APRIL 26, 1988 THESUNHERAD A 3 Three still missing from damaged sub By D.W. PAGE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NORFOLK, Va. One of the Navy's last diesel-electric submarines lay on the ocean's surface tied to a rescue vessel Monday after underwater explosions and a toxic fire injured 22 sailors and left three missing. The 30-year-old USS Bonefish, its remaining crew evacuated to shore bases, floated alongside the submarine rescue ship USS Petrel about 160 miles off Florida, said Lt. Cmdr.
Aaron Long, a spokesman at Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk. There was no apparent danger that the submarine, which carries only conventional weapons, would sink, said Chief Petty Officer Terry D. Borton, a fleet spokesman. It was not known if the missing men were aboard the sub or in the water. Long said preliminary indications pointed toward a series of explosions, including one in the battery compartment, but he said he was unable to say precisely where the other explosions occurred on the ship.
The fire VOTE Continued from Page A-1 discrimination. The decision in Runyon vs. McCrary, adopted in hundreds of lower court cases since, has become what one civil rights lawyer called "a major strand of the civil rights enforcement Four justices said Monday's announcement could shake minorities' faith in the court. "Time alone will tell whether the erosion of faith is unnecessarily precipitous," said Justice John Paul Stevens, a swing vote who most often sides with the court's liberals. "But in the meantime some of the harm that will flow from today's order may never be completely undone." Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, agreed.
"The message is there's a new court and previous rulings are up for grabs," he said. "If this decision possibly can be overturned, perhaps a lot more are endangered." The court's three Reagan appointees Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy joined Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Byron R. White in voting to restudy the 1976 decision.
Joining Stevens in dissent were Justices William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the court's leading liberals; and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, another swing vote. Will there be five votes to overturn the 1976 precedent? Rehnquist, long the court's most DUKAKIS Continued from Page A-1 good as a policy, but there must be always flexibility in the policy. We ought to take every initiative we can to gain the freedom of the American hostages in Beirut." Eight Americans are held by Moslem extremists in the Lebanese capital.
Nevertheless, if Dukakis, like Bush, is a runaway winner in Pennsylvania, that may forecast the start of a de facto general election campaign well before anyone had anticipated. Dukakis already devotes much of his rhetoric to attacks on the Reagan administration's record, and has in- KRECIC Continued from Page A-1 day later in Memorial Hospital at Gulfport. The defense lawyers contend that fear of Hansen drove Krecic to take part in the shooting and a subsequent escape which led the couple through Harrison County and into Hanco*ck County's Rocky Hill Community. After being seated in the witnessing stand about 4:30 p.m., Hansen stared at Krecic before being questioned. Krecic smiled at him.
"Did you shoot state Trooper Bruce Ladner on April 10, 1987?" Stegall asked Hansen later in questioning. "I plead the Fifth," he said. Hansen was advised by his attorney not to answer questions because of appeals pending in his case. District Attorney Glen Cannon maintains that Krecic urged Hansen Pilots say L.A. has safest airport QUESTION broke out in the forward battery compartment, he said.
The USS Petrel arrived on the scene Monday afternoon, but Navy officials said any decision to board the submarine was being delayed until today. "The decision made was that no one goes aboard" until the Petrel's experts declare the ship free of dangerous fumes this morning, Long said. The Petrel, based in Charleston, S.C., was alongside the submarine with a line attached to keep the submarine from drifting, Long said. "They are waiting until daybreak to commence any operation. No one has boarded the vessel at this point," Long said.
Also steaming to the scene was the salvage ship USS Hoist from the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk. The explosion occurred Sunday afternoon in the boat's battery compartment while the Bonefish was submerged on a routine training mission, said Borton. conservative member, and White, a conservative with a generally liberal voting record in civil rights cases, dissented from the 1976 decision. They are two likely votes to overturn. Scalia is considered as conservative as Rehnquist, and a third vote to overturn.
The keys may be the votes of O'Connor, who in recent years has shown greater independence from the court's conservative bloc, and Kennedy, whose impact to date has been minimal because he only joined the court in February. Kennedy won Senate confirmation after Reagan's nomination of Robert H. Bork was rejected. Bork's critics in the Senate and among civil rights organizations said they feared his replacing centrist Lewis F. Powell on the court could threaten 30 years of civil rights precedents.
In its first seven years, the Reagan administration has had little success persuading the court to adopt the president's conservative agenda: outlawing abortion, restoring prayers in public schools and curtailing affirmative action. Kennedy, whose views on such matters are unknown, is viewed as a staunch conservative but less ideological than Bork. The concerns voiced during the Bork nomination fight were echoed Monday, however. Calling Kennedy the key to a "new court," the ACLU's Glaser said, "Bork had an extensive record of civil rights animus and Kennedy did not. But this isn't encouraging.
Richard Carelli has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press since 1976. creasingly turned to direct criticism of Bush as well. Monday, Dukakis stressed his themes of jobs and economic opportunity before about 50 blacks in a North Philadelphia church. Once again, as he has across this state with its pockets of economic deprivation, the governor emphasized his Massachusetts record, telling the voters that his administration has cut the rolls of long-term welfare recipients by 30 percent in just four years with its job training and placement program. The jobs, he said, average $13,500 a year at the outset.
"That's not a king's ransom. But I'll tell you, it's a heck of a lot better than welfare. It's at least a first step on the way out of poverty," the governor declared, as some in his audience nodded approvingly. The campaign decision to have the governor visit the church was made just 36 hours earlier, a last-minute to shoot Ladner. Prosecutors relied on testimony from two former Harri- son County jail inmates, Marie Perry and Barbara Duncan, to support that aspect of their case.
Perry testified Saturday that Krecic confided during one conversation in jail that she told Hansen "to shoot the pig." Duncan testified she overheard Krecic make a similiar admission to former cellmate Toni Wood. Perry, who has been convicted of manslaughter and faces current felony charges, and Duncan, who has been convicted of 39 counts of utterforgery, are now being held at an undisclosed prison. Stegall summoned Wood and two more of Krecic's former cellmates to rebut Perry's and Duncan's testimony. "Marie Perry and Barbara Duncan are lying," Swarthout told jurors in his opening arguments. Wood, who was released on probation last week after serving time in jail for possessing cocaine, testified that Krecic never discussed her case.
"She informed me she was not al- Continued from Page A-1 members of this court to reconsider an interpretation of a civil rights statute that so clearly relfects our society's earnest commitment to ending racial discrimination and in which Congress so evidently has acquiesced." The court's majority said the dissenters were making it sound like the court was overturning the 1976 decision. "We have, of course, done no such thing," the unsigned order issued by the majority said. "It is surely no affront to settled jurisprudence to request argument on whether a particular precedent should be modified or The North Carolina case, argued last Feb. 29, now will be held over until the court's next term beginning in October. A ruling is likely in 1989.
Voting to rehear the case were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Byron R. White, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy. O'Connor, Scalia and Kennedy were appointed by President Reagan, a critic of some high-court rulings he considers too liberal.
Brenda Patterson, a black woman, wants to use a post-Civil War law to force her employer, McClean Credit Union, to pay actual and punitive damages for alleged harassment. Lower federal courts said the law, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, is designed only to ban racial discrimination in hiring, firing and promotion not racial harassment. Ms. Patterson still could charge racial harassment under a 1964 civil rights law. But the more recent law provides that those who win their cases in court may collect back pay, not potentially big awards as compensation for emotional and mental suffering.
Civil rights groups say the more limited 1964 law may not be a sufficient deterrent to harassment. Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union here, said the court's action will have "enormous psychological "Basic civil rights decisions now may be considered open to attack," he said. Monday's action suggests there are five solid votes to reconsider key precedents, he added. Spitzer also said that if the court limits the scope of the 1866 law, it may encourage defendants in bias cases "to take a harder line. to say 'sue instead of settling out of court.
The court agreed to use Ms. Patterson's appeal to reconsider a 1976 ruling, called Runyon vs. McCrary, that held that racially segregated private schools violate the 1866 law. The statute was enacted to ensure that recently freed slaves would enjoy all the rights of citizenship. The 1976 decision has given civil rights groups an important legal weapon to fight racial bias by permitting them to use the law as a basis for lawsuits against private individuals.
schedule addition that served to underscore the fact that Dukakis has all but conceded the black vote to Jackson. Black voters make up about 10 percent of the Democratic primary vote in the state, and polls and politicians seemed to agree that, while it is likely Jackson will win in Philadelphia with its heavy black vote, Dukakis will pile up huge margins over his only remaining challenger elsewhere in the state. A statewide poll released Monday, done over the weekend for two Pennsylvania television stations by KRC Research of Cambridge, showed Dukakis with a 57 to 31 percent lead over Jackson, with 12 percent undecided. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent. For Jackson, the results were part of a trend that some aides said had him looking to a strategy that concentrates more on getting his message across than on winning votes.
lowed to discuss the case," Wood said. "Anita didn't discuss her case at all." Wood said she and Krecic were friends in jail and "shared the love of the Former Harrison County Jail prisoner Beverly Goodman testified that Perry and Duncan lied about statements they said Krecic made because they thought they could get out of jail sooner if they helped prosecutors and because they didn't like Krecic. Perry and Duncan, who was later moved from the jail in Biloxi to one in Rankin County, corresponded to get their stories straight on what they would say Krecic told them, said Goodman, who is on probation for burglary. Goodman testified that she spent time in the Rankin County jail with Duncan. "(Duncan) said she hoped it didn't get found out that she lied," Goodman said.
"She said she wanted to see Anita burn." Krecic faces the death penalty if convicied in the case. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Pilots responding to a survey on airport safety rated Los Angeles International the most dangerous in the nation and Dallas-Fort Worth International the safest, it was reported Monday. However, many of the pilots said the main factor governing airport safety is people, and that can vary at any facility at any time, according to HOME Continued from Page A-1 faced, 21 residents between the ages of 50 and 95 lived at the home. Three residents have since been removed by family members. The supervisors have placed a moratorium on admitting new residents.
Under Rose, current and former employees claim that elderly residents were beaten, drugged, cursed, denied meals as punishment and forbidden to walk around freely or take afternoon naps. The county Sheriff's Department is investigating the charges and will turn over the results to the district attorney's office. The charges of abuse have not been addressed by the supervisors. Instead, they fired Rose for failing to OBITUARIES Benjamin Henderson BILOXI Benjamin H. Henderson, 59, of Mobile, died Monday, April 25, 1988, in Biloxi.
Mr. Henderson was an Army veteran and a retired Merchant Marine. Survivors include a brother, Joseph Henderson of Mobile. The body was sent from Riemann Memorial Funeral Home, Beauvoir Road, Biloxi, to Radney Funeral Home in Mobile for services and burial. Clayton Beasley BILOXI Clayton W.
Beasley, 72, of Biloxi died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Biloxi. Mr. Beasley was a Baptist. Survivors include a sister, Mary B. Malone of Trenton, and one brother, Lee R.
Beasley of Belair Beach, Fla. Burial will be in Biloxi National Cemetery. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Biloxi is in charge of arrangements. Henry Smith Jr. BILOXI Henry Smith 61, 70 West End Homes, Biloxi, died Saturday, April 23, 1988, in Biloxi.
Mr. Smith was a Navy veteran and a member of New Bethel Baptist Church in Biloxi. Survivors include five sisters, Mary Brooks, Clara Parker, Minnie L. Rucker and Dianne Wright, all of Biloxi, and Evelyn M. Gibbs of Memphis, Tenn.
The funeral will be held tonight at 6 at McDaniel-Richmond Funeral Home in Biloxi, where friends may call from 4 until service time. Burial will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Biloxi National Cemetery. Mrs. Nora Eubanks GULFPORT Mrs.
Nora Mae Eubanks, 70, 207 Kent Gulfport, died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Gulfport. The body was sent from Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport to Webb Funeral Home in Meridian for services and burial. James Killegrew GULFPORT James Philip Killegrew, 81, of Gulfport, died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Gulfport. A native of Newark, N.J., Mr. Killegrew had been a Coast resident for 61 years.
He was the owner and operator of Killegrew's Building Materials in Gulfport for over 40 years and served in the Coast Guard for three years. Mr. Killegrew was a member of the Joe Graham Post 119 American Legion, Loyal Order of the Moose chapter 1359, Independent Order of the Odd Fellows and a life member of Elks Lodge 0978 in Gulfport. A substaining member of the Boy Scout of America, Pine Burr Council, he was the sponsor of several youth soccer teams and the Boys and Girls Ranch. He was an honorary member of the Mississippi Sheriffs Association and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Helen Tucker Killegrew of Gulfport; one daughter, Miss Lenrose Killegrew of Meridian; and a sister, Mrs. Frank (Rosemary) Blackmarr of Gulfport. Visitation will be tonight from 6 until 9 at Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Gulfport. The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 a.m.
in the funeral the survey, conducted by The Atlantic Constitution. The newspaper in February, and March polled 2,200 pilots who hold air transportation certificates, asking them to list in no particular order the five safest and least safest airports. The newspaper, reporting the survey results in its Monday editions, said 1,360 pilots responded. The report did not include how many times a particular airport was named. report to the supervisors the death of a resident, violating county purchasing procedures, taking food from the county home, making employees sew for her and her husband on county time and failing to notify the supervisors when residents were discharged.
Two attendants from the home have been suspended for abusing residents. Alice Saucier was suspended in March, pending the outcome of the sheriff's investigation. Mary Myers was suspended on Friday by District 4 Supervisor Philip Allen, who oversees the home across from his office. The supervisors are expected to review Myers' suspension today. Saucier denies abusing residents.
Myers has refused comment on the charges against her. At the hearing Wednesday, seven witnesses will speak on Rose's behalf, said Rose's attorney, Albert Necaise of Gulfport. He refused to name the witnesses. Necaise requested the hearing be- home chapel followed by burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Harry Rauch GULFPORT Harry E.
Rauch, 76, 607 Franklin Gulfport, died Saturday, April 23, 1988, in Gulfport. Mr. Rauch, a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati School of Pharmacy and a retired pharmacist. He had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and in the Merchant Marine. He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Mr. Rauch was a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and was preceded in death by his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Porter Rauch. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. W.R.
(Gina) Johnson of Orange Grove; one sister, Mrs. Helen Nicholson of Cincinnati; and one grandchild. A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Riemann Memorial Funeral Home, U.S. 49 North, in Gulfport, where friends may call from 1:30 until service time.
Mrs. T.J. Barrett LONG BEACH Mrs. T.J. (Lennie) Barrett, 87, 7 Woodward Circle, Long Beach, died Monday, April 25, 1988, in Long Beach.
Arrangements are incomplete at Riemann Funeral Home in Gulfport. Myron Jeffery OCEAN SPRINGS Myron B. Jeffery, 53, 13004 Hanover Drive, Ocean Springs, died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Ocean Springs. Mr. Jeffery, a native of West Virginia, was a and procedural analyst for Mississippi Power Co.
in Escatawpa. He was a retired Air Force master sergeant, a veteran of Vietnam and a member of First Baptist Church in Ocean Springs. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Rosemarie Jeffery; a son, Dean Jeffery; three daughters, Mrs. Patricia M.
Simon, Mrs. Caroline G. Warner and Miss Natasha M. Jeffery, all of Ocean Springs; his mother, Mrs. Erma R.
Jeffery of Biloxi; a brother, Charles A. Jeffery of Gulfport; and three grandchildren. Visitation will be held tonight from 7 until 10 at Riemann Memorial Funeral Home, Beauvoir Road, Biloxi. The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the funeral home chapel, followed by burial with full military honors at Biloxi National Cemetery.
Mrs. Roselle Taylor OCEAN SPRINGS Mrs. Roselle M. Taylor, 78, of Ocean Springs died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Ocean Springs. Mrs.
Taylor had lived on the Coast for 26 years and was a Methodist. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Ocean Springs and a former member of the Gulfport American Legion. Mrs. Taylor was preceded in death by her husband, Slator S. Taylor Sr.
In addition to Los Angeles International, the airports listed as the five least safe were Washington's National, New York's LaGuardia, Chicago's O'Hare and, in a tie, San Diego's Lindbergh Field and Denver's Stapleton International. In addition to the Texas airport, listed among the five safest facilities were O'Hare, Hartsfield-Atlanta International, Washington's Dulles and Seattle Tacoma. cause he said Rose, 54, was given no chance to defend herself. "I think she acted properly and did the proper things in the 16 years that she was there," Necaise said. The supervisors have reserved the entire day for the hearing, board President Bobby Eleuterius said.
"We have an open mind going into the hearing," Eleuterius said. "I think she has seven witnesses. Now it's time to hear her side of it." Several of the supervisors have said the hearing will be held behind closed doors because it is a personnel matter. State law permits the supervisors to discuss personnel matters in private. Necaise prefers an open hearing.
"It's been out there in the paper before," he said, "so we might as well have it all out there." Eleuterius has no objections to an open hearing. "In my opinion," he said, "if they request an open hearing, I certainly don't have anything to hide." Survivors include three sons, James F. Taylor of Chicago, William H. Taylor of Euclid, Ohio, and Robert H. Taylor of Ocean Springs; two sisters, Mrs.
Mary Rosanna Repine of Port Charlotte, and Mrs. Lucille Mulzer of Arcadia, seven grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. Visitation will be held tonight from 6 until 9 at Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Ocean Springs. The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the funeral home chapel, followed by burial in Serene Memorial Gardens.
Stewart Goff WADE Stewart O'Neal Goff, 87, 17301 Bela Roper Road, Wade, died Saturday, April 23, 1988, in Pascagoula. Mr. Goff was a Baptist. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Mae Goff of Wade; a son, Wiley Stewart Goff of Big Point; one stepson, John Miller of Georgia; a sister, Mrs.
Erett Woodco*ck of Helena; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at 0'Bryant-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Pascagoula, where friends may call from 9 until service time. Burial will follow in Johnson Cemetery. Samuel Byrd PASCAGOULA Samuel S.
Byrd, 81, 1302 Cherubusco Pas- cagoula, died Sunday, April 24, 1988, in Pascagoula. Mr. Byrd was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of First United Methodist Church in Pascagoula. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mrs. Leona C.
Byrd, and a daughter, Dolores E. Vaughan. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Boyette of Pascagoula; a sister, Mrs. Sue Baker of Fort Worth, Texas; one brother, Floyd Byrd of Gautier; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held tonight from 6 until 9 at O'Bryant-O'Keefe Funeral Home in Pascagoula. Graveside services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Byrd's Cemetery in Vancleave. Ms. Vivian Buehl PICAYUNE Ms.
Vivian Marie Kennedy Buehl, 64, of Yuba City, died Friday, April 22, 1988, in Yuba City. Ms. Buehl was the owner of a printing shop in the Los Angeles area before moving to Yuba City, where she had lived for 40 years. She was a native of Alabama. Survivors include 'five sisters, Addie Miller of Picayune, Pauline Berry of Yuba City, Edith Lenain of Kenner, Daisy Rigney of Buckatunna, Mae Zuelke of Blakely, and a brother, Vernon Kennedy of Grove Hill, Ala.
Memorial services will be held today at 10 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Marysville, Calif. Ullrey Memorial Chapel in Yuba City is in charge of arrangements. BRADFORD-O'KEEFE KEEFE FUNERAL HOMES, INC.
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