'Outrage' Led to Arrest of Top Politicians
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MANCHESTER | ■ • w ■ ** FOCUS SPORTS Housing and hotel America’s roads It’s Joe Sambito planned near mall attract warriors to Bosox’ rescue (W dm ...pages ... page 9 ... page 13 anrbfBtrr Hrralft Manchester — A City o( Village Charm Thursday, July 10, 1986 25 Cents ‘Outrage’ led 11 found to arrest of guilty of hijacking top politicians Combined wire services GENOA, Italy — A court today By George Layng circulator. Some of the people who convicted 11 men in the hijacking Herald Reporter signed Diana’s form told police of the Achille Lauro and said six of they were asked to write their them — including fugitive Palesti A two-month investigation-into a names on the sheet by a young nian leader Mohammed Abu Ab Republican petitioning effort this man, not the 49-year-old Diana, the bas — shhred responsibility for spring that led to the arrest affidavit said. killing American passenger Leon Wednesday of two town directors At the bottom of the petition Klinghoffer. and an independent candidate for sheet, the circulator is required to No one was specifically con the Legislature was prompted by a sign his name to “ affirm under victed of.murdering the New York Grissom Road woman who said oath that each person whose name man. she was "outraged” by the events appears on the signature page leading up to the pullout of a slate Three defendants were sent signed the same in person and in enced to life in prison and the favoring gubernatorial hopeful his presence,” the aUidavit said. Gerald Labriola. others received sentences as short Diana was charged with making as six months in prison. The Gertrude Starkey, a former a false statement, a misdemeanor deputy Republican registrar of remaining four defendants were that is punishable by up to one year acquitted. voters, filed a complaint with Chief in prison. Diana could not be State's Attorney John Bailey on reached for comment this Magied Al Molgi. the 23-year-old May 5 after newspaper reports morning. leader of the four-man hijack team raised questions of illegal practi Ferguson, a 28-year-old real and the man accused of shooting ces by Manchester Republicans, estate broker, was also charged Klinghoffer. received a 30-year according to a police affidavit with making a false statement sentence. released this morning. because one of the petition sheets Only five ofthe guilty defendants Starkey said this morning she he circulated contained a forged are in Italian custody and thus are filed the complaint, which was name, police said. According to the ’ likely to serve their sentences. turned over to Manchester police, affidavit. Edith Rogers of Charter International arrest warranJs are because Republican Registrar of Oak Street told police she did not out for the six fugitives, including Voters Mary Willhide refused to, sign her name to Ferguson’s Abbas, who heads the Palestine "You can’t cover up something petition sheet, even though her Liberation Front. like this,” she said. name appears on the page. Meanwhile, the daughters of Willhide could not be reached for Rogers said she did sign a Klinghoffer said today they were comment. petition sheet circulated by Diana, outraged that the man accused of Arrested Wednesday were Tho the affidavit said. According to murdering their father did not get mas H. Ferguson, a Republican police, there is “ an obvious differ a life sentence. director: William J. Diana, tbe ence in the signatures.” ” We both just cannot understand board’s minority leader; Edward Police did not accuse Ferguson the Italian Judicial system,” Lisa Wilson, a former Republican who of forging the signature, but said KlingJtoffer said on the “ CBS last week left the party to wage "an he was charged because at the Morning News” program. “ Our independent campaign in the 13th bottom of the petition form, the father’s murderer is going to serve Assembly District: and Elsie circulator is required to attest that a few years, and then he’ll be optr Tartaglia. who works as the each signer “ satisfactorily” identi- and we are just outraged.. personal secretary to Manchester fied themselves. * It was not immediately clear State Bank President Nathan G. Ferguson would not comment when the men wieuld be eligible for Agostinelli, a member of the when contacted by the Herald this parole. Republican State Central morning, although he has said hb Her sister, lisa. said. “ Ithinkthe Committee. does not know how the signature Italian judicial system missed an The charges involve efforts by appeared on his sheet. opportunity to send a clear mes Labriola supporters who in April Wilson. 61, was charged with sage to terrorists everywhere that gathered petition signatures seek official neglect or fraud, a misde we will no longer tolerate these ing to force a May 20 primary meanor that carries with it a kinds of acts.” against a slate of convention maximum sentence of a year in The sisters, also interviewed on delegates endorsed by Manches prison and a $300 fine. ABC’s “ Good Morning America,” ter’s Republican Town Committee Police charge that Wilson, who said they would contact the Justice that favored Richard Bozzuto. The was a member of the challenge Department to push for extradition Labriola supporters -t- led by delegate slate, circulated a peti of the men. Diana. Ferguson, and Agostinelli tion sheet that carried the name of Defense lawyers said Abu Ab — hoped to send a challenge slate Irene Stephens of South Main bas, the two other Palestine of delegates that mostly supported Street as its circulator even though Liberation Front officials sent Labriola to this month’s nominat it was Wilson who gathered signa enced and the three hijackers ing convention. tures. Two of the signers on the Herald photo by Tucker convicted all were found guilty of The necessary signatures were form told police that Wilson — not hijacking and “ kidnapping for collected, but the primary was' Stephens — obtained their signa Nice day for a swim terrorist ends that resulted in the aborted on April 28 when Diana, tures, the affidavit said. death of a person” — the 69-year- old Klinghoffer. who was shot and one of the circulators of the/petition Police said Stephens told them tossed off the ship along with his sheets, called Willhide and with she had been asked by Wilson to Four-year-old Jessica Puckett of Man with their mother and older sister, wheelchair. drew the sheets he had submitted, sign the petition form and she chester, left, and her 2-year-old sister, Brandy, on a day that was iess humid The lawyers said this meant in according to the police affidavit signed both sides of the paper — Nikki, enjoy themselves at the Globe than eariier in the week, but stiil a good effect that all six were held used in obtaining the arrest including the section where the Hollow pool Wednesday. The two were day to go swimming. responsible for Klinghoffer’sdeath warrants. The move left suppor circulator was supposed to sign. ters of the Naugatuck pediatrician Wilson neglected to correct the without the required number of mistake, which led to the charge, signatures and canceled the police said. primary. Wilson could not be reached for Inmates set prison in Virginia on fire According to the police affidavit. comment today. Willhide told police that on April 28 Tartaglia was the only one of the she received a call from Diana in By Vincent Del Gludice four charged with a felony — false three prisoners .^offered minor “ The fires were set in all heavily damaged. which he told her he was withdraw United Press International certification as to administration injuries in the fires. dormitory areas in a very organ The first fire, originating in a ing his petition sheets “ on a of oath, which carries with it a When the violence and shooting ized fashion.” Downs said. "That mattre.ss. was reported at 12:35 technicality.” LORTON, Va. — Convicts went maximum penalty of three years broke out, guards were trying to made it a very difficult fire to a.m. in a dormitory. Downs said. Police said Diana, an attorney, on an arson spree at the Lorton in Jail and a $1,000 fine. account for inmates on the base fight.” Fairfax County Fire Depart had allowed his 15-year-old son. Reformatory early today, setting Police said Tartaglia. a notary ball field at the burned-out facility, Downs said 1.127 inmates will be ment Lt. Leonard Murry said the B.J., to circulate the petition — fires in 14 buildings in an apparent prison official Leo Givs said. transferred temporarily to other fire spread quickly but was con something that is illegal because protest of crowded conditions, and facilities. He said 300 to 500 bed tained more than four, hours later Diana’s name was listed as the Please turn to page 8 attacked guards attempting tp “ Ini the process 100 inmates spaces were lost and five buildings as dawn approached. transfer them to other facilities, surged and pulled the two guards officials said. into their midst,” Givs said. While the fires were raging. 64 The condition of the guards was Johannesburg talks inmates were identified as ring not known but a prisoner suffering TODAY’S HERALD leaders of the torchings and taken a stab wound.<a gunshot wound and to the District of Columbia Jail head inJuries was admitted to D.C. from the Lorton complex, the General Hospital in serious condi end; strike is likely district’s huge prison facility in tion, hospital spokesman Millree Bolton Improvements Index suburban Virginia. Williams said. Five of the 14 buildings at the Up to 10 people may be inter 16 pages, 2 sections V JOHANNESBURG.