European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May Fri agents grab Man threatening fatal leap new Orleans a an Fri a genl swung Down on a rope from a roof and two others leaned out onto a four foot ledge nine stories above the Street Early saturday to end a 12hour stand off and a Man who had threatened to the identified As Leroy Mcnan was taken away in Handcuffs for psychiatric observation at Charity hos lie had been on the ledge at the vet Erans administration building for hours in a dispute Over his attracting crowds giving a television inter View and dressing and Fri agents decided to grab him after vainly trying to talk him into giving up his Perch on the ledge and coming it was a pincer movement of a said agent Edmund Pistey who directed the one agent dropped Down from the roof at with just the full Moon to Light his he worked his Way Down floor by until he was in position above and behind me Pistey said the plan was to lure my Nenycz toward an open drop the agent in behind him and wrestle him into the it ended two agents grabbed the Man and the other swung Down from the ledge Menendez braced him self against the window Frame and struggled with the three men trying to get him he was very Strong and in Good con Pistey he put up a fair amount of police spokesman David Adams said the incident began when Menendez entered a veterans administration office just before noon set a fire in a broke out a went out on the ledge and removed his flinging them into the the clothes were retrieved by police and Menendez put them Back on before he was interviewed by we Surv news woman Lynn he told her he had been subjected to chemical experiments while being treated at a veterans administration Hospital for psychiatric you understand in in not demanding for them to be experimented the Way they experimented on and they got by with he that Over with Wasu said Menendez claimed his a disability benefits had been reduced from 100 percent to 20 percent cover officials said Menendez had caused disturbances police chaplain Peter Rogers said he had just been re leased from prison for firing a gun in Jackson and in 1977 he had held a doctor hostage for several Giro psychiatrist at Orleans Parish said Menendez was released about two or three weeks he said the Man was mentally ill and had been Given Antipsychotic drugs in negotiators reach out for Leroy on ledge of a building in new k Marf stores7 alcohol sales prompt donation of Stock Stanley Kresge up photo Detroit up the son of the founder of k Mart says he has been giving away his Stock in the nations second largest retail Chain because some of the stores sell Beer and Stanley said his religious beliefs include a View that alcohol does so much harm to so Many i Haven been interested in holding on to it because of he said of the Beer and wine former Board chairman and now a trustee of the Kresge last week gave Worth of k Mart Stock to Duke University divinity school in North operated by the methodist Kresge has a Long record of philanthropy and adherence to methodist doctrine and is chairman of the Board at metropolitan United methodist Church in he would not reveal his but said he began giving away his Stock shortly after the stores began Selling alcoholic beverages in april for dont want to be connected with something so he told the Detroit free the Bill pastor of metropolitan said Kresge is typical of old fashioned methodist Morali he has a Strong stand of total abstinence As a Way of life As a the minister said Kresge signs donation checks with the in the name of and for the Sake of Jesus the methodist in its outline on social Prin we affirm our longstanding support of abstinence from alcohol As a faithful witness to gods liberating and redeeming love for army launches what if study of Central America by Richard Halloran Washington not the army has begun a study to determine the Mili tary and civic actions that would be Nec Essary if american troops were ordered into a hostile situation in Central Ameri officers said president Reagan and senior administration officials have said repeatedly that they have no intention of deploying com Bat forces to Central America except for periodic such As those coming to a close in army officers acknowledged the administrations policy on the use of combat forces in Central but said they must be pre pared in the event that policy was we have to be Able to answer the question what one officer we didst adapt too Well to the officer and weve got to do bet Ter next administration officials have said that the United states must be under the Rio pact of to dispatch military forces to the Region if the Security of the Western hemisphere is threatened and if members of the pact agree to collective among the kinds of questions the study would seek to officers would be these what kind of artillery training will be necessary to prevent gunners from causing what the army Calls collateral which Means killing civilians in massed artillerymen Are trained to Lay Down barrages in a Low intensity they May be required to fire one accurate shot at a what kinds of Small unit tactics Are Best suited to anti guerrilla operations How americans build intelligence networks so that immediate tactical information can be in the Lebanon and Grenada the Lack of Good intelligence has been singled out As a Crit ical in civic How do american sol Diers help the citizens of the nation being assisted in a Way that the United states does not take Over tasks that the government of that nation should be doing for itself army officers said in the results of the study could be used to train younger officers who have been commissioned since the end of the Vietnam most majors and All captains and lieutenants came into the army after the veg team the results of the the first of which Are expected by the beginning of next will be used primarily to train troops for what the army Calls Low intensity con which includes the lessons from the inquiry would also help formulate doctrine and jeans for the army new Light infantry other divisions such As the 82d and rangers and special plus logistic units to support them if they Are sent to Central they the inquiry was recommended by Wallace who formerly commanded forces in latin America from a Headquarters in Panama and who currently Heads the readiness with Headquarters in that is responsible for preparing forces for deploy ment the project has just been approved by the chief of staff of the John Wickham who has invited the air Navy and Marine corps to take he also plans to invite the state de the Agency for International the Central intelligence Agency and other interested departments to take the officers