The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, August 6, 1985 - Page 11
Park owner attacks city after gun battle
HACKENSACK, N.J. (UPI) - McClure said the people involved in shots to count," and saw "crowds of seven-story condominiums on the as an "innocent bystander."
Authorities yesterday investigated a the shooting "appear to be primarily people fleeing the area or diving for park. The board denied the ap- McClure said nearly two dozen.
report that the owner of a park where or all of Jamaican extraction," but he cover under picnic tables." Wication this year and the develoner guns were recovered from the suspec-
a gun battle killed two and injured 20, did not say what started the fight. Gallo, who lives in neighboring filed suit, he said. ts and from the park, including two
bussed in outsiders from New York WCBS reported that Gallo warned Franklin Lakes, could not be reached The mayor also said there have Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns,
City after being refused a permit to Oakland officials he would bus in out- for comment. Calls to the sports com- been problems previously at the 40 and a number of semi-automatic han-
build condominiums. siders every weekend because they plex were either met with a busy acre park, including "scuffles where dguns. Also taken by police, who
Police Lt. James O'Connor said the refused to allow him to develop the signal or not answered. we had to send police in" and com- searched every car leaving the park,
gunfire, which included bursts from site. SIX PEOPLE arrested after the plaints of loud music. were machetes, knives and ice picks.
at least two submachine guns, erup- "It sounded like a war - it was open Sunday afternoon shootout were Names of the victims were not The gunfight, which began shortly
ted Sunday afternoon among people fire, and sounded like machine guns," being questioned by authorities released, but Dr. Lawrence Denson, before 4 p.m., caught some of a crowd
who had come to the Frank R. Gallo said a witness, Angela Augustitus. Winterhalter said Gallo signed a the county medical examiner, said of about 1,500 in a crossfire, O'Connor
Sports Complex at Oakland in 15 contract last year with a developer, one of those killed was a man in his 30s said. Some of the people in a swim-
buses from New York. ANOTHER witness, Peter Brown of who applied to the Oakland Planning found near the swimming pool, while ming pool scaled a fence, suffering
BERGEN County Prosecutor Larry New York, said he heard "too many Board for a permit to build several the other was a bus driver described cuts and bruises in the process.
watier spy mt opens
challenging documents
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NORFOLK, Va. (UPI) - The
espionage trial of accused spy Arthur
Walker opened yesterday with defen-
se lawyers challenging whether
documents the former Navy officer
allegedly passed to his brother ever
reached the Soviet Union.
Brian Donnelly, one of Walker's two
court-appointed attorneys, said the
' government's evidence against his
client is "inconclusive."
"EVIDENCE will show that Arthur
Walker showed documents to his
brother, but whether they reached the
Soviets remains unclear," said Don-
nelly.
Walker, fearing he would not get a
fair trial by jury in the city dominated
by the Norfolk Naval Base - the
world's largest - asked to have his
case decided by the judge. He faces a
1 maximum sentence of life in prison.
expected to take about three days.
Walker faces seven counts - con-
spiracy to commit espionage and
charges that he obtained casualty-
report messages from amphibious
assault ships on April 28, 1982, and
delivered them to his brother, John
Walker Jr., a former Navy com-
munications specialist accused of
masterminding the spy ring.
CASUALTY reports are prepared
when equipment related to
engineering or combat systems
breaks down on a vessel, the Navy
said.
The government also charged Ar-
thur Walker obtained and delivered a
sensitive damage-control book for the
USS Blue Ridge, an amphibious
command ship, to the Soviet Union on
Sept. 2, 1981.
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URGING THE judge to throw out
some of the charges, Mohammed-
asked:
"It is a crime for people to- protest
in the form of pamphlets against the
government? Is it a crime for people
to assemble provided they do not
commit acts of violence?"
Judge Nathanial Jones of the 6th
U.s. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in
Cincinnati, was present as an obser-
ver for the International Commission
of Juri ined to comment on
his role or to discuss the case.
IN PRETORIA, Law and Order
Minister Louis le Grange extended the
two-week jail teams of 1,319 people -
most of them were blacks - who were
arrested and held without charges
under emergency powers imposed
July 21.
Under the state of emergency,
which was declared to curb the racial
violence that has claimed the lives of
500 people in the past 11 months,
authorities can detain people for
renewable periods of up to two weeks.
Solarz, an advocate of economic
sanctions against South Africa to
protest its policy of racial segregation
known as apartheid, is scheduled to
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tommy
There had been speculation Walker, Miller said the book was "a critical
who pleaded innocent June 18, might book for this particular ship."
enter a plea-bargaining arrangement.
When asked about the possibility, In his opening statement, Miller
defense lawyer Samuel Meekins said, hammered away at what the FBI says
"I'm not going to foreclose it." was a confession by Walker that he
slipped confidential documents on at
least two occasions to his brother,
WALKER probably did some things John.
he shouldn't have done and in
retrospect he's sorry for it." 'At first he denied any knowledge of
espionage by himself or his brother . .
About 100 people nearly filled the . but he later admitted of his own in-
courtroom to hear opening statemen- volvement and of his brother's on two
ts. Without jury selection, the trial is specific instances," Miller said.
Rebuilding
Foundations for new homes at the site of the confrontation between police
and the radical group MOVE are constructed in the Cobbs Creek section
of west Philadelphia on Monday. Nearly three months have assedsine
,. . " "aa nu11. caa ,1 VvuaIi Cpae "r' 'ur*" meet with Foreign Minister Roelof
police dropped an explosive device on the MOVE compound starting a "Pik" Botha Fanrela's ifse, Winne,
Freshm en group fire which killed eleven people and destroyed 61 homes.
ee goup planned pcand Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop
(Continued from Page l) said. Desmond Tutu.
students and from talking with a The executive committee will act on L iver transp lan t m
sample of freshmen. behalf of the members; propose ,ae, "We need a new American ap-
THE FIRST meeting of MFC will be policies, activities and committees; co d ti i proach to South Africa," Solarz said,
Oct. 3 in the Union, where the establish the agenda; and appoint a con upg ra d ed adding he will meet "liberals andco-
organization will be housed this fall. Parliamentarian from among the By KATIE WILCOX lasted from early morning until the nservatives in an effort to determine
Initially the staff, composed MFC members to advise the presiding The University Hospitals' first liver evening, how the United States can best go
primarily of people from SODC, and officer of parliamentary procedure. transplant patient was upgraded from The recipient, from Michigan, did about using its influence to facilitate a
older students, will provide guidance, Other committees plannedI so far critical to serious condition yester- not want his name released. peaceful transition to a new plolitical
but once the executive officers are will include academic, social and day, a hospital spokesman said. The operation was the first for the dispensation."
selected, it will be almost completely recreational committees, a university According to the spokesman, Chief hospital's liver transplant program,
under student control, according to familiarity committee, a student of Surgery Jeremiah Turcotte said the although preparation for the program n the black township of Soweto
Straub. organization connection committee, patient was "progressing well." began about a year ago. It is part of n Jhe burg, as blac us
"The committee thought we needed and a recruitment and transition Friday's liver transplant surgery the hospital's multi-transplant ner soanbesburg, a black yus
to provide the organization with a cer- committee. was the only hope of survival for the program which includes kidney' driver stabbed to deaths black youth
tain amount of structure to get going, According to Straub, publicity to patient, who was critically ill with heart, pancreas, and liver transplan- Monday when several people tried to
then it does become a student-run launch the new group is now under- acute liver disease, Turcotte said. The ts. It is planning bone marrow tran- steal his fares, a bus company
organization as soon as possible," she way. complex operation, led by Turcotte, splants for the near future. spokesman said.