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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 2004
Page
6
Parole board hearing for Ronald Ververka and the clemency request for Conner, a Bertram man serving life for the 1974 Servey and Connolly deaths. The process can take years with life sentences meaning confinement for life. Family members urge justice while Nowlin died in prison.
The state parole board will review Conner to determine if he is nonthreatening and rehabilitated and whether his sentence has served its due punishment. A public hearing will be held with victim families and advocates allowed to speak. Conner will not attend. If approved, he could seek parole within two to five years and potential treatment or work release. Other inmates seek commutations, including John Roth Judy White Clayton Manning Leonard Gregory and Michael Gilroy for first degree murders.
President Musharraf pardoned Abd ul Qadeer Khan for providing nuclear technology to Iran Libya and North Korea. Khan apologized saying leaks occurred without government approval. The move drew religious opposition and raised questions about international acceptance and future proliferation safeguards.
John Hench a longtime Disney artist and senior vice president at Walt Disney Imagineering died at Providence St Joseph Medical Center in Burbank at age 95 He helped shape animation and theme parks and painted Mickey Mouse portraits for major birthdays He worked on Destino with Salvador Dali and began at Disney in 1938 on Fantasia and 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea.
A lantern festival at Mihong Park in Miyun County near Beijing triggered a stampede that left at least 37 dead and 15 injured. Officials said a crowd surge after a bridge tripped caused the disaster, and leaders visited the scene as authorities warned the death toll could rise.
British researchers say variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could pass through blood transfusions. They cite a donor who later died of vCJD and 48 recipients linked to 15 donors, though autopsies confirm infection only after brain tissue study.
In Tehran reformists clash with hard liners over a compromised deal brokered by Iran's supreme leader. Deputy speaker Mohammad Reza Khatami says the compromise has failed after Guardian Council disqualification of reformist candidates. In Jakarta five earthquakes up to magnitude 6.9 strike Papua province killing eight and injuring at least 65, damaging Nabire airport and infrastructure.
Viet Nam confirms two new bird flu fatalities raising the national death toll to 13. A 6 year old girl from Dong Nai province who died Tuesday tested positive for H5N1, and a 24 year old man from Lam Dong province who died Monday is also confirmed as a bird flu victim.
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for hours at his official residence in a probe linked to a real estate developer charged with bribing him when he was foreign minister. Sharon cooperated fully, investigators said as they fill gaps in the case.
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