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Bosley involved in ethics probe Help identify wSinG sttudetits should knovj By ROSEMARY JETTE Transcript staff NORTH ADAMS Parents, businesses and anyone concerned about just what exactly the slate's students should know by the time they graduate are asked to attend a regional open house at the Berkshire Hilton Inn, Berkshire CommonSouth Street in Pittsfield, Jan. 18 from 7-9 p.m. As part of the Education Reform Act, the slate Board of Education established the Commission on the Common Core of. Learning in September 1993. By June of this year, a diverse 40-member statewide panel of citizen will develop broad educational goals with input obtained from a series of regional open houses held throughout the state.

It will be the goal of this Common Core of Learning to identify what school students should know and be able to do upon graduation. The Education Reform Act re-See Students, Page 8 Bv TRANSCRIPT STAFF meets today before he elaborates on 'When the stau' Fihir r. 1 Boslev chairs the Commerce and and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON The State Ethics Commission reportedly has prepared a report documenting alleged violations of ethics laws by 24 legislators and recommending the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. be fined at least $100,000. Named as one of the 24 legislators in the 300-page report.

Rep. Daniel EBosley. D-NortH Adams, said he is waiting until the commission tnc issue. I he degree of his involvement or the extent to which he allegedly violated ethics laws has not yet been made available. The report, which the commission is expected to begin reviewing Tuesday, is the first phase of its investigation into the relationships between legislators and lobbyists.

"I can't comment on anything at the moment," Bosley said, speaking from a car phone in Lenox this morning. mission releases its findings, which' Lahor Committee which is responsi-they are supposed to do I'li r'- We for matters commer-have a lot to sav at that time. I can't cl, industrial, and estab- even say whether or np I'm; inno- Juhmenu including industrial devel- cent opment, employee Discrimination, He any thing, I just Aanjf' comment right now." When asked if theethical line between lawmakers and lobbyists Jas difficult to Bosley replied, "Not at all. It really fsn't. I believe it is a difference of opinion." and labor laws.

The Boston Globe today said it was told by unidentified sources the 24 legislators mentioned in the report are not expected to face criminal charges and focuses on them and John Hancock because they have co-See Bosley, Page 8 "We hold the western gateway" 1 Serving Northern Berkshire and Southwestern Vermont 1 51 ST YEAR No. 1 05 NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1994 50 CENTS 16 PAGES Man caught after Friday attempted kidnapping do Berra anna orcBo -DcnDDniTD By DAVID GUARINO Transcript staff Boy abductedfound dead in 1 990; suspect called 'serial killer' By DAVID GUARINO Transcript staff 7 PITTSFIELD North Adams resident Lewis Lent Jr. had innocent pleas entered on his behalf in Central Berkshire District Court this morning on charges he attempted to abduct a Pittsfield girl Friday. Lent, 43, who reportedly has lived in North Adams for about a year at 18 Hudson is being called a serial killer by police, who are in the process of investigating any connection he may have with several other abductions and murders in three states. Lent is charged with the abduction and murder of 12-year-old James Bernardo and the attempted abduction Friday of 12-year-old Rebecca Savarese.

Early Friday, as Savarese walked to Notre Dame Middle School, she was allegedly approached by Lent on West Street, District Attorney Gerard Downing said. Lent showed Savarese a handgun and ordered her to walk to his pickup truck, which was parked on North Street, police said. Savarese was able to break free from the man, leaving him holding her backpack as she ran for help. It was a passing motorist who led police to Lent and the break in the three-year-old Bernardo case. Downing said the motorist witnessed the altercation, between Lent and Savarese while he was at a red light.

The witness thought the altercation may have been between a father and daughter, until Savarese began to run and Lent got in his truck and began running red lights. The witness was able to give a description of the truck and partial license plate, Downing said. Pittsfield police later found a truck fitting the description at a Lanesboro home. Using the composite sketch provided through Savarese's description, Pittsfield and Lanesboro police began questioning Lent in the home See Kidnap, Page 3 -J? -TV i 5 i i i P) (r I 1 1 I i i XT i i an PITTSFIELD A man living in North Adams, dubbed a serial killer by police, will be charged in New York with the 1990 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old James Bernardo, law enforcement officials announced this morning. The extradition of Lewis Lent 43, of 18 Hudson Street, North Adams, to New York to face the second degree murder charge could bring an end to the case in which Bernardo was.

brutally murdered after being abducted from a busy shopping area in Pittsfield. Suspect 'scared to death' Lent was arrested Friday on charges he attempted to abduct a Pittsfield girl earlier that morning. (See related story, Page 1.) Interviews with Lent by the Pittsfield police, in which the recent North Adams resident made "admissions" regarding Bernardo, led New York State Police to charge him with second degree murder, the county district attorney said. Lent last worked as a custodian in the same movie theater Bernardo was last seen in. Officials said he has lived in North Adams for the last year or so and performed odd jobs for an elderly couple in Lanes boro.

Bernardo was last seen in Pittsfield on Oct 22, 1990. He was reported missing when he failed to return home from a trip to a shopping center on West Housatonic Street 0 JL Above and at right, Lewis Lent 43, of North Adams, hangs his head to avoid the media as he is led put of Berkshire District Court this morning. Lent, who was wearing a bullet-proof vest, was arraigned for the attempted kidnapping of Rebecca Savarese, 1 2, of Pittsfield Friday. He also is to be charged with the 1990 kidnapping and murder of James Bernardo, 1 2, of Pittsfield. The boy was kidnapped in October 1 990 and his body was found the following November near Ithaca, N.Y.

Police have labeled Lent a "serial killer" and are investigating other open cases. (Transcript-Gillian Jones) See Killer, Page 3 Clinton, NATO ready to 30 years after cancer report, smoking falls. mer foes AB9- ISMlA i iJi Gi i ibrace BRUSSELS. Belaium (AP) 9 Goodbye, Tip O'Neill Funeral held for beloved politician CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Politicians, celebrities and lifelong friends goodby today to Thomas P.

O'Neill Jr. at a funeral at the parish church in the neighborhood where he grew up and made his political fortune. Vice President Al Gore led a delegation that included Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, current House Speaker Thomas Foley and House Republican Leader Robert Michel, a longtime political foe and personal friend of O'Neill, and Raymond Flynn, former Boston mayor and U.S. ambassador to the See O'Neill, Page 8 courageous thing to do," said Joseph Califano, the top domestic policy aide to President Johnson and secretary of health, education and welfare under President Carter. But the report also provides a sharp reminder of the power of the tobacco lobby, health activists said, and its ability to block any serious regulation by the federal government.

"I don't think anyone on our 1964 surgeon general's advisory committee would have dreamed that 30 years later we would find perhaps the most lethal and addictive products in society still manufactured, advertised and distributed Set Cigarettes, Page 8 Asked after the briefing if he was resisting air strikes in Bosnia while other allied leaders, particularly France and Belgium, were now calling for them, Clinton said: "Thai's not accurate at all." In his opening remarks, Woemer discussed NATO's evolving role in the post Cold-War era. "We will allow no one and nothing to maneuver our alliance into a false alternative: to have to choose between Russia and the other cooperation Woemer said. "Our message to Russia has been consistent and 'yes' to an ever-closer partnership with a democratic and reformist Russia 'no' to See NATO, Page 8 in an opening speech. "We care about your security." The alliance's dilemma was how to forge closer military ties with east-em Europe, yet avoid antagonizing an unstable Russia. For now, NATO will propose only an interim cooperation deal called "Partnership for Peace" for Poland, Hungary and other new democracies, rather than extending the security guarantees that would accompany full membership in the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Attending his first NATO summit, Clinton arrived early at alliance headquarters on the outskirts of Brussels for a private meeting with Woemer and a briefing with top allied commanders. NEW YORK (AP) Thirty years ago Tuesday, a modest brown paperback book released by the U.S. Public Health Service triggered history's sharpest decline in smoking. Cigarette consumption in the United States abruptly dropped 20 percent in the three months after the Jan. 11.

1964, release of the first surgeon general's report on smoking and health. That book has since proven to be a landmark in U.S. public health. It not only hailed the decades-long rise in the number of American smokers, it initiated a steady decline that continues. "It was a very dramatic and President Clinton and other NATO leaders agreed today to make their former Warsaw Pact rivals limited partners in the Western military alliance.

But worries about Russian nationalism and frustration over Bosnia clouded the meeting. At the end of the opening NATO session, the leaders endorsed a U.S. "Partnership for Peace" proposal that will include East European nations without granting them full membership, German spokesman Dieter Vogel said. "Our message to the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe has been equally consistent: we shall not leave you alone," NATO Secretary-General Manfred Wpemer said Snowblower assault on trooper charged Weather Today, mostly sunny and cold, highs in the teens: Tonight, fair skies, very cold, lows near 0. Tomorrow, variable cloudiness and milder with the chance for some light snow or snow flumes, highs 25-30.

Wednesday, increasing cloudiness, highs 30-35. Lottery I Rottweiler busts teen in weiner theft MODESTO. Calif. (AP) The Wienerschnitzel break-in wu a no-brainer for Niki the police dog. Asked to sniff out the theft of $100 worth of food from a Wiener-schnitzel restaurant on Friday, the Rottweiler quickly traced a trail of hot dogs, chili, cheese and onions to nearby home.

A 17-year-old was arrested after police found food strewn in the back yard and the refrigerator filled with hot dogs, cheese and several plastic bowls of chili. There was no need to grill the suspect, who confessed, said Officer Wayne Schmierer. The teen wu booked for investigation of burglary. Senior snow-shovder assaulted PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) Two Plymouth teen-agers face criminal charges after they almost drove into a 73-year-old woman who was shoveling snow from the end of her driveway, police said.

The two sped by Angelina Brewster on Tuesday, threw a snowball at her back, then turned around and buzzed her again, making an obscene gesture, police said. "I wu scared stiff," Brewster told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy on Friday. "They had drenched me. If they had missed their cue with all the ice at that speed, I thought; 'You're not going to be here." Brewster didn't report the incident, but another motorist saw what happened and called in the license plate number to police. Police identified the driver as Todd A.

Brown and the passenger as Richard LeBaron, both 18. Brown will be summoned to court on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, a motor vehicle, on a person older than 65, Plymouth District Court Clerk Magistrate Jack Sullivan said Friday. Brown also wu cijed with driving to endanger. LeBaron will be summoned on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon a snowball on a person okkr than 65, Sullivan said. No court date has been set.

Mass. Daily Sunday: 2161 Mass. Daily Saturday: 8868 Mass. Megabucks: 7-11-12-27-28-42 Tri-state Daily Saturday: 225, 2539 Tri-state Megabucks: 3-12-13-18-19-23 CHARLEMONT, Mass. (AP) A town resident has been arrested for allegedly trying to run over a state trooper with a snowblower.

Two troopers were called to the home of Chester Oberg, 43, to answer a report that he had assaulted his guifriend. Trooper Thomas Murphy said Oberg was sitting on a tractor with an attached snowblower when they arrived Sunday, He allegedly engaged the snowblower blades and headed toward Murphy, but the trooper said he hopped on the back of the tractor and forced Oberg to drive into a snow drift No one wu reported injured. But Oberg was charged with assaulting both his girlfriend and the trooper. Index Classified. 4 North 13-14 1 5 2 r-.

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