European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday March 6,1987 no angry president asserts Washington api an irate president Reagan is rising to his wife s defense denouncing assertions she is running the government or ads like a dragon that is fid Ion and 1 in Ink it is despicable Fici Reagan told reporters a look of anger darkening his expression. And a lot of people ought to be ashamed of the subject arose at a wednesday Oval office photo session during which Reagan was quizzed about Nancy Reagan s role. A spate of reports in recent Days described mrs. Reagan As Power hungry and likened her to a dragon. The reports suggested she overstepped her Bounds of pushing Donald Regan from his Job As while House chief of staff. Wednesday also happened to be the reagans 3slh wedding anniversary which was marked by a White House photo showing the couple embracing in the Oval office at an earlier photo session with Fri director Wil Liam Webster Reagan s nominee to head the Cia the president told reporters he does l generally answer questions Al such sessions but he offered to comment because you be touched a nerve what is mrs. Reagan s Rote in running the govern ment a reporter asked. Not the one that has been bandied about in Chepress the president replied. Which part of it do you Hove the greatest object onto the president was asked the idea that she s involved in governmental Deci Sions and so Forth and All of this and being kind of a dragon lady he said. There is nothing to that and no one who knows her Well would Ever believe a reporter then told the president it was Iii new chief of staff Howard Baker jr., who had called mrs. Reagan a dragon lady. Baker silting nearby on a Couch grinned and said no Reagan also said no he did tas the group of adviser started to laugh. Baker was quoted Over the weekend As saying about mrs. Reagan when she gels her hackles up she can be a earlier this week new York times essayist William Safire wrote a column describing the first lady As Power hungry and acting As an incipient Edith Wil son Unel cycled and unaccountable presuming to control the actions and appointments of the executive asked if the first lady was upset about the various reports the president responded Well obviously she is. Yes of what do you think could be done about it reporter asked Well maybe i just said a few things Here that will make some of you think twice before you repeat those Phett the Reagan in 35th wedding anniversary photo. Things that Bave been said the president replied. The first lady had nothing to do with Regan s Resig nation the president argued saying Regan had spoken la him months before about his desire to leave but he had offered to stay until the Tower commission released its report on the Iran Centra affair. That report turned out to be highly critical of Rea Gan s handling of the arms Sale As wed As Regan s. The chief of staff resigned and was replaced by Baker last Friday. While Regan had been sharply criticized by Many of the president s supporters for his failure to manage the controversy he also had been involved in a struggle with mrs Reagan Over her husband s work schedule and other matters after the president s Jan. 5 prostate surgery. Washington Safe jury convicts Baptist minister of slaying wife port Angeles Wash. A a minister was convicted wednesday of first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife on the porch of their Baptist Church parsonage. The Rev. Crady Young who had said his wife was killed by a burglar was found Guilly by the Callam county Superior court jury after 12 a hours of deliberation Over two Days. Young 61, faces up to life in prison at his sentencing which judge Gary Velie set for april 1. Young sat stoically when the verdict was announced his three daughters and two sons also showed Little emotion except for his youngest Daugh Ter. Belly who burst into tears. Elva Mae Young who played piano and taught Sun Day school at the Hillcrest Baptist Church was shot to death on aug. 9. Prosecutors contend Young ambushed his 53-year old wife Al the Mobile Home that served As the Church parsonage because he was tired of being married but did t want the possible scandal of a divorce. Defense lawyer Craig Ritchie said the verdict will be appealed if enough Money can be found. I m not suggesting it was t a Good jury but i Don t think Justice was done Ritchie said. It s much worse Han if he was accused of murdering someone and was not guilty. He s accused of killing his wife of 38 years and if he did not do that that is the worst travesty jury Foreman Date Bowen read a Brief statement saying the panel considered the Case seriously and thoroughly and would have no further comment prosecutor David Bruneau said he was very pleased. I m always pleased when Justice is the killing caused a sensation in port Angeles a Mill town on the olympic Peninsula and Strait of Juan de fuel about 60 Miles Northwest of Seattle. Judge Viclie s courtroom played to a packed House through out the trial. In his closing arguments monday Bruneau Ham mered on the theory that Young quietly bought the ,22-caliber murder weapon in Seattle and then set up the murder scene to make it appear his wife stumbled onto a burglar who killed her. Ritchie countered that what might appear to be Strong circumstantial evidence such As Young s fingerprints being found on a plastic bag in which the murder weapon was wrapped and hidden actually Speaks against his committing the crime. It is inconceivable that a person of average Intelli gence would not believe in a homicide investigation there would be a search he said stateside Plain View Iowa residents vote for Dis incorporation Plain View Iowa a this town s six Street lights will no longer be of concern to the municipality some Lime this summer. That s when Plain View s existence officially ends residents have voted 22-1 to Callie quits As an incorporated City. The farm Community s two other registered voters did t show up by the time the polls closed tuesday i asked if we could close the poll Early once Bev were All in but we had to Wail until 8 o clock . To open the Box said Bernice Koberg the wife of mayor Kenneth Kober. Thek bergs Home was the polling place. The votes will be counted monday and the remits turned Over to the Iowa economic development commission for the . It will Lake a few months before the tily put under control Drscoll county collection of dollhouses auctioned for $134,101 new York api a woman collection of dollhouses most with intricate interiors brought More than j 134,000 at auction with some Price far exceeding the value placed on them by the auctioneer. Mary b. Rhoadia of Lancaster pa., decided to sell 40 of her dollhouses collected during a 20 year period because she and her husband Are moving to 4 smaller Home the dollhouses brought $134,101 at the auction said Christie s East auction House spokeswoman Carol Fox. It was a terrific collection with not Only european but also american makers and those Are hard to Rind the said. Two mystery so called because of their undetermined origin brought Well above their estimated top bid. Fox said. The first a four room Dollhouse that was expected to bring Between $6,000 and $8,000, sol for $15,400. The second a six room Bouse brought $13,200, also above its $7,000 to $ 10,000 expected Selling Price said Fox. Perot first recipient of Wallenberg award new York up Texas billionaire Ros Perot a crusader for prisoners of War has received the first Raoul Wajenberg award. The award is Given for embodying the spirit of the Man credited with saving More than 100,000 jews during world War ii. Perot was Given the award wednesday night during a ceremony in the Waldorf Astoria hotel me told the audience the evening was not dedicated to him but rather to Wallenberg the swedish Diplomat who fought nazi Adolf Eich Mann s desire to leave no jews alive in Buda pest Hungary in 1944. In 1969. Perot organized an International Campaign for the release of american prisoners of War in Vietnam. Wallenberg was arrested by the soviets in Jan uary 1945. They claim he died of a heart attack in 1947, at the age of 35. But Many witnesses in later Yean said they saw and spoke with Wallenberg. Couple robbed of a million in jewelry at Burger King los Angeles Dpi a jeweler and his wife slopped at a fast food restaurant on their Way Home and returned to their Carlo find thai someone had pried open the trunk and made off with 11 million in merchandise deputies said. Csaba Osvath 65, was returning Home from the los Angeles jewelry Mart wednesday when he and his wife decided to Slop at a Burger King Deputy Bob Nimtz said. When Osvath and his wife resumed 10 their car they found the Mink pried open and the $1 million Worth of jewelry gone Nim said. Deputies said witnesses saw four men pry open the trunk remove cases of jewelry and a pistol and then flee. No arrests were made
