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January 25, 1983
figh Court to hear appeal
arefoot execution stayed
United Press International
WASHINTON — The
f.S.| Supreme Court Mon-
ay Itayed condemned killer
'homas “Andy” Barefoot’s
xeqution set for shortly af-
:r midnight.
Barefoot faced execution
tr the Aug. 7, 1978, mur-
er of Marker Heights,
exas, policeman Carl
eVin.
judges ruled they
ill pear arguments on his
ppeal themselves on April
6.
^Barefoot probably will
p>tbe tried in New Mexico
Charges of raping a 3-
;ar-old Grants girl if he is
bared the death sentence
itr the Texas murder, a pro-
pcujtor said Monday.
Barefoot, 37, is accused in
the alleged Oct. 30, 1977,
rape of a Grants child, who
was found unconscious at
the city dump. Authorities
said Barefoot, who had been
drinking, was found passed
out beside the child.
District Attorney Thomas
Esquibel said in the event
Texas is unable to execute
Barefoot, he hopes the con
demned man’s sentence will
be commuted to life.
“Then there wouldn’t be
any need to prosecute him in
New Mexico. I wouldn’t
want to put the little girl
through that and have to
spend the taxpayers’
money,” he said. “I’m sure
she’s half-way gotten over it,
and I wouldn’t want to bring
it up again,” he said.
In 1977, when he was a
parolee from Louisiana,
Barefoot moved to Grants,
where he took a job as a ura
nium miner.
“He befriended a guy up
in Grants who was a next
door neighbor to a large
family,” Esquibel said,
adding that Barefoot’s
friend was a trusted man in
the community.
“He (Barefoot) lived there
about a month. The kids
were out playing one day.
He (Barefoot) went and
asked the parents if he could
take them and buy them an
ice cream cone.
“He drove a short way and
dropped off all the kids ex
cept the 3-year-old. He was
even stopped by the Grants
police for a routine traffic
violation. The kid was with
him at the time. He was cited
and allowed to continue.
“After the child was re
ported kidnapped, they had
a description of the car.
They knew pretty much who
they were looking for. They
looked all throughout the
city. It was not until several
hours later that they found
Barefoot and the little girl at
the city dump,” the district
attorney said.
Reports of the attack on
the child provoked outrage
in the community.
Barefoot was indicted by a
Valencia County Grand Jury
on Nov. 19, 1977, for first-
degree criminal sexual
penetration. But he escaped
from the jail at Los Lunas
with another inmate, John
ny Strohm, on Jan. 19, 1978.
Parton ends tour
because of threats
Steelmakers to reveal costs
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sin
ger Dolly Parton, secluded in
her suburban estate since being
threatened before a show, will
discontinue all concert perform
ances this spring and lay off her
band, a spokeswoman said
Monday.
Katie Valk, publicist for Par-
ton, said the singer-actress will
not tour for up to six months,
with her final performance com
ing in London. During the six-
month hiatus, she will work on
movies.
The 11 members of the band,
who are paid whether or not
Parton performs, were being let
go to allow them to concentrate
on other activities, Valk said.
“Her closest friends are the
members of the band. She lets
very few other people get as
close to her as they are. She
travels with them, records with
many of them, and shares her
life w ith them,” Valk said. “She’s
just doing this to free them up,
to let them pursue their own in
terests while she’s on the movie
projects.”
Parton left Owensboro, Ky.,
Jan. 15 under police escort, re
turned to her Brentwood estate
and canceled shows in New'
Orleans and Beaumont, Texas,
on the advice of a professional
security consultant w r ho w ; as in
formed of the threats.
A woman had called the
Owensboro police department
the night before a performance
and asked whether Parton
would have police protection.
She said she knew a man who
“hated the ground she walked
on” and intended to hurt the
country singer.
Parton also hired a Los
Angeles detective agency that
specializes in investigating
threats against celebrities.
Valk said Parton’s last per
formance w'ill be March 28-29 at
London’s Palladium. The show
will be taped for her first televi
sion special on HBO cable TV.
“She has plans for movies for
five or six months, so there will
be a long block of time with no
touring,” Valk said. “There is a
possibility she’ll do two films
back-to-back during that time.”
The blond star, who starred
in “9 to 5” and “Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas,” recently
indicated she may take a role in
“Supergirl,” the third in the
series of “Superman” movies.
She has also indicated the possi
bility of co-starring with TV’s
“Magnum PI” star Tom Selleck.
Valk said neither of the pro
jects is finalized at this time, but
the “Supergirl” movie is set for
production this spring in Eng
land, where Parton will begin
her six-month break from
touring.
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■iSBURGH — U.S. steel-
.ers soon will disclose just
much it cost them to weath-
ticine 981', their worst year since
-^i Ere.ii Depression.
Inlthe next several weeks,
orlcompanies are expected
ysiic year-end financial re-
■ripping with red ink, in-
tin^ perhaps as much as $3
on in losses.
®I982 limped to a close, the
on’s steel mills were running
ibout one-third of capacity
Hnly half of their 1979
kforce.
The industry is beginning to
ve! after an especially deep
day slump, but prospects for
ng improvement in 1983
robb eat lukewarm at best.
"This is the worst that I’ve
“■ilf known it to be,” said analyst
Braz< jert A. Hageman, vice presi-
t ot Kidder Peabody & Co.,
., in New York. “All the ma-
eporr Steelmakers will post losses,
erect jfjsses will be pushing $3 bil-
indiKfljn 1983, he said, with $2
xry, ion of that sum in the fourth
t. th (net alone.
.2 prjtlrtady, Republic Steel
tosCiJp.} the nation’s fifth largest
cent Almaker, has disclosed a 1982
ted ailof $239 million the first loss
told Its 44-year history — com-
rease Id with a $190 million profit
,rted 11981.
ieventh-ranked Inland Steel
sonsil Friday posted a loss of
olice'tS.S million, refiecting the
ed it (ipanies lowest production
el since 1960.
r thedtf one of the other major steel-
ct that Iters is expected to fare much
1 coupler.
Pars®!
Analyst Charles Bradford,
vice president of Merrill Lynch,
Pierce Fenner & Smith, said U.S.
Steel Corp. ranked No. 1 will re
port today 1982 Joss of $400 mil
lion, including $120 million in
writeoffs from plant closings.
The company itself said it ex
pects a “staggering” loss and will
cut the salaries of 28,000 man
agement and clerical employees
by 5 percent.
. Bethlehem Steel Corp., the
nation’s second largest steel
maker, is expected to write off
$750 million to $850 million for
the closing of its Lackawanna,
N.Y., plant, and may add $100
million in operating losses to the
$322.7 million it lost it in the first
nine months of the year, Brad
ford said.
The industry’s performance
should improve this year,
assuming that consumers and
business spend more freely and
boost demand for steel.
“My guess is that 1983 losses
might be one-third as large as
1982’s,” said David Healy, vice
president of Drexel Burnham
Lambert Inc.
Bradford was more optimis
tic, saying steelmakers “have a
chance of getting into the black
sometime this year.”
But the industry will operate
perilously close to the breakeven
point and any “minor profit”
they make come from tax cre
dits, not operations, he said.
He estimated a 60 percent
chance that the United Steel
workers union will reject con
tract concessions for the third
time in a year, resulting in more
>ly eas
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