Stille dime c 1979 Student Publications Inc. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper Wednesday, July 11, 1979 Document tells earlier Jensen murder plot By KEVIN WYMORE LATER, according to the document, know and shot twice with a .410 shotgun, S/s" Wrltsr Kern and the unknown accomplice at­ the exhibit states. tempted to rig the bomb. The night before, the man had forced Three persons cha rged in connection On April 9 the Iowa City police depart­ his way into the Jensen home, tied up the with Ady Jensen's Aprll14 murder plot­ ment received a report, reportedly from elder Jensens, and told them he was go­ ted to blow up Jensen's truck five days Ady Jensen, of the attempt to blow up ing to wait for their son. before the shotgun slaying, according to his 1!n9 Ford pickup truck. About 11 hours later, Ady Jensen ap­ Johnson County District Court records Iowa City police officers Steve Duffy peared, apparently prompted by a re­ released to The Dally Iowan Tuesday. and Dan Sellers responded to the call, quest from his wife to pick up lumber, An exhibit filed to get a search and observed that electrical wire had Cedar County court documents show . warrant June 29 states that on April 9, been run from the vehicle's coil wire to Through a system of telephone signals, Judy Kern, Robert Kern and an uniden­ its gas tanks, the exhibit shows. the intruder was reportedly notified of tified man - the man who later killed "It was a very amateurish effort," Ady's approach the next morning. Kern , according to the exhibit - came remarked Iowa City Police Chief Harvey In the exhibit released Tuesday, Judy to the Jensen residence at 1007 N. Dodge Miller. Kern states that her husband had given St. to rig the bomb. Miller termed investigation of the inci­ the killer a ride to the elder Jensens' The Kerns have been charged with dent " thorough," and added he wasn't home in West Branch the night before first degree murder in the case. sure if the investigating officers had the murder. questioned Jensen's wife about the inci­ The search warrant exhibit states that THE EXHIBIT'S information on the dent. the killer was wearing a dark stocking failed bomb attempt came from Jeanne "She was aware of it, but I don't know cap, bandana mask and rubber gloves Jensen, who testified against the Kerns if she was talked to," Miller said. then . as part of a plea-bargain in which she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a MILLER SAID that death threats are YELLOW RUBBER gloves, a black forCible felony in connection with the not rare in Iowa City, and he said the stocking cap, a blue and white bandana murder. polil-!\! investigation would be carried out mask and a length of electrical wiring United Press International April 10 , the day after the bomb failed exactly the same again. were among the items seized from the ' Mtmbe,. of the Senate Fore/gn ReJetlonl Comml"" before the panel again to pull! for ratification of the SALT to go off, the exhibit quotes Jensen as "Everybody is a good Monday morn­ Kern home at 47 Amber Lane the even­ IUrround Cyrul Vance a. the Secretary of State went II agreement. The treaty underwent he..,y crillcllltJ from ing quarterback, but damn few call the ing of their arrest June 28. Senate member •• saying that she and the Kerns "discussed the reasons why it did not shots on Saturday morning, " Miller said. About two weeks before the Kerns' work." Another police officer, Bob Stika, who arrest, on June 14, the document stated said he had known Ally Jensen "quite a that a Iowa Bureau of Criminal In­ According to tbe exhibit, which had few years," talked with Jensen the night vestigation special agent observed SALT II criticized in hearing been held confidential by County Attor­ before he was killed . yellow gloves in garbage taken from the WASHINGTON (UP!) -TheSALT amendments of the treaty package. was the best possible. ney Jack Dooley until Tuesday after­ "I knew Ady real well," Stika said, Kern 's residence "which appeared II treaty ran into heavy criticism One, inSisting that Soviet limita­ But he conceded under questioning noon , the attempt had been the culmina­ "and from my conversation with him, similar in visual appearance to frag­ Tuesday, some of it from liberal tions on the Backfi re bomber be that both sides, under the treaty, tion of days of planning by the Kerns, I'd say he was really scared." ments found at the scene of the crime." senators who told Secretary of State "considered integral" to the trea ty, would have more warheads and more Jeanne Jensen and the unidentified man Stika said, "He'd told me he'd found The special agent, J.D. Smith, found Cyrus Vance they would vote for the has already been rejected by destructive capability in 1985 than suspected of the actual murder. his truck has been messed with and "fragments of yellow gloves left by the pact only if it is revised . Moscow. they have now . Prior to April 9, the Kerns discussed somebody had tried to kill him by bomb­ killer" at the elder Jensen's home, the On the second day of the treaty The Soviet assurance to limit The secretary came under close with Jeanne Jensen the possibility of ing his truck." exhibit states. hearings, Vance warned the Senate production and deployment of the questioning about the Soviet killing Ady Jensen by blowing up his The alleged murder plot began with Foreign Relations Committee that bomber is contained in a written adherence to past treaties. pickup truck, the exhibit alleges. The ex­ THE NEXT MORNING, Ady Jensen Jeanne Jensen's complaint against her rejection of the arms limitation statement from Soviet President Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N .Y., said the hibit says Kern then asked Jeanne Jen­ was murdered. Called to the home of his husband about a month before Jensen's agreement would cast a "chilling Leonid Brezhnev, and is signed only Soviets have violated every provision sen to give him $50, a description of parents, Ferdinand and Olga Jensen in death , according to testimony filed witb shadow" over U.S. .soviet relations by Vance for the U.S. side. of a 1972 Moscow agreement in which Ady's truck, and a photograph of Ady . rural West Branch, he was confronted by her charges in Cedar County District and make the superpower rivalry However, Vance said President the United States and the Soviet Un­ The exhibit said Jensen's wife complied. a male who the elder Jensens did not Court. "more dangerous and difficult." Carter considers the Soviet ion agreed not to seek strategic ad­ Asked if NATO would survive if assurances to be equivalent to the vantage anywhere in the world at the SALT II were not ratified, Vance rest of the agreement, adding, "the expense of the other. Ki , dna~ing ~. ~d sex~al abus~ paused and then s;lid slowly, "I don't Pr~ident would consid r viclation of Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla " asked know." the assurance to be grounds for Vance if the Soviets ha ve adhered to Sen. Charles Percy, R-m., has (American) repudiation of the the 1962 agreement that ended the already submitted reservations to the treaty." Cuban missile crisis. cfiarges filed against man treaty that would ensure the U.S. Vance replied , "The Soviet actions mili tary re la tion shi p wi th NATO VANCE repeatedly told the (in Cuba) are not a threat to the Un­ By TOM DRURY the woman came to her house and said the Van Buren Street apartment. Smith would not be affected by SALT II. senators that the United States would ited States." CllyEd/tor she'd been raped, according to the police gave that apartment as his address when have preferred deeper cuts in the Without specifying publicly what is report. ' placed in the county jail, a spokesperson SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN, D-Del ., strategic arms of both sides, but he in the still-secret 1962 agreement, he George Smith, Jr. has been charged The woman told officers that Smith there said. presented a list of eight "un­ said. " We live in a real world" and said, "There are no Soviet nuclear with the first degree kidnaping and first took her from Waterloo to Iowa City Magistrate Joseph Thornton set bond derstandings" that would amount to the agreement that was negotiated weapons in Cuba ." degree sexual abuse of a Waterloo against her will and that somewhere at $25,000 for each charge and scheduled woman who was allegedly brought along the way she attempted to jump a preliminary hearing for July 17 at 8 against her will to Iowl! City and sex­ from the car, police said. But Smitb was a.m. ually assaulted. able to hold her and drag her alongside Kidnaping in the first degree is defined the car for a "brief period of time," as a kidnaping in which the victim, as a 'Disturbing' su.rge in violent Smith, who is ~eing held on $50,000 bond in the Johnson County Jail, was court records state. consequence of the act, suffers serious arrested at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday by Iowa The charges against Smith state that injury or is "intentionally subjected to City police after officers responded to a he sexually assaulted the woman in an torture or sexual abuse." crime rate tops 1 7 percent 1:03 a.m. report from a Bowery Street apartment on Van Buren Street. First degree sexual abuse is commit­ residence that a woman had been raped. Police Det. Paul Sueppel said that the ted when "in the course of committing WASHINGTON (UPI ) - In the composite index of crimes reported to economy as a possible reason for the woman 's description of a white sexual abuse the person causes another biggest surge since the recession of 1974- police in hundreds of American cities, sudden crime rise, but he said , "This up· At the residence, police found the com­ Volkswagen that Smith was driving led serious injury." Both offenses are Class 75, violent crime soared 17 percent in the indicated robberies were up 19 percent, swing is very disturbing. " plainant and a 21-year-old woman with to his arrest at the corner of Burlington A felonies under Iowa law and require first quarter this year and the overall aggravated assaults 17 percent, murders abrasions on 50 to 75 percent of her body, and Clinton Streets. life sentences upon conviction. The figures for the first quarter of 1979 crime rate rose 11 percent, the govern­ 9 percent and rapes 11 percent. according to testimony by Sgt. David Officer Kevin Prestegard testified Sueppel said assault .charges have not ment reported Tuesday. Property crimes also increased 11 per­ indicate overall crime was up 11 percent Harris at Smith's arraignment Tuesday that there was blood on the passenger for cities with populations over 50,000, been filed in Johnson County because The increases, measured by the FBI's cent, with burglaries up 8 percent, afternoon. side floorboard and on eight-track tapes police are uncertain whether the assault larceny-thefts 11 percent and motor while crime in suburban and rural area s The woman was taken to VI Hospitals on the passenger side of the car. uniform crime index, reflected more increased 13 percent ' and 6 percent occurred in the county. A press release crime in every region of the country and vehicle thefts 15 percent. and was reported in good condition Tues­ Charges signed by Sueppel stated that says that officers are still looking for ar­ During the recession years of 1974 and respectively. Cities outside metropolitan day evening, but court records state she police had found "large amounts of in cities and towns of all sizes. areas reflected a 12 percent rise. ticles of the woman's clothing, "possibly 1975, serious crime rose 18 percent and was dragged alongside a car and that blood " both in the Van Buren Street thrown out or discarded between Iowa Attorney General Griffin Bell called 10 percent respectively. But the rate Crime in southern states rose 15 per­ resulting " massive abrasions" will apartment and in the car driven by City and Waterloo." the latest figures "very disturbing" and leveled off during the last three years - cent, northeastern states registered a 13 cause "permanent disfigurement. " Smith. Sueppel said that the Waterloo Police expressed particular concern about the with no change in 1976, a 3 percent drop percent gain , the West had an 8 percent Department is assisting Iowa City police jump in violent crime. in 1977 and only a 1 percent rise in 1978. rise and north central states showed a THE PERSON WHO reported the . SUEPPEL SAID that Smith is from in the continuing investigation of the In­ The preliminary statistics, based on a Bell did not mention the slumping crime rise of 6 percent. alleged sexual assault told police that Waterloo but has recently been living in cident, Skylab expected to I Inside I Ghostly reading descend into oceans Page 5 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Skylab, the South America, Africa and Australia . 77-ton space derelict dropping faster and "These tracks turn out to be the tracks faster toward destruction, was expected with the least population density," said to miss densely populated Europe and Richard Smith, deputy associate NASA Asia and probably blaze harmlessly into administrator who directs the Skylab long reaches of the oceans within four death watch. hours of 11 a.m. Iowa time, Wednesday . "We would like to take credit for that, Broad areas of the United States were but we cannot." he said. out of possible danger, according to. Skylab, weighing 77 tons and 108 feet revised maps based on crash countdown long from the tips of its windmill-like predictions Tuesday night. solar panels to its blunt aft end, was los­ ing altitude rapidly in the final hours of Only narrow belts criss-crossing the its 87 million mile voyage around Earth. nation were under five midday orbits. Major metropolitan areas such as New If Skyiab falls around noon, Smith said York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta , it probably wou Id begin to hreak up and Boston, Dallas and Houston were not un­ bum from air friction in the high at­ der the projected ground tracks. mosphere over the United States and WaShington, D. C. , Miami, Seattle and southern Canada . But it would be San Francisco were to some daytime then and Smith said "the ground paths. chances of seeing it in daylight are very The space agency said the period of remote." uncertainty was down to 8 hours 24 Weather minutes, from 6:50 a.m. to 3:14 p.m., SKYLAB PIECES will hit the Earth at Iowa time - meaning the charred speeds ranging from 30 to 260 mph. Skylab is railing in the morning . remains of the biggest man-made bject State and local civil defense Ding Dong the bells are gonna in space could fall anywhere along five authorities began manning Skylab alert chime. Roll out the weather. Clear orbits around the globe. posts Tuesday afternoon, plugging into a and highs In the mid ~8 . And get communications network that links Jeff RIICIon Ind Ralph Dl"lllllheller of Mont.rey, CIII., .re mldl.. 11 .rmor bought recentt, .t an auction And p.edId me out of Its path on time. THOSE FIVE ORBITS do cover the them to the windowless Skylab com­ reedy In ca .. IkWl.b 18'" on tMm. TIll pllr donned through Montwey to ... the '"' of the heny ..Ita. IkJllb .. United States and southern Canada, mand center at NASA headquarters. llIpICtld to filii to _rill IOIMtIml Iodey. PIgt 2-ThI D8IIr lowln-towl CItr, low.-W.... r, Jutr 11, 11ft ,.. Undergraduates wanted Gunmen set up barricade for an D Briefly' experiment in gamblIng behavior. Let~ inside Carlsbad Caverns $4.00 paid for a session Arthur Fiedler eulogized CARLSBAD, N.M. (UPI) - the Carlsbad Current-Argus by telephone from the visitors' n A 25 -year-old woman held newspaper, talked with the four center on the surface. of approximately one hour. By R( as the 'fun' music man hostage three hours by four gunmen for about an hour in the The men, anned with rifles For further information call ellergy Staff \ gunmen in an underground cafeteria. and shotguns, barricaded them­ BOSTON (UPI) - Boston Pops maestro Arthur Laura or Nancy between 8 am-5 pm ThE Fiedler, whose musical mixtures of Bach and rock made lunchroom at Carlsbad Caverns Cantwell went down in selves in the lunchroom and was released unharmed Tues­ response to a demand to also demanded $1 rnllllon in 353-6706 1lO\V. file , going to the symphony fun for the lowbrow, died Tuesday Free, of a heart attack. He was 84 . day evening. discuss what the four men said cash and an airplane to fly them National Park Service of­ were civll rights grievances to Brazil. Court Fiedler died apparently while working on a musical Les score at his bedroom desk. His wife, Ellen, found him ly­ ficials said Linda Phillips of with a reporter. ••••••••••••••••..•.••••••••• " ment ing on the bedroom floor of his ivy-<=overed home in sub­ Chattanooga, Tenn ., was freed FBI agents continued AlWAY~ ~ASHIONABl€ ." .. after Ned Cantwell, editor of negotiating with the four men juri urban Brookline about 7:30 a.m .. CARDS & HATION€RY , 518 .. "He knew how to take music seriously without taking · fROM , envir the fun out of it, and he shared that gift with us all," said · President Carter. I' FAA to decide, , pletec: · High Leonard Bernstein said, " He was unique and ~ , Marcl irreplaceable ... the Pops was heaven itself. It was the · : ~ , On first live orchestra I'd ever heard and I felt it was quite co'urt okays plane • Shopping for. $heep , Stua simply the supreme achievement of the human race." or the A Boston Symphony Orchestra spokesman said a WASIDNGTON (UPI) - A' issuance of flight permits for F-518 private funeral with the immediate family will be held u.s. appeals court swept away each plane. • Bargains : enUre and a memorial service open to the public was planned the last legal obstacles FAA attorney Jonathan Howe · ' for sometime this week. grounding the DC-lO Tuesday, said the major questions to be but two newly dlscover'ed answered before the agency cracks kept the Federal Avia­ declares the DC-lOS airworthy i 1J2 Price Booksale I First 'male' hurricane in tion Adminstration from clear­ concern the recent discovery of ing the plane for takeoff. lO·inch long cracks in the Atlantic nears shore The Court of Appea Is for the pylons of two DC-lOs. : Quality Books - Assorteq Subjects! NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - Tropical Storm Bob District of Columbia ordered The pylons, which hold the developed rapidly into the season's first hurricane Tues­ the dismissal of U.S. District plane's 8,OOO-pound engines to hear day and pushed steadily across the Gulf of Mexico toward Judge Aubrey Robinson'S order the wing, have been under : At these prices it's a delight! : the coast of Louisiana. leading to the June 6 grounding suspicion since an engine tore Thousands of oilmen were evacuated from offshore of the nation's 138 DC-lOs. off before the ill-fated • • drilling rigs and residents of . low-lying areas began The appellate ruling said the American Airlines jet plunged The DaUy Iowan . three-judge appeals court, not to the ground killing 273 per­ • • '. leaving their homes. The National Hurricane Center said Bob - the first Robinson , was the forum for sons. • • hurricane ever in the Atlantic zone with a male name - deciding the case brought by The new cracks - one on a The Plexlgl •• • • was located 320 miles south-southwest of New Orleans the Airline Passenger Associa­ United Airlines plane and the People other on a Trans-International • • and moving north-northeast at 10 to 15 mph . A National tion. Weather Service spokesman said continued movement in Robinson had ordered the Airline jet - were uncovered • • that direction and at that speed would put the stonn U.S. DC-IO fleet grounded until as a result of an FAA inspection • Iowa Memorial Union Book Store • ashore on the southeast Louisiana coast west of Grand the FAA discovered the cause ordered last Friday in prepara­ Isle, La ., before noon Wednesday . of the nation's worst aviation tion for returning the DC-lOs to • M-F 8:00 -5:00 • disaster - the May 25 crash of service. • Master Charge & Student Charge • an American Airlines jet soon At the same time, four FAA ~ 'Son of Sam' killer after takeoff from Chicago. teams headed by former test •...... •....•.•.•..•.•.•••..• pilot John Cyrocki discovered attacked in prison THE NEW COURT ruling that American and Continental ATTICA, N.Y. (UPI) - "Son of Sam" killer David left only two steps to go before mechanics had been acciden­ Berkowitz was slashed on the throat Tuesday in a the DC-lOs can return to ser­ tally cracking parts of the cellblock at Attica State Prison, officials said. vice - the granting of an air­ plane's pylon during main­ use Transparent worthiness certificate and the tenance. tor T k Berkowitz was reported in good condition after receiv· Record albums run ing 5~ stitches CofteeTable • 27"x1S"x1 6" Investigators believed the wound was made by a razor, Heirloom Storage although no weapon was found , a spokesman said. UI studies library to.u I "tlDerl CI Ph 351-8399 The incident occurred about S: 15 a.m. on an IS-cell (ne.1 door to VFW 258" gallery as Berkowitz, who works as a porter, ladled hot water to seventeen prisioners. After he was cut, window alterations Berkowitz walked into the next room to tell two guards. By LIZ ISHAM working conditions hot, humid International Year contemporary furniture Prison officials said Berkowitz denied the wound was self-inflicted, but he refused to accuse any inmate of the Staff Writer and uncomfortable during the of the Child assault. two and one-half days of power UI officials are investigating cutbacks. the potential costs of altering UI Although it was not stated in Arts Festival Senate says no to Sponsored by the Unl\lersity 01 Iowa. Main Library windows so that the petition, employees were Early ChildhOOd Education Center they may be opened, Randall primarily requesting direct presidential election Bezanson, UI vice president for modification of windows in WASHINGTON (UPI ) - The Senate Tuesday killed a finance, said Tuesday. work areas, not the entire constitutional amendment which would have provided for Library and UI personnel building, Kane said. People the di rect popular elections of presidents, bringing to a ,officials are also in tl)e process studying in the building have bitter end the 13-year battle for congressiorlal approval. of drafting an "emergency the option to leave, she said, The constitutional amendment, first introduced in 1966, closure" policy which would "but we're kind of stuck." would have ended the electoral college. If no candidate state salary compensation Library employees had got 40 percent of the popular vote, the top two finishers provisions for employees af­ received a response from Boyd Rain date: would have engaged in a runoff. fected by emergency shutdowns informing them that Bezanson The amendment was strongly supported by President of their work sites, according to would study the costs of window Sunday July 22 Carter, a majority of the Senate and close to IkI percent of Mary Jo Small, UI vice modification, and would contact Children must be accompanied by those Americans surveyed in recent polls. But Senate president for personnel. the employees when results an adun Picnic area provided. supporters of the amendment failed to convince conser­ Both actions come in the wake were known. vatives it was not a radical assault on the constitution or of a power line failure last

to persuade small-state senators that their state's clout month, which caused power j" WW'N.'N.MMMMMMMMMlMI'W'Wwwwl.IJo would not be lost in presidential elections. cutbacks to many UI buildings, including the Main Library. The library was completely closed 100 South Linn Bobby Knight charged down on June 19 - the first day Ctel..eJt, florist of the cutbacks - at 4:40 p.m. hours by apPOintment only with assault and battery Limited power was restored to An issue the United States thought had been amicably the building the next morning. -Specials- resolved resurfaced Tuesday when the U.S. Olympic IN A PETITION dated June 1 doz. Sweetheart Roses Committee confirmed that assault and battery and 26, which was sent to UI resisting arrest charges had been filed against Pan­ President Willard Boyd, 53 Reg. $12-$15 value American Games basketball coach Bobby Knight by a library employees requested Iowa City Phone 354-1824 local police officer. modification of library windows Now $3.98/dozen In turn, however , Knight has filed counter charges of so that they may be opened assault and battery, violation of civil rights and incar­ when the bUilding's air con­ cash and carry ceration in jail without knowledge of the the charges ditioning is reduced or cut off. against the police officer, Jose de Silva, a law student. Lyn Kane, a library em­ 14 South Dubuque 410 Kirkwood Ave. The charges and counter charges stemmed fonn . an ployee, said the building's argument between the two men at a U.S. basketball prac­ Downtown Greenhouse & Garden Cenler AT LAST: A turntable from Japan designed sealed windows, combined with 9-5 8·9 Dally 9·5 Sunday tice session at a local high school. cutbacks to air conditioning and Mon.-Sal. 8·5:30 Sal to PLAY records, rather than just spin them. Knight unfolded a bizarre tale Tuesday in which he told circulation systems made of being poked in the eye, fhreatened with a billy club, put in handcuffs and locked in jail by de Silva following their argument. The incident occurred in the gym at the Espritu Santo School in the closing minutes of the practice session. Ac­ cording to Knight, he was putting his team through some defensive drills in preparaton for the night's game with Canada when the Brazilian women's team entered the gym before their scheduled morning practice and began FURTHER PRICE making noise . Quoted •.. "I'm not and never have been a man to carry a flag REDUCTIONS and lead great masses of people to great music. My aim has been to give them fA good time ... Every kind of music Is good except the boring kind. -Arthur Fiedler . 0 0 , 30 /0 .to 60 /0 Off

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