From Central Washington's News Leader, with Heidi Tauber and Brian Davis-Sports, this is
KIMA Newsbeat at 11.
Good evening and thanks for joining us this Thursday night.
Led by Washington Congressman Mike Lowry, more than 100 Democrats announced plans today
to sue the President to force him to invoke the War Powers Act.
Critics of U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf say the territory is too dangerous and
Congress must have a say in deployment in U.S. troops.
Todd Smith has more on the action from Washington, D.C.
With the accidental deaths of 37 sailors aboard the USS Stark, the threat to life aboard the
tanker Bridgerton when it hit a mine, the threat mines now pose to U.S. Navy escorts
and intensified attack threats coming from Iran.
Many on Capitol Hill believe the President should invoke the War Powers Act because the
U.S. is at the brink of getting involved in an undeclared war.
Since the administration won't do it, we have little choice but to go to the courts and
see that the laws complied with.
The suit against the President was filed in U.S. Federal District Court in Washington
by Congressman Mike Lowry on behalf of 107 House and Senate Democrats.
When American Armed Forces are put into a condition of imminent hostilities, the President
must submit to Congress within 48 hours of that time a report detailing the circumstances
involved in that.
And then Congress, under the law, has 60 days by which to act on that.
It's another Vietnam Brock Adams is trying to avoid.
We need to have the American people, the Congress of the United States, and the administration
all together in one policy for a long-term commitment in the Gulf.
How many young men have to die?
How many have to die before he will come to the United States Congress and fully consult
with us?
With no guarantees, a final court ruling will be favorable.
It is a long legal battle that these members of Congress now face.
With a first ruling and subsequent appeals, perhaps as far as the U.S. Supreme Court,
Lowry says it will be late fall or early winter before he or any of the other members of Congress
know whether their lawsuit, which is the largest suit Congress has ever filed against the President,
is successful.
Meanwhile, one of the ships that caused so much concern was open to the media today.
The gangplanks to the USS Stark were open to the press for the first time since the
ship was hit by an Iraqi missile in May.
The areas destroyed or damaged by the exploding missiles were cleaned of debris in advance
of today's tour, but the blackened walls stood exposed and wires hanging down into the open
spaces were still plainly visible.
Some bulkheads had already been replaced before today's tour.
Some holes created by shrapnel were covered over with aluminum patches.
The stricken frigate was the computer center of the U.S. ship.
Thirty-seven soldiers died in the attacks, which is believed to have been an accident.
The Boeing Company got sympathy but little else from Governor Booth Gardner and legislative
leaders today in response to the company's request for emergency anti-takeover legislation.
Boeing is asking lawmakers to impose a five-year freeze on the sale of assets or other transactions
by a corporate raider.
Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens intends to buy up to 15 percent of the company's stock.
Today in Seattle, Gardner and state lawmakers stopped just short of predicting passage of
a Boeing bill during the one-day special session planned for Monday.
Seven committees from the House and Senate will hold a special hearing on the issue tomorrow
in Olympia.
Two dozen protesters were arrested and hauled away from two separate protests at the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation today.
Although the demonstrations were well publicized in advance, one group splintered off in the
middle of the night and nearly made it to a high-security area of the reservation.
NewsBeats' Greg Hirakawa has more on the annual event to mark the bombing of Hiroshima.
Energy department officials say it came as no surprise to them when about 60 protesters
commandeered the lobby of the federal building early this morning.
The group sang the usual songs of peace and harmony while blocking the building's main
entrance.
At least one worker trying to get to his office was visibly annoyed.
I just don't think I should let them in here, carting them off one by one.
They should have just, you know, heard them up and moved them all out.
It's kind of ridiculous.
But the 20-minute sit-in remembering the bombing of Hiroshima had an unusual twist this year.
An apparent federal worker approached one of the protesters, apparently lending a sympathetic
ear.
It was enough to move Ruth Mandelbaum to tears.
She was trying to talk me out, but I could tell that she was beginning to break down
and that she was giving in and that she really wanted to support us.
Is she working here in the building?
Yes, she does.
She's a DOE worker.
Fourteen protesters were eventually arrested here, but a splinter group of ten more had
been arrested earlier in the day on the reservation itself.
And officials admit they were taken by surprise by this splinter group, as without warning
they climbed over fences presumably at around four in the morning, making it all the way
to the sensitive 200 West area before being captured two hours later.
According to a DOE official, the arrests occurred without incident.
The matter is now in the hands of the FBI.
For peace marches, roots for their efforts may soon be realized.
Only a year ago, Hanford was one of three finalists for the nation's first nuclear waste
repository.
Now, that's in doubt.
Likewise, is the future of Hanford's controversial N-reactor, the brunt of today's protest.
Still protesters say the government's actions have not been enough.
The problem is that what's being talked about now is a new production reactor that may go
to the Savannah River facility.
We don't want a new production reactor.
We don't want another area of the country to be poisoned.
Protesters say the wheels putting a possible end to plutonium production at Hanford are
moving too slowly, but they admit now they are at least moving.
In Richland, I'm Greg Kyrakawa for Newsbeat.
And tonight, the Benton County Sheriff's Office says at least eight of the protesters who
refuse to give their names are being detained in the county jail in Kennewick.
Six others pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal trespass and were sentenced to one day in
jail and fined $25 each.
Former Ghost Riders Motorcycle Club national president Alvin Hegge was returned to Spokane
under heavy guard today in preparation for his trial in the shooting death of Spokane
Police Detective Brian Orchard.
The 46-year-old Hegge has been in a Wisconsin prison serving a life sentence for murder,
arson, and insurance fraud.
Hegge is scheduled to appear before Spokane County District Court Judge Daniel Moggs
at 1 o'clock tomorrow.
He will also be asked whether he has an attorney or if he needs one to be appointed.
An 18-year-old Yakima man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide today and he'll spend two
months in jail.
Officials say the normal sentence for vehicular homicide is 15 to 20 months.
The accident happened in early July on State Route 12 near the Nelson Bridges east of Glebe.
Joaquin de Villa was accused of driving with disregard for the safety of others when his
car crossed the center line and struck another car head on.
The driver of that car, 82-year-old Robert K.U. of Natchez, died.
De Villa's attorney says in the portion of the law De Villa was charged with, the state
must prove more than just negligence to win the case.
The lawyer says because of the facts of the case that might have been difficult to do
and he went on to say that if the case went to court there was a good chance De Villa
would have been convicted.
What began as a murder investigation in Marlin, Texas has become a search for more than 50
boys who may have had sexual contact with a man who has tested positive for AIDS.
Investigators have begun contacting dozens of parents of children in Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Mexico whose names were on the man's computer.
The suspected child molester 38-year-old Jimmy Etheridge was shot to death June 29th by a
16-year-old live-in companion.
Holly Selage has more on that story.
38-year-old Jimmy Etheridge lived in Marlin for a year and a half until his life was ended
June 29th by a 16-year-old youth who shot him in the head.
When police began to investigate the case information began to unravel.
Blood analysis released with autopsy results indicate Etheridge had been exposed to the
AIDS virus and books, magazines and photographs found in his home proved Etheridge was a pedophile,
a person who liked sexual contact with children.
Although Etheridge did not have the actual AIDS virus he had been exposed to it and Falls
County authorities are concerned with how many youngsters he in return may have also
exposed to the deadly disease.
I think it's far too early to say that but I do feel very strongly that we should look
at this as an opportunity to educate our youth and parents and teachers and just before it
gets any further.
Police say it's difficult getting information from children although Etheridge left some
tracks uncovered.
Mr. Etheridge kept very accurate records of who he associated with.
He also put down the date and where he met the people.
Meanwhile the teenager who was arrested for shooting Jimmy Etheridge has had murder charges
dropped against him by District Attorney Thomas Seehan for lack of evidence.
And a hospital that may have been able to treat any of the boys who may test positive
for that disease must close its doors.
The nation's first facility devoted to exclusive treatment of AIDS patients is closing because
of heavy financial losses.
Houston's Institute for Disease and Analogical Disorders plans to phase out all programs
and services within a year.
Officials say the hospital has lost more than $8 million since it opened last September
reportedly due in part to treating patients without health insurance.
The facility is also on the forefront of research into that disease and will continue its work
for the next 12 months with a $5.8 million federal research grant.
In sports tonight, Brian Davis, a wild one in the Kingdome, the Mariners go nuts and
pull it off the wind.
They really did go crazy.
They got a lot of runs, but early on there was a little bit of worry because a very unusual
thing happened early in the game.
Could have cost them later on.
We'll show you what happened at the Kingdome tonight.
Plus we'll take a look at the rest of the sports.
Stay with us.
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Well, the Mariners are glad to be back home with the Dome tonight, starting off a four-game
weekend set against the California Angels.
And it was a wild one.
Let's take a look at the highlights from the Kingdome.
Mariners score Willie Frazier's wild pitch.
Gets Donnie Moses home.
It was 1-0 in the third.
Then a crazy play.
Ken Phelps with two aboard.
That's an absolute moonshot for a three-run home run, right?
Wrong.
Let's take one more look at it and we will tell you why.
Here's a slow motion look.
The ball hits the speaker way on the top of the...
Here's a slow motion look.
The ball hits the speaker way on the top of the Kingdome roof.
It was in play.
The speaker was not outside of the fence.
And that means the ball is still in play.
It bounds foul.
It saves foul.
He later was out.
Bob Boon then singles in Doug Desensei, who comes steaming home from second to throw.
Just a little bit late.
Game was tied 1-1.
The Angels led 2-1 after the inning.
Then the bottom of the third with the Angels leading 3-2.
Mariners have one on base.
Two out.
Jim Pressley just does get that one over the wall.
It was 4-3 in favor of the Mariners.
Bottom of the fifth with the M's on top.
5-3.
Phelps gets a double in the left center field.
Two runs score.
They lead 7-3.
They add five more in the sixth inning.
They go on for a 15-4 win.
Moving down the scoreboard, Minnesota moves back a game ahead of Oakland in the AL West
Milwaukee over Baltimore.
Cleveland rips Toronto 14-5.
Detroit over the Yanks 12-5.
In the National League, San Diego beats Atlanta.
Metz split past the Cubs.
St. Louis 5-2 winners.
And Montreal beats Pittsburgh 6-3.
Well veteran golfer Bobby Watkins, who has never claimed a victory on the pro golfer's
tour, has the lead after one round of play at the PGA Championship in Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida.
Now one of the few people who liked the weather today was the Pelican, but Watkins didn't
find it too bad himself.
This is a nice shot right here.
Now he winds up with six birdies on the day.
Moving to the leaderboard, you can see he is at minus 4-68, but he is closely shadowed
by David Edwards and Fred Funk.
Six other golfers are tied at minus 2.
Well one of the bright spots for the Seahawks at yesterday's scrimmage with the Houston
Oilers was the emergence of rookie quarterback Sammy Garza, who threw for both of the Seahawks
touchdowns against the Oilers defense.
Ron Callen reports on the Hawks' fifth round draft pick from Texas El Paso.
The number five on his back is fitting.
Sammy Garza is the Seahawks' fifth string quarterback.
His chances of making the final 45-man roster are in the category called long shot.
But that doesn't bother the rookie from Texas El Paso.
Yesterday he threw a couple of touchdown passes in the scrimmage against Houston.
Well I was pretty fired up I guess.
I was trying not to be over excited.
I just wanted to go out there and do my job.
I didn't want to forget my assignments.
That was first of all, I didn't want to go out there and get blanked and go crazy and
just throw the ball all over the place.
So that was the first thing I wanted to do, just go out there and be calm, be poised and
just get my assignments.
Garza of course is looking up at some formidable competition to make the Seahawk roster.
But performances like the one he had yesterday can only help.
For me that's my first step and right now I need to prove to all the coaches and everybody
like that that I can play.
So I guess that's like I said, it's a big step forward and hopefully it will continue.
If Garza can continue to impress the Seahawk coaches, he may get another chance to show
what he can do in the preseason opener next week against the Los Angeles Rams.
And the Seahawks announced today that veteran nose tackle Reggie Kinlaw is hanging it up
after eight seasons in the NFL.
He played six of those years as the Raiders before the Seahawks claimed him on waivers
in 1985.
And veteran offensive tackle Ron Essink walked out of camp today.
Essink, a 10th round draft pick in 1980, has played in 83 games for the Hawks.
But he was coming back this year from elbow surgery that caused him to miss all of last
season.
He was also struggling with a groin muscle injury.
Team president Mike McCormick said that Essink had just been feeling down in the dumps lately
and I saw an interview with him the other day.
He sounded pretty enthusiastic about coming back but sometimes the mind is willing but
the body doesn't cooperate.
It seems like that might be sort of the problems he's having.
Especially in football, so young, the mind, the body isn't very willing.
Yeah but in football terms though you age rather quickly than you really do.
All right Brian, thanks a lot.
Coming up here later on newsbeat a local chemist has been told to clean up his act and salvagers
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Yakima chemist today denied he's maintaining toxic chemicals dangerous to the public in
a North First Avenue warehouse.
Jay Woods has been told by the Department of Ecology to clean up the old warehouse dehydrated
foods plant.
The DOE says the warehouse is full of dangerous chemicals and that some of them are in leaky
containers.
But Woods says only some fertilizer and copper dust bags are leaking, adding that if the
DOE will show him the leaking chemicals, he'll take care of the problem.
Woods says he has been in the process of moving his laboratory supplies and equipment to a
site north of the Terrace Heights landfill, but he's not sure he can move the rest of
it because the DOE has labeled it hazardous waste.
The number of domestic violence cases is on the rise in Yakima County and officials say
that's due to a new state law which requires officers to arrest the person responsible
in such incidents.
As NewsBeach's Kathy Comedier reports, the law has placed a heavy workload on police
and related services.
Yakima Police Officer Chuck Stacey has served on the force for 19 years.
He says the difference in the number of domestic violence calls this year is quite noticeable,
about one or two a night.
They tend to tie us up for 45 minutes to an hour.
We have to take someone into custody if there is violence involved in the situation.
And fill out the paperwork as well as transport the suspects to jail.
Between January and June of 1987, 476 domestic violence calls were reported by YPD, with
more than 200 contact orders served.
But those figures don't include calls where no evidence of violence was found.
Captain Tony Wentz agrees the caseloads create a substantial burden on the patrol officer's
time, but it's the law.
You're committed to do that.
We have no alternatives.
And so if we do have a case where it takes some searching to find somebody involved in
a domestic violence incident and arrest that person, then we're tied up for that length
of time.
The growing complaints of time and manpower devoted to domestic violence cases isn't limited
to the police department.
After a report has been filed, it is then directed here to the prosecuting attorney's
office.
I'm spending most of my time on the domestic violence cases, and it does affect my caseload
up here with respect to other cases and how much time I'm able to devote to the other
cases.
A sentiment Captain Wentz echoes, referring to the long-term impact of mandated legislation
as an end to police performing traditional services.
Why aren't you in my neighborhood and why don't we see a police car?
Well, the reason they don't is because they're busy answering calls, so we don't have time
to patrol.
Kathy Comigio reporting for NewsBeat.
A group of hardworking volunteers has begun the long process of converting the old Huntsinger
warehouse into the new Union Gospel mission.
While the official plans have yet to be completed, workmen are already painting and installing
new windows.
Union Gospel Executive Director Roger Phillips says the current focus is on the front part
of the building.
He predicts they'll be able to move into that section within a year.
The entire project isn't expected to be finished until 1989, and the new building will double
the capacity of the current mission and provide housing services for families as well as single
homeless people.
We have to redo the whole thing, to be real honest, and we're having to refurbish the
whole building, trying to draw plans that will work in warehouse type of situations.
And it's going to be beautiful, but to people who do not know anything about construction,
they walk in and they say, oh, how will you ever do anything with an old warehouse like
this?
Phillips also says he's received about $200,000 so far toward the $1 million project.
Only three years ago, two Sunnyside hospitals became one after administrators decided the
local economy couldn't support both institutions.
And since the two merged, the reorganized Sunnyside Community Hospital has become so
efficient and so busy that an expansion project is planned.
Newsbeat's Colleen Bagnell has the details.
It was only a few years ago that Sunnyside Val...