European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Navy suspends business with 5 firms by Norman Black Washington a the responding to a widening Federal fraud investigation in said it had suspended 11 individuals and five companies from doing business with it or any other Federal the service also said it was launching formal Debar ment proceedings to prevent a number of employees and subcontractors of Avondale shipyard from doing any business with any Agency within the executive Branch of the Federal government for a period of three a unit of the new York Cit based Ogden was not affected by fridays the Navy said it will decide whether to take action against Avondale when the fraud investigation is the Navy also disclosed that Avondale had repaid almost million in questionable plus another in the Navy said it had no estimate of How much Money Overall might be at which is headquartered in new holds several Navy contracts Worth hundreds of millions of dollars for the construction of Fleet oilers and amphibious Docking it has also received a number of contracts for ship fridays action was based on the results of an audit and a continuing investigation by the attorney in new the Navy Over the past 18 some two dozen individuals have been indicted by a new Orleans Federal grand these individuals were involved in a scheme of embezzlement prior to october 1983 that was discovered through an internal audit at the Navy said in a Brief statement explaining the the scheme used fictitious invoices through Petty Cash a Vendor double resale of stolen parts and kickbacks to company the Navy said none of its own employees or Active duty personnel had been affected by the it would not specify the hometowns or employers of the 11 suspended nor the Home cities of the five suspended the five firms were identified As Branton insulation Burns associated equipment Eagle welding equipment and Supply and Jeffer son Marine towing Oklahoma murderers sentenced of die by injection up a pair of homosexual lovers were sentenced saturday to die by injection for murdering four peo ple in a Bank robbery last the jury took just 90 minutes to decide on the death penalty for Jay Wesley and Robert Grady who were convicted Friday of the 14 murders of three employees and a customer at the first Bank of Chattanooga in a Small town in southwestern those receiving the death penalty in okla homa Are sentenced to die by injection but the sentence has not yet been carried out in the state since the supreme court lifted its ban on capital punishment in Comanche county District attorney Dick Tannery used two witnesses saturday in the sentencing phase of the trial in an Effort to persuade the jury that Johnson and Neill should die for the the made up of 10 women and two found the suspects guilty of four counts of first degree murder after a we Klong witnesses included survivors of the who testified against the execution by lethal injection Chicago Tribune graphic source a act Legal defense and education fund the two men also were convicted on three counts of shooting with intent to kill and one count of attempted shooting with intent to the first degree murder convictions meant the men could be Given either life in prison without parole or the death jurors deliberated for an hour and 37 min utes Friday before announcing their Johnson and homosexual lovers who claim to be showed no emotion when the verdict was the two were arrested at a san Francisco hotel 17 and Fri agents said they recovered some of the taken from a Cash drawer at the Geronimo during the attorneys for each defendant tried to persuade jurors that the other suspect was responsible for the killed in the robbery were employees Kay Joyce and Geri also slain was Bank Cus Tomer Ralph Steve the brother of Marilyn one of those wounded in the said he was pleased with the deceptive pressure sales charged in Sears trial Maine a at the Midway Point in Maines lawsuit against Roebuck the state is trying to prevent its own investigators from testifying and Sears has Only reluctantly stipulated How Long Consumers can expect products to be at Issue Are sales practices used at Sears stores nation and both sides agree that a state court ruling could have repercussions in other a finding favourable to the state might just shame the Federal Trade commission and other Federal Levels to get into says Deputy attorney general Rufus who Heads the state Legal Sears chief defense John Oleary theres nothing to prevent somebody from trying to read the Law in the same Maine accuses the chicag based retail Chain of using deceptive advertising for major appliances on Sale to lure customers into eight Maine and then pressuring shoppers to buy More expensive the which completed its Case also alleges that Sears Sells service contracts that merely duplicate existing warranty coverage on its washing televisions and other Sears denies All six counts of the Oleary says the two Baitman switch charges Are not backed up by enough evidence to support More than a Onei Navilhon they had a grand total of 20 complaints from among several million said we will Call the seven state investigators who in our View conducted an investigation that supports the he Brown and attorney general James Tierney main Tain that Sears of premises warehousing of Many advertised items is sufficient to support the Baitman switch for that they the investigators Testi Mony is no longer Superior court Justice Donald who is hearing the Case without a indicated he might Dis miss one of the two Baitman switch on the other prosecutors insist that Maines statutory concept of implied warranty already offers to customers the protections sold by Sears in the maintenance what were saying is that before somebody buys a maintenance Brown they ought to be informed that they have those warranty not just in a general Sears employees from Maine stores testified in the past two weeks that maintenance agreements offer special serv ices with real including regular preventive maintenance that can improve performance and extend the life of an Augusta store repairman Joe Ross wheeled several display appliances into the courtroom and demonstrated How he would conduct an income vacuuming the inside of a swabbing the Contact Points of a video cassette recorder and tinkering inside a the state argued that such simple maintenance can be done by the average consumer and that what customers Are paying for is insurance against major breakdowns that would be covered by implied warranty the state asserts that implied warranty coverage should be taken to extend at least beyond the first three years of ownership the typical period covered by an initial Sears service Oleary counters that and any other must Challenge the states definition of implied warranty a minimum duration for any particular kind of apply no matter How broadly you read the implied simply As a matter of fact to say that the maintenance agreement and the warranty Are Duplica Tive is just not he until Sears rejected repeated prodding by Brown to voluntarily declare a reliability Standard for its under chiding from the Oleary offered an intricately worded statement to stipulate for the purposes of this Case Sears appliances probably will not fail to operate so As not to perform their intended functions due to serious defects or Wear out for three if used Brown rejected the proposed statement As angering that typifies whats been going on in this the judge Alexander said that a failure to get the parties to agree on a general reliability Standard could significantly length in the trial and multiply a huge trial record that includes thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of Gas can May have fuelled fire in move compound Philadelphia a the police bomb dropped on the roof of a Radical Back to nature groups Row House ignited a near by gasoline according to an analysis of a videotape of the assault made by the newspaper the Philadelphia the resulting fire gutted 61 Homes and killed 11 the May 13 assault has been described by City officials As an Effort to gain Access into the building where the heavily armed had established itself and had terrified residents in the the inquirer reported in its sunday editions that a Frame Frame analysis of videotape shot by a local television station showed two distinct the second explosion occurred a Hal Sec Ond after the blast from the police Satchel bomb and came from a spot where inquirer photographs taken 90 minutes earlier had shown a gasoline an associated press photo taken 11 Days before the confrontation showed a move member hoisting a can labelled gasoline up onto the fire commissioner William Richmond and fire marshal Roger Ulshafer visited inquirer offices and Richmond took notes As he viewed the videotape and still Pic the newspaper Ulshafer said it was not possible to draw immediate conclusions from the pictures or he said investigators were doing their own analysis of the the