New York Desk
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MANHATTAN
PROSECUTOR: PAKISTANI MAN WANTED TO HELP AL QAEDA
A Pakistani man working in Manhattan confessed that he conspired in 2003 to try to sneak an Al Qaeda operative into the country who was planning a chemical attack against Americans, a prosecutor said as a terrorism trial began yesterday. An assistant U.S. attorney, Eric Bruce, accused Uzair Paracha, 25, of agreeing to support the plot during meetings in Pakistan with two Al Qaeda operatives and his father, a businessman. “This trial is about the defendant’s role in helping Al Qaeda penetrate this country and attack the United States from within its own borders,” Mr. Bruce said in his opening statement.
– Associated Press
MAN SUSPECTED IN STRING OF RAPES CONVICTED FOR 1973 ATTACK
A jury took less than two hours yesterday to convict a man of raping a woman 32 years ago at knifepoint – a verdict made possible by DNA technology that did not exist when the suspect dodged conviction in the case in the 1970s. A Manhattan jury convicted Fletcher Anderson Worrell, 58, of first-degree rape and robbery in the June 1973 attack on Kathleen Ham during an invasion of her Chelsea apartment. Ms. Ham, 58, a lawyer who lives in California, took the stand during the trial and recalled in the attack chilling detail; she asked that her name be made public to show she is not ashamed. Worrell, as he had been during the entire trial, was completely impassive and betrayed no emotion when the verdicts were read. He faces 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison on each of the two counts when the judge sentences him November 28.
– Associated Press
QUEENS
WEINER: SPEED DEPORTATION OF ALLEGED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS
Rep. Anthony Weiner is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security speed the deportation of two Queens residents alleged to be Nazi war criminals. Jaroslaw Bilaniuk and Jakiw Palij, who immigrated to America in 1949, have been targeted by the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. Palij has been convicted, and Mr. Bilaniuk is awaiting judgment. Prosecutors say both men served as armed S.S. guards at the Trawniki concentration camp in Poland in 1943. Mr. Weiner used the 67th anniversary of Kristallnacht – the coordinated Nazi pogrom against Jewish synagogues and business – to write a letter to Secretary Chertoff, asking him to expedite their deportation, which has been held up by appeals.
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STATEWIDE
THE MAN FROM HOPE HEADS TO HOFSTRA
Having once faced the scrutiny of a special prosecutor, President Clinton is well-prepared to undergo another tough examination – by academics. A wide-ranging three-day scholarly conference on the Clinton presidency opens today at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, L.I. Professors will mix with rafts of former Clinton administration officials such as Richard Holbrooke, Madeleine Albright, Paul Begala, Robert Rubin, John Podesta, Sidney Blumenthal, and Leon Panetta.
Mr. Clinton will deliver a keynote address this afternoon. Historians and biographers gather on Saturday for a concluding panel to assess his presidency overall. Asked about this panel, a George Mason University professor, James Pfiffner, said Mr. Clinton would be remembered as one who tried to move the Democrats toward the middle of the political spectrum. A Salem College professor, Jerry Pubantz, will speak on “the ‘maturing’ of the Clinton administration’s U.N. Policy.” He said Mr. Clinton began quite idealist – “almost Wilsonian” – but after going “through the cold bath of Somalia” ended up more a cautious realist.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
TRADE SCHOOL FORMERLY RUN BY WELD AGREES TO BANKRUPTCY
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A financially troubled private trade school, until recently headed by the former Massachusetts governor, William Weld, will enter bankruptcy proceedings and try to pay off its creditors. Mr. Weld is now seeking the Republican nomination to run for governor in his native New York. Louisville-based Decker College won’t fight a petition by three former employees to force the school into Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings, its lawyers wrote in a November 2 court filing.
– Associated Press