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Lions roar will be next The Packers are preparing to face a formidable offense and improved play Sunday against DetroitC-1 TUESDAY, October 10, 1995 Board to decide Wednesday 0. J. intcpvisw part of TV special Gannett News Service NBC, trading on past ties, has scored the first interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges. The hour-long studio interview, uninterrupted by ads, airs live Wednesday night at 9 p.m.

EDT (8 CDT) and is part of a three-hour Dateline that begins at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CDT) Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric will ask Simpson, a one-time NBC Sports analyst questions "on anything they wish." Juror kept Journal for profitA-3 ber Bonnie Peterson. "But I would like to at least give the administration the chance to make some long-range recommendations." The board will make a final decision Wednesday night on whether to proceed with planning for a year-round schedule at Martin. That schedule would begin with the 1996-97 school year.

The survey of Martin Elementary School parents gauged their support of a year-round schedule. "One of the important factors is parent input," said Superintendent Thomas Joynt. Parent input remains a key to 1996-97 plan By Lori Higgins Press-Gazette Green Bay school administrators Monday were waiting for parent survey results before making a recommendation to board members on a proposed year-round schedule. Some board members are wait- AH Martin School was selected by the School Board in January as a possible site for a pilot program. A committee studied how a schedule would look at Martin and present ed a report to the School Board two weeks ago.

The administration's final recommendation will take survey results, which are being compiled today, and the committee's report into account, Joynt said. "We need to weigh all the information, including all the research Please see SchoolA-2 Terrorism ing for that recommendation before they decide whether to approve a year-round schedule. "1 have a lot of assumptions and a lot of feelings," said board mem- O.J. Simpson First interview since trial The Monfils trial suspected Name triggered memory about incident near vat -T in Amtrak derailment Note left at site hints of sabotage By Hugh Dellios Chicago Tribune I near the vats on the morning Monfils disappeared when he saw Basten and Johnson facing each other and slightly bent as if carrying something between them. A roll cutting machine blocked them from about the waist down, so Wiener couldn't see what they were carrying.

Wiener said Basten saw him. "I believe there was eye con By Paul Srubas Press-Gazette David Wiener was so afraid of Dale Basten that he wouldn't use the bathroom at work unless someone stood guard with a knife outside the door. However, it wasn't that fear but hearing the mysterious name "Rodell" six months after Tom M. 4 I in .11 I 4 1 A jt- HYDER, Ariz. Federal agents fearing the return of domestic terrorism sought Monday night to identify the "Sons of Gestapo" after an apparent sabotage attack derailed Amtrak's Sunset Limited, killing a trainman and injuring dozens of passengers.

The train was traveling about 50 mph when it crashed early Monday morning after 29 railroad spikes and a tie bar were removed from a curving section of track. A makeshift wiring bypass was used to prevent the railroad's warning systems from alerting the engineer that there was a gap in the tracks ahead. Two notes were found near the crash site in a remote section of desert. They referred to the federal sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby-Ridge. Idaho, both rallying points Upcoming witnesses Testimony likely today: Jack Yusko, human resources director at the James River mill.

Paperworker Allen Kiley. The jury also may hear portions of a transcript of Mike Johnson's previous sworn tact, he said. Wiener had given numerous different accounts to police and in previous testimony of what time he supposedly saw Basten and Johnson that morning, but Monday, he said it would have been 7:30 a.m. at the latest. Other witnesses have testified seeing Monfils alive at about 7:35 a.m., and prosecutors have said he died between 7:35 and 7:50 a.m.

Wiener told police nothing about Monfils was killed at the James River paper mill that sparked his memory, Wiener testified Monday in the 12th day of the Monfils murder trial. After Wiener heard the name, he recalled that on Nov. 21, 1992 the day Monfils died he saw Basten and Michael Johnson, two of the defendants, carrying something to the paper pulp vat where Monfils' body later was found. Wiener gave some 1 1 for anti-govern- i 1 "We haven't had trouble like this before in my county." Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio 11 I 1 ment extremists on the far right. The note was signed "Sons of Gestapo," according to local police.

Authorities have been watching for threats from the far right since last April, when a fuel oil and fertilizer bomb destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City, claiming 168 lives. The Oklaho .1 kl I of the strongest testimony that the state has presented so far against Basten and Johnson, but he had little to say about defendants Keith Kutska, Mike Piaskowski, Rey Moore and Mike Hirn. All six are accused of being party to homicide in Monfils' death at the James River paper mill. However, Wiener's testimony also revealed a personality fraught with anxiety, a hair-trigger temper and unexplained memory lapses that defense lawyers tried to seize to show he can't be believed. Among Monday's developments: Wiener believes his life is in danger in prison because he's testifying for the prosecution.

"There's a contract out on me in the prison system right now" for testifying, said Wiener, who is serving a 10-year sentence for killing his brother at Wiener's Allouez home. Wiener testified he was work what he saw until May 1993. "I had a mental block or something, I don't know," Wiener said when Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski asked why he said nothing. Wiener had talked to police several times and testified at a secret John Doe hearing, a fact-finding hearing, in March 1993 without saying anything about seeing Basten and Johnson that morning. On May 15, 1993, Wiener was at a wedding reception at the Swan Club in De Pere, when someone mentioned the name "Rodell." Wiener said he knows no one by that name, but somehow hearing it triggered his memory about seeing Basten and Johnson on the morn- Please see TrialA-2 Jurors show their Packers spiritA-2 Monday's highlightsA-2 I 115 Saboteurs found site for optimal Press-Gazette photo by John Robb Wiener on stand: Brown County District Tom Monfils murder trial Monday.

Wiener is Attorney John Zakowski shows David a former James River paperworker in prison Wiener a document during testimony in the for killing his brother. ing in the repulper area of the mill Renard Isle toxic legacy feared ma bombing occurred on the anniversary of an FBI assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco in which some 80 followers of David Koresh were slain. The Ruby Ridge, Idaho, incident involved the killing of the son and wife of an anti-government protester during a siege in which a U.S. marshal was slain. Both incidents have been the target of congressional hearings in the past few weeks, which have once again stirred up strong reac- tions from the radical right wing, which challenges the authority of federal agents and laws.

"That's what leads me to believe this is a terrorist attack," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But neither the sheriff nor federal authorities knew of any right-wing group that called itself the "Sons of Gestapo." "I personally haven't heard of them and neither has my office, so. we will have to take a look into it. I am not sure if there is a militia in Maricopa County. If there is, it isn't active.

We haven't had trouble like this before in my county." Monday morning's crash occurred on a little-used section Southern Pacific Railroad track' and prompted a systemwide alert from Amtrak to all of its own lines and to the lines it leases from other railroads. Tjcv Green Bay Renard Isle (Kidney Island) (A I Beach LPark Bay Beach Rd jf ing where you live as we speak." His reference was to the discharge of polychlorinated byphenyls and other toxic elements. PCBs, once used in carbonless copy paper hut now banned from production in the United States, have entered the wastepaper stream and may be discharged in recyclers' effluent. Only a few big businesses benefit from river dredging, said Stephen Abitz, council president Companies that discharge toxins, albeit legally, not only contaminate the environment but benefit when taxpayers underwrite Corps of Engineers dredging costs, he said. Leighton Katers said a 1980s study group found that costs could range up to $400,000, a figure too high for coynty officials, so they shelved the matter.

"Yet the gulls and terns are gone (from Renard Island) and there's a lot of speculation about how that occurred, but it's surely not natural." The Brown County Harbor Commission said Renard Island expansion is needed to store Fox River and Green Bay channel dredgings. The channel fills with silt and dredging is required to continue ship passage. Coal, pulp, cement and limestone are primary inbound shipments. Tallow and sand are among leading exports. The council arid others contend the island will leak.

Expansion also will result in silting between the island and east shore as river flow is shunted north and west, they say. "There already is evidence that the island is eroding," said Tami Jochem, a University of Wisconsin-Green Bay student from Milwau- "And there are no studies on how chemicals react when they are compressed" in the island landfill. She represented the Round River Alliance at UWGB. Bill Guy of Green Bay charged that area paper mills "are destroy By Tom Murphy Press-Gazette Expansion of Renard Island is corporate welfare that leaves a toxic legacy for generations, speakers at a Clean Water Action Council informational meeting said Monday nighfe The hearing drew more than 60 people to Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. Council executive director Rebecca Leighton Katers said the meeting was called to develop testimony if the organization decides to seek a contested case hearing on the water quality certification permit.

The permit from the state Department of Natural Resources is required for expansion. It certifies that dissolved oxygen levels will not deteriorate because 6f island expansion. A pollution discharge permit also is required. That process likely will require a public hearing. The DNR on Sept.

30 published notice of intent to issue the water Need advice on parenting? Parenting expert Teresa Langston will speak about "Parenting Without Pressure" at 7 p.m. today at Green Bay West High School. She'll discuss "Positive Parenting in the '908" at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Brown County Library. Both presentations are free.

They are sponsored by Partners in Care, a local group that promotes family-friendly work Press-Gazette graphic quality permit to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Interested parties have 30 days to request the hearing before an administrative law judge. The corps wants to expand the island off Bay Beach Amusement Park to 181 acres from 55. 3 1 00 I Monday's SuperCash Wednesday WeatherOtter says: Mostly sunny, warm Tiremakers and auto companies are designing tires that think -tires that alert drivers when they've run short on air, keep going even when fiat and improve fuel economy.

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