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• •'.'' : •'\ -'•\\.;''• . •';'.• , •'!''•* •' \ PAGE 2 PRESS-REPUBLICAN GENERAL NEWS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29,1995 ll' m w NEWS IN BRIEF INTERNATIONAL IRA blamed for sixth vigilante killing BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - After the sixth killing this year of a suspected criminal, police on Thursday accused the IRA of a murderous crackdown in Roman Catholic ghettos to retain a hold on money-making rackets. Martin McCrory, 30, described by police sources as a burglar and small-time drug dealer, was shot dead at home in front of his children on Wednesday night. He was the third suspected criminal killed in a week and the sixth since April, raising new fears of a breakdown in the Irish Republican Army's 16-month- old cease-fire. No one immediately claimed responsibility. But police and politicians from the main Protestant and Catholic parties blamed the IRA. Arafat's security chief confirms editor detained JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian authorities have detained a Palestinian editor who refused to publish a flattering story about PLO chief Yasser Arafat on his front page. Jibril Rajoub, head of Arafat's preventive security service, confirmed Thursday that Maher al-Alami, an editor and a prominent columnist at the Al-Quds newspaper, was being held. However, Rajoub would not say if charges were going to be brought against the .50- year-old al-Alami. Arafat has been criticized for trying to muzzle the Palestinian press since tak- ing over the Palestinian Authority in 1994. Ac- cording to relatives, officials of the Palestinian Yasser Arafat Authority ordered al-Alami to publish an article on his front page comparing Arafat to Omar bin el-Khatab, a trium- phant seventh-century Islamic leader. When he published it on an in- side page instead, al-Alami was summoned to Jericho by Rajoub and arrested, his son Amjad said. \What's this big fuss for him?\ Rajoub saicf-Thursday in a telephone interview. \He's detained because he's ill-mannered.\ NATIONAL Murder plot mirrors best-selling thriller BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J.,(AP) - In a scheme that was all but ripped from the pages of the thriller \Presumed Innocent,\ aman and his girlfriend are accused of plotting to murder his wife and plant : someone else's semen and blood at the scene. Unlike in the book, the alleged plot was thwarted before anyone was killed. Daniel D. Hynes, 43, and Monica W. Fritz, 33, were arrested Dec. 20 and charged with conspiracy to commit murder after police were tipped off that some- one had been asked to donate the blood and semen for the scheme. They were jailed on $250,000 bail. Cops: killer's earlier confession possibly ignored NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of killing five people in a bot- ched robbery at a Bronx shoe store had tried last summer to confess to another murder, but police refused to take his report, a housing patrolman said. After being arrested for misdemeanor assault five months ago, Michael Vernon also, admitted his role in a third shooting and\ offered information about a sniper attack on two officers, patrolman Ronald Rodriguez told the New York Daily News. Rodriguez said that three times he urged members of the 47th Precinct detective squad to interview Vernon on July 13; three times he was ignored. Vernon was given a desk appearance ticket and released after three hours. Even after his release, he briefly lingered in the station, still waiting to talk. Police Chief Louis Anemone said Thursday that Rodriguez's claims were being investigated. Ober exits helm at CBS News; his future unclear NEW YORK (AP) — The man at the helm while CBS News endured cost-cutting, slumped in the ratings and aired the embarrassing \Dan and Connie Show\ is leaving after five years as president. In an internal memo issued Thursday morning, Eric Ober told colleagues that CBS President Peter Lund \has decided to make a change in the presidency of CBS News.\ Ober's memo said he was leaving Jan. 12. Ober's depar- ture was confirmed by CBS News spokeswoman Sandy Genelius, who said no successor has been named. But Andrew Heyward, executive producer of 'The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,\ Eric Ober was widely considered by CBS News insiders as the front-runner. It remained unclear whether Ober will network altogether. Noted consultant accused of squandering millions NEW YORK (AP) - He has written how-to books on the risks of investing, syndicates his ad- vice in newspaper columns and is often a quoted source for reporters covering the $4.9 trillion' Treasury bond market. But now Jay Goldinger, a financial consultant in Beverly Hills, Calif., is ac- cused of squandering tens of millions of dollars entrusted to him by Pier 1 Imports and a telecommunications equipment company. There was no indication Thursday that Goldinger is under criminal investigation over the accusations, which emerged earlier this week. But the usually accessible adviser wasn't answering the phone and his lawyer said he.wasn't available to talk, f i itt tiiti leave the By CHRIS TORCHIA Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Coloinbia (AP) - Crew members were chatting about their jobs be- fore their American Airlines plane slammed into a mountain, and there was no indication on a cockpit recorder that they went through a routine checklist in preparation for their descent into Cali. The cause of the Dec. 20 crash that killed 160 people, many heading home for the Christmas holidays, will probably not be determined for months. But the data from two \black box\ re- corders released Thursday show no evidence of terrorism or mechanical failure, said Capt. Rodrigo Cabrera of the Colombian civil avia- tion authority. American Airlines suggested human error was a factor. When alarms blared in the cockpit to alert the crew that the plane was too close to the ground, the pilots increased engine power and lifted bhe plane's nose, the data show. But the speed brakes located on the wings had already been activated for descent, and they remained so until the end of the re- cording, apparently hampering the plane's ability to gain altitude. American Airlines issued a statement saying it was \disappointed by the informa- tion\ released Thursday. \We've always taken great pride in the vigor of our training and the excellence of our flight disciplines, and we are saddened that human error on the part of our people may have contributed to the accident,\ the statement said. \The accident reminds us that aviation, while not inherently dangerous, is terribly unforgiving of any inattention to detail.\ The findings could strengthen the claims of victims' families who plan to sue American Airlines. \If you hit a known mountain, that is pret- ty severe negligence,\ said Aaron Podhurst, a Miami lawyer representing some of the rela- tives. Podhurst said in a telephone interview from Miami that he plans to file lawsuits in federal court there next week. Alejandro Vargas, head of the consumer rights group Association of Air Passengers of Colombia, estimated that American Airlines could end up paying about $750,000 to the families of each victim for emotional distress. TROOPS... Continued from Page 1 tense situations within Bosnia, U.S. and other NATO troops are fighting the weather, which bedeviled planes and helicopters with fog in Tuzla and has now turned Army sites around Zupanja into mud pits. In Mostar, in southern Bosnia, the French Foreign Legion was faring little better. Chest-deep water swept across its low-lying camp Wednesday. No one was injured, but 300 men had to be rescued by helicopter. The rest fled in vehicles or on foot. \If this. had come at night when the men were sleeping, they'd have been gone,\ said Capt. Bernard Noblet, the sector spokesman. In other developments in former Yugoslavia: — The American commander of NATO forces in northeastern Bosnia said he was \very disap- pointed\ to read a report that a U.S. colonel accused Crpatians of being racists who \kill people for the color of their skins.\ -The latest of hundreds, perhaps thousands of Serbs in Sarajevo packed up Thursday, to' leave before the Bosnian capital is reunited under the peace plan • and handed over to Muslim- Croat rule. HA rim n PAYCHECKS Continued from Pago 1 \People aren't bashing the president. People aren't bashing Congress. They're bashing everybody,\ said Rep. Joe Scar- borough of Florida, who address- ed a news conference along with Reps. Jerry Weller of Illinois; Andrea Seastrand of California; Phil English of Pennsylvania and David Funderburk of North Carolina. The freshmen said all issues were on the table, including the Repulilicanrproposed f 240 billion tax cut. \We are willing to nego- tiate on the size of the tax cut but we want to see where the presi- dent is willing to go on other issues,\ English said. The Republicans also said the two sides were not far, apart on holding down Medicare increases in Medicare spending. The Senate Republican whip, Trent Lott, R-Miss., said Wednesday the budget deadlock could be broken if congressional Republicans and Clinton split their differences over Medicare. While Americans who needed passports, or who were forced to alter vacation plans, were indig- nant over the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 16, nobody was more anxious than 760,000 federal workers in agen- cies that have not yet been fund- ed. Even quick passage ' of an emergency spending bill would not save them from receiving partial pay Friday or next Tues- day, because the checks have been processed. 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Nonetheless, Gotdinger's alleged activities seemed particularly out of proportion to his reputation as a dispenser of com- plex information used by large and small investors.. Shootout witnesses: Police executed man on sidewalk ATLANTA (AP) — Three people who say they witnessed a shootout at a motorcycle repair shop have accused police of executing a man as he tried to crawl away on a sidewalk and then lying about what hap- pened. The shootout began Dec. 7 after plainclothes officers, mistak- ' enly believing the shop was being robbed, burst in with weapons drawn, police said. An employee thought the officers were robbers and fired his gun. Police have said that a man in the store, Jerry Jackson, was shot twice and hit by a ricocheting bullet inside the Moto Cycles shop as officers returned fire. Two others were wounded, including a police officer. Jackson was there to check on repairs of a motorcycle he got in November. Jeanna Shiver, Bill Hallman and Serina Whitener say they watched from a fourth-story window as a plainclothes policeman shot Jackson on the sidewalk below. They went public after hearing the official account. Two charged in attempt to bomb Reno IRS building RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two men who were angry with the IRS were charged Thursday with plan- ting a powerful bomb that fizzled outside the agency's building in Reno last week. Federal agents said Joseph Martin Bailie, 40, had a gripe with the IRS and that the agency had garnished Bailie's wages, fie enlisted-Ellis Edward Hurst,' 52, to help him with the plan and borrowed Hurst's pickup to transport the bomb, authorities said. Hurst, who had first been questioned four days after the bomb was found and denied any involvement, was arrested late Wednesday after j Bai ,|g v )eft y admitting his role and identifying Bailie, accor- and Ej | ls Hur8t . ding to a complaint filed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 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