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World hit squad blamed for Rome synagogue attack
ROME (UPI) — Terrorists who killed a toddler and wounded 34
worshipers in a gun and grenade attack on a synagogue may be
members of an international hit squad responsible for a chain of
bloody anti-Semitic assaults in Europe, police sources said Tuesday.
Police pressed their investigation as Rome's Jewish community
held a moving funeral service for Stefano Tache on the spot where
the 2-year-old boy was killed in Saturday's attack.The Vatican, in an
unusual declaration, rejected accusations from. Israel and Rome's
Jewish community that Pope John Paul II was morally responsible
for the attack, since he met last month with Palestine Liberation
Organization chief Yasser Arafat.
Prince, starlet to cut short vacation
LONDON (UPI) — Prince Andrew is cutting short his Caribbean
holiday with American soft-pprn movie actress Kathleen "Koo"
Stark and returning home alone, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
"We believe that he may return home earlier than Saturday," a
palace spokeswoman told UPI. "We are not denying that he may
return tomorrow. We believe that he will be on his own."
•"* Begin urged to give back Nobel Peace Prize
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• ALBANY, N.Y. <(UPI) - ' A
Nobel Peace Prize winner comes ainid calls that Israeli Prime
> fragmented Court of Appeals TuesMinister Menachem Begin Hand back the 1978 prize because of his
day reversed the murder conviction
army's invasion of Lebanon.
of Ricky Knapp in the grisly 1977
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banned Solidarity trade union, Lech Walesa. Other nominees, whose
Linda Velzy.
names have been confirmed by the Nobel Committee, include U.S.
The state's highest court, split
Middle East negotiator Philip Habib,, South African Anglican
four ways, ruled that a typewritten
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Pope John Paul'II and American linguist
confession by Knapp, statements he
Kenneth Pike.Nobel Committee Director Jakob Sverdrup said over
made to a police informant, and
200 letters from the public, and one from the Organization of Arab
. other physical evidence should not
Petroleum Exporting Countries, have demanded the withdrawal of
have been used at trial.
the prize that Begin won jointly with Egyptian President Anwar
' However, despite the 4-3 ruling to
Sadat in 1978.
throw out the conviction, four
judges indicated in concurring and
Canadian civil servants get 7.5-9% raises
dissenting opinions that prosecutors
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OTTAWA (UPI) — The federal government gave 28,000 public
should, in some cases, be given
servants a one-year reprieve from its 6 and 5-percent wage limits
more "leeway concerning a defenTuesday, awarding them salary hikes ranging from 7.5 percent to 9
dant's right to counsel.
' percent.
The court's previous right to
But the salary increases for the federal employees did not Violate
counsel ruling — which prohibits
the federal government's restraint package, Treasury Board Presipolice from questioning a person
dent Herb Gray said in a statement.
represented by an attorney without
a .lawyer being present — has been
responsible for several major conCanada reports Asian-chemical-warfare data
victions being overturned in recent
OTTAWA'(UPI) — Canada has sent evidence to the United Nayears.
.,
tions clearly showing the use of chemical warfare on refugees
Knapp's attorney, John Owen,
camps.in Laos and Cambodia, an External Affairs official said
said Tuesday he would move to have
Tuesday.
Knapp released from the state's
Two reports by Immigration officials and National Defence clearmaximum-security Great Meadow „
ly show the mycotoxins did not occur naturally in doses strong
prison, where he is serving 25-years
enough to be lethal, External Affairs official Ron Cleminson said.
to life for reckless murder. Knapp
Immigration officials interviewed refugees, in the camps. They took
. would be sent to a county jail until a
pictures and blood samples,
decision on bail is made, Owen said.
Otsego County District Attorney,
Colin Ingham said he had not yet
seen the opinion* and did not want to
comment on when, or if, he would
Townspeople return home after train derailment
move for a new trial.
Ms. Velzy, the 18-year-old
LIVINGSTON? L*. (UPI) — Wary'townspeople returned home
daughter of a Methodist minister,
Tuesday for the first time in two weeks and began cleaning up the
was missing for about a month at
soot and debris of an explosive 43-car train derailment that turned
• the enicTof 1977. Police, who^hadbeen
their town into a time bomb. J
questioning Knapp about her disapAt 8 a.m. the barricades were lifted and more than 2,500 people
pearance, found him moving her
were allowed to, return home. It was the first tinje many had seen
frozen body to a grave on^ New
their homes and pets since 43 cars of a 101-car freight train derailed
Year's Day 1978.
Sept. 28,
. At that time, Knapp blurted out
that he had killed theJJtate UniverReagan diluting ecology, groups charge
sity of New York at Oneonta stuWASHINGTON (UPI) — The Reagan administration is agdent, and begged police to shoot
, gressively pursuing a "systematic weakening" of federal enhim.
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vironmental protection laws, a coalition of America's leading conPolice had been led to the
servation groups charged Tuesday.
gravesite by Arthur Hitt, a friend of
The 10 organizations made a broadside attack on the administraKnapp's who acted as an informant
tion in a lengthy report detailing scores of examples in local areas
in return for favorable treatment in
where they argue Reagan policies are harming the environment.
another case.
Hitt testified that Knapp told him
he picked up Ms. Velzy, of WoodReagan schedules 'non-partisan' speech today
bury, had a sexual encounter with
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Reagan prepared Tuesday to
her, and then killed her after an
take the rhetoric of the campaign trail to a national audience and
argument.
-counter^har^riticismofhis-poTicies-with-a-^non-par-tisan-speech^
In a 12-page majority opinion
Wednesday night on the economy.
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Characterization of the speech as non-partisan just three weeks
court said the spontaneous confesbefore the Nov. 2 elections was stringently protested by the
sion at the gravesite was admissible
Democrats, and ABC decided not to carry the speech live. CBS and
as evidence. But it said statements .
NBC will carry it live, and CBS scheduled a Democratic response
Knapp made to Hitt should not have
four hours later at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
been allowed at his trial because
Knapp was already represented by
an attorney when the statements
were made.
The court said that in using the informant to talk to Knapp while he
had been represented, "the police
violated the defendant's state conSUNY enrollment near record
stitutional right to counsel."
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - Enrollment at the 64 State University of
New York campuses was a near-record 379,356 for the 1982-83
academic year, officials said Tuesday.
The 30 SUNY.community colleges set a record for the fifth
straight year, enrolling 184,453 students, up 2,862 over last year.
HAINES FALLS, N.Y. (UPI) - .
The father of slain Oneonta College
Hardship a must for crime victim compensation
student Linda Velzy Tuesday called
the decision to overturn the murder
ALBANY, N.Y.-(UPI) - The Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that
conviction of Ricky Knapp "idiotic"
in order for the state's Crime Victims Compensation Board to grant
and said the public would be "the
a financial award, it must show a claimant would suffer severe
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real loser'' in the case.
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financial hardship if denied.
The Rev. Howard Velzy was
In a unanimous opinion, the state's highest court upheld a,lower
pastor of United Methodist Church
court which had thrown out a $594 award to Zelik Kotlarski, a
in Woodbury, before his 18-year-old
Brooklyn plumber who was mugged while working, robbed of $524
daughter was bludgeoned and sufand missed nine weeks of work, but who had enough savings to
focated in December 1977, her body
preclude hardship.
hidden for a month before it was
discovered.
Court affirms one running mate for Cuomo
"Obviously, I'm concerned,"
Velzy, now a Greene County resiALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - New York's highest court Tuesday ruled
dent, said in a telephone interview
Alfred DelBello could be the lieutenant governor candidate of both
, with UPI. "The family is concerned
the Democrat and Liberal Parties, refusing to hear a suit that could
because "the public doesn't -realize
have forced Mario Cuomo to have two different running mates.
what the survivors of the victim, go
With no comment, the Court of Appeals said it would not hear an
through as the courts continue to
appeal of a decision that had said the Liberal Party legally
play their silly games."
substituted DelBello for its original candidate, Harold Baer.
Velzy does pastoral work parttime in Roxbury, while his wife,
Carol, teaches. One 25-year-old son
State panel urges removal of Syracuse judge
lives in California, and another 22ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) - A state judicial watchdog group Tuesday
year-old son is finishing studies at
said Syracuse City Judge J. Richard Sardino should be removed
Cornell University, Velzy said.
from office for alleged repeated violationsrof defendants' rights.
The minister said he has been acThe Commission on Judicial Conduct, in a unanimous opinion,
tive in fighting for the rights of vicsaid Sardino often failed to advise defendants of their rights, misustims and criminal justice reform
ed the bail process to improperly jail some defendants, and imsince, his daughter's killing. He is on
properly sought potentially incriminating statements from them,,
the board of trustees of Parents of
the group saifl.In addition, the commission said Sardino repeatedly
Murdered Children, Albany branch,
was "impatient, discourteous and undignified" toward defendants
antffits©is r member ortte New
and their lawyers.On one occasion, when he was told a defendant's
York State Coalition of Criminal
car was destroyed in an accident, the commission reported that SarJustice, a reform group.
dino said. "Too bad he wasn't destroyed and the car was still here,"
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