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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-17-1986 The BG News April 17, 1986 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 17, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4518. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4518 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. THE BG NEWS Vol. 68 Issue 111 Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, April 17,1986 Defendants found guilty in rape trial by Valeric Qptak prisoned "as long as humanly asked the judge, "What am I staff reporter possible." supposed to say, thank you?" "A message should be sent Neller told the court that of all After 8V4 hours of deliber- with the sentence. In Wood the defendants, his was the least ation, the jury found Troy Hill, County we don't permit this kind aggressive. "Lamont's got some Patrick Henry and Lamont of thing to happen to anyone," good qualities, too," he said. Walker guilty of the October The victim of the multiple rape and Kidnap of a University The families of Hill, Henry rape in Hill's car was present tor student. and Walker reacted violently the verdict and later for the The verdict was announced to when the first sentence was sentencing. Although she had a sparse crowd in Wood County read. not flinched during her testi- Common Pleas Judge Donald "You got no feelings," mem- mony or the attorneys' closing DeCessna's courtroom at 2 a.m. bers of Walker's family said statements, the woman broke yesterday. The defendants' fam- from the gallery to Montgom- down just before the verdict was ilies, which sat through all 12 read. days of the trial, were not there. Each defense attorney indi- "It was just hearing the first "I think they knew it was cated they intended to appeal one. They found him guilty of coming," County Prosecutor the case on legal grounds. everything, - they had to find Betty Montgomery said. "To date I think it was a tragic them all guilty of everything," But the courtroom was full of mistake on the part of the state she said. family, friends and bystanders to (request) a Joint trial," said Members of the jury, tired for the sentencing of the three Rich Neller, Walker's attorney. from deliberating into the morn- men at noon yesterday. ing hours, would not be specific DeCessna sentenced them WHEN GIVEN a chance to about the reason for their deci- each for three components of the speak, Hill said, "I would like to sion. crime: the kidnapping of the say one thing. I did not get a fair "It was a long, hard decision. woman, their individual raping trial in Wood County. I knew the It was very difficult," one juror of her, and their aiding and Jury wouldn't treat us right and I said. abetting the others. They were lope you are all satisfied with "The fact that we spent so each sentenced for 28 to 65 years what you do. And that's all I much time on it makes us feel in prison. want to say." good about it (the decision) "They're eligible for parole in Montgomery answered Hill's now," another said. 15 years regardless of what I remark. No charges have been brought BG News Photo/Joe Phelan do/' he said. "We are satisfied with what against Floyd Boatman. Boat- we have done. We have brought man said he was in Hill's car Lamont Walker (left) and his attorney Charles Neller stand in Wood County Common Pleas Court yesterday MONTGOMERY TOLD Mr. Hill to justice," she said. when the rapes began, but asked afternoon listening to Judge Donald DeCessna read the 28-65 year sentence for Walker's convictions on the DeCessna she wanted them im- After sentencing, Walker only to be dropped off in Toledo. kidnap and rape of a University woman. Attorney Charles Boss and his client Troy Hill sit at the counsel table. Khadafy's home in ruins after bombing TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -Bombs wrecked bomb hit about 10 yards away, leaving a craters during the brief tour of Khadafy's Moammar Khadafy's house and ruined his huge crater near the entrance. quarters. But the extent of the damage seen tennis court during the raid by American Twisted metal and broken aluminum suggests many other missiles hammered warplanes that targeted the Azziziyah for- frames cover the narrow streets inside the the compound during the 20-minute raid. tress where the Libyan leader lives and compound. A few dead birds lay in the sun. Libyan etHMah refused to say how many Anti-aircraft fire works. bombs hit inside the fortress, where Soviet- The American lets devastated several ALL NEARBY military buildings lost made anti-aircraft missile batteries and buildings, but a Libyan official escorting a their windows and some walls were blown anti-aircraft guns are manned around the group of journalists to the compound said down when the bombs crashed inside the clock. continues in Tripoli Khadafy survived the Monday night bomb- compound, hurling a storm of flying red-hot They also refused to say how many people TRIPOLI, Libya (AP)- ing. metal and concrete. other than Khadafy's adopted 15-month-old Earlier in Washington, r Anti-aircraft and automatic D.C.. Pentagon spokesman 'He was in his tent," not at his home Khadafy's office, a yellow four-story daughter were killed. weapons fire resounded Fred Hoffman denied Libyan during the raid, explained a white-tur- building crowned by a dome, was pierced through the Libyan capital claims that U.S. planes had banned guide strolling through a short with thousands of holes. "Ask Reagan," snapped a guide. "He after nightfall yesterday. conducted further raids in Eromenade littered with shards of glass, Shattered desks and bookshelves pro- should know now many bombs he dropped The burst of shooting that country. "There is no roken palm tree branches and shrapnel. truded from piles of debris and broken on us." . started at about 9 p.m. and U.S. military activity in Li- Khadafy's house, a light blue two-story concrete. Two bombs gouged largeVraters on the lasted for several minutes. bya," he said. building, lost most of its facade when a Reporters counted six bomb and missile edge of Khadafy's asphalted tennis court. Reporters in the Al Kabir In a pre-dawn raid Tuesday Hotel could see guns firing (Libyan time),the United from at least two Libyan na- States bombed what it said val vessels in the harbor. were military targets in Li- There was no sound of bya. President Reagan said Forum held on drunk driving planes overhead and no indi- the attack was in retaliation cation as to what prompted for Libyan involvement in the by Caroline Langer ing under the influence would Wood County is traditionally March 1985 deaths of University the shooting, which occurred bombing of a West Berlin staff reporter help keep drunks off the road. in the state's top three counties students Steven Hanna and Ke- at about the same time as nightclub that killed a U.S. Merle Bush, commander of in number of deaths due to vin Ross. Their deaths inspired anti-aircraft fire Tuesday. soldier and a Turkish woman. Although nine panel members the Walbridge Post of the Ohio drunk drivers, Bush said. the formation of "Never Again," participating in a forum on is- Highway Partol, said "the high- Ken Kaiser of "Never Again," a project promoting responsible sues concerning drinking and way partol is out every day. which presented the public fo- decisions about drinking and driving disagreed about whether looking for impared drivers. If rum, said "I've never been one driving. raising the drinking age to 21 you want to take a chance and to be impressed by statistics, Deaths caused by drunk driv- would curtail drinking-related run into us, be my guest, just but a little over a year ago, I lost ers are violent crimes, accord- deaths, they agreed that telling don't run into anyone else, two friends to a drunk driver." ing to Susan O'Keefe, president CIT employees people about the results of driv- us catch you first." Kaiser was referring to the □ See DUI, page 5. to form union BGSU staff still undecided by Julie FauMe file a petition with the State staff reporter Employee Relations Board re- questing an election at the Uni- University of Toledo employ- versity, he said. ees Tuesday voted to join the He said he believed University Communications Workers of workers would take notice of a America/Council of Public union at UT and the attention Workers, the same union which would help the union's chances has been working to gain inter- in possible union elections in the est on Bowling Green^ campus. future. Phillip Kelley, an organizer Bonnie Lawrence, a member for CWA/CPW, said the approxi- of the CWA/CPW Union Orga- mately 500 classified employees nizing Committee, said she was at UT, including custodial, not sure if the UT union would maintenance, grounds, clerical affect classified employees and food service workers, voted here. to unionize by about a 2-1 mar- gin. "The problems at UT are a little different from Bowling Within two weeks, the union Green," she said.