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Arizona Daily Sun from Flagstaff, Arizona • 2

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Arizona Daily Suni
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2 ARIZONA DAILY SUN, Flagstaff, Arizona, Wednesday, November 27, 1991 Man seeks $10 million in temple suit ARIZONA Bruce files false arrest claim 2 Four winners in Fantasy Five PHOENIX (AP) Four tickets matched all five numbers in the Fantasy Five drawing of the Arizona Lottery, officials said today. Those tickets are worth 550,000 each. Officials said 256 tickets matched four numbers to win 5500 each and 6,626 tickets matched three numbers. Those tickets pay 55. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were 1, 9, 1 1, 26 and 35.

Quayle takes greetings to market PHOENIX (AP) Vice-President Dan Quayle had nothing but criticism for Congress, but for shoppers at one supermarket, he doled out chocolate chip cookies and Thanksgiving greetings. In the five-minute visit to an ABCO grocery store Tuesday night, Quayle greeted surprised customers and employees on his way to two political fund-raisers. He offered to pay for the cookies, but store clerks declined. At an earlier news conference, Quayle took lawmakers to task for failing to pass a Republican tax cut plan embraced by President Bush. When theyre home over the holidays, I hope they talk to the people of America and I hope the people of America hold their feet to the fire, Quayle told reporters upon his arrival at Sky Harbor International Airport.

PHOENIX (AP) A man says he didnt request an attorney while undergoing about 1 2 hours of interrogation that led to him making a quickly recanted confession in the killing of nine people at Buddhist temple. I didnt ask for one because I didnt think one was necessary at the time, Leo Valdez Bruce said about asking for an attorney. He spoke during a news conference Tuesday announcing the filing of a false-arrest lawsuit and a S10 million claim against Maricopa County, Sheriff Tom Agnos and 20 unidentified law officers. The suit was filed in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson, where Bruce lives. It is the first such legal action stemming from the controversial investigation.

Bruce, 28, said he recanted the confession w'ithin 15 minutes. It was a false confession, Bruce said. He said he confessed because investigators threatened him with the death sentence and were always in front of my face. He said some unspecified details of his confession came from wall charts which he saw while in investigators offices for interrogation. Judges on Friday dismissed mur der and other charges filed against Bruce and three other Tucson men in die Aug.

10 slayings of six Thai monks, two male disciples and a nun at a temple west of Phoenix. The dismissal of charges against the four men leaves two teen-agers from the Phoenix area awaiting trial in the temple slayings. Bruce said he was placed in handcuffs outside his home late the evening Sept. 12 and driven 1 10 miles to Phoenix without being told why he was in custody. He said he was read his rights when the interrogation began but didnt ask for an attorney to be present.

Bruces attorneys said his only previous run-in with the law was a speeding ticket. The suit alleges that Bruce was defamed, suffered emotional distress and wrongly arrested. Bruce, 28, said the arrest by a task force headed by Agnos deeply hurt him and his family. The shock and pain we all suffered because I was wrongly arrested for those terrible murders cannot be described, Bruce said. The suit, which docs not specify a dollar amount of damages sought, alleges violation of civil rights, assault and battery.

Leo Bruce, recently released after being a suspect in the Buddhist temple slayings case, announced Tuesday that he is filing a $10 million suit against the Maricopa County Sheriff for false arrest. Northern Arizona at earthquake risk Mystery trucker brightens day OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The postcards arent fancy and their messages arent deep. But the mysterious missives from a truck driver known as Heavy Duty have residents of Nebraska nursing homes eagerly awaiting the next days mail. We look forward to his cards and wonder when he will drop us a card again.

They are so interesting to see the different states hes going through, said Ida Kramer, 77, who lives at Schuyler Nursing Center in Schuyler, a town of 4,100 people about 50 miles west of Omaha. For months and even years, postcards signed Heavy Duty or The Nebraska Trucker or Bob H. have been arriving at three nursing homes from New York, Washington, Alabama and other states in the East, South and Midwest. Its really a beautiful state, one card said of Alabama. It has a lot of industry and good people.

Doctors dont want to treat AIDS CHICAGO (AP) A survey of doctors found that half would not treat people with the AIDS virus if they had the choice, and nearly a third see nothing wrong with withholding such treatment. Doctors who withhold treatment should be disciplined and perhaps should have their medical licenses revoked, two doctors said in an editorial accompanying the study in todays Journal of the American Medical Association. The survey of 1,121 randomly selected general -care physicians including general practitioners, family practitioners and internists discovered that 75 percent had treated at least one patient with the AIDS vims, or HIV. Sixty-eight percent believed that they had a responsibility to treat people with the vims, yet 50 percent indicated they would not if given a choice, the researchers said." The 68 percent figure indicates nearly one-third of the doctors perceive no ethical difficulty with denying medical care, the editorial noted. By.

XAVIER BRIAND Sun Staff Reporter Powerful earthquakes have rocked northern Arizona including the Flagstaff area this century, and more could be on the way, according to a Northern Arizona University professor. To date, however, little damage has occurred because the quakes have struck in sparsely populated areas, said Dr. David Brumbaugh of the Arizona Earthquake Information Center. I think in many cases weve been lucky up to this point, Brumbaugh said. But if we want to repeat the same sequence of earthquakes over the next 100 years, the results will not be the same.

Brumbaugh spoke at Tuesdays workshop on earthquake preparedness sponsored by the Flagstaff Fire Department. The conference drew about 30 emergency services specialists. Brumbaugh said the Flagstaff area was hit with a serious earthquake on Jan. 25, 1906. The quake which had an estimated magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale toppled juries.

Earthquakes also could strike along prehistoric fault lines that scientists believe run in a band diagonally from Arizonas northwest comer to its southeast comer, he said. Known fault lines arent the only places earthquakes could strike. Blind faults hidden deep beneath the surface could trigger random quakes anywhere in Arizona, Brumbaugh said. The Earthquake Information Center, located on the NAU campus, is helping Arizona prepare for earthquakes by drawing earthquake maps for the states Division of Emergency Services, according to Brumbaugh. The maps will give the state detailed information about fault lines under communities including Flagstaff, he said.

Flagstaff is one of seven areas in Arizona identified by the state as vulnerable to earthquake damagd. The others are the Grand Canyort, Phoenix, Prescott, Tucson, Winslow and Yuma. chimneys and was felt in Utah and New Mexico. But no one was killed or injured because few people lived in the area and most of the buildings were single-story, wood-frame structures, he said. The 1971 San Fernando rthquake that killed 33 people in the Los Angeles basin was 6.4 on the Richter scale, Brumbaugh said.

This is not far from this size. Other significant quakes in the region have occurred in 1910, 1912 and 1959. The most recent sizable quake was centered in Chino Valley in 1976, according to Brumbaugh. That quake registered about 5.0 on the Richter scale. Brumbaugh said that while powerful quakes are less likely in Arizona than in California, the state is at risk from three sources.

First, earthquakes along faults in California near the state border could cause serious damage to southern cities such as Yuma and Tucson, according to Brumbaugh. In 1940, such a quake lattlcd Yuma, damaging roads and bridges but causing no deaths or in panel approves TV station Khmer Rouge leader beaten by mob PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) An angry mob screaming Dog! and Murderer! today surged past police and beat a top leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist guerrilla group whose reign of terror in the 1970s left hundreds of thousands dead. The government ordered in armored personnel Carriers to evacuate Khieu Sampan, the right-hand man to top Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, as the crowd prepared to lynch him. Khieu Sampan and Son Sen, anothci Khmer Rouge leader, and their aides were flown back to Bangkok, Thailand. Bleeding from the head and chest, Khieu Samphan cowered in a bedroom as security officers prevented him from being strung up by a wire tied to a ceiling fan.

Please help me, please dont leave me, he pleaded, asking three foreign photographers to say in the room. Only hours earlier, Khieu Sampan ended his exile and returned to Phnom Penh to take part in a U.N.-backcd plan to end 13 years of civil war between the Khmer Rouge, its two non-Communist guerrilla allies and the government Vietnam installed after invading Cambodia in 1978. Tent city awaits Haitians WASHINGTON (AP) While diplomats try to resolve Haitis political crisis, a military task force is working to set up a tent city at the U.S. naval base in Cuba for 2,500 Haitian boat people by this weekend. The continued massive exodus from Haiti has given a sense of urgency to an effort by the Organization of American States to reinstate ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Aristide met with members of the Haitian parliament last weekend in Colombia under OAS auspices and, although no agreement was reached, diplomats said considerable progress has been made. The chief of the OAS team, former Colombian Foreign Minister Augusto Ramirez Ocampo, was reporting today to a closed session of the OAS permanent council on the meeting in Colombia. The OAS is demanding Aristides reinstatement and has served notice to Haitis de facto government that the hemisphere-wide embargo against the country will remain in place until Aristide is returned to power. By XAVIER BRIAND Sun Staff Reporter A media company with plans to start a television station in Flagstaff is one step closer to getting on the air. On Tuesday, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously gave Delray Television of Bcthesda, permission to locate its studios and transmission facility in two buildings on Fourth Street.

Delray will have its studios in the Greenlaw Village Shopping Center at 2158 N. Fourth Street. A trans-miting dish will be installed next door in the Anthony Choi office building. Frank Coe, general manager of KKTM Channel 13, said the station will beam a signal from the Choi building to a transmitter on Mormon Mountain. Installing the transmission equipment next door to the studios means the station wont have to erect an unsightly tower or cut down trees, according to Coe.

Coe said the transmitting equipment will not interfere with radio, television or telephone reception. Coe said his company will produce local programming and will hire between 12 and 15 people. Coe would not comment on whether the station will join a national network. Most markets to remain open Just in case you forgot to buy the turkey or some of the trimmings, most of Flagstaffs major grocery outlets will be open at least for a time Thanksgiving Day. The sole exception will be Bashas, in Woodlands Village, which will be closed all day.

The citys three Safeway Stores, in University Plaza, on East Cedar Avenue and on U.S. 89 near the Flagstaff Mall, will be open until 5 p.m. Smiths, on East Santa Fe Avenue, also will be open until 5 p.m. Q-Frcsh, located in the Plaza Mall south of Flagstaff Medical Center, will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Dribbling for food Sinagua High School football coach Rich Contreras (above left) challenges Flagstaff High Schools Chris Madsen Tuesday night in the final game of the Challenge of the Faculties in the SHS gym. Coconinos Sylvia Cox (right) puts on heavy pressure as CHS plays FHS in the first game. Sinagua won the lenge, which benefitted the Community Food Bank and was sponsored by the SHS All Stars. A I ZONA HMUySiom of Flagstaff and Coconino County (US PS 030-560) Guaranteed Carrier Delivery If you fail to receive Anzona Daily Sun by 5 00 m. Monday through Fnday or 8 00 a m.

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