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1 WatervilleWinslow Maine (207) 873 3341 TVol 78 Partly sunny High 63 to 68: Page 7 Dazzling debut 15 Mike is victorious in his first pitching appearance for the Boston Red box MaineSay Cashmere goats Willlhey create a new market for Maine farms? Dignity 10 Grand Rapids Mich boasts a soup kitchen with class It's called God's Kitchen yfX Kr i i 11 T2 ZZJ wttiwm I lb Saturday Sunday June 1 2 1991 The Weekend Edition 40 pages 40 Cents i fl W' ESk vIX aI Iv 1 x'? ah vl tSL 1 AP photo William Kennedy Smith talks with reporters riday after pleading innocent to sexual bat tery charges during his arraignment at Palm Beach County Courthouse in lorida Smith pleads innocent to rape charge By DAN SEWELL Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH la William Ken nedy Smith showed up at his arraignment riday to look the judge in the eye and personally plead '( innocentto raping a woman at his es tate not guilty your said Smith as he faced Circuit Judge Mary Lupo She accepted his plea on second degree sexual battery and misde 1 meanor battery charges and set an Aug 5 trial date lorida law require Smith to be present for his arraignment but he told reporters he flew in from his Washington home because ly this trial is the most important thing in my was important for me to come down and look at the judge in the eye and tell her not guilty And I did said the 30 year old neph ew of Sen Edward Kennedy "He was accom panied by his brother New York attorney Stephen Smith An attorney for the 29 year old woman who reported Smith assaulted her near the Kennedy estate swimming pool March 30 said she comment on plea will tell you in daily contact with her and her intention is to see that the process takes its said the attorney David Roth Dressed in a gray business suit Smith smiled at reporters only one member of the public showed up as a spectator and appeared to lis ten attentively during a 25 minute court session dominated by debate between his Miami attor ney Mark Schnapp and lead prosecutor Moira sfel Lasch on various motions 1 Schnapp said attorneys will seek dis missal of the case but needed more time to pre pare their motion Motions to dismiss normally must be filed before arraignment Lupo gave them until June 14 and set a June hearing for pending motions She then will More on SMITH Page 8 Inside Commentary Legalizing private property is the only way to bail out the Soviet economy Roberts column: Page 12 Lottery winners 204 and 0896 Verses be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work this man be blessed tn his deed 1224b Calendar21 Classified30 40 Comics20 21 Crossword21 Heloise20 Landers20 Letters13 Movies'19 Obituanes7 Sports1 5 18 22 Sportsmen Say22 TV listings1 9 Pentagon hit list rows Move boosts Loring Panel adds 36 bases Associated Press LIMESTONE Officials fighting to keep Loring Air orce Base open received a boost riday when two New York bases were targeted for closing and new information showed a wide discrepancy in cost estimates for the northern Maine base An attorney for the Save Loring Committee contended the new infor mation showed the Air orce had in flated its cost estimate for upgrading Loring by more than $100 million to justify closing the base The Base Closure and Realign ment Commission on riday added 36 military installations to the Penta list of 43 potential bases to close or scale back including Plattsburghs Air orce Base and Griffiss Air orce Base in New York state Some Maine officials have argued that Plattsburgh a base for 111 fighter bombers and KC 135 tankers should be closed The commission said the new list was preliminary but added that some of its candidates for closing may get the ax in place of others among the 43 installations targeted by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney Also riday Maine Sen William office released information' from the Air orce showing a discrep ancy of more than $100 million in esti mates of how much it would cost to upgrade Loring The Air orce pro vided the conflicting estimates in re sponse to a request from Cohen On May 16 officials at Loring esti mated that it would cost $26 million to improve roads communications equipment housing utilities and oth er areas of the base But on May 21 the Strategic Air More on LORING Page 8v By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON'" The govern ment's base closing commission on riday added 36 military installa tions including the Long Beach Na val Shipyard and five new for the Navy to a Pen tagon hit list that already had states throughout the nation pleading for re prieves The Defense Base Closure and Re alignment Commission in broaden ing its scope sought to allay community fears by stressing that its list represents a preliminary draft It said some of its candidates may get the ax in place of others among the 43 ajz installations targeted by Defense Sec retary Dick Cheney is not a list of closures nor is i it a list of recommended re said Commission chair man Jim Courter sets forth a wide array of The independent commission must 1 decide byJuly 1 whether to accept or irevise April recommenda tion to or scale back 31 major bases and 12 minor installations The commission which was ap pointed by President Bush and: ap proved by the Senate will pare down its own list following deliberations June 6 7 in Washington One member of the seven member panel will then visit any installation that becomes a closure candidate Courter during a tour of ort De vens in Ayer Mass said his commis sion will indeed make deletions and additions to the Pentagon list and out of fairness was providing states with ample advance notice by issuing its own list it will cause a stir in lots More on LIST Page 8 Bush receptive to Soviet aid plea flvnvW' flNM I I I rival' fS4WW' By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON President Bush said riday want to be in repairing the crisis rid den Soviet economy and said he was impressed by Mikhail blueprint for transforming his country into a free market system Bush reserved judgment on Soviet pleas for bib lions of dollars in Western aid after receiving special envoy said feeling more positive on a wide array of specific Still he declined to say whether he favoted accommodat ing desire to address the July summit in London of the industrial democracies Soviet officials who met with Bush said later that they expect him to ease longtime trade restrictions on Moscow and perhaps approve $15 billion in cred it guarantees allowing the Soviets to buy more US grain move is in the right declared Yevgeny Primakov special envoy He met with Bush after spending 7'2 hours this week explaining economic reform program a to senior administration officials and representa tives of the World Bank and International Monetary und liked what I heard and we have some deci sions ahead of us and not going to prejudge those Bush told reporters during a brief appearance in the Rose Garden He held 45 minutes of talks with Primakov and other Soviet officials in the Oval Office and then invited Primakov back for a private luncheon s1: upbeat comments were in sharp contrast to doubts raised by other administration officials who say rescue plan is too vague and fails to recognize the major efforts needed to trans AP form the centrally controlled Communist system President Bush chats with winners of the National Spelling Bee at the White House riday They are into a market economy 13 year old winner Joanne Lagatta left of Clintonville Wis runner up Maria Mathew 11 of Ster ling Ill and Todd Wallace 13 of Blackfoot Idaho More on BUSH Page 8 1 Police arrest lawmaker Charged with assaulting Waterville woman By ANTHONY CRISTAN Sentinel Staff State Rep Paul Kelley Simp son was arrested late Thursday by Waterville police and charged with assaulting a female compan ion in her city apartment But his alleged victim Deana owler said late riday that zy Simpson only trying to her and that she will ask that the charge against him be dropped Police said' Simpson 38 hit and choked owler in her first floor apartment at the Crestwood 4 Park complex off West River1 Road across from Thomas Col lege The Casco Democrat known commonly as Kelley Simpson was arrested at 10:40 pm out side the complex according to Waterville Patrolman Robert A Bickford Waterville rescue technicians examined owler at her apart ment and thought she might have suffered a fractured cheekbone She then was taken by police cruiser to the emergency room at Thayer Unit Mid Maine Medical Center where she was treated for cuts and bruises and released 91 391 I OS 30 KELLEY SIMPSON according to a nursing supervi sor Simpson was released on $25 personal recognizance bond and ordered to have no contact with the victim for 24 hours He is scheduled to be arraigned July 2 in Waterville District Court? On riday owler issued a statement by telephone in which she insisted Simpson was wrong fully charged Rep Kelley Simpson should nothave been charged with the owler 34 said from her apartment was only trying to get me to go to the hospital needed medical help zunder a lot of stress having trouble with my Speaking slowly and with her voice quavering owler added will do everything I can to see that the charges are Asked if anyone had asked or forced her to make the statements owler answered course According to police owler did not file charges against Simp son Instead police charged him with assault under the do mestic violence statute About 30 minutes after owler called the Morning Sentinel Sim pson returned a call made earlier in the evening to his Casco home charges are very se 1 rious and been advised not to make any public comment in the said Simpson who has been in the Legislature since 1984 and also owns a preschool a and a summer camp in Casco was involved in a situation in which police had no choice but More on SIMPSON Page 8 Three juveniles are suspects in 1 Newport arson By BRIAN LAMB Sentinel Correspondent NEWPORT A 13 year old boy was taken into custody Thursday night suspected of setting a fire in the Newport Junior High School building earlier that day The fire destroyed thousands of dollars in materials and blackened the interior of the ys school early Thursday morning Two other boys have also been implicated in a spree of rock throwing and vandalism through town and around the Newport elementary and junior high school yard culminating with arson around 2 am Thursday The rampage ended when one of the three all between ages 13 and 14 reportedly lit a drape inside the newly broken window of the eighth grade language arts room The school was monitored by an automatic alarm which tipped off a Penobscot County dispatcher who in turn called Newport police to investigate The fire discovered at 2:20 am was extinguished within 30 minutes by Newport firefighters with backup assistance from Pittsfield Structural damage to the concrete building was confined tothe language artsroqm butsoot from the fire blackened surfaces and walls throughout the entire school Classes however were able to resume normally riday morning after cleanup crews worked through the night Details about the three juveniles are being More on ARSON Page 8.