European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 13, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 hoaxer tricks wire services with phony Taylor tale los Angeles apr Elizabeth Taylor was the target of an elaborate hoax that used her Public relations firms answering service to trick the news Media into a phony Story about the actress her publicist said monday. The bogus Story distributed worldwide by the associated press and United press International said Taylor 58, was romantically involved with a 23-year-ol�?Td Man and had undergone surgery Over the weekend. A a it a just totally ridiculous a said publicist Chen Sam whose new York City Public relations firm has been the sole Media link during Taylor a 9-week hospitalization for pneumonia and complications at St. Johns Hospital and health Center in Santa Monica. A it is categorically nonsense a St. Johns spokeswoman Paulette Weir said monday after learning of the Story. The Sam organization has discouraged the news Media from calling St. Johns about Taylor and has instructed the hospitals Public relations staff not to answer reporters questions. Under californians privacy Law hospitals must abide by the wishes of patients who done to want information released about them. The hoaxer said Taylor had undergone an abdominal Biopsy and was expected to be released from the Hospital within two weeks on the Arm of Julian Lee Hobbs of Lake Orion mich., described As Tay lords Boyfriend. Hobbs is apparently an aspiring actor sometimes known As Rory Emerald. Newspaper editors in Michigan report his representatives have pitched stories to them in the past but they doubted their veracity. The a office in los Angeles had placed Calls to the Hospital and to Chen Sam and associates after receiving a message sunday from an a affiliate in England the press association. The affiliates editors had heard Taylor had undergone another operation and wanted a Story. Weir the Hospital spokeswoman was unavailable on sunday. When the reporter called new York he was connected to Chen same a answering service and left a message. A Short time later a woman returned the Call saying she was Lisa Flowers from Chen Sam. She then gave the reporter the bogus information about Taylor a romantic involvement and the surgery. The hoaxer also provided the same Story to up and City news service a metropolitan los Angeles wire service. The a reporter in an Effort to verify the authenticity of the source later placed a second Call to same a answering service leaving a message for Lisa Flowers. The answering service operator accepted that message without question. Later an a reporter placed yet another Call to same a answering service. A woman identifying herself As Sam returned that Call and verified the identity of a is. Flowers and the Story she had told. Sam said monday that no one from her organization had talked to reporters on sunday. A it is a hoax a Sam said. A i have contacted Taylor a attorneys and we Are going to conduct an investigation. It is apparently somebody using my Telephone service. This woman is impersonating  Sam said a woman involved in the hoax had telephoned Billies registry her answering service and was Given the publicists messages after somehow providing proper coded identification to the switchboard. A it was All very cleverly done. It was done on a sunday when we weren to around. I can to understand How they got the code a said Sam. A a in be had to change the entire system Here. We be changed everything this morning on How we re doing things  Billie Mcdonald owner of the answering service said she  offer any details about her staffs role in the hoax. Sam said monday that Taylor was still recuperating at the Hospital and had not undergone any surgery Over the weekend. A i was out there last week a Sam said. A a she a looking wonderful and doing much better. She should be there two More  admits to murders of 3 boys in Northwest Vancouver Wash. Apr a 28-year-old Man facing trial for the murders of three Young boys and the attempted murder of a fourth changed his plea to guilty monday without explanation. Westley Allan Dodd of Vancouver has been held without bail since his arrest nov. 13, when he pleaded innocent to the charges. Jury selection will begin As scheduled on june 25, but Only in a consolidated penalty phase for All the cases. Dodd faces the death penalty or mandatory life in prison without parole. Dodd did not indicate Why he changed his plea. Clark county prosecuting attorney Arthur d. Curtis said Dodd went against the advice of his attorneys. A we done to feel it was a plea bargain in any respect a said Curtis. A the pleaded guilty to what he was charged  Dodd softly and soberly described to Clark county Superior court judge Robert Harris the three boys deaths in graphic detail. Dodd was charged with three counts of first degree aggravated murder in the deaths of 4-year-old Lee Joseph Iseli of Portland ore., and Vancouver Brothers Cole Neer 11, and William Neer 10. The Neer Brothers bodies were found sept. 4 in a Vancouver Park where they had Ridden their bicycles. Both had been Westley Allan Dodd enters a Vancouver Wash., courtroom monday where he pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three boys and the attempted murder of a fourth boy. Stabbed. The Iseli boys body was discovered near Vancouver Lake nov. 1, three Days after he disappeared from a Portland schoolyard. A on sept. 4, 1989, i went to David Douglas Park with the premeditated intent to cause the death of another human being a Dodd told Harris. A i raped Cole Neer and then i killed him. Yes i also murdered William Neer. To conceal my  on oct. 29, Dodd said a i did Kidnap Lee Iseli from Portland ore., took him to my apartment in Vancouver and raped him. And on the morning of oct. 30, i murdered Lee  Dodd was arrested after he carried 6-year-old James Kirk ii from a Camas Wash., movie theater. Although the boy was let go outside the theater his mothers Boyfriend tracked Dodd Down and brought him Back. A i did attempt to abduct and murder James Kirk a Dodd told Harris. Dodd was charged with first degree kidnapping and first degree attempted murder in that Case. The kidnapping charge was dropped monday. Robert Iseli whose son was one of those killed said he hoped Dodd would get the death penalty. A you shoot a Rabid dog. And anyone else who has no value to society a he  Arsenal remains a threat Cheney asserts Washington apr the soviet Arsenal of Long Range nuclear weapons remains a threat despite improved relations Between the United states and the 8oviet Union Secretary of defense Dick Cheney said monday. Perestroika has a Long Ong Way to go a Cheney Tola the american Israel Public affairs committee the chief pro israeli lobbying organization in the United states. Cheney described the recent Summit meeting Between president Bush and _ soviet president Mikhail Cheney Gorbachev As a useful and productive.�?�. Hoc ip16 relationship Between the two superpowers clearly s been moving toward a new footing a he said. However he added a the threat of a soviet land invasion in Europe May have declined but the soviet strategic Arsenal is still a  Cheney also predicted that 15 countries Are expected to be producing ballistic missiles by the year 2000. He said the list included Iran Iraq Libya Syria and North Korea. He said at least six of the 15 will have intermediate Range missiles by the turn of the Century. Cheney said 23 countries have confirmed or suspected chemical warfare programs and 10 have or May have biological warfare programs. A Iraq has been the source of some particularly disturbing news in recent months a he said noting its attempts to acquire electronic trigger mechanisms suitable for nuclear weapons a claim Tov possess sophisticated chemical weapons and a recent televised test for a first stage Booster rocket. A Baghdad television has claimed that Iraq has developed two missiles with ranges of 2,000 Kilometres a he said. A although we do not believe that claim it is a fact that Baghdad is now producing missiles that can reach  in answer to questions after his speech Cheney said a he Hopes to visit Israel a in the very near future after a new government is installed. He said he had planned a Tnp in May but delayed it because of the political instability in the country. A although a the situation in Iraq has worsened a he would leave it to the state department to determine whether such Steps As economic sanctions would be justified. A As far As he knows Bush has not decided whether to break off or suspend talks with the Palestine liberation organization in the Wake of the aborted May 30 attack on a Tel Aviv Beach. He said the United states was a a horrified by the attack and it is a causing us very seriously to review the dialogue with the Plo