Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1989 Page: 7 of 26
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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Wednesday, May 24,1969—7.
News in view
Act of Congress may be necessary to free mom from jail
WASHINGTON (AP) -■ Con-
gress is slowly being drawn into a
custody battle so bitter that a prom-
inent plastic surgeon has been in
jail for almost two years on con-
tempt charges after refusing to turn
over her child for a court-ordered
visit with dad.
“Every time I read about this
case I see everyone wash his hands
of it,” Rep. Frank Wolf, D-Va., said
Tuesday in urging passage of legis-
lation that would free Elizabeth
Morgan from her District of
. Columbia jail cell. ------ ^ ■
“If we don’t act now, who will?
This has been stalemated for 21
months,” Wolf told a House sub-
committee with jurisdiction over
the nation's capital.
Wolf made his appeal on the eve
of the latest round of court ar-
guments in the three-year-old case.
A city appeals court panel has
scheduled a hearing for today on
whether Morgan, who has been
jailed since August 1987, should
remain behind bars.
Morgan accuses her former hus-
band, oral surgeon Eric Foretich, of
sexually abusing their six-year-old
daughter Hilary. Morgan was jailed
on contempt charges for refusing to
disclose where she hid the girl ra-
ther than allow hpr near her father.
Foretich vigorously denies ever
molesting his daughter.
In an attempt to break the legal
deadlock, he offered during an in-
terview outside the committee hear-
ing room Tuesday to submit to in-
terviews with social workers and
psychiatrists who would determine
whether he was fit to be with
Hilary.
Congressional involvement and
Forctich’s renewed effort at com-
promise are only the latest twists in
the protracted dispute over the
child.
Normally, the 11-member House
District of Columbia Committee
concerns itself with the city’s
schools, budget and police depart-
ment, much like a city council in
many American cities.
But in this case. Wolf is trying to
propel the panel, and the entire
Congress, into what amounts to a
private quarrel between parents.
Wolf’s bill seeks to limit im-
prisonment for civil contempt char-
ges to 18 months. After that, the
district would be required to either
file criminal contempt charges
against a person in Morgan's posi-
tion, thus guaranteeing a trial, or
dismiss the case.
The bill would be made retroac-
tive for 18 months so as to apply to
Morgan.
IRS employees protest
cuts in personnel
AUSTIN (AP) — Internal
Revenue Service employees are
protesting $40 million in cuts in en-
forcement programs and personnel
they say will result in the loss of
$200 million to the federal treasury
and the loss of jobs of 850 seasonal
employees at Austin.
More than 70 IRS employees
chanted “honest taxpayers lose, tax
cheaters win” as they marched
along a side walk in front the Feder-
al Building Tuesday.
Anita Greenberg, president of
Chapter 247 of the National Treas-
ury Employees Union, which
represents 6,000 workers, said cut-
backs at the Austin regional center
alone will mean a $95 million loss
in tax collections.
The IRS began the year with a
$360 million deficit and imposed
deep cutbacks to balance its budget.
The additional $40 million in
cuts, which the union is asking
Congress to offset with supplemen-
tal appropriations, were announced
in May, Ms. Greenberg said.
“Certainly we care about the loss
of jobs,” Ms. Greenberg said. “But
we have a tremendous respon-
sibility — we are the people who
fund the federal budget. There are
lax cheats out there and they’re
robbing America blind.”
Those furloughed at the Austin
center include 850 seasonal
workers, about 600 hired to process
tax returns, and about 250 at the
Austin Compliance Center to check ^
returns for compliance, according
to Bob Branson, public affairs
specialist with the Austin District
IRS Office.
plane in Cleveland as a precaution,
Courtney said.
Courtney said passengers on the
plane were directed to other Den-
ver-bound flights by late afternoon.
Continental jetliner
loses oil pressure
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Con-
tinental Airlines twin-engine plane
with 103 passengers and crew
members aboard made an emer-
gency landing after an engine had
to be shut down because of an oil
pressure problem.
The McDonncll-Douglas MD-80
was able to taxi to a Cleveland
Hopkins International Airport gate
Tuesday under its own power,
airport spokesman Mark Courtney
said.
Dave Messing, a spokesman at
Continental headquarters in Hous-
ton, said Flight 1209 was en route
from Boston to Denver when it
developed the problem and the
pilot shut down the left engine.
The pilot decided to land the
Safety board blames
industry deficiency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
investigators blame Aloha Airlines
for an accident that ripped open an
airliner fuselage 24,000 feet over
Hawaii but they say lax inspection
of aging 737$ was an “industry-
wide deficiency.”
The National Transportation
Safety Board, ending a 13-month
investigation Tuesday, blamed the'
accident on failure of island-hop-
ping Aloha’s maintenance program
to detect broken bonds and fatigue
damage in the Boeing 737’s outer
skin.
The board voted 4-1 to lay pri-
mary blame on the airline and said
Federal Aviation Administration
failures contributed to the April 28,
1988, accident that- hurled the
plane’s chief flight attendant ut of
the airliner to her death. With one
engine out and its passenger section
exposed to the sky, the plane lan-
ded on the island of Maui with 89
passengers and five other crew
members.
The independent safety board
said the FAA failed to issue suffi-
cient orders to correct problems
with the aging 737 fleet and didn’t
adequately monitor Aloha’s
maintenance program before the
incident.
Aloha’s president, A. Maurice
Myers, took exception to the
board’s conclusion, saying multiple
cracking found around rivets in the
fuselage skin was undetectable
prior to the accident. He said the
airline had followed all Boeing and
FAA safety orders.
Myers said the accident was
Aloha’s first in four decades, and
the airline has voluntarily scrapped
three old 737s and decreased the
average age of its fleet from 15
years to 10. The average age of
U.S. airliners approaches 13 years.
Woman leaves cave
after two months
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — A
human guinea pig says she made
friends with mice and learned some
English during her 130 days in an
underground cave to help research-
ers study die effects of isolation.
Slefania Follini of Ancona, Italy,
smiled and waved at reporters and
well-wishers as she emerged
Tuesday afternoon from Lost Cave,
ending an experiment that began on
Jan. 13.
Would she do it again?
“Sure,” said the 27-year-old in-
terior decorator, who volunteered
for the experiment.
Miss Follini, who lost 17 pounds
during her solitude and now weighs
90 pounds, appeared healthy and
happy as she answered questions
from reporters.
Although * she had no contact
with humans, except through com-
puters, Miss Follini said she didn't
feel lonely during the experiment
and adopted two cave mice as pets.
She named them Giuseppe and
Nicolcta.
“There was some difficulty in
communicating with the mice,” she
said through an interpreter. “But I
was always right.”
The experiment was designed to
resemble interplanetary travel. The
University of Ancona in Italy, the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and several U.S.
universities took part in the exper-
iment.
Miss Follini’s only contact with
the outside world was through
computer terminals linked between
her 10-foot-square plastic-enclosed
underground habitat and the re-
searchers’ house trailer above the
cave.
She had no clocks, her menstrual
cycle slopped, and she km track of
how many days had passed. When
she was told Monday the experi-
ment was almost over, she thought
she had been in the cave about 80
days. She tended to sleep about 10
hours and stay awake 20 to 25-
hours.
Three video cameras and
microphones monitored Miss Fol-
lini constantly. Only the bathroom
was out of sight of cameras. She
didn’t mini
said she
mind the lack of
privacy.
“I rarely thought about it,” she
said. “Sometimes I felt it was a
strong presence, but generally I was
not bothered by that.”
When Miss Follini climbed out
of the cave into the midday sun, she
appeared disoriented for a few' sec-
onds. But she quickly donned
sunglasses handed to her, then
grinned and waved at the 60 on-
lookers.
At the news conference, she said
she thinks her isolation will make
her more thoughtful, outgoing and
decisive. And she said her outlook
hasimproved.
Church leaders seek
Christian unity
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Unity
and respect for other denominations
is needed as Christians around the
world spread Christ’s word in the
face of international crisis, ieaders
of the World Conference on Chur-
ches told delegates.
“Within the community of faith,
fraternal dialogue among ourselves
can correct us from falling into sec-
tarian fanaticism of some kind or
another,” said the Rev. Emilio
Castro, a Uruguayan Methodist
minister and ceneral secretary of
the world organization.
“This is perhaps the most impor-
tant ecumenical experience in
recent years. The fact of being to-
gether challenges us."
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1989, newspaper, May 24, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823932/m1/7/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.