Devine -Page 8 Three -Year Terror Spree Ends

I I I Devine -page 8 VOL. XVI, NO. 75 an mdependem srudem newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary's FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 S, 1982 ~ ' 'I "h• ~ •,.- ! 1 - ' Search for air disaster v1ct1m.s• • cont1nues• WASHINGTON (AP) - Divers of the passengers: "the helicopter plunged into the frozen Potomac pilot tells of him. He was one of the yesterday, searching for 70 bodies in group that was clinging to the a crumpled Air Florida jetliner wreckage out there in the icy which investigators suspect was waters. Time after time, the line heavy with ice when it fell upon a from the helicoprer would be bridge loaded with rush-hour lowered. The life ring came to him motorists. and each time he picked out The crumpled fuselage of the someone else and worked to get the Boeing 73 7 lay a mere 20 feet from ring around them." the river bank and 2S feet from the The president added, "Four surface, but it proved tragically dif people arc alive today because he ficult to bring up. did this. We don't know who he is Investgators focused on how because he gave his life in doing that. ready the plane was to take off in He sank beneath the waves before it subfreezing weather Wednesday - could come back for him ... Greater how long it stood on the runway, glory hath no man." whether it was properly deiced and At the crash site, 20 feet from the what caused it to slam into the 14th Virginia bank ofthe river and a mere Street Bridge within seconds of lift three-quarters of a mile from the off Wednesday from National Air runway at National Airport, four port. divers leaped from a barge into the Chief investigator Francis river to observe the condition of the These girls share a nervous moment as they continue tonight at 7 PM at Washington Hall. McAdams said it could take three plane's hulk and make sketches prepare to audition at O'Laughlin Auditorium (photo by Rachel Blount) days to as long as two weeks to raise which will help determine how the for the ND/SMC Theatre's spring shows. Tryouts the l 00,000-pound fuselage, but ofi fuselage can be raised and to look for cials said they hoped swiftly to find the recorders. two on-board recorders that might The river is about 20 feet deep at King birthday provide clues to the cause of the the point where it went down. Amid crash. ice chunks, recovery crews in The frozen bodies of an infant and orange life vests constructed a pon a woman were pulled by boat crews toon platform into the river. Students support nationwide holiday from the river, bringing to nine the A cage bearing two men were numberofbodies in the morgue. Air lowered by a crane co the water's precedes the Black Cultural Arts Fes ByGREGORYS~RCZ urging for King's holiday was Florida said its Boeing 73 7 carried surface and helicopters flew so low tival, slated to begin the first Tues Features Editor presented in Congress thirteen 79 people, leaving 70 still to be they almost touched the water. day in february, designated as years ago. Since that time, various pulled from the river. Four passen Snow started falling in mid National Black History Month. The Pt·titions supporting a nationwide states have proclaimed the day a gers and a stewardess were the only afternoon. festival plans two films: Martin Lut appt·al to adopt Martin Luther King, state holiday, but the fight for na known survivors. National Airport reopened in the her King: fbe Man and the Martyr, Jr.'s birthday as a national public tional recognition continues. Two men in cars on the bridge morning, and airliners soared over and I have a Dream. holiday are being present~d in the The signed petitions will be sent were killed and three other com the scene. Planes taking off must King was born jan. 15, 1929 in At dining halls today, according to In· to the agency rsponsiblc for seeking muters were seriously injured in the make a sharp left turn and follow the lanta, Georgia. Son of a preacher, tcrracial Concerns Committee Com· passage of the bills now pending in first fatal American airline accident winding river's path to limit the Martin followed the family tradition, missioner Darlene Sowdl. Congress that call for making since Oct. 31, 1979 when a Western noise in downtown Washington. For graduating from Morehouse Univer This drive coincides with a march january 15 a national holiday. airlines plane crashed in Mexico security reasons, planes are not per sity in 1948 and receiving a Ph.D. in in Washington today led by enter "The birthday of Martin Luther City. mitted to fly over the White House systematic theology from Boston tainer Stevie Wonder. King, Jr. should be recognized as a President Reagan circled the and the Capitol. University in 1955. Involved in the Sowell, Black Cultural Arts Presi national holiday, for King fought for crash site yesterday in a helicopter, Among yesterday's departures civil rights movement, he led dent Harry! Ammons and Secretary such issues as poverty and social in then flew by plane to New York City was Air Florida's Flight 90, which nationwide marches preaching non Piper Griffin felt the drive fur the justices," stated Griffin. where he told an audience of busi once again took off in a snowstorm, violence and peace. On April 4, holiday is long overdue. The first bill The King holiday question ness leaders that modern-day bound for Tampa. This time it 1968, King was assassinated by heroism still exists. .James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennes He described the bravery of one See DISASTER, page 4 New campus phone see. 1Ski Mask Rapist' exchange breaks down Three -year terror spree ends By JOE MUSUMECI NewsJtaff Asked about the cause of the By BILL CRIDER robbery, burglary and auto theft. was not convinced Simonis was the failure, Mr. Corley said that the Associated Press Simonis began his prison terms man who attacked her. fault was within the circuit board Sunday. "Everything Simonis knew could The newly installed "2:W" ex itself, and not inherent in the Simonis was arrested Nov. 27 in have come from newspapers, change of the campus tdephone entire system. About the cicuit NEW ORLEANS- The man called Lake Chrles, his home town. Officers anybody who attended the trial or system went dead around 8:4S board he said, "If thcy'c going to the Ski Mask Rapist, who says his had been told that a car like Simonis' anyone who investigated the case," p.m. last night. Indiana Bell su break down, they do it early. This three-year terror spree included 81 was seen near the scene of one ofthe she said. pervisor jay Corley said that he one must have been borderline; crimes in I 2 states, is now in per "ski mask rapist" attacks. Simonis However, Clarence Von Williams, received a call to repair tht: sys it woked fine when we put in, up manent residence at Angola Prison serving SO years on the rape convic tem at about 9:30 p.m. until now." - facing 21 life sentences plus tion, was released on Dec. 5 ata spe The addition of the new cx Corley said that the fault was 2,681 years in jail. FRIDAY cial court session in Orange, Tt·-· changt· leaves only residence not a common one, and that the During each of six court ap on a motion filed by both the phones on the "283" exchange chances of such a failure occur pearances since early December, defense and prosecution. and necessitates that many on ring again were very slight. He jon Barry Simonis said he was sorry FOCUS "Simonis knew too many details campus calls be made as if they said that several similar systems about everything, but couldn't help not to have committed the rape," were going off campus. Tht: new had been installed around the himself. said Orange County District Attor system has confused many stu area, and were in fact much less "I am guilty of these crimes. I was placed under surveillance and ney Jim jenkins. dents upon their return from troublesome than the system knew extremely well what I was was taken into custody as he left a In Athens County, Ohio, a 22- break which Notre Dame had previous doing beforehand, while I was doing store near his home. year-old man apparently will be The breakdown was caused by ly used. The supervisor said that it, and I know now," Simonis told It was then that he told inves cleared of a rape and robbery con a burnt-out circuit pack in one of repair of the problem is a simple District judge Charles Becnel during tigators about 81 armed robberies viction because the victim identified the l S software cabinets installed matter involving merely the re a Dec. l 0 hearing in Donaldsonville. or burglaries in 30 cities in 12 states Simonis as her assailant, prosecutor to implement the new system. placement of the circuit board at Simonis, who turns 31 Friday, said - many of them involving rape or Michael Ward said earlier this week. Located in the basement of fault. When Corley was con he would wear a ski mask during other sexual crimes. Two other rape-robbery convic Memorial Library, the cabinets tacted, another supervisor was at break-ins and often rape woman Other men had been convicted in tions continue in nearby Fairfield were installed alongside the the supply center near Niles pick residents who happened to be two of the crimes described by County against Braley C.

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