European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 31, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 mysterious death of spy trial witness Points to foul play Malibu. Calif. Impi detectives investigating the rest curious death of a wit Ness in the espionage trial of firmer Fri agent Richard Miller said sunday she May be a victim of foul play. The body of Ludmilla Kondratjeva 38, of Santa Monica was found saturday in a car that plunged off Pacific coast Highway into the surf sheriffs deputies said. Although no evidence of foul play was immediate found. Kondratjeva s death was being investigated As a possible Homi cide. Deputy Pete  said. Fossman  the a Woof the 1970 Volks Wagen sirocco was crushed when the car fell 25 feet from the Highway and landed at the Edge of the a incr. The woman s body was partially protruding from a Back window homicide detectives arc looking into the Case due to the body s unusual position in the car Vosselman said. Otherwise it would have been just a traffic Accident investigated by the California Highway  . Chuck Bradley said detectives arc unsure How the body got into the rear seat of the car. We Don t know whether it was the result of the crash or a murder Bradley  autopsy was planned. The wreckage of the vehicle was discovered by fishermen saturday morning in the surf Uff Pacific coast Highway near old Malibu Road. Kondratjeva an athlete in the soviet Union before coming to the United states had testified at the espionage trial of former Fri agent Richard Miller the first agent Ever charged with spying. In her testimony Kondratjeva said convicted spy Svitlana Ogorodnikova had invited Miller to a dinner party at her Home. Miller s four month trial ended in november with a Hung jury. The body of  Kondra Jota was found in this car on a Rocky Malibu $4 i lion for preliminary hearings child abuse trial proving costly to All involved los  a after More than 16 months in preliminary hearings the Case of seven people accused of sexually abusing children at a preschool has already Cost los Angeles county $4 million. Attorneys say in has financially ruined at least five of the defendants. Attorney Daniel Davis says his name also can be added to the list of economic casualties in the Mcmartin pc school molestation Case. The seven defendants arc charged with multiple counts of molestation and conspiracy in the alleged sexual abuse of 14 students at the now closed preschool in suburban Manhattan Beach. Since authorities began investigating the Case in july 1983, nearly $4 million has been spent for the investigation and prosecution. Municipal court costs court appointed attorneys the Public defender s office marshals and county clerk said Dan Ikemoto assistant county Audi Tor comptroller. Without even knowing whether they will be tried most defendants have already lost their life savings Homes jobs reputations and in the Case of two their personal Freedom their lawyers said. School founder Virginia Mcmartin 7h, has lost her life savings her Manhattan Beach Home which was paid for her interest in the property at the school and All other assets said her attorney Bradley Brunon. Mcmartin s granddaughter 29-year-old pc pay Ann Buckey lost her career As a teacher of handicapped Chil Dren when she was named in the Case said her attorney. Deputy Public defender Forrest . Buccy s Mother and brother Peggy Mcmartin Buckey and Raymond Buckey have been in jail for nearly two years. The Mcmartin pre school is now owned by Davis Ray mond Buckey s attorney who says he has lost his House his Secretary and his Beverly Hills Penthouse office be cause of the extensive time he s devoted to the  e he said municipal court judge Aviva k. Bobb presid ing at the hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to warrant trial has refused to Grant him nirl appointed status in which the county would pay his  fees defendant Betty Raidor. According to her attorney. Walter lab a has lost More than $ 00. 0 1. Including her life savings and her Manhattan Beach Home. The preliminary hearing began in june 1 a a Lor Ray mond Buckey and was consolidated with that of the other defendants in August 1984. The prosecutors finished presenting their Case in octo Ber after calling 14 of the child witnesses named in the criminal complaint. Bobb has dismissed two thirds of the charges because prosecutors did t Call witnesses to sup port them. The defense began presenting its Case last month. Reeling farm Economy responsible for Nebraska s record bankruptcy rate Omaha neb. Dpi the number of Nebraska cases filed in  bankruptcy court has reached an All time High and should Peak above the 3,000 Mark court clerk Judith Napier said. The filings have just skyrocketed this year Napier said. She said the farm econ omy is the prime reason for the increase. The previous record for Nebraska bankruptcy cases 2,831 set in 1980 was broken in november. Clifton Jessup an Omaha attorney Spe Ciali ing in bankruptcy Law told the Omaha world Herald if the farm situation fails to improve by the Start of the 1986 planting season it probably will not improve for the year. We have not solved a number of prob lems of the Farmer and it will continue Jessup said. We May have hit Bottom but i Don t know How Long we will stay  Jessup said the Ripple effects of the farm bankruptcies have spread More than some observers had anticipated. One indication is the failure of 13 Nebraska Banks this year a record for the stale now tied with Kansas  Oklahoma for leading in 1985 Bank failures. 37-Bank farm credit system fax Hal mini Mai pm Bank a by Tor coopt fam among the 195 chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions filed so far this year 134 were farm related. Thirty is were filed by Busi Nesses caught in the Ripple effect of farm bankruptcies. Thomas Nitsch a Creighton University economics professor said. We might be through the worst part. The marginal operators have already failed. My impression would be that maybe the increase in bankruptcies would level off a bit nil sch said and if we Don t have a decrease we May at least Sec a decline in the rate of  three More bags full of cocaine found in Georgia Suches. A. A three More Duffel bags filled with cocaine believed to have been dropped by a drug smuggler who Felt to his deals parachuting from a plane have been round in a tree near this Northwest Georgia town. The find saturday in the Challah of Choc National Forest brought to eight the number of Duffel bags containing about 520 pounds of cocaine found in the North Georgia mountains since the sept. It Accident in Knoxville tcnn., authorities said. Andrew Carter Thornton ii 40, described As a former narcotics agent turned drug smuggler was killed when he parachuted into Knoxville after a flight from Colombia. Authorities found 77 pounds of co Caine strapped to his body and the key to a plane that crashed into a Mountainside in North Carolina. A Hunter saturday spotted the three Duffel bags in the same area where the other bags were found about 10 Miles North of suchs