Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-7-1989 The BG News April 7, 1989 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 7, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4930. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4930 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. Underage drinking and the law, see Friday THE BG NEWS Vol.71 Issue 107 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, April 7,1989 North defends role as 'order- obeying' jury a lengthy statement — Attorney General Edwin Meese by Harry F. Rosenlhal agreed to by prosecutors — that III about his efforts to help the Associated Press writer said George Bush had played a Contras, testified that he had role as intermediary in Rea- been ordered by his superiors to WASHINGTON - Oliver gan's secret effort to aid the Ni- keep silent about his role in North firmly defended his Iran- caraguan rebels after Congress keeping the rebels going after Contra role Thursday from the banned official U.S. help. the cutoff of official aid. witness stand at his criminal As rapid-fire developments "I was told not to tell any- trial, declaring he was merely a replaced the sometimes-languid body," North said. "I was par- Marine following White House pace of the trial, now in in its ticularly admonished" to keep orders. seventh week, the jury heard secret "that another country that Bush personally told the was providing millions of dollars "I was not stepping in, I was 8resident of Honduras in 1985 to help the Contras." brought in," he said. tat extra aid was being tun- North was stopped before he neled to his country. North described himself as an could respond to his lawyer's In earlier testimony, McFar- orders-obeying Marine who had suggestion that then-President lane had said that the aid was Elanned to return to Camp Reagan had designated him for part of a secret agreement call- ejeune to command a battalion the role. Asked directly who told ing for Honduras to help the when top officials in the Reagan him to secretly help the Nicara- Contras. administration enlisted him to guan rebels, North named for- At the White House, press sec- run the secret Contra operation mer National Security Adviser retary Marlin Fitzwater said, in 1984. Robert McFarlane, McFar- "We can't say anything. It "Was there a time when you lane's then-deputy, John Poin- would become a part of the were stepping in" to help the dexter, and the late CIA Direc- case." Contras? asked North lawyer tor William Casey. North, who faces 12 felony Brendan Sullivan. North's testimony came short- charges including lying or mis- "I was not stepping in; I was ly after his lawyers read the leading Congress and then- brought in," North replied. Smuggling charges filed Grad allegedly intended to sell steroids Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigation by Scott R. Whitehead division. city editor Schrag said that three of the four men had posted bond and were released on their own recog- A former University football standout and three nizance. Otis was still being detained due to out- Toledo men had federal drug charges filed against standing probation in Texas, he explained. them Thursday for allegedly smuggling steroids "Because he is currently in custody, Otis must into the United States with the intention of selling have his preliminary hearing in a shorter period of them. time (April 14) than the others due to federal regu- lations on how long we can keep someone," Schrag Vince Villanucci, 24, of 724 S. College Drive; said. Richard Paul Otis, 30; Eric David Naughton, 24; All remaining three men will go before Carr on and Mark I). Mills, 26, will all face preliminary April 21 at 9 a.m. hearings before Federal Magistrate James (.. The Sentinel-Tribune reported that the five- Carr in Toledo later this month, said Bill Schrag, month investigation netted three vehicles and deputy clerk of courts. $5,000 cash, most of which was found at Villanuc- According to a Thursday report in the Sentinel- ci's residence. Tribune, more than $60,000 worth of steroids were The official charge against the three men is Swinging ArOUnd BG News/Pat Mlngarelli recovered in a Wednesday raid which involved "possession of and trafficking ... in illegally ob- officials from U.S. Customs; the Lucas County tained anebolic steroids," Schrag said. Linda Williams, junior early childhood development major, gives a spin to Ryan Howard. 5, Thursday Sheriff's Office; the Toledo Drug Task Force; U.S. Villanucci graduated from the University in 1985 afternoon. Williams spends time with children at the University's Early Childhood Development Center as Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Ohio Bureau of and was named second team All Mid-American part of her practicum. The children played outside Thursday because of the warm weather. Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Conference as a defensive lineman his senior year. Man devotes energies to homeless USG poll reveals government to put funding back by Dennis Robaugh into the Government Housing students' worries copy editor Authority. "In 1981, Reagan cut housing "Housing should be just like funds from $32 million to $8 mil- by Shelley Banks air; it should be free," said Har- lion," he said. "The government staff reporter old Moss, who runs a shelter for is proposing adding $3 billion, the homeless in the nation's ca- but that isn't enough. A recent telephone poll for the Undergraduate Student Govern- pitol, in a speech to more than "We need to pound it into Con- ment reflected that students considered racism, theft and the need 150 people in the Education gress' heads to put money back for new facilities as problem areas at the University. building. into housing." Dean Purdy, director for Student Affairs Research and Evalua- Moss is a member of the Moss said CCNV became in- tion Office, conducted the phone survery of 410 University students Community for Creative Non- volved in the homeless problem last week and found incidents of theft and racism to be problems. violence, an organization for- because they noticed there were "Thirty-one percent of the students had something stolen from med in 1970 to protest the Viet- 20,000 wandering, hungry people them and 44 percent said they had experienced a racial incident," nam War that now devotes its in the epicenter of western civi- Purdy said. "This shows there is a problem in what is being done energies to helping the home- lization, Washington, D.C. concerning both issues on- campus.'' less. Moss was a cancer researcher Tim Peterson, president of USG, said the survey was conducted According to Moss, there are for the National Institute of because there is a need to find what concerns students. 2-3 million homeless people in Health Research for 10 years "Every year there are hot items. With this survey it allows USG to America. Women compose 15 while working for the homeless discover what they are and and act on those issues.'' percent of that total ana 50 per- in soup kitchens, but he left his This year, the hot items" that sparked the most opposition were cent of the homeless men are job to devote his energies to the smoke-free campus proposal and the new information center, Vietnam veterans, he said. helping the homeless. Purdy said. Moss said he is particularly ■'Homeless people are missing Regarding the smoke-free campus, 60 percent of the students in concerned about the homeless persons — missing from Con- the poll sa id they were against the proposed ban. families that make up 30 percent gress, missing from City Hall "Only 10 percent of the respondents were smokers, but the rest of those without homes. and missing from the conscience opposed it even though they did not smoke," he said. "The most critical issue fac- of the religious community," Purdy also found only 11 percent of the respondents agreed with BG News/John Potter ing us is the homeless families," Moss said. the building of the new information center. Harold Moss, an advocate for the homeless, spoke to students, faculty he said. "The main cause of that Churches in Washington re- "Of the people that agreed, only 45 percent knew the cost. We had and residents Thursday night in the Education building. Moss is working is the cut to subsidized housing." fused to accept the homeless, he answers ranging from $20,000 to two million," he said. to raise the awareness of the public toward the increasing problem of Moss said what he and Die said. In protest, the members of homelessness. CCNV hope to do is force the 0 See Moss, page 5. See Poll, page 5. Friday News in Brief Today: mostly SUiWY reach program which brings people of culture Fugitive WJth AIDS COUQht cloudy in the morning Cultural series unites writers with a 30 percent Students from the University's music depart- ASHLAND, O. (AP) — A prisoner who tested po- chance of flurries. The University's Ethnic Arts Program, along with the Writer's Resource Center of Toledo, will ment will be participating, he said. They will per- sitive for the virus that causes AIDS is back in the Partly sunny in the present the first in a series of readings by area form background interludes along with the read- Ashland County jail.