PAGE 14A Laredo Morning Times Saturday, July 31, 1999
*Money
(Continued from Page 1A) Wednesday. “This is just another example
coming in to poison our streets Reba said the cash will be of how we can work so well
and our community,” said Maria sent to Washington D.C. together,” said Laredo Police
Reba, director of field opera- The federal government will Chief Agustine Dovalina III.
tions for Customs in Laredo. keep 20 percent. “This is a great way, if not the
The driver of the truck was The remainder will be divided best way, to take drugs off the
turned loose after extensive between the law enforcement street.”
questioning. agencies that took part in the Gene Garza, port director for
“He was just a driver who operation leading to the Customs, said the agency has
transports trailers to and from seizure. seized $2.5 million in cash
the United States,” Officials said the money was between Oct. 1998 and May
Krockenberger said. headed to Mexico in exchange 1999.
Agents made the find late for a drug shipment.
*Killer
(Continued from Page 1A) of 15 days beginning June 9, Atlanta’s Buckhead commer-
Barton settled with the insur- and the trading resulted in an cial district, Barton fled to the
ance company for $450,000, approximate $105,000 loss. city’s northern suburbs.
according to federal court All-Tech Investment Group He shot himself in the head
records. Of that, $150,000 was would not release any details when he was cornered by
to be held by Barton for his of his trading. police about five hours after
children. “I wake up at night so afraid, the manhunt began.
After the rest was divided so terrified that I couldn’t be The bizarre letter left an
among Barton’s lawyers and that afraid while awake. It has image of a person far different AP Photo
his children’s temporary taken its toll,” Barton wrote. “I from the doting father and Boy Firefighting
guardian, Barton was left with have come to hate this life and Scout volunteer that neighbors A bomber drops fire retardant on the Swaney fire near Whitefish, Mont., Thursday. About 100 firefighters are
about $194,000. this system of things. I have described. He did homework battling the blaze which is threatening several structures in the rural Star Meadows area west of Whitefish.
It was unclear whether Barton come to have no hope.” with his son and stayed up late
had used the insurance money He killed his family by hitting playing video games with his
to begin his stock-trading
career.
The note also referred to an
overpowering fear that drove
them with a hammer while they
slept and holding them under-
water in the tub to make sure
they wouldn’t wake up. Later,
children.
Neighbors were shocked to
see his photo all over TV
Thursday.
Tripp indicted on tap charges
him to murder, but contained he tucked the children’s bodies Sabrina Stowers, a former BY GREG TOPPO with Clinton in testimony they Mrs. Tripp, 49, has said she
no references to his recent into bed with their favorite toys. neighbor in Morrow, said Associated Press Writer expected to have to give for began taping her friend’s phone
financial losses. Barton’s note focused mostly Barton never seemed Paula Jones’ sexual harass- calls to protect herself because
Officials at Momentum on his 11-year-old son, stressed, even though he ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — Linda ment lawsuit against the presi- she was being pressured by
Securities said Barton traded Matthew, and 7-year-old worked in the pressure-cooker Tripp, whose secretly recorded dent. Ms. Lewinsky to lie in Mrs.
at the Atlanta office for a total daughter, Mychelle. world of day trading. phone conversations with Mrs. Tripp also was charged Jones’ lawsuit against the pres-
“I killed the children to Barton drove Matthew and
Monica Lewinsky led to the with disclosing the contents of ident.
exchange them for five minutes Ms. Stower’s son, Brian, to Boy
*Dengue of pain for a lifetime of pain,”
he wrote. “I forced myself to do
Scouts every Tuesday, she
said. And he would play video
impeachment of President
Clinton, was charged with illegal
that conversation to Newsweek
magazine, which published a
Ms. Lewinsky confided her
sexual encounters with the
(Continued from Page 1A) it to keep them from suffering games with the boys during wiretapping on Friday, making partial transcript of a Tripp- president to Mrs. Tripp after the
cases have been reported in so much later.” sleepovers, always getting her the only major figure in the Lewinsky phone call on Feb. 2, pair became friends while work-
Mexico, but health officials in Dave M. Davis, a forensic them to school on time the next sex scandal to face a criminal 1998. A spokeswoman for ing together at the Pentagon.
Laredo are so concerned that psychiatrist and director of the day. charge. Newsweek, Jann Angilella, said Ms. Lewinsky wanted Mrs. Tripp
they loaned two insecticide psychiatric clinic at Piedmont Kent Woerner, principal of A grand jury indicted Mrs. magazine officials would not to deny knowledge of the rela-
fogging machines – which ride Hospital in Atlanta, said McGarrah Elementary School Tripp on two counts of breaking comment on the proceeding. tionship in an affidavit for Mrs.
on the back of pickups – to Barton’s letter indicates he was in Morrow, said Barton was Maryland’s wiretapping law. The White House and repre- Jones’ sexual harassment
their counterparts across the severely depressed and para- active and concerned with his Each offense could carry up to sentatives for Ms. Lewinsky case.
river. noid. children’s education. Despite five years in prison and a also declined to comment. Mrs. Tripp said Ms. Lewinsky
In Laredo, meanwhile, a team “When we have these multi- their mother’s murder, the chil- $10,000 fine if she were to be It was Mrs. Tripp’s more than also wanted her to lie about her
of workers armed with the ple murderers, who are quite dren never exhibited emotional convicted. 20 hours of recordings that knowledge of an alleged sexual
machines takes to the streets different from serial killers, they problems, Woerner said. Mrs. Tripp’s spokesman, Philip launched the independent advance by the president
every morning before dawn, tend to kill people like them- Michael Hauptman, Barton’s Coughter, called the indictment counsel investigation of against White House volunteer
Robinson said. selves,” Davis said, noting former criminal lawyer, said the “the most disgraceful, transpar- Clinton’s relationship with Ms. Kathleen Willey.
Currently, workers are out Barton killed other stock gunman was a knowledgeable ent campaign of politically moti- Lewinsky, a former White Starr gave Ms. Lewinsky
spraying six nights a week, traders. chemist who could have taken vated vengeance in recent House intern. immunity from prosecution in
from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. Barton was worried that his even more lives than he did. American history.” The recordings of the two return for her testimony against
“We’ve always had a cam- mental problems would be “While this thing is tragic, I Her lawyers suggested Mrs. women’s rambling and some- Clinton.
paign to knock down mosqui- passed on. don’t think the city realizes how
Tripp should be protected as a times ribald conversations were New York book agent
toes or else life in Laredo “The fears of the father are lucky we are,” Hauptman said.
transferred to the son. It was government whistleblower, and released publicly by the House Lucianne Goldberg, who testi-
would be quite unpleasant,” “With his extensive knowl-
from my father to me and from edge of chemistry and the said they would challenge the Judiciary Committee before the fied in Starr’s investigation last
Robinson said. state’s authority to bring House voted to impeach Clinton November, said she had urged
Doctors in Nuevo Laredo are me to my son,” he said. “I had availability of chemicals on the
to take him with me.” open market, he could have charges because she was given for perjury and obstruction. He Mrs. Tripp to start taping.
waiting to find out if dozens of federal immunity by was acquitted last Feb. 12 after Mrs. Tripp also talked with Ms.
blood samples sent to the The notes, written on walked into that building with a
Wednesday, also said: “I don’t homemade bomb sufficient to Independent Counsel Kenneth a Senate trial. Goldberg about writing a tell-all
Secretaria de Salud laborato- Starr when she turned over the Maryland’s wiretap law, which book about her years at the
plan to live very much longer. blow up the whole building.”
ry in Mexico City contain the tapes. is infrequently prosecuted, for- White House.
Just long enough to kill as
disease. State Prosecutor Stephen bids taping phone conversa- Clinton administration aide
many of the people that greed-
The Aedes aegypti mosquito ily sought my destruction.” Montanarelli waved off sugges- tions without the other party’s Bob Weiner — who was ques-
reproduces by depositing its After the shooting spree in tions that the case would be consent. tioned by Starr’s team about his
eggs on the sides of artificial viewed as politically motivated. Ignorance of the law is a valid calls to a Democratic group that
water-holding containers,
“I can’t help how it will be seen. defense. But Mrs. Tripp, who urged the state to investigate
including beer cans, bottles,
... I think we’ve done our duty,” recorded the calls in her Mrs. Tripp — said it was “grati-
birdbaths, tires, and aquatic
he said. Columbia, Md., living room, tes- fying that the law may finally
plants, health officials said.
Montanarelli, a Democrat tified for Starr’s grand jury that recognize her abuses.”
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
appointed to his post in 1984, she taped several conversa- “Her violations of privacy were
have a flight range of less than
a city block, a limitation that said he would handle the case tions in late 1997 even after an an affront to the meaning of
makes them vulnerable to the himself. attorney told her it was illegal. friendship,” Weiner said.
simple control measures, offi- After a yearlong investigation, Mrs. Tripp will be allowed to
cials said. the grand jury indicted Mrs. arrange a time to surrender vol-
For more information, contact Tripp on one count of illegal untarily, her attorneys said.
Victor Oliveros, Health interception, a charge stem- There was no sign of Mrs.
Protective Services Division, at ming from a phone conversa- Tripp at her home on Friday. No
723-2051, extension 145, or tion taped on Dec. 22, 1997, one answered a knock on the
Raul Leal, Public Health after she was told by her lawyer door and neighbors said they
Promotion Program, at exten- that secret taping was illegal. In had not seen her for about a
sion 284. conversations taped that day, week. A spokesman at the
the two women discussed what Department of Defense, where
they should say about Ms. she works, said she had not
NAFTA office Lewinsky’s sexual relationship come to work since Tuesday.
expected to
leave Dallas
DALLAS (AP) — The North
American Free Trade
Agreement’s administrative
operations here are expected to
move to Washington as officials
from the three nations under the
pact try to improve its effective-
ness.
The office, which employs 15
people, administers the free
trade agreement’s side accord
on labor issues. The Secretariat
for the NAFTA Commission for
Labor Cooperation is the only
U.S. office where diplomats from
the United States, Mexico and
Canada work together under the
1993 trade accord.
But the U.S. headquarters will
not move until national
American, Mexican and
Canadian labor ministers review
the rationale and expenses. A
meeting is scheduled for
October in Manzanillo, Mexico,
said Avianco Lara, the secretari-
at’s director for consultations.
In May, the three labor min-
istries agreed on the relocation.
The decision was based on the
recommendation of the labor
secretariat’s outgoing executive
director, Canadian diplomat
John McKennirey told The
Dallas Morning News.