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At The RepubUc. CofcjnKxji. Monday, May S. 1 989 People Focus On: Mexican Drug Cult Cult leader ordered follower to kill him Pierce Brosnan, wife buy estate in Malibu Actor Pierce Brwau and his wife have bought an estate worth scrambling to collect the falling bills I Two members nearly million in Malibu, Calif. The Irish actor and his wife, Cassandra Harris, purchased the six-acre, ocean-view estate in Paradise Cove nearBarbra Streisand's PIERCE BROSNAN beach compound, said Robert Rubenstein of Malibu Realty.

Riltenstein said the property has lush tropica grounds and a pool with a waterfall. He Called it "a Mediterranean masterpiece." Brosnan, who tried unsuccessfully to land the part of James Bond in a 1987 film role that went to Timothy Dalton, is perhaps best known as the television detective Remington Steele. Last month, he had the starring role in the NBC-TV miniseries "Around the World in 80 Days." ana coins. While the police crouched behind parked cars waiting for reinforcements, Constanzo began to beg de Leon Valdez to kill him, along with his "right hand," Martin Quintans Rodriquez. ALDRETE, A former honor student at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, also told reporters Constanzo ordered de Leon Valdez to kill him and his companion.

"He ordered him to kill him because it was the end and he wanted to die with Martin," Aldrete said. De Leon Valdez told reporters, "He told me to kill him. He said that if I didn't, I would have a tough time in bell. He pleaded with me. "He slapped me twice in the face," de Leon Valdez said.

"We could hear the cops outside shooting. A lot of shots could be heardthey sat down in the Constanzo on a stool and Martin beside him. I just stood there in front of them and pressed the trigger" of the Uzi machine gun, he said. "That was it." After Constanzo was dead, de Leon Valdez said he continued shooting out of the window until his ammunition ran out. FORTY-FTVE MINUTES after the first shots had been fired, police wearing bulletproof vests stormed the fourth-floor apartment and arrested the five surviving cult members.

Two other suspects apparently escaped during the melee. Police had described Constanzo and Quintana as homosexuals, saying Constanzo was well-known in Mexico City's gay bars. But when reporters asked de Leon Valdez whether the two had been lovers, he replied, "I don't know anything about that. They were very close." killed before police raid Dallas Morning News MEXICO CITY The "godfather" of a drug-smuggling cult, who police believe ordered the ritual and revenge slayings of at least 15 people, ordered a member of the cult to kill him and his companion when he saw police outside his apartment, two of his followers said Sunday, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was shot to death Saturday after police appeared outside the Mexico City apartment building where he was staying with eight other alleged cult members. At a news conference Sunday, police said they were unaware Constanzo was in the apartment when they appeared on the scene.

Following information the group was holed up somewhere in the neighborhood, investigators were patrolling on foot in the center of the capital about 2 p.m. when they stopped to peer inside an apparently abandoned car, police said. BUT WHEN Constanzo saw the officers, he assumed they had discovered his hiding place, a run-down apartment neighbors said he purchased two weeks ago. Believing he was about to be captured, the 26-year-old cult leader reportedly went berserk. Alvaro de Leon Valdez, one of five suspects later arrested in the apartment, said he was asleep when Constanzo spotted the officers.

"They shouted to me, "They're de Leon Valdez said. "He went crazy. He said, 'Why run? hl Williams to pick up tab for unfinished concert Hank Williams Jr. will cover the losses of a Baton Rouge, arena where officials Associatad Prtsi Valdez was a member of the drug-trafficking cult that killed 15 people. Alvaro de Leon Valdez is taken from a Mexico City apartment building Saturday by police.

said he cursed, failed to finish a song and stumbled offstage after 20 minutes, a spokesman for the country music star promised. Angry fans in the Saturday Don't Then he grabbed a bundle of money and threw it out the window. "He said if he could not enjoy the money, no one else could either," de Leon Valdez said during a news conference at the federal district attorney's office. The suspects were paraded before reporters for questioning during the 20-minute session. SARA MARIA Aldrete Vfflareal, the reputed "bruja" or "witch" of the cult, was in the apartment with Constanzo.

"The agents came and we were all so nervous," she said. "Adolfo was in bad shape. He said, 'It's too late, everything is lost." Constanzo and other members of a group allegedly involved in human sacrifice have been charged with the killings of IS people whose bodies were found in April on ranches out- side Matamoros, on the U.S. border. He is believed to have directed the human sacrifices, mutilations and the boiling of brains and body organs in rituals designed to bring occult protection to their drug-smuggling ring.

On Saturday, Constanzo fired at officers from the apartment window until he was out of ammunition. He wounded a passer-by who was HANK WILLIAMS JR. Alleged cult 'witch' denies rolfe in slayings Hall. ftf LI Dallas Morning News wearine a suede iapket nwr a night audience of about 7,000 threw beer bottles-and burned souvenir T-shirts. There were no injuries or arrests reported and damage to the Baton Rouge Centroplex was minor, police said.

"We don't want any hard feelings," Williams' spokesman Kent Arwood said by telephone Sunday from Nashville, Tenn. "It was just an unfortunate thing that occurred. It's not the norm for this kind of thing to happen with Hank Williams Junior." Arwood said Williams was sorry and promised to pay for ticket refunds and other expenses, and for any profit the arena wrjuld have made. Just to make suj-e restitution is paid, Centroplex management got black-and-turquoise T-shirt, the 6-foot-1 Aldrete looked pale and exhausted as she answered questions MEXICO CITY Sara Maria Aldrete Villareal had been branded the "witch" of a drug-smuggling black-magic cult a suggestion that irOL PJE JUSTlOp a judge to sign ai order seizing wmiams' private jet until the matter is settled. ior a minutes.

Her dark brown hair fell limply around her face. ALDRETE'S VOICE cracked --several times. She had to choke back tears when she was asked about the death of Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old University of Texas student who was one of the victims buried on the Mexican ranches. Kilroy disappeared March 14 in Matamoros while on an outing with friends over spring break. He was the subject of an intense search on both sides of the border, and police interest in his disappearance led, in part, to an investigation of one of the two ranches where the 15 bodies were found.

"I feel sorry for him, because when he disappeared, I was helping his family" search for the young man, she said without elaboration. Asked what she would say to Kilroy's parents, of Santa Fe, Texas, Aldrete looked down and Kitty Dukakis urges graduates to be open Kitty Dukakis urged a college graduating class to be "open and she enticed people into joining or goaded them into killing men in bloody rituals. But the 24-year-old college student stood before dozens of reporters on Sunday and denied she helped kill the 15 victims whose mutilated bodies were found buried on ranches near Matamoros, Mexico. Looking worn and haggard after more than three weeks on the run, Aldrete said she was shocked by accounts on television last month that portrayed her as a central figure in the bloody cult. "When all the sacrifices were made, when all those things came out on television all of those things weren't true," she said.

AND RESPONDING to reports authorities had found black-magic objects and a bloody altar in a search of her home in Matamoros, Aldrete said the items were Christian icons. "What was found in my house were not satanic objects," she said. "They were saints Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Barbara, Santo Nino De Atocha the guardian angel of Constanzo." Aldrete made her statements as she and four other suspects in police custody were paraded before journalists Sunday. A day earlier, the leader of their drug gang, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo. 26.

renortpdlv nexioie enough to accept bad and good times qualities she used to fight her drug and alcohol addiction. "I've had to be open to the reality that I would spend the AtseciaM Prtti Cuevas, Alvaro de Leon Valdez, Omar Francisco Orea Ochoa, Maria de Lourdes Bueno and Sara Aldrete, a former honor student at a Texas college. KITTY DUKAKIS Five people arrested in connection with the deaths of 15 people by a drug-trafficking cult are paraded before the news media Sunday. Charged were, from left, were Maria del Rocio police quoted then said, "I'm sorry. If I would have known it was like this, I woujdn't be in it." Asked who killed Kilroy, Aldrete hesitated for a long time, then apparently couldn't get the words out.

Finally, she said, "Adolfo killed him." CONSTANZO, A Cuban-American, has been named by various suspects in the cult as a practitioner of "palo mayombe," a black-magic religion found in the Caribbean. girlfriend, Mexican her as saying. She said she did not love him romantically, but she acknowledged, rest of my life recovering from that dependency, one day at a time," the wife of Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis said Sunday in her address to the 1989 New England Institute of Technology graduates in Providence, R.I. "I've had to learn these lessons in the public eye, with the intense of the media and with the knowledge and awareness of tens of millions of people." She and her husband also received the school's annual America's Finest Award.

From Wire Dispatches i louowea rum." Police said she gave a statement indicating she received large sums FOR YOU, MOTHER WITH LOVE oi money ana cars from him. Beautiful cards beautiful wishes! Tt'll Mom you love her by sending the very best. Send her a I yim.irk drd. went berserk and ordered an associate to kill him and a male companion. Aldrete and the others were presented to reporters as part of a procedure to let them make statements and to assure the public of their well-being.

Some of the 15 victims of the cult were sacrificed in rituals that thp Aldrete said she met Constanzo in mid-1987 when he invited her to join him at a ritual. She eventually came to travel with Constanzo, and he often introduced her as his wife or ACM cult members thought would protect mem irom narm, they have said. READER INFORMATION THE REPUBLIC Bee Quick Bee Sure BEE TRAVELERS with HOPE MISSION TOURS DISPLAY ADVERTISING AND BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS 8am to 5 Mondays through Fridays DELIVERY INFORMATION CIRCULATION DIRECT LINE: 379-5601 333 Second Street Columbus, Indiana 47201 Published daily except on these holidays if they tall on Mondays through Saturdays New Year Day Memorial Day. Independence Day. Labor Day Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day SWITCHBOARD: (812) 372-7811 or outside Columbus area CALL TOLL-FREE 76-78 11 LOCAL NEWS TIPS: 379-5633' Don BucKnam.

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