Gusto Ben Woods braves winds up to 30 m.p.h. Tuesday as he drills holes through steel plates atop Central Bridge, linking Cin- cinnatti and Newport, Ky. Police rescue kidnapped beer n 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 i a written ransom demand dropped on the 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 Is. efused to say how much ransom was in- t Dutch newspapers have widely reported x 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. 24 men and women, part of a "big family READY FOR A CHANGE OF PACE? olved in the abduction, were arrested as ineken and Doderer were safe. 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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. 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