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63 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1993 bugged 587 ready to train supreme iSl Local critic sues Clinton, Reno over siege at Waco By John R. O'Neill STAR STAFF WRITER Does President Clinton want to overthrow the government of the United States? Is Attorney General Janet Reno In on the conspiracy? Was cult leader David Koresh a victim of their plot? Scoff if you like, but Beech Grove attorneys Linda D. Thompson and John M. Baird want to go to court to prove such a cy exists. And while they're at it, they'd like $110 million In damages.

The two filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Indiana-polls accusing Clinton, Reno and others of wanting to set up "a one- world government" and take away the right to bear arms. As proof, Thompson points to the way the government handled the siege of the Waco, Texas, cult run by Koresh. He and dozens of followers died In April when the compound burned down. The cult had been surrounded by authorities since Feb.

28, when gunfire broke out as federal agents tried to serve a search warrant. Those killed in the fire, the law-' suit claims, "were murdered in a public display of brute force and terrorism by agents of the government in furtherance of the con- il, i i i Historic iron horse and its proud crew are rarin' to roll again for State Fair-goers. By Rex Redif er STAR STAFF WRITER Noblesvllle, Ind. Considering Its age, the old Iron horse looked frisky as a colt Monday afternoon during a shakedown for Its annual Indiana State Fair run beginning Wednesday morning. The Nickel Plate Railroad Engine No.

587. at 75, looked as dapper as the day It came off the assembly line In 1918 at Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive factory one of hundreds of Its kind manufactured during World War I. It will call back time as It steams between 116th Street in Fishers and the Fall Creek Parkway depot, Just east of the State Fairgrounds. There will be 10 trips dally through the run of the fair. "It's a great old engine," Russ Sunderland said as he stoked up the boiler with chunks of wood at the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesvllle, the train's permanent home.

"We used to run about 100 of them on the old Baltimore Ohio line back about 50 years ago. It was kind of like the DC-3 airplane. It was good for everything passengers, freight you name it. It'd do the Job. Still will." Sunderland, 68, Thorntown, now retired, spent 45 years as an engineer and volunteers his time to throttle the old engine along its way.

Dressed in coveralls, his face smudged and sweaty, he kept at student fireman Larry Graham of Brownsburg to get the engine ready for the annual run. "No! Not No more coal," he groused at his fireman. "Throw In some wood. That smoke's too black. The dog-goned environmentalists will get us.

They're Just waiting for us to make a mistake so they can harass us." Sunderland, like his engine, is a throwback to another time, and he hasn't much patience with the way things are done these days. "Can't get decent help," he griped. "Been working since 7 a.m. getting this thing ready." But the grumbling Is Just a facade. He loves this.

Sifting In the cab of Old 587, he beamed like a kid at Christmas and regaled In File Photo CONSPIRACY? Attorney Linda Thompson claims President Clinton wants to over-' throw the U.S. government. Thompson and Balrd, the lawsuit claims. "Because the laws of Texas preclude the carrying of handguns, the plaintiffs were unarmed and unable to defend themselves from this unlawful use of deadly force against them," the lawsuit states. FBI agents later searched the car and accused Thompson and Balrd of possessing false press credentials.

The two were detained for a while and suffered "emotional distress," they claim. In the lawsuit, Thompson and Balrd claim to be "Investigative reporters" as well as. attorneys, though they do not Identify their media employer. The plaintiffs ask the court to declare all laws regulating guns to be unconstitutional. They also want the court to prevent any "officer and agent" of the United States from operating any more roadblocks.

A spokesman In the White House press office referred questions to the Justice Department. A Justice Department spokesman did not return a telephone call seeking comment. Jack DeVore, Bentsen's press secretary, declined to comment on the specific allegations In the lawsuit. The lawsuit Is hardly the first time Thompson has criticized the government's handling of Kor-esh's cult. In April, she had organized a protest in Waco, and Balrd said at the time they expected 3,000 to 5,000 people to show up.

About 20 did. i spiracy to deprive all citizens of their Constitutionally protected rights and to Instill a one-world government." In addition to Clinton and Reno, defendants in the lawsuit are Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, former FBI Director William Sessions, Texas Gov. Ann Richards and various federal and state law enforcement agents. How did this conspiracy affect Thompson? It happened in March, she claims, when she and Balrd went i to Waco in an attempt to make contact with Koresh. They claim their car was stopped at a roadblock near the cult compound.

The roadblock was operated by federal agents who pointed machine guns at i Ifei! iiirf litirninri rloort Don't Settle For Less Than 100! Star Staff Photo D. Todd I FAIR'BOUND: Russ Sunderland gets Engine No. 857 ready for its passenger shuttles to the Indiana State Fair. The train will make 10 daily runs from Fishers to the fairgrounds. NORTH 846-4000 SOUTH 889-4800 Equity Loans to 100 of Value Lowest Rates Service Fast Closing Here is the train schedule: Depart Depart Fishers fairgrounds 8:45 a.m.

9:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 11 a.m. 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

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8:45 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10:15 p.m. 11 p.m. the history of the old engine.

"They were first contracted for use in Japan and were to be called the Mikado, but that fell through. The first engine didn't come off the line until four months after the war ended. But by then, my land, we needed 'em. "They say the first one of these engines was built In five days." Looking at the huge old engine, with all its gears and parts and doodads, that seems inconceivable. But Sunderland says it's so.

"They turned out about 800 or so of them after World War and a whole lot of them were still in use 50 years later." The 587 will haul 10 to 12 cars with a passenger load of more than 600. The trip from Fishers to the fairgrounds takes about 45 minutes, he said. Meanwhile, at the Nickel Plate Bar Grill In Fishers, where passengers will board the train, they were hawking "Hobo Stew" and gearing up for a rush. Fairtrai.1 schedule The Fairtrain will make 10 trips daily from the 116th Street station In Fishers to the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Roundtrip tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under.

Coupons for $1 off are available at Roselyn Bakeries, Hook's Drug Stores and Marsh Supermarkets. For ticket information, or to charge tickets, call (800)234-TRAIN, or (317) 773-6000. Beth and Rick Lux bought the establishment In 1992 and refurbished It, transforming It Into a "period" place. Beth said last year's experience was "great fun." This year the Luxes plan to sell such things as hot dogs, snow cones and railroad cookies, a specialty of the house. "If It's like last year.

It will be a total blast. I remember one day running down the tracks after the train, handing up food to the conductor," she said. The Luxes, in maintaining an old railroad theme, have kept the original brick walls and archways in the building, Beth said. "I guess it has always been a bar of some kind," she said of the building, which Is more than 100 years old. i 4 ADDITIONAL $100 SAVINGS WITH THIS AD Limit on par Cmtomar It was known as Mickey's Pub before the Luxes bought it.

The Fishers train station used to be Just behind, or north, of the tavern, but it disappeared years ago, Beth said. A photo on the wall, dating to 1883, Identifies the place as the Park Place Saloon. A sign boarded up in a window reads: "Fisher's Tavern." Other pictures depict It by other names through the years. Briefly City Ex-anesthesiology chief sues hospital, saying it WEATHERTECH VINYL SIDING F-The All American Vinyl lmav pfy Replacement Window fcJgeLsJ 30 pi I FREE WINDOW ALARM WITH EVERY I HllLW tH I WINDOW PURCHASEI Rag. rto Liter tfMvUt jTj WRfJ Whathar your horn hat traditional linat or 18PcpuavCoiorvSorltaaFadi LA JJ contemporary anglaa, thara'a It-l yXVjv wtrtoaTSoTluai ROOM ADDITIONS CI mm 2SRM anhanoavour horry'i appaaranoa, ADDITIONS Era wT3FREE ESTIMATES Eti ZvCtf SjW licensed bonded -insured owlay wA if A-1 IMMEDIATE OUT-OF-TOWN nouui EqUtM! I ro rr2ro CONSTRUCTION 1-MO-M4-3920 9y1 nenn I AFTER HOURS: 272-4806 838-3736 Im I1 -AllgjW, aaaadl noi8W.RoekvlllR.,lndlanapoUa fl yuuuuuouuuyuuuuuuijuyflM STAR STAFF REPORTS Man critically injured when van rear-ends truck SOUfillt tO lOFCe llilll Olit a YJ TTT III A Far-Eastside man was Injured critically Monday morning when his van plowed into the back of a truck, which then collided with two other cars, Marion County sheriffs deputies said.

Carlton Moore, 34, 9800 block of Royce Drive, was taken to Methodist Hospital by helicopter. He was listed in critical condition. Moore was northbound on Ind. 37 near 75th Street when his 1979 Chevy van crashed into a truck owned by Dial One Tremain Ceramic Tile Co. about 11:30 a.m., Deputy Mark Gulllon said.

The truck was driven by Carl W. Schwenzer an employee of the tile company at 9337 Castle-gate Drive, Gullion said. He said Moore did not apply his brakes. The deputy added that Moore's blood-alcohol level tested at nearly 0.25 percent and that marijuana was found in his van. Under Indiana law, a driver with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 Is considered Intoxicated.

The collision pushed thfe truck across the 75th Street Intersection, where It struck a signpost and two cars preparing to make a left turn from the southbound lane of Ind. 37, Gullion said. No one else was hurt, he said. Candlelight vigil to shed light on animal issues ing to do what's best for the community. Blaase said he could not comment on the specifics of the lawsuit.

Mann contends hospital officials changed the hospital's bylaws so they could create a "peer review" committee they could control. Peer review committees are Internal hospital disciplinary groups. However, the committee ruled against the hospital and refused to terminate Mann's staff privileges in April 1992. Neither Norbert G. Smith, former hospital administrator, nor hospital attorney Frederick W.

La-Cava could be reached for comment Monday about the disciplinary matter or the lawsuit. Both also were named defendants in the lawsuit. About three months after Mann's review, the hospital's trustees decided not to renew Smith's contract. Gregg A. Bechtold, who succeeded Smith In December, said the bylaw changes were deleted In January.

Otherwise, he said, he could not comment on the events in the lawsuit, which occurred before his arrival. "It's Important to us we continue to mov on and to provide hlgn-quallty health care," Bechtold said. By Eric B. Schoch STAR STAFF WRITER The former chief of anesthesiology at Johnson County Memorial Hospital has sued the hospital and Its trustees, saying they illegally tried to force him out of the hospital by using groundless disciplinary proceedings. H.

Michael Mann, who has had staff privileges at the Franklin hospital since 1981, charged that hospital officials wanted to revoke those privileges for economic reasons, and to retaliate because he'd criticized hospital management. Mann filed suit Friday In U.S. District Court in Indianapolis. In 1991, the hospital recruited two additional anesthesiologists to practice at the hospital, guaranteeing them certain incomes. When business wasn't sufficient to provide those incomes, the hospital had to make up the difference, the lawsuit charges.

The lawsuit contends that hospital officials hoped to provide more business for the two hew anesthesiologists by revoking Mann's privileges to practice. Mann, who remains an anesthesiologist at Johnson County Memorial, has no Income guarantee agreement with the hospital. "1 feel like the hospital will be vindicated in the court," Loren O. Blaase, chjrman of the board of trustees, said Monday. "We're try And here's what you get: 2 Door Contacts Electronic Motion Detector Interior Sounder Electronic Control Unit wKeypad Window Stickers Central Alarm Monitoring For a low monthly fee The Last Thing a Burglar Wants to Sao.

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