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Moore was arraigned on a charge of attempting "to kill the President of the United States by the use of a handgun." She asked for and was given a public defender, James Hewitt, as her attorney. U.S. Magistrate Owen Woodruff set bail at $500,000 and, with the concurrence of both Hewitt and the U.S. Attorney's office, ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests at Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. That may take 60 days. Said one top police official: "This looks like completely a mental case, and if that's what finally comes out, that should wrap it up." -
The other woman who aimed a gun at Ford passed her sanity tests last week. Squeaky Fromme, the Charles Manson family follower who is being held in the Sacramento County Jail, was adjudged mentally competent to stand trial, set to begin Nov. 4. Federal Judge Thomas J. MacBride ruled that she can act as her own lawyer, as she wishes, working with Public Defender E. Richard Walker. Referring to some of the extraneous issues Squeaky had cited as vaguely behind her decision to flash a revolver from out of a Sacramento crowd, the judge said he would bar any "ecology statements on how bad things are as far as trees, air, water or land are concerned." In an earlier court appearance, Squeaky had lectured MacBride about environmental pollution and urged him to "save the redwoods." She apparently will not be allowed to repeat any such theatrical threats as her warning to all polluters: "There is a gun pointed, and whether it goes off is up to all of you."