Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

'r 1 1 wvu ynnnnnnnnnn1' fm jri i wnv i Os i Fingerprints link Morin to Janna Bruce case LINDA CARRICO BEAUMONT Flngerprinti found on a stolen 'car belonging to slain Corpus Christ! secretary Janna Bruce were identified yesterday as those of 'suspected mass killer Stephen Peter Morin Prints lifted from Miss Bruce's 1979 Chevrolet Monza matched fingerprints taken of Morin while he awaited trial in the Bexar County jail testified Hartman a San Antonio police fingerprint cx-jiert Hartman was one of a dozen prosecution witnesses testifying yesterday in Morin's capital mur-vder trial which was moved here from San Antonio on a change of venue On Monday Morin pleaded guilty to capital mur der in the fatal shooting of Carrie Marie Scott 21 formerly of Corpus Christi in the parking lot of a San Antonio1 nightclub Police said Miss Scott was shot In the back with a 38 caliber pistol after she resisted a man attempting to steal her car Despite Morin's guilty plea the prosecution is presenting testimony to prove its case and seek the death penally In making the positive identification Hartman said at least seven points of the prints lifted from Miss Bruce's car matched Morin's prints Miss Bruce's car was found parked outside' a San Antonio motel a week after her body was 'found floating in a Padre Island culvert i Hartman also testified that other prints found on Miss Bruce's car belonged to Sara Clark 32 of Port Aransas Miss Clarke has been indicted by the Bexar County grand jury as a co-defendant with Morin in Miss Scott's death Miss Clark is charged with capital murder and remains in custody in the Bexar County Jail Morin has been indicted for capital murder In Nueces County for the Dec 2 slaying of Miss Bruce in Corpus Christi Corpus Christi police believe Miss Bruce was abducted in the Hilton Inn parking lot a few minutes after she left the office where she works as an executive secretary Authorities were notified of Miss Bruce's dis Christmas tree Workmen found Miss Bruce's body Dec 3 floating in two feet of water on Padre Island In other testimony several San Antonio police officers told of their convergence on the Sands Motel on the Austin Highway following the shooting death of Miss Scott A witness told police that he saw Morin ipave the nightclub where Miss Scott was shot in a Mercury Cougar That vehicle along with Miss Bruce's: Chevrolet was found parked outside the Sands Mo- tel Police converged on Room 10 of the motel only to find that Morin had escaped through a small bath-room window Two women were in the motel room'' Miss Clarke and Pamela Jackson formerly of See Morin page 16A appearance after a friend became worried when she he missed a meeting where the two were to buy a mm i 1 Our readers speak frightening to think that these students are the leaders of tomorrow If this is the case we are in sad shape my friends" -LOIS A JARMAN Letters to the Editor page 14A 99th Year No 59 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 8 1982 64 Puges Price 25 cents Britain vows to sink ships Blockade of Falklands looms within 72 hours eign secretary after the resignation of Lord Carrington Monday will do all we can in get one But if our efforts fail the Argentine regime will know what to expect Britain does not appease dictators" Pym vowed Making his maiden speeeli as foreign secretary in an atmosphere of crisis Pym used harsh language to describe Hie takeover Bending over his text and speaking with earnest deliberation he said the islanders "have become the victims of Hie unprincipled opportunism of a morally bankrupi regime" He made no mention nr President Reagan's decision to send Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr to Britain and Argentina this weekend on a peace-making trip The Foreign Office said later that the government "warmly welcomes" the decision See Klorkade page 18A Britain's policy Nott told Commons "will be meant to deny to Argentine forces on the Falklands the means to reinforce and resupply from the malnlund" He said Argentine vessels entering the area which he called a maritime exclusion zone "will be treated as hustilu and are liable to be attacked by British forces" Nott did not say what action would be taken against vessels already inside the prohibited area A large number of Argentine ships are thought to be lying in the harbor at Port Stanley the main settlement in the islands or just off the coast Francis Pym the new foreign secretary opened the debate by declaring that Britain intended to force the Argentines out of the Falklands as soon as possible "We would much prefer a peaceful settlement" said Pym who was appointed for Nnr Vark Tlnwi Nn larvic LONDON Britain threatened Wednesday night to sink any Argentine ship that came within 200 miles of the Falkland Islands after dawn Monday John Nott the defense secretary made the announcement at the end of a seven-hour debate in the House of Commons on the seizure of the South Atlantic archipelago by Argentine troops Friday The disclosure which amounted to the imposition of a blockade meant the two countries could he at war within a little more than 72 hours drastically curtailing the time available for efforts to find a peaceful solution The British submarine Superb a nuclear vessel of the hunter-killer type was reported by military sources to have arrived off the Falklands and several of her sister ships arc believed to be on the way England pressures US to help flotilla Haw Varfc Tim Nwn Mrvtc WASHINGTON The British government is applying pressure on the Reagan administration to provide London with military intelligence and other support for the British flotilla heading toward the Falkland Islands according to administration officials In particular the British want to refuel their naval forces at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic a right guaranteed under a treaty with Britain allowing American use of the island The administration in dealing with the crisis is faced with the possibility that British failure could lead to the fall of Prime Minister Thatcher's government and its replacement by one less agreeable to President Reagan The American response to the British requests led to what administration officials described as a pointed debate Tuesday morning in Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr's office between Lawrenre Eagleburger under secretary of state for political affairs and Thomas 0 Endors assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs Eaglehurger reportedly argued failure to support Britain might lend to another Suez-type crisis in Britisb-American relations In 1956 the Eisenhower administration opposed the British French and Israeli invasion of Egypt leading to key changes in the British government and serious ruptures in British-Americnn relations Enders reportedly maintained outright support of Britain would endanger United States efforts to gain Latin American support against Soviet and Cuban activities in the' area Haig made no decisions at the meeting hut officials reported-that he seemed to be leaning toward Eagleburger Officials said dial no comparable pressure was being fell from Argentina A number of officials noted that Reagan called bis lirxt meeting of senior advisers on the crisis Wednesday before leaving for a Caribbean vuenlion Reagan effectively turned the matter over to Haig and dispatched him In London The Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency were nol represented at the discussions on Tuesday Haig also is to travel In Argentina to discuss and perhaps initiate peace making endeavors there In a telephone interview Wednesday Sir Nicholas Henderson hi British ambassador did nol deny requesting American support for the flotilla bill said he was nol in a position to address Hie other mailers AP WifipfePl Reagan greets Jamaicans maica yesterday The president arrived there on the first leg of a Caribbean tour Story page 6A President Reagan greets some -young dancers who performed during his arrival ceremonies at Kingston Ja Volcano may have killed 5 000 Little hope held for Mexican village TW AlHCiaM mu VILLAHERMOSA Mexico Medical authorities held out little hope Wednesday for 5000 villagers stranded on the slopes of El Chinchonal volcano out of reach of rescuers and trapped for 10 days by the lava and debris of continuing eruptions "Every day that goes by we fear more for their lives" Dr Rigoberto Garcia chief of medical services in Chiapas State said "Their principal lack must be water'and the rain of rocks their biggest threat" The military waited for suffocating poisonous clouds to dear enough to send paratroopers with food and clothes to half a dozen small towns where the villagers are believed trapped A pall of dense ash and dust mixed -Volcanic fall-out reaches Corpus Christi with steam lava and white-hot sand hungs 33000 feet over the volcano making daytime skies as dark as night It moves with the shifting winds spreading a carpet of gritty dust knee-deep in some places over a radius of 250 miles Ten American pilots from Petroleos Helicopters a Lafayette La firm under contract to the Mexican state petroleum monopoly have been waiting since early this week for a chance to mount an aerial search for the stranded villagers Medical authorities in Chiapas and Tabasco states say there is very little hope anyone could still be found alive The eruptions begun March 29 and the urea is being shaken by an average of seven earth tremors every day Analilia Martin del Pozo a National University research vulcanologist estimated the temperature of the debris at 1800 degrees fahrenheit as it shoots out See Volcano page 16A spokesman said yesterday A cool front expected to move into the Coastal Bend this afternoon should push the fall-out back out over the Gulf of Mexico he said a small enough amount that if coming down There's nothing to get upset about" the spokesman said just not going to be any problem for Volcanic fall-out from an eruption in southeastern Mexico began mixing with hate that settled along the Texas Coast including Corpus Christi late yesterday but weather officials say there is no cause for alarm The ash from the El Chinchonal volcano is being carried into South Texas by prevailing winds a National Weather Service No first strike Former higMevel officials seek nuclear weapon cuts Doctors seek freeze page 12A conventional with nuclear Hm VM TlaiM NH Mnta i WASHINGTON Four former high-level government officials urged Wednesday that the United States and its European allies prepare Co renounce the first use of nuclear weapons and compensate for that by strengthening the West's conventional forces in Europe In a magazine article and a joint statement the four contended that the buildup of nuclear arsenals worrisome divi- lions in the Atlantic Alliance and Official contingency planning for fighting limited nuclear war now made it "imperative" for the Western powers to abandon their 33-year-oid strategy of threatening to counter a Soviet attack in Europe weapons "Continuation of the present policy will add to the risk of nuclear war said their joint statement read to reporters by Robert McNamara defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations "We have come to believe in a policy of no first use as imperative for the long-run survival of our society and indeed of civilization as we know it" the joint statement continued "We do not think that deterrence can safely be based forever on a doctrine which more and more looks to the people of the Alliance like either a bluff or a suicide Along with McNamara the authors of the article in the quarterly magazine Foreign Affairs are McGeorge Bundy former national security adviser to President Kennedy and Johnson George Kennan former US ambassador to the Soviet Union and Gerard Smith former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and leader of the American arms negotiating team in the Nixon administration They proposed a shift to the "no first use" doctrine without making it conditional on agreement with Moscow on grounds that the Soviet leadership has for years advocated joint East-West renunciation of the first use of nuclear weapons At a news conference here the four conceded that their proposal would reverse the strategy of "flexible which McNamara and Bundy helped to formulate in the 1960s and which the others had supported either See Officials page 1IA PftM ky Damp Waltoc Elevator explosion victim remembered Wfcather Partly cloudy skies High today high 80s Low tonight mid 60s Details on page 2A mother Luisa Garcia stood beside him The I9-year-old man had been working at the grain elevator for only five weeks when he was killed in the April 7 1981 explosion Eight other persons died and 29 were injured in the explosion Friend and family of Gilbert Garda one of the victim of the Corpua Christi Public Elevator explosion a year ago today gathered at hi grave yesterday for a Requiem Muss The Rev Ezequiel Nurrleta officiated at the Mas at Memory Gardena Cemetery as the victim's CIssiifM Ads M24401 Circulation Dept SS3-3IC0 Other Deptt M4-2011 6 rA ti.