10 - The Michigan Daily -- Tuesday, October 25, 1994 Woman charged in attacks on clinics Anti-abortionist charged with 30 felonies Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - A woman now in prison for the attempted mur- der of an abortion clinic doctor has been charged with 30 federal felony for 10 arson and acid attacks on clin- ics in California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho in 1992 and 1993. The indictments of Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon, unsealed yester- day by federal grand juries in Sacra- mento and Portland, accused her of arson, interference with commerce by force and interstate travel in aid of racketeering, but alleged no con- spiracy. Shannon, 38, formerly of Grants Pass, Ore., is serving a term of nearly 11 years at a Kansas state prison for the August 1993 wounding of Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita, Kan., abor- tion physician. The latest charges include the use of a napalm-like substance in the Aug. 18, 1992 arson attack on the Feminist Women's Health Center in Sacra- mento, which by itself carries a man- datory consecutive sentence of 30 years imprisonment upon conviction. "Violence against clinics which provide reproductive health services constitutes domestic terrorism," said Charles J. Stevens, U.S. attorney in Sacramento. "Investigating and prosecuting such conduct is a high priority in this office." In one two-day period, Sept. 16- 17, 1992, Shannon was accused of arson and acid attacks on abortion clinics in Eugene, Ore., Reno, Nev., and Chico, Calif. She also was charged with a firebombing of a Reno abor- tion facility, three hours after a simi- lar attack on a Sacramento clinic on Aug. 18, 1992. Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, ex- pressed relief that the grand juries had finally returned indictments. ' - ::::Y:., ... . : Unrest in Haiti continues - even with U.S. presence German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel smiles into the cameras in Bonn yesterday prior to meeting with leaders of his Free Democratic Party. Follow--ing victory, a l gations haun--m-liI i ts Germansocialit Officials accused of informing for secret police Los Angeles Times BONN, Germany -The reformed communist Party of Democratic So- cialism, fresh from celebrating its tri- umph in last week's federal election, was under siege yesterday with alle- gations that some of its recently elected members of Parliament had been informants for the East German secret police. The controversy centered on the party's charismatic leader, Gregor Gysi, after two influential national magazines reported that newly dis- covered documents have revealed that, as a lawyer in East Germany, Gysi informed on his dissident clients and received gifts from the secret police, known as Stasi. Political opponents, including former Gysi client and leftist Greens Party legislator Gerd Poppe, called on the PDS leader to quit his seat in Parliament or clear up the charges. Gysi has long maintained his in- nocence when it comes to the Stasi, and a parliamentary committee found no proof of any secret police activi- ties on his part when they investi- gated eastern deputies after the 1990 election. Yesterday, he told ARD television, "I have not cooperated with the Stasi. I have not betrayed clients. Just the for- mulation of a suspicion cannot be suffi- cient for me to give up my seat." Gysi aide Dieter Liemann dis- missed the new charges as a tired campaign aimed at discrediting the reinvigorated party. The PDS won 30 seats in the 672-seat German Parlia- ment on Oct. 16, in large part due to the dynamic style of Gysi, who was voted in for a second term. "I think this is naturally connected with the election gains," Liemann said in a telephone interview. "If you want to weaken the PDS, you pounce on the most prominent person." The scandal arises just days after the PDS pressured one of its own newly elected deputies, Kerstin Kai- ser-Nicht, to give up her seat because of Stasi activities. During the campaign, the 34-year- old Kaiser-Nicht reluctantly admit- ted that she had informed on fellow German students while studying Slav languages in Leningrad between 1979 and 1984. Eastern voters elected her anwyay, but PDS leaders said that she had shown no remorse for her activi- ties and they did not want to work with her in Parliament. The Washington Post DUFOUR, Haiti - The gunfire that echoes nightly through the lush banana groves of this Haitian coastal town serves as a constant reminder, inhabitants say, of how fragile Presi- dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide's newly restored democracy really is. "They shoot their guns off every now and then just to let us know they're still here," said a Dufour resi- dent who was so frightened of the anti-Aristide gunmen, known as "at- taches," that he refused to give his name. "There are lots of them - dozens. If you bring the American soldiers here, we can show you exactly who they are and where they hide their weapons." Actually, U.S. troops did stop in Dufour early last week as part of a nationwide program to weed out hu- man rights abusers and corrupt offic- ers still occupying local military posts. But instead of disarming the Hai- tian soldiers and paramilitary thugs who continue to hold the town in terror, the Americans delivered new M-16 assault rifles to the police sta- tion to replace its aged M-ls, accord- ing to an army private on duty at the station. In Dufour, a market town on a busy highway 50 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the month- old U.S. military mission still re- mains short of the goal envisioned by the U.N. Security Council when it authorized troops to use "any and all means necessary" force to restore and keep Aristide's government in power. A senior U.N. official in New York complained last week that despite this sweeping authority, U.S. soldiers are allowing the arms to stay in the hands of the same people who helped mili- tary leaders oust Aristide in a 1991 coup. Army Col. Mike Sullivan, com- mander of the U.S. military police in Haiti, said a major problem that American troops face in their disar- mament operations is determining whether Haitians are telling the truth when they report arms caches or the presence of attaches in their commu- nities. "We have to determine what's fac- tual and what's not factual," Sullivan said, adding that reported sitings must be cross-checked with an information database built up by U.S. intelligence agencies over several years. "Sometimes people are telling the truth. But sometimes they want to use us to settle old scores or to go after someone because of a personal dis- pute." As a result, U.S. military authori- ties may well overlook areas where remnants of the old military regime are still in power, Sullivan acknowl- edged, while the slow process of lo- cating arms caches could mean many will go unrecovered. In hopes of en- couraging people to turn in their weap- ons, the U.S government is offering up to $300 for firearms.' But dumb luck, rather than intelligence or cun- ning, has led to some of the largest arms discoveries by U.S. troops, Sullivan said. "We had one guy pull up in front of a military police post with a pickup truck brimful with weapons. He jumped out and tossed the keys to one of our military policemen and said, 'It's all yours.' By the time the keys landed in the soldier's hands, the guy had disappeared in the crowd," Sullivan said. "The guy could liter- ally have retired for life on the money we would have given him for those guns." HAITI Continued from page 1 It now appears that Aristide, has again bowed to pressure --this time in reappointing Michel to his Cabinet. "That is politics," the source said. "He sure was under pressure but it was his choice." The choice of Michel, a wealthy man whose business interests include cooking oil, rice and gasoline, is de- *, signed to appease business leaders and many in the middle and upper classes who feel threatened by the return of the populist priest-turned- president. But some Aristide opponents in Parliament criticized the nomination yesterday. "Michel had a bad past as the minister of commerce," said Deputy , Walto Augustin of the center-right Nationalist Progressive Democratic Movement. "He raised the price of rice and he approved of the job the president was doing. I don't think that he can bring the balance the govern- ment needs now." After his brief stint as minister of commerce and industry, Michel kept a low profile here after the military coup that ousted Aristide. He helped * finance Aristide's orphanage for street kids in the capital and his 1990 presi- dential campaign. An American militarv policeman wrestles with a Haitian man in front of the Parc Industriel near the international airport in Port-au- Prince. The fight was brought on when the man would move after the man was told he was too close to the gate main American militia gate and ended with the arrest of the Haitian. AP PHOTO SO04S". S'tntm Strnint " O ca rs Smutli ofnE Llbmrty "995s-2400 s f * q$ n+.r~ a . 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