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Pursuing Queen City Trivia News, Page A-2 Astros Beat Reds, 3-2, In 14 Innings Sports, Page B-l Films Bring I 1 1 Hats Back Jj In Style CM Classique. Page D-3 Ifcy iVll'-- I "Indiana Jones" I' I Mil IIKUIBM Illll.l Hl.ll Mil, IRER THE CINCINNATI ENQ" FINAL EDITIONNEWSSTAND PRICE 25t A GANNETT NEWSPAPER TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1984 Pentagon Hails Missile Test As Breakthrough BY JAMES GERSTENZANG 1984, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON-An experimental missile, launched from a Pacific Island and guided by an on-board computer, chased down and destroyed a dummy warhead above the Earth's atmosphere in a "major breakthrough" in the U.S. program to develop a defense against long-range Soviet missiles, Pentagon officials said Monday. STAGE fry ADAPTER BOOSTER 2ND STAGE VV1 It I 70 FT On The Inside Chernenko offers space-weapons talks. Page A-4.

The Cincinnati EnquirerFred Straub BRADFORD GILL, right, appears pensive during court proceedings Monday as his wife Denise, left, looks on. BOOSTER 1ST STAGE Gill's Plea Could Mean Death Penalty PENTAGON-RELEASED I drawing of ABM interceptor. On The Inside Neighbors stunned, angry, PageC-2. The test Sunday was the first in four attempts in which a missile tracked a launched target, maneuvered toward It and captured it more than 100 miles above Earth. To find the target, the missile used Its own computers and infrared sensors that can detect against the cold background of space the equivalent of human body heat more than 1,000 miles away.

Army Brig. Gen. Eugene Fox described the test as an "absolutely tremendous success" that will contribute to President Reagan's "Star Wars" missile-defense program, intended to intercept U.S.-bound nuclear missiles before they return to the atmosphere from their trip through space.1 THE PENTAGON said the test Sunday brought the United States one step closer to a missile-defense system that does not use nuclear weapons to destroy incoming warheads. One Pentagon official stressed that the missile would allow the United States to destroy a nuclear warhead carried on an intercontinental ballistic missile well above BY JOHN R. CLARK Enquirer Reporter HAMILTON Bradford Alan Gill will learn a week from Wednesday whether he will be sentenced to death for stabbing U-year-old Kerri Lyn Hinterme-ister to death on March 24.

Gill, 27, caught much of the Butler County Common Pleas courtroom by surprise Monday after withdrawing his not-guilty plea and pleading guilty to the crime. After about 3'4 hours of testi-mony, a three-judge panel deliberated about an hour and found Gill guilty of aggravated murder, with the specification that the crime included a second offense of kidnapping. The second offense opens the possibility of the no eligibility for parole for 20 years. AFTER GILL pleaded guilty, the panel heard testimony aimed at determining whether he committed the crime. Although Gill's guilty plea brought audible reaction from about 75 spectators who crowded the courtroom for the trial, Prosecutor John Holcomb said he was not surprised.

"He (Gill) had no choice," Holcomb declared. He said there was "no bargaining, no deals or other arrangement either stated or implied" and that he will argue for the death penalty at the mitigation hearing. "It's an unconditional plea," the prosecutor said. Gill's lawyers, John and David Garretson, called the decision to plead guilty "a very difficult one" and said the decision was Gill's. "It was his decision to make and he made it after consulting with everyone that it would be appropriate to consult with, his lawyers and his family," John Garretson said.

Garretson said Gill felt there would be nothing to gain from long trial "and hopes the court will view as a mitigating factor the fact that he has come to court and admitted guilt and in so doing has expressed sorrow." GILL'S WIFE, Denise, who sat twisting a handkerchief, declined (See GILL, back page, this section) the atmosphere, thus reducing the risk to the U.S. population. "It would provide a way to work on an enemy's ICBM attack outside of the United States, at a relatively safe distance, the official. Army MaJ. Gen.

Elvin Heiberg III, said. In the test, a Minuteman I mis-sile was launched from Vanden-berg Air Force Base, on a flight toward the Kwajalein Missile Range about 4,200 miles southwest of Los Angeles in the Marshall Islands. (See ABM, Page A 2) death penalty. The panel, Judges John R. Moser, William R.

Stitsinger and Henry J. Bruewer, set a mitigation hearing for 9 a.m. June 20 to determine the sentence for Gill. At the outset of the trial, Gill withdrew his previous plea of Innocent and pleaded guilty to the charge. He could be sentenced to die in the electric chair, to life Imprisonment in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasvllle with no eligibility for parole for 30 years or to life imprisonment with Supreme Court Eases Evidence Restrictions Tough Breaks City Wants To Pave Over Brick Street 4 f.

general from 42 states had urged the court to reinstate Williams' conviction, which was overturned last year. The case initially came before the court In 1977, when the justices upheld the reversal of Williams' first conviction. They held then that his constitutional right to counsel had been violated when, in the absence of his attorney, he told police where the girl's body was buried. The case (Nix vs. Williams) began on Christmas Eve, 1968, when Pamela Powers disappeared In Des Moines.

Later, Williams' car, a blanket and some of the girl's clothing was found miles away from where she was last seen. BY STEVEN ROSEN Enquirer Reporter Residents of Hyde Park's Meier Avenue don't like the condition of their little tree-shaded street, but they do like the quaint red-brick pavement. They're unhappy with the crumbling cement curbs and the sagging asphalt patches atop the red-brick roadway. But they get even more upset with the city's plan for repairing their old-fashioned residential street, off Observatory Avenue Just east of Paxton. The Public Works Department wants to put an asphalt surface over the bricks.

"This is one of the last brick streets in Hyde Park," said Larry Schlanser, a Meier Avenue resident. "Everyone's up in arms. We have people come to visit us and say this street is unique. It's almost historical." HIS WIFE, Elizabeth, said the issue has unified the residents. "People who haven't known anybody on this street have been will-lng to get together to keep the street this way." Bev Stacey, a leader of the keep-the-bricks campaign, explained the motivation this way: "It's the charm.

Maybe it's nostalgia. I've always been fascinated by these streets because Cincinnati has so few. Other cities have more they haven't been changed so much by Since learning of the city's plans, residents have launched a petition drive to save their bricks. This month, City Council members received a four-page petition containing 45 signatures. Residents of 23 of the street's 24 homes signed the petition; the remaining house was vacant.

(See BRICK, back page, this section) BY PHILIP HAGER 1984, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The Supreme Court adopted a new limit Monday on the controversial exclusionary rule, holding that improperly obtained evidence may be used In criminal trials if its eventual disco. ery by legal means was "inevitable." In a 7-2 decision, the court said that barring such evidence would do little to deter police misconduct. If the prosecution can show the information "ultimately or inevitably" would have been found anyway, it should be admitted, the justices said. The exclusionary rule, a 70-year-old court-fashioned doctrine, bars the use of illegally obtained evidence against criminal defendants In court. MONDAY'S DECISION came in a notorious 1968 case involving Robert Anthony Williams, a former mental patient twice convicted of the murder of a 10-year-old Iowa girl.

Both the Reagan administration and attorneys The Cincinnati EnquirerJ.D. Scott MEIER AVENUE residents Larry and Elizabeth Schlanser hold a red brick from Meier Avenue. WILLIAMS TURNED himself in to Dolice in DavenDort. Iowa. was arraigned and spoke by tele- ffldeX No Relief From Scorcher In Sight piiuiie lu ail aiwuicj uca Moines.

Police in Des Moines arranged to go get Williams, telling his law- (See COURT, Page A-2) Local Defense Attorneys Greet Ruling With Dismay Four Sections, 144th Year, No. 64 BUSINESS C-4-10 CLASSIFIED B-5-11 CLASSIQUE D-3 COLUMNISTS COMICS D-li DEAR ABBY D-2 DEATHS D-13 EDITORIALS A-6 HOROSCOPE D-12 HORSE RACING B-2 METRO C-l-3 MISS MANNERS D-2 PEOPLE D-2 PUZZLES SPORTS B-1-4 TEMPO D-l-14 TV-RADIO D-10 WEIKEL C-3 WHEELER B-l FROM ENQUIRER STAFF and WIRE REPORTS Cincinnati temperatures will continue to hover in the high 80s through the week in an early June heat wave that has sent hundreds to hospitals in the Northeast section of the country and is blamed for seven deaths In New York City. Sal Pawlak, National Weather Service specialist at Greater Cincinnati International Airport, said hot and humid conditions probably will continue until Friday, when the high will be in the lower 80s. He said scattered thunderstorms and showers were triggered Monday ahead of a cool front that slipped southward over Greater Cincinnati around noon, and later returned northward. The main cause of the steamy weather is a Bermuda high-pressure system lodged in the south Atlantic, preventing cooler weather from moving in from the west, Pawlak said.

"Not at all an unusu al summertime occurrence," he said. MONDAY'S HIGH was 88, compared with a record of 94. Today will have a high near 88 under mostly sunny skies. Low tonight, 68, and Wednesday, mostly sunny and hot, high near 90. There is a chance of showers or thunderstorms Thursday, high upper 70s to mid-80s.

It will be fair Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the mld-70s to low 80s Friday and around 80 Saturday. The heat steamed the cities of the Northeast a fifth consecutive day Monday, sending hundreds of people to hospitals, buckling highways, setting records for power consumption and closing schools early. In Baltimore, the temperature hit 100 degrees at 2 p.m. Monday in the downtown area, breaking a record of 99 degrees for the date that was set in 1911. Boston set a record at 98 degrees, while it was 97 in New York City.

Washington, D.C.. and Richmond. and 96 in Atlantic City, N.J. New York City's Emergency Medical Service, dealing with a 50 increase in telephone requests for ambulances, appealed to the public to call only in case of real emergencies. A spokesman for New Britain Hospital in New Britain, said 60 of the patients in the emergency room were suffering from respiratory problems or heat stroke.

IN COVINGTON, a noontime downpour sent nine cars hydroplaning on northbound Interstate 75 and was blamed for several accidents that sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries. Covington police said several inches of water collected on the expressway near the 12th Street exit, causing a woman motorist traveling in the high-speed lane to lose control of her car and hit the concrete wall on the median. (See HEAT. Page A-2) BY J. FRAZIER SMITH Enquirer Reporter The decision on Monday by the U.S.

Supreme Court to allow illegally obtained evidence In criminal trials was not surprising, local defense attorneys said, because the justices have been heading on a more conservative course on criminal issues for some time. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that illegal evidence may be admitted in criminal trials if the evidence "inevitably" would have been discovered legally. The court ruled that a lower court wrongly threw out the Iowa murder conviction of a man who was found guilty of killing a 10-year-old girl in 1968. A federal appeals court had overturned the conviction after ruling that police used illegal tactics in persuading the suspect to lead them to the girl's body.

HAMILTON COUNTY Prosecutor Arthur M. Ney hailed the decision but refrained from detailed comment until he could read it. "I'm In full agreement with the statement. It's certainly a tool which law enforcement can use against a defendant in criminal law," he said. "It's high time." (See REACT.

Page A-2) SPORTS RESULTS Telephone 369-1005 or 36? 1006 Mostly sunny and warm today, high near 88. Clear tonight, low 68. Mostly sunny and hot Wednesday, high near 90. Chance of rain, 10 today and tonight. Details and weather map.

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