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Page 2 ? January 23, 1985 Dateline THE GAMECOCK Death wis Conditions teri Associated Press NASHVILLE, TemT ? William Groscclosc is waiting to die. But death, he says, would be a relief compared with life on Death Row, a "Twilight Zone" with a constant stench, no sense of night or day, no exercise and no hope. ii la a piatc wncic gciuug a pmuw i%j aiccp on can be a problem, where cockroaches are the only companions for inmates confined 23 hours a day to windowless cells. It is, some say, like being "entombed." Tennessee's Death Row is the subject of a federal lawsuit by inmates who contend that conditions amount to cruel and unusual punishment barred by the U.S. Constitution. A judge is expected to decide the issue in a few weeks. During testimony that ended last week, the state did little to rebut witnesses who offered a revealing elimose into the bleak life on Death Row that prison consultant Seymour Halleck said was "the worst I've ever seen." The state contends that the U.S. Constitution requires that inmates receive only "adequate" care, and hinted that Death Row inmates may not be entitled to better conditions. Accused killer drops Associated Press TORONTO ? Cathy Evelyn SmithTa former rock singer accused of murdering comedian John BVclushi with injections of cocaine and heroin, has ended her fight against extradition to California and turned herself in to police. Brian Greenspan, attorney for the 37-yearold Toronto woman, said his cliont gave up her formal challenge of the extradition request after a 22-month fight because "discusworld today? Candidates recall jet that eras WASHINGTON - Two presidential their entourages had harrowing experiences o Airlines charter plane that crashed in Nevac people. "We feel a sense of pain and numbness and hi knew the crew members and we had grown to 1 each other," Jesse Jackson said Monday. Anita Dunn, formerly John Glenn's assist press secretary, said the Ohio senator used tl frightening flight into Iowa in February 1984. Those traveling with him said they were uri plane maae several attempts to lanci in moiix blinding snowstorm. Man says he sold boat to dru( COLUMBIA - A government witness test that two men alleged to be leaders of a major ma gling ring paid him $275,000 in cash for his s I Where ~ Does (Vella Carolina ?J Dine? ^ ^ Minima HUM I Welcome Mob x IS I 7 oz. Ribeye Potatc Bread Tea Salad Vclla's ?c 829 Knox Abbott Dr. Hours: 10:30 a h rible for inmates Inmates on depositions or court testimony echoed Halleck's opinion. "Basically, I'm depressed all the time," cotH D irViarr\ QiiYtAn ennfpn#r\ HuatK JUIU IMVIIUI VI UIIIIVII| ?.V( JVIIIVIIWVU IV UVUi 11 for a 1979 murder. Michael Dutton, warden of the Tennessee State Prison where the 41 Death Row inmates live, testified that security is a primary reason the condemned men are locked in their cells 23 hours a day with no jobs, educational programs or group religious services and little contact with the outside world. The cells, from 35 to 44 square feet, are oppressively hot in the summer, cold in the winter and are cock roach-infested, inmates testified. Halleck, a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina, said the isolation and lack of sunliaht is cnouah to drive the alreadv desperate men toward "further physical and mental deterioration." Interviewing inmates on Death Row last December, Halleck said he also felt "entombed," with no sense of night or day. He said the forced idleness "makes for depression and lethargy" and a higher risk of suicide. s extradition fight sions and negotiations" with the Los Angeles Counnty District Attorney's office "provided an acceptable basis for Miss Smith's voluntary departure." Greenspan said Smith would fly to Los /\ngcies lor a couri appearance mere ioaay. He refused to say if prosecutors had agreed to reduccd charges. "It just wouldn't be proper. It would be inappropriate to comment further," he told reporters. . . 1981. {1100 Leland James of Bayou 1 District Court that Michael hopefuls and both of Little River, S.C., a\ m tnc uaiaxy boat, the Kobin Gail II. Ja, killing 64 129 injured in con jrt because we enow and love GARY, Ind. - Two comr crash that injured 129 peopl ant campaign evening rush hour because su ic plane on a ed overhead electrical lines, line said. inerved as the Rescue crews had to use cr< ctiy during a irom tne wreckage Monday Bobby Joiner. But only 12 ol to require hospitalization. j dealers Soviet dissident n ified Monday irijuana smug- MOSCOW - The moi hrimp boat in Anatoly Scharansky says he .JTSg^course. * Back Special | MHMER ,3 ? I EXPIRES 1-28-85 |j (Dint In Only - USC ID required) pj rO h !?? . A!*.- I* i i ,:4 t Vella's Plaza 796-4629 >.m. - 12:00 midnight Fed uP||t ^SMlflyksKMttMMMflHj^^^^^Yl^ - 'luM * VI -sa BNinw%flMMnifl^^^^^B ju l a.W3 +*- t^t?|V.-' f-imis^BBF f "i^.' c.M^^itmEEA / ^. j ^jj^zsgr. '.fJB j./w^PP^S^HBBjB^EflpKB^^' * C>^^0 f,.-^-r: x iU^^^^~'"^"V~--'":r ' I .jfft // ^jff . ^.%,.. JcnriiFER WOOTEN I Th? Gamcco This squirrel takes a novel approach to eating in Fort Mi! S.C. camp hospital. a Batrc, Ala., testified in U.S. Ida Milgrom, speaking Thomas and Bowman Brown, in Moscow, said she visit* pproached him about buying his Mountains camp near P looking, but had gainec r^n\/#?rino lmuter train crash Scharansky, a leader c Soviet Union during the nuter trains in a head-on years imprisonment on e were on the same track during foreign nations. ib-zero temperatures had damaga spokesman for the commuter Po(jC0 WOll't Chi >wbars 10 free some of the people CHICAGo - A 68-ye. evening, sa.d Gary F.re Ch,ef ft ,he ,, ,n'un" wcrc smous cnou?h old man who found hi! won't be charged, a spol Harold Brown, who st scovers from illness knife and gun attacked I last week, surrendered I her of imnrisoned dissident search by police. has spent nine weeks in a labor f "irony's Pi I ofkjQ Sp?gh?ttl Spi [; Every Wadnosday Might After 2 p.m. Al?n TnrsHav Niuht and Saturday ^ - ? j o ? | Spaghetti Silad Bmragt | All Ton 2"]y A<t {JM | Can Eat $3.00 N^Sg Knox Abbo( * ___ 975 Knox Abbol use % 2 2 Cayce 794-5469 < ^ 5 ~| Widow finally ' j gets to drive ' J after 30 years * E From Atiociafd Prw? ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. i ? Getting a driver's license is ? f 1- U..i !imru iur .tunic pcupic, uui iui 75-ycar-old Marie Bailey, it's been a three-decade battle in which she hit a cow and had to wait out two broken^ bones. Bailey said she first started learning to drive in the 1950s when she and her husband, John, lived in Alaska. "He used to take me out i on country roads and let me drive the car, until on one drive she hit a cow. "I just barely hit it; it didn't die," but the experience soured her on driving for about 30 years.^^ she said. m She got a learner's permit in March 1983, but broke an i elbow and the permit expired while she was recuperating. She got a second permit in jffUi March 1984, after her hus- . band died, but broke her I H shoulder. Finally, on Jan.3, she returned to the road in driving lessons, and had her license two weeks later. "I think young peopled I catch on quicker," Bailey said. "One Friday, I couldn't make my turns and decided I was just going to hang it up." Her three daughters talked ck her out of quitting, but what they didn't tell her was that she was scheduled to take the driving test the following week. ; Monday to Western correspondents ed Scharansky Jan. 14-15 at the Ural erm that her son is thin and tiredI cnm? visj?? ntif cirtrfl ar%n?a roH n Y\m M .1UIIIV HUM appvniwvi %\J uv if the human rights movement in the 1970s, was sentenced in 1978 to 13 charges of passing intelligence to arge Chicago 'vigilante' ir-old plumber who says he shot a 1 stuck "a gun in my ear" is "a nice mself with his life threatened" and kesman for the state's attorney says, tys two masked youths brandishing a lim as he was leaving a grocery store JAn/iati nffor an viuuua/ biivi an iiiiviuitv iimvvuhj - Compiled from wire reports izza J HOURS 9 Mon-Sat lOam-lOprn J| 'i