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5234. Details A2 1993 Wednesday, December 8, 1 993 Decatur, Illinois 50 cents Home delivery: 35 cents mn DIMS (9 3W Protection of alleged victims cited by judge in reduction of bail. jam- By JUDY TATHAM Staff Writer -V! a. i I i -v -i reduced Bien's bond from $500,000 to $200,000, noting the lower figure is more consistent with the amount in similar cases. Through his attorney, Greg Barnes, Bien asked that bond be set at $50,000.

Barnes said Bien had $7,000 in cash and could produce the $5,000 cash bail required to be released on a $50,000 bond. But the judge said the children's protection outweighed Bien's request that bond be set at a sum he could afford. At least a dozen people who are parents or relatives of the four children identified as victims were in Scott's courtroom for the hearing. The victims range in age from 2 to 4. The children attended the center, operated in a Parkwood Place residence where Bien formerly lived.

The center's operating license has been suspended. Bien. 46, testified he now lives in the 500 block of South Jasper Street. He said he would have no contact with the children and at one point denied he is guilty of the charges. Barnes argued the $500,000 bond was "clearly excesssive." Bond is required to ensure defendants show up for their court appearance, he noted.

Bien did not try to flee Decatur although he knew for months that he was under investigation, Barnes said. Fichter argued that the $500,000 bond was not inappropriate just because it was large. Bien is charged with six Class felony offenses that are alleged to have happened in a day care center, Fichter said. "Hardly a more egregious set of circumstances could be imagined," he said. The charges accused Bien of assaulting three of the children with either his penis or fingers and of sexually arousing himself by touching the bodies of three of the children.

A jury trial is set for Feb. 22. DECATUR The children Arnold Bien is accused of molesting in his wife's day care center are frightened of him, Macon County State's Attorney Larry Fichter said Tuesday. He said that while arguing in court Tuesday that Bien's bond of $500,000 should not be reduced. A woman whose 4-year-old daughter is identified as a victim testified her child told her that Bien threatened to burn down her family's home if she talked about what was happening at the day care center.

Her child is receiving counseling, she said. Chief Circuit Court Judge Rodney A. Scott Bien Promises not to contact the children and denies guitt. Trial set for Feb. 22.

Associated Press WORRIED: A tearful woman, fearful that her husband was hurt on a Long Island Rail Road train talks to a police officer in Garden City, N.Y., after a gunman opened fire Tuesday on the train during the evening rush hour. Gunman kills 4 on M.Y. commuter Train's passengers subdue shooter Ha Aor TIF GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) A gunman methodically walked through a crowded commuter train Tuesday evening, firing at random and pausing to reload as screaming passengers tried to flee. Four people were killed and 17 wounded before passengers subdued him.

The man started shooting as the train was entering the Long Island Rail Road's Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, said Officer Andrew DeSimone, a spokesman for the Nassau County police. Four of the wounded were critically hurt, DeSimone said. Passengers said the gunman walked down the aisle, randomly shooting people in their seats and pausing several times to reload. The man, whose name wasn't released, was armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, which can hold up to 15 shots. The gunman, whose name was not released, was taken to Nassau County police headquarters in Mineola.

'14' nerifff fires first Taylorville veterans recall morning of hell By JIM GETZ Taytorville Bureau Chief TAYLORVILLE Tuesday morning's chilling winds and leaden sky surely contrasted with what Pearl Harbor must have been like 52 years ago as dawn broke over Hawaii. But memories still burn at how that Pacific sunrise turned into horror. And dozens of people, fueled by those memories, braved Tuesday's biting gusts to march and honor Pearl's dead and surviving veterans. Dec. 7, 1941, was, as Pearl Harbor survivor and Taylorville resident Jack Doyle told the crowd at Veterans Park, "Paradise lost and sudden hell." Two Humvees, painted for desert use, led the parade from American Legion Post 73 to the park.

An Illinois National Guard color guard carried the colors. salvo in campaign Holsapple cites By RON INGRAM Staff Writer foe's arrest for domestic battery. DECATUR Integrity is already an issue in the upcoming Democratic Herald ReviewDarreJI Goemaat SOLEMN MOMENT: While alone trumpet played taps, Peart Harbor survivors Jack Doyle, left, and Lafayette Kibler salute the flag during an emotional moment at the end of Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies in Taylorville. Several wreaths were laid at the monument in Veterans Park on Tuesday to honor the 2,400 service men and 1 ,1 00 civilians who died in Japan's attack on the Hawaiian naval base 52 years ago Tuesday. Doyle, a Taylorville; native who survived the attack, read a poem he had written about the experience.

TAPS: A Navy musician plays taps on the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in services Tuesday marking the 52nd anniversary of the Japanese attack that drew the United States into World War II. Veterans marched or rode on straw bales on a long truck bed. There were two cars from the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, one pulling a 10-foot-long replica of the USS Arizona. A ladies' auxiliary followed, the women in smart blue capes. At the park, a flag that flew over the Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor two years ago was raised.

Doyle remembered the 2,400 servicemen and 1,100 civilians killed at Pearl. "We survivors shared in the moment of their deaths," he said, "and were proud to have shared a brief part of their lives." "I will never forget that day," said former state Sen. John Davidson of Spring- field. "I heard the news on our kitchen radio in our little farmhouse in Atter-bury. I was an inexperienced farm boy who didn't realize the significance of that act." Less than two years later, though, Davidson was a tailgunner in a torpedo bomber.

America's "sense of unity, purpose and patriotism" was as important as any weapon, he said. "Rest in peace, rest in peace," Doyle recited from a poem he had written. "Beneath the monument where flags unfurl, beneath the blue-green waters that you once called Pearl." WWW -N Associated Press primary for Macon County sheriff. And the campaign is less than one day old. A primary contest developed Tuesday when Rodney Lloyd Webb, 31, of 1680 Evandale Drive filed nominating petitions.

He joins incumbent Lee Holsapple of Macon on the March 15 ballot. The winner of that contest will likely face Republican Jerry Wagoner, a Decatur police officer, in the November general election. Wagoner is expected to formally announced his candidacy Friday. Webb is a former Mount Zion police officer. He resigned that post in July 1991 to take over operation of a family business, Webb Promotions, an auto racing promotion company started by his uncle, the late Wayne Webb.

Webb's entry into the race was greeted with an immediate attack from Holsapple, who said he personally knows his opponent. "The voters will distinguish between he and I with my proven record, experience and the integrity with which I run my office," Holsapple said. "He's going to have to answer for his integrity. He was arrested for domestic battery. His conduct as a policeman was suspect in the eyes of the sheriff of this county." Webb acknowledged Tuesday that he was convicted in 1992 of domestic battery, a misdemeanor, but that conviction was expunged from his record upon successful completion of six months of court supervision.

"I was involved in a divorce situation," Webb said. "In some form it sickens me that the sheriff would make a comment like that. I've remarried and have a very good family life." Webb said he has letters of commendation from Holsapple and the Mount Zion police chief for solving crimes. "I have nothing negative to say about Lee Holsapple and don't intend to run a negative campaign," Webb said. "The sheriff is being very negative in bringing that up.

He runs a department that has zero integrity. "I feel it's time for a change. I've worked in Macon County law enforcement and became familiar with officers and deputies in the sheriff's office. Morale there is zero. I can move the sheriff's office into the next decade better than Sheriff Holsapple can." Webb said he also has worked asva police officer in Southern Illinois, notably in Carterville.

Surgeon general suggests making drugs legal would reduce crime 'No says White Delaware town takes hex off of witchcraft WYOMING, Del. (AP) Witches can celebrate. Black magic is no longer taboo in this small Delaware town. The Town Council on Monday voted unanimously to strike a 41-year-old anti-witchcraft ordinance from the books, effective Dec. 16.

Self-proclaimed witches objected when the 1952 law was printed in the town's October newsletter as a Halloween joke. "Witchcraft is a life-affirming, legally recognized religion," Diana Scherger told the council. The ordinance says people who "pretend to exercise the art of witchcraft, conjuration, fortune telling or dealing with spirits" can be sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100. e. "NV jfh I I Associated Press AMECHE DIES: Actor Don Ameche dies in Scottsdale, at age 85.

StcryA2 cent of most of our violent crimes are associated with alcohol or drug use. "Many times they're robbing, stealing and all of these things to get money to buy drugs. I do feel that we would markedly reduce our crime rate if drugs were legalized," she said. Elders, a former Arkansas health commissioner, said she does not know all "the ramifications" of such a move but believes it warrants further study. The White House responded quickly.

"The president is against legalizing drugs and he's not interested in studying the issue," responded White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. "She expressed a personal opinion. It's been made clear to her that the president doesn't share that view:" House; GOP says fire Elders. WASHINGTON (AP) Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders ignited a political controversy Tuesday, saying she believes the United States would "markedly reduce our crime rate" by legalizing drug use. The White House immediately distanced itself from her remarks.

Some Republicans and conservatives accused her of undermining the war on drugs and said she should be fired. Elders, fielding questions at the National Press Club, said legalization has worked for one or two other countries where crime went down without drug use going up. Elders told the press club that "60 per v-.