Marysville Yuba Sutter Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - March 31, 1986, Marysville Yuba, California Monday Duke showdown today B1 Marcos accuses U.S. of role in his ouster A2 Jackpot hits in A-D Prize Puzzle C4 Appeal democrat + THE SOURCE SINCE 18 6 0 + Vol. 116 - No. 58 126th Year Thirty-Two Pages March 31,1986 Single Copy 250 Strong quake jolts SF area City's skyscrapers power lines are knocked down FREMONT - A strong earthquake early today rocked skyscrapers in the San Francisco Bay knocked down power lines and roused tens of thousands of people from their Three minor injuries were and sheriffs departments in both Yuba and Sutter counties said there were no reports of dents feeling the At the State Department of Water Resources in a spokesman estimated the seismograph reading at less than 1.) The the third in the region in three struck at 3:56 a.m. and had a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter said Willis Jacobs of the U.S. Earthquake Information Center in Golden Colo. The state Office of Emergency Services estimated it at 5.6, meaning it was capable of considerable It was centered 10 miles east of or about 45 miles southeast of San Jacobs Three with estimated magnitudes of 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8, followed within minutes of the initial said Tom spokesman for the state emergency The quake was felt as far north as Santa Rosa and as far south as San Luis a range of about 350 and to the east as far as about 60 miles east of San Alexian Brothers Hospital in San Jose reported three minor trial will begin voter fraud case slated to start tomorrow in Napa County By CHUCK SMITH A-D Staff Writer Marysville City Councilman Daniel Ferrari and waitress Teresa Collins go to trial tomorrow in a Napa County nine months after they were arrested on voter registration fraud The 37-year-old councilman and his 26-year-old fiancee have been free on their own recognizance since they were booked at the Yuba County Jail on June 25. Ferrari has continued to serve on the City It was 17 months ago that an elections clerk using a processing computer said that she noticed large numbers of absentee ballots going to the same addresses and reported the matter to County Frances The subsequent investigation by the District Attorney's Office and Marysville police touched off a stormy period in Marysville politics that promises to be a focal point in the which may last a District Attorney Fred said he has 52 witnesses under for the Defense attorneys Dave Vasquez and Michael Barrette are not saying how many See Back TRIAL t Georgia sodomy law under attack A Bactrian camel yawns while sunbathing recently at the Kansas City tures in the area reached into the 80s over the WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today that Georgia's sodomy law is an effort by the state to follow ' centuries of tradition regarding the morality of its liberty that exists under our Constitution is not Assistant Attorney General Michael E. Hobbs told the is ordered it is not But Harvard law professor Laurence representing an Atlanta homosexual who is challenging the sodomy said Georgia cannot tell people what to do in their homes with no more of a reason than an invocation of the majority's liberty means anything it means the power of government is limited regarding the intrusion into something as personal and intimate as Tribe The court's decision in the Georgia expected to be announced by could nullify sodomy laws in about half the The justices must decide whether consenting See Back GEORGIA t Have Not Ruling stands in speedy trial case HONOLULU - Ferdinand greeting about 1,000 on his first venture into public view since he fled said he has not resigned as president of the Philippines and described the government of Corazon Aquino as pure and Marcos and his faced reporters as they mingled with supporters outside the travel which is owned by a the and about 100 guests attended Easter Mass at the couple's rented million beachfront where a small group of demonstrators outside encouraged passing cars to honk in have not resigned Philippines Marcos told reporters after the Mass. consider the election legitimate but that is something my lawyer has asked me not to discuss with Widespread fraud was alleged following the Feb. 7 Philippine presidential Marcos declined to be specific about how he planned to deal with mounting legal actions filed against him in U.S. courts arising from his 20-year leadership of the and the lawyer do consult on such tilings as presidential immunity and the right of the accused in each and every state and my position as former Marcos am not The Mass was held after the cancellation of a large-scale backyard potluck party Marcos reportedly began planning The gathering at the travel agency was finalized after plans to use a Honolulu park faltered when city officials said backers hadn't acquired needed It was the first time Marcos had ventured into public since arriving in Hawaii after a hasty evacuation from the Philippines Feb. 26. do not say I was forced out of the he I do say I wish I had stayed Marcos described the new Back MARCOS t WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today let stand a ruling that a criminal right to a speedy trial must be presumed violated if law enforcement officials take too long to arrest The without refused to hear an appeal by California authorities in the case of a former gas station attendant arrested on embezzling charges nearly 4% years after the alleged Los Angeles police charged that Joaquin Serna took in cash and disappeared after working his Sept. 8, 1978, night shift at a service A misdemeanor complaint against Serna was filed three weeks later and a warrant was issued for his But police believe he fled to and he was not arrested until Feb. 16,1983. Serna said he had left a forwarding address and did not try to conceal his whereabouts when he left Los Angeles in December 1978. He said his arrest in 1983 and the plans to prosecute him violated his constitutional right to a speedy In other the Agreed to decide whether states may require companies with federally approved mining operations on federal lands to obtain state permits as The justices said they will hear arguments by California authorities that a operation in Los Padres National Forest should be required to obtain a state Agreed to decide whether prosecutors may use as trial evidence a pistol retrieved by Detroit policemen See Back RULING t Haircut leads to Sikh's death VILLAGE India - a Sikh cut his trimmed his beard and discarded his turban for He paid for that modernity with his Singh was one of eight Sikhs and Hindus slain Saturday in Sikh terrorist attacks on three villages that previously had been undisturbed by the escalating violence in India's bloodied The eight had been preparing to harvest grain in this which led the Third World in the Green my did not you remain a true Sikh with long hair and wept his who wears a turban and long white He sat Sunday over the body of his only the family breadwinner - a man in his early 20s and engaged to be His five sisters and dozens of women wailed for hours as they surrounded the which was laid on a string cot in the back yard and covered with a cotton will take care of a sister pleaded through her More than 100 people - most Sikh peasants - gathered outside the modest three-room painted bright Four their source of were in Hindu friends and relatives welcomed as They spoke of bewilderment and They told their children to run wheat fields and hide when they hear a gunshot or loud At they go inside and bolt their But there was no talk of revenge in this agricultural a region where Sikh terrorists have not yet gained a significant foothold despite killings that over the weekend raised the death toll to more than 100 this Singh was killed by suspected Sikh terrorists who rode up in a jeep as he delivered milk to kiln workers preparing dinner a few hundred yards from his For the strategic northern has been known in India as a progressive Signs along roads proclaim it Land of for its See Back SIKH t The who suffered cuts or were hit by objects falling in their were released after There was no report of serious Police switchboards were jammed with calls from people awakened by See Back QUAKE t CALIFORNIA Earthquake Epicenter 166 may be dead in air crash MEXICO CITY - A Airline flight with 166 people aboard crashed into a mountainside today en route to Puerto Vallarta and Los an airline spokesman There appeared to be no A source in the airport commander's office said three helicopters from the Federal Highway Police and an official of the Federal Electricity Commission flew over the wreckage of the plane and found no The who spoke on condition of said the plane was burning at the time the officials flew over the seems as though they've located it on a Rafael of the Federal Highway Police office in one of the largest cities said by Cuevas said the only land access to the site was through a town called Con The airport source said the flight left at about 9 a.m. a.m. and that contact was lost with the jetliner 14 minutes The plane also had been scheduled to stop in The Boeing 727-200 crashed on San Andres near Rancho San Miguel El in the municipality of according to the airport Mexicana airline spokesman Back CRASH Increasing chance of rain High yesterday was 76; the overnight low was 54. 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