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A-12 Saturday, Dec. 14, 1996 Sentinel lit' I fiX Six life terms for carjacking. The Associated Press ST. LOUIS A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a college student and leaving her friend for dead after shooting and raping her was sentenced to six consecutive life terms in federal court Friday. Attorney General Janet Reno had authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Andre Bonds, but the dead woman's family agreed to the plea bargain to avoid the anguish of a lengthy appeals process.

Bonds, 20, showed no emotion as his sentence was read. He and his cousin, Bryan Cook, 18, were accused in the carjacking and murder of Melissa Gail Aptman, 22, of Miami. Ms. Aptman and a friend, then 20, were abducted in May 1995 outside a St. Louis restaurant where they had been celebrating their graduation from Washington University.

Prosecutors said Cook drove the car while Bonds shot and killed Ms. Aptman, then raped and shot her friend in the head. They abandoned the woman in a remote area in Illinois. She managed to walk nearly a mile for help. "Bonds and Cook taught me the meaning of evil and the meaning of anger," the surviving victim said in urging the maximum penalty.

"I move on and I have a wonderful life, but I can't resolve Melissa's death." Under an agreement with federal prosecutors, Bonds pleaded guilty to using a firearm, kidnapping and carjacking in which death resulted. He had pleaded guilty earlier to state charges of murder, rape, robbery, sodomy, kidnapping and armed criminal action. He was sentenced in October to 12 consecutive life terms and two consecutive 16-year terms on the state charges. The state and federal sentences will run consecutively. FUNERALS 7.

The Associated PressSentinel file Front-row Citadel cadets Petra Lovetinska, left, Jeanie Mentavlos, center, and Kim Messer, second from right, are shown at the homecoming football game. FBI probes report fire set to cadets' clothing Obituaries jJohn Kimura Services will be Monday Tor 'John Mitoshi Kimura, who died of heart attack at Watsonville Hospital Wednesday. He was 80. Born in Petaluma, he was a longtime Watsonville resident and strawberry grower. He attended school in the Healdsburg area, i During World War II he and his family were interned at Poston, along with many other Japanese-Americans.

Shortly after the war, he started farming strawberries, first in Medrone, then in San iJose and from the mid-1950s in I Watsonville. He was a member of the IWatsonville Buddhist Temple, Berry Coop, and the Japanese American Citizens i He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Yukiko Kitahara of Watsonville; two sons, Kenneth Ki-jnura of San Jose and Clyde Kimura of Watsonville; two brothers, Kimura of Watsonville and Noboru Kimura of Japan; two Hisako Ochi of San Jose and Yuriko Nakase of Japan; six grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in ideath by his sister, Ghieko and a brother, Roy Kimura. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. 'Monday at the Watsonville Buddhist Temple with cremation fol-lowing at the Pajaro Valley Memorial Park in Watsonville.

Davis Memorial Chapel is in charge of Friends may call at Chapel from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Eleanore Valencia Services will be Monday for Eleanore Bonnie Valencia, who died after a long illness Thursday at her home in Watsonville. She was 54. A native of Wenatchee, she was a resident of Watsonville for 16 years.

She attended Mills College and received a bachelor's degree in biology. She also attend Man sought Isentinel staff report SANTA CRUZ Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who kidnapped a woman last week in front of Yogurt Delite at 1306 Mission St. Detective Erik Swannack said Thursday the woman was getting into her car Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. when a man grabbed her from behind and forced her into her car.

They drove a short while before the woman was able to escape unharmed. After stealing the woman's green Jansport backpack, the Poole said all four women were still in school on Friday. Final exams begin Saturday and continue through next week. Messer called her family Friday, but did not go into detail about the alleged hazing, her father said. "She just wanted to let us know she's all right, she misses us, and she'll be home for Christmas," Harvey Messer told The (Rock Hill) Herald.

Messer, a retired Army master sergeant, said his daughter has been frustrated lately after suffering a stress fracture to her pelvic bone from marching. She has been unable to participate in rigorous training drills. "I don't want my daughter hurt, and it's up to the school to protect her," he told the newspaper. "She is in their care. I want her to be safe.

I want her to be comfortable. She deserves that much." James Mace, another cadet's brother, said his family had heard nothing about the incident and his sister had not mentioned it. Messer, Mentavlos and Lovetinska are members of Echo Company. The company's members have been restricted to campus until authorities can speak with all of them, Poole said. "We're pushing very hard.

It's not something we're sitting on our thumbs about," he said. The college agreed to admit women after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the all-male admissions policy at Virginia Military Institute was details. The commander and executive officer of Echo Company, which includes three of the four women, were suspended from their military command but remain in school while the investigation continues. Spokesman Terry Leedom said the school was not implying the two were involved, but the alleged incidents happened under their command and neither reported any abuse.

The Citadel's request for the state investigation asked SLED to look into, among other things, "allegations of flammable liquid on articles of clothing being ignited," Stewart said. The chief said he understood from talking with William L. Spearman, Poole's assistant, that the two female cadets were wearing the clothing at the time, "but the letter states there were no injuries as a result." Stewart said the letter also asked for an investigation of one student "making threats of harm to another student." The SLED chief said he understood the object of those threats was a female cadet. There was also a third allegation of physical abuse, but Stewart said he was not sure if that involved one of the female cadets. Nancy Mace of Goose Creek, Kim Messer of Clover, Jeanie Mentavlos of Charlotte, N.C., and Petra Lovetinska, a Czech national who lives in Washington, D.C., were admitted in August, two months after The Citadel dropped its males-only admissions policy.

The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. The FBI is investigating a report that two female cadets at The Citadel were sprayed with a flammable liquid and their clothes set afire, possibly as part of a hazing incident at the military school. Neither woman was injured, although at least one was the target of other threats as well, according to another cadet who reported the incidents to school officials after the women declined to report it themselves. The FBI joined the investigation because of possible civil rights violations, said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart. The alleged incidents happened "weeks ago," but the school learned of the complaint only late Thursday and promptly requested a state investigation, interim President Clifton Poole said.

"The best best-case scenario I can put on this is it is a severe violation of the Fourth Class system this has got to be hazing of some sort," Poole said. The Fourth Class system is The Citadel's rigorous first-year military training for freshmen. Hazing is against college rules. "What I'm trying to find out first if it's true and if it is true, how serious hazing it is," Poole said. "I can promise you there is going to be punishment if any of this is remotely true severe punishment." None of the officials would identify the targets of the alleged abuse, and Poole would not discuss ed San Jose State University when she received a bachelor's degree in teaching.

She taught at a number of schools in Monterey County. The last school she taught at was the Salesian Sisters in Watsonville. She also worked at Watsonville High School and Rolling Hills Middle School as a library clerk. She was a member of the Watsonville Band playing the bassoon and clarinet. She also played guitar and piano.

She also played with the Cabrillo and Hart-nell college bands. She enjoyed hiking, camping and reading. She loved music and her pets. She is survived by her husband, Ed S. Valencia of Watsonville; a son, Victor Babbitt of Danville; three daughters, Anne Laatsch and Diane Bensberg, both of Watsonville, and Susan Valencia of Santa Cruz; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Community Lutheran Church, 95 Alta Vista Watsonville. Burial will follow at the Pajaro Valley Memorial Park in Watsonville. Arrangements are under the direction of Davis Memorial Chapel. Maxine White A private memorial service was held for Maxine O'Loughlin White, who died Nov.

19 at San Pablo Care Center of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She was 80. A native of Kalona, Iowa, Mrs. White received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University cf Iowa and taught business courses at Redwood High School and at College of the Sequoias, both in Visalia. She retired to Aptos in 1977 and moved to Pinole in 1995.

She is survived by her daughter, Joanalee White Hurwitt of Oakland; her sister, Pauline Arthur of Washington, Iowa; two grandchildren, two nieces and a nephew. Her husband, Russell Crooks White, died in 1947. Contributions are preferred to a favorite charity. in kidnapping man got out of the car and was last seen walking north on Van Ness Avenue to King Street, Swannack said. The suspect is described as a white man in his 20s or 30s, about 6 feet tall and 200 pounds.

He was wearing a hooded brown wool jacket and brown leather work gloves. Anyone with information can call Swannack at 429-3741 or leave a message on the police department's tip line at 423-4333. Adelsflugel has said she was using face-painting as a teaching tool, and did not mean to embarrass Nina. At first, she resigned, then said she wanted her job back. The Campbell family has backed off its initial position that the incident was racially motivated.

But some pickets outside the school district's office Friday refused to do the same. Andrea Lloyd, who is black, said if a black teacher did the same thing to a white student, the teacher would be fired. "Make every child feel like a real human being," she said. "Stop violating their civil rights." Lottery The Associated Press Fantasy 6 Friday's numbers: 12, 13, 29. 30, 39: Decco Friday's cards: hearts, jack; clubs, diamonds, spades, 8.

Dally 3 Friday's numbers: 4, 1, 2. For 24-hour lottery results, call 423-JNEWS, selection No. llll. Pickets protest return of face-writing teacher Animal-rights group Continued from Page Al take a deep breath and step back and take an objective view. This goes beyond being nice to animals.

This means the survival of people with breast cancer, people with AIDS, people with Parkinson's and Alzheimers," Cashman said at a news conference. Friday's event was the first in a campaign against PETA, which is. having its annual Animals Ball and Humanitarian Awards gala at Paramount Studios on Saturday. The event is to be hosted by the acting couple Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin. Dozens of patients and people who have family and friends suffering from diseases that use animal testing to find medicines and treatments are planning to conduct a vigil outside the PETA fund-raising event.

The PETA Lifetime Achievement Award is going to Paul and Linda McCartney. PETA Humanitarian Awards are going to TV actress Ellen DeGe- neres, Mary Tyler Moore, Oliver Stone, Sir John Gielgud, Woody Harrelson, The Pretenders' lead singer Chrissie Hynde, talk show host Ricki Lake, designer Todd Oldham, model Christy Turlington. Politicians being honored by the group include Rep. Tom Lantos, and U.S. Sen.

Robert Smith, PETA Advertising Awards are going to actress Sandra Bern-hard, Rodney Dangerfield, Kimber-ley Hefner, the wife of Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, and actress Alicia SUverstone. A spokesman for PETA defended the group's actions. "We're not going to let an industry in peril hijack our beliefs," said Dan Mathews, PETA's campaigns director. "I think that the animal experimentation industry is in a tailspin like the fur industry. And they're trying to bring a wedge between issues and making people stronger in their convictions." Mathews said that PETA's latest victory, coming just this week, is Gillette confirming that the compa LEE-in Gustine, California on December 12, 19W.

Mrs. Sherry Lee. Survived by her husband, William H.Lee of Gustine; children, Tina Karrle of Merced, Peggy Miller of Oregon, Robin McLaughlin of Ida ho, Michelle Michael of Oregon; her mother, Emma Rodgers of Soquel, brother, Stephen Walpole of Scoffs Valley, and eleven grandchildren. Native of Richmond, CA, age 54. She lived In Gustine for 10 years.

She was an electrical Assembler. She wjs a member of Our Lady of Miracles Churoh in Gustine. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, December 17, 1996 at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of Miracles Church In Gustine. VAN KEUREN- Winn Curtis Van Keu-ren Jr.

died in Turlock, CA at a local care facility on Dec. 10, 1996 at the age of 67. Born In Hebron, IL. he moved to Santa Cruz, CA in 1945. He Is survived by his" wife of 24 years, Bella Van Keuren of Turlock; his daughter, Zella Mayotte of Turlock; and his son, Winn Van Keuren III of Santa Cruz.

He Is also survived by his brother. Jack Van Keuren of Citrus Heights; his sisters, Dorothy Dill of Santa Cruz and Marion Warwick of Stanton, CA. He also leaves 4 grandchildren. Services will be on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1996 at Norman's Family Chapel In Soquel, CA beginning at 1 o'clock pm.

Friends may pay their respects at Norman's Family Chapel on Monday from 10am until 5pm and again on Tuesday from 10am until noon. Burial will be at Oakwood Memorial Park In Santa Cruz. The family prefers any remembrances be made to The American Diabetes Assoc. You are welcome to write about your loved ones in an "In Memorlam" or "Card of Photos or pictures can be Included. For details call Ksthy Kolaskl at Santa Crux Cowry sentinel Classified Department 423-4242 Ext.

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She said the message was intended as a reminder to Nina's parents to send the child to school with her glasses. The school board, in a surprise move this week, agreed to allow Adelsflugel to return to Pepperhill Elementary School on Jan. 8. Adelsflugel must complete sensitivity training, provide proof of a written apology to Nina's family and refrain from marking any student's face. Chip Zullinger, county schools superintendent, said he wanted the teacher fired, but decided not to challenge the board's decision.

Ed Bryant, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, accused the board of violating public trust by acting with little notice. 'Once you breach that trust, by conniving, having midnight meetings and telling Joe Public we are making decisions outside the superintendent's position, we have a problem," he said. The NAACP has asked the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office to investigate. $49' CLEANING ny has ceased shaving cream testing on animals, capping a 10-year PETA campaign.

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