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The Michigan Daily --Thursday, December 1, 1983-- Page7
Reagan signs bill, saves
civil rights commission
WASHINGTON (AP )--President Reagan said he was "pleased that the independent, bipartisan federal agency
Reagan revived the U.S. Commission commission has been re-created," but mandated to appraise civil rights issues
on Civil Rights yesterday after waiting put the commission "clearly within any and progress throughout the nation and
until virtually the last moment to sign of the three branches of government to recommend to the president and
legislation reducing his power to in- created by the United States Con- Congress, without regard to political
fluence the panel. stitution." considerations, steps it believes
Reagan named the commission's last IN ITS FINAL report reviewing the necessary to ensure equal opportunity
chairman, Clarence Pendleton, to serve course of civil rights during the com- for all Americans."
on the reconstituted panel and siad mission's history, the panel said, "Most
outgoing staff director Linda Chavez of the legislation necessary to guaran- Reagan, frustrated by the Senate's
should resume her position, although tee civil rights to women, to the nation's refusal to confirm his choices for com-
her appointment is subject to con- racial, ethnic and religious minorities mission membership, precipitated a
currence by the full commission. and to its older and handicapped per- crisis by firing three Democratic mem-
TECHNICALLY, the commission sons has already been enacted," with bers of the six-member panel last mon-
died at midnight Tuesday. The bill the notable exception of the' Equal th. That left the panel without a
signed by Reagan revives it, but with Rights Amendment. quorum and legally powerless to meet,
greater congressional-and less BUT IT CALLED for continued and it enfuriated members of the House
presidential-control over its makeup. vigilance by the federal government, and Senate alike who accused Reagan
The 218 career employees of the saying the consequences of the gover- of trying to thwart the will of Congress.
commission, which for 26 years has nment's failure to guarantee the rights
prodded the nation to hold fast the bat- of the ancestors of slavery "continue to To head off a move that would have
tle against discrimination, had kept haunt this country today." established the commission as an arm
their offices open yesterday to "In this context," the commissioners of Congress, Reagan agreed to a com-
distribute the commission's final report said in their 82-page report, "the com- promise that expands the commission
and await Reagan's decision on mission believes the national interest membership to eight members, who
whether to sign the bill. compels the continuing existence of an will serve staggered, six-year terms.
iillionaire
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e Hague central police station the night of
>ing.
es ultimately paid the ransom via com-
lephone instructions, cassette recordings
dropped at sites scattered around the
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d to the equivalent of $10 million to $11.6,
ieous police raids n the suburban village of
rg, the port city of Den Helder and
in Amsterdam netted police 24 kidnap
all related to each other.
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From AP and UPI
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Police rescued kid-
napped millionaire brewer Alfred Heineken and his
chauffeur in a raid on an isolated warehouse yester-
day, and arrested 24 suspects in three cities.
A ransom reported to be as high as $11.6 million
was paid Monday, but police said at least part of it
was recovered from the homes of suspects.
The 60-year-old chairman of the Heineken Brewery
and his chauffeur, Ab Doderer, 57, were found
manacled to a wall and clad only in pajamas in an
unheated building in an industrial park near the har-
bor. They were cold but unharmed, officers said.
Heineken, a confidant of the Dutch royal family
and reportedly the richest man in the Netherlands,
and his driver, Ab Doderer, were reported by doctors
to be well and fit despite enduring three weeks in
unheated, cell-like rooms in the construction hut.
Police, who had kept watch on the park after
receiving an anonymous tip two weeks ago, raided it.
when they had no word from the kidnappers for two '
days after the ransom was delivered.
Florida execi
From AP and UPI Americans,
STARKE, Fla.-Despite an appeal for executed sine
mercy from Pope John Paul II, convic- Sullivan, a
ted murderer Robert Sullivan was put years on deg
t( +death in Florida's electric chair lawyers and
yesterday. He died with a plea for an ultimately th
end to "this monster of capital punish- last moments
ment." "To all r
Suliivan, who had spent more time on despite what
death row than any present inmate, was do not quit,'
killed by a two-minute surge of 2,000 thanked the
volts of electricity after telling the 24 tervention
witnesses, "I hold malice to none. May
God bless us all."
THE BURLY 36-year-old college
dropout, convicted of the 1973
execution-style murder of a motel
clerk, never waivered in maintaining
his innocence and his attorneys fought
to the end to spare his life.
Sullivan was pronounced dead at
} 10:16 a.m., six minutes after Gov. Bob
Graham gave the go-ahead for the
execution, ending a week of frantic
legal maneuvering that reached to the
U.S. Supreme Court and won the con-
demned man a brief stay.
Graham had earlier turned down the-
request by the pope that Sullivan's life
be spared for "Humanitarian
Reasons." The Pope's request was
based on the church's stand against
' capital punishment, not on a question of
guilt of innocence.
FLORIDA THUS became the first
state to have executed two people since
the Supreme Court reinstated the death
penalty seven years ago. Eight other
- . - . . . . --
At a news conference, police said the two victims
had been imprisoned in separate cells hidden behind
a false wall in the warehouse.
Police broke through and found Heineken and
Doderer chained to the walls in their concrete cells
behind it.
Chief Police Inspector Kees Sietsma said his of-
ficers almost missed the false wall hiding the two
soundproof rooms.
Doderer, 57, was beaten and seized when he tried to
prevent Heineken's abduction Nov. 9 outside the
headquarters of the Amsterdam brewery. Both men
were forced at gunpoint into a truck and driven away.
Doderer, long-time personal chauffeur to
Heineken, has worked for the family brewery for 40
years.
A statement issued by the brewery and families of
the two men said, "There is enormous joy that
Heineken and Doderer have been freed in a perfectly
executed operation last night.'
The 5 a.m. rescue raid on the warehouse climaxed
three weeks of negotiations with the abductors that
utes killer despite papal plea
all men, have been
ce the landmark decision.
Roman Catholic, spent 10
ath row and attempts by
death penalty foes, and
e pope, carried on until the
s of his life.
my peers on death row,
is about to happen to me,
" Sullivan said. He also
pope for "his personal in-
asking that my life be
spared."
PRISON OFFICIALS said the
execution "went very smoothly."
"I don't know that there is any
humane way to kill a person," said
spokesman Vernon Bradford: "I think
it is the law and it has to be carried out
and it went very smoothly."
Sullivan was described as at "peace
with himself" by a priest who visited
him Tuesday night.
Bradford said Sullivan was "light-
hearted and jovial when he ate break-
fast this morning but when his priest
left he was much more somber about
the situation."
Outside the prison under cool, clear
skies, about a dozen protesters who had
conducted an all-night vigil sang folk
songs and hymns and carried signs
reading "Death Row Must Go."
Another dozen, however, backed the
execution with signs saying, "We Love
the Victim."
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