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2-B Monday, June 25, 1990 The Philadelphia Inquirer The Scene Haunted by case, man fights back In Philadelphia and its suburbs lit! i 'mmmmmmim ill oW J' -miff VI' I Have noogies, will travel (see Language, below). i u' Language Noogies are a lot like swats RAPE, from I and pending since 1987 and proceeded slowly. ThafeLDistrict Attorney's Office, whicJCts not a party to the suits, has refused to turn over confidential in-formation in its files that Goodson's attorpy believes would bolster the lawswts. WCfSR also has refused to turn overynformation in its files, citing confidentiality. WOAR, a private, nonprofit organization that aids and supports victims of sex crimes, takes the position in the litigation that it "lacks sufficient information" to know whether Stein fabricated charges against Goodson.

If she did, WOAR says it bears no responsibility for it. John K. Lieberman, Goodson's attorney, has questioned in the legal proceedings whether Stein committed CJimes, including the filing of falsepolice reports, perjury and threats. Stejn, through her attorney James J. MeHugh has denied making any talse statements or threats.

Th District Attorney's Office, according to case records, decided agaitfst prosecution of Stein because it was unclear whether she was mentally "accountable for her actions, and a prosecution would have pitted Goodson's word against Stein's as to whether a sexual assault occurred. Davis, testifying last month in a deposition in connection with Good-son'slawsuits, testified: "I could not answer the question of (Stein's mental state. Does she have an awareness of she was doing? I couldn't answer that question." Even so, Davis testified that he regarded Stein as potentially dangerous. At one point in 1986, Davis testified, Stein came to his office with a gun and seemed ready "to take the law into her own hands." Davis said he persuaded her to give him the gun. Asked whether the gun was still in the district attorney's custody, Davis replied: "I hope it is." Muriel Stein's initial encounter with John Goodson and the events that followed are laid out in criminal and civil court files.

On Nov. 29, 1984, Goodson and members of his family attended a court hearing in City Hall for a brother, Jimmy Goodson, who was charged with a sexual assault. Stein, who had been working as a volunteer for WOAR for about a year, was at the hearing accompanying the victim. During the proceeding, Stein reported to an assistant district attorney that she had overheard a member of the Goodson family make a threat against the victim. The prose- Seek and ye shall find.

Knock and it shall be open to you. Ask. foo tough noogies and get tough noogies. That's exactly what I did in yesterday's column in an item headlined "Language: What's a noogie, anyway?" The answer came about 6:30 last evening from Dean Russell, a veteran radio broadcaster from Haddon field, N.J., who had something The Inquirer library didn't: The Dictionary of American Slang by Robert Chapman, under which he- found a listing for a noun named By CLARK DeLEON -it. Norman A.

Jenkins, who had no role in the Goodson case but presided over hearings in sex assault cases. Police protection was provided to Stein and Jenkins. A wiretap was placed on WOAR's telephone. And Legrome Davis began an investigation into the threats. Six months later, on Sept.

16, 1986, Davis told Common Pleas Court Judge William J. Manfredi that he had determined that the person making the telephone threats was Muriel Stein herself. In light of that, and things Stein had said to him that had "no basis in reality," Davis told the judge, Good-son should not "suffer the consequences for something that he has not done." Despite that remark, neither Davis nor the District Attorney's Office has ever said that Goodson was "innocent," only that there was substantial doubt about his guilt. In the intervening four years, Stein has broken all ties with the District Attorney's Office and with WOAR. "She doesn't want to have any discussions about it," said MeHugh, her attorney, when contacted recently.

"It's something that she wants to put behind her." MeHugh added: "She is committed to defending herself in this (Good-son's lawsuit! and she has every intention to continue that." Testifying in the 1989 deposition, Stein said she was a former self-employed archaeologist, but had not worked since 1980. She listed a series of health problems and personal tragedies in her life, beginning with sexual abuse as a child. She said she had suffered from diabetes most of her life. She lost an eye in an automobile accident in 1981. She had suffered a stroke.

Her husband, whom she married in 1980, recently had died. For three years, she had been receiving psychiatric treatment. "Do you know who John Goodson is?" she was asked. "Yes," she answered. I've been told he's the man who attacked me." Wouldn't you like to know why he Goodson got out of jail? A Do I want to know now? Not really.

Why not? A I got other things to worry about. 1 don't need one other thing. WOAR officials declined to discuss Stein because of the pending litigation. Karen Kulp, WOAR's former executive director, said only that WOAR officials believed at the time that Stein was telling the truth in her testimony at Goodson's 1985 trial. Asked whether she still believed it, replied: "I don't know if I really feel comfortable answering that." Goodson is suing WOAR for negligence for failing to properly evaluate Stein's mental state before allowing her to become a volunteer.

WOAR, in legal papers, has said it "conducts no formal background investigation" of its volunteers. Goodson's lawsuits still are in the pretrial, fact-finding stages. The trial is not likely to be held any time soort. John Goodson is anxious for his day in court to come. For now, he says, justice has been only "partially done." noogie.

"A barbershop quartet or dutch rub," the slang dictionary said. "See tough stuff' Of course the actual word, wasn't stuff, but that's a slang dictionary and this is a family newspaper. Under the definition for tough stuff, which means "that's a terrible shame always said in an The Philadelphia Inquirer REBECCA BARGER Goodson, holding his son Anthony, lVi, has filed two lawsuits. cutor informed the judge. Stein, against her wishes, was called to testify about it.

Afterward, Stein was furious at having been put on the witness stand, and told WOAR officials she feared that the Goodson family would retaliate. A few days later, in early December 1984, WOAR received the first of a series of anonymous telephone calls that were to continue for 16 months in which a female caller conveyed threats and warnings, allegedly from the Goodsons, directed at Stein. In early January 1985, Stein reported to WOAR and police that notes threatening rape had been slipped under the door of her Center City home. Then, on Jan. 14, 1985, she telephoned WOAR and said two men had ironical or mocKing manner, lists a number of acceptable variations including, tough nibs, tough noogies, tough rocks or tough tiddy.

Via But what about this barbershop quartet and dutch rub stuff? That' sounds more like the noogies I remember. The definition for dutch rub-, was a familiar memory from my youth, sort of like swats with an.f attitude: "The trick or torment of holding someone's head and rubbing" i very hard and painfully to a small area of scalp with the fist." As I recall, it wasn't so much the entire fist that was used by the i trickstertormentor to administer a noogie as it was the fine hard edge of your knock-knock knuckles. Bill Murray used to give Gilda Radner a noogie during the Todd and Lisa Lubner skits on Saturday Night Live. And out of that magical kingdom of the mind that stores tons of useless information, I sijnu. moned the memory of the first time I ever heard the term noogies.

It was during an episode of Corner Pyle, U.S.M.C., when tough Marine drill instructor, Sgt. Carter, says, "As they say in the playground, tough noogies, Pyle." Cloudsi Funny, it didn't look like rain r. Oh somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright. In. fact, it was shining bright yesterday afternoon right up until Roger McDow- -ell's final pitch with the Phillies clinging to a one-run lead with the' bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

That was when Teufel, mighty Teufel, dinged a two-run single center that killed the Phils and gloomed the entire day with one swell-foop. Getting swept by the Mets can do that to a weekend. Soccer. Call him "II Zink" broken into her home and sexually assaulted her. There were bruises and scrapes on her head and face.

Medical tests and an examination by police of her home yielded no other evidence of a crime. Stein identified John Goodson from a police photograph as one of her assailants. She did not identify any other suspect. Goodson, then 28, had been in trouble with the police as a juvenile and had one adult conviction, in 1978, for robbery. But on Jan.

21, 1985, the day of his arrest, his record had been clean for seven years. Goodson at the time was working as a busboy at the Holiday Inn at Fourth and Arch Streets and he was planning to be married. Goodson was brought to trial in November 1985 and, based primarily on the testimony of Stein, he was convicted of aggravated assault and battery, burglary, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and making terroristic threats. He was sentenced to 7Vi to 15 years in prison. All the time that Goodson's case was moving through the courts, WOAR had continued intermittently to receive anonymous telephone threats directed at Stein.

In the days after Goodson's sentencing in March 1986, the calls intensified. The anonymous female caller threatened not only Stein but also other WOAR workers and Judge Lovers' quadrangle lethal Car lands on porch of Zieglerville home By Stacey Burling Inquirer Staff Writer It was just after 11 p.m. Saturday and Ann Buler, her sister, and grandmother were getting ready for bed when the noises started. "We heard a loud screech and we heard it for a long time, then we heard a lot of glass crashing," Buler said. She ran to investigate.

There were no lights outside, but finally the 20-year-old Zieglerville resident was able to make out what had happened. A car had crashed into her grandmother's porch. "He just sailed right into the porch," Buler said. "I don't know how else to describe it." The driver of the car, Brian S. Welsh, 21, of Berwyn, was taken to Pottstown Memorial Medical Center.

He was in satisfactory condition in the hospital's intensive-care unit yesterday. No one in the house, which is owned by Evelyn Buler, was injured. However, the porch was damaged extensively. According to Pennsylvania State Police, Welsh was southbound on state Route 29 in a 1990 Pontiac Grand Am when he drifted off the road near Route 73 in Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County. He lost control of the car, hit a utility pole 124 feet away, continued for 50 feet and struck a tree, then traveled 104 more feet before becoming airborne and landing on the Bulers' porch.

No charges have been filed, and an investigation is Have you been watching any of these World Cup soccer matches ovef "I the last two weeks? Question: Who IS that Italian play-by-play ah'- nouncer whose goal calls make Harry Kalas outtaheres sound posi tively tame. Whenever the local TV sports news shows the outcome of a -game, all you -can hear from the game video is this announcer's voice going: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. lit' And that's the shortened version. -7-7 I guess in a game with as few goals scored as there are in soccer! you'V have to make every call memorable. (I'm just glad he wasn't calling ther game when Havlicek stole the ball or he might not have shut up about it yet.) Rugby, The gift of gab I just happened upon this article in the Oct.

4, 1970, London Observer by Richard Burton titled, "The Last Time I Played Rugby." Note fh, length of the second sentence: J'r "It's difficult for me to know where to start with rugby. I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner's family, know so much about it, have read so much about it, have heard with delight so many; massive lies and stupendous exaggerations about it and have contrib; uted my own fair share, and five of my six brothers played it, one wtH," some distinction, and I mean I even knew a Welsh woman from who before a home match at Aberavon would drop goals from around 40 yards with either foot to entertain the crowd, and her nanr remember, was Annie Mort and she wore sturdy shoes, the kind nd2C reads about in books as though the recipient of a kick from." Annie's shoes would have been not so much sensible as insensible, aftd T. I even knew a chap called Five-Cush Cannon who won the sixth replay of a cup final (the previous encounters having ended with the scores 0-0, 00, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, including extra time) by throwing the ball overTBe'" bar from a scrum 10 yards out in a deep fog and claiming a goal. And getting it." Associated Press WILKES-BARRE A Wilkes-Barre man living with his former wife, her husband and her boyfriend pulled a handgun from his car trunk early yesterday and fatally shot the husband, police said. A quarrel preceded the incident in which James C.

Taylor shot Richard Nash, 43, once in the side about 3 a.m., police said. Nash died at 5:36 a.m. at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Police said Taylor, 54, confessed but offered no motive. Nor could Nash's wife, Marsha.

"It was definitely devastating for me," Marsha Nash said. All four spent a quiet evening watching television Saturday until a quarrel started when she and her boyfriend, Steve Capozzi, talked to her husband about a divorce, she said. She said Taylor left the house without explanation, and she assumed he went for a walk. About 10 minutes later, Richard Nash went outside to sit on the apartment steps, she said. Marsha Nash said that she heard a gunshot and that her husband came back into the house bleeding and told her he had been shot by Taylor.

Detective Tino Andreoli said that when police arrived, Taylor was still holding the gun, which he surrendered. Taylor was charged with murder. He was arraigned and was being held without bail in Luzerne County jail. Marsha Nash said Taylor had been staying temporarily with her since he returned two months ago from Illinois. "He'd been trying to get me to come back to him, but 1 wouldn't have anything of it," she said.

Metropolitan area news in brief very strongly there is a constitution-v ally protected right of choice, an v' aspect of privacy," he said. 'iji fundamental right and people an obligation to speak out. It is not a issue." Philadelphia woman wins $50,000 in Saturday Agnes Fallon of Philadelphia wdrY the grand prize of $50,000 in Jhe Pennsylvania Lottery's Spin game, officials Players are entered in the Saturday Spin after winning a ticket in, Jhe, instant lottery game. Gas station in Cherry Hill held up by man with a knife An attendant at a Mobil gas station on Haddonfield Road in Cherry Hill was robbed at knifepoint of about $700 early yesterday, authorities said. Police said a man entered the gas station at 2:26 a.m., waved a large knifaLat attendant Credm Singh, and demoded the night receipts.

Sifrgh turned over $700 in cash and the robber fled on foot, police said. Unit 1 at Limerick plant shut down for more repairs Workers shut down Unit 1 at the Limerick nuclear plant Saturday night to repair a minor problem preventing the reactor from operating at full power, a spokeswoman for Philadelphia Electric Co. said. During routine tests, operators discovered a small leak on an air-supply connection, affecting one of the four lines that carry steam from the reactor, PE spokeswoman Pat Webster said. Under federal rules, the leak would have kept the plant from producing at more than 75 percent of capacity, Webster said.

"It wasn't that the leak itself was a problem except it was affecting our ability to generate a maximum amount of electricity," Webster said. "We weren't looking at any hazardous situation." The leak was discov man grabbed the moneybag and escaped in a nearby car, which held two other people, Rodell said. National funding renewed for Fox Chase Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has renewed its funding for Fox Chase Cancer Center, center officials announced Friday. Officials said the center would receive $36.8 million over a five-year period. Fox Chase is "a national leader in cancer prevention and control research," the institute's Support-Grant Review Committee said.

The institute provides funding to 20 oiiier touipieueuMve cancel cemeis nationwide. Pittsburgh firm contracted for Navy airplane catapult The Navy has contracted with a Pittsburgh company for $650,000 to adapt magnetic levitation technology for launching planes from aircraft carriers. The contract to design the airplane catapult was announced Friday by Power Silicon Monolithic Technologies Corp. It is one of three awarded by the Defense Department, officials said. PSM president Stephen Kuznetsov said his firm also had developed two magnetic levitation systems that could be used to carry passengers on high-speed trains or slower people-movers.

"Maglev" trains, which can travel at speeds of more than 300 m.p.h., are suspended slightly above ground by a magnetic field. They have no wheels but wrap around a track. The technology was developed in the United States but perfected in Germany. Florio, protesters attend opening of NARAL office The National Abortion Rights Action League yesterday opened its first New Jersey office, with the blessing of Gov. Florio and the damning of anti-abortion activists.

The league is a single-issue advocacy group mat targets pro-choice candidates and works for their election, said the group's national political director, Michele Radosevich. She said the league campaigned for Florio last year when he ran for governor against Republican Rep. James Courier. The ceremony opening the league's office in Montclair was attended by about 300 people, many wearing buttons proclaiming "I'm Pro-Choice And I Vote." The event also drew about 60 anti-abortion activists who tried to disrupt an address by Florio with chants of "Florio and NARAL are death together," and "Abortion is murder." Speaking to reporters after his address, Florio discounted the political impact of a pro-choice stance. "I feel turned on the Atlantic City Expressway in Washington Township, Gloucester County.

State police said Berry was driving westbound about 9 a.m. when her 1981 Pontiac went onto the shoulder of the road, traveled 69 feet and struck a guardrail. The car overturned and Berry, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the window. The car then flipped onto its roof and landed on Berry, police said. There were no passengers in the car, authorities said.

Berry was pronounced dead at 11:35 a.m. at the offices of Camden County Medical Examiner Robert Segal. Svurtii cuniliiues fur man who stole $13,000 from guard Police continued their search yesterday for a gunman who robbed an armored-car guard of $13,000 in cash and checks in front of a Chestnut Hill supermarket. No injuries were reported after the robbery Saturday morning in front of the Super Fresh Food Market, said Police Capt. Chris Rodell.

Theodore Berry 40, of Philadelphia, a guard for Federal Armored Express was walking out of the market with a filled moneybag when a man approached and pointed a gun at the guard's head, Rodell said. Berry turned his head, and the gunman fired, Rodell said. Berry fell to the ground, uninjured. The gun ered as Unit 1 was being returned to service after an 18-day shutdown for maintenance. Repairs are expected to begin midweek, Webster said.

Camden man, 31, is killed, another hurt in auto crash Franklin A. Polk, 31, of Berkley Street, Camden, was killed and his passenger was seriously injured early yesterday when their car struck a light post at the exit ramp of Interstate 295 in Bellmawr and then overturned. Polk was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the 5:30 a.m. accident, said New Jersey State Police. A 26, of Carmen Street, Camden, was taken to the trauma unit of Cooper Hospital-University Medical Center in Camden with head injuries and cuts.

He was in stable condition. Police said that Polk, who was driv-ing a 1986 cream-colored BMW, had driven off the road at the Interstate 295 exit ramp to Interstate 76. His car then struck a steel light post, flipped over, and came to rest about 160 feet away. Gates was wearing a seat belt but Polk was not, police said. Crash on A.C.

Expressway kills S. Philadelphia woman Elizabeth Ann Berry, 18, of South Philadelphia, was fatally injured yesterday morning when her car over in vandalism at 12 houses A 15-year-old Deptford girl was ar. rested after allegedly splatterrng' pink paint on at least 12 houses, aha on sidewalks and vehicles, police said. The girl was arrested Saturday and charged with 12 counts of criminal mischief after police found a traifof pink paint leading to her house tht2 miles away from the site in the Gloucester County ship, authorities said. The incident took place at the Steeplechase development on Almojyjs-son and Turkey Hill Roads.

Police would not give the girl's name said she was released Saturday pending a hearing..