GUARANTEED THE BEST BUY IN TOWN! The AT-200 *5 • Chromoly Frame & Jumbo Fork • 1993 Shimano Altus C-10 21-Speed Shifting Hurry! Sale Ends 10-31-93 EUGENE lesport th Avanua a Euaaha • 343-1 HOURi M S.i « 6 Sum U' f) 446 East 13th Avanua • Eugaha • 343-5362 Accidents Happen. Make sure you’re covered! • Check Out Student Health Insurance • Additional Catastrophic Coverage Enrollment Period Sept. 20-Oct. 8 Student I lealth Center Room 101 • J46-J702 Glitz masked perversion, sons say EESESZEn l.OS ANGELES (AP) — By Hollywood standards, jose Menendez* life was a classic success story — a Cuban immigrant who married a beauty queen, had two good looking athletic sons and built an entertainment industry fortune But his sons say the glitzy surface of their privi leged life hid the dark secret of their father's sex ual perversion They ended up shotgunning their parents to death in their Beverly Mills mansion Kor sheer drama, it was a bloody finale worthy of Shakespeare, Now. Krik and Lyle Menendez have lifted the i urtain on a life they say was a private corner of hell Testimony about their father's alleged sexu al torture has been so extreme that some choose not to believe it. Defense team adviser Paul Mones says extreme abuse amounting to torture can drive a son or daughter to kill. "Denial and shock permeate the fabric of these ijises," the attorney says in his Iniok When a Child Kills. In two weeks of grim testimony. Krik and Lyle tearfully portrayed their father as a sadistic demon who suxually tortured Krik for 12 years and raped Lyle at age seven. They said shame kept them silent through the years. "I just wanted mure than anything else that when 1 died no one would find out this was hap pening to me," Erik said. The brothers contend death threats from their parents, brought on by Lyle's threat to expose the alleged sexual abuse if it didn't cease, led them to kill. Prosecutors claim greed for inheritance mon ey was the motive. Among those who view the brothers' terrifying tale with skepticism is author Ronald Soble. who is writing a book on the case. Soble. who began researching the story soon after the August 1<I8Q killings, said he looked hard for someone to corroborate sexual abuse claims, but found no one "I do totally believe Jose was extremely strict with his sons and vou could argue that he was mentally abusive." Soble said. "He did run his dinner table like a corporate meeting. I believe he did take a strap to these kids "But I have to tell you in all umdor 1 have a great deal of difficulty with the testimony of the broth ‘He did run Ns dinner table like a corporate meeting. I believe he did take a strap to these kids.' Ronald Soble. writing book on case i*rs that (he father raped them ! just could not find anvone who suggested to mo that he forced his sons into these gross sex nets "Of course. I wasn't there," Soble said ' ' ■ 1 there are those who would argue only the bri :s know." Trial witnesses have painted lose Menendez as a controlling, dominating father. His sister, Marta Cano, 1 what she admired most about him was his ahilitv to intimidate people. "He was a great humiliator." said author Dominick Dunne, who is covering the trial for Vanity Fair "The people who were above him admired him enormously ... but anyone who worked under him despised him. He had a savage manner of speaking to people,” Menendez saved his company. Live Entertain ment, from imminent bankruptcy and turned it into a profitable business. As chief executive of the video distribution company, he was earning a $500,000 salary and was due for an $850,000 bonus the year he died. The Menendez family revered Jose's success and sought to preserve that memory. But in recent months, relatives have come forward to describe his dark side. “They had a beautiful image of what the family name was," Cano said. "1 wish 1 never had to change that,” Menendez's mother, Maria, a constant specta tor at the start of trial, stopped attending w'hen tes timony turned to abuse. Family intimates say she disapproves of the defense. Business associates have yet to testify. In fact, not a single witness has come forward to say a good word about Jose. His longtime personal assistant. Marzie Eisen lierg, said Friday she believes the public, is getting a one-sided view of her ex-boss. "1 can't say anything bad about him," she said. But she acknowledged his demanding style. 1-800-COLLECT America’s Inexpensive Way To Call Someone Collect Dial it instead of “0" and save up to 44%. For long <SMMn» ooiJ*ci c*U« Vi AT*T <?j»rmiar duL«J 3 oar u.ujrr-n* ouu