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WASHINGTON — President
| Reagan says the criminal justice
system “just plain isn’t working”
|and advocates legislation that
would provide swift retribution
for those who prey on innocent
Americans.
Reagan’s proposals include per
mitting judges to order offenders
I to make restitution to their vic
tims, revising the federal criminal
code and reforming bail laws to
allow judges to keep some defen
dants off the streets.
In addition, Reagan says he will
support mandatory prison terms
for those who carry guns while
committing felonies.
Reagan unveiled his anticrime
program Monday in an address to
the International Association of
Chiefs of Police in New Orleans.
“All too often, repeat offenders.
career criminals.. .are robbing,
raping and beating with impunity-
... and quite literally getting away
with murder,’’ he said.
“It’s time for honest talk, for
plain talk,” he said. “There has
been a breakdown in the criminal
justice system in America. It just
plain isn’t working.”
In his New Orleans speech,
Reagan ruled out poverty and “so
cial ills” as the basic causes of
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For
mer first lady Bess Truman,
showing the resilience that car
ried her through previous .
illnesses, has responded so well
to treatment for a stroke that
hospital officials upgraded her
condition to fair.
Truman, 96, suffered what
her physician termed a “mild
stroke” Saturday night and was
transferred Sunday morning to
Research Medical Center.
Since then she has been treated
with a “mixture of different
body nutrients.”
A nursing supervisor said
Truman’s favorable response to
the nutrients prompted her
personal physician, Dr. Wal
lace Graham, to take her off the
serious list Monday and declare
her in fair condition.
Graham said he continued to
be optimistic for Truman’s com
plete recovery. He said her vital
signs were stable, her heart
appeared strong and she was
thinking clearly when he spoke
to her Monday.
Truman, the widow of the
late President Harry S. Tru
man, was still having trouble
swallowing, so the extra nut
rients were being fed to her
through a tube inserted in her
shoulder, Graham said.
Examinations Sunday and
Monday showed that a mild
spasm of a blood vessel in Tru
man’s brain caused the stroke,
but that it was very shortlived.
It was not believed that she suf
fered any permanent damage.
It was the second time in less
than a year Truman was hospit
alized. Truman fractured her
hip in a fall at her home last May
and was hospitalized for six
weeks after doctors rebuilt the
hip. She experienced various
complications after the surgery,
including pneumonia, kidney
dysfunction and heart irregular
ities.
Even before breaking her
hip, Truman had been confined
largely to a wheelchair because
her arthritis prevents her from
walking without assistance.
While at her home, Truman has
24-hour nursing care.
crime.
“The truth is that today’s cri
minals, for the most part, are pot
desperate people seeking bread
for their families, ” he said. “Crime
is the way they’ve chosen to live.”
Recalling his days as governor of
California when 12 criminals, with
34 victims among them, were up
for parole, Reagan said, “I think if
we had capital punishment in the
beginning, we would have re
duced that figured considerably. ”
Reagan was criticized for com
ing out in favor of reforming the
judicial “exclusionary rule” — a
provision he said allows cases to be
thrown out of court on technicali
ties, “no matter how guilty the de
fendant or how heinous the
crime.
The ‘rule’ provides for the ex
clusion of evidence obtained
through illegal searches.
Murray Janus Jr. of Richmond,
Va., newly elected President of
the National Association of Cri
minal Defense Lawyers, said:
“Those technicalities the presi
dent is talking about are not tech
nicalities at all.
“They’re called the Bill of
Rights under the Constitution.
And, yes, some criminals do get
off because of technicalities, but
the whole purpose is to protect
you or I in our homes from illegal
searches and we’re protected from
being interrogated by the police.”
Attorneys claim Hinckley
insane at time of shooting
U.S. team ready
to aid hostages
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The case
against President Reagan’s ac
cused assailant, John W. Hinckley
Jr., will likely become a battle
among psychiatrists over the col
lege dropout’s mental state when
the shots were fired.
Attorneys for Hinckley said
Monday they are willing to con
cede the evidence shows Hinckley
shot Reagan and three others on
March 30, but maintain their
client was insane at the time and
should not be held criminally re
sponsible.
The offer of a concession of fact
in the case marked the first time
Hinckley’s lawyers had disclosed
their intention of using insanity as
a defense at his upcoming trial.
Under the laws of the District
of Columbia, where Hinckley will
be tried, mental disturbance is a
basis for acquittal, but only if the
jury finds the defendant “lacked
substantial capacity to appreciate
the wrongfulness of his conduct or
to conform his conduct to the re
quirements of the law. ”
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/ WASHINGTON — America
now has a rescue team ready to
respond quickly to hostage situa
tions similar to the seizure of U.S.
I diplomats in Tehran, the com-
Imander of ground forces in the
ill-fated Iran rescue mission said
Tuesday.
Soon-to-retire Col. Charlie
Beckwith said the United States
was not prepared to move fast to
‘ rescue the Americans captured in
the Nov. 4, 1979, Tehran embassy
seizure “for two reasons — a lack
of intelligence, and we didn’t have
a team put together.
| “And now I’m happy to say — I
will not discuss any of the details of
this — I’m happy to say we’ve got a
team together now,” Beckwith
said in an interview on ABC’s
“Gpod Morning America. ”
“Now we’ve got a team of
aviators. Of course the Delta force
has always been cocked and
loaded, among others, and we
lave a team ready to go. So now
iort of the ball’s in the intelligence
court,” said Beckwith, who led the
“Delta force” unit of the Army’s
little talked about “Blue Light”
team stationed at Fort Bragg,
N.C.
Beckwith, 52, revealed the ex
istence of the new team when
asked if civilians have misconcep
tions about the April 24, 1980,
raid.
He also defended the decision
by former President Carter to re
scue the hostages as “a prudent
decision.
“I think any president would do
the same thing,” he said. “I think
that it pointed out that when
something like that occurs that
time is of the essence and you
should move very quickly. Unfor
tunately we couldn’t do that” be
cause of the lack of both intelli
gence and a standing rescue team.
The hostage rescue mission was
recalled because only six of the 1
eight huge helicopters sent to a I
desert landing site arrived, and |
one of those broke down. Mission
planners figured six were needed
to go on to Tehran, so the attempt
was scrubbed. As the aircraft were
withdrawing, an RH-53 “Sea Stal
lion” helicopter struck a C130 air
craft, and the ensuing fire killed
eight soldiers and injured five
others.
“In my view, the equipment
was 98 percent of the problem, ”
said Beckwith, adding it was “im
possible to do the job with five”
helicopters because he expected
to lose some as the mission un
folded. And, he said, there has
been a lot of “what iffing” about
the numbers, but it was difficult to
hide more helicopters aboard the
aircraft carrier launch site without
raising suspicion.
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If convicted, Hinckley, 26,
could be sentenced to up to life in
prison. He is being held at the
Army stockade at Fort Meade,
Md.
Hinckley was taken into cus
tody March 30 moments after
Reagan, White House press sec
retary James Brady and two law
enforcement officers were gunned
down outside a Washington hotel.
Hinckley’s lawyers offered to
admit he shot Reagan and the
three others. Government pro
secutors rarely agree to such a sti
pulation of the facts in cases in
volving insanity defenses.
In legal papers filed with the
U.S. District Court, Hinckley’s
lawyers said:
“The only real issue in this case
(is) the defendant’s mental state at
the time of the shooting. That
these four men were shot and
grievously wounded is not in any
dispute. That the defendant held
the gun and fired the shots that
wounded these men is similarly
not in any dispute.”
Defense lawyers asked U.S.
District Judge Barrington Parker
to hold a two-part proceeding with
two juries to consider separate
issues — first, Hinckley’s guilt or
innocence, and second, his state of
mind at the time.
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Law enforcement officials sear
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