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The Hometown Newspaper of •• Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties Vol. 96 — No . 224 'Copyright 1989. The Press-Republican Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901, Thursday, April 13, 1989 Suggested Price: 35 c 28 Pages AP LaserPrioto Capito l entertainment: Th e Kitchen Band from Plattsburgh plays in Empire State Plaza next to the Capitol in Alban y Wednesday. Th e senior citizens group, sponsored by Retired Senior Volun- teer Program, played in connection with National Volunteer Week Apri l 9-15. Hug h McKee is holding forth on the harmonica in the foreground. Also participating in the ceremonies were Lt. Gov. Stan Lundine, Plattsburgh Sen Ronald Stafford an d Assemblyma n Chris Ortloff an d Maeretha Stewart of Ne w York City Trivette girlfriend's statement recalls Christmas Day slaying By SUE BOTSFORD Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH - A night of drinking and an alleged sexual confrontation led t o the Christmas Day slaying of Michael Sullivan at the L&M Motel, according to papers filed in the case, it was learned Wed- nesday. In court papers filed in con- nection with motions in the case is the statement of a former co- defendant which details the events of the night of Sullivan's death. In connection with those mo- tions, Judge Charles Lewis has made a couple of rulings in the James D. Trivette murder case which essentially clear the way for a trial date to be set. Attached to District Attorney Penelope Clute's answering papers was the five-page state- ment given by Trivette's original co-defendant, Kimberly Gail Anderson. Clute stated in her papers, as was stated when Anderson pleaded to a lesser charge in court, that Anderson would be testifying against Trivette at his trial. Anderson was originally charged, along with Trivette, 33, of Elizabethton, Tenn., with the Dec. 25 shotgun-slaying of Sullivan. 45. All were living at the L&M Motel Annex at that time. Anderson later pleaded to hindering prosecution and she was placed on probation. One condition of that probation was that she testify against Trivette. Anderson is reportedly pregnant with Trivette's child. According to Anderson's statement, she and Trivette spent the evening of Dec. 24 at the Korina bar, where Trivette played the guitar and both of them sang. Anderson said they drank most of the evening and they had locked the car keys in her gray 1978 Chrysler LeBaron before entering the bar. They got a ride with a man from the Korina to Wylla's bar, stayed about 30 minutes and then left with the same man who had given them the ride earlier, according to the statement. They stopped at a store to get groceries, and were then dropped off at the L&M Annex. Anderson's statement con- tinues, saying they went to their room — 25 — and while she was unloading the groceries, a there was a knock on the door and a male asked to borrow coffee. She said she knew the voice belonged to the man who lived in Room 23. She said she asked the man if he had anything to put the ins- tant coffee into and he said he did, in his apartment. She went to the door of that apartment and, when she didn't see him, stepped farther into the room. It was then that he slammed the door and shoved her. The statement continues, that when he shoved her, she noticed that his hands were behind him and she assumed that he had locked the door. \I asked him what he was do- ing and t o let me out and that is when he reached over and ripped my shirt open which was a but- ton down shirt. He said, 'You're Continued Page 14 Weather breaks up oil spill By FRED BAYLES AP National Writer VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) - Aerial surveys showed \significantly less oil visible on the water\ after two days of high winds and rough seas broke up much of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. Off the coast outside Prince William Sound, where the tanker ran aground on Bligh Reef and lost more than 10 million gallons, observation flights found little more than patches of light sheen and spots of thick crude mousse, said Coast Guard spokesman Brad Smith. But state officials disputed that account. An overflight they conducted Tuesday in poor visibility spot- ted a medium sheen of oil around Chugach Islands and Barren Islands on the edge of the Cook Inlet, which leads to Homer, Kodiak Island and An- chorage. \If it keeps moving in the general direction it's going to get there,\ said Dan Lawn, a Department of Environmental Conservation official in charge of tracking the oil. GOP senators, Cuomo deadlock on 1989 budget By ROBERT BELLAFIORE Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Mario Cuomo blasted state Senate Republicans on Wednes- day for the delay in adopting a new state budget, even as an in- dependent pollster said it was the Democratic governor's popu- larity that was suffering. While Cuomo waged war against the Senate GOP majori- ty, the director of Marist Col- lege's Institute for Public Opi- nion said \the budget process seems to have taken its toll\ on the governor's popularity. \There's been a significant decline in his popularity,\ said Lee Miringoff, in a general discussion of the poll results he planned to make public Thurs- day. While Miringoff refused Wed- nesday to release specific numbers, he said the new drop in Cuomos positive approval rating was \comparable\ to one detected by a September Marist poll. That poll had Cuomo's pos- itive approval rating falling from a January 1988 all-time high of 77 percent to 69 percent. Meanwhile, Cuomo called a state Capitol news conference to complain that the Senate GOP was rejecting his plan to raise welfare benefits by 15 percent while trying to water down his proposal to tax profits from the sale of homes worth more than SI million. At the same time, Cuomo said he'd heard \rumors\ from one of his aides that the Legislature was planning to include some $80 million in spending on pet local projects, also known as \pork barrel\ spending. Cuomo has repeatedly in re- cent years complained about legislative pork barrel spending but he's never vetoed any of it. While he complained about that spending again on Wednesday, he refused to say whether he'd veto any items this year. But the governor said the Senate GOP was favoring the rich at the expense of the poor when it came to the so-called mansion tax and the welfare in- crease. \Republicans won't do it,\ Cuomo said of his mansion tax. \Why not? It hurts rich people.\ Marino's chief spokesman said the Senate had not ruled out the \mansion tax,\ even though Marino himself said earlier this week that he wanted it \watered down.\ The spokesman also said the Senate GOP was willing to approve the welfare increase, as long as the money was linked to reforms in the welfare system that would be decided later this year. Marino spokesman Edward Martin accused Cuomo of \escalating rhetoric\ on the budget and unilaterally hinder- ing negotiations that aides in both the Senate and Assembly maintained Wednesday were progressing. \What happened is you had three men in a boat rowing ashore and getting closer and closer,\ said Martin. \One of the men has just jumped out of the boat and started shooting at the two who are in the boat, still try- ing to get ashore. We will still try to bring the boat ashore and we would welcome the person who has jumped back into the boat.\ But Cuomo told reporters that the outlook wasn't as rosy as those aides might believe. \We're further apart now than we were a few days ago,\ Cuomo said. For his part, Assembly Speaker Mel Miller said he thought the three sides were \very close\ overall. He said the disputes on the welfare increase and the mansion tax could be resolved, although maybe not to Cuomo's liking. Joking, Barbara gets treatment By RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (API - Bar- bara Bush emerged jovially from a radioactive treatment for a thyroid condition Wednesday, kidding around and hosting a White House reception with the Queen of Sweden. Mrs. Bush said she felt fine, and that her normal activities would not be curtailed except that she couldn't hold her grandchildren or her dog's new puppies for a few days, and \I' m not kissing anybody.\ In a standard procedure for people who suffer Graves disease, the first lady drank a radioactive iodine solution to destroy her thyroid gland because it was producing excess levels of hormones. Mrs. Bush told reporters after standing in a half-hour reception line with Queen Silvia that she felt wonderful. She joked that with their con- stant questions about her health, reporters have \ruined every party I have,\ and she complained that -news of her condition overshadowed what she wanted to focus on, the queen's efforts on behalf of the disabled She said she swam a mile Thursday and Monday and played tennis on Wednesday, and hoped to keep exercising to keep off the 21 pounds that the Graves disease had caused her to lose. The first lady staggered and leaned on the arm of her press secretary in mock infirmity as she walked up to reporters. But, she told the group. \I could In- dian wrestle any one of you to the ground.\ Looking fresh and trim in a purple silky dress, her silver hair swept fashionably back, the first lady said in reference to her weight loss, \I like half of my disease. In fact I love half of it.\ During a two-hour visit to Walter Reed Army Medical (\enter Mrs. Bush sipped the radioactive solution through a straw. It tasted like water, she said, adding that it only took two minutes to drink it but she got chatting with the doctors about foreign travel. She also had her eyes exam- ined, and thev were found to have no damage from the Graves disease wnich had caus- ed her some eye irritation. .The disease can cause the eyes to open wide and water, \so it looks weird.\ Mrs. Bush said. She said doctors told her t o ask President Bush to check and see if she sleeps with her eyes open, but \1 haven't had the nerve to do that.\ The aftereffect of the treat- ment could be a pain in the neck. for several days, said her press^ secretary. Anna Perez; who add- ed that Mrs. Bush \cracked jokes about that all day.\ Mrs. Bush said her husband knew that she was well, but when he read press reports that went on at length about her disease, he called her Wednesday morning to inquire, \Are you all right?\ The Bushes canceled a weekend trip to Kennebunkport, Maine, but aides said it was unrelated to Mrs. Bush's condi- tion, having instead to do with Continued Page 14 WEATHER Today, wet snow mixing with rain. Accumulation of an inch or two possible over the higher eleva- tions. Highs in the mid-40s. South wind 10 t o 20 mph. Chance of pre- cipitation 90 percent. INDEX Business News 12-13 Ciossified 23-27 Comics 22 Date Calendar 8 Editorial 4 E nterta i nment 28 Horoscope 22 An n Landers 22 Lifestyles 8-9 Public Record 6-7 Sports 16-20 Weather 10 Lotto: 5, 38, 41, 44, 47, 48. S-29. Lottery: 1-3-9. 'Win4': 3-8-2-5. Kcno : 5, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 32, 34, 35, 39, 45, 47, 54, 57, 58, 59, 63, 75, 77 North: I protected Reagan By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP ) - Oliver North testified Wednes- day he thought he was protec- ting President Reagan when he altered six Iran-Contra \problem memos\ before investigators from the attorney general could get a look at them. Appearing pale and on edge in his fifth day on the witness 'stand. North hotly denied 'he \had been working in a den of thieves\ at the National Securi- ty Council. And he said the Idocuments he destroyed \were only the tip of the iceberg\ com- 'pared to those in the hands of prosecutors. North said he was present, as , the Iran-Contra affair was about to burst into public view, when National Security Adviser John Poindexter tore up a December 1985 presidential \finding\ re- troactively authorizing a ship- ment of missiles to Iran in a failed effort to win the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Poindexter's destroying the testimony document making no mention of North's presence — was one of the more startling revelations during the congressional Iran-Contra hear- ings in 1987. Abbie Hoffman Found Dead NEW HOPE. Pa. (AP) - Ab- bie Hoffman, who founded the Yippie movement in the 1960s and became a symbol of liberal activism with his devotion to protests, was found dead in his home Wednesday night, authorities said. Hoffman's body was found by neighbors, said Bucks County coroner Dr. Thomas J. Rosco, and there was no apparent cause of death. He would not comment on whether any drugs or alcohol were found at the scene. Rosco said he would not speculate or! the cause of death. Hoffman, 51, was discovered at about 8:15 p.m. fully dressed under the covers of his bed, Solebury Township Police Chief Richard Mangan said. AP LaserPhoto Sugar Ra y dies: Sugar Ray Robinson, 67, Boxing Hal l of Fame great and former welterweight - and middle* ' weight champion, died^ed- nesday. Story o n Pag&d6
