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Vol. 107 No. 30014 PagesMonroe County's Only Daily NewspaperKey West Florida. Thursday, December 22, 1988USPS Publication 294240Single Copy 25cPartly cloudy today with a 20 percent chance of rain. The high will be In the upper 70s. For details. see page 2.Life without parolefor Indy 500 rookieBENTON, 111. (UPI) — Handy Lanier, the 1986 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, has been sentenced to life In prison without pa role for his part in a multimillion drug smuggling operation. Lanier’s attorney, Robert Ritchie of Knox ville, called the sentence unjust and said he would Hie an appeal within 10 days. A federal Jury convicted Lanier. 34, Davie, Fla., and two co-defendants on Oct. 4. on charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiring to distribute more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana between 1982 and 1986. The co-defendants were sentenced earlier.Knesset approves coalition governmentJERUSALEM (UPI) — Israel’s parliament Thursday overwhelmingly approved a broad-based coalition government of the right-wing Likud Party and center-left Labor Party. Immediately after the vote, Yitzhak Shamir was sworn In as prime minister of the new government, a position he has held for the last two years. The Knesset. Israel’s parliament, voted 84-19 In favor, with three abstentions and 19 members not present. After Shamir was sworn in. the rest of the Cabinet members took their oaths of office to form the new government 51 days after the general elections.A policeman inspects the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 at Lockerbie, Scotland, after it crashed in the village Wednesday night Pages 3 and 14.■ W - .* 9Photo by UPIMore stories and photos are onIran denies involvement in crashATHENS, Greece (UPI) — An Iranian official denied Thursday that Iran was Involved In the crash of the Pan Americanet on a flight from London to New York, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.Jumbo Je York, thThe official Iranian news agency, monitored in Athens, said Prime Minister Mir Hossein Musavi “categorically denied any Iranian involvement In Wednesday’s tragic crash of a New York-bound American airliner and expressed condolences to the families of the victims.”Pan American Flight 103 exploded and crashed Wednesday night in Lockerbie,Scotland, killing all 258 people aboard and at least 15 others on the ground.An anonymous caller to United Press International in London said the “Guardians of the Islamic Revolution had “carried out this heroic execution in revenge for the U.S. downing of an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gull earlier this year. The claim could not be verified and U.S. diplomats in London and the gulf said they knew of no such group.On July 3. 290 people were killed when Air Iran Airbus A-300, flying across Persian Gulf from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, was downed by missiles fired by cruiser USS Vincennes. The crew mistook• «the civilian crait for a jet fighter.Musavi was quoted by IRNA as saying targeting a passenger plane is a big crime to which the Islamic Republic itselfhas fallen a victim time and again over the past 10 years.A glaring example ... is the July 3 U.S. downing of Iran Air Flight 655 with 290 passengers and crew, he said.“It is a crime if sabotage was the cause of the Pan Am crash but an even worse crime is the military attack by a government on a defenseless passenger plane, IRNA quoted Musavi as saying in reference to the downing of the Irattian aircraft.FBI mobilizesto begin probeLOCKERBIE, Scotland (UPI) — Investigators recov ered the black box flight recorders Thursday from the wreckage of a Pan American Jet that blew apart “with all the hallmarks of a bomb blast and crashed into a Scottish village, killing all 258 people aboard and at least 15 others on the ground.Diplomatic personnel in Europe had been warned Dec. 13 of a bomb threat against Pan American flights to the United States from Frankfurt, where Flight 103 originated Wednesday with a different plane, officials said.An anonymous caller claiming to represent an Islamic terrorist group said the plane was bombed in retaliation for the U.S. downing of an Iranian jetliner but the claim could not be immediately verified.The black boxes were taken to a Royal Air Force re search facility outside London where authorities hoped to learn why Flight 103 exploded without warn ing and plunged “like liquid fire” into two rows of houses in Lockerbie in the worst air disaster In British history.Parts of the 19-year-old Boeing 747 were strewn over several miles and bodies were scattered in similar fashion, authorities said. About 150 bodies had been recovered. Including about 60 that were discovered in a golf course.Transport Minister Paul Channon told the House of Commons in London that radar operators saw the plane's radar return echo disappear from their screens and “then split into several secondary returns.David Kyd. an official of the International Air Transport Association, said the disaster bore “all the hallmarks of a bomb blast on board.Although Pan Am spokesman JeiT Kriendler in New York said late Wednesday the airline had received no threats involving the plane, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a notice that a caller threatened to plant a bomb within two weeks on a Pan American flight between Frankfurt and the United States.A Pan American employee said people flying via Frankfurt changed their plans and took other carriersto London to link up with Pan American flights to the United States.The embassy has been notified by the Federal Aviation Administration that on Dec. 5 an unidentified person telephoned a U.S. diplomatic facility in Europe and stated that sometime within the next two weeks, there would be a bomb attempt against a Pan American flight from Frankfurt to the United States. the administrative notice said.A Pan American spokeswoman in Moscow, Irina Martinova. said the threat was received in Frankfurt.“We were advised and security steps were taken.” she said. “I cannot be more specific.forBy Kip BlevinKeys Bureau Chiefv KEY COLONY BEACH - MonroeCounty will be looking at an aban-» am doned missile site in the UpperKeys as a possible future 200-prls-onerjail.County Administrator Tom, , _ . „ , . „ Brown received a tentative go-Rubin Campbell, originally ahead from the Monroe Countyfrom South Carolina, came to County Commission Tuesday toKey West in 1946 while sta- draft a resolution petitioning thetioned here in the Navy. He Florida Department of Natural Renow works as a security guard sources for a long-term lease towith Jarmar Security.'1 would use the 13.2-acre, fenced-in sitelike to see the city’s utilities for a stockade or Jail,run better, Campbell said. Brown, who sits on the Jail Advisory Committee, is the chief ramrod for getting the county through its overcrowded jail crisis, as manifested by the current federal cap on its Jail population. 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Imry Plummer will also be contacted fortheir assistance.In other action at this week’s county commission meeting:— The board kept TDC official Neil Boyce on the tourist board, despite a challenge from Commissioner John Stormont, who origi nally appointed him. Stormont wanted to replace Boyce with Laurie Scanlon, claiming there was a question over whether Boyce’s other non tourist business inter ests qualified him to be on the3 shopping days to Christmasboard. The vote went 4 1 in favor of Boyce.-- The board postponed until the next meeting any action on the Marathon Yacht Club and its desire for a baybottom lease to construct a pier.The board directed Brown to renegotiate with the private club owners. Brown had earlier gottenthe owners to agree to pay $1,360 for the eight-tenths of an acre.Commissioner Doug Jones wanted them to pay an annual escalation fee since they are in competition with other restaurants. Ipay 10 percent of my gross (on his business), he said.Bob Ernst, chairman of the Florida Keys Citizens Coalition, Inc. in Marathon, challenged the commission, stating that it was their moral duty to renegotiate the sweetheart, bad government lease they (the club) hold for $ 1 a year.He chided Bill Martin, publisher of a Marathon newspaper, whose name appears on the original lease. He said that Martin has advocated in his paper for entities to pay their fair share.I am embarrassed for the leaders of the Marathon Yacht Club that they would want to hide behind this sweetheart lease and ask the taxpayers of this county to support their social needs,” said Ernst. The lease entered into is history, not negotiable, said Larry Albritton, a Marathon attorney and spokesman for the club. He later relented when it appeared the county would not accept the club’s offer.To counter arguments that his group have deep pockets, he said, We are not the rich and famous. However, he said that if the club is forced to pay $50,000, as some had suggested, then the club(Please see COUNTY, Page 2)Judge: Trailerscan stayBy Richard HatchCitizen ReporterA new battle front opened up for the residents of Poinciana Mo bile Home Park when park owners told three residents they needed to move their trailers.Circuit Judge Hello Gomez ruled in the residents favor and told the park owners representative he would need a court order to have the trailers relocated.The homeowners had recently gone to court to protest theirmonthly rent Increase calling it aretaliatory action on the part of the park owners.That legal action took a back seat last week when workers building the Duck Avenue housing complex removed a tree stump from the yard of one of the trailer park residents. About two dozen of the homeowners showed up in court Friday with their at tomey Roger McClelland, to protest.The mobile home park owner's representative, John Tool, said the trailers needed to be moved because they encroached on the Duck Avenue Polo Club's property-He said a recent survey by Phillips and Trice indicated part of the trailers were on Polo Club property. Tool did not contest the survey even though the trailers had been located on the present site for at least 15 years.Tool said he wanted to avoid a law suit and move the trailers as expeditiously as possible. He said the park ownership would pay for the relocation expenses.Jack Phillips of Philips and Trice told the court the first survey taken by his companyshowed the trailers did not encroach.Suspected drugs dropped off KeysMIAMICustoms officerstracking a twin-engine plane watched Wednesday as the pilot dropped three bundles of suspected drugs to two boats below him near the Florida Keys.Customs officers in a Cessna Citation jet and a Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter followed the Cessna 337 from the Keys and forced it to land at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, said Customs spokesman Michael Sheehan.Federal authorities arrested the aircraft owner and pilot James Lyndon. 59, of Honeoye Falls. N.Y.. and charged him with attempting to import marijuana and failure to report entry into the country.“We're still searching for the suspected countraband and the vessels, Sheehan said late Wednesday night. We've boarded several vessels, but without the contraband on them, it’s hard topinpoint which ones were involved . ’’Customs' aviation group supervisor Larry Karson said authorities are sure Lyndon dropped narcotics. “It’s either cocaine or marijuana. There’s no doubt about that.”Authorities also seized the airplane for having illegal modifications. Customs found an illegal fuel system aboard as well as a modified pilot's window for the air drop. Sheehan said.Sheehan said Customs’ radar detected a suspicious aircraft flying below 500 feet about 70 miles southwest of Key West.After following the plane’s northerly flight. Customs launched the Citation and the helicopter which witnessed the pilot drop three bundles of suspected contraband to two waiting boats about 15 miles southeast of Tavemier in the northern Kevs. Sheehan said.City adds supportfor undersea pipelineThe Key West City Commission has agreed to support Pritam Singh’s request that he be allowed to use an undersea pipeline to Tank Island.Commissioners unanimously agreed to execute a letter of nonobjection to the Florida Department of Natural Resources on be half of the city.Singh wants to use the existing pipeline to transmit utilities to Tank Island, recently renamed Sunset Island by the Sikh developer from Maine.The Island is slated to be a resort complex with a 77-unit hotel, recreational facilities, a dolphin research center and two restaurants. It will be accessible only by ferry.The pipelines were originally installed by the Navy to feed the two fuel storage tanks wtiich gave the island its former name. The island was created by the Navy in the mid 1950s from spoil dredged up during the deepening of Key West Har bor.The Florida DNR holds title to all baybottom land in the state and official agreements must be executedwith DNR for any use of baybottom lands.City permission for the hotel site plan was granted Dec. 5.Briefly
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