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Page Eight SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1983 Carbondale-Herrln-Murphysboro-Marlon Fugitive doctor returns to serve murder sentence Crime Justice i Hartigan sues IEPA chief over cyanide SPRINGFIELD (AP) Ordinarily, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Richard Carlson would ask his CHICAGO (AP) After 12 years on the run, Dr. John M. Branion reportedly the personal physician to one-time Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Is expected to begin serving a prison sentence today for murdering his wife in 1967, authorities say. The general practitioner, who fled the United States in 1971 while free on appeal bond after being convicted of murder and sentenced to prison, was brought back to Chicago from Uganda via London on Thursday, accompanied by two sheriff's investigators. Branion, 57, was to appear in court today, probably beginning the 20- to 30-year sentence immediately, according to Greg Ginex, assistant Cook County state's attorney.

Branion was taken into custody Wednesday at Uganda's Entebbe airport by two Cook County sheriff's investigators who had flown to the East African nation Saturday, said Cook County Lt. James Keating. Authorities said the investigators were sent to Uganda after receiving word through diplomatic channels that Branion was to be expelled. Branion's return ends a 12-year HX I 11 Dr. John M.

Branion Jr. -1 reportedly 'fell into disfavor'. and was expelled I from Uganda- i global odyssey of mystery and intrigue. He vanished while free on a $5,000 appeal bond after being sentenced for killing his socially prominent wife, Donna. She was shot four times with a handgun in their South Side home on Dec.

22, 1967. Ginex said county officials heard Branion was living in Uganda in late 1979 or 1980 but repeated attempts to have him returned were unsuccessful. But, Ginex said, Ugandan officials told American authorities several weeks ago, "If you want to gethim, we are expelling him and you can get him at the airport." He said officials were told that Branion "fell into disfavor. Why that is, we don't know." Don 't wait till vou have an accident to find good auto insurance Real Estate I I L.U I I riCAL I fl Phone PEKIN AP photo Nabbed: Woodbridge High students(l-r) Wayne Correia; Gary Knutson, Gregg Knutson, and David Hill FBI raids homes of youths in computer intrusions Pekin Insurance Automobile You'll get prompt, personal claim service that saves you time. Plus, you'll save money with Pekin's budget-cutting auto rates! Call your Pekin Agent and find out how little it can cost to get the good service you deserve! Diederich Insurance ref a mm ouo w.

main uaroondale Jackson bounty 457-6721; Williamson County 985-4821 Rich Diederich Bev Conrad Molly Newman Yes, I am interested in a further review of my existing lawyer for advice on how to handle the suit filed against him. The trouble' is, his lawyer is the one suing him. Carlson was sued Thursday by Attorney General Neil Hartigan, who is supposed to represent state government agencies and officials. Hartigan contends Carlson and a top aide, Del Haschmeyer, have dragged their feet in cleaning up millions of pounds of cyanide-laced film chips in northern Illinois. The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, asks that Judge Albert Green order the officials to perform their duties to protect the environment and public health.

"I view it as the only way to get them to do their job," Hartigan said in an interview shortly after the suit was filed. "The problem is to get them to get focused on it and view it as a matter of high priority," Hartigan said. "We've done all the work for them." Carlson said he was mystified by Hartigan's assessment. "That's a remarkable statement. We've been doing our job," Carlson said.

"The major problem has always been how to finance (the cleanup)." A total of 16 million pounds of chips are stored in truck trailers at six Cook County locations and in a Lee County warehouse near Dixon. The cyanide-coated chips are the byproduct of a process used to glean silver from film. After an anonymous tipster told Hartigan's office about the cyanide chips last April, the attorney general sued the process or, Film Recovery Systems Inc. of Elk Grove Village. The case is pending.

Hartigan and the IEPA have since bickered over how to deal with the problem. While Hartigan has accused the IEPA of falling down on the job, the state agency has said the Democratic attorney general is using the issue for publicity. Kenney opposes Rice Lake mining SPRINGFIELD (AP) The state appears to be hardening its position against strip-mining of the Rice Lake Conservation Area in west-central Illinois. David Kenney, Illinois conservation director, told the state's Mines and Minerals Department in a letter last week mat ne win not approve ot any mining there. That decision could place a legal roadblock in front of any attempts to mine the area, conservation department officials say.

It also represents an apparent change of position for Kenney, who at one time said he supported the proposed mining project. The state has been reviewing a proposal to allow Rice Lake to be drained and mined for coal. That plan sparked opposition from some local citizens, and a recent report by the state Energy and Natural Resources Department warned that strip-mining the lake could cause ecological damage. Opponents have also contended that state law bars the company making the proposal, Freeman United Coal Mining from using the land. They noted that a top official of the firm's parent company, Material Service Corp.

of Chicago, admitted providing bribe money for state legislators in the mid-1970s. Illinois law prohibits companies whose officers have engaged in bribery from doing business with the state. I vyi uwi i i nu I I I I1W il I I DI1C1MCCC I I ATUCD I I Name I Add ress I suspected New York Times NEW YORK Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided the homes of more than a dozen young computer enthusiasts around the country Wednesday in an investigation of unauthorized intrusions into scores of large commercial and Defense Department computers, federal authorities said Thursday. Investigators said they believed the youths, most of them teen-agers, had been responsible for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in damage to computers and computer systems. A complete list of the computers broken into was not available, but the mother of one of the youths whose computer was seized said agents had told her they were investigating intrusions into computers at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology, the nuclear laboratories at Los Alamos, N.M., and at McClel-lan Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif.

In the raids, the agents seized computers, computer and telephone equipment and files from youths in Rochester, Los Angeles, Detroit, Oklahoma City, and several other cities, the authorities said. "In most cases," said one agent, "the searches were quite routine. There were no incidents and the only things seized were things listed in the warrants." There were no arrests. According to the federal authorities, the warrants stated that the youths were suspected of wire fraud, the use of telephones to obtain computer services without payment. There is no I Mail To: Diederich Insurance Real Estate I 506 W.

Main, Carbondale, IL 62901 Or Call: Jackson County 457-6721; Williamson County 985-4821 Searches staged around the country federal law against unauthorized intrusion into computers. The government did not announce the raids but they came to light as computer enthusiasts around the country began leaving messages about them on a loose network of computers known as "electronic bulletin boards." James E. Mull, a spokesman for the FBI in the Alexandria, field office, where the investigation is being directed, said the case was in its "initial stage" and that it would probably be several months before indictments were sought. Mull said the investigation was begun after "unidentified intruders" were discovered using the facilities of the GTE Telenet Corp. in Vienna, which operates a network linking more than 1,200 commercial computers.

In late July, the authorities discovered that a group of youths in Milwaukee, who called themselves the 414s, for the area code of their city, had used the Telenet system to enter a computer at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. The Milwaukee youths said they had broken into more than 60 computers electronically, including some Defense Department computers. The federal agents said Thursday the latest raids were not related to the investigation of the youths in Milwaukee, which is continuing. So far himself. Coroner Wesley Hyland said the deaths appeared to be a "homicide-suicide." Authorities believe Hopperstad, owner of Distributing shot his ex-wife as she was leaving for her job as food service supervisor at Boone County's Maple Crest Nursing Home.

Hopperstad served as a volunteer fireman and had been a member of the village board for many years. (o) NIGHTLY DINNER SPECIALS Village shocked; trustee kills former wife, then himself none of the 414s have been charged with a crime. Agents said that four homes in Irvine, were raided simultaneously at 6 a.m. Wednesday. The four computer enthusiasts were identified by United Press International as Wayne Correia, David Hill and Gary and Gregg Knut.

In Detroit, more than half a dozen agents and two security officials from Michigan Bell went to the home of Eric Stadjas at about 8:30 a.m., his mother, Sharon Stadjas, said. "I didn't know what it was all about and I let them in," Mrs. Stadjas said. "They went all through the house. They took things apart, looked under beds, took off mattresses, pulled out drawers.

They took all Eric's computer equipment, miscellaneous phone parts and his files. Mrs. Stadjas said the agents told her they suspected that when her son, who is 14 years old and in the 9th grade, entered the Defense Department computers he had "deleted information, changed information and left messages." "They claimed he had over 30 pages of defense computer listings and passwords to get into them," Stadjas said. Eric Stadjas, who began working with his $250 Atari 400 computer three years ago, said the seized pages "were just a listing of every computer" on the Defense Department network. Southern Illinois ANTIQUESHOW SALE in Mt.

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