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WORLDNATIONAL Thlirnduy, July 12, 19 Ia 2 -Bennington Banner Murder suspect on Most Wanted list NEWS BRIEFS Wednesday morning and in Indianapolis later in the day. Those reports were checked out by the FBI and discounted. suspected serial murderer" traveling from community to community picking victims seemingly at random. Serial murderers are different from mass murderers who kill all their victims at once. 'i -t wanted fugitives usually contains only 10 numes, Revell said they added Colemans name, the 11th, because of his recent crime spree.

ITie FBI last held a news conference to announce that Christopher Wilder had been placed on the list in April. Wilder, also considered a serial murderer, was fatally wounded in a shootout in New Hampshire. Other sightings were reported Wednesday in Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois. INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -Numerous sightings of Alton Coleman, the suspected serial murderer being sought In a Midwest murder-robbery spree, were reported Wednesday as he was put on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list. In Washington, FBI official Oliver Revell described Coleman as a very, very violent criminal on a spree," He is a suspect in the murders of three young girls and one girls mother, and the disappearance of another woman.

He also was being sought in a series of abductions and rapes beginning in February in Chicago. Motorists reported spotting Coleman in a car near South Dend, Vjr Coleman has approached young mothers with children, offering to take care of them, he said, and has tied up and abandoned some of victims without killing them. Most of his victims have been black. Police in Chicago were alerted that Coleman might be on his way there. The FBI in Chicago said Coleman was believed to be armed with handguns, butcher knives and baseball bats.

vt 1 Although Wilder was charged only with kidnapping one young woman, authorities said they believed he was responsible for six other disappearances or murders. Revell said Coleman was every bit as dangerous as Wilder. Revell described Coleman as street savy and said he mainly works in inner-city black areas, and is known to have a violent temper." Although the FBIs list of most Coleman, who was seen in Toledo, Ohio, four days ago, is believed traveling with a companion, Debra Denise Brown, 21. Revell said Coleman was a piV- f' ft fcJE-n. I iti L.w Two executions stayed, one other scheduled Officials at Williams College in Williamstown, examine elm tree that was felled by strong winds Wednesday night and damaged the roof of Perry House, a residential building on the college campus.

Tornado hits North Adams mother often treated him coolly, according to documents filed with the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. He admitted he was present when Floyd was killed, but said it was Thomas who committed the murder, Washington, one of eight children born to a Trenton, N.J., family, came to Miami when he was 10. He admitted killing three people In robberies over a 10-day period because he didnt have enough money to buy diapers for his newborn child. I lay up in bed sometimes and I just cry. I just cry and cry, cause its always on my conscience.

I think about the peoples lives i took. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I say Damn, I took three peoples lives and I just start crying, he said in a prison according to prison spokesman Vernon Bradford. He said Washington ordered a last meal of fried shrimp, fried oysters, French fries, hot rolls, lemonade and a half pint of vanilla ice cream, and planned to meet with lawyers, ministers and family members during the night. Smith asked for filet mignon, a quart of chocolate milk, tossed salad with French dressing and grapefruit juice. Bradford said Smith was hoping his mother would visit him before he died.

Stanley and another man, Joseph Edward Thomas, 28, were convicted of the robbery-murder of Clifford Floyd, a prominent Bainbridge, insurance man who was robbed, beaten shot and buried alive in 1976. Thomas is still on Georgias death NOHTH ADAMS, Mass. (UPI) A tornado cut a path between two busy highways Wednesday night, overturning cars, damaging a drive-in theater and a factory and uprooting trees. Police reported no deaths or injuries. The tornados funnel cloud was observed by several witnesses, said North Adams Police Capt.

Richard Bush. It touched down about 7 :40 p.m. between Route 8 and 8A. At the time, it was raining so lieavily at Coreys Drive-In on Rte. 8 that no one was in the area.

Bush said dozens of trees surrounding the drive-in were uprooted, and the parking lots speaker boxes were pulled from the ground. Several cars in a junkyard next to the drive-in were tossed about. Some observers said the tornado apparently took a nearly mile-long path up to 500 feet wide. On Rte. 8A, it damaged the Hunter Machine Co.

Two outer walls of the building were ripped out and the roof was partially torn away. In addition to the tornado, about 17,000 Massachusetts Electric customers in northwestern Massachusetts lost power beginning at 4:30 p.m. due to lightning and thunderstorms that swept through the area. Emergency work crews had restored power to all customers by 10 p.m. Police had to close a section of Rte.

8A while they cleared trees felled by the lightning. stay until 6:59 a.m. EDT Friday to give the Atlanta appeals court time to consider his case. The Atlanta court ordered a stay for Smith and scheduled a 9:30 a.m. hearing Thursday on his appeal.

Washington, 34, a former choir boy, high school drummer and confessed triple murderer whose 1976 violent rampage over 9 days stunned Dade County, originally was scheduled to die at 7 a.m. Thursday. Smith, 30, was to be put to death as soon as Washingtons lifeless body was removed from the death chamber in Wing at Florida State Prison. Florida has already executed six men since 1976, more than any other state. Stanley and Washington are black; Smith is white.

Stanley was taken to Georgias death watch cell next to the death chamber at noon Wednesday, and authorities said his only last request was ice cream. His last meal also consisted of squash and peanut butter cookies. In Florida, officials said Washington and Smith were in holding cells about 12 feet apart next to the death chamber. They could not see each other but could communicate if they wished. Apparently they had little to say to each other, United Press International A killer who buried his victim alive faced death in Georgias electric chair a few minutes after midnight Wednesday, but separate federal courts granted temporary stays of execution for two men scheduled to die in Florida Thursday.

Ivon Ray Stanley, 28, a high school dropout with an IQ of 81, was to become the 21st man executed in the United States, and the second in Georgia, since the Supreme Court dropped is ban on the death penalty in 1976. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta denied a stay of execution for Stanley Wednesday, and he was to be strapped into the electric chair at the Jackson Diagnostic Center south of Atlanta shortly after midnight. But later in the day the 11th Circuit Court granted a temporary stay for Jimmy Lee Smith, and 2 lk hours later U.S. District Judge Eugene Spellman, of Miami, granted a reprieve for David Lee Washington.

Smith and Washington came within 13 hours of the first double execution in the United States in the past 19 years. Both stays were temporary, however, and the Florida death warrants allow their executions up to noon on Friday. Spellman granted Washington a Smith, convicted of killing a woman and her 12-year-old child in 1978, was abused while a child by his father, grandfather and stepfather, according to Gail Rowland of the Florida Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice. row. Hes As a child he was always looking to help someone, said Eliza Yulee, the grandmother who reafed Stanley, as she brushed back tears at a news conference at Atlanta City Hall Tuesday.

Mrs. Yulee said she once told Ivon to kill a chicken for a family meal, but he couldnt do it. She said he refused to retaliate when he was provoked by school bullies. Stanleys father deserted the family before he was born, and his Inmates riot in Tennessee The happiest time of his life, she said, came during a break between reform school and prison when he traveled with a carnival in charge of a chimpanzee show. Sexism has shattered my life NASHVILLE, Tenn.

(UPI) Rebellious inmates stabbed one guard and took a second one hostage for an hour and a half Wednesday at a maximum-security wing of the Tennessee State Prison, authorities said. Inmates freed from their cells continued to mill around the wing of the sprawling prison after the hostage was released, but officials said inmate leaders promised they would return to their cells later in the evening. Guards carrying shotguns and wearing bandoliers of ammunition ringed the 12-foot, barbed wire fence surrounding the fortress-like prison. Police tactical units massed about 100 yards from the front front gate, standing by if needed, officers said. State Corrections Department spokesman John Taylor said the disorder began shortly before 7 p.m.

EDT when two guards were opening cell doors in a maximum-security wing to let inmates out for their evening meal. When the door was opened to one cell housing six convicts, an inmate stabbed guard Joe Havis multiple times with a prison-made shank or knife, Taylor said, then grabbed the other guard, James McAdams, and held him. Using the guards keys, the six men began opening the doors to other cells in the block and about 75 of the 170 prisoners in the wing were freed from their cells. Woman burns herself in protest against porn Wednesday in Hennepin County Medical Center. Minneapolis City Council Member Charlee Hoyt said she received a copy of the note Wednesday.

It said, Sexism has shattered my life psychologically, economically, and spiritually. Because of this I have chosen to take my life and to destroy the persons who have destroyed me. MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) A young woman who doused herself with gasoline and critically burned herself to protest pornography wrote a four-page suicide note beforehand saying sexism has shattered my life. Ruth Christenson, 23, of Minneapolis, was carrying a backpack filled with Stop Pom Now leaflets when she quietly et fire to herself Tuesday night in a busy downtown bookstore that sells sexually explicit material. She suffered second- and third-degree bums on 65 percent of her body and was in critical condition Leaflets blamed on Soviets Ms.

Hoyt is the sponsor of a revised anti-pornography ordinance that would define certain types of violent pornography as a violation of womens civil rights. The measure is expected to come up for a vote Friday. The handwritten letter on spiral notebook paper concluded, I do not know if any of this wilT have any impact on your civil rights legislation, but at least someone will have done something about this nightmare of racism and sexism that most pornography involves. Mayor Donald Fraser also received a copy of the note. He had vetoed the first ordinance in January, saying it was vague and would have been ruled unconstitutional.

John Twomey, head of the hospitals burn unit, said that statistically bum patients like Ms. Christenson have only a 50-50 chance of survival but he believes she will live because of her youth and good health. He said most of her bums were third-degree burns on her upper chest, back, face, arms and legs. She underwent surgery Tuesday night to restore blood flow to her hands, he said. Therese Stanton, an organizer of the Pornography Resource Center, said, This will not be in vain She did this for a lot of women.

This will definitely be witnessed and remembered. Women in our society live under conditions pf political and sexual terrorism, Ms. Stanton said. Witnesses said Ms. Christenson poured gasoline on her head inside Shinders bookstore in downtown Minneapolis and set fire to herself, shooting flames to the ceiling.

Battalion Fire Chief Noel Lutsey said Ms. Christenson told a nurse she set fire to herself as a protest against pornography. I think she was making a statement for women everywhere," Ms. Hoyt said. My feeling is one of sadness that anyone would feel they would have to go to that extreme to get heard.

Weve seen this happen before with the Vietnam War, Ms. Hoyt said. Several council members said Ms. Christenson was first noticed at a rally in May when feminist author Andrea Dworkin spoke. Ms.

Christenson broke doivn crying and Ms. Dworkin stopped speaking while the woman was comforted. At a council hearing in June, Ms. Christenson spoke and demanded control over pornography and land reform, a redistribution of wealth and the removed of city government from control of the Trilateral Commission, a group of political, business and academic leaders who some people believe exercise control over world events. Sleeman WASHINGTON (UPI) The State Department said Wednesday the Soviet Union appears to be behind a series of hate leaflets that threaten Third World athletes who compete in the Summer Olympics with death.

The leaflets, according to State Department spokesman Alan Romberg, have so far been received by the Olympic committees in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Malaysia, and possibly the Peoples Republic of China. Romberg said they bear all the hallmarks of a disinformation campaign and he noted the thrust of the message in the leaflets "dovetails neatly with the Soviet justification for their withdrawal from the summer games in Los Angeles. A spokesman for the Soviet embassy in Washington said, These allegations are ridiculous, pure nonsense and they speak for themselves." In Moscow, the Soviets pointed to the racist letters as justification for its boycott ot the Los Angeles Olympics. According to a theory explaining the hole in the BSD budget, errors in accounting had a net result of artificially depressing the tax rate, so the district was running for a number of years on money it never collected. According to Sleeman, half the problem was due to inaccurate recording of delinquent taxes.

That part of the problem occurred within the BSD boards jurisdiction, Sleeman said. But the other half of the problem had to do with special education money that was recorded as income but not as expenditure, Sleeman said. That half is the responsibility of the business manager, he said. Air Florida in more trouble Mondale WASHINGTON (UPI) Financially troubled Air Florida Inc. and three Central American airlines were indicted Wednesday on charges of fixing prices for fares between the United States and Central America.

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned an indictment charging Air Florida, which filed for bankruptcy last week, and the three airlines conspired to raise and fix prices on passenger service. The three other airlines were identified as TACA International Airlines S.A. of San Salvador, El Salvador, and Transposes Aereos Nacionales S.A. de C.V. and Servicio Aereo De Honduras S.A., both of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

The indictment charged the defendants, who operate the airlines and traasport a substantial number of passengers between the United States and Central America, violated the Sherman Act, which prohibits price fixing Continued from Page 1 although he never called a special meeting of the school board to tell them about the meeting or audit, he believes he discharged his duty in sending the report on to the boards chairman, who was then Thomas Haley. I always send the reports to the chairman of the board, Sleeman said. Haley said Tuesday he probably" received the report, but does not recall exactly if hie did. The report suggested changes that should be made and stated that the superintendent fundamentally agreed with the report. And, according to Eddington, some small changes were made, such as the consolidation of bank accounts after the audit report stated some accounts had lost their identity.

But bigger changes did not take place. According to Sleeman and Eddington, the school district could not afford to make essential changes that the state audit and auditors strongly suggested at the time. Most of the (suggestions) he had in there were things we were not financially able to do at that time," Eddington said of the report from state auditors. The school district eventually did find the money for changes that made a difference in the accounting of money and how it is spent Accounts are slowly being shifted onto a computer system. Sleeman said Tuesday that the changes should prevent a deficit from ever happening again.

One difference will be that the BSDs income and expenditures will, for the first time, be presented on the same balance sheet Administrators blame the traditional split for its difficulties in keeping track of the missing, approximately $2 million. The new BSD board has made it clear it wants monthly copies of that statement from the supervisor) union. Large naval target' destroyed "He has interviewed a broad range of people, Jackson said in an interview with United Press International. The civil rights activist said Mondale telephoned him to explain a statement that Jackson would not be considered as a running mate because "the differences between them were too great" and it would not be a compatible partnership. "I dont find that response to be offensive, Jackson said.

Jackson last month called the process a "P.R. parade of personalities" and complained in a Los Angeles Times interview published Tuesday about not being considered himself. BEIRUT, Lebanon UPI Iraq said Wednesday its forces destroyed a large naval target in the Persian Gulf in what would be the third strike at Gulf shipping this month and the second in as many days. Iraq has generally used the term "large naval target to refer to oil tankers, but the assault was not immediately confirmed by shipping sources. Iraq said it took place near the Iranian coast.

"Iraqi warjets and warships last night (Tuesday) destroyed a large naval target in the northeastern end of the Gulf" the Iraqi military communique said. Britain, meanwhile, formally blamed Iran for an attack Tuesday that slightly damaged the British supertanker Renown off the coast of Bahrain, half-way down the Gulf. The ship docked Wednesday at Dubai in the southern Gulf. According to one of the business managers he referred to in the interview, preparation of special education figures and handling special education records were not part of the job. Greg Partch, who now lives in upstate New York, said he had nothing to do with special education money or figures.

It was handled separately, he said. He said his job did not involve special education funds at all, which Sleeman said Tuesday he believes is where business managers errors occured. Hayes, the other business manager who worked during the time period Sleeman referred to, died in 1981. At a half dozen public meetings on the subject of the deficit, residents have repeatly called for explanations from the superintendent on his role in the deficit build-up. Sleeman left several of those meetings before answering questions, and did not attend two others.

He said Tuesday that he is sure the issue of the deficit went public two years ago, and recalls speaking on a radio discussion show calling attention to the problem. "NoV obviously what should have happened is everybody should have yelled a lot louder and a lot harder, Sleeman said. Continued from Page 1 Feinstein, Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros. Mondale has said he may choose a running mate who did not take part in his vice presidential interview process.

Reillys trip to San Francisco late Tuesday to see Ms. Ferraro appeared to counter a news report durjng the weekend that Mondale had been disappointed in his interview with the 48-year-old chairwoman of the Democratic Platform Committee. Mondale, in an interview broadcast Tuesday, praised Ms. Ferraro and said he was distressed by the report. Meanwhile, his chief rival, Sen.

Gary Hart, said he would accept the vice presidential post if offered. In Chicago, Jackson said he had had a very spirited telephone conversation with Mondale and praised the likely Democratic presidential nominee for using a process of selecting a running mate he described as "fundamentally gcd But following his talk with dale, Jackson said, Im deligh that women, blacks and Hispar were considered for the first time. In Washington, Hart was as about the vice presidency in an terview with KTVI-TV in St. Lc and a number of other televis stations. Gallup sees big Reagan win CHICAGO (UPI) President Reagan should win re-election in November by a "very strong margin," George Gallup president of the Gallup Poll, predicted Wednesday, But a number of factors, including the selection of a 'emale vice presidential running mate by the Democratic candidate, could make the presidential contest a "very close rate," he said "I would do it if I were asked," the senator from Colorado said Pressed on the subject.

Hart said. "I think it would be very hard to turn down.".