The BG News April 30, 1987

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-30-1987 The BG News April 30, 1987 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 30, 1987" (1987). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4661. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4661 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. 69 Issue 120 Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, April 30,1987 Activist charged in Iran- contra affair WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative public witness in the hearings that activist Carl "Spite" Channel! pointed begin on Tuesday. Secord, who de- to former White House aide Oliver Channell points to North as fellow conspirator clined to testify before the Senate Intel- North as a fellow conspirator yester- pendent counsel Lawrence Walsh's in- could be expected soon against North, the secret sale of weapons to Iran and ligence Committee earlier, will appear day as he pleaded guilty to the first vestigation. he said, "We're not prepared to do that in the funding of the contras. without an immunity grant. criminal charge of the Iran-contra af- Walsh's formal charge, known as a at this time." The developments came less than a Former National Security Adviser fair. criminal information, said Channell week before congressional panels are Robert McFarlane will follow Secord, was involved with a government offi- AT THE WHITE HOUSE, presi- to open public hearings on the Iran- the panels' leaders said. Channell was formally accused of cial, but the charge did not identify that dential spokesman Marlin Fitewater contra affair and just one day after defrauding the government by telling official. declined to comment. "We're not inves- Walsh suggested prosecutions would be CHANN ELL'S GUILTY PLEA came contributors to his National Endow- However, when Channell was asked tigating ourselves and I don't expect to endangered if Congress granted immu- as McFarlane was testifying before the ment for the Preservation of Liberty in court by U.S. District Judge Stanley elaborate on these kind of issues," nity from prosecution to any more grand jury empaneled by Walsh. Mc- that their gifts would be tax deductible Harris to name the persons with whom Fitewater said. principal figures in the investigation. Farlane, who traveled to Iran in 1906 in even though the money actually was he conspired, he replied simply, "Col. Under the agreement Channell en- On Capitol Hill, leaders of the con- an attempt to close an arms-for-hos- used to provide military aid to the U.S.- North, an official of the National Secu- tered into with Walsh, the fund-raiser gressional panels said retired Air tages deal, declined to comment as he backed contra rebels in Nicaragua. rity Council." and several of his employees said they Force Major Gen. Richard Secord, a left the grand jury room. Channell pleaded guilty to a single When Walsh aide Michael Bromwich would cooperate with Walsh's investi- pivotal figure with key financial infor- Walsh had said Tuesday he hoped the count and agreed to cooperate in inde- was asked later if a similar charge gation into possible criminal activity in mation on the affair, will be the first C See Channell, page 7. Results awaited on last evidence in murder case by Don Lee wire editor City police said yesterday they are waiting for one last crucial piece of evidence to be processed in the investigation into the Jan. 6 murder of a University student in Bowling Green. "We feel it is one piece of evidence that is non-circumstantial in nature, tying someone in particular to the crime," Capt. Tom Votava, assistant police chief, said yesterday. Karen Sue Hirschman, 22, a University junior from Sylvania, was found stabbed to death in the living room of her apartment at 818 Second St. on the night of Jan 6. Dr. Roger Peatee, Wood County coroner, said that Hirschman died of internal hemorrhaging caused by 10 stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. Investigators from the police department and the Wood County Prosecutor's Office took two vanloads of evidence from the apartment. The last piece of evidence was sent to a California crime lab, one of two labs in the United States that is able to run the tests the police department wants, Votava said. Neither the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investiga- tion regional crime lab in Fremont, which processed most of the evidence taken by police in the case, nor the FBI crime lab in Toledo, which also processed evidence, has the resources and techniques available to conduct the test, Votava said. Depending on the test results from the California lab. the last piece of evidence could narrow the scope of the investigation to one suspect, and possibly result in an indictment. "That's the reason it is so important we get it processed and done right," Votava said. All other evidence has been processed and reports from the labs returned to police. Votava said that there was initially some pressure from the community to find Hirshman's killer, but "the fervor has died BG News/Pete Fellman down" in recent weeks. 'In the good ole summertime' "There was no ... statement saying get off your dead butts and Kenny Hale, senior interpersonal and public communication major, years, was practicing for his role in the play "In Essence . this is us do something,' " Votava said. "It (the pressure) was best expressed plays "Summertime" on his alto saxophone on the front porch of ... are we not beautiful" which will open Friday at 8 p.m. in Joe E. in the fears and apprehensions of the general community." University Hall. Hale, who has been playing saxophone for eight Brown Theater. "It (the fear) is still out there, but other things have taken its place. But not to us, and not to the general public," he said. Staff council Migrant workers assisted Editor's Note: This is the last in toward developing the economic to hold elections a three-part series on farming in and personal independence of by Julie Wallace term. Wood County. Ohio farmworkers by providing staff reporter Because of the changing term Wood County farmers: job training, employment and lengths, there will always be by Jeff Keene support services. For the second year, elections seven positions, or one-third of staff reporter adapting to a changing marketplace Fernandez said OHFO has are being held for vacant posi- the council, opening each year la been successful in linking with tions on the Classified Staff for new representatives. Every year when the end of other support agencies in the Council. Chris Esparza, current chair spring rolled around, Alicia Fer- state to provide clients with Elections will be held on May 7 of the council, said the replace- nandez and her family made the much-needed skills - skills that from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Memo- ment process was designed to 1,500 mile trek from Texas to allow them to enter the work rial Hall and are open to all enable the council to operate Ohio. But it was not a trip in- force and get beyond farmwork classified employees. efficiently. tended to take advantage of the farms. first-hand of the problems many as a way of life. CSC represents classified staff scenery along the way or the Migrant workers and other farmworkers face, as well as the OHFO staffers work to place members in employment issues "By only replacing one-third hope of a long-awaited vacation seasonal farmworkers have pro- education and opportunities her clients in vocational schools, brought forth to the administra- of the council, there will be two- that brought the family here. vided farmers in this area with a office can give them. and eventually jobs, by forming tion. It consists of 21 members thirds of the council who will be Instead, it was a way of life - steady supply of labor for de- "Many of the issues I faced as partnerships with potential em- from all areas of the University. experienced already. Therefore, seasonal work planting and har- cades. It is this labor, available a farmworker in the 1960s are ployers. OHFO pays up to 50 Elections for the council be- the council will continue to be vesting vegetables in the fields at a low cost to farmers, that the same today," Fernandez, a Eercent of job training costs any gan last year, with members productive," she said. "(This of Northwest Ohio-that en- enables farmers to grow and 1982 University graduate in busi- usiness might incur. The being elected in the areas of way) we can maintain a sea- abled her family to earn more harvest fresh market vegetables ness administration, said. Illit- agency also provides career Academic Affairs, Operations, soned committee." money than they could during such as tomatoes, pickles and eracy, a lack of English skills, a planning, basic education, Planning and Budgeting and the harsh Texas summers. squash. They are vital crops high drop-out rate, cultural bar- guidance and GED preparation. Student Affairs. Employees are able to vote for Fernandez has not made that that brine much-needed reve- riers ana low wages still plague Fernandez said the agency has candidates in their specific work trip since 1966, when her parents nues to the area's depressed migrant workers in Ohio, ana in so far achieved an 80 percent This year there are 10 vacan- areas only, Esparza said.

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