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i nryr i.j'fwr-f-fr-'iynin 'fur i ji i uppr "-ynfinr py'iD 7 12 A Qllje Antllatxm fctar Thursday, April 28, 1983 Teen sentenced for father's murder Laser firm continued from Page .1 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Both children had faced a Ateen-ager convicted Tjnnaxlmum 20 years in prison. Maier said incarceration iff's deputies after her arrest that she knew her brother was agitated after another beating by her father and the promise of continued beating later that night. She watched as her brother loaded several guns, placed them around the house and positioned himself in the garage. But "nothing seemed real," she had said.

"I didn't think he would blow my father away." Maria, appeared stunned as friends led her from the courtroom. "If these kids did nothing else in the world, they made us aware of what's going on," Mackey said, referring to media attention for abused adolescents and their difficulty finding help. Mackey had asked the court to make him Miss Jahnke's legal guardian and place her in a girls' home in Denver for psychiatric counseling, eventually returning her to a foster home in Cheyenne. Jahnke had testified at both trials that he was afraid of his father after he made a child abuse report to county authorities May 2, and he felt there was no escape from beatings and probable death except to kill his father. He said he later realized he was -wrong.

7 Prosecutors alleged Miss Jahnke knew her brother's plans and helped set the scene for the slaying of their father. She suggested lighting the house to affect her father's vision, and she helped take pets to the basement so they would not get hurt, prosecutors said. HER BROTHER said he offered her a gun to protect herself in case something went wrong in the garage, and she asked for a rifle that did not "kick." The state said that indicated her intention to use it. But Mackey argued the children's fear of their father got out hand, with preparations for the slaying developing almost without their knowing it. Miss Jahnke had told sher helping her brother kill their abusive father deserved "swift and certain punishment," said a judge who sentenced her to prison and criticized news coverage of the trial as "incomplete, incorrect and slanted." Deborah Jahnke, 18, wept and held her attorney's hand as Laramie County District Judge Joseph Maier sentenced her Wednesday to three to eight years in the Wyoming Women's Center.

She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter' for helping her brother, Richard, 16, kill Richard C. Jahnke, 38, who according to court testimony had beaten and verbally abused his family for years. The boy hit his father with four of six slugs fired from a 12-gauge shotgun through the garage door of their suburban Cheyenne home last Nov. 16. The elder Jahnke died on the driveway.

YOUNG JAHNKE is free on $50,000 bond pending appeal of his five-to-15-year prison term for voluntary manslaughter. Miss Jahnke was taken to the county jail Wednesday, until she could post a $25,000 appeal bond. Popular novels NEW YORK (AP) Half of all paperback books sold are romance novels, says Kathryn Falk, publisher of "Romantic Times," a bimonthly publication for romance-novel fans, of whom there are some 22 million around the world, she adds. would not help Miss Jahnke be rehabilitated or protect society. But he said she deserved prison because "I believe it necessary to the greater good of society as a whole that defendants found guilty of serious criminal behavior receive swift and certain punishment." Before the sentence, Maier said he thought the public had been misled by "incomplete, incorrect and slanted" news reports of the trial.

He singled out reports that "society failed" Miss Jahnke and her brother. Maier read from Richard's testimony during his sister's trial acknowledging that the youth did not accept offers to stay in a detention home, jail or a friend's house after he made a child abuse report to Laramie County authorities. Richard also admitted that sheriff's deputies told him they would jail his father at the next report of a beating. DEFENSE ATTORNEY Terry Mackey called the sentence "wrong" and said he probably would appeal. After the sentencing, Jahnke silently hugged his girlfriend.

His mother. LAST 3 DAYS GRANDOPENING OF OUR NEW YOUNG-MEN'S FASHION DEPT. Helionetics provides the power supplies for Pershing 2 missiles, which are scheduled to be deployed in Europe in December. Last year, the White House Communications Agency purchased frequency converters from Helionetics to provide "ultrareliable communications for the president of the United States and his staff," according to company documents. A spokesman for the communications agency said that the contract had been granted without competition and that there was "a gentlemen's agreement between the two parties not to disclose the existence of the contract." Helionetics' laser technology includes a high-powered ultraviolet laser that can be used in space-based weapons, and communications and in high-speed integrated circuits, according to Jeffrey I.

Levatter, president of the company's laser division. "WE DEFINITELY have technology that fits within the realm of the president's guidelines," Levatter said, adding that actual financing will depend on "lots of politics." R. Norris Keeler, a former director of Navy technology and past colleague of Teller's at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California, is helping market the company's lasers. Keeler, in an interview, said that Helionetics had a "significant role to play" in Lawrence Livermore's X-ray laser, a program that Teller has been involved with and that is expected to receive additional financing as a result of the president's initiative. Keeler declined to elaborate on that role, citing the classified nature of the work, but did say "we have had discussions with Dr.

Teller" about the Lawrence Livermore X-ray program. Teller denied participating in any discussions connecting the work at Livermore with Helionetics' efforts. "I have not discussed Helionetics in connection with any work at Lawrence Livermore," Teller said, adding that he would disqualify himself from such discussions if the occasion arose. Teller is a paid consultant to Lawrence Livermore, an atomic weapons laboratory owned by the Department of Energy and operated under contract by the University of California. In addition, he is a senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and White House Science Council.

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When asked to explain the recent rise in the company's stock price, Katz said he was reluctant to comment in light of past problems he had had with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1977, the commission accused Katz and others of violating federal securities laws by paying undisclosed consulting fees and stock options to advisers and stimulating artificial demand in the stock of Xonics, an X-ray company founded by Katz. Katz subsequently entered into a consent decree with the SEC, neither admitting nor denying the charges, but agreeing to an order permanently enjoining him from similar activities in the future. Katz said he gave Teller 40,000 shares when the physicist became a Helionetics director in October 1980. The company was still private at that time so it is not possible to estimate the value of those shares, but in 1981, the first year the stock traded publicly, the price ranged from $3 to $5 a share.

Teller's holdings are disclosed in the company's public reports, although there is no mention they were a gift. Teller's endorsements of Helionetics products have been cited in company promotions and advertisements. In at least one case, an advertisement in the March issue of Over the Counter Review, Teller's connection with the company is not mentioned. WHEN HAYWARD became a director last September, he was given 10,000 shares worth $5 a share and an option to purchase from Katz, at an undisclosed price, 60,000 additional shares, 30,000 of which he has exercised, according to company filings with the SEC. In addition to their stock gifts and directors' fees, Hayward and Teller have consulting agreements with the company that call for payments of $1,000 a day, according to company filings.

Gray said his company, Gray represented Helionetics before the federal government and did public relations work for the company. In addition to the fees paid to his company by Helionetics, Gray has received gifts of stock from Katz, according to Katz and Gray. Neither Gray nor his company is mentioned in Helionetics' most recent SEC filings. Gray and Katz did not say how much stock the public relations representative was given. Katz, who owns about one-third of Helionetics' 4.7 million common shares, said he had offered Simon an option to purchase 50,000 shares at $7 a share, about one-third the current price.

Simon is scheduled to join the company's board of directors next month and, according to Katz, lawyers are putting the final touches on the stock option agreement. Simon did not return phone calls for comment. HELIONETICS was formerly known as the Delta Electronic Control Corp. In 1979, it filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws. In early 1980, the bankruptcy court approved a plan devised by Katz, who had not been involved with Delta, to reorganize the company.

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"I have a lot of trouble about a society where we base what we do on vengeance," he said. "So long as we have a death penalty we are telling everybody we are a society built on vengeance. Do we want to live in a society where we say vengeance is OK?" "Is Alabama better off now that Evans is dead?" one student asked Carroll. "No," he said. "We, as a society, have sanctioned the killing of another human being.

We said it was OK. Any society that does that is not better off." Instead of the death penalty, Carroll said he favors life without parole. That, he stressed, means no chance of pardon, no chance of sentence commutation, no chance of parole ever. "If my kin is laying in a casket," one student told him, "he (the killer) doesn't deserve to live." "I am putting money above a man's life," said one student who argued that life without parole is too expensive a burden to bear. "But I don't put much value on that man's life, anyway." The questions troubled Carroll who told the students, "You've been taught ever since you've been born that it (the death penalty) fs right.

What troubles me is that very, very few people here are willing to consider the other side. "What I want you to do is simply think about it one time." that don't happen cannot be counted. We're incapable of gathering figures on how many times something did not happen." BAXLEY admitted that, in the past, the death penalty did discriminate against blacks, other minorities and the poor. But the lieutenant governor said he no longer believes the death penalty is a discriminatory law. "Every law we had in those days was applied in a discriminatory manner towards some of our citizens," he said.

"The answer is to stop the discrimination, not undo all the laws." But in his address, Carroll disagreed. "The average citizen who faces trial for the death penalty is poor. He is given a court-appointed lawyer," he said. "The way the state of Alabama treats court-appointed lawyers is almost telling them they do a good job." The state, Carroll said, now provides only $1,500 for the legal defense of its indigent defendants. "The state of Alabama," he said, "wants to march people to the electric chair and kill them without giving them a means of defense." ALTHOUGH Baxley strongly favors the death penalty, he said be believes it should be as painless as possible.

He favors lethal injection, a method used in a recent Texas execution, am one he said he suspects the Alabama Legislature will adopt in the aftermath of the Evans execution. "We in society are not as bad as the ones who are being executed," he told one student who asked why death penalty defendants should be shown any mercy. "The purpose is to make them forfeit their lives, not inflict torture on them." Asked by another student why the state didn't execute more of its felons who are serving life without parole to save the state money, Baxley responded, "We still have to place a value on human life I think we ought to have executions only for very limited, awful crimes, and then only when they fit in certain categories." In spite of his strong pro-death penalty stance, Baxley told students he hopes the question is one that is always in debate. "I'm glad there is a certain segment of people that speak out against it," he said. I hope the day will come in our society where we won't need capital punishment when we have a society where we don't have the people who are so violent Right now, we are not there." SPEAKING after Baxley, Carroll observed, "By your applause and comments I understand and expect you are" heavily in favor of capital punishment.

But the politicians have sold you a bill of goods. They seek to further their own political gains by running over the bodies of the people they execute. They have done a disservice by making those of us who are against it seem, wrong, seem evil." Opposing the death penalty, he said, does not mean he it against punishing criminals. "I think we ought to punish people who commit horrible crimes," he said: But the death penalty, Carroll argued, is not the answer. "When the I 905 NOBLE i 33" OPEN' 3 1a MONDAY-SATURDAY if fVJ FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 8:30.