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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 9, 1937 the stars and stripes Page 5 West Virginia regents tighten Belt colleges universities to close for 1 week Charleston . A the state Board of regents on tuesday ordered West Virginia colleges and universities to close for one week and furlough All employees for live Days in an Effort to save $10 million As ordered by the governor. The regents also cancelled summer school classes until after the july i Start of the new fiscal year and told school presidents to defer All non emergency maintenance equipment purchases and travel. I be been on the Board almost six years and As far As higher education is concerned this has been the darkest of All Days said president William Watson there was nothing else we could  gov. Arch Moore last week ordered All slate Agen Cieslo reduce spending by 20 percent through june 3d because tax income is $63 million behind estimates on which the slate budget is based. On tuesday Moore called the Board s plan an overreaction and threatened to veto it and Send the regents Back to the drawing  state agencies revised spending plans had to be delivered to finance commissioner John Mccuskey by 5 . Tuesday. The Highway department and other agencies not funded directly from the general Treasury arc exempt from the order All others including the supreme court and the legislature have been asked to comply. The corrections department said in will Cut about $1.2 million from a $3 million construction fund while the auditor s office said in will slice a fund from which it makes social Security payments to match contributions from state employees paychecks. Because the Spring semester ends in mid May at All 16 state supported colleges and universities however the Board or regents was unable to spread its cuts Over the next three months and was forced to Lake drastic action immediately Watson said Watson said the Only exceptions will be for medical Center personnel. The employee furloughs will save about $6 million he said while calling off the first of two summer school sessions will save about $2 million. Other cuts including a decision by regents to forgo Ihetu own pay for the remainder of the year will make up the bal Ance he said. West Virginia University president Neil s. Bucklow said All employees including himself will take a five Day furlough May 1 is. The cuts affect about 8,300 employees and 67,000 students at 16 schools said Jim Schneider the Board s director of finance. Final exams which had been scheduled for the week of May ii will be moved up he said. Hinckley wants to live with woman who killed daughter Washington a John w. Hinckley says he wants to live with a woman who once killed her sleeping daughter and is now the biggest influence in my life according to court papers filed tuesday. Hinckley acquitted by reason of in sanity of attempted murder charges stemming from the 1981 shooting of president Reagan recently told a Psychia Trist lie Hopes to eventually gain release from St. Elizabeths Hospital in washing Ion to live with Leslie Deveau. Deveau a one time Washington socialite was found innocent by reason of insanity of charges she murdered he child in 1982. She met Hinckley at St. Elizabeths and there were published reports in 1983 that the couple might Many. Deveau has since been released from the government run mental Hospital where Hinckley was committed Afler his 1982 acquittal. Hinckley s statements were quoted by Federal prosecutors opposing a Hospital recommendation that Hinckley be Al Lowed to make an unescorted easter visit to his family. Prosecutors quoted from the Psychia Trist s feb. 12 letter in papers filed in . District court. Or. Glenn Miller who examine Hinckley in february concurs with the Hospital s recommendation. He said Hinckley s ultimate wish is to leave inc Hospital and Hinckley is hopeful in court would see fit to place him in her custody Miller wrote. In a february 1987 interview with , or Hinckley described Deveau As the biggest influence in my life " quoting from an appellate court  in Deveau s Case prosecutors noted thai after shooting her daughter with a Shotgun she tried to kill herself with her husband s Shotgun. One of her arms was eventually amputated As a result of the self inflicted gunshot wound. Psychiatrists at is Elizabeths requested in a March 23 letter that Hinckley be Al Lowed to visit with his family and friends Verthe easier  in the letter St. Elizabeths said Hinckley had made steady Progress since a 1983suicide attempt. . District judge Harrington Parker will  april 13, in their 21-Page Brief Federal prosecutors said the Hospital s request read literally would provide or. Hinckley with a License to travel freely once he leaves the grounds of the Hospital attached was an affidavit from John r3impson, secret service chief who called Hinckley an extremely serious threat to the safety of the  Sarah Brady whose husband James Brady was paralysed when he was shot in the head try Hinckley also signed an affidavit opposing Hinckley s release. Mrs. Brady noted that Hinckley is vigorously defend Hinckley ing a lawsuit her husband filed against him for damages from the March 30, 1981, shooting. Reagan and Brady the while House press Secretary were shot outside the Washington Hilton along with a secret service agent and a local police officer. Colombian ring raided 12 pounds of Coke seized new York a state and Feder Al agents raided eight Bouses and arrested 20 colombian drug dealers tues Day busting a major narcotics ring that authorities claim sold More than $7 Mil lion in cocaine last month on both coasts. The raids in Queens and Long Island were the culmination of a seven Mont investigation into a drug trafficking and Money laundering organization that brought an estimated 500 pounds of co Caine a month from Colombia to Newyork. The raids resulted in the seizure of 12 pounds of cocaine one gun and More than $750.001. Officials said. Robert is ing special agent for the drug enforcement Agency in new York said the investigation would have continued but the reputed ring Leader Hector audello who was among those arrested tuesday was planning to leave the United slates. He said charges included conspiracy to distribute cocaine drug distribution and violations of currency tews. The traffickers used houses in affluent Long Island communities to store drugs and hired colombian couples to care for the Homes said Strong. The neighbors weren t suspicious he said. The people took care of the Lawn and  authorities said that due to the investigation s limited duration they could nol estimate How Long the ring had been in operation How much cocaine it had sold or How much Revenue had been collected. But Slang said records uncovered in tuesday s raids should give authorities better estimate. More arrests were expected shortly i both Colombia and the United states Strang said adding we re starting to see a Good relationship with Colombia officials. Ada/7 drop to aids group delayed White Plains n. Y. Dpi a mail Carrier who feared he would contract aids filed a complaint with his superiors and slopped delivering mail to an aids task Force office until ordered to a week later the , postal service said tuesday. Karl Seidl customer service manager said the Carrier had a right under postal regulations to have his fear of a health Hazard investigated but not to Slop delivery. When postal officials investigated the complaint which cited the possibility of a hazardous and unsafe delivery Point they found the location was an administrative office. Seidel said officials decided in was Safe for Mai delivery by the Carrier. The Carrier whose name was nol released was or dered to resume delivery last week to the mid Hudson Valley aids task Force in Westchester. James fair Secretary of the task Force said he fell the Carrier was uneducated about aids. Fair added that the Post office should have let the task Force know the mail was being held while the investigation into die Carrier s complaint was under Way. Jury new Yoi selection ends for Goetz trial York a jury selection was completed tuesday for the attempted murder trial of subway gunman Bernhard Goetz. After 10 Days of interviews the 12th regular juror and four alternates were notified of i hair selection for the trial to begin april 27 in state supreme court a trial level court. The 12 regular jurors include eight men and four women. Two arc Black nine White and one hispanic six said they have been the victims of crimes. Three of them of subway crimes. Goetz who is White is charged with attempted murder reckless endanger men assault and weapons violations for the shooting of four teen agers All Blacks in a subway train in lower Manhattan in december 19s4. He has said he shot the four because he thought they were trying to Rob him when icy demanded 15, the youths All of whom survived their wounds claim no they were just panhandling Money for video games. Sands of to in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 9, 1947 Henry Ford s3, founder of the largest family owned Industrial Empire in the world died of a cerebral Haemorrhage at his Home in dear born Mich. Ford died in the flickering Light of Oil lamps and candles because flood Waters Hod Cut the Power to his Home. 30 years ago today april 9, 1957 Cairo radio warned in a hebrew language broadcast that Egypt would destroy any test ship Israel tried to Send through the Suez canal even if it fed to world conflict. 20 years ago foe a april 9, 1967a racially integrated jury heard a Mississippi sheriff Tell How the fatal shooting of a elderly Black was designed to lure or. Martin Luther King or. Into an assassination ambush. To years ago today. April 9, 1977 stunned by prime minister Yitzhak Rabin s dramatic resignation Israel was in Politi Cal upheaval As defense minister Shimon Peres and foreign minister Yigal Allan mane Vered to fill the Post  
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