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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press tuesday april relatives follow casket of victim Michael Mclntosh As it is carried from funeral services in Atlanta yesterday body found in Atlanta River authorities Are unsure if Case is linked to wave of Black killings Atlanta a authorities have identified the body of a Small Black male found enmeshed in tree branches in the Chattahoochee River yesterday As that of 21-year-old Jimmy Ray Payne who was last seen at his southwestern Atlanta Home five Days ago. It is the fifth time in less than a month that the body of a Black male has been found in an area River. Cobb county Public safety director Bob Hightower said the body pulled from the River was that of a Small Black male and appears to have been in the River for a week or two. The body was found by three boys who were fishing in the River authorities said. It was caught in tree branches on the Fulton county Side of the River about six metres from the Bank. Naked from Waist up a reporter at the scene said the body was naked from Waist up and was Clad in a red garment from the Waist Down at least to where the legs entered the water. Atlanta authorities said yesterday that Payne s disappearance had not been assigned to the special task Force investigating the slaying of 25 Young Blacks in or near the Atlanta area. Police said the Payne Case is still being handled by the missing per sons unit. Payne who was slight in stature was wearing red jeans a Grey shirt and and Grey jacket when he was last seen. Tony Gibbs 13, said the body was wearing a pair of red undershirts. A couple fishing at the River or. world mrs. Jesse Arnold said they saw the body and Arnold said the Only thing it looked like the body was wearing was a pair of under Jessie Grimes 14, said two other boys told him they had spotted some thing in the River and he went to the scene with them. The task Force investigating the 25 murders since july 1979, also is looking into the disappearance of 10-year-old Darron Glass last seen sept. 14. The discovery Marks the fourth time in less than a month that the body of a Young Black male has been pulled from the Chattahoochee River which forms the Boundary Between Fulton county and suburban Cobb and Douglas counties on the West. The last to be found was the body of 23-year-old Michael Cameron Mclntosh who was discovered april 20 in the Chattahoochee in the South West Corner of Fulton county. Another of the 25 victims Patrick Rogers 16, was found in the Chattahoochee in december authorities have said. Two other bodies have been pulled from the South River in suburban priest s death causes Friend s heart attack daily Telegraph London Johannesburg a roman Catholic priest was murdered at a Zimbabwe Mission station and a close Friend and colleague another missionary father died of a heart attack on learning of the death. It was disclosed yesterday that German born father Edmar som me Reisser 67, was beaten and shot by unknown assailants at the re Gina Mundi Mission station near la pane in Northwestern Zimbabwe on saturday night. When the news of his death reached Bulawayo the unofficial capital of Matabeleland father Marianus Renk 77, a colleague and Friend of the murdered priest col lapsed and later died in Hospital. A Catholic sister at the Regina Mundi Mission said details of father Somme Reisser s death were obscure because the priest had been alone at his Home at the time. She said intruders entered the Mission and knocked the priest unconscious saturday night. When he revived and called for help the intruders apparently returned and shot him through the Back through a window in his room. Most such marauding in the one year old Independent nation has been done by remnants of guerrilla forces who have rebelled against government attempts to control them. Dekalb county in the last two months and another of the 25 Vic Tims was found last november on the Banks of the South River. Earlier yesterday mourners buried Mclntosh the 25th victim _ while police debated whether Payne should be assigned to the task Force for investigation. Mclntosh at 23 the oldest of the victims was buried at Kennedy me Morial Garden near the Graves of seven earlier victims following sub Dued services at greater mount Cal vary Baptist Church. Mclntosh who had a police record had not been reported missing before his body was found in the Chattahoochee River in Southwest Fulton county. Medical authorities ruled that his death like those of More than a dozen other victims was probably caused by asphyxiation. Small in stature Only three of the murder cases involve adults. All three victims were Small in stature and two of them Eddie Duncan and Larry Rogers were described As mentally retarded. In another development the Law yer for a Man police want to question in connection with the investigations said her client has information which could be but Shannon Meade lawyer for Larry Marshall said he won t talk unless he is granted immunity from prosecution for crimes unrelated to the killings. Marshall has been in jail since last month when he was extradited from Connecticut to face an attempted robbery charge. Court orders Agnew to pay state of Maryland by Saundra Saperstein the Washington Post Annapolis Spiro Agnew was ordered yesterday to pay the state of Maryland the Money including interest that a county judge ruled Agnew owed because of kick backs he allegedly received while governor and vice president. Circuit court judge Bruce c. Wil Liams ruled in a civil lawsuit against Agnew that the former vice president breached his Public Trust by accept ing payments in Exchange for state engineering contracts. Stating that or. Agnew had no lawful right to this Money under any the judge ordered him to pay the state for the kickbacks and in inter est which had accumulated at six per cent a year. Agnew not available Agnew did not make an appearance at the trial Here in a courthouse that stands Only a few blocks from his former state House office and he could not be reached for comment. This ruling will be a message to Public officials in the future that they can t take it with said David Scull a lawyer representing three tax payers who brought the suit against Agnew and were later joined by Mary land attorney general Stephen Sachs. Agnew resigned from the vice presi Dency on oct. 10, 1973, pleaded no contest to a single criminal tax evasion charge and paid a Fine when confronted with allegations that he had taken part in the Kickback scheme. Three years later three Maryland tax payers filed the civil lawsuit attempt ing to collect the alleged Kickback Money for the state Treasury. Yester Day s ruling was the culmination of that protracted Legal struggle. The Annapolis Case this week pro Agnew loses civil suit diced new revelations about Agnew s financial dealings and the Justice department s tax evasion Case that drove him from office. As the trial began last week it was revealed that Agnew had already paid about in state and Federal taxes interest and penalties on unreported income he received Between 1967 and 1972. in the most dramatic testimony produced in the trial Agnew s former attorney stated that Agnew admitted eight months before resigning the vice presidency that he had taken Cash kickbacks from close associates. That testimony by attorney George White about a february 1973 conversation with Agnew marked the first time that anyone had asserted that Agnew admitted to the Kickback allegations. In his 1973 court appearance Agnew denied that he was guilty of anything but the single charge of income tax evasion. He continued to maintain his innocence in his autobiography go quietly or eke which was published last year. Agnew who now lives in Palm Springs not testify at this civil trial. Instead his lawyer said that he would invoke his fifth amendment right against self incrimination if called to the stand. This was noted yesterday in the closing arguments made by attorney Michael Millemann who recited All the testimony presented by the state and then concluded against this a contradicted evidence we have Agnew s profound the state and the taxpayers had presented a Case based heavily on the sworn statements of four former Agnew associates who had become his chief accusers in the Federal investigation of alleged kickbacks. Statements accurate Williams found those statements Given to Federal prosecutors in 1973 reliable and the statements by wealthy Developer and Agnew fund Raiser i. H. Hammer Man ii Agnew s state roads com missioner Jerome Wolff and two Engi neers Lester Matz and Allen Green alleged that Agnew had taken pay ments in return for lucrative state contracts while he was governor and then vice president. Williams said the statements showed that Agnew had taken part in an unlawful relationship with Hammerman and Wolff receiving in kick backs collected by Hammerman. 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Despite conflicting reports the syrians and their lebanese allies apparently were in effective control of the frenchmen s room dominating it. Sanin and Overlook ing die Christian heartland Down to the Mediterranean. But fighting was reported under Way for control of it. Mazar about three Kilometres Southwest of frenchmen s where lebanese troops were reported to have taken up positions in apparent preparation for helping the Christian militia against syrian troops. The Mountain fighting and the rising Tempo of shelling in Beirut appeared to Compromise official Hopes of a rapid end to the newest round of fighting. Despite yet another ceasefire announcement late last night there were suggestions that foreign minister Abdel Halim Haddam of Syria might cancel a visit planned for today aimed at negotiating a Resolution to the crisis. Shelling in retaliation the shelling of West Beirut was apparently in retaliation for earlier shelling attacks on Christian centres. Heavy mortars of the mor Bitoun the main moslem militia Allied with Yasser Arafat s Plo had lobbed at least a dozen rounds sunday night at the Mediterranean port of Jounier about 16 Kilometres North of Beirut where Many of the capital s Christian residents have fled to escape syrian shelling in the last weeks. Christian East Beirut also was subjected to heavy shelling from syrian gunners yester Day. Seven civilians were wounded in the barrage. Hospital sources in West Beirut said at least two persons were killed and 35 wounded in the Day s shelling. The renewed israeli air raids coincided with reports from Israel that prime minister Menachem begin s government had warned Syria through diplomatic channels not to step up its current offensive to wrest control of strategic Mountain ridges from the Chris Tian militia. The Christian leadership has been sending out recent signals that it is disappointed in the level of israeli help since the Battle for the Eastern Christian City of Zahl began april 1. Israel condemned Only yesterday Pierre Gemayel the 76 year old Leader of the phalanges party that Fields the most important of the Chris Tian militias said Israel is the Only beneficiary of what is happening Leba Nese killing each this condemnation of Israel followed what lebanese consider the highly unusual Choice of the Rev. Boulos Naaman As the militia s envoy last week to Damascus where he is credited with having worked out the Frame work of the negotiations due to Start Here today. Father Naaman Superior of the powerful order of maronite monks is a close Friend of Christian militia commander Bachir Gemayel Pierre Gemayel s son and a major architect of the militia s controversial Alliance with Israel. His negotiating role in Damascus was widely interpreted As a signal to Syria of the militias willingness to play Down if not necessarily end these ties with the jewish state. Striking at multiple targets around four cities Over a 65-Kilometre stretch Damour just 19 Kilometres South of Here to the port of Tyre near the israeli Border israeli warplanes bombed rocketed and strafed for More than an hour. Witnesses in Sidon described the raids there As heavier than sundays in which 18 persons were reported killed and 39 wounded. Beirut radio said 40 people were killed or injured in the Mediterranean City of Sidon alone. Rural municipality of Cartier under the planning act notice of Public meeting the Council of the Rural Musci cavity of Critter under the authority of the planning a Shal hold a Public meeting at the Munici pal offices at Elie. In Manitoba on monday the 25i n Niay of May. . 1981 at 8 00 . At which Lime and place the Council will receive representation from those persons who wish to make them in respect of by Law no. 1020 being a by Law of the Rural municipality of Cartier to Amend the Rural municipality of Carrier planning scheme 1966 As a copy of the above by Law no. 1020 and supporting material May be inspected Between . ., monday to Friday in the municipal office. Setio Manitoba. The general intent erf by Law no. 1020 is to define the term sue As follows an area of land with frontage on a Public Street or Lane or any lawful Means of Access satisfactory to the responsible at Iho my. of at least sufficient size to provide the minimum requirements for use. Area Yards and other open spaces As Are herein required. Dated at Ehe. In Manitoba this 22nd Day d april. 1981 a. C. Gemere. Secretary treasurer Rural municipality of Cartier circulation hours for your convenience the circulation department is open from . To . Monday to saturday. Well deliver to your door. 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