October 6, 1994

It's Thursday Night Live! The time: fall 1994, 6:15 P.M.

Little is known about Luc Jouret, a dark-haired, charismatic man said to be the leader of the secretive sect known as the Order of the Solar Temple. The police said yesterday that they did not even know whether the 46-year-old Belgian was among the 50 people who died in apparent collective suicides linked to his sect in Switzerland and Quebec. Mr. Jouret is believed to have left Canada for Switzerland last year after being convicted of with weapons possession and conspiracy.

A former minister who acted as his own lawyer was convicted of Federal violations in two killings at a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. Article, page A18.

After running one of the biggest heroin operations in New York for more than two decades, Charles Galletti tried slipping away to Puerto Rico three years ago to live a kind of early retirement, Federal law-enforcement officials said yesterday. Mr. Galletti, 42, took elaborate steps to look like a legitimate, albeit extremely successful, businessman, the officials said. He oversaw a San Juan company that provides meals and hangar space to international airlines, and a big recycling plant near West Palm Beach, Fla., they said, as well as a handful of auto repair shops, a hair salon and several restaurants.

With only 10 days remaining before Lieut. Gen. Raoul Cedras is to relinquish power, the Haitian Parliament is mired in disputes and seems unlikely to pass the broad amnesty that the military leaders demand. The diminished prospects for an amnesty covering all crimes became clear today when, after a week of delays, officials loyal to Haiti's exiled President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, introduced a bill that would limit amnesty for military officers to "political matters." The measure specifically does not cover crimes "punishable under the penal code."