European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 Legal Jungle Camp a for the first time since he was captured More than 15 years ago while driving a jeep near a Robert Garwood is free of the threat of military imprisonment in the Jungles of Vietnam or at but problems still remain for the first Marine convicted of collaborating with the Viet his attorneys Are seeking to overturn his conviction he is fighting in the court of claims to collect in Back pay that accumulated during his and in nearby he must face charges of having sexually molested a 7 year old the Marine corp reduced Garwood from private first class to private on Friday but it set him he could have been sent to prison for its been a Long a smiling Gar Wood said quietly after he heard the jurors who convicted him announce that they would not Send him to prison at All Vietnam vets the jury five Marine All Vietnam veterans had convicted Gar Wood of collaborating during two of the 14 years he was a prisoner of War in on they voted to punish the described by prosecutors As with a dishonourable the jury also sentenced Garwood to for Feit 10 Days pay and demoted him to Pri and with his dishonourable he will lose All veterans the military jury quieted what Gar Wood said was his largest fear it is futile to speculate what causes juries to do the special things they said Gar Woods John Garwood was convicted also of assault on a fellow David during their confinement in in Harker described the blow Garwood delivered to his ribs As offensive but not pain Marine Robert Garwood leaves on the jury heard a statement court at Camp from who said he does not want after being sentenced for collaborating Garwood to receive any confinement with the enemy in Garwood supervising Agency faces revamp convicted Marine Gary oof escaped but his future does not Rule out the courtroom after the sentencing has his Arm around son of his close Donna following them is Gar Woods military Lewis a photo controls on guns May ease Washington a the Federal Agency that enforces gun controls would be radically reduced or abolished under the Reagan administrations deregulation and budget cutting any such action undermining the trea sury departments Bureau of to Bacco and firearms would be a big Victory for new right conservative supporters of president and for the National Rifle which has tried for years to accomplish the same thing through legis renewed demands for stricter gun control legislation followed the murder of Rock Singer John Lennon in new York last Ham stringing the Bureau would be one of reagans first major concessions to his conservative including the Antigua control forces which spent heavily in support of his the Bureau has been under fire from italian comic charged in crash death of actress Italy a italian co median Gino Ramieri was charged with manslaughter after an actress died when he crashed his car on a Slippery Ramieri was slightly Bologna actress Liana died while Riding in the front seat of Brami Eris sports car when it smashed through a guard rail and plunged Over an embankment at an exit ramp on the Naples Bari super High other quarters As stemming from charges of arbitrary or violent investigative and arrest tactics against some of its proposals under study would Transfer some functions of the Bureau of tobacco and firearms to other agencies and possibly eliminate the Agency gun control the Agency current budget totals million Federal Law requires licensing of gun importers and per sons buying guns must fill out forms giving their names and the Law prohibits Sale of firearms to such persons As convicted fugitives from unlawful users of and to insane or mentally incompetent per because gun Laws would re main on the some Agency would have to continue the issuance of registration forms and enforcement would be left to local the Federal gun control Law was enacted in 1968 after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King repeated efforts in Congress to repeal the Law have but the latest move by the of fice of management and budget could accomplish essentially the same thing through the budget process and executive re organi bomb officials declined to respond to in quiries about the but they were con firmed by sources within the Bureau who asked not to be word of the impending changes reached the Agency thursday from the bomb by Way of the Treasury Bureau officials were briefed on the we have been told unofficially that there will be some Large both in people reduction and program and pos Sibly even dismantling the one Agency official responsibility for alcohol and tobacco which mostly involve tax would be returned to the Treasury inter Nal Revenue from which they were taken when the Bureau was created in the bureaus jurisdiction Over arson and explosives cases would be transferred to the Justice department and handled As other criminal cases it was unclear from the reports exactly what would happen to the bureaus responsibilities on but the consensus was there would be no enforcement Agency even if the Bureau is left intact on the proposed government reorganization could effectively kill its the sources we were told that functions that would be eliminated or whatever word you would be tobacco and which is pretty much our whole Crim Inal enforcement one Bureau official its practically everything we Cramer wins Pyle award Cincinnati a Richard Ben Cramers behind helices human interest stories from Afghanistan for the Phila Delphia inquirer have won him the 1980 Ernie Pyle memorial award of the Scripps Howard for the assault incident because he believes Garwood has been punished own statement it could have been Gar Woods own statement to the Garwood said he would Bear the Mark of his Captivity in Vietnam All his the two years since he he have been a punish Lowe told the Bobby Garwood has paid More for what he did than anybody could reasonably expect a Man to or maybe the jury As Lowe that Garwood landed Back in the United states at the wrong he was captured in september 1965 and freed in 1979 after enlisting the help of a finnish businessman in after the National Celebration that was operation Homecoming in charges of informing and other crimes were levelled against 11 of the returned later charges against them All were Lowe gave the Garwood jurors Navy documents that showed officials had Felt those pos had suffered enough and feared that juries would agree and refuse to impose cutting them Loose How can the american people justify cutting them Loose Lowe How can this be equal Justice under the Law nearly All of Robert Russell Gar Woods 34 years have been his Mother left him when he was 4 years Garwood thought that she was dead or that she deserted her at the age of he was sent to live with his impoverished in the late she often sent him to collect left Over food from the neighbors meals so that he could his clothes were other childrens at Garwood was sent to a Reform soon he joined the when he was just 10 Days before his Vietnam tour was scheduled to Gar Wood was his attorneys never disputed that Dur ing his years in Vietnam Garwood was his captors pet Monkey or that he acted like a White As other Amer ican pos testified during the 13week they called As witnesses psychiatrists who testified that Garwood was driven in sane by illness and they said he didst know he was commit Ting weeks after he returned to the United states in charges were filed accusing him of guarding his fellow in forming on them and urging them to Cross Over to the of time in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 the Senate armed services committee voted unanimously to draft 18 year Olds for 26 months of but stipulated that no draftees regardless of age could be sent overseas without four months of Basic 20 years ago foday 1961 members of the ice skating team were among 73 passengers and Crew killed in the crash of a Boeing 707 jetliner Over 70 years ago foday 1971 a airman Kidnap Ped by armed turks was released unharmed to american