Reagan Sets TV Address on Hostages
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MANCHESTER HERALD, Wednesday. Nov. 12, 1986 CONNECTICUT FOCUS Lawyer builds practice defending drunken driving suspects i S E S s a s s i Jai alai players AIDS prevention Teens ‘mock’ Bv Andrea Rowand to become an expert on drunken driving cases. County’s Driving Under the Influ tends Essen. Safety and Motor Vehicles. The Associated Press driving. He was tired, he said, of Essen, who loathes drunken ence division. Ms. Menadier, "The current emphasis on puni Of the 78,939 Florida arrests for can’t find place focus of week wedding vows representing drug defendants. driving but thinks offenders need whose former boss recently joined tive measures may fail to address drunken driving in 1985, 57,719 i T MIAMI — Advocates of harsher “I decided that if I could produce help instead of Jail, has no harsh Essen’s firm, said Essen avoids the real problem,” said George cases — or about 73 percent — - ] ... page 3 ... page 7 ... page 11 drunken driving laws accuse de the best results in drunk driving, I words for his detractors. trials, at times arranging for Marcelle of the National Council on ended with conviction, according fense attorney Richard Essen of would get business,” said the “A car with a drunk in it is' a clients to plead guilty. Alcoholism in New York. Of 18.3 to figures from the state Bureau of freeing killers. 47-year-old lawyer who in 1963 4,000-pound bullet. It’s a terrible “The benefit (of pleading million adults who are heavy Uniform Traffic Citations. “He’s getting potential murder successfully defended comedian thing,” he said. “MADD, to their clients) is saying you never lost a drinkers, 12.1 million show signs of Essen asks all new clients to get ers off and allowing them to Lenny Bruce on heroin possession credit and our detriment, directed case,” she said. But that’s not a alcoholism. Drunken drivers tend counseling and insists on it for continue to drive,” said Diane and DUI charges. this nation’s attention to one of our courtroom victory, she added. to repeat the offense and jail can’t those he suspects are hard-core Holmes, the president of Dade Since 1983, Essen claims to have most serious social, legal and Essen has been interviewed on cure them, Marcelle said. drinkers. Then the legal work County's Mothers Against Drunk won all his cases — between 1,200 health problems.” the Phil Donahue show and fea In 1985, SO percent of the nation’s begins, at prices starting at $2,500 Driving chapter. and 1,500 of them, but one prosecu Essen often files stacks of legal tured in People magazine. He also 43,800 highway deaths were and Increasing for each past DUI “We do not like what he does," tor says he has arranged for a motions for clients, in hopes that teaches fellow lawyers about de alcohol-related, Marcelle said. conviction the client has. said Mrs. Holmes, whose son was number of his clients to plead the 90 days in which cases must.be fending drunken drivers. In Florida in 1985, 1,294 of 2,870 Florida law has an array of laws killed by a hit-and-run driver she guilty. He does national consulting tried will run out and charges will His clients are often problem fatal traffic accidents, or about 45 governing DUI charges and Essen believes had been drinking. work, has a six-lawyer staff and be dismissed. drinkers who need counseling, not percent, involved drunken driving, searches for violations. For exam A former Dade County prosecu believes his is the country's largest His chief antagonist is prosecu jail or criminal convictions that according to statistics from the ple, by law blood samples must be ) Manchester — A City of Village Charm tor, Essen set out three years ago tor Jill Menadier, head of Dade can ruin careers and lives, con state department of Highway UJanrliPBt^r HrralJt practice devoted to drunken- drawn by licensed nurses. 30 Cents U.S.-hired Thursday, Nov. 13,19B6 LOWEST PRICES..... r$UMO*Vl N 1 II HOOM • firm linked THE EXTRAS YOU PAY FOR irM AL SIEFFERTS ELSEWHERE ARE FREE AT Reagan sets to contras AL SIEFFERTSa Bv Robert Parry !• FREE DELIVERY The Associated Press FREE NORMAL HOOK-UP WASHINGTON — A company TV address 0 hired by the State Department to !• FREE REMOVAL fly U.S. “humanitarian” supplies WHY PA to Nicaraguan contra rebels re • LOCALLY OWNED ceived telephone calls from a !• MEMBER, NATIONAL Salvadoran safehouse used in on hostages secret arms shipments to the BUYING GROUP FOR GIANT rebels, docdments show. The calls were made in Sep PURCHASE POWER!! V tember to the office and residence of retired Air Force Lt. Col. Bv W. Dale Nelson at fault if Ayatollah Ruhollah Richard B, Gadd of Vienna, Va., .,,,BEST SELECTION! The Associated Press Khomeini died ’’and we had not president of AIRMACH Inc. made any preparations for con AIRMACH was paid to fly non- REMOTE CONTROL MODEL tacts with a future regime. The WASHINGTON - President arms are necessary for that.” lethal supplies to the Contras Reagan will address the nation although it has no planes regis ilijili Wednesday’s congressional .* -‘I tonight on efforts to win freedom briefing was the first since the tered to it and no publicly listed for Americans held hostage in telephone number. emergence of reports of a pur 11,,,. Lebanon and "U.S.-Iran rela ported administration attempt to The contact" between the safe- tions,” the White House iiiiiii complete an arms-for-hostages house in San Salvador and AIRM announced. deal with Iran to spring Americans ACH represents an apparent new USHER f a m o u s m a k e Presidential spokesman Larry held captive in Lebanon. link between the official U.S. 19” DIAG. Speakes said Reagan will speak at government humanitarian aid and dua^l cassette “I have not changed my mind.” turntable electronic tuner 8 p.m. EST. the secret weapons supply opera The president, Speakes said, “is said Senate Democratic leader tion that came to light Oct. 5 when SPEAKERS Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, COMPAC^ COLOR going to tell as much as he can, an American-manned C-123K consistent with the national inter after the meeting. Byrd has cargo plane was shot down over STEREO TV est” about efforts to free the sharply criticized what he said is southern Nicaragua. hostages. the administration’s apparent vio Government sources and a se FAMOUS FAMOUS FAMOUS Speakes said that Reagan would lation of its own policy not to cretary who answered calls to one FISH ER MAKE 24 have preferred to avoid public negotiate with terrorists. number appearing on a telephone MAKE MAKE discussion of the matter for now “For approximately two hours, bill from the safehouse confirmed but that he "feels it is appropriate we discussed the entire situation that the number belonged to in view of all the speculation, some involving Iran, the American hos AIRMACH. but Gadd did not of it in accurate. He wants to set the tages and the matter of arms respond to repeated requests for record straight.” shipments,” House Majority comment on his role with the Speakes’ comments came a day Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, said contras. after Reagan met with congres in a statement. “The discussions Calls also were made to a sional leaders. Published reports were frank and candid but at no telephone number at a house in said he told them the United States time vituperative.” Vienna that Gadd listed as his ZENITH had sent military equipment to Senate Majority Leader Bob residence in corporate records. It RCA 25" DIAG 1 9 ” D I A G . Iran in an attempt to establish ties Dole. R-Kan.. had nothing to say is now answered by a tape with moderate elements in the and was described by a spokesman Harald photo by Roch* recording saying the number is not Iranian government. as, “tight lipped, no words.” in service. COLOR Robert Duemling, who ran the COLOR The remarks were made at a Rep. Lee H. Hamilton. D-Ind.. Acting shelter manager Jeff Cox gets some blankets homeless people looking for a warm place to spend the closed-door meeting Wednesday chairman of the House Permanent night, Cox said he does not expect too many more to turn special State Department office TV _ TV and were reported by The Wa ready for those who will be using Manchester’s homeless 3 that disbursed $27 million in u rn Select Committee on Intelligence, shelter on Main Street. Although tonight’s sub-freezing up at Manchester’s shelter. non-lethal aid to the rebels, refused shington Post, The New York announced that his panel would to identify any of the five compan Times and The Baltimore Sun. ’The hold its first hearing on the Iran temperatures are expected to Increase the number of ies hired to fly the supplies, but FIS H E R FIS H E R newspapers quoted unidentified operation Nov. 21. said the carriers were examined WIRELESS REMOTE! administration and congressional sources. Earlier in the day, Speakes was for reliability before contracts asked about the possibility of an were granted. The Times reported that an administration official paraph announcement from the president. If homeless come, shelter Is ready “We weren’t under any heat to “It’s in the realm of possibility. A use anyone,” Duemling said. rased Reagan at the meeting as saying the United States would be lot of things are possible.’’he said. Statewide, thereareestimated to homeless shelters throughout the cots^ throughout the day, even He added that some of the air Bv George Lavng though they must be out by 7 a.m.