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‘talents’
of his own
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Hubot the
robot — on sale for $4,000 — isn’t an
R2D2.
Hubot can’t make coffee, but has
a tray to carry it around in if some
one else brews it. He also doesn’t do
windows, vaccUum the floors or do
the dishes.
But the 4-foot robot can roll
around leaving deep wheel tracks on
carpets or speak through a voice syn
thesizer, repeating whatever words
are typed into a keyboard. Sort of.
Instructed to say, “I am a robot,”
during a demonstration at a San
Francisco store, Hubot blinked his
16 red lights and opened his plastic
mouth.
“I am a rowboat,” he said.
Robot inventor Mike Forino said
32 Hubots have been produced by
Hubotics Inc., a San Diego County
Firm that has orders for 450 more.
“Hubot is for people with
$50,000-a-year incomes,” Forino
said. “Hubot is not for everyone.”
During the demonstration, Hubot
informed passers-by that it was
12:10 p.m.
Hubot was equipped with a tele
vision — black and white — a radio
with slightly fuzzy sound, a video
f ame machine and a thermometer
4 degrees off.
Forino said the time will come
when every American home will
have a robot like Hubot. But he ad
mitted the time may not be now.
“Hubot doesn’t do the dishes,
wash the windows or make the bed,”
Forino said. “Hubot is not R2D2.
He’s Hubot.”
Photo by Dean Saito
Coming down
Bill Palmore, visiting professor of architecture from New
York, leaves building A of the Langford Architecture Center
by means of a not often used stairwell in one of the corners of
the building Monday afternoon.
American mercenaries
killed in crash: senator
United Press International
Two American mercenaries were
killed in the crash of a rebel heli
copter that was shot down over Nica
ragua during a raid on a Nicaraguan
military camp, Sen. Patrick Moyni-
h4n said Monday. Nicaragua lodged
a protest with the State Department.
The U.S.-made OH58 helicopter
was shot down Saturday when it ac
companied a three-plane air assault
by CIA-backed Nicaraguan rebels
on the military training school in
northwestern Nicaragua.
The three crew members aboard
the craft were killed, two burned be
yond recognition, the Nicaraguan
government said. It said said four
Nicaraguan children and an adult
were also killed in the air strike and
two Nicaraguans were wounded.
A Defense Ministry spokesman
said authorities were attempting to
identify the nationality of the'third
crew member, “a tall, heavy-set,
blond,” who has “all the appearances
of an American.”
In Washington, Moynihan, a New
York Democrat, had been informed
by the CIA that two Americans were
aboard the helicopter but the agency
denied that they were on the CIA’s
payroll. Moynihan said “the best
guess” was that they were free-lance
mercenaries.
“We assume they are Americans,”
Moynihan said in an interview on
the CBS “Morning News.” “We do
not know. Last week, about seven
young men came in (to Honduras)
from New Orleans. And apparently
made their way to the FDN, the re
bel ‘contra’ group.
“Two of mem clearly were in a he
licopter that flew over Santa Clara
(in Nicaragua Saturday) where there
had been a firelight on the ground
between the Sandinistas and the con
tras. The helicopter was shot down,
and this one man came out alive (but
was killed).”
Moynihan, vice chairman of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelli
gence, did not identify the Ameri
cans nor did he say how the CIA
knew they were aboard the heli
copter.
A State Department spokeswo
man said, “Although we have no in
dependent confirmation of the
downing, we can confirm that we
have received a diplomatic commu
nication from the Nicaraguan gov
ernment on this matter and no U.S.
government personnel were in
volved in this incident.”
The American deaths would be
the first reported in the almost 3-
year-old rebel war against Nicara-
ua’s leftist Sandinista government,
’he Nicaraguan government has
charged that the rebels use foreign
mercenaries, but the charges have
never been confirmed.
Nicaragua’s Foreign Ministry
lodged an official protest with the
U.S. State Department, charging the
Reagan administration with escalat
ing the undeclared war that has re
ceived $55 million in U.S. funds
since 1981.
“The use of massive air methods
provided by the CIA to the bands of
mercenaries is evidence of an escala
tion in the open war the U.S. gov
ernment is waging against Nicara
gua,” the protest said.
Nicaraguan officials said they
would release photographs of the
body of the blond man so that his
next of kin could claim the body.
The CIA denied that the men were on the agency 's pay
roll. Sen. Moynihan said “the best guess" was that they
were free-lance mercenaries.
Police on alert for reprisals
after gang fight kills seven
United Press International
SYDNEY, Australia — Police in
vestigating a gunfight between rival
motorcycle gangs that left six bikers
and a 14-year old girl dead said
Monday they were on the alert for
reprisals threatened by the wife of
an injured gang leader.
Police have so far arrested 31 bik
ers and charged them with various
offenses related to the massacre
Sunday in the parking lot of a hotel
at Milperra, about 18 miles south
west of Sydney.
Six bikers and a 14-year-old girl
were killed in the battle between the
Comancheros and Bandidos motor
cycle gangs and 21 others were in
jured. Eleven bikers were still hospi
talized late Monday, two in serious
condition.
The wife of Comancheros’ presi
dent John Ross, who is fighting for
his life in a Sydney hospital, vowed
to avenge those killed and injured.
“Those Bandidos who diet this are
still running around. Our Coman
cheros are dead,” Vanessa Ross said.
“Their brothers will settle the score.”
As police mounted special patrols
in surrounding suburbs, Detective
Inspector Ron Stephenson ex
pressed fears of revenge killings.
“We don’t want to create any ap
prehension but we certainly have to
consider that there might be further
reprisals,” Stephenson said.
A police spokeman said question
ing of those arrested is continuing,
but no murder charges had yet been
filed.
Ross said the Bandidos had
known exactly where her husband
and other leaders of the Coman
cheros would be on Sunday.
“They came in and picked their
marks. Our president (Ross) was hit
in the face, head and chest, they
killed our vice-president, our ser
geant of arms and secretary.
“But we will keep fighting even if
only the old ladies are left,” Ross
said.
Four of the bikers killed were
members of the Comancheros, and
the other two were from the Bandi
dos.
The 14-year-old girl, Leanne Wal
ters, was selling raffle tickets for
charity when she ran into a shotgun
blast and was killed instantly.
The battle began Sunday af
ternoon as several hundred people
in the grounds of the Viking Tavern
hotel enjoyed a quiet drink in the
warm, spring sunshine.
Vietnam vet denies transporting ‘illegals’
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — A Viet
nam veteran, contending he was le
gally and morally right in helping
people flee from Salvadoran death
squads, goes to federal court Tues
day asking that three alien transpor
tation charges against him be
dropped.
Jack Elder, 40, director of the
Catholic Church-sponsored Casa
Oscar Romero refugee center in San
Benito and active supporter of the
so-called Sanctuary Movement, has
indicated that he will not fight the
government allegation that he trans
ported some Salvadorans to a Har
lingen bus station earlier this year.
U.S. District Judge Hilton Head
Jr. will hear arguments from the de
fense as they seek to dismiss the
charges on grounds that the Salva
dorans in question were not illegal
aliens, but instead were bonafide
refugees under both international
and U.S. law.
Elder could be sentenced to a
maximum 15 years in prison if con
victed, although most first offenders
are given probation in alien trans
portation cases in which money does
not change hands.
Elder’s defense is similar to that of
Stacey Lynn Merkt, 29, a religious
layworker at Casa Oscar Romero,
who was convicted by a federal jury
in Brownsville last June and sen
tenced to three years probation al
though she argued she did the right
thing under both “God’s law and
man’s law.”
U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela,
who presided at the Merkt trial, dis
missed himself from presiding at
Elder’s trial. The defense had filed
motions claiming that Vela “bent
over backwards” to resist pressure
from Bishop John Joseph Fitzpa
trick who founded the refugee cen
ter, taking on ^ “prosecutorial role”
in the Merkt trial.