Armed Intruders· Hold OC Students at Gunpoint

~------ • • .Cage results -page 11 an independent snJdent Armed intruders· hold • OC students at gunpoint By JOHN HIGGINS MeSally said. "Then he went to the pee ted home within l 5 minutes.' Staff Reporter front door and let the other guy "The guy we never saw said that inside. The second guy came into they should wait for her and put her Two Notre Dame students were the room an started asking us where in the closet," MeSally continued. "I robbed at gunpoint Monday night in the cocaine was. We told him that told them that my housemate would their Portage Avenue home, bound we did not deal in cocaine, that we be with her, which was a lie. I just and locked in a closet, and relieved did not have cocaine. didn't want them to think she was of a S 1400 stereo and S400 in cash. "He then said he was going to coming home alone. I started yelling According to Michael MeSally, a 'mess one of us up' to get the other every few minutes 'Hey, people are senior, two gunmen apparently en one to talk," MeSally continued. "At goi.pg to be here in a few minutes,' tered the wrong house looking for this point they decided to tie us up. trying to get them to leave." cocaine. The intruders held MeSally The guy we didn't see ripped a cord When the robbers left they took and a friend at gunpoint for 40 out of the wall and tied me up pretty MeSally's $1400 stereo plus $400 in minutes while ransa,·king the house, tightly. My hands started turning cash with them. ending their siege by barricading the blue. Then he started asking me "Not a minute later, my girlfriend two bound victims in a hall closet. where the coke was and I told him walked in the door. We called out The pair was released by MeSally's we didn't have any, that we never from the closet and she came in and girlfriend who arrived less than one had any. untied us.'' minute after the: assailants left. The man with the gun then placed MeSally said that he believed the MeSally said one: of the men came the gun against his temple and again gunmen mistock his house for the to the door and asked to use the threatened to kill him, MeSally said. part of the duplex located behind telephone. "We sat and talked on The pair then began searching the his. and off for about ten minutes waiting house. When the second man went "When the first guy came in he for (another person in the house) to upstairs, "the guy with the gun came said 'Three guys live here, right?' " get off the phone," he said. "When up to me and said 'I'm the only guy MeSally said. "I told him that there he was off, I said 'The phone's all with the gun, don't worry about him. were only two. The house behind us yours.' He walked towards the Just play with me and you won't get does have three people. I think that phone:, pulled a gun out of his pocket hurt.' either they got a bum tip that we and told us both to get on the floor. The second man came downstairs were dealing or that they got the He said they lay face down on the and the pair dragged the two stu wrong house. kitchen floor and the gunman placed dents into a closet. "They cleared "We never did get a look at the pillows over their heads and the closet out and threw us in," second guy," he added. "They threatened to kill them if they MeSally said. "They barricaded the stressed so much that the only way moved or looked up. "He explained door with a bar. One of them asked if we were going to live is if we didn't another guy was outside and said if anyone was comi.ng home and I said look. He must have had a face that this guy saw us look up he'd kill us," 'Yes, definitely. My girlfriend is ex- could be easily described or picked out in a mug shot. He must be really well known to the police around $622 million here." MeSally was critical of the manner The wreckagl! of the downed plane that carried Daniel Linnen, his in which the police handled the inci father, brother, and pilot was removed from lake Michigan Dec. 21 Chrysler gets money dent, saying that the first officer by a salvage team. (Photo courtesy Michigan City News-Dispatch) arrived 20 minutes after they called, even.though the dispatcher was told Aircrash victims WASHINGTON (AP) The said nothing as he entereo the con that the intruders were probably at Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board ference room where the loan board the other duplex, which police con granted conditional approval last was meeting, and Chrysler Chair firmed was indeed the case. "Even Bodies still missing night to the tottering automaker's man Lee A. Iacocca said only, "See then we had to call a secoi-d time," application for another S400 mlllion you on the way out.'' MeSally said. "One of the officers, By DAN LeDUC in government loan guarantees. Corporal Sharpe, was great," but a StaffReporter Earlier, Fraser characterized the lab technician complained that it The board's approval was condi concessions as "quite severe." was going to "take all night" to lift For one Notre Dame family, this past Christmas season was not a joyous tioned on ratification by members of fingerprints from the house and that one. The bodies of senior finance majorJames Linn en, his father William, and the United Auto Workers of wage "You can't be happy in this kind of he refused to take prints from the brother Daniel of Long Beach, Ind., and the pilot oftheir plane, Ed Bitanits of concessions totalling $622 million, situation," Fraser said. "You can't dining room and kitchen where the Niles, Mich., killed when their aircraft crashed in Lake Michigan Dec. 7, have and by presentation by Chrysler of call it a victory when you gave up so intruders spent most of their time." not yet been recovered. The four men were flying from Chicago's O'Hare agreements to convert about S500 much, made so many concessions." The South Bend Police detective Airport when the aircraft disappeared from South Bend Airport radar. On mlllion in outstanding loans and to "Obviously our goal is to do the in charge of the case was in court Dec. 12, the plane was located three-quarters of a mile off Grand Beach, minimal necessary to satisfy the pay off another $500 million at 30 and unavailable for comment. See CRASH, page 5 cents on the dollar In installments - secretary," said UA W spokesman Don Stlllman. effectively canceling about $350 mlllion in debts. Stillman's use of the word "minimal" echoed the term used Other conditions call for Chrysler Tuesday by Treasury Secretary G. to commit itself to "all possible Police admit 'Red Squad~ Wllliarn Mlller, chairman of the loan steps" to a merger or other means of guarantee board, to characterize the raising new capital; to present ap assistance Chrysler wanted from the LANSING, Mich. (AP) Today is the deadline for submit removing SCl. •ndary names con proval from its suppliers of $36 mil union. Surprised, proud or disgusted, ting a request to see a file, but offi tained In indivi-Jual files. lion additional concessions and to thousands of people in Michigan are cials say it may be months before the Various la'l>. suits have revealed Miller has said the board needed promise to try to get an equal learning that for years a state police microfilm records can be put on that in Its heyday, the Red Squad to make a preliminary decision at its amount in 1981; and for the UA W to "Red Squad" spied on them and paper for distribution. routinely supplied information on Wednesday meeting, with the agree to take the company's shaky listed their names as potential sub "It was an enormous waste of job applicants to state agencies - decison to become final Friday. finances Into consideration in future versives. public money," said Howard Simon, and on occasion to utilities and contracts. Miller said there would not other Among them: David Stockman, director of the Michigan chapter of other private employers. wise be enough time for Treasury the conservative Republican con the American Civil Liberties Union. The Red Squad lists include the The board's decision came after Secretary-designate Donald Regan gressman chosen to head the Office The ACLU was among organizations names of public officials, labor or the three-member panel summoned to familiarize himself with the issues. oP.Management and Budget in the on which files were kept, and it ganizers, members of socialist and the heads of the company and its Chrysler officials had said that with Reagan administration. Tabs were • aided lawsuits filed to abolish the communist groups, feminists, stu major union to their meeting. out the loan guarantees, they wlll kept on Stockman during his student unit. dents, journalists and activists In the run out of cash before the end of the days at Michigan State University, Created in 1950 by a Legislature civil rights, gay rights and anti-war month. Chrysler submitted Its revised ap when he was affiliated with a church caught up in the nation's Cold War movements.

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