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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 24, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 52 fired in Genera dynamics drug scandal san Diego a general dynamics a Majo defense contractor has fired 52 workers from its san Diego electronics division for the Sale and use of drug son company property a company spokesman confirmed Friday night. The firings climaxed an extensive internal investigation at the electronics Plant which primarily is involved in the production and delivery of automatic test equip ment for the by a bomber and the f-16 Jet fighter spokesman Jack Isabel said. We recognize drugs Are very serious concern he said. If you look at an Industry such As ours it is not unusual that investigations such As this Are carried out from time 10  the investigation lasting several months and con ducted in Large part by general dynamics internal Security Force found that employees used and sold drug while at work Isabel said. Any Large company has rules of conduct Isabel said. And one of the rules is that the Sale of drugs and use of drugs on company property. Is determined Tobe an offence that results in  Isabel said he knew of no instances where the allege drug use led to Quality control problems at the Plant which employs about 4,400  employees were fired wednesday. Isabel said none of the 47 fired workers who Are represented by the International association of machinists and aerospace workers has filed a  Calls to the local Union office went in  five other fired workers were on what Isabel described As the professional  said no Federal or local Law enforcement Agency has been brought in to the  combat the drug problem general dynamics recently instituted a drug testing policy for All new employees. Applicants Are required to submit a urinalysis and pass a physical examination Isabel said. Of Crim was held Tor 7 years Man gets 101 years in sex slave Case Redwood City Calif. Up lumber Mill worker convicted of holding a Young woman As his sex slave for seven years has been sentenced to a maximum of 101 years in state prison. San Mateo county Superior court judg Clarence Knight said Friday he imposed the maximum sentence on Cameron Hooker because of the cruelty and viciousness of the crimes and because Hooker s Pat Tern of violent conduct was a serious danger to  Hooker 31, a resident of red Bluff was convicted by a jury on oct. 31 of Kidnap Ping seven Counti of rape and two counts of other sex crimes. Knight sentenced Hooker to one to 25yean for kidnapping with an additional term of five to 10 years for the use of knife in the abduction. He also sentenced him to seven consecutive eight year term son the rape counts with two additional five year terms for other sex  showed no emotion As the sen tence were handed Down but tapped his foot As he listened to the terms. He was found guilty of abducting Collee Stan As she was hitchhiking near red Bluff in 1977 when she was 21 and holding Heras his bondage mate until the fled to her family m Riverside Calif., in 1985. She testified int he whipped her kept her for Long periods of time in a coffin like Box and used other bondage equipment on her. She Abo told the court she did not leave him sooner because the had feared for her life and the lives of her family members. A photo Cunt new Hooker. Obviously unhappy with sentence breast feeding banned of Mississippi prison Jackson miss. A a Federal judge has refused to allow a convicted embezzler to breast feed and care former Newborn son while she serves her sentence in a state  Southerland wept Friday after the ruling by . District judge Toms. Lee and said she would Appeal Call ing it a horrible thing to separate baby from its Mother. Southerland gave birth to her 9-Pound Ion monday at the University of Mississippi medical Center in Jackson. She bad been scheduled to leave the Hospital on wednesday to return to the state Penitentiary at Parchman leaving her son Matthew to be placed in a Fos Ter  she asked the Federal court to keep her with her son Lee issued a temporary restraining order allowing the Mother and infant to stay at the Hospi  has been incarcerated at the sprawling prison in the Mississippi Delta for two months following her conviction for embezzling $388 from performer employer. Prison officials Laid she received five year sentence and would be eligible for parole after serving about one  civil liberties Union attorneys arguing on Southerland s behalf said the infant had a constitutional right to be breast fed. Our contentions Are there is a right to privacy a family relationship and there could be a lost of Opportunity of parental binding Hilary Chiz of the Acle said before the  Cabana Penitentiary superintendent said providing the necessary facilities for the Mother and the child was something the prison is not prepared  and there Are a lot of serious questions to ask about raising a child in this environment Cabana  his ruling Friday Lee granted Southerland an additional 72 hours wit the infant at the Hospital before she is moved Back to prison. During the trial defense attorney Roll and Papendick sought to show that Stan had fallen in love with Hooker and at on Point wanted him to divorce his wife Jan ice 27, so he could marry , after the sentencing told reporters i m glad that Cameron will not be Able to Hurt anyone  the Divorcee also denied that she had stayed with him willingly. I Felt i had no rights at All she said. Cameron Hooker took them All  she said she told him on occasion that she loved him but Only to prevent him from placing her Back in a  said Hooker was obviously unhappy with the sentences. But the Law yer said his client knew he was going to get the  officials explained that the Kidnap Ping sentence was indeterminate and Testate department of corrections could change it. They said that the other sentences were under the determinate Rule and Hooker would have to serve at least 50 per cent of the time. Knight also ordered Hooker to make a$50,000 restitution payment to Stan. Stan in a statement read to the judge Laid mercy was Noi shown to Means mercy should not be shown  also rejected a defense motion to disqualify himself. Papendick said earlier inthe week that the judge once quipped that Hooker would have been great during the Spanish inquisition. Hitler would have loved  Navy fess cruise missile Oft California Point Mug Calif. A an unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile has been launched from a Navy ship in he Pacific Ocean to a Mojave desert military base in a test of the weapon a spokesman said. To missile was launched Friday during the afternoon from a surface ship on the sea test Range of the Pacific missile test enter at Point Mug Navy spokesman Ray Lucasey said. The missile which car ried no warhead flew to the naval weapons Center at China Lake  the Navy withheld most details of the test including the name of the ship from which the missile was launched the time of the launch the mileage of the missile s Zig Zag route and whether it hit a target or was allowed to Parachute to the ground. Lucasey said he also did t know if the test was considered a Success although the missile did reach China Lake located about150 Miles Northeast of Point Mug. The launch was to test the entire cruise missile system from the ability to launch to the ability of the missile to Fly said cmdr. Kendall Pease a Navy spokesman in Washington. Cruise missiles Are subsonic Jet powered Craft controlled by computer guidance sys tems to Fly close to the ground and avoid enemy radar detection. The missiles which also can be launched from planes and sub marines Are capable of carrying conventional or nuclear warheads. Homosexual couple seeks Home in european country los Angeles a an australian and his american companion will seek a Home in Europe after losing a 10-year Bat the with the immigration and naturalization service to stay in the United states Asa homosexual married couple. Anthony Sullivan 43, of Australia and Richard Adams 38, were to leave saturday on a flight to Britain where they Hope to slay will a Friend for a few weeks before visiting european nations in search of Home together. The Way i see it now it s like sexual apartheid Adams Laid referring to South Africa s racial segregation policy in de scribing the circumstances of their Depar Ture. The two men say they were married by Colorado Clergyman in 1975. But immigration officials who sought Sullivan s Deporta Tion said the marriage Wai invalid Ana that Sullivan had no rounds for immigrant status in the United states. Australia turned Down Adams request for similar status there a year ago Sullivan said. In september a . Appeals court cleared the Way for Sullivan s deportation. Sullivan compared his situation with a recent decision by the soviet Union to allow some spouses of . Citizens to come to the United  does disappoint me that America is casting us out he said. "1 think it s contrary to the principles of this country and i find it a Little ironic that we re leaving at time when America is rejoicing in the reunification of american and soviet  quit his Job at a car rental firm to leave the United states with Sullivan wit whom he has lived since 1971. The pressure of eight court cases and the Glare of publicity has brought the two men closer together Adams said. Sullivan said he had no regrets about revealing the marriage. We could have lied and gone under ground but that s not what we want for ourselves As individuals he said. Richard and i share a very deep belief that you should not be forced to lie by your  Minolta founder Dies Tokyo a Kazuo Tashima 85,founder and chairman of Minolta camera co., died of kidney failure at a Hospital i Kobe in Western Japan his family said  
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