European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q Commodore washed out by Navy officials Page 4 the space command looks toward the future Page 13 q Bucky Fox rates air Force football Page 23 authorized unofficial publication Fob t vol. 44. No. 205 saturday november 9. 1985 d 8693 a . Won t let soviet ship leave freighter s Captain turns away lawyers with Senate subpoena for ship jumped Reserve. . Api the  of a soviet comr la with the Senate subpoena. Prot ten Bot fleets put the marshal . A Captai freighter on thursday night turned away two lawyers carrying a subpoena ordering a ship jumping ukrainian Sailor to appear before a . Senate committee and explain whether he really wants to return to the soviet Union. . Customs said it would t allow the marshal Konev to depart until the soviets comply with the subpoena for the Seaman Miroslav Medvid to testily before the Senate agriculture committee next week. The Captain indicated he was instructed by his govern ment not to accept the subpoena until a representative of his government can get Down Here said David Sullivan who tried to deliver it. The lawyers said they would try again Friday after soviet diplomats arrive. Sullivan an aide to sen. Jesse Helms , chair Man of the agriculture committee said he did not see Medvid when he tried to deliver the document. About a do in demonstrators in a Small boat circled the 400-foot freighter which was illuminated by work lights As its hold was tilled with Corn. They taunted the soviets and urged them to free Medvid who had twice jumped the ship last month Only to be returned both times. Reporters were kept at a distance from the ship while the officials went aboard. The party stopped at the gangplank and four or five went aboard including Joe Wyman a Belle Chasse jewelry store owner who could identify Medvid. Dennis Murphy a customs spokesman in Washington said the coast guard is prepared to withhold departure clearance for the marshal Konev if the soviets refuse to comply subpoena under Law if they refuse to comply with the subpoena. According to our attorneys we apparently have no option except to withhold clearance until we can get the matter sorted out he said. We arc prepared to take action if action is required he said. We have to abide by what the Law dictates and the subpoena carries the weight of  asked what customs could do if the ship tried to leave without clearance he declined to speculate. I m not going to go any further he said. The ship was docked at a Grain elevator about 30 Miles from new Orleans. The men carrying the subpoena refused to talk to re porters when they arrived in new Orleans and visited the customs office. Agriculture committee aides said the subpoena written in English russian and ukrainian would retaken to the ship. A copy was to be Given to customs officials to prevent them from giving the ship clearance to leave . Waters said committee spokesman Ron Phillips. Helms signed the subpoena which requests that Medvid appear before the committee on tuesday morning. Administration officials said in Washington that med Vid had made his intentions to return to the soviet Union emphatically Clear and the Case is  in other developments e the Acle tiled a lawsuit in the 5th us. Circuit see soviet on Page 28 of wins conviction on urinalysis result by j. King . Bureau Raf m1ldenhall. England the air Force has secured its tint conviction in drug abuse Case based solely on Evi Dence supplied by urinalysis. Staff sgt. Joe d. Jackson 25, a food service specialist with the 501st combat support group at Raf Grenham com Mon England was convicted oct. 31 of the wrongful use of marijuana according to 3rd air Force officials. At the end of his four Day court mar tial Jackson a native of Chicago was sentenced to receive a bad conduct Dis charge confinement at hard labor for four months reduction in Grade to airman Basic and forfeiture of $413 in pay per month for four months. In similar Case Here earlier this year air Force sgt. Wilfredo Morales 27, As signed to Mildenhall s 513th Aerial port so Wai convicted feb. 8 of wrongful use of marijuana. At that time Legal officials Here said Morales conviction was the first in a drug abuse Case based solely on Evi Dence supplied by urinalysis. However after reviewing the Case the trial judge declared a mistrial because a member of that jury violated orders of the court. Morales conviction was set aside. He was not retried and eventually was Given an administrative discharge. At the time of Morales trial military officials said that convictions in drug cases using Only evidence from a forensic lab would become More common because Mil itary labs had tightened their procedures for testing urine samples. The lab changes came about after a 1983 study by toxicologist and Legal specialists had looked at ways to improve verification of lab results involving urine specimens. William Manders a retired colonel who was an air Force scientist was a key government witness at Jackson s trial. Al though Manders helped to develop the air Force s urinalysis program during the past few years he has become a prominent critic of the program. According to maj. William s. Colwell 3rd air Force s chief of military Justice Manders did not think the program was being used correctly. Manders had testified for the defense at Many drug trials in the United states and had attacked the stateside military testing program for what he called its Sloppy procedures and inadequate analysis Colwell see of on Page 28 scores killed As troops free hostages in Bogota Bogota Colombia a soldiers Mew Down Walls of the Palace of Justice with dynamite thursday and rescued up to 48 hostages held by leftist rebels. Officers twid they found 50 bodies in the burned out building and the guerrillas had been annihilated survivors of the 17-hour ordeal said the guerrillas hot to death six supreme court judge including the chief Justice. President Belisario Betancur accepted responsibility for launching the assault against the april 19 movement guerrillas in a speech broadcast on television and radio thursday night. He called the bloody two Day Battle a terrible Nightmare that ensued because the guerrillas would not surrender and accept his promises of safety. No official death count has been Given because authorities have not yet been Able to sift through All the bodies in the building. Betancur suggested that the rebels had been connect Edo drug traffickers because they destroyed court tiles that included cases of people the United states is seeking to extradite. He has repeatedly linked the country s leftists rebels to drug trafficking. I personally took All the decisions gave the respective orders to find a solution with in the Law the president said. He said ordering the assault was difficult knowing see Bogota on Page 28 Call says . Captives slain no bodies found Beirut a an Anonymous Telephone caller said the terrorist group islamic jihad had decided to kill by fir ing squad the american hostages it holds in Lebanon because indirect negotiations with the United states had reached a dead  another Anonymous Call thursday claimed the americans had been killed and dumped at a specified location but police said they found no bodies there. Six americans Are missing in Beirut. Islamic jihad thought to be fundamentalist shiite moslem followers of Iran s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has said it already killed one american and is holding the other five. There was no Way to verify either Call made to the office of a Western news Agency in Beirut apparently by differ ent men. The news Agency made a Tran script of the original caller s statement available to the associated press. We have decided the following the execution of the american hostages by firing squad said the first Man who called at 7 15 . Thursday spoke in see captives on Page 28