European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 former mistress testifies at von Bulow trial a Glaus von blows for Mer mistress testified tuesday that he told her he watched his wife for hours without summoning help after she Lap sed into a coma in but when she was on the Point of he  go through with he watched her knowing she was in a bad Way All and watched her and watched Alexandra Isles said in testimony that followed her return from Europe on and once she was at the Point of he said that he  go through with the socialite and former soap opera who was the final prosecution said she had not mentioned the conversation when she testified at von blows first trial because she  Bear to think about As she von Bulow intermittently Shook his head from Side to was a key prosecution witness at von blows first trial on charges he induced his wife two comas by a photo key witness Alexandra Isles he  go through with trying to murder her with insulin Martha sunny von recovered from the 1979 but doctors say a coma she suffered a year later is Isles As she did at the first that she had Given von Bulow a deadline to divorce his she said that prior to the first coma he had told her he would be a free Man after Christmas because he would have come to an understanding about divorce with his Isles said von Bulow told her that the night before the first coma he and his wife had a Long argument about a possible divorce and that he watched her drink alcohol spiked eggnog and take a she said he told her that the next Day he watched his wife deteriorate and then finally called a that supports earlier testimony of a family maid that von Bulow did nothing for hours As his wife under Cross examination by defense attorney Thomas Isles revealed that after the first she wrote von Bulow a letter suggesting they resume their relation when i wrote that i didst know what i was she Isles also said she was ashamed to admit that she continued to see von Bulow through 1980 even though she had suspicions about his wife first she denied defense assertions she was trying to let von Bulow know about the and perhaps Speed up a decision on a by dropping off presents at the couples Manhattan Isles said von Bulow was not a housewife who would pick up things at the front the judge refused to permit the state to present its last Morris von blows longtime banker and estate he had testified at the first trial about How much von Bulow would gain upon the death of his during a hearing on a defense motion to limit any new Isles said she had not provided the information at von blows first trial because she  Bear to think about it and was not directly my purpose in the trial in 82 was to answer in the most minimal Isles i  Cope with what i didst i  Bear to think about it was his behaviour that troubled me and i didst want to recognize it for what it might have in she Isles left for Europe two months saying she wanted to avoid testifying because she knew it would generate intense but after a state request to use her 1982 testimony was prosecutors successfully negotiated with her new York attorney to get her Isles testimony is critical to the states charges that von Bulow wanted his wife dead so he could inherit million of her million Pittsburgh utilities Fortune and be free to marry in Isles told the jury she gave von Bulow an ultimatum to divorce his wife and marry the six month deadline fell shortly before von blows first a photo defendant Claus von Bulow faces 40 years in prison before Isles took the stand at the Superior court judge Corinne Grande denied a defense motion to limit any new testimony on grounds that the defense knew Noth ing about the Grande said the testimony was permissible because the state was not withholding it from the defense its quite Clear that this witness at the first trial consciously excluded certain she testified selectively for reason she Felt were compelling or Grande the judge also rejected a defense motion to bar isles1 entire the defense had said it was irrelevant and would prejudice the jury against von von faces 40 years in prison if convicted on the two charges of attempted his 1982 convictions were overturned by the Rhode Island supreme court last year on state constitutional Bosto Narea residents concerned nerve Gas test lab says army Boston a a top army official on tuesday described a Cambridge Laboratory where nerve Gas is tested As superbly Safe and said fears about its Urban Loca Tion Are honestly not Amoretta acting Deputy under Secretary of the made the comments after a meeting with Cambridge area officials and neighbors of Arthur Little which is testing the chemical warfare agents under contract to the department of since the fall of the company has 30 vacationers injured when truck runs into bus France a a bus carrying vacationers was sideswiped by a truck and tumbled 19 feet off the Road and onto a injuring 30 none be police the Driver of the which was carry ing nine tons of Frozen failed to Stop despite the Accident but was picked up later by police the bus passengers were returning from a three Day Holiday in been conducting experiments using five Blister and nerve agents at its Levins Laboratory in a congested City of that is Home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of technology the research is aimed at finding ways to neutralize the deadly gases and to test the resistance of certain cloth and Boot Materi als to the the close door meeting was called by Edward who has received a Large volume of mail from Resi dents worried about the safety of the highly toxic said Kathi a legislative assistant to the a scientific advisory committee appointed by the Cambridge City Council concluded in a report that in the worst possible in which nerve Gas was released from the Between 50 and 100 people could die from exposure to toxic but who toured the Laboratory in the morning and met with Community members in the dismissed the possibility that such a release could i am Here to assure you that the operations Are Safe and they Are be she the facility itself is superbly among those at the meeting were Muni Cipal officials from Cambridge and the neighbouring town of members of citizens and aides to John and Thomas were not saying this stuff should not be were saying it Doest make sense to do this kind of research in the third most densely populated City in the coun said John Oconnor of the toxic Alert Hoeber said the Laboratory location is honestly not relevant because nothing could get outside of i believe the safety concern is what should be relevant in this and i believe it is truly she in March the Cambridge health commissioner issued regulations Banning the use of nerve Gas within City but Arthur Little filed suit to halt enforcement of the a state appellate court ruled that the City had the right to impose the but permitted the testing to continue until All 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