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8A St Joseph (Mo.) News-PressGazett" Wednesday. Novembar 14, 1990 Baker says From page 1A Appeal Copeland session reflected increasing concern among lawmakers of both parties over the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf, where 230,000 American troops are deployed as part of an international force. The president last week announced a major buildup in the region to provide an "offensive military option" for use against Hussein and Iraqi forces occupying Kuwait. U.S. strength is expected to swell by 200,000 troops.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, added his voice to those calling for a special session, but for a different reason to approve a resolution barring offensive moves by the president. "President Bush's escalation of the confrontation has put the country on a headlong course toward war without giving sanctions a fair chance to work," he said. "Silence by Congress now is an abdication of our constitutional responsibility and an acquiescence in war." Asked whether war is inevitable, Kennedy said: "I hope it would not be.

I fear that it is." Normally, when Congress adjourns for the year it can be called hack into session only by the president. However, anticipating developments in the Gulf, lawmakers this year gave their own leaders authority to call them back in the adjournment resolution passed as Congress left town Oct. 28. the aggravating circumstance oft killing him to eliminate him as a potential witness against her to i consider. "I'll ask you to remember who you're deciding on and who you're not," Miller said in a calm, steady voice in his statement.

He described the 69-year-old defendant as a good mother, one-, who protected her children against "a man who, frankly, was not a good man." Miller urged jurors to view 5 Copeland's wife as an accomplice, a point which could be used to 1 excuse them from imposing the -death penalty, according to the instructions read by the judge. "She was the follower," Miller 1 said. "We can't know for sure who killed these men. But, everything we've heard in this case says you know the answer." Another mitigating factor argued by Miller was that Mrs. Copeland acted under the "domination of another party." "She was totally dominated by her husband," he said.

"Her children told you that. Dr. (Mark' lyn) Hutchinson told you that." Hutchinson, a Kansas City, psychologist who evaluated the defendant and treated her in 30 one-hour sessions, testified forj' two hours Tuesday. Using charts to explain the symptoms of a battered-woman's syndrome, she said the all the characteristics of the syndrome were in Mrs. Copeland.

Prosecutors scoffed at Hutchinson's testimony during their closing arguments. "She (Hutchinson) is something of a pyschological Will Roberts said. "She never met a woman she didn't think was battered." Roberts and Assistant At-; torney General Hulshof told jur-; ors there were two aggravating circumstances to consider when deliberating: That the victims' were murdered for profit and the murders were committed to prevent the victims from testi-' fying against the elderly couple. 1 "This case is really about greed," Hulshof said in a voice' packed with anger. "Hunger for money swallowed up the victims' hunger for a better life." viction.

"I can assure you, we will be filing for a retrial within a week," he added. Miller said his biggest disappointment was the judge's refusal to allow the testimony of Mrs. Copeland's psychologist, Dr. Marilyn Hutchinson, during the guilt phase of the trial last week. With the sentences from the eight-woman, four-man jury, Mrs.

Copeland became the oldest person sentenced to the death penalty in Missouri since it was reinstated in 1977. Like Miller, both prosecutors looked emotionally drained after the sentences were announced. Neither Livingston County Prosecuting Attorney Doug Robert nor Assistant Attorney General Kenny C. Hulshof were gloating about the jury's decisions. "The jury obviously agonized over its decision," Roberts said.

"This is the sort of decision that evokes a lot of colliding emotions," Hulshof said. "There's partial satisfaction for the families of the victims and members of this community. On the other hand, you can't ignore compassion toward Mrs. Copeland's family that (they) have stuck with her through this." Roberts and Hulshof were asked to explain why the jury sentenced her to life in prison for the Dennis Murphy conviction. Although they said the public may never know why, they guessed that since Murphy was killed first, Oct.

17, 1986, there was not be when no one's around," Connors said. The search also will include sending divers into a pond on the property, and investigating three wells there. West disappeared in 1979, and relatives of her say they believe strongly that Irvin killed her. Police and two television stations have received several letters since 1986 saying that Irvin killed West. Therapy House has moved to: 4734 Frederick by Barbosa's East THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE: to reduce STRESS, STRESS related conditions and CHRONIC PAIN raa impasse threatens jobs Associated r8 U.S.

Secretary of State James A. Baker III 'aid Tuesday the impasse with Iraq threatened world recession and loss of American jobs. Earlier, Saddam Hussein sent his chief deputy to Morocco to discuss an Arab bid to avert war. The Times of London reported Wednesday that Britain is expected to send an additional 6,000 ground troops and more than 100 additional tanks to the gulf, increasing its ground forces there to 15,500 and its tanks to more than 220. The U.S.

and British forces form part of a multinational array of more than 300,000 troops from 26 countries confronting Iraq following its blitz of Kuwait on Aug. 2 in a dispute over land, money and oil. Most of the 230,000 U.S. troops are deployed with other international units in the Saudi desert. Baker, speaking in Hamilton, Bermuda, after meeting Canadian External Affairs Minister Joe Clark, told reporters, "The economic lifeline of the industrial world runs from the Gulf and we cannot permit a dictator such as this to sit astride that economic lifeline." Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, concluding an independent peace mission to Baghdad, said earlier in the day that Iraq agreed to release four of the hundreds of Americans held hostage by Iraq.

Another American was heard urging U.S. military action against Iraq the voice of an Onion who said he was among a group of Americans hiding in occupied Kuwait. In a telephone call Monriav to Cleveland station WKW-TV, the unidentified man said, "We feel that our protectors have hidden us away well enough and safe enough so that if they start bombing, we feel 95 percent sure we can come through the war and get back home." The station said it confirmed the call came from Kuwait, where about 2,000 Westerners are believed in hiding in addition to the more than 400 held by Iraq as "human shields." The Pentagon announced Tuesday it was calling up additional Navy reservists and will take similar steps in other services. In other developments: Sgt. Michael R.

Ange, 26, a U.S. reservist called up for active duty, filed a lawsuit seeking to stop his deployment to the gulf on the grounds that Bush must first get congressional permission to wage war. The Pentagon said Marines will conduct their first amphibious assault exercise in Saudi Arabia since being deployed to the gulf. if Jt Balloon Arrangements 8 GILLETTE J3 Floral Gift Shop JJ 238-3379 123 Chrok jj Senators calculation and tragic mistakes loom much too large," he said. Asked whether what he was seeking was a declaration of war under another name, Lugar answered, "That is correct." Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell showed little enthusiasm.

But Mitchell said Senate hearings would be scheduled on the Gulf crisis, probably in the next several weeks, because "the American people deserve a full national debate." At a dinner for Republican senators, Dole said he had been frustrated in recent days by members of Congress taking "potshots at the president." At the same dinner, Bush, apparently sensitive to criticism that any war would be a war for oil, said the stakes in the Persian Gulf were not "a question simply of economic interests of the world, and they are enormous," but rather that "one big country cannot bully and beat into submission another." The requests for an emergency Officer dition remained critical Tuesday night. Criminal assault charges against Wilson are pending but seem probable, Pasley said. Pasley said he would meet with Assistant Prosecutor Dan Kellogg to discuss the charges. Miller has been with the St. Joseph Police Department for three years.

He remains on administrative leave with pay, said Sgt. Jim Connors, public information officer. That is standard policy for officer-involved shooting incidents. The investigation was led by a sergeant trained for internal investigations, Pasley said. All witnesses were interviewed, and investigators studied the scene of the crime, using photographs and diagrams to review the incident, he said.

The investigation was conducted completely internally, Pasley said, adding that he is satisfied with the results. Pasley said he would discuss more of the investigation this morning. Officers arrived at Wilson's home after receiving a call about shots fired inside the house. Wilson ran out of the house with a hunting rifle. When officers told him to drop his gun, Wilson allegedly fired instead.

After being hit in the head by a shotgun pellet, Wilson ran to the other side of the street, where he collapsed. Police say the last time officers wounded someone while responding to a call was about 10 years ago. FASHION II 10-5 Sot. 300 S. Belt Lower Level 233-2233 Body may be found.

Sgt. James Connors, police information officer, pointed to an anonymous letter sent to St. Joseph television station KQTV on Aug. 16 that said Irvin murdered West and buried her and two other "bones heads." Based on that letter and corroborating evidence, law-enforcement authorities say they believe they could find five or more bodies at the grave site, Connors said. "Simple addition would say there could be at least five," Connors said.

"But we're not saying there are five, less than five or more than five." Irvin, 41, a part-time truck driver, a laborer and a police officer in 1970, is charged with A Classified Ad will help you find a buyer for last year's boat. Call 233-6181 now to place your low-cost ad. officer, said. Investigators and the news media have "received between a half-dozen and a dozen letters or tips about the West case since 1986. In the most recent of the letters, the anonymous writer says he or she couldn't say more because they feared for their lives.

Connors on Tuesday renewed the department's request for the anonymous writer to contact police as soon as possible. "We are treating him as a witness, not as a suspect," Connors said. "I don't know that we can say any more than that." The letters are written in a kindergarten-like stencil, with the more recent letters taking on a more blocked shape. The wording is the affected-style of broken English, Connors said. Some of the letters have been sent to television stations in St.

Joseph and and in Kansas City. Other letters have been simply dropped off, as, in the case of one letter that was left at a Kansas City shopping mall. The letters have been uniformly frustrating, Connors said, as they teased investigators with hints of the crime while never giving real details. Investigators, however, say they believe whoever wrote the letters has information crucial to the case. One of the theories has been that the letters were periodically penned by the father of Micki Jo West.

But Arden Lock said in the a telephone interview Tuesday night from his home in Kansas City that he never wrote any of the letters. murdering Crystal Simmons in the second degree. She was last seen alive on Oct. 29. Irvin is also a suspect in the September disappearance of Patricia Diane Rose, 31, who disappeared on Sept.

17 of this year. West was 19 years old at the time of her disappearance. Police say they plan to resume their digging with the assistance of cadaver dogs trained in tracking down dead bodies by the end of the week, Connors said. Authorities also have contacted law enforcement agencies in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and California places where they have tracked Irvin's whereabouts over the past 10 years. Connors would not specify when the dogs would arrive.

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