Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 3

Green Bay Press-Gazette Monday, Jan. 9, 1989 A-3 Nation Briefly trial that's cost to get under way 5r I P. Levasseur R. Levasseur Williams edition millions By Carolyn Lumsden Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Atri al of avowed revolutionaries that already has cost the government millions of dollars is finally set to begin this week, 10 months after lawyers began picking jurors.

The three remaining defendants of eight who were captured in one of the largest manhunts U.S. history are accused of sedition, or conspiring to topple the government by force, under a rarely in voked law whose meaning has been the subject of much courtroom wrangling. "It is a serious threat to fundamental liberties," said Peter Avenia, one of the team of a half-dozen defense lawyers. Prosecutors contend, however, that the charge of sedition fits the group they describe as a dangerous band of terrorists. A Boston courthouse worker lost a leg and 21 other people were injured in one of the score of bombings the group allegedly plotted from 1976 to 1985.

With a vast pool of jurors already winnowed down, the final few jurors in the U.S. District Court trial are scheduled to be picked today and opening arguments are expected Tuesday. Jury selection began last March. Up to 350 witnesses could be called to testify. The defendants each face up to 60 years in prison and $60,000 in fines if convicted on the charges of ft.

1 i 4 AP LaserPhoto Path of destruction: A Saturday night tornado ripped across Allendale, leaving nearly a third of the town's buildings demolished. Residents clean up after 3 tornadoes Family given wrong body hopes to recover daughter's remains Ohio, house on Nov. 4, 1984, were Jaan La am an, 40; his wife, Barbara J. Curzi-Laaman, 31; and Richard Williams, 41. Agents in Deerfield, Ohio, arrested Raymond Luc Levasseur, 42, and his wife, Patricia Gros Levasseur, 34, the same day.

Carol A. Manning, 33, and her husband, Thomas Manning, 42, were apprehended six months later in Norfolk, Va. Christopher King, 38, was arrested in North Attleboro, in 1982. All that remains of the original eight defendants, however, are Williams and the Levasseurs. Mrs.

Levasseur is out on bail, having finished a five-year term for possessing false identification and harboring her fugitive husband. The other defendants have either changed their pleas to guilty or been dropped from the case. that there would be any survivors. But until you have the body, there will always be that 1 percent doubt." "But you never know, Mom," Karen's 13-year-old sisier, Robyn, said with a grin. "She might come home one day and say, Robert Hunt said the family had intended to bury Karen at a private service as soon as the ground thawed in the spring.

"If some other family received the body and it's been buried, at least it's not a lost cause; it can be exhumed," he said. "Cremation is the one thing we're hoping has not occurred." Hunt's family had become suspicious as early as Tuesday that they were not getting their daughter's remains when Scottish officials said the deceased woman wore a scarf, blouse and slacks that Karen never wore. seditious conspiracy, racketeering conspiracy and racketeering enterprise. Their attorneys argue that the trial is a waste of money, since their clients already have been convicted on bombing and bank robbery charges and all but one are serving jail sentences. The cost so far is estimated at well over $3 million.

The government has used the statute only a few times since it was first invoked to punish Confederate rebels in the Civil War, said Arthur D. Wqlf, a professor at Western New England College in Springfield. In the case going to trial in Springfield, an FBI hunt for the defendants swept through hundreds of New England towns in 1983. Arrested in their Cleveland, ty student. That body, which arrived in New York Thursday on a Pan American flight, has not been identified but is "substantially said Dr.

Nicholas Forbes, the chief medical examiner. "The only thing they told us is they're fairly sure the body (of Hunt) is somewhere in the United States," said Karen's father, Robert Hunt. The FBI agents from Rochester and Buffalo and the Scotland Yard investigator, who flew up from Washington, D.C., declined comment after leaving the Hunt house. Sitting at a kitchen table covered with a lace tablecloth, Karen's mother, Peggy Hunt, said the family's inability to recover her body had been a "nagging torment. "At least I know that if shes dead she's in God's hands," said Mrs.

Hunt. "There's little chance it with the cleanup and to prevent looting. Loeffler said the tornado cut through a 10-square-block area of Allendale, destroying 53 homes and nine businesses, as well as the post office, fire station, city hall and a school. On Sunday, the National Guard and other emergency workers cleared trees and power lines that had been knocked down and other rubble from streets, but hadn't made much headway on houses, said Gen. Donald Lynn.

Gov. James Thompson toured Allendale and flew over the other affected areas. He said he planned to declare Allendale a state disaster area. In Mill Shoals, two or three mobile homes were overturned and a few homes and farm buildings were damaged. In Albion, five buildings were damaged but there were no injuries, said Mayor Earl Bailey.

In Indiana, a twister came within a mile of Vincennes Lincoln High School, where 2,500 people were watching a junior varsity basketball game when the storm knocked the school's power out. ALLENDALE, 111. (AP) Residents of three states today struggled to recover from tornadoes that destroyed a third of the buildings in this southeastern Illinois town and injured more than four dozen people. "It looks like this place has been bombed," Mayor Jack Loeffler said Sunday from an emergency command post in a bank. Twisters hit the Illinois towns of Mill Shoals, Albion and Allendale on Saturday afternoon before moving into Indiana and touching down near Vincennes.

Late Saturday, a tornado cut a two-mile path through the southern Kentucky community of Franklin. Fifty people were injured in Illinois, and 22 remained hospitalized Sunday. The three people injured in Indiana were released from hospitals by Sunday; no injuries were reported in Kentucky. "After seeing everything that's happened, we were pretty lucky no folks were hurt," said Simpson County Judge-Executive Ken Harper in Kentucky. The National Guard was sent to the tornado-ravaged areas of Illinois and Kentucky to help By Jonathan Saltzman Gannett News Service ROCHESTER, N.Y.

British and American investigators Sunday told the family of Karen Hunt, killed in the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103, that her' body is probably somewhere in the United States, raising the possibility that another family received it by mistake. A detective sergeant from Karen Hunt Scotland Yard and two FBI agents apologized to the family a day after a specialist in dental identification said a young woman's body sent to the Monroe County Medical Examiner's office here was not that of the 20-year-old Syracuse Universi In the Nation Reagan is back home after surgery WASHINGTON (AP) Reagan raised his left hand to reporters as he pronounced Jiimself "fin'e" after successful surgery to correct a curvature of his left ring ringer. Reagan returned to the White House from Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Sunday, a day after undergoing surgery that lasted ust under three hours. The president, accompanied bv first lady Nancy Reagan, lifted his left hand, with a bulky bandage on it, as he stepped out of the emergency entrance of the hospital. The operation was to alleviate a condition known as Dupuytren's contracture, which caused the president's fingers to curve inward.

Vegas shaken by mild earthquake LAS VEGAS, A mild earthquake rattled this desert gambling resort Sunday night, breaking windows in some homes and prompting hundreds of telephone calls to authorities. There were no reports of major damage or serious injuries, officials said. The tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale struck at 9:08 p.m. and was centered 10 miles northeast of Las Vegas, said Russ Needham of the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion.

Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Cyanide report in paper probed CAMDEN, N.J.(AP) Investigators would not comment Sunday on a report that cyanide was found at the home of a teen-ager who has been in a coma since eating yogurt laced with poisonr Camden County Prosecutor Samuel Asbell and FBI officials in Newark would not comment on a story in Saturday's Courier-Post of Cherry Hill that quoted sources as saying cyanide was found in the Haddonfield home of Thomas Lee, 17, and the laboratory used by his father, Professor Hsin-yi Lee. 2 killed in robbery of McDonald's WEST CHESTER, Pa.i AP) Two employees of a McDonald's Restaurant were fatally shot during a robbery Sunday and a suspect was arrested hours later at a Wilmington, bus station, officials said. Robert P. Hughes IV, 21, of Glen Mills, was arrested at about 8:40 a.m., said Wilmington police Sgt.

Richard Andress. Hughes was charged with resisting arrest, carrying a concealed deadly weapon and was held as a fugitive, Andress said. In Pennsylvania, Hughes was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of criminal homicide, robbery and weapons violations. Elegant Reglazing Make your old tub shine again change color If you wish. We make repairs.

Porcelain or fiberglass easy to clean. Done right In the home. Free Brochures Free Estimates am. 498-9450 mister Doruxt DOZEN DONUTS Noon thru Midnight 1.99s A Dozen ALL -JANUARY No Coupon Needed Limit 2 dozen per customer. mister Dorvur Good on Regular 55 Vartotiet rA MIE Ulftftftl AU-ftttJ WEST 1051 WUT ART 49U321 SOUTH -2053 1.

ONEIDA 4M-M0S Mon.ftwmn.jfSV TIP ri rio 1 1 9jlfci, jr, Oil CI Will DC FClUSCile to deal. S. SP today. M. 9.8 1 Wed.

9-5; Sat. 9-4 II I UlUWHIIII I It fcinMmninii in i i.i. n.i i i.iim im in i.i.i.. mi i vyyy i 2496 South Oneida 11 yyy i (Across from Montgomery Ward) CARPET 90 Days Same As Cash' iwiut approvM moil.