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Tuesday, March 27,1990
‘The devil got into me’
Man accused of arson
faces 87 murder counts
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of setting fire
to the Happy Land social club was arraigned Monday
on 87 counts of murder, and police said he told them
“the devil got into me.”
Authorities began shutting other illegal clubs in re
sponse to New York City’s worst fire in 79 years.
The families of the 87 victims, most of whom were
Honduran or Dominican immigrants, sought solace in
their grief, and a government task force was set up to
counsel them and help make funeral arrangements.
Julio Gonzalez, 36, was accused of setting the fire
early Sunday with $1 worth of gasoline after arguing
with a former girlfriend who worked at the illegal club.
He is said to have threatened to “shut this place down.”
“I got angry, the devil got into me, and I set the place
on fire,” Gonzalez told authorities, according to a police
source who spoke to the. Associated Press on condition
of anonymity.
During a hearing at Bronx County Criminal Court,
Gonzalez was charged with 87 counts of murder com
mitted during the course of arson; 87 counts of murder
by depraved indifference to human life; one count of
attempted murder; and two counts of arson.
He was held under a suicide watch at the Rikers Is
land jail, authorities said. The case was turned over to a
grand jury, and Gonzalez will not be asked to enter a
plea unless an indictment is issued.
The deaths were believed to be the most ever
charged to a single suspect in the continental United
States.
“He is a double animal,” said Rene J. Mena, 63,
whose son, Rene Jr., 30, died. “Here, they’re going to
have good food for him, a book, a movie. In Central
America, we don’t do it that way.”
District Attorney Robert T. Johnson said he hoped
that if Gonzalez is convicted, he would get consecutive
prison sentences amounting to 2,000 years.
An equally angry Mayor David Dinkins ordered a
sweep of other suspected unlicensed social clubs. Police
and a special task force visited 241 clubs citywide from
midnight to 7 a.m. Monday and posted vacate orders on
187.
Only 23 of the clubs were open — most are closed on
Sunday nights. There were 52 safety violations and 30
summonses issued, Sgt. Dick Vreeland, a police spokes
man, said.
In the East Tremont section of the Bronx, families
drifted in and out of Public School 67, across from the
fire-blackened club. A task force of state, city and pri
vate agencies there helped them make funeral arrange
ments and offered counseling and financial assistance.
“It’s orderly, but it’s not emotionally orderly,” Ken
Curtin, a local Red Cross disaster relief director, said.
“It’s highly charged. There are a lot of outbursts of
grief.”
In Honduras, a foreign ministry spokesman said the
government “is deeply moved by the deaths of many
countrymen in New York.” The Honduran telephone
company said it was swamped with calls from people
seeking word about loved ones.
Rapist gets
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP)
man convicted of raping and»
ually mutilating a 7-year-oldii!
was sentenced today iomoreit
130 years in prison, three la
the standard term for the aim
In sentencing Earl Shrat
Pierce County Superior Con ^ 1
Judge Thomas R. Sauriolsaidc p e
case left him more troubled s |j yi
outraged than any in his 3/-I8 ’ rta
legal career highi
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heard of a case that borders sorec ]
extreme cruelty more than c nal j 0
one,” Sauriol said. “The realin lt . e (
Mr. Shriner, you present adr ( ()()1 ,
ger to the defenseless.” j nlei
Shriner, 40, has a longhistoi
of violence toward young people] tmUn
1 le was convicted Feb. 7oflin ;( [ ism
degree attempted murder, i« ^ e n
counts of first-degree rape ais ( ()ni
first-degree assault. The dii
was choked and his penis wain
off in the attack May 20 in
wooded area near his south I;
coma home.
The victim’s mother, Hdt
Harlow, said she was satislii
with the sentence because
would in effect be a life sententt
Under state law, the standac
range for the offenses with some
one of Shriner’s record is 34yen
to 43 years, eight months.
Radiation technicians encourged to walk out
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 3,000 radia
tion technicians at 37 nuclear power plants closed
for refueling — including the South Texas Pro
ject in Bay City — were encouraged to walk off
the job Monday in a nationwide effort to win
union representation.
Labor leaders and utility contractors disagreed
over the success of the walkout, organized by the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers. The IBEW wants to become the workers’
bargaining agent.
“All I can tell you is it’s working,” said IBEW
official A.V. Grimes, who said it was impossible
to say how many of the 3,000 technicians in
volved refused to go to work Monday.
Frank Ingram, a spokesman for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, said the agency had
been monitoring the situation and had not re
ceived any reports that work at the closed reac
tors had stopped.
“Based on today’s experience at all our sites, it
has been business as usual,” Karen Armour, a
spokeswoman at Asca Brown Boveri Inc., of
Stamford, Conn., the parent of Power Systems
Energy Services Inc, said.
The company has more than 600 technicians
working at nine sites. Only “very few” workers
failed to show, she said.
Griffies said striking workers set up only one
picket line — at the Turkey Point nuclear plant
south of Miami where about 100 workers stayed
off the job.
Another 100 contract workers at Florida
Power Corp.’s Crystal River nuclear plant re
fused to work.
Griffies declined to elaborate on why onlym
picket line was established or to say howlongii
walkout would last.
The IBEW, which already represents thee
jority of permanent nuclear power plant von
ers, targeted eight utility contractors who
vide traveling “health physics technicians
reactors that close down for refueling or man:
nance.
Those technicians, who monitor the levelofn|
diation at the plants, make between $11 andji
an hour and have not received pay increases
eight years, Griffies said.
Some of the largest contractors involved
only insignificant numbers of workers had
to report for work.
Court reviews case
granting employers
right to discriminate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court said Monday it will
study the power of employers to ex
clude females of child-bearing age
from hazardous jobs, a case that
could affect millions of working
women.
The court agreed to review a Rul
ing that let a Milwaukee-based man
ufacturer of automobile batteries
ban women who cannot prove they
are infertile from jobs that expose
them to lead.
The fetal protection policy is be
ing challenged as a form of illegal
sex discrimination because it bans
women from high-paying, if hazard
ous, jobs.
Exposure to lead, the principal
material used in making batteries,
can be a health risk to workers and
to the fetuses of pregnant workers.
But one judge, who dissented
from an appeals court decision last
year that upheld the fetal protection
policy, said the ruling also could be
applied to a broad range of employ
ment, including “traditional office
jobs.”
The high court’s decision is ex
pected sometime in 1991.
In other action, the court:
• Agreed to decide in an Okla
homa City case whether some school
districts may abandon forced busing
after achieving racial balance.
• Voted to study an appeal from
Nebraska challenging the authority
of states to house convicted mur
derers on “death rows” and keep
them apart from other inmates.
• Said it will consider giving fed
eral regulators more authority to
lower electricity rates, setting the
stage for a ruling that could affect
more than 49 million homes.
• Refused to extend a key civil
rights law to protect non-citizens
from private, as well as governmen
tal, bias. The justices let stand a rul
ing that a New Orleans bank did not
discriminate illegally against a man
when it denied him a credit card be
cause he is not a citizen.
• Let stand the conviction of an
Indiana business for showing and
selling movies “harmful to minors,”
rejecting arguments that the convic
tion and $5,000 fine infringe free-
speech rights.
In the fetal protection case, the
court must interpret a federal law
that bans sexual bias in employment.
Since 1982 the battery division of
Johnson Controls Inc. has barred
women at its factories in several
states from jobs involving exposure
to lead.
Prosecutors unable
to charge Honeckei
No legal grounds round for high treason
EAST BERLIN (AP) — Pros
ecutors said Monday there were
fo
no legal grounds for charging
Erich Honecker with high trea
son, but the deposed Communist
leader still was under investiga
tion for corruption and abuse of
power.
Efforts to form a new govern
ing coalition continued to be dis
rupted Monday by allegations
that leading politicians had links
to the former Communist secret
police.
The office of chief prosecutor
Hans-Juergen Joseph said two
members of Honecker’s Politburo
— state security chief Erich
Mielke and Guenther Mittag, the
economics minister — also would
escape treason charges but, like
Honecker, were suspected of cor
ruption and misusing their
power.
Treason proceedings were
dropped against Joachim Her
rmann, Honecker’s propaganda
chief. The former Politburo
member was ordered released.
Honecker, 77, was arrested in
January after undergoing sur
gery for kidney cancer, but was
Freed the next day, and Mielke
also has been released for health
reasons. Mittag remains in custo-
day.
Prosecutors had said earfc
that Honecker, Mielke and Mil
tag would he indicted and put on
trial this month for high treason
which carries a maximum sen
tence of life in prison.
Joseph saio in a statemeffi
Monday, however, that treason
indictments were not warrantee
and the three men also had been
cleared of conspiracy charges
the case. _
His statement, carried by die
state-run news agency ADN, ac
cused Honecker and his lieuten
ants of “persistent breaches oftlit
constitution.”
It added, however, that theac
tions were part of a one-party Sta
linist system and suggested trea
son charges against individuals
would not be appropriate.
Honecker and Mittag, 64, ate
accused of embezzling state f
to build vacation homes and pret
vide other personal comforts fot
themselves.
A range of accusations againsi
Mielke, 84, stem from his control
of the formerly all-powerful state
security apparatus.
Indictments are not expected
before May or June, Joseph told
the Associated Press.
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