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A-6 Friday, June 9, 1989 AUianbria Duilg Horn Sal Va. wife denies husband is N.J. mass murderer New charges mean Saldana's attacker won't be released Actress: 'It is buying some time' I v. I RICHMOND, Va. (AP) An accountant accused of killing five family members 18 years ago was transferred from federal to state custody Thursday, but his wife insisted that authorities had the wrong man In a brief hearing, U.S.

Magistrate David G. Lowe authorized federal officials to release Robert P. Clark, who authorities say actually is New Jersey fugitive John E. List, into Virginia custody until he can be extradited. Later Thursday, a county judge set a hearing for July 6 and ordered him jailed without bail.

Clark's wife, Delores, said at a news conference that she does not believe her husband is the 63-year-old List, who is charged with murdering his mother, wife, and three children in 1971 "I love my husband very deeply. I do not believe this is sthe same man," she said. Clark has not admitted he is List, but authorities have iden tified him by his fingerprints and physical markings. "I anticipate having no trouble identifying him and bringing him to trial," said Assistant Prosecutor Eleanor Clark in Union County, N.J. Clark was arrested June 1 at the Richmond accounting firm where he had worked for a year and a half.

FBI agents had been tipped off by a viewer of the national television program "America's Most Wanted," which 11 days earlier had run a segment focusing on List. Authorities say List had fled to Colorado, then Virginia, and had built a new life without changing his appearance, profession or reputation as a quiet, churchgoing Lutheran. "I'm looking forward to seeing him," said Westfield, N.J., Detective Lt. Bernard Tracy, who has been working on the List case for 10 years. "He's had 18 years of freedom and it's time the prosecution started and he pay for his crimes Associated Press Delores Clark, wife of Robert P.

Clark, talks to reporters along with her attorney, David Baugh, in Richmond, Thursday. She denies her husband is really John E. List, a mass murder suspect. Court strikes down system of 66 "property poor" LOS ANGELES (AP) The would-be killer who knifed actress Theresa Saldana in 1982 and was about to be paroled may be kept in prison indefinitely under fresh charges filed Thursday, prosecutors said. Arthur Jackson, 53, was charged with eight counts of making death threats from Erison against the actress and er rescuer in 1987 and 1988.

"I think it's great. I am so grateful he will not be walking out next week. It is buying some time," Miss Saldana said in a telephone interview from New York. She added: "This nightmare is far from being resolved and there is a long road ahead." District Attorney Ira Reiner said, "Our objective, quite simply, is to keep him off the street." Maximum penalty The new charges carry a maximum penalty of seven years and eight months in prison, Reiner said. However, if Jackson is convicted, he will be sentenced under the provisions of a 1986 state law that bar freeing deranged inmates who continue to make credible threats.

Authorities said last week that Jackson could not continue to be held under his current sentence for threats that he had not actually acted on. Good behavior in Soledad Prison had allowed him to earn a June 15 parole date. However, a prison board on Tuesday was expected to slap him with an extra 60 days for breaking rrrrjJSs.0; Make Way For Clark-Dunbar's Make Way For Clark-Dunbar's imagined that we'd have an opportunity remake the entire system schools Superintendent John called it "the happiest day of my life." General Assembly's ranking members Senate President Pro Tern John and House Speaker Don Bland-ford building the kind of education court required was sure to be but they were willing. Blandford also said the ruling something of a relief, although they were on the losing side. "As concerned, there are no more sacred in education, Blandford said.

Kentucky lawsuit was one of several in state courts around the rKAiNtuKi, Ky. (Af) The state Supreme Court declared Kentucky's system of public schooling unconstitutional Thurs-. day and ordered the legislature to reinvent By permitting a wide gap between poor and wealthier school districts, the legislature failed to meet its constitutional duty, the court ruled. "Lest there be any doubt, the result of our decision is that Kentucky's entire system of common schools is unconstitutional," Chief Justice Robert Stephens wrote for the court's five-member majority. Rich and poor alike "must be given the same opportunity and access to an adequate education," the court ruled in a case brought four years ago by a coalition The decision "applies to the entire sweep of the system all its parts and parcels," including laws and regulations "creating, implementing and financing the system," the opinion said.

They included laws creating local school districts and school boards, the state Department of Education, school construction and maintenance, teacher certification "the whole gamut of the common school system in Kentucky," the opinion said. Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, a longtime critic of the state's school-management scheme, said the court had given Kentucky its greatest opportunity of the last century. "We've been talking about changing the management culture within the system," Wilkinson said in a news conference. "We Ky.

school districts. CLARK-DUNBAR never to State Brock professional The "Eck" Rose said system the expensive, Rose and was technically far as I'm cows" The pending Theresa Saldana: am so be walk- grateful he will not ing out next week." windows The wild-eyed Scottish drifter whose obsession with the "Raging Bull" actress led to the 1982 attack had served seven years of a 12-year sentence for the stabbing. Miss Saldana was attacked outside her West Hollywood apartment and stabbed 10 times by Jackson, whose thrusts bent the blade of his kitchen knife. Water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, now a county sheriffs deputy, pulled Jackson off the actress. In five letters to her and three to Fenn, Jackson vowed to carry out his death mission.

"I Briefs 3232 EMPIRE GIGANTIC CARPET SUPER ST0REH IL I Mil 1 i ii ijil fil Hi hi IKiLJ Going Out Of The Furniture Business. "This is really big news," said Robert Wolff, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid. "I feel very confident that once (Tutu) arrives there will be enormous pressure on Harvard to divest." Governor, wife split CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Gov. Gaston Caperton announced Thursday that he is di-.

vorcing his wife, Dee, after 23 years of marriage. Caperton, 49, cited irreconcilable differences for his decision to divorce the state's first lady, a former Miss West Virginia who served two years in the state House of Delegates before Caperton was elected governor last fall. "At the governor's request, during the separation, Dee Caperton is residing at the Caperton residence in Charleston," a statement said. "This is personally painful for me and my family," Mrs. Caperton told reporters.

"But I want you to know it has been an honor to represent the state of West Virginia and I regret that I will no longer be performing the duties of first lady." Fourth trial ordered TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)-Florida's Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a death row inmate Thursday and ordered his fourth trial in the murders of three adults and two children. In a 4-3 ruling, the court said Douglas Jackson deserved another trial because the prosecutor in his third trial improperly questioned him about his con viction in the first trial. The first verdict was overturned because his defense attorney was taking medication for a head injury during the trial. Jackson's second trial ended in mistrial.

Wells Fargo sentencing HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -Three Puerto Rican nationalists drew maximum sentences of up to 15 years in prison Thursday for their roles in a $7.1 million Wells Fargo robbery in 1983. But one of them, Roberto Maldonado Rivera, a civil rights attorney from Puerto Rico, was released on $200,000 bond pending appeal of his conviction on a conspiracy charge. The defendant receiving the stiffest penalty was Antonio Camacho Negron, a 45-year-old auto mechanic. He was given a 15-year prison term and fined $150,000 on a conspiracy count and a charge of assisting in the transfer of some of the stolen cash to Mexico.

The third man, Norman Ramirez Talavera, a 32-year-old graphic artist convicted on a conspiracy charge, received a five-year prison term and was fined $50,000. FBI has number EL PASO, Texas (SHNS) For those among the dozens of persons who scrambled to pick up and carry off more than $100,000 that fell out of an armored car on Interstate 10 near downtown El Paso, the FBI has this warning: They may have your number. The crew of the Loomis Armored van that accidentally dumped the money on the highway claim they took down the license plate numbers of motorists who stopped to pick up the cash. And some of the missing $100,000 can also be identified by its serial numbers, said Richard Schwein, special agent in charge of the El Paso FBI office. Anyone trying to spend the money could face up to 10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine on federal bank-robbery charges, Schwein said.

Teen felon applauded BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -A teen-ager convicted of vehicular homicide was applauded at his graduation while his victim's mother asked the school board to prohibit felons from receiving diplomas in the future. Parents demonstrated last week at Santaluces Community High School after Eric Norstrom was elected prom king. He was convicted earlier in the death of Amber Hunter, 17, who was hit when Norstrom drove into a crowd of youths Norstrom received his diploma Wednesday, the same day Amber's mother, Sharon Hunter, went before the Palm Beach County High School in West Palm Beach asking for a change in school policy. At Wednesday's commencement, people cheered longer and louder for Norstrom than any of the other graduates in the Class of 1989.

Tutu on Harvard board CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -Archbishop Desmond Tutu won a seat Thursday on a Harvard University governing board, striking a blow for forces opposed to the school's $163.8 million investment in companies doing business in South Africa. "I pray God I will do justice to the honor that has been given me," Tutu said, speaking from South Africa. The 1984 Nobel Prize-winner, who promised a year ago to return honorary degrees to any schools that had not divested such holdings by May 1989, said he would not return the diploma Harvard conferred on nim 10 years ago. instead, the South African Anglican prelate will use his new spot on the Board of to lobby against apartheid and for divestment, said Tutu "spokesman John Allen.

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