Years ago, threatening « solid life he had bujlt aince 1955 when be lnided'in Canada as a newly wed Italian immigrant of 25. Capella worked. his way up from laborer to shop foreman at a Midland, Ont., factory. He opened a small variety store with his wife, Marisa, had two daughters and a son and pursued his love of sports, trying erections from boxing to skydiving. He discovered marathon walking and pushed himself hard enough — despite starting at age 30 — to compete in major meets around the world, including the Olympics. He began acquiring the trappings of success: a Spacious new home with a pool and four hectares of land fora future dream home in the country. WON ACCOLADES Capella also enjoyed accolades for his athletic prowess, testimonial dinners, letters from cabinet ministers and even a home-coming parade in Midland after winning silver and bronze medals at the 1967 Pan-American Games in Win But his life became fraught with confusion, jealousy, obsession and revenge after a chance meeting with a woman four years ago at a badminton club. Capella told the Toronto Star in a series of inter- views before sentencing that the 28-year-old woman was married with two children. “Very pretty, but that is not what I first noticed. It was her bubbly, outgoing personality. I had never met anyone like her, never.” They first formed a mixed doubles team, then fell in love. “For the first year, it was very secretive. We were very much in love, or at least we thought we were. We went away together out of town, sometimes to Toronto where we would stay in a hotel. Nobody found out, for almost a year.” In June 1980, Capella’s wife confronted him about the affair, but insisted she loved him and did not want to give him up. Capella promised to stop hurting his family, but found it easier said than done. “But the affair was like an addiction, I suppose, and I éouldn't stop it. We saw each other again and again,” Capella said. “In the summer, I finally rented an apartment and sometimes she came over there. Then she told me she was becoming a manager of the department store where she worked. I was happy for her, very happy. “One evening, the day after she had stayed-in my apartment, I went to her house, knowing.she would be alone because here husband was on the night shift.” WAS NOT ALONE It was Oct. 20, 1982, and Capella found that the woman Was not alone. He watched through a window as they had a drirkk. He watched them move to the living room, sit off the couch and he watched the lights go out. “I couldn't believe it. The night before she was in my apartment. I... something... I suppose you would say it ‘snapped. “I stormed into the house and denounced them. She ran to the bedroom. I followed, I ripped a pendant off her neck. I gave it to her as a gift. I slapped her once, then I Fan out. All I could think of was to make her pay, make her pay for it. I guess I went crazy.” A week after he forced his way into the basement of @ department store in Midland ‘shortly after midnight, doused crates and paper with gasoline and fled, flicking a lighted match behind him as he ran out the door. The ensuing fire caused $200,000 damage. On Nov. 5, he sent a letter to a store supervisor, saying: “Too many people in Midland are not very happy with your choice of manager for your store. “We thought you would have better business sense than that. How many disasters can you afford? Is she really worth it?” Capella has no idea how he managed to carry on normally through those weeks. But he went to work and, while he continued to live alone, spoke frequently to his wife and children. LEFT GAPING HOLE On Nov. 30, he returned to the same store with two sticks of dynamite. He lit them and, with the practised expertise of the paratrooper he once was, tossed them on to oe roof, causing $500 in damage and leaving a gaping * put that wasn’t enough. It still wasn't enough after he was arrested Jan. 28 and charged. Three weeks after a preliminary hearing in May this year, he travelled to nearby Angus and left four sticks of § dynamite — tied toa of matches but unlit — outside a shopping plaza. Police managed to defuse the erude bomb. _ On June 24, he was arrested again and held without “I don't like myself anymore. I used to be proud of myself. I used to feel solid, reliable. Not perfect, but a good husband and father. I failed in all that. I failed myself, my family, my community. And now. Now, start all over again? Maybe I can. Maybe I can.” Without it, the bones weak- en. “The situation is similar to that of parapalegics, who quickly lose bone mass in their unused limbs, or of bedridden patients, who can lose up to 30 per cent of their bone density after only one month in bed.” He said this was shown in American astronauts in the 1978 Skylab Earth-orbiting mission. Loss of bone mineral in Skylab astronauts was more prevalent in weight- bearing bones. Studies of rats which flew for 18% days aboard the So- viet satellite Cosmos 936 showed spaceflight dramati- cally affected the growth and strength of the rats’ bone structure, he said. But the loss in bone strength proved only tempor- ary, Spengler said. When the rats got back to Earth their bones quickly returned to normal although it was not yet clear wehther they would be restored so easily after lengthy space flights. 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