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Wednesday, October 4,!
THE BATTALION
Lennon’s killer denied parole, remains incarcerated
ATTICA, N. Y. (AP) — State parole officials rejected a
bid for freedom Tuesday for ex-Beatle John Lennon’s
killer, saying Mark David Chapman had not lost his inter
est in publicity, a drive that fueled his “most vicious and
Violent act.”
- It was Chapman’s first attempt for parole stemming
Trom the December 1980 shooting death. Chapman will
not be eligible for parole for two more years.
Chapman was interviewed for 50 minutes Tuesday
morning at a closed hearing at the maximum-security At
tica state prison by three parole board members, said Tom
Grant, a spokesman for the state Division of Parole.
About four hours later, Chapman was given the board’s
one-page determination beginning: “Parole is denied.”
The board called Chapman’s killing of Lennon “calcu
lated and unprovoked.” In addition to being one of the most
famous musicians in the world, Lennon was also a “hus
band and a father of two young children,” the board said.
“Your most vicious and violent act was apparently fu
eled by your need to be acknowledged,” the board said.
“During your parole hearing, this panel noted your con
tinued interest in maintaining your notoriety.”
In a recent interview, Chapman said he believed that
Lennon would have approved of his release.
But the board concluded that releasing Chapman at this
time would “deprecate the seriousness of the crime and
serve to undermine respect for the law.”
The parole board did note that Chapman has an “ex
emplary disciplinary record” while in prison. But it added
that because he has served his time in special protective
housing, “you have been unable to avail yourself of anti
violence and/or anti-aggression programming.”
Chapman, 45, is serving 20 years to life in Attica. He
pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in June 1981 for
fatally shooting Lennon as the rock star and his wife, Yoko
Ono, were entering their Manhattan apartment following
a recording session.
Ono had written a letter to the parole board about Chap
man’s hearing. Her spokesman, Eliot Mintz, did not im
mediately return telephone calls for comment Tuesday.
State Sen. Michael F. Nozzolio, chainnan of the Senate
Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, had
asked parole authorities to deny Chapman’s bid.
“John Lennon represented a vision of hope, peace am
love,” Nozzolio wrote to Parole Board Chairman Brie:
Travis.
‘Tragically, his positive message and his life were!}
tally ended by Mark David Chapman,” Nozzolio wrote,
is the responsibility of the New York State Parole Board;;
ensure that public safety is protected from the releasee;
dangerous criminals like Mark David Chapman.”
Parole board hearings with inmates are closed
public. The Associated Press filed a Freedom of Info®
tion Law request to get the board’s determination. ^
script of Tuesday’s interview with Chapman by the boar;
will be available late in the week.
Test-tube baby chosen to save sister
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —In the first known
case of its kind, a Colorado couple created a test-
(ube baby who was genetically screened and se
lected in the hope he could save the life of his 6-
year-old sister.
The sister, Molly Nash, has a rare genetic dis
ease, Fanconi anemia, that prevents her body from
making bone marrow. But last week, doctors gave
her an infusion of umbilical-cord blood from her
newborn little brother, Adam, to try to correct the
"disease.
Screening laboratory-created embryos for genet
ic diseases before implanting them in a woman is not
new. But this is the first known instance in which par
ents screened and selected an embryo in order to find
a suitable tissue donor for an ailing sibling.
Molly was just beginning to show signs of
leukemia, which is frequently associated with the
disease, when she had the transplant, said Dr. John
Wagner, her physician at the University of Min
nesota. The infusion procedure between siblings
has a 90 percent success rate.
“Molly’s doing very well,” Wagner said Tuesday,
although she had a slight cold. She was playing on a
computer, he said.
Her parents, Jack and Lisa Nash of Englewood,
Colo., wanted more children but were afraid to con
ceive because both carry a faulty version of the Fan
coni gene, meaning each child would have a 25 per
cent chance of developing the disease.
“We wanted a healthy child,” she told the Star Tri
bune newspaper last month. “And it doesn't hurt him
to save her life.”
News in Brief
Clinton declares
disaster area
MIAMI (AP) — President Clinton
on Tuesday declared a major dis
aster area exists in a nine-county
area of Florida, which was hit last
month by heavy rain from Tropical
Storm Helene.
The president issued the decla
ration during a fund-raising trip to
South Florida where a downpour
from another storm grounded his
plane, preventing him from at
tending a fund-raiser for Democ
ratic congressional candidates a!
Jupiter Island, Fla.
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repair or replace public buildings
damaged by the tropical storm.
The Federal Emergency Man
agement Agency is continuing to
survey damage in other areas to
determine whether they also are
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