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Residents howl over accusation son for the government to confront someone with a demand. There has to be some reason beyond a mere suspicion. A dragnet simply wont do. Moms pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court and most state courts have ruled unconstitutional dragnet operations such as those in which police randomly stop cars searching for drunken drivers.

"Probable cause is necessary before a person can be questioned. It sounds like an intrusion upon ones Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy, Beles said. And it may be a form of abuse of process. They are accusing people of criminal activity when they dont have grounds for it It reeks of a police state. Cox said most of people who called his office didn mind receiving the tags.

He said they expressed appreciation that the SpokAnimal people were doing their There were 52 new licenses issued as a result of the campaign in the South Hill neighborhood, Cox said. I dont know if well do it again, he said. If we have another real bad area out there where people get very upset about dogs running loose, we'll consider it. your house today in regard to the following Then there are listed several offenses, including unlicensed animal, followed, in much larger type, by the warning that failure to contact SpokAnimal may result in legal action. Assistant City Attorney Bob Beaumier said it is hte understanding that, before leaving an unlicensed animal notice in the South Hill experiment, the SpokAnimal officers required evidence that a dog lived at the address.

Something like scratches on the front door, animal droppings or bones on the lawn, or some other reason to suspect there is an animal at the residence that needs to be controlled. Cox indicated that some tags may have been left at homes where there was no obvious evidence of the presence of a dog. Thats the point that most concerns the constitutional scholars the issue of accusing someone of a crime without evidence to back it up. Morris and Beles said they would have to research the issue in order to offer formal legal opinions on the matter. But they gave informal views.

Normally," Morris said, there has to be some rea caused concern and confusion. A SpokAnimal CARE official said the agency has been canvassing the South Hill neighborhood in a house-to-house search for unlicensed dogs. If no one is home, the notice is left on the doorknob. People tend to call back very quickly, even the ones who dont have pets. The interesting thing is that the people without dogs like the chance to tip off someone about people in their neighborhood who have dogs, SpokAnimal CARE Executive Director Warren Cox said in defense of the tagging program.

SpokAnimal CARE contracts with the city to license dogs and provide animal-control services. Cox said the neighborhood has been a hotbed of loose-dog complaints, and the tagging program was an experiment. fWe just werent having any success in finding people at home or getting them to get back in touch with us, Cox said. The tags were left at 75 homes in the neighborhood. They are the standard tags used by SpokAnimal to alert pet owners of complaints against them.

The the tag says, Our investigating officer called at By Michael Murphey Staff writer A handful of South Hill residents had their constitutional rights trifled with this week when notices falsely accusing them of harboring unlicensed animals were hung on their doorknobs. That is the opinion of several legal experts who say SpokAnimal CARES recent tactics in trying to ferret out unlicensed dogs are constitutionally odious. It sounds like a pretty shady operation to me, said Arvel Morris, professor of constitutional law at the University of Washington Law School. I think the whole thing stinks, said Craig Beles, associate professor of law at Gonzaga Law School. Said one of the South Hill victims, I think its about time we got the government off our doorknobs.

SpokAnimal CARE has been leaving notices on doorknobs in one South Hill neighborhood stating that SpokAnimal investigation officers are looking into reports of an unlicensed animal. GIVE THIS YOUR ATTENTION AT ONCE, and FAILURE TO CONTACT OUR OFFICE MAY RESULT IN LEGAL ACTION, the notice states. It has KSKN sale Boycott urged off Star Wars by professors Western states who attended Tuesdays seminar in Moscow. Deutchman asked the five Defense Department spokesmen if any of their on-campus research could lead to destructive ends. Leo Young, director of research and laboratory management at the Pentagon, answered.

I happen to believe we are very ethical, he said, then cut off ques- 7o question the military is a very unpopular thing to do. But the questions must continue wraps up legal fight By Kim Crompton Staff writer Sale of financially troubled KSKN-TV is expected to be wrapped up today after clearing legal hurdles Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Judge John M. Klobucher denied a motion by one of the stations creditors asking that he reconsider his Sept.

10 approval of the sale agreement. Gene D. Adelstein, president and chief executive officer of The Sun Continental Group, said his company expects to assume control of the station today. The transaction, involving about a $2.8 million purchase package, has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, he said. The Tucson, firm owns two radio stations, KBNY-FM in Boise and KMGX in Fresno, Calif.

It recently sold two television stations, in Tucson and Albuquerque, N.M. Adelstein declined to discuss plans for the independent Spokane television station. Attorney Howard Hermann argued that Klobucher should set aside his approval of the stations sale because of the discovery of a new refinancing source. Hermann represents a construction company that is an unsecured creditor and is owed about $250,000 for building KSKNs studios. Philip S.

Brooke III, representing another of the creditors, agreed with Hermann. He suggested that the newly discovered party, who wasnt identified, might be willing to refinance the station on better terms than have been offered. The sale agreement does not provide for Sun Continental to take over all the stations liabilities, Adelstein said. Attorneys for Sun Continental and Lorimar, one of the stations film suppliers, criticized the late introduction of the phantom financing source and urged that the sale go ahead. Klobucher, citing Sun Continentals substantial expenses, ruled it would be unjust to withdraw the previous approval without stronger justification than that provided.

Broadcast Vision Television, which operated KSKN, filed in April for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Chapter 11 prevents a companys creditors from foreclosing while it reorganizes its financial affairs. The station went on the air on Channel 22 in December 1983. By Sherry Devlin Staff writer PULLMAN A University of Idaho physicist who says military money squelches the creative spirit is asking colleagues to join a boycott of the $26 billion Strategic Defense Initiative.

Phil Deutchman, an authority on nuclear theory, warned about 20 Washington State University professors Thursday that military values secrecy, authoritarianism and intimidation are out of synch with academic values. My fear is that the military values will creep into the values of the university if we allow defense grants and contracts on our campuses, Deutchman said. I already sense some intimidation, he said. To question the military is a very unpopular thing to do. But the questions must continue.

Deutchman spoke at a meeting of WSU researchers who last week asked the Faculty Senate to study the Pullman schools ties to the Department of Defense and military related research. That group includes philosophy professor Donald Bishop, who said the United States is in danger of creating a military-industrial-academic complex. This all disturbs me greatly, Bishop said. The ethical issue simply is being overlooked. For his part, Deutchman pledged to distribute a petition drafted at Cornell University and signed by engineers, chemists and physicists on 49 college campuses.

The petition says researchers will refuse grants created by SDI, President Reagans Star Wars proposal for deflecting missiles in space. Congress has tentatively set aside $2.7 billion next year for research on the anti-missile system designed to automatically shoot down enemy missiles. Reagan has proposed a five-year research and development budget of $26 billion for the program. Deutchman joined WSU professors in criticizing Defense Department recruiters who visited the UI campus this week for ignoring questions about the ethics of military-related research. I was the sole person who had the audacity to stand up and pose the question of ethics, said Deutchman, one of 200 scientists from five tioning and returned to presentations by the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense Advance Research Prospects Agency.

Later, Young said the role of university researchers is to provide sound technical advice and to stay in the forefront of scientific and engineering research. We want to reduce the chance of long-term technological surprise, he said. If there ever should be war, we dont want to be caught with our pants down. However, WSU and UI researchers didnt buy Youngs argument and said the lack of a no-holds-barred discussion of research ethics was typical of the military mindset. This type of military funding is a subversion of the research effort, said Stacia Moffett, an associate professor of zoology at WSU.

Wnat worries me, she said, is that in the absence of other research funding, people are going to the Department of Defense. In fiscal 1986, the Pentagon will dole out nearly $1 billion for basic scientific research. It is the only federal department due an increase in research dollars. This military-university rela- -tionship smacks of a wink of the eye, Deutchman said. You can do your basic research, but you must show that it has a possible military application.

I sense a certain amount of cynicism and hypocrisy, he said. I question the professional integrity of scientists who accept defense contracts. Hanford plans meeting for farmers downwind Neo-Nazi asked: Where's the loot? Parmenter doesnt know where $4 million taken in holdups is ing trial. The judge quashed the subpoena without discussing the matter before the jury. McGovern, however, in granting another defense motion, did direct federal prosecutors to turn over FBI files detailing reports that Louis Beam, identified in court as an assistant pastor of North Idahos Aryan Nations, had involvement in the Berg slaying.

Beam, a Ku Klux Klan leader from Texas, has not been charged with any crimes that have been made a matter of public record. He was not among 23 members of The Order indicted last April on charges of racketeering, including the Berg murder. Operators of a Spokane porno bookstore and video arcade, robbed of $369 in the first crime The Order is accused of committing, are expected to be called today. Order founders Pierce, Robert Mathews and Randy Duey are accused of staging that robbery on Oct. 28, 1983.

Daniel Bauer, a Spokane man who was one of nine co-founders of The Order, also participated in the robbery, but was not charged in the racketeering indictment. He is listed as a prosecution witness. In responding to other defense questions, Parmenter said that The Order attempted to separate itself from Idahos Aryan Nations. The Order didnt want any association with (See Loot on page 19) ing protective clothing taking measurements in their fields in the 1950s and 60s. Hanford documents indicate serious releases in those years deposited radiation off the site.

Sam Milham, chief epidemiologist for the state Department of Social and Health Services, said recently that his review of death records in the area indicated cancer death rates there werent higher than the national average. Milhams conclusions drew fire from some physicians and Hanford-watchers, who said his study was superficial because it didnt look at new cancer cases, types of cancer in the farmers and the areas religious and ethnic makeup. The verdict still is out on whether the farmers have suffered death and ill health from living near the nuclear reservation, said Dr. Bruce Amundson, director of the Rural Hospital Project at the University of Washington. He said a detailed study of the downwin-ders should be done.

Leon and Juanita Andrewjeski, farmers who have been keeping a death map listing cancer and early heart attack deaths among their neighbors, said they werent sure whether to believe Milham, who visited their farm. cause of his past involvement as an attorney for tax protesters. McBrearty has past ties with the tax-protest movement. Halprin is the only retained attorney among 10 lawyers representing that many remaining defendants. The others are court-appointed.

Participants in the Ukiah robbery each received $30,000 and all members of The Order were paid $10,000 salaries every six months, Parmenter testified. Well, what about the rest of the money? the defense attorney asked. Was it all spent or was some of the money still hidden on the farm, near lone. of Order member Kenneth Loff Halprin asked. I dont know, Parmenter responded.

Is there going to be a rush for the money when everybody gets out of Halprin then asked. Laughter swept through the courtroom. All the defendants, except Bruce Carroll Pierce, joined in the laughter. Before federal prosecutors could object to Halprins question about the money hunt, U.S. District Court Judge Walter McGovern stopped the line of questioning.

In another development in the case, the judge ruled that Denver police wont be required to release investigative files of the murder of Alan Berg. Jean Margaret Craig, one of the 10 Order members on trial, had sought the murder files to aid in her defense in the neo-Nazi racketeer By Bill Morlin Staff writer SEATTLE What happened to $4 million stolen by a band of neo-Nazis? Is it hidden somewhere on a northeastern Washington farm once owned by a member of The Order? Or was all the money spent by the underground army of right-wing extremists? Defense attorney Neil Halprin posed those questions Thursday in his cross-examination of star prosecution witness Denver Daw Parmenter of Cheney. Parmenters standard reply: I don know. Parmenter, 32, had spent five days on the witness stand, detailing his first-hand account of activities of the neo-Nazi underground. He told how he and other Order members put more than $4 million in their white revolutionary war chest after a $500,000 armored car robbery in Seattle and a similar holdup near Ukiah, which netted $3.6 million.

Payments of $250,000 to $500,000 were earmarked for five white supremacy groups throughout the United States, but Parmenter said he wasnt sure all those payments were made. What happened to the rest of the money? asked Halprin, a Missoula attorney representing defendant Ardie McBrearty, of Gentry, Ark. Halprin, who told the jury he is Jewish, got involved in defending the accused neo-Nazi be By Karen Dorn Steele Staff writer Hanford officials will invite farmers to a public forum to discuss their worries about living downwind from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The meeting is tentatively set for Oct. 2, said Steve Leroy, external affairs director for the U.S.

Department of Energy. The Mesa-Basin City area farmers concerns about cancer deaths, early heart attacks, childhood leukemia and animal malformations on their farms across the River from Hanford were the subject of a July 28 report in The Spokesman-Revit s. The Hanford Environmental Health Foundation, which tracks the health of nuclear workers under contract to the Department of Energy, and environmental scientists from Battelles Pacific Northwest Laboratories will be involved in the briefing, Leroy said. We can tell them what kind of monitoring has been done in their area over the history of Hanford, he said. Several farm families told The Spokesman-Review they were never informed of radiation releases from Hanford, although they sometimes saw radiation monitors wear i 1.