European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 3. 1937 the stars and stripes Page 5 special prosecutor sought in race attack new York. Not lawyers for the two surviving victims of the Howard Beach Block said thursday that their Denu would cooperate with Federal authorities i they take Over the Case but urged gov Mario Cuomo to name a special stale prosecutor to handle the Case. Alton h. Maddox or. And c Vernon Mason mad their comments in separate interviews. It was their tint response to a report wednesday that District at Torney John j. Salucci May turn the Case Over to Federal authorities. Maddox represents Cedric Sand Ford described by authorities As the stale s key witness. Mason represents Timothy Grimes. After initially cooperating Sandi Ford a declined to cooperate in the investigation into the death of Michael Griffith Grimes has also de Din i u cooperate. The lawyer have accused Santucci s office and in police of bad Faith and a cover up in their inquiry a chaise officials have denied. Maddox and the police have offered differing accounts of the police s treatment of Sandiford after the attack the police handling or the Driver of the car that fatally struck Griffith and Sandiford s account of the death. Us lawyers have not offered detailed Evi Dence to support their charge. The police did not charge the Driver. Dominic Blum a 24-year-old court officer with any crime Al though he acknowledged leaving the scene and Velum ing an hour later. Maddox has Aid Blum should be arrested for murder. The police say a grand jury May yet indict Blum for leaving the scene. But they say head no connection to the attacked. Thursday Cuomo s press Secretary Martin Stead Man said of Maddox "1 think this Man has no credibility Zero credibility. And 1 answer his reckless charges Only with sorrow because they dont deserve to challenger remembered the pirate of in nettle astr Piunt Gregory Jorli receive the Flat Optea of the challenger memorial it Onobu License Plain issued la Florida driven. Tie colourful Pkt a Cost 17 above there Folio Price int the ast Raport memorial hmm Dativa i Refl recede $15 from each tale. Be answered. But because of the dimension of the trag Edy in Howard Beach i m answering mayor Edward i. Koch said thursday thai Sandi Ford should testify before a grand jury and Elrad mansard Cuomo also urged such a step. Koch and Cuomo s spokesman also repeated the suggestion thai the lawyers should take any allegation of police or prosecutor Al misconduct to the special prosecutor for the new York City criminal Justice sys tem Charles j. Hynes and said another special prosecutor it not necessary. Griffith a 23-year-old Brooklyn Man was struck and killed by the Blum car when he ran onto an expressway after he and the other two Black men fled gang of while youths who had chased and beaten them on the night or dec. 19-20. Three youths have been charged with reckless in danger Cal in the Case but a Queens judge dismissed murder manslaughter and assault charges against them on monday after Sandiford refused to testify. We would urge Sandiford and Grimes to cooperate with a Federal investigation Mason said. But he added that turning the Case Over to the Federal authorities is an admission that the stale of new York is not prepared to confront one of the most serious racial incidents in the history of this Law enforcement officials have said that Santucci might turn the Case Over to Federal authorities because it would be easier to gather evidence and convict the defendants under Federal Law Ihan under state Law even without Sandiford s cooperation. They said this was so because Federal immunity an conspiracy Laws make in easier to obtain and use Testi Mony from accomplices to a crime. Penalties for Federal civil rights conviction in which the violation caused a death could be up to life in prison. Attorney Alton Maddox Call for a Specia Leclar in the Howard Beach ase. A Lioto state pros Dea agent killed in Texas drug bust Pharr Texas a a drug enforcement administration agent was shot to death when a drug bust exploded into gunfire and a 29-year-old Man wounded in the shoot out was charged with killing the agent. Special agent William Ramos pc was shot in in Chest wednesday while trying to pitch a suspect in a supermarket parting lot said Ken Miley agent in charge of the Dea s Mcallen District office. Feline Molina Uribe a Mcallen Man who suffered ate wound was arrested at the scene and charged with killing a Federal agent . Attorney Christopher Milnor said. Moeina Uribe was under guard at a Hospi Tal Molina Uribe s Van was confiscated after agent found 300 pounds of marijuana Worth about $ 150,000 inside Miley said Motina uric and a Man arrested thursday Bonit Cavazos lamas 25. Were also named in a Federal complaint accusing them Possession with intent to Dis tribute marijuana and with conspiring to possess wit intent to distribute the marijuana. Cavazos lamas a mexican living in Mcallen an Molina uric would be held without Bond pending a detention hearing said Milnor. Ramos was a new York native and former prosecutor in Arizona who also had served with thu . Bor Der patrol for two years. He joined the Dea in 1985. Miley said the last Dea agent killed in the line of duty was Enrique Camarena Salazar. Camarena was killed in Mexico in february 1985. Miley has said he believes the Valley in the no. 1illegal-drug entry Point into the United Stales. Crash possible says economist Boston a the speculative Slock Market and feverish corporate buyouts of today had their parallel sin the 1920s, says economist John Kenneth Calbraith who warns that another crash is possible. The Market at his stage it inherently unstable Galbraith writes in the january Issue of the Atlantic. Any longstanding increase Ira Stock prices like theone that preceded the crash of 1929 and the increase of the past few years attracts investors who want to gain from the upward Rise in prices and get of before they fall Calbraith writes. Such speculation drives up Stock prices even further. And the Price so achieved no longer have an relation to underlying circumstances such As the school apologizes for Bible handout Boise Idaho a a school District has agree to Settle a lawsuit by apologizing to the parents of 35 children who were in a fifth Grade class where bibles were distributed according to court documents. The Bear Lake county school District acknowledged wednesday in court documents that allowing the distribution of bibles on school property violated the Constitution s first amendment separation of Church and slate. Carolyn Hill and the american civil liberties Union filed the lawsuit contending that her son Joshua s constitutional rights were violated when he and 34classmates were Given bibles at Paris elementary school on March f Bullet fired at jetliner hits passenger Raleigh . Not a Bullet that wounded passenger on a United airlines Jet flying into the Raleigh Durham Airport wednesday could have knocked the Jet out of the sky. A spokesman for the Fri said thursday. Shooting into an aircraft is a very very said the spokesman Charles s. Richards told reporters in Raleigh. A Bullet could Ricochet. Kill the Pilot the plane comes Down and 200 people Are the shooting brought renewed Calls for curbs on Hunting and the use of firearms in Wake county. It is just another in a Long list of cases that Points out to me that we need to or something about the county gun said Merrit k. Hedrick a Wake county commissioner. Strength of the Economy he said. What we do know is that speculative episode never come gently to an end. The Wise though for most the improbable course is to assume the worst said Gate rail economics adviser to several presidents and retired Harvard University economics professor. A second parallel with 1929, Galbraith writes is the present commitment to seemingly imaginative currently lucrative and eventually disastrous innovation in financial in the 1920s, he says investment firms invented new forms of holding companies and investment trusts. Nei ther the trusts nor the holding companies conducted a business they existed Only to own other companies. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today Gen. Dwigun d. Eisenhower again denied that Hewill seek the presidency 30 years ago today. President Eisenhower finalized plans to ask con Gress for authority to use . Military forces in the Middle East in the event of communist aggression. 20 years ago today. . Jets downed seven migs Over Nordi Vietnam. 10 years ago today. Pc Sidcot to Loci Jimmy Carter said co grew consider making put no Rico the 51m stale until the Island s residents decisively ask for statehood
