European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1981 stateside immigrants Strain Supply of rare illness drugs ass atonal Center for control is tic struck by Sarcu tropical Dis cases in the United states last with Gar Wood trial May affect Gas code of conduct corny holed agriculture officials Kansas a officials of the stale department of agriculture have become the of a corny to boost attendance at its state Conven the Missouri Corn growers association sent out news releases saying the featured speaker would be after getting the associations an the state agriculture depart ment sent out releases publicizing the scheduled believing it was former agriculture Secretary Earl but to the Surprise of including reporters who showed up expecting to hear the former agriculture Butz was not he was never the after dinner speaker was actually Joseph a retired Kansas City police Captain turned a spokesman 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passion they will look closely at the conduct of the captured Marine guards in Tehran to see if they violated military said defense chief counsel John who since last May has worked on the Garwood Case at this Large Marine base in the Eastern car the marines Are known to be particularly concerned by remarks made in a television interview in december 1979 by Marine guard Billy from photographed in a room said to be inside the american pm he said that As a Marine he was prepared to give his life for his but some Way i dont see this As a Good few details have emerged of hostage conduct in iranian but after the Vietnam War returning american prison ers of War attempted to charge several Fel Low pos with Garwood disappeared from his Marine unit in Vietnam in september and turned up in 1979 after giving a finnish businessman in Hanoi a note that said he wanted to return the government charges that during his years in Vietnam the Marine took up the cause of the former american prisoners dramatically testified that Gar Wood wore the uniform of the North Viet carried a interrogated them and made through All this the 34yearold Gar Wood sat ramrod straight in the court coiled like a the defense rested its Case last Friday without calling him to the barely contesting the they relied on emphasizing the underlying medical he lost his identity As a Marine be cause of torture and testified the defences Roost effective air Force psychiatrist James he was incapable of appreciating the criminality of his actions or con forming to the requirements of military in testimony corroborated independently by other defense Corcoran compared the mental state of the accused to that of the three faces of a Case in which three distinct personalities functioned within one medical manuals Label the disease an atypical dissociative defense counsel Lowe charges that the marines did not bother to get a full psychiatric evaluation of they would not have brought the charges if they he but the Marine corps has been consistent about punishing soldiers it feels let in court martial of prisoners came after the korean the marines was the Only service to seriously attempt to charge americans accused of being in the peace committee in the Hanoi Hilton prison during the Viet Nam i feel the officers could have been prosecuted for the acts they did in said military judge Switzer who is handling the Garwood it was a matter of policy that prevented had Nixon administration policy been followed do you think wed be sitting Here at this court martial should Gar Woods fireman jury feel reasonable doubt about his guilt then there could be enormous ramifications for the military after the korean War in which Many american prisoners per formed a code of conduct was written to guide soldiers in the code was modified after Vietnam because it was seen As too severe in its demands on in an age when coercion and Manipula Tion of prisoners is whether they Are taken in War or As hostages in peace the acceptance of Gar Woods defense of mental illness May be the death Knell to future realistic enforcement of an Honor How do you train someone at age 18 or 19 when his values Are established to have the fortitude and ability to resist sophisticated types of intimidation and per suasion asked judge our Mili tary forces would be better advised to spend less time training in this area and More on fighting chemicals threatening drinking water in f once took for Grant Al report Waier advisers said the Council on environmental in a study on ground water contamination said Wells m 40 states have been shut Down in the past two or three years because they were tainted by oozing at least 33 toxic organic chemicals have been Lound in drinking water often in concentrations exceeding any measured theretofore in surface or ground water sup the report High Quality ground water especially that used for Domestic resource used the i980s As ser like conditions in the arid american West and the accelerating extinction of Plant and animal species from human Active the Council issued supplemental studies on both ground water contamination and and covered species extinction in its 497page annual the an Nual report also stressed the global threat of atmospheric Ozone depletion and Carbon dioxide we Are killing the Goose that lays the the