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A4 Daily Press, Tuesday, June 30, 1987 Korea City folks have big yen for old barns Continued from Page Al dom, human rights guarantees and an end to strong central government controls. He said he acted because of enormous public support for the anti-government protests that began June 10, the day a party convention endorsed Chun's choice of his ally as its candidate. "The people are the masters ItjsfffKn 4 (IIS 1 rib? i Continued from Page Al Not so, says David Gillespie of the New York State Bureau for Historic Preservation. Rich city folks'-taste for old barns is robbing upstate New York of its rural, heritage. are not great architecture in and of themselves," Gillespie said.

"But they allow you to interpret history. If you move them away and turn them into condominium developments in Litchfield, you are clearly not going to be interpreting rural history." Five years ago, an imported barn could be had for $200,000, Cady said. Today, the price runs $400,000 to $1 million, about 10 percent more than the average custom-built house in Litchfield County, Cady said. Cady and his partner pay farmers a few hundred dollars to $5,000 apiece for the barns, which must be sprayed with a high-pressure hose to wash away 100-year-old dirt and soot before being reassembled. yy A 7 of their country and the people's will must come before everything else," Roh said Monday.

Presidential spokesman Lee Jong-ryool on Monday said Chun was studying Roh's demands and "will make a final decision soon." Officials have predicted privately that the authoritarian government would have to make concessions, particularly in light of growing support for the protests by the middle class and other influential groups. Opposition groups welcomed Roh's proposed reforms and pushed for elections by late October or early November. AP photo that his company imported. Cady stands outside a converted barn in Washington, Professor seeks genocide trial Attention Hampton Roads CopvCat is now offering to the Public a Continued from Page Al said. The Khmer Rouge no longer control Cambodia, he said, but some of its forces still carry out guerrilla attacks.

Since visiting the Cambodian labor camps in 1980 as an American relief worker, Stanton has returned twice. He has conducted interviews, and gathered records and photographs to document the genocide of the 1970s. ACIM1LE RflACH Send your documents around the World or across the state Kickback scheme indictments vidual nations to try Khmer Rouge leaders in their own courts. "I'm less concerned, frankly, about trying all the individuals as I am about establishing, historically and legally, that genocide was committed by the Khmer Rouge," Stanton said. "I think that itself is a historic step and an important contribution to international law." cited in the indictment involves Staples.

Nobles is accused of paying him $5,000 cash in June 1983. Seidel said Nobles faces up to 11 years in prison and fines of $40,000 on the conspiracy count and three kickback counts. Strickland faces up to seven years in prison and fines of up to $20,000, the prosecutor said, and the company itself faces fines of up to $40,000. Nobles and Strickland be arraigned July 10, Seidel said. BJSTAHT PRB1TIKG 01V OF COPY VAN INC.

Of VIRGINIA 658-A J. CLYDE MORRIS BLVD. (riTc2) NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Phone 874-2228 Continued from Page Al the allegation that Harris did so with Amtech provides evidence of collusion, according to prosecutors. "In general, it's certainly a corrupt practice that encourages the subcontractors to inflate the amount he bills the government contractor to do the work," Assistant U.S.

Attorney Robert J. Seidel Jr. said. The kickback investigation, Seidel said, is continuing. Strickland, whose address is Route 4 in-Hayes, declined to comment when reached by telephone at his Gloucester home.

A woman who answered the telephone at Nobles' York County residence said he was not at home. Amtech was one of five Peninsula subcontractors already linked to the kickback investigation. Harris pleaded The frame of huge, hand-hewn beams and wooden slates called roofers is resurrected on a concrete slab. Because the old wood can't support the weight of a modern house, a second frame of fir or hemlock is built around the barn, so that as it nears completion, the barn looks like any new house under construction. The exterior is finished off either with old barn siding in weathered red, gray or brown it takes three or four barns to get enough siding for one house or in modern New England clapboards.

The sense of a barn comes from the exposed beams and roof slates visible inside and from the vast interior space. The first floor of one Roxbury barn is a huge room, dominated by a stone fireplace and furnished in sections as if it were several rooms. "By the time they take them down and put them up, they don't look like barns anymore," complained Gillespie. He also adopted two Cambodian children and says they are his daily reminder that the Cambodian people deserve justice. Stanton said Khmer Rouge leaders who planned the mass killings could not be tried in World Court, even if they could somehow be found and extradited.

But he said that if the nation were to be convicted of genocide, the conviction could conceivably open the way for indi guilty in January to a single count of accepting a $6,700 kickback from Amtech officials in December 1983. But Monday's indictment charges Amtech officials with paying kickbacks on four other occasions. Nobles, who lives in the first block of Bay Tree Beach Road in Seaford, allegedly struck an agreement with Harris in mid-1979 to pay him 5 percent of the value of all orders placed with Amtech. The indictment further charges Nobles with paying Harris $900 cash in October 1979, $1,600 cash in March 1980 and $11,000 cash in October 1982. The indictment also cites the December 1983 payment to which Harris pleaded guilty, although it accuses both Nobles and Strickland of making the $6,700 cash payment.

The other alleged kickback las. CBN had owned five independent TV stations, but it is getting out of that business to devote its resources to the Christian Broadcasting Network, which is beamed by satellite to cable and commercial television stations across the nation, as well as a children's video operation, Miller said. A sale of WYAH would come at a time when CBN needs cash. The scandal surrounding Jim and Tammy Bakker of the PTL ministry rocked the religious TV industry, and CBN, like some other religious groups, has seen contributions drop. In response to the fall off, CBN last month laid off 500 employees.

But Miller said the layoffs and the potential sale are coincidental. "We didn't begin to offer these up for sale because of a financial crunch," he said. The proceeds of the sale, he added, would be pumped into the CBN network. Industry observers say WYAH is an attractive station, primarily because of the healthy economy in Hampton Roads. "It's considered a remarkably stable market," said Lawrence Laurent, vice president communication for the Association of Independent Television, a trade group based in Washington, D.C.

It also is a profitable market. In 1985, the five commercial Hampton Roads TV stations combined posted before-tax profits of $14.47 million on revenue of $48.74 million, representing a 29.6 percent profit, according to the National Association of Broadcasters. Sales figures for WYAH were unavailable. Bottom had been vice president of local radio stations WGH-FM and WGH-AM, and president of Newport News Cablevision when they were owned by the Daily Press Inc. For All Those Companies Who Still Process Their Payroll By Hand, ALesson In History Group seeks station Continued from Page Al Channel 27 last week and could not be reached Monday.

Diane Healy Linen, an executive with Communications Equity Corp. in Richmond, an investment company representing CBN, confirmed that a local group has been negotiating with the Virginia Beach-based organization. She declined to name any of the participants. Linen said a deal could be agreed upon within 10 days, but she added, "There are several others that are interested in the property." Linen would not disclose the sale price for the station. CBN nearly sold WYAH and a Dallas TV station for $40.9 million last year, but the deal fell through.

Of the five commercial television stations in Hampton Roads, WYAH had the fourth largest market share, according to figures released in May by the Ar-bitron rating service. With an average market share of 6 percent of all households in the area, WYAH was ranked ahead of the other independent stations in the market, WTVZ Channel 33, which had a share of 5 percent. "It's a good television station," said Timothy S. McDonald, president and chief excecutive officer of TVX Broadcast Group Inc. of Virginia Beach, which owns WTVZ and several other stations across the country.

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