European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 joining the astronaut team fese six women Are among Ike new candidates reporting at the Johnson space Center in Houston far f two yet of they an i Margaret Memphis Anna Rancho Perot Judith Redondo Shannon Oklahoma City Sally and Kata Ryn prosecutor drops plans retry filipino nurses Detroit up the prosecution wednesday dropped All charges against filipino nurses who were ranted a r trial in their conviction or poisoning sat a veterans administration hos in a 20page actor James Kob Tsoa said it we unlikely Anent la a second be Able to obtain guilty verdicts it the flu plan land Leonora i the nurses Wen convicted by a Federal on july of poisoning six patients in the intensive care unit of the vet crans administration Hospital in Ann t in the summer of 197s by in Lect Long a powerful muscle relax i ant into their intravenous f on District judge Philip Pratt set the verdict aside and said the nurses were the victims of circumstantial evidence in their three month which garnered National headlines in both the United states and the after giving careful consideration in e Many important factors Robinson the United state attorney has decided that he should seek a dismissal of the Case rather than proceed Ullh a new trial Robinson said his decision was not arrived at quickly or it required re Reading All of the factual testimony concerning the victims who would be the Pri Mary subject of attention in a new it also required review of the Tran script of closing arguments and further consultations with the chief chief of the criminal division and the assistants who tried the Robinson said one of the chief factors for Bis decision was the likelihood that a second trial would result in acquittal for the Robinson also died the pervasive Public doubt and concern As to the defendants guilt judge Prats decision to Grant a new trial was met with expressions of Relief in the Public the first trial was de scribed As inherently unsatisfying and As producing a very questionable such expressions of Public scepticism of the process by which persons Are accorded due process in our criminal Justice system Are trouble and Bode 111 for Public Confidence in our Robinson also said he agreed with Pratt that no Clear evidence of motive is Avail Able and that any evidence presented at a second trial would continue to be entirely state says Hanoi conducting espionage in prom dispatches Washington the state department wednesday charged Vietnam with carrying out espionage activities against the United a charge which was promptly denied by the vietnamese Mission to the United nations in new the accusation of spying was also denied by the former Usia employ and toe vietnamese National charged in the both of whom pleaded not guilty at a District court arraignment saying the would expel a Narnee stale department spokesman Hodding Carter i we have decided to protest this Case to the Mission of the socialist Republic of Vietnam in new we Are protesting the involvement of vietnamese officials in espionage directed against the United Vietnam reply the denying charges that its ambassador dunh be was a co conspirator in espionage by Ronald Louis Humphrey and Truong dunh called the charges a Gross slander and of sense against the socialist Republic of Vietnam and another action in the administrations policy of continued hostility toward the socialist Republic of the state department spokesman said he could not immediately say How this Inci Dent will affect the process of normalize Una of relations Between Hanoi and Washington that was begun by the administration last i cannot speculate on what effect it will have in any there Are no further talks said he charged that vietnamese officials at the United nations were also guilty of the evident abuse of the privilege of residence under the 1m7 Headquarters agree followed the protest came in the Wake of the arrest tuesday of Humphrey and Truong on charges of spying for Humphrey and Truong Are accused in a seven count Federal indictment of trans Nutting documents to Hanoi relating to the National defense of the United the released accuses Humphrey of passing confidential and secret documents to Truong for relay couriers who carried the documents la vietnamese of hauls in the espionage arrests Are believed to be the first in which a citizen has been accused of spying for Vietnam and the first since South Vietnam collapsed and was taken Over by the North in one defense attorney asserted that the indictment blows us charges out of All he said the documents alleged to have been stolen and delivered to representatives of Hanoi do not contain suit nationality slurs Detroit a a 5foot2 Ford motor employee of polish extraction has sued Auto firm for claiming it has tilted to protect him from harassment in the form of on Bejou jokes about his Ghl and Edmund a Szy Earold Wacil Coltar claimed in the suit hied tuesday in Wayne county circuit court that the slurs have Hurt his Job performance and Cost him promotions and peace of mind Ive tried for years to think of a Way to remedy the said a Ford employee for 25 but i just cant stomach it Ive prayed to the lord and asked Why they do Why do i have to go through this to make a filed As evidence with the suit tuesday were copies of cartoons and satirical including one drawing of a Short Man labelled Eddy trying to see Over a driving wheel and maybe if i oat on my another example was an imaginary list of polish employee demands calling or Bowling shirts As work uniforms and vacations in a predominantly polish suburb of the jokes have been found or his szymczyk he said he had no idea who was despite several complaints to manage he there has been no Relief and no compliance to his request to the company for a a specification writer who releases parts into the company distribution is paid about a he has not received a promotion in 20 he Szymezyk is a he said his parents came to this country front Poland in they died three years defense secrets to the usual sense of the term but rather confidential cables that Are leaked by ambassadors All the at wednesdays District court judge Albert Bryan reduced Humphreys Bond from to his lawyer described Humphrey As having some savings but said Humphrey is the sole support of his vietnamese common Law who Speaks very Little and of her four Young 1c is my understanding Bat he has co operated with the government and Given them much of the information on which this Case is the attorney the judge declined to reduce toe Bood he had set tuesday for who is known in this country As David government prosecutors argued that there was a threat that Hung would flee the coun try if he is Boeing signs copter Deal with Britain Ridley up Boeing which lost two major defense department contracts to rival Sikorsky during the past h announced wednesday it had signed a 1200 million contract with the British government for the Sale of 30 Chinook the contract for the om7 medium lift helicopters was secured tuesday and workers were informed of the Deal Over the Public address the formal announcement was made wednesday with the Start of design helicopters will be flown by the Royal air Force and will be used in sup port of British army ground first deliveries Are scheduled for the Middle of a spokesman for Boeing said some agreements still have to be worked in eluding the Supply of spare parts and the training of British the Sonds of time Harry Truman asked Congress to pass Federal Laws against Lynching and against facial Brira Saatloo la the of voting and pm 1358 commenting on us Pace program and us Tenor Falun Satel Lite Viet president Richard a jew warned that the is faced with a determined and Power Tittl ims american civil lab Bertles Union announced that it would not defend Penrou who refused to Register for military service if they did u a Ratett against the draft or the Vietnam