass said, "I always had doubts, but this is a per- son who deserved to be free." FOAT, a former California state president of the National Organization for Women, was a go-go dancer in a seedy Canal Street bar in New Orleans at the time Chayo was murdered. Sidote testified that she lured Chayo out of the bar and the two of them killed him after robbing him of the money he carried to pay his son's hospital bill. Sidote, serving an unrelated prison term in Nevada, was promised im- munity from prosecution in the Chayo case in return for his cooperation. Foat said Sidote accused her to get revenge because she left him after five stormy years during which he beat her and terrorized her. ASSISTANT District Attorney Tom Porteous said the jury was being misled if it accepted Foat's attempts to picture herself as a weak person dominated by someone else. He accused her of lying during her two days on the stand, especially when she said Sidote threatened to get even with her by seeing that she "rot in jail" if she left him. He questioned how Foat could remember so many details about her life but nothing about the night Chayo disappeared, when she and Sidote sud- denly fled from New Orleans for Texas. District Attorney John Mamoulides, summarizing the prosecution's case, said Sidote solved the crime when he went to authorities to confess and im- plicate her. r Rent a Car from Ecn - ar We rent to 19 YR. 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"PROFESSORS argue that there shouldn't be guidelines (for non- classified research) to protect their academic freedom, but students who protest - and happen to be in the wrong department - get fired," said PSN member Tom Marx. "Students who protest better keep their mouth shut if they want to keep their job," he said. If another company had sponsored the project and PSN protested that company, the University wouldn't be "up in arms" about it, Marx said. The University defers to the Pentagon, he said, because the school depends heavily on those research funds, which increased by 20 percent to $6.3 million this year. BUT engineering associate dean Charles Vest said the same standards would apply with any company. It is up to the professor to determine who should work on a particular project, Vest said. "The professor candidly discussed the matter with the student and in- dicated that he felt it was inappropriate to hire a research assistant on a DOD- sponsored project if the person was philosophically opposed to such resear- ch. "This seems to me to be good com- mon sense," Vest said. Other PSN members, however, say that argument is a smokescreen. They say the firing is a reaction to last week's sit-in. "Obviously Lewis' beliefs haven't in- terfered with his work he's done in the past several months. Why would it ef- fect it now?" said PSN member Stephen Austin., He said many professors do research for companies they don't necessarily support. Get your career off the ground with an Air Force commission. Graduates of accredited health care administration programs may apply for openings in our worldwide health care system. 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The attack began with a Syrian artillery assault, followed by either Syrian or rebel tank charge. IN BEIRUT, Syrian-backed militias struck the Defense Ministry and the U.S. Marine base with rocket fire and killed at least seven people in new at- tacks on Christian east Beirut and the besieged Christian enclave of Deir el Kamar in the Shouf mountains. No Marines were injured. It was the fourth day of battles in the capital, which threaten to erupt into a new round of civil war, jeopardizing plans for future peace talks. ISRAELI JETS, meanwhile, swept into the Bekka Valley in a retaliatory strike that demolished bases of a pro- Iranian group believed responsible for the Nov. 4 bombing of the Israeli headquarters in Tyre and the Oct. 23 bombing of Marine and French bases in Beirut. The raid, carried out only three miles from the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley, came at a time of heightened tensions between Syria and Israel. A great way of life. Smal Computer, Big Deal. 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