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The Daily Campus Serving the Storrs Community Since 1896 Vol. XCII No. 82 The University of Connecticut Wednesday, February 22, 1989 Prosecution, defense square off in North trial WASHINGTON (AP) — looking toward his wife, Betsy, The other three involve charges a crime and not a defense." Oliver North's criminal trial who was in the front row of Sullivan, who became The lying charges concern opened Tuesday with the spectators. known nationally during the events that happened in 1985 prosecutor calling him a liar The courtroom was filled to 1987 congressional hearings on and 1986 when various who "places himself above the its 120-scat capacity, with the affair, held up thumb and congressional committees were questioning the White House law" but with North's lawyer reporters taking 60. The public forefinger a quarter-inch apart about news reports that North defending him as a patriotic got only 15 and the rest went and told the jury: "He never had Marine who obeyed the orders to assorted lawyers, prosecutors this much criminal intent." was helping the Coniras of the nation's highest and government security fighting the Nicaraguan Keker said North's lies to government — in defiance of a officials. experts. U.S. District Judge Congress and his president North listened intently as the Gerhard A. Gcscll allowed four congressional band on such amount to "a crime that goes assistance. prosecutor told the jury he had representatives of intelligence to the soul of our self- lied time and again to his agencies in court to monitor North testified at the 1987 government" televised hearings under president and to Congress the large amounts of classified "You will hear he considers about the Iran-Contra affair. information expected to be immunity from prosecution for himself a patriotic person, but anything he might say. Keker. His chief defense lawyer revealed publicly in the trial. there is no higher patriotic working for independent countered that North, a former North is charged with 12 purpose than to protect our counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, top National Security Council criminal counts, nine of them system of government," Keker aide, worked in a secret world had to develop his evidence for having to do with deceiving Oliver North (UPI photo). said. "To lie to Congress the trial without recourse to the where "he always acted with Congress and the president. because you mistrust it then is the approval of his superiors; _hearing transcript. he acted always with the best Here is a brief summary of opening statements made Tuesday as the trial of Oliver Keker told the jury that the interests of his country." North on 12 criminal charges in connection with the Iran-Contra affair began. Bible says there is a time and Thus the two sides squared — Prosecution — Defense place for everything. off for the oft-delayed first trial "When the time came for The government maintains North is a Chief defense attorney Brendan Sullivan Oliver North to tell die truth, to come out of the Iran-Contra liar who placed "himself above the law" said North is a man who worked in a affair, a trial that may take as he lied," Keker said. "When the when he lied to congressional committees world of secrets and had no criminal lime came to come clean, he much as five months to intent when he obeyed orders and complete. and the president about a secret operation shredded, erased and altered. North followed the opening conducted by government officials and followed instructions from the When the lime came to let ihe statements of prosecutor John private businessmen. government's highest-ranking officials. light shine in, he covered up." Keker and chief defense lawyer "The need for secrecy is no excuse for Sullivan said North "always acted with "The committee looked Brendan Sullivan with lies," said John Keker who presented the approval of his superiors; he acted Oliver North right in the eye unflagging interest. He sat opening arguments from the office of always with the best interests of his and North looked them right in upright during both independent prosecutor Lawrence E. country ... as any Marine Corps officer the eye and he lied." Keker presentations, sometimes Walsh. would." said. Tornadoes ravage southern states Storms and tornadoes besieged the South on Tuesday, ripping a roof off an elementary school in North Carolina, causing sewers to back up in Alabama and dumping still more rain on flood-weary Kentucky and Tennessee. A mass of warm and humid air spawned die severe storms and twisters in a wide band from the Gulf Coast states to New England, with Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas the hardest hit. In North Carolina, tornadolikc winds tore off the roof of the one- story elementary school in Morven while classes were in session, said sheriffs dispatcher Elaine Lear in Wadesboro. No one was injured, and pupils were sent home. Also in south-central North Carolina, die wind flipped over several small planes at Anson County Airport. Four people UConn Provost, Thomas Tighe, speaks at the opening of the Apple computer lab received minor injuries when the wind tossed around trailer homes (Chris Nelson photo). near Eagle Springs and Zion's Grove, said a dispatcher. Up to 3,500 customers were without electricity in the Rockingham and Wadesboro areas, Carolina Power and Light spokesman Kyle Hampton said. New computer lab opens Kentucky and Tennessee, which logged up to 11 inches of rain By Angi Carter for allowing us funds from the assume responsibility for last week, received more rain Monday and Tuesday, sending rivers Daily Campus Staff UConn Fund," said ToedL computer maintenance and rising again. UConn administration offi- The lab is funded by a operations, accoding to ToedL The storm system dumped more than 3 additional inches of water cials along with representatives $53,716 grant from Apple "There haven t really been on parts of southern Kentucky before rains began to subside from Apple computers and Computer, Inc. It has also re- that many Mac's on campus. Tuesday afternoon. Unicom held ribbon cutting ceived funds from parents of There's a lot of demand," said South of Louisville, crews planned to lower a second pump by ceremonies on a new computer UConn students through the Jean May Lee, a lab consul- helicopter to die Lebanon Junction levee after the Rolling Fork of lab in the Math Science Build- UConn Fund, and is supported tant. Lee said it will be her job the Salt River overflowed its banks. Officials said the pump being ing. by Unicom, which is the to assist users in operating the used to remove flood water from inside the levee couldn't keep up Malcolm Tocdt, executive "distributor for all Apple prod- equipment. with the latest rainfall. director of the center, says all ucts on campus and is available According to Shawn Police said the rain has contributed to die death of at least two other departments restrict the Szturma, a student people — a 19-ycar-old woman killed when her car hit a truck on a to all departments," said Don rain-slick highway and a man whose van was swept away by flood use of the Apple computers to Pcndlcton, the Unicom repre- representative for Apple faculty and students in those Computer, Inc., the computers waters Thursday. Officials were still searching Tuesday for a second departments. sentative who handles all ac- counts for ihe Apple products are less complicated to use than man who had been in the van. Compiled from AP reports The Macintosh Personal on campus. others available in the Computer Lab is the first on computer center. the campus to allow everyone UConn was chosen to ^M BOOK REVIEW participate in a pilot program, "The machines arc a lot more in the UConn community user friendly... and that's the "Brothers and usage on a "first come, first HEPP II, which "guarantees lowest available prices from big plus," said Szturma. ^B ' ^ioSfk ■ f} Keepers" served basis," and can be used Apple, other schools don't get Available in the lab arc five ^Bfc _*• ' 3 WVw Society's unjust by "faculty, students, and Macintosh SE personal com- researchers," said Tocdt. lower prices," said Pcndlcton. treatment of blacks in "They've (Apple and puters and one Macintosh and out of the prison "We give special thanks to MAC-II PC. The lab will be nL*m Apple and Unicom for making Unicom) also provided software v* ^^^^Jl system and support for student labor," open Monday through Friday " ™ x the computers available ... and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and ^^MR - ™ PAGE 12 to President (John T.) Castccn said Tocdt. The center will Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. • ' AROUND THE WORLD Indians challenge dam ALTAMIRA, Brazil (AP) — Angry Amazon Indians hcadrcsscs and black warpaint on their faces and bodies, thrust lances and machetes at government electric power raised their war clubs in a sign of agreement. Official! yesterday in a second day of heated debate over a Lopes said Elctronortc was preparing an environmental proposed hydroelectric dam that would flood tribal lands. impact report on the Kararao project. "If the dam affects More than 500 Indians from 37 native groups packed Indian land, it must be approved byCongress," he said. the city's community center for the historic encounter of Brazil's Indian population has been decimated by tribes in this cast Amazon city, 2,000 miles northwest of development projects such as hydroelectric dams and the Rio dc Janeiro. Trans-Amazon highway. There are about 220,000 Indians The meeting is the first united political movement by left in Brazil, down from an estimated 5 million when the the native tribes, and seeks to block construction of the country was discovered by Portugese explorers in 1500.