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■ 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
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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
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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.
Eleven people were quickly
pulled from the water, but their
conditions were unavailable.
Coast Guard Lt. Eric Carter said.
Weather in the area was
good with light winds and
waves and clear skies.
The helicopter crashed after
taking off from the USS Pecos,
a Navy oiler that provides fuel
to ships at sea.
The helicopter was assigned
to the 15th Marine Expedi
tionary Unit at Camp Pendle
ton, about 36 miles north of
San Diego, a Marine
spokesperson, Sgt. Matthew
Hagerman, said.
The Marines use the heli
copter as an all-weather assault
transport.
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