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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday september 16, 1978 stateside bodies of 11 killed in Vietnam returned to . Travis air Force base Calif. A an air Force plane brought Home 11 More of America s dead from the Vietnam War to the same stretch of Concrete where thou Sands of servicemen flew off to fight in Southeast Asia. The wife and parents of one of the dead men and 250 other people were on hand As the 11flag-draped coffins were carried past an Honor guard to 11 Black hearses. The remains were turned Over to a . Congressional delegation last month in Hanoi and had been in Hawaii for formal identification. The bodies of four other servicemen were released in Laos but military authorities in Hawaii Are still trying to identify them. School sued for cigarette punishment policy Butler to. A the punishment of two students for carrying cigarettes at a Junior High school two years ago has resulted in a multimillion Dollar lawsuit. A suit on file seeks More than $2.3 Milli on from the school District and several past and present school officials. The suit was filed by the mothers of Bill Adkins and Terry Weatherman who Alle Gedly became ill in september 1976 after they opted to eat nearly a whole pack of cigarettes when they were caught with cigarettes on the school grounds. The school policy at the time was to give students the option of accepting a paddling or eating the tobacco in their  policy was later abandoned. The suit accuses the school District of negligence and seeks $1 million in punitive damages for each of the boys As Well As payment for court costs and personal in jury. Andre the Seal is being taken for Granite Rockport Maine a Andre the Seal is being immortalized in Granite. A statue of the much publicized Harbor Seal is scheduled to be unveiled next month at a Park near Rockport Harbor where Andre spends the summer in a floating pen. The statue is being carved from a four ton chunk of Gray Granite by sculptor Jane Wasey of nearby Lincolnville who identified herself As a great admirer of  Andre spends Winters at the new eng land aquarium in Boston. When Spring Rolls around he makes his annual 160-mile swim to Rockport where he entertains the tourists by displaying his repertoire of tricks. Trying a new Racket Tennis Star Billie Jean King Center of the new York apples fulfils a fantasy to be a Ballerina with this pose at rehearsals of the american Ballet Thea Ter in new York. With her Are Cynthia Gregory Ballerina of the american Ballet theater and Rudolf Nureyev who will perform As a guest. A psychedelic mushroom seekers Are sought teen caught with loot acquitted of charges Redwood City Calif. A a youth caught outside a Bank with $78,000 in Cash an empty gun and a phony bomb has been acquitted of robbery because prosecutors failed to prove he intended to keep the Money. Both the defense and prosecution said the verdict in san Mateo county Superior plague threat discounted by Tucson officials Tucson Ariz. A authorities say there is Little Chance an extortionist could carry out his threat to infect the City with bubonic plague. Police said thursday that the extortionist could be the same person who demanded Money last Spring saying he would infect the City s water system with typhoid. That threat never materialized. Attempts were made in both cases to de liver Money but no one has tried to pick up the Money police said. Money was left in the mountains North of Tucson on thursday. Two people approached the package police said but they were released after  Arizona daily Star reported the lat est threat saying the extortionist planned to spread bubonic plague by releasing infected fleas. The newspaper said the extortionist demanded $500,000, and sought free food and abortions for the poor. Auburn Wash. A police Are cracking Down on people who Are fanning out through the Kent Valley breaking Down fences and setting cattle Loose in their quest for psychedelic mushrooms. The object of what has become an Annu Al Hunt is the silo cube variety of Mush room which produces a psychedelic Sensa Tion when eaten. Possession of the mushroom is not illegal. Police have begun citing the Hunters for trespassing and causing property damage. We used to Issue warnings but we found we were warning the same people two or three times police chief Jay b. Skew Essaid. Marines withdraw maps from Oceanside court was the first time anyone has been found innocent in a criminal Case on such grounds. Judge g. Brooks ice had instructed the jury that to convict defendant Steven Masover 19, prosecutors would have to prove he had specific intent to deprive theban permanently of the  defense attorney read Ambler argued that Masover s mental state was abnormal during the robbery and he was unable to form specific  the defendant a former Honor student is scheduled to enter the University of California at Berkeley next week on a regents scholarship he was awarded before the robbery. He was arrested last nov. 11 outside a Wells Fargo Bank in Palo Alto where he was holding the Bank manager hostage with an unloaded gun and a briefcase attached to his wrist by wires which he claimed was a bomb police said. Juror Marcia Garcia called the specific intent Rule a very strange Law under which she had no Choice but to vote for acquittal. It seems to mean that anybody can go into a Bank say they re going to return the Money and they d have to let you  dictionary author Dies London a Albert Sidney Hornby whose dictionary for students of English Isa Best seller has died at the age of 80. His Book titled the Oxford advanced learner s dictionary of current English is the biggest seller of All the publications of the venerable Oxford University press. Oceanside Calif. A the marines have withdrawn military police from the streets of Oceanside for the first Tim since world War ii. The action was announced at neighbor ing Camp Pendleton where the Provost marshal said . Supreme court Deci Sions left the maps legally liable if anyone arrested off base could prove civil rights violations. Oceanside police sgt. Robert Krause said the City is weighing the Impact of the move but the problem May be greater for the Young Marine who gets into trouble in Oceanside than for police. Duper thought he had a dope but she jailed him Rock Island 111. Up _ the Groom was thinking Greenback Green but the Bride he duped was blushing red. The Groom Robert Stinson of Littleton,colo., has been charged with trying to extort $20,000 from a Moline woman by trick ing her into marrying him the Fri said. An Fri spokesman said Stinson formerly of Rock Island was arrested in Denver and charged with felonious intent in Devis ing a scheme for obtaining Money and pro Perty by false Means. The spokesman said Stinson using the name of Robert Steinman talked the Wom an into going to Las vegas nev., to get married. But before they embarked on their wedding trip $20,000 of her Money was withdrawn from Bank account. Stinson then staged a phony wedding ceremony. Stinson who was arraigned in Denver faces a $10,000 Fine 10 years in jail or Bot if he is convicted said the Fri. The spokesman declined to identify the woman Stinson had duped. National Christmas tree victim of capital air Christmas Trees -"is1" a he National Park service s transplanted on the Ellipse All to replace an  
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