European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday june 17, 1992 semiautomatic pact divides . Mayor police by the new York times Albany . A the state legislature and the new York City police department have struck a Deal to kill legislation that would have forced the department to All its officers with semiautomatic weapons. The groups agreed instead to give the guns to 1,000 additional police officers in a major expansion of a current Pilot program. Faced with the Prospect of having the state legislature Tell them How to the City a police officers mayor David n. Dinkins and police commissioner Lee p. Brown said the Deal was an unpleasant but necessary Compromise. The agreement fashioned in negotiations Over the weekend also relieves the state Assembly of making an awkward Choice Between the City and the police Union which strongly supported the Bill. Patrol officers will carry semiautomatic weapons for the first time under the plan 613 officers in specially jobs now carry the guns. The expanded test will run for a year after which Brown said the department will evaluate the results. Brown who has repeatedly said that he does not think semiautomatic weapons Are appropriate for use in the densely packed streets of new York City issued a Brief statement from police Headquarters in Manhattan on monday saying he was confident that the new test would provide the data he needs Quot to make the Best Choice of weapons for new York Chicago apr students at two roman Catholic seminaries in Chicago should be screened for tendencies toward child molesting a panel appointed by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin says. And priests who molest youngsters should never be allowed to return to their parishes the commission said monday. Quot we have identified no conditions in which an exception can be made to this Quot said the commission made up of a juvenile court judge a priest and a psychologist. Bernardin who ordered the study in october following criticism of the churches failure to remove a priest accused of sexually mistreating youngsters in three parishes pledged to make the report archdiocese policy by the fall. Quot this report is neither a Whitewash nor a Witch Hunt. It is a blueprint for the future a he said. Priests and Lay leaders must first review the report to ensure it conforms with Church and civil Law. The archdiocese has about 2.3 million members. Seven area priests accused of sexual misconduct have been removed from duties since last july before the commission was appointed. The archdiocese said it is removing eight More priests based on the commissions investigation. The report suggested that students in the two eol Plymouth mass. A a rapist paroled a year ago after being declared a not sexually dangerous was Back in custody monday charged with luring two women with the Promise of jobs then killing them and burying one in his Yard. Michael Kelley 35, was denied bail monday and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. The District attorneys office said it was awaiting test results to determine if Colleen Coughlin 21, and Debra Levangie 24, both of Plymouth were sexually assaulted before they were killed. Kelley wore a bulletproof Vest to his arraignment. Police had received threats on his life. The Case has renewed a debate in Massachusetts Over whether offenders can be rehabilitated. Kelley was convicted of raping two women in the 1970s and spent 13 years in a state treatment Center for sex offenders before being declared a not sexually dangerous by three specialists a review Board and a judge. Prosecutors said Kelley who worked for a sign company met Levangie at an unemployment office lured her to an office Complex with the Promise of a Job then Slabbed beat and strangled her. Veer body was disco but Dinkins obviously furious at the state Legislatures attempts to meddle in the police departments affairs issued Nis own statement denouncing the use of semiautomatic weapons in the City and calling the expanded testing program a the lesser of two Dinkins comments clearly showed that he and Brown were extremely reluctant to expand their test of a weapon they dislike intensely and did so Only because of the threat that the legislature would Force the guns on them. A i believe the legislature has greatly exceeded its authority and its expertise a Dinkins said. A contrary to the views of its supporters arming the Nype with Sam Auto Matics will not make our streets or our City if Dinkins was grudgingly accepting of the Compromise the patrolmen a benevolent association which lobbied intensely for the Bill that would have provided More powerful weapons for its members was outraged by Dinkins comments. A some of the mayors remarks about new York City police officers reveal that he has a very Low opinion about the level of their intelligence and train ability a Phil Caruso the associations president said in a statement. A we Are dismayed by the callous disregard demonstrated by the mayor and the police commissioner in their unique and unparalleled resistance to the introduction of state of the Art weapons that have been adopted by every other major police Force in the United states a Carusos statement said. I Csc level seminaries in the archdiocese of Chicago undergo psychological screening to determine if they have tendencies toward Pedo Irhilia. The seminaries Ead directly to the Priesthood. The panel also suggested creating a review Board consisting of it richts professionals and a members including an abuse victim or Parent of a victim to investigate allegations of sexual mis Bernardin conduct. The panel reviewed 57 allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors in the archdiocese Between 1963 and 1991. In 39 cases they found homosexual attraction to teen age boys. The priests involved have been removed or arrested or they resigned retired or died before action could be taken. No sexual abuse occurred in is of the 57 cases the panel found. But in 14 of the 18, priests were involved in a inappropriate and immature behaviour which did not Rise to the level of child sexual abuse or ered a week ago in a Box at the Complex. The Day before Kelley had been picked up for questioning after a passer by heard a scream at the Complex but he was released said Plymouth county prosecutor Paula Sullivan Miller. A the had blood on his body and a wound on his Chest Quot Sullivan Miller said. Quot he told police he had fallen through a plate Glass on june 10, Kelley was arrested in Florida on a traffic violation. He was returned to Massachusetts where he led authorities to Coughlin a body buried in his Back Yard in Pembroke. Coughlin who was also unemployed disappeared april 13. Authorities said she suffocated from tape that was placed across her nose and Mouth. Since then six other women have said Kelley lured them to the isolated office. District attorney William of Malley said Kelley would be charged with sexually assaulting one of the six. Since 1990, the legislature has forbidden new prisoners from being sent to the Bridgewater treatment Center for sexually dangerous persons. All convicted rapists Are now sent to order Sticks Board with tiny table from wire reports Fairfax a. A members of a Parks Board will have to take turns sitting at their new meeting table. Instead of the table the group expected they got a perfectly finished wooden Oval measuring 20 inches by 5 feet. Chas. G. Stott amp co., a furniture store placed a special order with a manufacturer for what was supposed to be a 20-foot table designed to seat 18. Someone at the store mistook the notation 20�?T for 20�?�. Double Marks denote inches a single Mark Means feet. The store spokeswoman would not agree to be identified or name the manufacturer. The Northern Virginia regional Park authority plans to reorder the $1,053 table but is willing to keep the miniature version. A we were just thinking it a make a Good projector table a said executive director Darrell g. is fish of the Day Coon rapids Minn. A in the land of the Walleye the Carp seized the Day. About 8,000 people showed up sunday for the 10th annual Minnesota Carp festival. Many waited in Long lines for a taste of Carp Jerky pickled Carp and a spam like Carp product spread on crackers. Bob Pansch of Minnetonka stood with scores of anglers along the Shore North of a dam in this town about 15 Miles North of Minneapolis. He landed a 12.1-Poundcr, though he regards the Carp As Many americans do a garbage fish not Worth much As a meal. A they done to get a lot of respect but they put up a hell of a fight a he mayor Dies Gainesville Fla. Neil a. Butler the first Black mayor and City commissioner of Gainesville since reconstruction died sunday of a heart attack in Detroit. He was 64, Butler was elected to the City commission in 1969. He became mayor in 1971. He resigned in 1972 after a newspaper reported he had pleaded guilty in 1959 to a $9 mail embezzlement charge in Atlanta but he was reelected to the commission 44 Days later. He left office in 1975.teen charged in death Detroit a an 18-year-old has been charged with killing her 4-month-old daughter the second of her children to die. Tracey Holloway was jailed without Bond sunday on second degree murder and child abuse charges. The medical examiner ruled that her daughter Jazminn Williams died of meningitis caused by fractures to the head. In april Jazmine was treated for a Skull fracture and a broken leg at children a Hospital. Holloway told officials then that she had dropped her daughter and fallen on top of her. Authorities questioned and released Holloway a Boyfriend Michael Williams 20, and placed their other child Michael jr., 14 months in protective custody. When Holloway was 14, her 7-month-old daughter Jubilee died of starvation. Holloway smother Betty Jean was charged with manslaughter and served three years in quake hits Alaska Fairbanks Alaska a a mild earthquake the third in Alaska in three Days was recorded monday deep beneath Cook Inlet a geophysicist said. The earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale was entered nearly 200 Miles Southwest of Anchorage 48 Miles below ground. It occurred about 3 45 a.m., said Guy Tytgat a spokesman for the Alaska earthquake information Center in Fairbanks. On saturday an earthquake measuring 3.9 rippled through the Talkeetna mountains about 80 Miles North of Anchorage. Later that night another tremor measuring 3.6 was recorded deep beneath a Cook Inlet Volcano. There were no reports of injuries or damage from any of the earthquakes Tytgat said. 2 Catholic seminaries targeted in probe of child molestation paroled rapist charged in slayings
