European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Prtt Dotson wont be freed during Appeal Chicago a an Illinois appeals court refused wednesday to free Gary Dot son on Bond while he appeals his conviction for a rape his accuser now says never Hap a panel of the 1st District appellate court turned Down without comment a re quest for an Appeal Bond filed by Warren Dotson in said Lupel after the but its not something i was particularly counting Lupel said of Dotson he will take it he knew it was an iffy thing at the request was one of several avenues Lupel has embarked upon in an attempt to free the 28yearold James Thompson said tuesday that he will Convene a special hearing of the Illinois prisoner review Board to consider a petition for executive clemency for Lupel said earlier this week that he planned to file a motion for a new trial before chief criminal court judge Rich Ard but it had not been filed by wednesday Lupel was expected to cite the recanted testimony of Dotson Cathleen Crowell As Well As Call into question the testimony of a state forensics expert during Dotson 1979 a four judge panel of the 1st District appellate court was considering Dotson Challenge of an april 11 ruling by circuit judge Richard who upheld the 1979 conviction and 25tosoyear sentence imposed on the has been studying transcripts of the 1979 trial in which Dotson was As Well As the transcripts from hearings april 4 and april 11 in which Samuels reviewed webbs re canted testimony and trial Lupel said the clemency petition asked Thompson to free Dotson in one of three ways by granting him a general Pardon that does not necessarily proclaim inno by granting a Pardon based on innocence that would Clear his record or by commuting his Webb repeated parts of her Story wednesday before a Senate juvenile Justice subcommittee looking into problems of juvenile i cannot feel at peace with the situation until he is released with a cleared not just she told Arlen and Paul i am simply a homemaker and Mother who wishes to right a terrible wrong that Ive committed against another human being six years she testifying in a sometimes altering Gary Dotson was convicted with my false testimony of kidnapping and raping Webb said she fabricated the tale of rape in order to hide a sexual encounter with a teenage boy from her Foster Bruin a photo a husky wrestler strains under the weight of a 600pound at a tavern in Victor and his gorgeous George travel the country to find challengers for the and Allen says that Victor has Defeated about humans in the wrestling but difficulties appear to he building the Bozeman City com Mission is loaded for it has barred a Manana beast encounter As and uni but the owner of the Sundance says if bears cant wrestle in his then hell use die ballot to Send the cantankerous commission ers into political american car makers report Sharp jump in mid april sales Detroit not sales of new american made cars took a Sharp turn upward in the mid april surpassing last years sales by the manufacturers reported the daily Selling rate of was the Best daily rate for the april 1120 period since total sales for the six major Domestic manufacturers of cars brought the seasonally adjusted annual sell ing rate to million the highest for any 10day period since mid january the annual rate is based on factors supplied by the Commerce department Light truck sales were also up percent on total deliveries of in the which had nine Selling Days both this year and the results were higher than some analysts had sex even though sales had been somewhat soft during the 1984 one Arvid senior vice president of Keane securities said there is obvious strength in the new car especially with incentive programs in effect at four of the six major manufacturers throughout the the automobile Market is acting contrary to the Gener Al Jouppi durables were Down for the first according to Auto sales have continued were beginning to and will continue to see More in the second that the Auto Industry will have its own contrary to what might happen in the rest of the making up for four years of Jouppi added that some of the strength would come from additional japanese which Are now in trans the Ford motor led the Domestic companies with a percent jump in sales in the mid april the company delivered new cars in the up from in Light truck sales were up percent on deliveries of compared with a year an analyst employed by Ford cited several factors in the company reason is that weve had very Strong sales increases in the two car lines that Are receiving interest he Tempo is up 145 Topaz is up 109 there was additional strength in cars that were not involved in the the for was up 90 he added that Fords Market share during the period last year was below there was also a surge in buying in the last two Days of the period that i really cant he the general motors said its car sales were an increase of percent from last Light truck sales of were up percent from the Chrysler reported a 30 percent gain in from to units this Domestic including improved to from a year the american motors said estimated sales of its cars and trucks were Down in the new car sales fell percent on deliveries of this compared with last jeep sales were off percent on estimated sales of compared with a year Volkswagen of America reported an percent gain in the period with up from last and the american Honda motor said deliveries of were percent better than sales last year of first ladies urged to join fight against drug abuse Washington a Nancy Rea Gan asked guests at her International first ladies1 Summit wednesday to band together against Youthful drug abuse on a Mother Tomother saying governments cannot be As effective As parents in the of has to be but when you get right Down to government cant Supply the things that parents can Rea Gan told 17 wives of foreign gathered in the East room of the White she asked her guests to use the today conference to share their experiences and search for common solutions to help keep the worlds children the presence of 18 first ladies from around the Globe says clearly that drugs Are a threat to our children no matter where they she even if nothing else were to be accomplished today and your at Tendance has sent a message to people every where drugs Are maiming our the first lady refused to answer a report ers question on her husbands proposed budget cuts for Federal drug education pro in talking Mothe Tomother in not going to get into the she in the the group heard com ments from private groups that had banded together to form parents networks to fight drug abuse among their As Well As representatives from Volunteer groups such As kiwanis that had sponsored television radio billboards and speakers programs to educate youth about drug addiction and when asked for their Sortini Jug Nauth of a tiny Island nation in the Indian called drug dealers in her country merchants of death who have inflicted untold harm upon my particularly the Joan Fitzgerald of Ireland called for the Banning of advertisements about saying it leads to worse and called for education about drugs at an ear Lier it is too late to Start when a child is in High she on the first ladies flew aboard two government planes to Atlanta to attend a conference sponsored by parents re source Institute for drug a Pri nonprofit during the morning the first ladies heard from two administration officials who praised president and reagans efforts to use parents groups and other private parties to fight drug abuse among the Jon the assistant Secretary of state for International narcotics offered a primer on showing Pic Tures of poppies and marijuana soviet Union releases american fishing observer Alaska a an american woman who was aboard a Japa Nese fishing vessel As an official observer when the ship was seized by the soviet Union has been the coast guard said Mike a spokesman at regional coast guard Headquarters in alas said Becky Kruppenbach was taken aboard the Cutter he said her per Sonal gear also was transferred off the anese fishing boat Fukuju contrary to earlier reports that the Japa Nese boat had been taken to a siberian Hilicey said the vessel was along with a soviet Navy when the Transfer was Hilicey said Kruppenbach was in Good shape and would be taken to dutch a voyage of 10 to 15 the Transfer took place in International Waters 20 to 50 Miles South of Cape Orlyu Torsky in Hilicey Kruppenbach was aboard the japanese vessel on behalf of the National Marine fisheries service to Monitor compliance with catch quotas in territorial Waters in the Bering state department spokesman Ber Nard Kalb said the soviets have not said Why the vessel was seized Early but added that it May have been in Retalia Tion for japans seizure of a soviet fishing boat on april that vessel apparently still is held by the he