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3 4 I 6 5-' "WU JhVy i' weaiher-A12 Japanese salaries may top US PageC7 WTVQ expects Dr Ruth uproar Holocaust survivors hail film Lifestyle Sports Saturday 6 2 days of invincibility 0 Roy Kidd: Win one for the wife UK looks to get tonight Mostly sunny 30a Lexington Herald-Leader Vol 4 No 345 Metro Final 58 pages 35 cents Lexington Kentucky December 13 1986 Ex-Morgan official to testily against Campbell By Andy Mead Gene Allen said he was cooperating with the FBI in the case involving former Kentucky State Police Commissioner Marion Campbell who is accused of taking money to provide protection for drug trafficking activities said Allen "has come MO degrees" and is telling a new story to the FBI Allen and Griggs have had 12 to IS hours of interviews with FBI agents while awaiting sentencing in the Fayette County Detention Center Charters aid told us they are satisfied with his openness and frankness" Charters aid He also said Alton would plead guilty to one of the remaining charges against him in return for the others' bring dropped The count to which he will plead guilty charges that he went to Florida last January to accept J5JJ00 from the undercover agent The (7lMHtoEX-OFFiaAlA8) Fonner Morgan County Judge-Executive Gene Allen will be a wit- nessfor the prosecution next month in the extortion trial of his longtime friend former Kentucky State Police Commissioner Marion Campbell Allen wax sentenced yesterday to the maximum five years in prison for hia part in a murder-forhire scheme Before the sentencing he said he was cooperating with the FBI in the case involving Campbell who is accused of taking money to provide protection for (bug trafficking activities Allen was one of 16 people indicted in March after a lengthy investiga- trial That trial is scheduled to begin Jan 5 in Lexington Allen looked ill and said he had heart problems yesterday when he appeared at the sentencing hearing in Ui District Court in Lexington own version of what happened I have corrected that for the Allen told UA District Judge Scott Reed Allen and fonner state trooper Gerald Griggs wen convicted Oct 22 of taking part in a scheme to kill a Virginia man The man who hired them was an undercover agent for the FBI The Virginia man was fictitious was also scheduled to ha yesterday but Reed postponed hia sentencing hearing Tuesday after Griggs asked for a lawyer to repreeent him Allen had maintained his innocence even alter Us conviction but Kevin Charters one of Us lawyers tion of alleged public corruption He became the latest of several defendants to agree to testify for the prosecution in cases stemming born the indictments william Titus Frederick a West Liberty coal operator and businessman earlier pleaded guilty to a count of manufacturing marijuana He testified against Allen in his October trial and has agreed to testily against Campbell and others in the extortion Ex-Morgan County Judge-Executive Gene Alien Air disaster in East Berlin North silence US senator Committee chairman denounces refusal to discuss Iran-contra deal Evktancm Indicates that Donald Ragan may raslgn aoon Baekpaga OJuaVca Dapartmant tamporarUy hattad FBI cording to class rosters North and Vice Adm John Poindexter the former national security adviser cited their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in refusing to testily earlier Fm angered by the fact that the third member of the military services of this nation has refused to give testimony on his rote to this Durenberger said (font SUNOS backpaga) By Alison Bethel and Mark Thompson qsjIUba aAnJnA KntgnMioosr npws opvkv WASHINGTON -A former White House aide to 12 CoL Oliver North sparked an angry outburst from the Senate Intelligence chair man yesterday after ho refused to answer questions during a secret hearing into the IreiKontrn scunteL Marine LL CoL Robert Eari refused to testily citing his Sixth Amendment right to a lawyer Sen David Durenberger R-Mkau the committee chairman noting that Eari had been given a week's notice of his scheduled appearance and an offer of White House legal counsel was dearly disgusted by the witness's refusal to talk had plenty of witnesses whovo had teas Ume Bud McFariane came fat here on 38 hours notice and talked to us for six Dumber ger said after the session referring to former national security adviser Robert McFariane Durenberger disputed President Reagan's description of North because the bred tional Security Council aide associates have refused to tea what they know about the arms transfers "Somebody going to have to define what national here is" Durenberger said national here doesn't come to here and stiff the whole Eari as North's deputy on the National Security Council staff during toll of I98Sw Durenberger said He was a year ahead of North at the Naval Academy and graduated to 1967 ac- A firefighter hosed down wreckage of the Tupolev-134 jet last night The jet crashed after nightfall in heavy fog Jet carrying 81 crashes most killed By Nick Staudinger Hundreds of East German polios were deployed to restrict access to the crash site Ms Bnihn-Hoffman said Only rescue vehicles arriving born downtown East Berlin were allowed in the Fayette to consider building 5th high school ADN said moat of the victims were East Germans The plane was arriving from Minsk the capital of Soviet Byelorussia about 600 miles to the east The news agency said the plane carried 73 passengers and a crew of eight There were no Americans aboard the Soviet Tupolev-134 Jet a UA Embassy spokesman in East Berlin said by telephone Associated Press photographer Elke Bratov Hoffmann drove to within half-mile of the crash site before being stopped by police She said the plane appeared to have crashed in a wooded area Just beyond End Berlin's city limits Ms Bnihn-Hoffmann said local residents told her the crash occurred about 5:39 pifc after nightfall in heavy fog By Ray Cohn Hsrskt-LaaOsr staff writer BERLIN A Soviet Aeroflot Jetliner crashed In heavy fog yesterday white approaching East Berlin's Schoenefrid airport killing most of the II people aboard The Ufictel news agency ADN said 12 survivors had been pulled from the wreckage The news agency had said earlier that there were 17 survivors hut it did not explain the discrepancy It said the exact number of victims "was not yet possible to determine" Most of the people aboard were killed and the identification of the victims was difficult because the bodies were burned the news agency said East German television news said eight survivors were brought to East Berlin's Koepenick Hospital and that two were in critical condition The television reports showed the Jetliner In pieces with firemen hosing down smoldering wreckage A report by the Soviet news agency Tass referred to "flaming debris" Pieces of the airplane also were scattered among nearby trees The Tb-134 is a small passenger Jet similar In size to the Boeing 737 It can cany about 10 passeitgere Board of Cumberland Gap tunnel: i Harrodsbura Road TL Former Former light at the end center rejected The Fayette County Education wdl be asked Monday to build a fifth high school to Lexington The recommendation by the administration of Superintendent Ronald Walton is part of a proposal to switch bom Junior high schools to middle schools The new high school would carry a familiar name Dunbar and probably would be built to southwest Lexington The old Dunbar High School an ad-black school on Upper Street closed to ihe Mriy 1970a after Lexington schools were desegregated School board members tentatively approved the middle-school concept October but left the door open lo back out if they didn't like the redistrtctmg and building plans that resulted Middle schools would Inc hide students to grades six through eight replacing the Junior highs which have students grades seven through nine The ninth graders would be moved to the high schools bringing an influx of 2109 students to the city's four senior highs Cart Spivey the district's director of research and statistic Mid a fifth high school would sot require red trictlng of elementary and mkJdhv school students know redixt rtettng is very traumatic to people" he Mid "So we tried to upset as few people as pout-btfl (TUm taF AYmt At) ing and carrying on I don't know if they had any champagne or not but they were sure The pilot tunnel provided engineers and geologists with data about rock formations That information will be used to make changes to plans The mountain has been much ss geologists had expected Graff Mid hut there have been a coupls of surprises: two small limestone caves were found on the Tennessee side The caves probably wifl be shut The target completion dais is July Education Secretary Terrel Dell at right says federal budget cuts are "condemning our country to mediocrity" In the schools Page B1 Advico Husirwtt C7 CffySiato Suction Osmium B3 Comics BlO Editorials AtO Lifesfyto Section Movies CS Obituaries A9 Pflflplt a A2 Rulipton iaiiti a a C2 Television CS Wentfwr bock pajjo 4 i By Judy Jones Lewis SouffMMtam Kentucky bureau MIDDLESBORO After a year of boring blasting and digging workers at the Cumberland Gap tunnel project finally have seen daylight Construction crews last week finished digging fa pilot tunnel connecting Kentucky and Tennessee Beneath Cumberland Gap The pilot tunnel eventually will form the fop of the southbound opening one of ihe twin two-Ian tunnels that wtU re-diet a narrow winding 12-mile see-mm of UJt 25E A person can (dually stand si one end of lh pilot tunnel snd see daylight at the other said Don Greff I Federal Highway Administration engineer The shot that made the opening exploded Dec 1 A crew had been working for 24 hours straight before breaking through Graff said were yelling and scream have to wait for clearer heads to the he Mid after sitting through the entire eessron Webb could not be reached for comment later yesterday Senior planner Sumo Stullmaa Mid she did not know of any ether time when the Webb CM had been denied a zone change by the council Several council members Mid they were Impress by the Webbs' proposal snd thought was a good idea But Council woman Pam Miller summed up objections when Me Hid the overriding concern was to keep Hanodsburg Rond as a "residential corridor" make another Nicholas vltto Road out of Harradsburg Councilman Roy Durbin urged More than ISO people packed Ihe councl chambers to overflowing ss (Turn to HARROOSBURQ At) By John Winn Miller Nwakf-LaaiMr aiaff wrffar The Urban County Council Mid no lo ihe Webb Cm yesterday apparently for the first lime when It denied a rone change that would have allowed construction of a shopping center on Harradsburg Rond At ihe end of nearly five hours of discussions the council voted 9 to I egaiiut the request The Urban County Planning Commission rejected the change to August Mytng conflicted with Ihe I9N0 Comprehensive Pten a guide to land use through the year 2dm end would alter the character of llarrodsburg Road Donald Webb one of the potential drvehgien Mid ha could appeal the council's decision to the courts but doubt he would 4 1994 about ty years later than scheduled Funding delays snd a more accurate assessment of Ihe scope of tht 3169 million project led to the change engineer Leonard Darby said fn addition to providing ufer quicker route between Kentucky and Tennessee the tunnel win allow for removal of an old section of ul 2 IE so Ihe original Wilderness can for restored 0 id mrpr Mmm W(u ii ijtai mmm 1.