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Searchlight Saturday July 29 1995 Jubilant Croats go into town route cut United Nations officials fear it might be too late to keep the rebellions in the former Yugoslav republics from merging into a single conflict AP photo peek out of a Union SC courthouse window on Friday during dsBarationi in the trial said his voice rising "But was she sorry when she dropped that hand brake The crowd that gathered in front of the courthouse to hear the verdict was split in their views of the case crying out for help She just needs hel given Redding Record 'tfilews Break Traffic delayed R-S staff news services WEAVERVILLE A disabled scrap metal truck near Poison Gulch blocked east-bound traffic on Highway 299 west of Weaverville for more than four hours Friday night a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said A blown engine disabled the truck on Oregon Mountain about 8:15 pirn and it had not been removed early Saturday morning the dispatcher said No injuries were reported In brief Redding man held A man was arrested Friday evening after allegedly firing two shots into an empty vehicle Redding police officer Alien Long said The shots were fired after an argument between Robert Hernandez 26 end 30weenold John Cheff both of Redding in the 3200 block of Street Long said Hernandez allegedly pointed the handgun at Cheff after shooting the car Long said Hernandez ran away and was a nested about three blocks from the shooting scene near the intersection of 2nd and streets Long said He was booked into Shasta County Jail on suspicion of assault with a firearm shooting an unoccupied vehicle carrying a concealed weapon and brandishing a weapon a Jail spokesman said His bail set at $30000 Suspect restrained DEDHAM Mass Manacled and his legs in irons a man accused of killing two receptionists at abortion clinics was carried feet-first from the courtroom Friday after yelling that he was competent to stand trial "I don't have a criminal record in Massachusetts or Florida I don't even have a driving record" John Saivi III shouted as four court officers restrained him "Try me as a juvenile or an adult I don't care" Earlier Saivi asked for a chance to address the media for five minutes from the steps of the courthouse Officials ignored the request It was one of several outbursts during the four-day competency hearing that ended Fridav SaM2Aof Hampton NH says he is competent to stand trial on two murder counts and five counts of aggravated While three defense experts have said Saivi is schizophrenic and should not be tried Or Joel Haycock a state psychiatrist and prosecution expert contradicted their diagnosis on Friday More police patrols MIAMI Police increased patrols Friday in the Coconut Grove neighborhood after bands of teen-agers their faces covered "like ninjas" tossed concrete at passing cars and set trash on fire The violence came nine days after a black youth was shot to death by a white police officer It began Thursday night and ended early Friday after about two hours when police sealed off about 10 blocks in the predominantly black neighborhood No arrests were made Many of the to 30 rampaging youths estimated by bystanders to be 12 to 17 years old shielded their faces with pillowcases with eyeholes or T-shirts wrapped around their heads "like ninjas" said Antonio Hunter College aid SACRAMENTO The state Senate reversed itself Friday and approved $3 billion in school and college bonds after Republican and Democratic lawmakers traded charges of hypocrisy and cheap shots The measure went down to defeat earlier ihis month falling two votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to send it to the Assembly But Friday the Senate approved the measure 29-7 after two senators who were opposed switched their votes and two lawmakers who missed the first vote returned and voted aye The legislation's author Sea 1 Leroy Greene D-Carmichael said California is desperately in need of more construction and remodeling money Sea Maurice Johannessen R-Redding objected to the bill contending that the state's bond debt was already too high and prevailing wage requirements made school construction too costly A-8- Jurors In the Susan Smith trial Smith Continued from A-l after the crime growing more sympathetic as Ms Smiths troubled past including sexual abuse by her stepfather became known Msr lawyer David Brack said: "There is no good outcome to this case This case was an awflil human tragedy and it still is and it always will After the verdict Circuit Judge William Howard told jurors their choice was "the toughest moral decision anyone has to The jury had taken the same amount of time last Saturday to convict Ms Smith of murder "We all felt like Susan was a really disturbed person And we all felt that giving her the death penalty serve said juror Deborah BenvenutL Ms Smith 23 didn't testify during her- trial and declined to make a statement to jurors before their deliberations began She was put on suicide watch in a cell monitored by closed- Insurance Continued from A-l The entire staff of a shelter in Rochester Minn was denied group health coverage by three companies including one that concluded flatly "as a battered women's program (they) were high a time when we are beginning to make headway in getting battered women to come forward Matthews Continued from A-l ment to settle a long-running dispute over a woman police said The quarrel between brother Jason 21 and another man had escalated into a shoving match at a south Redding bar earlier in the evening of the shooting police said Matthews originally was jailed without bail after his arrest at the Clay Street apartment where the shooting occurred But when he Show Continued from A-l scared look She was afraid she was going to When Duvoisin finished describing the frightful scene Ewalt was summoned Dressed in a shredded bloodied shirt and blue jeans the actress clutched her respirator and fought to breathe as she was rolled into the trauma room on a gurney The actress muttered "I cant breathe I cant as the cameras rolled and paramedics tried desperately to calm her "I was nervous at said Ewalt who was picked for the part late last week agent read me the story over foe phone He said Oh my God this is making me This is a big It is also a story the television show doesnt normally do Jack-son said As the title implies crews traditionally pursue Happenings TODAY Musical: "Back on Broadway" by Kids Unlimited Institute of the Arts 7 pm at Redding Convention Center Directed by Dawn Hess and choreographer Angie Shermaa Tickets $8 adults $6 children 12 and under Call 246-3876 Plays: Riverfront Playhouse's "The Outsiders" a drama about teens from the wrong side of the tracks 8 pm at the playhouse 1620 Cypress Ave Redding Tickets $8 Available at downtown Redding Cali 243-1351 Hat Creek Playhouse's production of the 1890 pity "Dirty Work at the Crossroads" 8:15 pm matinee at 2:30 pm Sunday at Hat Creek Performing Arts Center on Highway 299 For reservations and information call 335-5275 Information only call 335-4170 Markets: Home Grown Farmers Market 7 am to 1 pm at MacFrugals parking lot on Hilltop Drive in Redding By Thomas Ginsberg The Associated Press SARAJEVO Bosnia-Herze-govina Croat soldiers swept north along the Bosnian border Friday cut a key Serb supply route and marched jubilantly through the town that controls the road Fifty miles away rebel Serbs pounded Bosnian troops in the northwestern enclave of Bihac and foe United Nations said it may be too late to keep the rebellions in foe two former Yu? goslav republics from merging into a single war Bosnian Serbs declared a general mobilization of all men ages 18-60 which for the first time ap- plied to all Serb-held territoiy The move appeared to be aimed at boosting morale rather than enlarging the rebel army Thousands of Croatian army troops and Bosnian Croat militia swept Friday into the strategic town of Grahovo on west? era border That allowed them to cut the main supply road linking the Croatian Sera stronghold of Knin in southwestern Croatia with Serb-held territoiy in Bos- nia About 5000 Serb civilians had fled foe town after it was shelled Thursday and aid agencies were rushing blankets ana other aid ter the region Croatian state TV showed footage of jubilant Croat soldiers walking the deserted streets Later Friday the Bosnian Serb army said Croats took foe town of Glamoc southeast of Grahova widening their holdings It claimed 20000 civilians were on the ran Bosnian Serb leader Radovan office acknowledged Grahovo had fallen and said his troops temporarily withdrawn to reserve Karadzic ordered foe mobilize- tion of all able-bodied men on Serb-held territoiy for the purpose of the final victory over our enemy and (thus) ending the The move appeared aimed at boosting Serb morale It is not expected to increase Bosnian Serb forces in the field estimated at a maximum 80000 by more than a few thousand men With the Serb supply route cut Croats are in a better position to attack Knin They may also move on other Serb-held chunks of Croatia captured in a six-month war in 1991 fear that military actions (in Croatia) may be initiated soon possibly within said UN spokesman Chris Gunness -Croatia and Bosnia agreed last Saturday to increase military cooperation in the face of world failure to stop Bosnian Serbs from overrunning Srebrenica and Zepa two UN "safe in eastern Bosnia The Croatian involvement in Bosnia threatens to reignite war in Croatia and blur the border between the two former Yugoslav republics The United Nations had announced plans to put peacekeepers on the Bosnia-Croatia border to prevent a merging of foe conflicts But they may be too late Rebel Serbs from Croatia are also fighting in Bosnia helping Bosnian Serbs and renegade Muslims in their assault on foe government enclave of Bihac 50 miles north of Grahova The Serbs are just 2J5 miles from the main UN base in the enclave at Coralici said Col Jasper Helsoe UN commander in Bihac The Bihac enclave is a thumb nail-shaped piece of territoiy in the northwest comer of Bosnia where Croatia curves around it to the north and west Rebel Serbs in Croatia control that adjoining territoiy Bosnian Serbs hold foe territoiy to the east and south Bv gaining control of Bihac Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia would control a contiguous swath all the way to the Seibian border aiding them in their goal of creating a Serbia A small part of the Bihac enclave around Bihac town itself is a UN-designated "safe The enclave is home to more than 200000 people Croatian army commander Gen Zvonimir Cervenko vowed Friday to help the Muslim-led Bosnian government army defend foe enclave With their conquest of Grahovo Croat troops are about 50 miles south of foe Bihac enclave UN officials estimate that between 8000 and 10000 Bosnian Croat and Croatian army troops are built up in that region inside Bosnia They claim to have taken some 80 square miles of territoiy UN and NATO representatives met in Brussels Belgium to draft plans on deterring Serb attacks on Bihac boyfriend He was the son of the owner of the plant where she worked and once told her he wasn't ready to be a father "Ladies and gentlemen I submit to you for Susan Smith the love for herself was greater than her love for those Pope said The prosecution showed jurors a videotaped re-enactment of the crime in which it took Ms Smith's car six minutes to sink with the boys strapped inside Ms Smith and her husband divorced in May and were already separated when she killed the children During the search he rushed to her side to support her but after the hoax was revealed he said he wanted her to die for what she had done --Brack said after the verdict that Ms Smith still wants to die think Susan is still he said "Underneath the exterior of all I think great anguish and desire for relief from her than 4000 women a year and "claims the spirit and families of hundreds of thousands Abuse experts estimate that between 30 percent and 50 percent of the injuries women bring to emergency rooms are foe result of domestic violence "When considering the insurability of a person in the individual or group market domestic abuse his top' must not play a Molinari said nies require 10 percent of the total bail to get someone out of jail In this case $15000 is needed to free Matthews on a bond Mrs Lowe said friends and relatives could come up with the needed $10000 to get Matthews out of jail if bail was reduced to $100000 "With this young man no reason not to help Mrs Lowe said "None of us have a fear hell ran and lose (foe ficials she was sister and slipped past security guards She leaned over her friend and sang the Third Psalm from the Bible a verse Smith sang to her two months earlier when her mother died It is one of foe few things Smith remembers in the hours following the stabbing "My therapist think it was a good idea for me to relive Smith admitted "But my main goal is to get the message out on domestic Smith and Andrea made many friends on the set particularly Ewalt and Jackson As foe filming wound down she presented each with a gift She said she shared her intense story and they re-enacted it without exploiting her or her daughter And Ewalt's performance? "She look anything like Smith said doing a really good The rale was designed to limit the Big Three control over programming decisions and to increase foe diversify of programs available to the public But foe television marketplace is significantly more competitive than when foe rale was adopted the FCC said noting that program producers and suppliers nave other ways to get programs to the public cable VCRs and direct-to-th e-home satellites The rale's elimination could mean that reruns of network shows from past seasons like old episodes of could show up on network affiliates in the top markets during the first hour of prime time something that is not currently allowed network officials said "You'll see shows like and About on more at said senior vice president Martin Franks "Viewers will see less Copy1 fewer tabloids and more circuit television and with a guard walking past every 15 minutes prison spokesman Robyn Zimmerman said For the first few days she will not be allowed visitors In his closing argument in the penalty phase of the trial Brack said Ms grief remorse and memories while serving life behind bars would be torment enough young woman is in a lake of Brack said "That's her Holding a Bible Brack read the story from the Gospel of John about a woman who committed adultery an offense punishable by stoning to death that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at Brack read But Pope told jurors Ms Smith's remorse for killing her only children 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex was meaningless "She may be sorry he to get the medical and legal help they need we cannot put them in an untenable position: Get help and risk losing your health insurance or stay with your abuser and risk losing your said Rep Connie Morelia R-Mil author of one reform plan Her approach would require the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to draw up a model code barring insurance discrimination on the basis of do pleaded innocent in April Rug- fero set bail at $500000 When uiger asked for another reduction in May Ruggiero set bail at $150000 Burger asked to lower bail again Friday because father Aaron Howard Matthews Sr of Redding is ailing and needs his son to help care fin him The elder Matthews suffers from acute diabetes that has left him a paraplegic and nearly blind Burger said The attorney also said that re perilous rescues not brutal crimes "We do whatever stories survive the gantlet of said Jackson who has been directing episodes for six years "The show sees this as a mission to educate people on domestic Producers were also astonished by daughter Andrea's reaction during foe attack Andrea then 10 slid between her knife-wielding father and Smith When her mother escaped Andrea dialed 911 When Robin Smith grabbed the phone and hung up she redialed Prior to filming the story Jack-son and Ewalt quizzed paramedics police and physicians about the attack Lee Anne behavior and medical condition Jackson said reenacting the bloody assault for a family program easy an 8 show that kids watch so we didn't want lurid stabbing Jackson said "A lot of it is Redding Farmers Market (sponsored by Shasta Growers) 7:30 am to noon at Ml Shasta Mall south parking lot in Redding Valley Farmers Market 8 am to noon through October at Valley Market parking lot 6644 Happy Valley Road Anderson Call 357-2416 or 378-1811 Fight crime: Youth Crime Prevention Fair 10 am to 5 pm The Mall downtown Redding Booths exhibits music and contest Barbecue: 13th annual chicken barbecue to benefit Otd Station Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department 3 to 7:30 pm Uncle Runt's Place 30 miles east of Shingfetown on Highway 44 Cost $650 adults $4 children 10 and under SUNDAY Summer concert: Free concert with Thom Berry-Home Grown Blues Band 6 pm at the Convention Center-Riverfront Park Amphitheater in Redding Sponsored by Redding Parks and Recreation Department Bring blankets and lawn chairs Call 225-4095 it said Susan the bring those boys Christine Bird There was never any doubt about Ms guilt Her trial which began July 10 was to ex-jriore why she killed the boys Oct Brack argued during the trial that Ms Smith snapped under unbearable personal pressures and mental illness Ms father Harry Vaughan killed himself when she was 6 and defense lawyers said she also was prone to depression and had attempted suicide several times Pope told the jury Ms Smith killed her sons so she could try to continue a relationship with a mestic violence States would not be required to adopt the code but insurers in states that embrace the standard and still discriminated would be subject to federal fines of up to $10000 a day The law also would apply to self-insured employer plans -Rep Susan Molinari R-NY author of another plan that would rely on the organization of state insurance commissioners noted that domestic violence kills more cent community fand-raisers to help collect bail money for Matthews demonstrate that the former Central Valley High School basketball star has strong ties to the community that prevent him from becoming a fugitive "Aaron is a favorite son of the black Burger said outside court So far $1700 has been raised for Matthews said Isaac Lowe of Redding who attended court hearing Bail bond compa- The stabbing scene filmed at a residence in the 2800 block of Howard Drive in the Country Heights subdivision also was unnerving for Smith "When the paramedics were telling them how I looked it was hard to listen so I walked Smith said "Seeing the blood even though it was fake was hard to deal Jackson said most of the episodes are done with actors The crews favor putting people through traumatic situations again When Smith watched the filming of foe show which will air sometime in the winter Jackson warned her of upcoming bloody scenes Smith showed up for filming not to watch Ewalt but to support her friend Heather Sherman of Redding who plays an important role in the episodic Smith credits Sherman with helping her survive the ordeal When Smith was in intensive care Sherman told hospital of Television Continued from A-l Fox television network remain intact even though the ownership exceeds federal foreign ownership limits because it serves the public interest The FCC said foe network which has brought the country With ana "The has expanded competition viewing choices and jobs New networks like Fox Paramount and Warner Bros or their affiliates are not subject to foe prime-time access rale that FOC agreed to repeaL Syndicators like King World and Viacom and the 450 independent TV stations those not affiliated with one of the Big Three networks have fought to retain the rule The Big Three networks their affiliates and some program producers and syndicators like Disney have been pushing for repeal of the rale I.