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TlK Battalion N ATION Page 9 ♦ Friday, December 10, 1999 Farmhouse fire under investigation ■lowing the commodities (fe With interest o; ■ LONSDALE, Minn. (AP) — A man who died in a sus- pidous farmhouse fire was that killed five others strug gling with legal and financial problems before the blaze, pjrt records show. BAutopsies were being performed yesterday to deter- ‘l mine whether the bodies were those of Primitive Juan I • v Rivas, 48; his son, Tyler, 16, and daughter, KiAnn, 20; ■' 1 | nk °arty( Rivas’ girlfriend, Catherine Ranft, 38, and her children, n y ' e cont tt Caroline, 4, and Meredith, age 5 or 6. . h under an etetfl Investigators hoped to learn whether they died in the fire early Wednesday, or were killed before it. I Rice County Sheriff Richard Cook said gasoline found atthe scene, the position of the bodies in the rubble and 10 soughtmoit lie location of charred vehicles near the house were pong the signs that the fire was deliberately set. H tfi "vjRivas was supposed to start serving a 90-day jail sen- untsvilleoijgj t | ice Monday for failing to pay child support, accord- 1 u ed in favott ^ to court records. A warrant for his arrest was issued ’ , I when he did not appear. I ♦ J! 1 -7 ait » Court records and the husband of Rivas’ ex-wife in- a ci orderedatljlgtgd that Rivas, a computer engineer, had been out 11 millne of work for more than a year and that he was not seek- ajob, apparently because he did not want his mon going to his former wife. |“He was very vengeful, threatened to take her down ancially after the divorce,” said Gary Hanneman of imsville, whose wife, Debra, was married to Rivas for 21 years. “That’s what he told the kids.” j jAs part of the divorce, Rivas was saddled with opinion » F VitaPro wasaci cultural comro; The Sup Court said it is® “VitaPro itj soybean-base;: court’s unaic rmy private sentenced to life for murder ,, , | ! $3(1,000 in unpaid bills, mostly credit card bills. finished form is;- article ‘having; , characterorus.' arney Michael 1 had not talkedi:« FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) lined to comnr [An Army private was sentenced yes- lelt strongly ail; taday to life in prison with the pos- ict was invalid, Bnlity of parole for bludgeoning to 1 'he Texas: (j e ^ a fellow soldier who had been i e said. Thai is p nit , re( f t 0 be gay — a case that gay imci an m\estfM| Us act i v j sts 33^ was a tragic fail- lie of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” I Pvt. Calvin N. Glover, 18, was convicted in a court-martial a day earlier of premeditated murder. The offense carries a mandatory ntence of life in prison; the only | || |>estion before the military jury yes- f \J v May was whether he should be el igible for parole. Glover showed no reaction to the Rivas owed more than $10,000 in child support, med ical support and spousal maintenance as of March, court records show. As of October, he had not made a mort gage payment for six months. situation when tention. sentence. He will also be demoted and dishonorably discharged. Glover used a baseball bat to crush the skull of a barracks mate, Pfc. Barry L. Winchell, 21, as he slept in his cot at Fort Cambpell. There had been a swirl of ru mors on the base that Winchell was gay, and prosecutors said Glover was driven by hatred of homosexuals. Glover, who is from Sulphur, Okla., apologized in court earlier yesterday, saying he was drunk at the time of the crime and has since found God. “If 1 had acted as half the man, even half the soldier as Barry was. he’d be with us right now,” he said. Gay rights activist C. Dixon Os- burn, co-executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Net work in Washington, said the case proves that the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy does not work. “I think this case shatters any il lusions that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue’ is somehow a benign policy,” he said. “This is a policy of violence. ” Under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” gay members of the military can contin ue to serve — and their superiors cannot investigate and expel them — as long as they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. Seven missing after helicopter crashes at sea CALIF. 100 mlleJ 100 km I ^Sacramento San « Francisco Pacific \ Ocean Helicopter crash X X X Los ' . Angales / San *^- Die9 ° MEXICO SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Ma rine Corps helicopter with 18 people aboard crashed in the Pacific yesterday, and seven re mained missing hours later. The CH-46 Sea Knight crashed about 1:16 p.m., 25 miles southwest of San Diego. 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