Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 164, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 1987 Page: 1 of 6
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"In The Heart of The Osage, With The Osage At Heart
Crash survivor
conscious; asks
for mom and doll
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) —
Cecilia Cichan, the 4-year-old
who is the only survivor of
Northwest Airlines Flight 225,
regained consciousness and
asked for her doll and her
mother, who was killed in the
crash, the girl’s grandfather
said today.
Rescue workers say Paula
Cichan saved Cecilia’s life by
shielding her in the crash and
the child’s grandfather, Antho-
ny Cichan of Willow Grove,
Pa., said Cecilia has not been
told her mother is dead.
“We’re seeking professional
advice at this time to be able to
handle it properly,” he said in
an interview on “Good Morning
America.”
Cichan said he also had good
news.
“Last night — late last night
— when (a doctor) asked little
Cecilia what her name was she
told him,” he said. “She said,
‘My name is Cecilia Cichan.
Later on she asked for her
mother and she asked for her
grandpop and then later on she
demanded her doll. She didn’t
ask for it — she demanded it.
She said, ‘I want my doll,’
which to us was just tremen-
dous, tremendous news.”
Cecilia’s father and brother,
David, 6, also were among at
least 157 people killed at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Sunday night.
CRAZY OR NUTS - You’ll have to decide for yourself. These two local
merchants, whose identity is withheld to protect their innocencent family,
have issued a challenge to all to see if you can be any crazier than they were
last year, for the Retail Merchants sponsored Crazy Daze activities to be
held In downtown Pawhuska, Friday and Saturday. Activities include
Sidewalk Sales, Bed Races,Big Wheel Races, Skate Board Contests and
much more. (J-C Photo by Nelson Carter.)
High noon
showdown
Friday
Yes, there is such a thing as a free
lunch! Dress up in your craziest
clothes and participate in the Crazy
Costume Contest to be held noon
Friday at the north end of the
Triangle Building.
The winner will get a free lunch
from J. S.’s, who will be serving
‘meals al fresco’ in downtown
Pawhuska for Crazy Daze
Anyone is eligible to enter - so join
the crowd going crazy.
See you noon Friday in front of the
Triangle Building
Convoy heads for Kuwait
under helicopter protection
MANAMA, Bahrain (UP1) —
Three newly re-flagged Kuwaiti
tankers and four U.S. naval
escorts steamed north through
the Persian Gulf today, their
way cleared by Sea Stallion
helicopters searching out sus-
pected Iranian mines.
Gulf shipping sources said the
convoy — the third under U.S.
escort — anchored overnight
Wednesday, apparently prefer-
ring to travel by daylight.
Reporters from ABC News
spotted the convoy of three
tankers and four warships,
including the amphibious as-
sault carrier USS Guadalcanal,
some 50 miles east of Dubai,
United Arab Emirates,
nightfall Wednesday.
Shipping sources said
at
the
convoy subsequently dropped
anchor.
The convoy stopped dead in
the water for about two hours
Wednesday afternoon off the
United Arab Emirates coast
while the Sea Stallions trailed
sonar mine-hunting equipment
through the azure waters of the
gulf, but apparently found no
trace of mines.
The tankers, the 295,000-ton
product carrier Townsend, the
47,000-ton Gas Princess and its
sister ship, the 47,000-ton Gas
Queen, were shepherded
through the perilous Strait of
Hormuz at dawn Wednesday
without incident.
The three ships hoisted the
Stars and Stripes Tuesday,
shipping sources said, while
anchored near the port of
Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman
The latest convoy operation
started in total secrecy and
caught gulf-watchers by sur-
prise. Most observers had
expected U.S warships to first
escort four other re-flagged
tankers waiting at Kuwait on
the return journey down the
waterway to the Gulf of Oman
Anchored in Kuwait are the
supertanker Bridgeton, which
hit a mine in the northern gulf
July 24. the Gas King, the Sea
Isle City and the Ocean City
Kuwait said Tuesday its navy
found a mine near its main Al-
Ahmadi oil terminal, where the
four re-flagged tankers have
been anchored.
The latest convoy is the third
to undertake the hazardous 550-
mile voyage to Kuwait and the
first to enjoy serious mine-
sweeping cover
The eight Sea Stallions are
being protected by Navy UH-1
Huey and AH-1 Sea Cobra
helicopter gunships, also based
aboard the Guadalcanal, the
largest U.S. warship in the
Persian Gulf
At least one Iranian frigate
was spotted shadowing the
convoy from a safe distance
Wednesday. Radio operators
aboard the Guadalcanal broad-
cast warnings to all shipping to
stay at least 1 mile away.
West Texas sheriff busts Iran arms deal
MIDLAND, Texas (UPI) — A
“desperate" Iranian intelli-
gence officer was willing to pay
more than $2 million for spare
parts for Hawk missiles in an
attempted arms deal that ended
instead in a sting arrest, a
West Texas sheriff says.
Midland County Sheriff Gary
Painter said at a Wednesday
evening news conference that
Victor Manuel Fonseca, 47, of
Portugal, offered more than $2
million for 60 aiming devices
used to guide Hawk anti-
aircraft missiles on behalf of an
Iranian intelligence officer
identified as Achmed Kashani.
Fonseca was arrested at an
airplane hangar as he was
trying to open crates that he
thought contained the missile
parts but which held only 55-
gallon drums filled with gravel.
He was charged with par-
ticipating in organized criminal
activity, a state charge, and
held in lieu of $500,000 bond.
Painter said he expects eight
or nine more arrests in the
case and also expects federal
charges to be filed against
Fonseca, whom he described as
a middle man for Kashani
The sheriff said he was
surprised the sting operation
occurred in his isolated West
Texas town.
“It’s a miracle it ever got off
the ground and culminated in
arrests,” Painter said. “These
people are so desperate. ...
They need the arms, the
ammunition and material ”
Iran, locked in a 7-year war
with neighboring Iraq, has
found it increasingly hard to
get parts for its aging
American-made Hawk missiles.
Unlicensed sales of the missile
parts are banned by the U.S.
Arms Control Act.
Painter said two Midland
County reserve deputies, Ron
Tucker and Gary Howard,
posed as arms salesmen and
persuaded Fonseca to meet
them in Midland Wednesday at
4 a.m. He said they clinched
the deal by convincing the men
that Midland was close to the
Mexican border, which is
actually 260 miles away, and
they could smuggle the arms
across the border
“They were told that this was
a remote area, close to the
Mexico border, and that we
could get the stuff easily into
Mexico,” he said.
The plan called for a cargo
plane to land at a deserted
section of the Midland airport,
discharge the crew and let
undercover officers posing as a
ground crew begin loading the
shipment.
A stun grenade was to have
been thrown as a diversion and
five to six members of an elite
swat team garbed in black
were to have helped authorities
seize the plane after sweeping
down from an abandoned
hangar where they were hiding
But Fonseca never ordered
the plane.
“We were hoping to get the
aircraft and the people on the
aircraft because we felt like
there would have been some
Iranians that would have been
on board,” Painter said in an
interview with United Press
International in Dallas Wednes-
day night. He said he still
considered the sting was
successful.
2-year budgets
for state agencies
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
Gov. Henry Bellmon has told
state agency heads to make
their next budget requests for a
2-year period
Bellmon favors
saying it will
the
give
plan.
Legislature time to work
the
on
other bills every other session,
but the plan has drawn
criticism from House Speaker
Jim Barker, D-Muskogee, who
says lawmakers need to look al
the budget process
annual basis.
Even though the
on an
current
fiscal year began only last
month preliminary budget re-
quests for the 1989 fiscal year
are due by September first
Bellmon says he has asked
state officials to hold budget
increases to 5 percent a year
Oklahoma Ethics commission has had short, troubled life
By ROCKY SCOTT
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) —
If the state Ethics Commission
had what could charitably be
called a difficult birth, life in
the agency's first year has been
downright traumatic.
The latest in a series of
events that has shaken the
besieged commission came last
week when officials at the state
Treasurers office asked state
Attorney General Robert Henry
to determine whether the
commission’s interim executive
director, Marilyn Hughes,
should be paid.
Henry says there will be an
opinion late Monday or early
Tuesday that will resolve the
complex question, but it is
unlikely the opinion will end the
political crossfire that has
hamstrung the agency since its
inception.
The commission’s problems
include a pending state Su-
preme Court case that ques-
tions whether the agency can
legally take action regarding
campaign spending and require
financial reports.
That mess stems from the
bitter battle last fall between
Democratic gubernatorial can-
didates David Walters and
former state Attorney General
Mike Turpen.
Turpen claimed Walters had
received illegal campaign
loans, but Walters countered he
was denied due process when
the commission began investi-
gating his campaign finances.
Hughes, formerly a corporate
attorney for the Sonic drive-in
chain, was named interim
executive director in the spring.
She also was nominated for the
position on a permanent basis
by Gov. Henry Bellmon.
The nomination required
Senate approval, and that is
where the current problem had
its beginnings.
The nomination ran into
trouble in the Senate for a
variety of reasons, not the least
of which was a group of about
a dozen Senate Democrats,
headed by Sen. Gene Stipe, D-
McAlester, and Sen. Darryl
Roberts, D-Ardmore.
Stipe has publicly opposed the
commission since its inception
last year. In fact, he came
within one vote of killing the
bill that created the commis-
sion in the waning days of the
1986 legislative session
This year, Roberts said it
became apparent by late June
that Hughes would not be
confirmed if her nomination
came before the Senate.
Additionally, lawmakers this
year denied a request by the
commission’s board of directors
to triple the agency’s budget
for the 1988 fiscal year and left
funding for the agency at the
1987 fiscal year level
Roberts said it was not just
the senators who opposed the
idea of a commission — and
those lawmakers ranged in
ideology from Stipe to Sen.
Jerry Pierce, R-Bartlesville —
but included senators who
where irked with Bellmon for a
variety of reasons and other
senators who did not think
Hughes was qualified.
Roberts says the overall
combination of the three groups
expressing their opposition
added up to more than enough
floor votes to kill the Hughes
nomination.
Additionally, Bellmon sent
more nominations down for
other agencies in the last week
in June. Senate Majority
Leader John Luton, D-Mus-
kogee, saw there was no way
lawmakers — embroiled in a
battle over reforming the state
Tax Commission — could deal
with the extra nominations.
If the nominations were left
pending when the Legislature
adjourned this year, Senate
rules dictate they would be
considered rejected and could
not be resubmitted
Bellmon withdrew a number
of the names
including
Hughes — in a July 14 letter to
Senate President Pro Tempore
Rodger Randle, D-Tuisa, with
the understanding he would
resubmit some of them at a
later date.
Roberts, meanhwile, still was
irked about the ethics commis-
sion and some of Bellmon’s
policies. He introduced two
resolutions and an amendment
that not only would have nut
into law the Senate policy on
pending nominations, but have
also rejected the nominations
Bellmon withdrew in his July 14
letter
An accommodation obviously
had to be reached, so Bellmon
aide Joe Allbaugh talked with
Roberts in a late-night July 18
telephone call and said
Roberts would
resolutions and
abandon
if
his
amendment,
Hughes' name would not be
resubmitted.
Roberts said that sounded
good. But he says he agreed to
the arrangement because it was
his understanding Hughes
would be asked to leave the
ethics commission immediately,
something Allbaugh says was
never part of the arrangement
Bellmon contends even
though he withdrew H es’
name and will not resubmit it,
she is an interim appointee and
can serve until a permanent
executive director is approved
by the Senate
Further complicating the
issue was Hughes' decision last
Wednesday to fire her se-
cretary, Polly Garvey, an
action that did not sit well with
Stipe, Roberts or a number of
Senate staffers.
Despite the ill will among
Senate Democrats and the
governor’s pledge not to nomi-
nate her again for the job,
Hughes says she will stay in
the office until she is told to
leave
That may be early next week
or at a later date, depending on
the Attorney General’s opinion,
but one thing is certain — the
agency created to take the
politics out of ethics will
continue to have a difficult time
because of the poltics in ethics
g
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