Press Journal from Vero Beach, Florida • 9

Top of the morning Operation Snow White Drug Sweep Continues With 17 More Arrests MIAMI (AP) Seventeen more people reportedly linked to an International cocaine smuggling ring have been arrested by Miami police to bring to 31 the number of people reminded up in Operation Snow White offlciala said Saturday Among those arrested in the sweeps was a former Miami policeman who resigned last September after learning of the drug probe said Mimi spokesman Calvin Ross Eleven others remain at large Including at least one other Miami policeman suspected of a role in a sophisticated ring that reportedly ran drugs from Colombia and a deserted Bahamian isle to lorida Miami police say Seven policemen were originally suspected of a part in the ring seven policemen were likened to the Seven Miami Police In ternal Affairs Sgt Charles Reynolds said Three of the suspected officers have since been cleared ofa role one has been arrested and three are being sought for questioning police said 4 Investigators said a two year investigation revealed the drug rings used a fleet of boats and aircraft to bring cocaine marijuana and methaqualone tablets from Colombia to South lorida via in the Bahama One Year Old Girl At Disney World Killed After alling Out Of Tram LAKE BUENA VISTA la (AP) A year old girl was killed Saturday when she fell from a tram in a parking lot at Walt Disney World here a Disney spokesman said Cassandra Lusinski the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Lusinski of Muscatine Iowa fell out of the tram Saturday afternoon after boarding it with her family Disney spokesman Charles Ridgway said the child who was sitting near the front of the seven car tram with her parents fell out after the tram heading for the amusement park made a turn Ridgway said the lorida Highway Patrol would investigate whether the 20 month old girl died as a result of the fall or was run over by the tram Police Say Man Killed riend In Order To Steal His Olds Cutlass CLEARWATER la (AP) Like many young Americans 29 year old William David Weis had a love affair with cars A skilled auto mechanic and son of a former Michigan automobile dealer Weis owned a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme which he treasured Police said Weis and his car A friend and neighbor James Douglas Losey had no car of his own But he reportedly admired Olds Police say they think Losey liked the sporty car enough to kill its owner to get it Weis was found dead last Tuesday his body floating in a pond at Countryside Village Square Police said Weis had been tied by the neck to a heavy tool box his own Losey was arrested two days later and charged with killing Weis Investigators said when the 28 year old Clearwater cook was arrested in Tampa he was driving car Three Motorcycle Gang Members Among Those Convicted or Drugs TAMPA la (AP) Three members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club and a Hialeah la man have been convicted in federal court here on drug conspiracy charges in connection with what officials say was an Interstate drug network A 12 member Jury deliberated for five hours riday before returning guilty verdicts against Wilson Harrell of Jacksonville James Hawkins of Tampa Karl Heinz Harig of St Petersburg and Anthony Scire of Hialeah All were convicted of conpiracy to possess cocaine methaqualone am phetamines and methamphetamine with intent to distribute the drugs between 1978 and 1981 Harrell Hawkins and Scire also were convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it In addition Harrell and Hawkins were found guilty of violating interstate travel laws to promote the drug operation US District Judge George Carr ordered all four men held without bond at the request of Assistant UJS Attorney Lee Atkinson who told the Judge the govern ment believed people pose a danger both to the community and to the Small Rallies Across lorida Protest Nuclear Arms Buildup By The Associated Press Rallies in three lorida cities Saturday were smaller echoes of a huge demon stration that assembled an estimated 550000 people in New Central Park to demand a nuclear weapons freeze In Miami a cluster of about 50 people assembled around the reedom Torch in Bayfront Park Saturday morning to protest the nuclear arms race Speeches were made decrying war and calling for an end to nuclear weapons In ort Lauderdale 32 people stood on the steps of the ederal Building and listened to speeches given by former US Rep Ed Stack (D la) and Dr Jay Kerzner a member of a group called Physicians for Social Responsibility' In Pensacola site of the Pensacola Naval Air Station a group of about 60 people circled a downtown plaza for about 90 minutes Saturday They carried signs calling for nuclear disarmament and opposing atomic power and energy Boy Scout Leader Gets 15 Years or Molesting Boys While Camping ST PETERSBURG la (AP) A 42 year old Boy Scout troop leader who admitted molesting young scouts on camping trips was sentenced to prison despite a request for leniency from the mother of two of Joe victims Gibson who was scoutmaster of a Pinellas County troop until his arrest last August deny what he did to the boys and a doctor testified that he suffered from pedophilia an abnormal sexual attraction for children But the question that confronted Pinellas Circuit Judge Thomas Penick was whether he should be sent to Jail or treated in a hospital Penick settled on Jail and sentenced Gibson to 60 years in prison with all but 15 years suspended and the remainder on probation Even with an early parole Penick said Gibson will spend at least 10 years in prison and will be on probation until he is 102 Thirteen complaints were filed against Gibson He pleaded guilty to four charges of handling and fondling a child and one charge of committing a lewd and lascivious act in front of a child Prosecutor Eileen Jacobs said some of the boys said they submitted to Gibson so they could get ahead in scouting Others said they were afraid of being hurt inal Preparations Underway or Space Shuttle's ourth Mission CAPE CANAVERAL la (AP) Kennedy Space Center technicians finished pressurizing the on board storage tanks Saturday the last task before final preparations for fourth test mission now scheduled for une 27 a NASA spokesman said The process began riday night and shuttle workers finished the plan on schedule shortly after noon (EDT) Saturday said National Aeronautics and SpaceAdmlnlstratlon spokesman Ken Senstead The storage tanks contain manuevering propellants going along Senstead said "The (pressurizing) was completed on Preparations for the launch of the Columbia scheduled for June 27 were proceeding smoothly after a hazardous fueling operation was successfully com pleted KSC officials said riday night was a very significant Senstead said was a major step in getting the Columbia ready for An engineering team finished fueling the steering and manuevering engines and reaction control systems riday morning The chemicals used monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxlde are highly toxic and combustible Sun June 13 1982 Vero Beach la PRESS JOURNAL 9A 'Pranks' Preceded Watergate MIAMI AP) As George A Hearing describes them now they sound like collegiate pranks But the lorida ac at political rallies 10 years ago were forerunners of the scandal that would topple an ad ministration Hearing a Tampa accountant was the first man imprisoned in the wake of Watergate In an interview this week near the eve at the 10 year an niversary of the break in at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington Hearing said he lives in 'relative obscurity mother she remembers but to anyone else I was a nothing lowest and the first convicted" said Hearing who spent nine months in prison lost his license and was divorced by his wife of 19 years Hearing 49 pleaded guilty to illegal distribution of federal campaign material at a Wallace or Presadent political rally in St Petersburg Hearing adopted a plan originated by Donald Segretti to hand out cards at the rally saying: you loved Hitler love George On the back the card said The idea was to anger lorida and split the Democrats he said Ten years later he also admits to printing some day glow shirts that said: busing Vote for on the front On the back the shirt named a fictitious sponsoring group called or Mentioning the busing issue would anger some Southern voters and produce a schism among those considering Democratic candidates such as Wallace Muskie and George McGovern he said Still the shirts were illegal unny hurt but illegal he said belonged in Jail I violated a federal law and I deserved what I got not all but I deserved part of Of his one year sentence he received 87 days reprieve as a model inmate in a minimum security facility at Northwest Eglin Air orce Base At Eglin the Portland Ore native worked prison details cleaning first I polished those But while serving his term his wife of 19 years divorced him was mostly my fault all the politics being out late at night I stret ched the rubber band too he said She remarried Hearing was freed once again as a nobody but mounted hurt was my friends my friends I They ignored him While in prison his accounting license was suspended He never bothered to have it reinstated even though he still practices private accounting in Tampa where he has lived since 1938 The tricks by Republicans inspired to disrupt the Democratic candidates so President Richard Nixon would have any easier path to re election were successful he said idea for disruptions came from CREEP (Committee to Re elect President Nixon) to keep Ed Muskie basically from running Nixon was afraid of Muskie But Nixon had it cold going in And the Republicans got what they wanted George McGovern Nixon won by a Hearing said he recruited tricksters on the orders of Robert Benz president of the Tampa Young Republicans Club where he served as treasurer and Segretti He said Benz set off a stink bomb in a Democratic boiler room full of campaign phones Benz? never went to Jail And Segretti got six months 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