European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page j the stars and stripes wednesday March 16, 1933 mayor is indicted on 23 charges Duluth Minn. A a grand jury has indicted mayor John Fedo on 23 charges including theft falsifying cd pens records and attempting to obstruct the slate auditor. The indictment made Public monday after the mayor s arraignment in state District court included 22 felony charges. Fedo 37, said the charges Ore a political ploy arranged by people who Don t like him. The indictment lie wid is nol going to have an effect on City  if convicted fido would face u maximum penalty of 1q years in prison on the theft charge and up to five Butcher nears firc straight sled dog title Koyuk. Alaska a Susan bucker pulled into Koyuk tuesday with a icily of almost five hours in the to Ditardo Trail sled dog Kate and she appeared poised to win an unprecedented third straight Victory. Hauling subvert temperatures and wind chills Down to minus 70, Butcher overcame a one hour deficit on the 5s-Milc run from Shaktoolik to Lake the Lead from Martin bus Crof big Lake. With 171 Miles to go in he i Iso mite race officials were predicting that the Winner would reach Nome sometime wednesday morning but Many m Ushers were concerned about the cold. Hulcher. Of Manly has won the lost two Idi Landu in to curd time and the punishing Pace she was Selling on the dash along Norton sound indicated another record was within reach. On their Way to Koyuk were Joe Garnie of Teller and four Lime Champion Rick Swanson of two Rivers. They were minutes apart just before  in Ottav. They and Buser Are the Only Ane. With a real Chance of Cau Hing ital Char jik1 ked Mirion the 70- i 3r-old Anchorage thu slice who led much of the Ruce arrived in Sha Khitlik on monday evening but still had t left he tuesday morning. Also in Shaktoolik was Lucr Iii Nayokpuk of Shishmaref. He arrived a Little after Midnight. The National weather service predicted temperatures Down 10 minus 30 and winds up to 15 Mrich for the soul hem Seward Peninsula. Exposed skin can Frencic within a minute in such cold. Australian Lirian Carver dropped out of the met monday suffering from Frostbitten hands. The 24-year-old Musher was evacuated to an Anchorage Hospital where he was reported in satisfactory condition. The 14th annual race marked March 5 in an chorale. The Lirosi Musher to Nome will collect s30.000 of a si50.000 purse the next 19 finishers will split the rest five of the 52 teams that started the race have dropped out. The latest being Terry Adkins of Mikado. Mich. Other american Mushen from outbid a Alaska were Jed by Rohin Jacobson of min Nimonkar Minn., in l4th place. John i Alton of grand mar Ais Minn., wa1 30lh Frank Tea sly of Jackson Wei 21st Dan Maceachon of Snowmass Vil Lage c Oln. 32nd and s in Ferguson of Phila Delphia 4mb years in prison on most of the other charges. Fedo was freed on his own recognizance and is scheduled to appear in court May 3, when a judge will determine whether enough evidence exists to proceed to trial. His lawyer. Douglas Sauler said he will move for dismissal of uie charges. Fedo was tried once in the election and found not guilty he said. Fedo a member of Minnesota s democratic Farmer labor party won his first four year term As mayor in 1979 and hat been re elected twice. The theft charge concerns $13,500 Given to Fedo by three businessmen to lobby for stale funds for a convention Center in the City. During the 1587 election Campaign Fedo said he passed the funds to an unnamed twin cilia business Man in 19s5 in Exchange for information about other cities convention censer proposals. By prosecutors say the mayor played t limited role in lobbying for a convention Center he later claimed Mohave won almost single hand edly. The charges say Duluth a City of 85,000 on the Western tip of Lake Superior was never in Competition for the j200 million convention Center for which Bloo Mington and Minneapolis vied. The stale legislature awarded Duluth a total of 117.2 million Tor ill own relatively Small Center. I inc King Jordan or and students cheer after he was named the first deaf president of Gal Laudel. Gallaudet president students Hail gains made by protests Washington a after a week of turmoil Gal Laduct University Campus opened monday with the first deaf president in ils 124-year history proclaiming jubilantly. Deaf people can do anything. Except hear. Irving King Jordan or. Was greeted with a standing ovation by students at a Campus news conference introducing him and the new Board of trustees chairman Philip Bravin. Jordan Bravin and the students whose seven Days of prompts with a slogan of deaf president now Drew National attention said their Success is the beginning of new gains for the hearing impaired. Jordan 44, Tost his hearing at age 20 in a motorcycle Accident. The iwo officials were joined at the news conference by th.7 student body president Greg to Liboky. Hliboky was one of the Campus leaders during a week of student protest Over the hiring of Elisabeth Ann Zinser a hearing woman As president. Zit tar resigned late thursday. There were Only a few students on Campus monday the first Day of a Spring break but Many people filled the auditorium for the press conference and wore i hair deaf president now buttons Jordan at one Point had sided with former trustees chairwoman Jane Bassett Spilman and Zinser but Hen publicly abandoned the University administration a Day later when it became Vicy Clear to me that in had become much More than the selection of a Gallaudet president seven years after he Tost his hearing Jordan got a Bach Elor s a cons in psychology at Galba Del. He went to the University of Tennessee for his master s degree and doctorate also in psychology. Top heroin smuggling suspect arrested in . New York a the country s Niom uan cd heroin trafficking suspect has been arrested and charged with in Dimmg 1.0 pounds of the drug into the United states from Asia Over a a my car period. Kony lung 4. Who was arrested sunday Ghl outside a Manhattan hotel had been the drug enforcement administration s no. I heroin target for about 2to years said . Attorney an Drew masonry. Kon alleged drug ring was much larger than Wel known heroin cases of crated by traditional organized crime groups said Robur Stulman head of the Dea s new York office. The French connection Case involved 70 pounds of heroin the i a connection about 200, he said at a news Confer ence Wilh Paloncy. Maloney said Kon was believed responsible for bringing into the country twite the 1,000 pounds Al he toll he was charged with importing. Clearly the Levels of heroin we re dealing with Here arc almost mind bog gling said Stutman. The heroin from Kan s alleged drug ring was smuggled into the country by in can 1984 and 1987 through various Means including suitcases and in ship ments of vases ice buckets to shirts and Wall plaques Maloney said. Couriers then carried millions of Dol Lars in drug proceeds Back 10 Hong Kong to be laundered authorities said. Kon allegedly used sep million to buy commercial Raj estate in the new York area and san Francisco. Sluiman said Kon sold the heroin to distributors at on estimated wholesale Price of 1100,000 per Pound authorities estimate the Street value of one Pound of heroin at i million. Law enforcement authorities confiscated 570 of the 1,000 pounds alleged to have been int Puri d by Kan s Organiza Tion in several Sei or Over the years Stutman said. Authorities also arrested John roil Lollo a Farmer new York police officer at Hij Montair . Home sunday night. Kou tollo 50, was charged with pick ing up the heroin