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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday january 21,1989 stay of execution denied for Bundy Tallahassee. Fia. A Flor Ida s supreme court Friday refused to postpone Ted Bundy s execution reject ing his lawyers plea to allow lower courts to decide whether the suspected serial killer was sane during his murder trial. He was t Able to assist his lawyers in fact he sabotaged a lot of what they were trying to  attorney James Cole Man told reporters. Coleman was expected to carry the a peal to the Federal courts. Bundy served As his own attorney through much of his trial in the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach of Lake City. He is scheduled to die tues Day in Florida s electric chair for her kid napping slaying. Much of what he did. Even at the hearing undermined his defense and his lawyers were having problems control Ling him. Getting him to make decisions. Getting him to stick to decisions said Coleman. Who is representing Bundy without a fee. Florida attorney general Bob butter Worth said after the hearing that Bundy s attorneys were grasping at a  All the courts have found Ted Bundy to be competent during the Lake City hearing Butterworth said. We believe All the issues of competency were addressed last year by the Federal  the session was scheduled after Cir Cuit judge John peach of Lake City de Nied three claims thursday in Bundy s Appeal and refused to stay the execution set for 7 . Tuesday at Florida state prison near Starke. While the attorneys made their arguments. Bundy was scheduled to meet with Fri officials at the prison. The for Mer University of Utah Law student also was expected to meet with authorities from Colorado Idaho Washington and Utah through the weekend. He is suspected in the murders of three dozen women in several Western states. The defense Appeal entered on allegations that Bundy s competence to stand trial was t adequately reviewed in either the Leach Case or an earlier conviction in the slayings of two Chi Omega sorority Sisters at Florida state University. Attorneys also argued Bundy should t be executed for the Leach slay ing while his competency during the Chi Omega slayings is still being challenged in Federal court. They also claimed that circuit judge Wallace Jopling improperly discussed the Bundy Case with prosecutors without defense attorneys pre sent All claims were rejected by peach who heard the arguments after Jopling Dis qualified himself thursday. Bundy whose Case was depicted in the television miniseries the deliberate stranger was sentenced to death for the feb. 9, 1978, murder of Leach a Lake City Junior High school student. Timely Art up Mona Lisa s timeless Beauty is fleeting Complete Only for two seconds of the Day at Midnight and noon in the clock titled clockwork by russian born architect Constantin Boym. The clock was part of an Mit exhibit in Cambridge mass., with the theme of defining Pas Sage of time in a unique Way. 2 futures exchanges being probed for fraud Chicago a the Federal government subpoenaed records of the nation s two largest futures exchanges in an undercover Fri investigation of allegations that traders cheated investors out of millions of dollars. The subpoenas for records dating to january 1983 were issued thursday As word broke of the probe into floor traders and commodity executives at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago mercantile Exchange. Eleven seats have been sold Over the past two Days officials said Friday. There is no set Price for the seats which allow traders Access to Exchange floors but one sold for $480.000. The Exchange has about 2,700 seats. We had a week s Worth of sales in a Day said Andrew Yenma of the Chicago mercantile Exchange. At the Chicago Board of Trade an associate Mem Ber s seat was sold Friday and another was on the Selling Block said spokesman Raymond Carmichael. Thirty five merc seats were quickly put up for Sale As traders grew concerned Over the investigation the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. But merc officials disputed that report saying sales Are handled one at a time and they had no idea How Many traders wanted to sell their seats. As Many As 100 brokers floor traders and executives Are under scrutiny in the probe the Tribune said. Four undercover agents secretly taped hundreds of conversations on the exchanges trading floors and tried to gain traders Confidence by entertaining them at posh apartments and by exercising with them at the expensive East Bank club the newspaper said. One agent Richard Carlson became a soybean futures trader after the Fri secretly paid for a Board of Trade seat. The records being subpoenaed include details of trades to complaints the Exchange has received and disciplinary action it has taken Carmichael said. Similar records were subpoenaed at the Board of Trade and the Board of Trade Clearing corp., which tracks trades Carmichael said. The Tribune said Carlson and another agent Michael Mcloughlin recorded conversations that suggest some trades were rigged to prevent customers from getting fair Market prices. Unlike Stock brokers on Wall Street commodity Trad ers Trade for themselves As Well As their customers in a chaotic auction system that employs shouting and hand signals making it easy for a trader to get lost in the crowd. They buy and sell contracts for future delivery of commodities such As grains livestock and Treasury Bonds. Engine Falls off jetliner shortly offer Takeoff Chicago a the right engine on a Boeing 737 jetliner fell off shortly after Takeoff Friday forcing the plane to return to o Hare International Airport officials said. No injuries were reported. Piedmont airlines flight 1480 took off from o Hare with 27 passengers and five Crew members aboard then returned for an emergency Landing shortly before 8 ., said  spokesman Mort Edelstein. At approximately 1,000 feet or just moments after Takeoff the right engine separated from the aircraft and landed on Airport property said Dave Shipley a spokesman for . Air inc., which owns Piedmont. The engine from the twin engine Jet fell in a Field one half mile West of the Airport Edelstein said. The plane had been bound for Charlotte . I know of no injuries or fire or ground damage from the engine Faa spokesman Don Zochert said. A witness gave a conflicting report of where the engine fell. There was a lot of smoke coming out of one engine and we saw it lean ing almost falling off and then it fell off. It was about a few Hundred feet in the air and landed in a Grassy part of the runway Tom Wardinski City of Chicago worker told wbb radio. I was sick scared and i guess it was t our time because the Way the Wing looked after we got off the plane it looked like it had no Chance of stay ing on. Had it gone we would have been gone said passenger Bob Mitchard of Westchester 111. Two runways were shut Down be cause of debris from the engine de laying a number of flights at the nation s busiest Airport. The engine was manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Zochert said. The engines of a Boeing 737-200 Are mounted under each Wing and the air plane is designed to Fly on one engine. Doctors delayed delivery of second twin for 12 Days san Antonio Texas a pre mature twins were born 12 Days apart through a rare medical procedure that allowed the second infant to develop More fully before deliver doctors say. Norma Landez first went into labor with the twins on dec. 28, but doctors delayed delivery until Jan. 5, when she went into labor a second time and gave birth to Aaron Jacob. The boy More than two months premature weighed Only 2 pounds 6 ounces and had to replaced on a Respirator. The second boy Joshua David remained in his Mother s womb inside a intact fluid filled membrane. Doctors at Humana women s Hospi Tal used surgery and medication including a drug called term Stalin to delay Joshua s delivery for 12 Days giving his lungs a Chance to develop further. They decided that it was Best for him inside the mom Hospital spokeswoman Cathy Collier said. Landez went into a induced labor again tuesday and gave birth to Joshua who weighed 3 pounds 7 h ounces. Those extra 12 Days that he was in his mom enabled him to be born without a Respirator Collier said. Both babies were delivered naturally doctors said. To have one baby and still be preg Nant sounds like a National enquirer headline Landez a chemist at Kelly fab said thursday. I could Tell he was growing More  both infants were doing Well although they were expected to remain in the hos Pital another week or two until they weigh at least 4 pounds 8 ounces each. Or. Mark Paine Landez s obstetrician said the Success of the procedure should encourage other physicians to trait. Paine said the procedure is being used More frequently in Europe where the separation Between births of one twin and another has been delayed As Long As five weeks. We have seen a few hours go by be tween first birth and the second but we have never seen Days go by and i be been practising for 20 years said or. Melvin Baden the Newborn specialist caring for the twins. The boys were not due until March 25  
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