Oregon daily emerald., July 17, 1997, Page 2, Image 2

Planetarium offers
live images of Mars
Casual Mars observers have the
perfect opportunity to be brought
up to date on the latest from the
Red Planet, Lane ESD Planetarium
officials say.
The planetarium, located at 2300
Leo Harris Parkway, wili download
live images from NASA’s Mars
rover mission.
Images 20 feet by 20 feet will be
projected onto the dome screen in
the planetarium during the Mars
program at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
“We are providing what we think
are the latest images and informa
tion on the excitement that is taking
place,” planetarium Director Jon
Elvert said.
After the presentation by the
TODAY’S NEWS
planetarium staff, astronomer John
Dobson will give an outdoor view
ing session of Mars, Venus and oth
er celestial bodies.
The planetarium has about 125
seats and has sold out similar
shows before.
Tickets go on sale at 7 p.m. Sun
day. Officials recommend showing
up at least 15 minutes before the
show to be guaranteed a ticket.
Tickets can be reserved by calling
461 -8227 by 5 p’m. Friday. The
price is $3 for adults and $2 for chil
dren.
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the Cuban peoples what it means as a special peri
od of time in Cuba due to the blockade.”
Fox is referring to the U.S. blockade imposed on
Cuba by the Helms-Burton Act.
“Technically the act prevents people from going to
Cuba. It’s legal to travel to Cuba, but you can’t spend
any money there,” she said. “You’re not allowed to
go if you spend money unless you have a special li
cense granted by the U.S. Department of the Trea
sury.”
However, the Department of the Treasury denied
licenses for the students’ travel to Cuba. “The reason
they denied it was because it was not an educational
festival,” Fox said.
“[The Treasury Department] received many letters
from the international community who were ap
palled that they had denied the licenses,” she said.
One student, who preferred to remain anony
mous, remained optimistic. “I feel that they will
eventually give us the license to travel,” he said. “I
feel that they will reverse their decision. We’re just
trying to work toward world peace. 1 don’t know
why they won’t let us go to Cuba and work on is
sues of health care and education, economic democ
racy and environmental protection.”
He and nearly 1,000 Americans still plan on at
tending.
“Even if the students had received a license, they
still couldn’t make a financial transaction in Cuba.
The license would just give it a sanction,” Fox said.
However, the danger of prosecution is real. “Uni
versities have been asked to release the names of
students who go to Cuba without licenses,” Fox
said.
Steven Pinter, chief of licensing at the U.S. De
partment of the Treasury, was not available this
week for comment.
Was it mistaken or
stolen identity?
OAKLAND, Calif. — Neighbors
rallied around drug-fighting ac
tivist Stevie Allman when her
home was firebombed. The gover
nor even offered a $50,000 reward
to catch the vengeful dealers sus
pected in the attack.
But then a badly decomposed
body was found in a freezer in the
charred ruins. And now police
say the woman claiming to be Ms.
Allman is really her sister.
The sister is suspected of
killing Ms. Allman and stealing
her identity, perhaps to cash her
pension checks.
“This is the stuff of a Holly
wood movie,” Capt. Peter Dunbar
said.
Sarah Allman, 47 — who is
similar in height and build to her
52-year-old sister — was booked
Wednesday for investigation of
murder, forgery and giving a false
name to police.
Although the body found in the
freezer was so decomposed that
police could not say for sure the
identity, sex and cause of death, it
was widely believed to be that of
Stevie, who had lived with her
sister for 20 years.
After the July 1 firebombing,
authorities reported that Stevie
Allman had been hospitalized for
burns. The speculation was that
she was the victim of neighbor
hood drug pushers angry that she
videotaped their deals and turned
the evidence over to police.
After the fire, she was seen by
the neighborhood as a hero who
literally risked her skin to fight
drugs. Gov. Pete Wilson offered a
$50,000 award for the conviction
of those involved in the burning,
and the woman who said she was
Stevie issued a statement blaming
neighborhood dealers.
“I have no doubt they intended
to murder me and bum the house
down on top of me,” the state
THAN FICTION
ment said. “Their warped minds
thought the act would clear the
way to do their dirty dealing ...
and at the same time scare every
one else along 50th Avenue and
beyond into a submissive terrified
slave state.”
“From the beginning, she’s
seemed like a crime victim” Dun
bar said.
But police began to doubt the
story last week, and reopened the
case. On Tuesday, detectives aid
ed by a search dog found the body
in the freezer.
At that point, the woman
claiming to be Stevie was brought
in for questioning. After police
told her they had her fingerprints
from a 1971 prostitution arrest,
the woman admitted she was
Sarah, one of 11 Allman siblings.
Detectives said Sarah had ap
parently been using Stevie’s iden
tification for up to two years.
They speculated that it may have
been Sarah, not Stevie, who pro
vided the drug deal tapes, and
they say they have determined it
was Sarah, not Stevie, who was
the one hospitalized for burns af
ter the firebombing.
Police said the burns Sarah suf
fered to her arms and legs were
“splash bums,” which usually
happen when an arsonist sets a
fire.
Man attacks City Hall
official with hatchet
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A man who
frequently visited City Hall to
challenge Buffalo’s environmen
tal policies attacked a city em
ployee with a hatchet, putting a
one-inch gash in the victim’s fore
head, police said.
Vincent J. DiPasquale, 56, was
arrested immediately, after calm
ly agreeing to accompany another
city employee into a coffee break
room. He was jailed on charges of
assault and possession of a
weapon.
“We don’t know what state of
mind he was in,” Lt. Duane Rizzo
said. “All of the sudden he went
totally bonkers and pulled a
hatchet out of the backpack he
had with him.”
Anthony Luppino, 47, a Plan
ning Division employee, received
stitches after the attack in his of
fice Tuesday.
DiPasquale left the ax behind in
Luppino’s office and was “almost
in a stupor” as he awaited police,
City Planner Frank Manuele said.
DiPasquale worked as a biolo
gist in West Virginia before wag
ing an unsuccessful bid for Con
gress in 1982. But in recent years
he had become familiar to many
City Hall employees as a frequent
caller and visitor.
“He kind of went downhill,”
said Steve Banko, a spokesman
for Mayor Anthony Masiello. “He
really became unglued.”
DiPasquale was once ejected
from an Environmental Manage
ment Commission meeting for
banging his head on a table in a
protest against the board’s activi
ty, Banko said.
Enreetm
The page one headline in Tues- j
day’s Emerald should have read
“Graduate students may lose tax
benefit for tuition."
Olympic double-gold medalist
Michael Johnson was incorrectly
identified in Tuesday’s Emerald.
Olympian Jon Drummond was the [
athlete pictured.
The Emerald regrets the errors.
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