Son of Sam pleads guilty

NEW YORK (AP) - David
Berkowitz pleaded guilty
today to the shooting death of
20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
last July 31 in the sixth and
final murder attributed to
the “Son of Sam’’ killer;

“It was wrong,” the
pudgy, 24-yebr-old former
postal clerk from Yonkers,
N.Y., told Judge Joseph
Corso in Brookly Supreme
Court as he entered the plea
in the killing of Miss

: Moskowllz and wounding of
her first-time date, Robert
Violante. .

It was not immediatel
known whether he will follow
through with his plan to
plead guilty in today’s court
session to the five other Son
of Sam killings.

Berkowitz stoad before
Corso and answered a long
series of questions designed
to see wheter he understood
the consequences of his plea.

“Do you know the penalty
for firat-degree murder?”
Corso asked.

“Twenty-five years to
life,” Berkowitz answered in’
4 clear, firm voice.

Corso set sentencing for
Berkowitz in the Moskowitz
case for May 22 and declared
a recess before continuing
with the court proceeding.
_ Having been ruled com-
petent to stand trial twice-

t October and again in
April-Berkowitz had a legal
right to over-rule his lawyers
and change his plea from
innocent by reason of in-
sanity to guilty,

His lawyers and members
of his family have noted
frequently his instability, as
have some of the
psychiatrists who examined
him since his arrest last
August.

Berkowitz was accused of
killing six persons and
wounding seven others with

Texas
riot

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) -
Police kept watch on a tense
north-side area today after

a .44-calibrerevolver. Son of
Sam was the name the killer
adopled in signed letters to
the press and police.

Last year, the defendant
demanded a trial so he could
warn the world about the’

Ethiopian air war |

demons and promised . ha
would “have a lot to say.”

Berkowitz also has said he
wanted to plead guilty to add
credibility to his warnings
about the demons. On tape
recordings played at

Berkowitz's
petency hearing, the suspect
was heard telling a
psychiatrist that he com-
mitted the killings to satisfy
the desires of blood-thirsty
demons that continually
haunted him. ;

- disrupts daily life —

MANDEFERA, Eritrea
(AP) — The Ethiopian
government |s carrying out a
relentless.daytime air war
against secessionist
guerrillas in Erifrea, forcing
many civilians to go about
their tasks in the darkness of
night. Classes __ for
schoolchildren begin at dusk.

Leaders of the Eritrean
Liberation Front (ELF) say
the aircraft—U.S.-made F-5
Freedom Fighters and
Soviet-supplied MiG-2is—
are flown by pilots from

Cuba and the leftist Arab
state of Yemen.

During thie two weeks this
reporter - - and
photographer Claudio Luffoll
toured areas controlled by
the Liberation Front, known
as the ELF, we saw the ef-
fects of Ethiopian air power
on life inside Eritrea.

From a military point of
view, the planes allow the
Ethiopians to
guerrilla positions in hot
fighting areas, to maintain
some military presence in

Oil spill covers .
_ English beach

GREAT YARMOUTH,
England (AP) — Thick oil
from a wrecked Greek
tanker washed ashore today
on one‘ of England's most

pular beaches before tugs
could. disperse the slick at

sea,

The oil drifted onto eight
kilometres of coast between
the villages of Corton and
Hopton-onSea. ;

The 18,679-ton tanker Eleni
V was cut in two Saturday
when it. collided with ‘the
French ore carrier Roseline
in a North Sea fog six miles
off ihe English coast, There
were no injuries.

The tanker’s stern section,
containing most of its 5.7

- Million-gallon cargo, war

being towed to Rotterdam,
the Netherlands. The bow,

thousanns, of Mexican-
Americans rioted when
police tried to break up a
fight at a fiesta in a park.
Police reported shots
-fired, looting and arson in a’
10-block area during a six-
hour period. Fifteen per- CANBERRA (Reuter) —
gons, including two The Australian government
juveniles, were arreste, was under pressure today to
authorities said. release details of secret
One policeman suffered a hangings of 34 Papua New
broken leg when he was hit Guinea tribesmen accused of
by a car. Two television collaborating with the
crew members werestabbed | Japanese in the Second
as the tried to film an attack World War.
onanambulancecrew. They The 1943 execuliors were
were in hospital in confirmed by Sir Edmund
satisfactory condition. A Herring, wartime com-
police car ‘and a television mander of the lst Australian
vehicle were burned and Army, after opposition
police sald several other Labor MP Barry Jones
automobiles were over- termed the episode “the
turned. darkest secret in modern
The initial outbreak oc- Australian history.’
curred as police sought to in Parliament,
stop a fight in Moody Park, Jones suggested that official
which is located in a documents on the hangings
predominantly Mexican: have been removed to
American community: protect“the reputations of

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beached four miles from the
fishing port of Great Yar-
mouth, had leaked an
estimated 294,000 gallons of
cil,

An overnight wind shift
began washing oil ashore
before tugs could approach
to train a detergent spray on
it, but the tugs today were
spraying the oil still at sea. A
giant mechanical shovel was
building a sand .,xampart at
Corton to keep additional oil
off the beach. .

The spill came Jess than
two months after the
supertanker Amoco Cadiz
ran aground off northwest
France, broke up and spread
64.7 million gallons of oil on
the Brittany beaches in the
world's worst oil spill.

Australia hiding
‘darkest secret

those in judicial positions. at
the time, .

He asked how the 34 were
defended and if they had
understood the charges,.and
said the death sentences had
never been referred for
confirmation to ‘the then-
Labor government,

Papua New Guinea, made
independent three years ago,
was an Australian-ruled
territory when invaded by
Japan In the war.

Sir Edmund said: “We did
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LOW HEELS —

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distant areas controlled by-
the rebels and to prevent
movement of troops and
materiel during the day
when every truck oh the road
‘is a target. . :
DEATH FOR CIVILIANS
For civilians, the planes
are a source of death and
terror that keep life in the

clties and villages from-

returning to normal.

Eritrean rebels have been
fighting for independence
since Ethiopla annexed their
homeland in 1962. Victories
in the last two years have
brought the ELF and the
Eritrean People’s Liberation
Front control of the entire
countryside and all buta few
of the major cities.

Eritrea, a 115,000-square-
kilometre area, with a
population of three million,
provides Ethiopia -its only
access to the sea and is a
strategic spot in the Horn of
Ajrica for control of oil
traffic through the Red Sea.

Now that Ethiopia has suc-
ceeded, with Cuban and Rus-
sian help, in chasing Somali
troops from the contested
area of the Ogaden in the
southeast, the northern
province of Eritrea has
become the focus of activity.
Backing the ground troops
are F-5s left over from the
late Emperor Haile
Selassie’s era when Ethiopia
was a principal African ally
of the United States and
MiG-2is that have been
imported since the new
military regime proclaimed
itself revolutionary socialist.
ATTACK FEARED

ELF military leaders told
us they estimate 4,000 Cuban
troops, 35,000 Ethiopians and
100 Russian-built 3-54 tanks
are massed south -of
Erjtrea's border, poised for
a major attack. They said

airstrips, in neighboring |
' ‘Tigre province are being ex:
panded for intensified air .

strikes.
Most of
15,000 ELF troops are
concentrated in the area
between the border and
Asmara, the Eritrean capi-
tal near the coast, where be-
sieged Ethioplan troops
recently made unsuccessful
attempts to break through a
guerrilla noose around the

the estimated

city.

Guerrilla leaders say there
have been no night flights,
adding that the attacks
usually come in the early
morning and just before
dusk. The aircraft fly out of
' Asmara, which has been
under a guerrilla siege for
six months and is supplied by
air ; ;

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‘Quebec kidnapper escapes prison

PARIS (CP) — Jacques
Mesrine, who quit ar-
chitecture to embark on a
life of crime that included
the abduction of a Quebec
industrialist and the alleged
murder of two game war-
dens in that province,
escaped from a Paris prison

today.. .
Officials said Mesrine, 43,
serving two 20-year prison
terms in France, and two
other prisoners escaped by

, elimbing over the wall of La
_ Sante prison: in central

Paris.

Pollce fired on the three
men, killing one of Mesrine's
companions, but the other
two men escaped in a
waiting car, officials said.

The three prisoners were
armed with pistols, officials
said, It was not known how
they obtained the guns.
During & previous escape
from a Paris courtroom in
1973, Mesrine fled: with a
pisto] left in a washroom by
an accomplice,

He also escaped fram
prison in -Montreal while
serving a term for abuction

Suspect
arrested

BEIRUT (AP) _
Lebanese _ military
authorities have arrested a
Palestinian guerritla on
suspicion of plotting with a
Swiss woman to blow up a
Middle East Airlines plane
last week, a military
prosecutor said today.

-The woman, identified as
Nanni Albonico, 23, was
apprehended last Friday ‘at
‘Beirut International Airport
-as she was about to board a
jet for Zurich with a time
bomb in her handbag. The
bomb was set to go off three
hours later, officials said.

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his latest. prison term, he
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