European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. May21, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Goode renominated in Philadelphia Denver voters Force Peno into june / 6 Runoff by the associated press Philadelphia mayor w. Wilson Goode won renomination tuesday while Denver mayor Federico Pena was forced into a Runoff by Voiers who also rejected a plan to guarantee shelter for the homeless. Voters in Oregon meanwhile approved a lax Issue designed to prevent schools from shutting Down for Lack of Money. Pena who became the City s first hispanic mayor by so Ping an incumbent out of office four years ago was running second to attorney Don Bain in an eight Way race. But Bain was unable to Muster n majority in the non partisan contest so he and Pena will meet in Runoff june 16. With All of the City s 496 precincts reporting Bain had 58,003 votes or 42 percent while Pena had 51,650 votes or 37 percent. Slate sen. Dennis Gal Lagner was a Distant third with 11,964 votes or 13 percent. The City s daily newspapers depicted Pena As a it of ideas who lacks the management style o carry the through. Pena has countered that his opponents focused on trivia rather than real issues. Bain 52, a political newcomer accused Pena of being so smothered by bodyguards that he is isolated from the Public. One Bain television advertisement showed Pena poking his through a Phalanx of bodyguards to shake Rands with a potential voter. I think it s going to be a very Lough election Pena said in a recent interview. For the last four months i be had As Many As seven or eight candidates waging very negative campaigns against me making All sorts of allegations difficult to respond to in a debate for  the main issues were air pollution a new Airport and convention Center and the depressed Economy in manic the City of 500,000 people. The ballot proposal o require Denver to provide Safe shelter for the homeless was opposed by both Binand Pena backers said there was not enough room at ensling shelters and denied that the proposal would attract the Down and out from around the nation. Opponents said it would be expensive and would open the City to Law suits by creating a Legal right to shelter. With 79 percent of the vote tallied the measure was railing with 45,393 votes or 62 percent opposed and 28,019 votes or 38 percent in favor Goode the first Black mayor in the nation s fifth la Gesl City won Philadelphia s democratic primary by elections 87 defeating District attorney Edward Rendell and Ber Nard Salera a Follower of extremist Lyndon Larouche. Goode was plagued by inc memory of the 1985 siege when police dropped a bomb on a Radical group s fortified Row House starting a fire that killed ii occupants of the House and destroyed scores of Homes. Faced with the Prospect of a tax increase to remedy nagging financial problems Goode and Rendell traded barbs Over who could Best run the cily of 1.6 million. Former mayor and police chief Frank Rikizo switched parties to win the gop primary by defeating stockbroker John Egan. Republicans Are outnumbered More than 3-1 by democrats. In other voting tuesday in Washington state. Pacific county sheriff Jerry Benning s department was on the line with a �600,000 Law enforcement tax Levy on the ballot. The county s troubles Stein from a Sharp reduction in Timber reve Nues. In neighbouring Oregon voters approved a safety net plan that would allow school districts to re Levy the previous year s properly tax total without re sub Millig in to voters in an Witort o prevent he school closings thai have plagued the state. With 1,415 of 2,193 precincts reporting or 65 per cent the measure had garnered 129,337 yes votes or 56 percent to 103,141 no votes or 44 percent. Oregon is heavily dependent on property taxes to finance schools but in some districts the tax has to be approved by the voters every year and in others a supplemental lax for the schools has to go before the voters. Tic safety net would give schools Ai least As much Money As they had the previous year. In the past 10 Yiirs nine school districts close their doors Afier voter rejection of property lax levies. The closures lasted from five to 37 Days Oregon residents overwhelmingly passed another measure that Pul them on record against creating a radioactive waste dump in Washington state. Residents of Rural Miflin county pa., voted 2-1 in favor of a non binding referendum asking whether the United states should join the soviet Union in a Mutual weapons test ban that can be checked by both sides Pittsburgh voters threw out the at late system for electing cily Council members in favor of a District system designed to give Blacks one or two of nine Council seats beginning in 1989. The Council has had no Biack members since january 1986. In Pasadena Calif voters balloted to restore the historic Huntington Sheraton hotel a verdict that overruled a zoning decision. Killer executed jury says Rescue was an escape f f 1in Mississippi Gas chamber Parchman miss a Edward ear Johnson who pumped five gunshots into a Small town marshal was Pul to death in Mississippi s Gas chamber Early wednesday. Authorities dropped sodium cyanide crystals into a sul uric acid solution at 12 06 a.m., releasing poisonous fumes into the chamber and Johnson was pronounced dead 15 minutes later Accord ing to Ken Jones a spokesman for the state corrections department. Johnson 26, had wailed quietly in a cell 30 feel from the Gas chamber As his lawyers pushed ill hour bids to save his life. But the appeals were turned Down tuesday by the . Supreme court he 5th . Circuit court of appeals and a Federal District judge. Gov. Bill Allain then denied clemency. After a Borough deliberate and prayerful consideration of this matter i have determined thai in would not be proper for the governor to intervene As to the order issued by the Mississippi supreme court Allain said. Johnson was the first person put to death in Mississippi since september 1983 and he state s second since the . Supreme court allowed states to restore the death Penally in 1976. A dozen people wearing Hack bands marched quietly outside the Pris on to protest the execution. The protesters said they had Little Hope of changing the course of Johnson s Falc but hoped to influence tie future of other death Row inmates in Mississippi. Johnson was convicted of murder in the june 2, 1979, slaying of Walnut Grove night marshal , Trest who was shot five limes twice in the head with his own pistol As he Lay on the ground. Trest was investigating a burglary. San Francisco a a con Man and his Lover were convicted of escaping Froin Federal prison in a Stoke helicopter by a jury that rejected their Story that he was rescuing her from retribution by corrupt officials. The Federal jury deliberated about to hours tuesday before finding Ronald Mclntosh .12, and Samantha Dorinda Lopez 37, guilty of All counts in connection with the breakout from a Dublin Calif prison on nov. 5. Ii seems that they did t believe do Rinda very much said Mclntosh who did not testify. I Don t know if they d believe me any  Mclntosh disappeared while on an unsupervised move to a Lompoc prison then returned in a helicopter and carried off his Girlfriend. Fri agents captured them 10 Days later As they picked up Asch of wedding rings. Defense attorneys said Lopez had Dis covered irregularities in the Way the institution was run and that the escape was necessary to project her from retaliation by prison officials. In a separate interview Lopez bitterly restated her contentions that she was harassed As were defense witnesses. She also reaffirmed her love for Mclntosh. The defense also argued that Mclntosh suffered from residual stress from serv ing As a helicopter Pilot in Vietnam. I think basically we discounted the necessity defense said jury Foreman Bruce Langley. We Felt most of us inc threats weren t immediate  Langley also said that no one accepted the stress defense. Mclntosh convicted on three felony counts could receive up to 25 years to life in prison. Lopez faces up to five years for escape. Sentencing was scheduled for july 9. Assistant . Attorney Mark Zanides praised the jurors for their common sense and said he Felt the verdict vindicated Dublin prison guards. To prove the necessity defense he said earlier the couple would have had Simandira 1.off t and Ronald Mcintush hit led from the courthouse in chains. To have made an Effort to surrender after escaping. The two did Noi Ell Fri agents of fear for their lives after their arrest he said. Lopez s attorney Geoffrey Hanson said he and Lopez were disappointed by called the trial very  this might he the list time they see each Oiler. Hope everybody realizes that Hanson said. Mclntosh was serving a five year Lerm for wire fraud and had m months left to serve when he vanished. Loh ? was serv ing a 50-year irm for aiding and abet Ting a Georgia Bank robber 1, and was scheduled for Paruk eligibility in five years at the time of her escape. Defense attorneys had argued that Lopez had been harassed threatened an assaulted by prison guards after complaining about Luicir treatment of inmates and uncovering such irregularities As an imbalance in an emergency fund for prisoners