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FIRST A-2 Tuesday. October 31, 1995 Green Bay Press-Gazette NationWorld From A-l Outcome resolves little in Quebec Analysis How appeal process works File intent to appeal: Defense lawyers must file within 20 days after sentencing. No reasons for the appeal have to be given at this time. Who handles appeal: Most of the convicted Monfils defendants probably will have state-appointed appellate lawyers. These lawyers make the initial decision, after reading trial transcripts, on whether there is merit for an appeal.

Where appeals go to court: District 3 Court of Appeals in Wausau. Three judges rule on appeals cases: Daniel LaRocque, R. Thomas Cane and Gordon Myse. What could happen: The case could be denied. It could be sent back for a new trial.

And, rarely, the verdict could be overturned and charges against the defendant By David Crary Associated Press MONTREAL It was the result that many Canadians feared the most a defeat for Quebec separatists so narrow that they would simply roll up their sleeves and try again. Those weeping at the separatist headquarters, where the final result of the secession referendum was announced late Monday, ended their tears and began to cheer as leaders of the losing side rallied their faithful. "We will wait a bit, but not for long," Quebec's separatist premier, Jacques Parizeau, said ir what was more a call-to-arms than a concession speech. "We won't wait 15 years this time." He was referring to the often tortuous 15-year lapse since the last referendum in 1980, when separat- Even young federalists at the victory celebrations in Montreal said Chretien must now be more open to constitutional reform that would meet some of the aspirations of Quebec's French nationalists. 'I think people have said they want to stay in Canada but they want a new constitution," said Isa-belle St-Laurent.

"We want more than Canada has offered to us. Jean Chretien has no choice at this point." Randy Ferguson, a hotel employee, agreed. "I think even people on the No side are ready for a bit of change. There has to be we are at a dead end." Had the defeat been more decisive, Parizeau might have felt compelled to resign. Instead, he suggested he will turn swiftly to new secession strategy.

Monfils forward from there. Four defense lawyers Parent. Finne, Avram Berk (Basten's lawyer) and Gerald Boyle (Hirn's lawyer) said they would file intents to appeal, which are due within 20 days after sentencing. Most lawyers didn't want to get too specific about the grounds for an appeal, but they agreed there were many in the six-defendant trial that covered five weeks. "I'm not going to talk about that right now except to say there is sufficient grounds because the evidence wasn't such to put (Him) in the loop that killed Mr.

Monfils," Boyle said. Several lawyers said trying six defendants at once may be grounds for appeal. "Certainly the issue of trying all of them together results in some hearsay problems," Finne said. The uniqueness of the Monfils trial opens up "issues that have never been explored," Parent said. It had the potential for "antagonistic defenses" with the accused defending themselves from each other as well as from the prosecution, he said.

"And I think one of the problems is the prejudicial effect of the order of questioning," he said. Defense lawyers worked in a rotation, but some complained Press-Gazette A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Bomb charges solid, prosecutors argue Main office: 435-4411 or (800) 444-0007 William T. Nusbaum David Hollingsworth president and publisher marketing director Claude J. Werder editor Brian Ambor production director Michael Prazma director Douglas C. Miller controller James M.

Lobas director Monica Baures services Sharon L. Hollingsworth human resources, 431-8228 Denlss Handrick customer quality director, 431-8268 17! Laurie Holloway ists were trounced by a 60-40 margin. Back then, separatist leader Rene Levesque ended his concession speech with a defiant "Until next time." Next time came Monday, and the separatists almost prevailed, losing by barely 1 percent after an impassioned campaign through the month of October. Canada was spared the crises that would have followed a Its currency won't collapse, its government won't tumble. But Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a Quebecker who campaigned all-out for the federalist side, can scarcely take comfort from such a tenuous victory in his home province.

bility of a larger conspiracy. However, he does not question the indictment of McVeigh and Nichols, who could face the death penalty if convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges in the April 19 bombing that killed 169 people. Defense attorneys have cited the article in their motion to dismiss the indictment, saying the juror violated his secrecy oath and his remarks indicated that prosecutors withheld information from the panel. Prosecutors maintain that 200 pages of transcribed interviews conducted by Media Bypass reporter Lawrence Meyers show that Heidelberg's complaints were exaggerated in the article. we don't try." The Billion Channel Extraterrestrial Assay, or BETA, is a 300-fold upgrade of the first telescope dedicated to listening in on aliens, activated nearly a decade ago on the same hilltop in this rural town 20 miles west of Boston.

Resembling a huge satellite dish, the new telescope can best be thought of as an enormous radio receiver with millions of separate channels tuned to different stations. It is designed to pick up outside signals, or beacons, that may be beaming from hundreds, if not thousands, of light years away. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The conduct of a juror dismissed from the bombing case for talking to a reporter does not warrant throwing out the indictments against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the government argued Monday. Hoppy Heidelberg, a horse breeder from Blanchard, was dismissed from the grand jury last week for violating secrecy rules by talking with a reporter for Media Bypass, a magazine with ties to right-wing militias. If held in contempt, Heidelberg could face a maximum of six months in prison and a $1,000 fine.

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throughout the trial that where they were in the order placed them at a disadvantage. Mike Piaskowski's lawyer, Tim Pedretti, and Mike Johnson's lawyer, Eric Steam, were not available for comment. "you could collect one heck of a lot more than we've collected so far." In fiscal 1994, an estimated $1.5 billion in fines was levied against federal criminals. The Justice Department collected $430 million, $185 million of which actually went to the Crime Victims Fund. Congress realized as early as 1987 that there was a potential problem in collecting the fines.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts was told to develop a system to aid Justice Department collections. The Administrative Office has spent $10 million from the Crime Victims Fund, but a system is still at least three years and $15 million from completion, the GAO found. "We ended up taking the money from the victims and getting nothing in return," McCain said. "It's one thing to start out building a $500 toilet seat.

It's another thing to not even get the seat built." David Sellers, spokesman for the Administrative Office, says that 43 judicial districts are on a basic centralized system. The remaining 51 districts are expected to be on that system by August 1996. Gerald Stern, special counsel at the Justice Department, disputes charges that his department is at fault. He says statistics show that the department has collected about $731 million for the Crime Victims Fund since 1992. "Our criminal fund collection is going well," Stern said.

He says many fines are uncollectable because the defendant's ability to pay is not taken into consideration. Meanwhile, crime victims like Margaret Henderson, 77, of Shreveport, feel the pinch of impoverished compensation programs. Robbers broke into the Hendersons' home Oct. 4, just after she had cashed the Social Security checks that she and her husband survive on. They lost $600.

Caddo Parish Sheriff Don Hath-away's department was able to give her its maximum compensation: $100. Several bills had to go unpaid. "My children gave me a little, but they are working for a living like the average person," Henderson said. "We're managing it the best we can." His government is struggling with a huge deficit more than $2 billion U.S. and he already has tried to blame the federal government for the predicament Tensions are likely to worsen if Ottawa, as expected, is forced to make cuts in social spending to trim its own federal deficit.

Jeffrey Simpson, a columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail, said a narrow federalist victory "would consign Canada and Quebec to continuing acrimony and paralysis." Federalist leaders, after clinching victory Monday night, called for reconciliation and a joint effort to seek acceptable changes. But it is an open question whether the separatists will reciprocate, especially after some federalists described Parizeau's defiant speech as demogoguery. 435 E. Walnut P.O. Box 19430 Gram Bay, Wl 54307-9430 Bualneaa Houra: Waakdaya, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturdays, 7:30 a.m.-noon managing editor, 431-8325 Janice Possley Investment Specialist 436-5538 PRODUCTS INVOLVE (F KC1 VOL. LXXXNO. 126 0 1995 (USPS 228-160) Postmaster: Send address changes to Green Bay Press-Gazette, P.O. Box 19430, Green Bay, Wl 54307-9430. Founded June 28, 1915, the Press-Gazette is published seven days per week by the Green Bay Press-Gazette, 435 E.

Walnut Green Bay Wl 54301. Second-class postage paid at Green Bay, Wis. Monday-Friday, delivery is in the evening; on weekends and holidays, delivery is in the morning. Member Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulation. By Gary Fields Gannett News Service More than $4 billion in federal fines to compensate crime victims has gone uncollected, severely limiting the amount of money available to help victims and their families pay for medical treatment, burials and other expenses.

David Beatty, public policy director for the National Victim Center, says the failure to collect the fines comes at a time when the 8,000 organizations nationwide that help crime victims are struggling to provide services. "I have to talk to organizations all the time operating on shoestring budgets where a thousand dollars is the difference between them paying their rent and them closing their doors," Beatty said. The federal Victims of Crime Act of 1984 was supposed to help keep those doors open. The act allows criminal fines, bail bond forfeitures and special assessments collected in federal judicial districts to be placed in the Crime Victims Fund. That money is then funneled down to state victim programs.

But a General Accounting Office review found that an estimated $4.5 billion in fines has not been collected since 1985 because there isn't a centralized national system that tracks who owes fines, how much is owed and how it might be collected. The GAO found a "fragmented process" for tracking and collecting criminal debt, a lack of standardized procedures and discrepancies among agency collection records. The confusion has allowed some defendants to literally walk away from fines while others are never even billed or contacted about payment. Sen. John McCain, and Sen.

Byron Dorgan, members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee have given the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts a Nov. 18 deadline to develop a plan for correcting the situation or face having their funding frozen. Legislation also has been introduced that would turn the collection process over to private industry. "We've got to go back to square one," McCain said.

"Realistically" $4.5 billion won't be collected, but Wise tovestmeet Choices HARVARD, Mass. (AP) Sci-entists have developed quite an ear for extraterrestrials: an 84-foot radio telescope with a billion channels tuned to finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. About 250 physicists, astronomers and curious stargazers from Harvard University and beyond gathered Monday to watch and listen as one of the Earth's largest receivers was turned on. "No one knows the likelihood that we will find a civilization," said Paul Horowitz, a Harvard physics professor who directs the telescope. "But we won't know if Another break for astronauts CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts got another break today from their nonstop laboratory research. The astronauts took turns relaxing so as not to interrupt the experiments. It was their second four-hour break in the 16-day mission, due to end Sunday. The first one was last week. Despite the length of the mission, astronaut Catherine Coleman was in no hurry to come home.

"It's a magical place to live and work up here, and we're discovering all sorts of neat things and ing some great experiments," she said in a TV interview Monday night. "Everyday you wake up and you can't wait to get to work." Bob Castle, NASA mission operations representative, said there have been only "very, very minor" shuttle problems during the Ed Rosenberg Investment Specialist, 436-5532 CFP ANNOUNCEMENT DAVID K. KAUFMAN. M.D.. ROBERT T.

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