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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 1s, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Henry Viii in Boston Heather Northway adjusts the hat on a Wax figure or King Henry Viii thai will preside Orer the British warship Mary Rose exhibit h Boston museum of Sci ence. The exhibit will display artefacts Leal were recovered from Henry vill s prize warship that Sank before his eyes because of Beady armament my too Crent Comben in 1545, the ship was brought to the surface in 1981. Racketeers using labor unions to gain Power panel says Washington a a Federal commission Laid president Reagan tuesday hit organized crime is entrenched in America s marketplace and is increasingly using labor unions As a tool to obtain monopoly Power in key sectors. The president s commission on organized crime winding up the tint comprehensive investigation of labor and management racketeering since the Mcclellan hearings three decades ago said Consumers unknowingly pay a surcharge to organized crime tar a wide Range of goods and services and that Federal enforcement efforts Ore fragmented and inadequate to Stem the Lide. Just two Days earlier Reagan in an Arti Cle in the new York times Magazine wrote thai for the first Lime in our history we finally have the mob an the run and boasted that organized crime convictions had quadrupled since he look office in 1931. Bui commission chairman Irving r. Kaufman who presented the panel s report to Reagan at the White House said there has never been a coherent Federal strategy to attack organized crime s corruption of our business institutions find labor  the commission said that through Domi nation of certain labor unions in major Cit ies organized crime controls and regulates a number of markets in the construction wholesale and retail meat processing Ruck ing garbage carting and waterfront Indus tries. The panel said the number of Union locals with connections id organized crime is a Small fraction of the 70.000 labor organizations in the United states bul the rep resented major units with thousands of members. Legislative actions recommended by inc panel include effectively authorizing the Norb to ban collective bargaining with an Organiza Tion controlled by racketeers. Making the Sale of Union work or a Union office a criminal offence. Making deprivation of Union rights to dissenters such As a physical beating or denial of Access to the hiring Hall a felony. Soldier who abetted Friend s suicide loses Appeal by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the  Mil itary appeals has upheld the conviction of a Soldier charged with murder for helping a Friend commit suicide by hanging. The court ruled trial evidence was sufficient to support the charge that spec. 5 Nancy Varrasso had helped pfc. Tammy Mem Luna with inc intent to kill her. Varrasso was convicted in 1980 of unpremeditated murder. On sept 28, 1980, according to court records Varrasso accompanied Mia Luna to a wooded area at fort Story va., tied her hands positioned a rope around her neck and left. Meal Luna was found inc Niit morning dead of asphyxiation facing record fifth term Varrasso was charged with premeditated murder and tried by general Cotrit martial. She pleaded not Gustiy. She was found guilty of unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to eight years hard labor n dishonourable discharge fur failure of pay and reduction to u-1. Varrasso s lawyers appealed on seven issues but the court ruled on Only one whether the military judge in inc trial erred by not advising the jury on intervening cause meaning anything that might have happened Between the time Varrasso left the Woods and Maza Luna s death. If the courier the jury would find that the deceased was in a position from which she could extricate or Rescue herself and then intentionally a Cal Forward slumped Forward and killed herself then that would be u separate intervening cause said Varrasso s lawyer. If the evidence supported that scenario Varrasso should have been acquitted the lawyer said. But chief judge Robinson o. Ever Ett in rendering i opinion said that Maza Lunn could not have positioned inc rope and lied her hands by herself. Thus Vur Russo s participation was in dispensable in causing Man Luna s death he said. In her statement Varrasso admitted tying a can Luna s hands and positioning the rope but said she did t believe Maza Luna would go through with the suicide because she had tried unsuccessfully Sev eral times before. Earlier that evening. Vur Russo und Maza Luna irid to commit suicide together by drinking Drain cleaner according to the statement. Although it is not unlawful under the uniform code of military Justice to Aid a suicide attempt one of four definitions of murder under the code san los thai anyone is guilty of murder who. Without justification or excuse unlawfully kills it human being when he is engaged in an act which is inherently dangerous to others and evinces a Wanton disregard of human  the accused s conduct fully qualified As the cause of the victim s death even if the victim intended to commit suicide and Lluc evidence was sufficient to establish thai the accused intended to cause the Vic Tim s death Everett concluded. Wallace leaves decision on re election bid open Montgomery Ala. A Respirator. I in e because h had been mismanaged Wallace  fad 0u could say ins ship of state had been Drift in. Without any knowledgeable direction from the Stem. 8 today Alabama is he ally. Our Economy u growing Many to Otle Are now looking for a better Job and uni Liitt a Fob the governor said  the speech contained the smallest legislative package of Wallace i present term and called for cutbacks in most state agencies. Some politicians saw it As a sign that he was not planning to run. But others said it attested to Wallace s skill at completing hit legislative program in three years and in keeping the state out of the red. The governor first took office in january 1963 As a segregationist but mellowed on racial issues while winning new terms in 1970 and 1974. He came off the sidelines in 1982 to win his fourth four year term. If he decides to run again this year the qualifying deadline is april 4 and the primary june 3. But his health is questionable. He left a Birmingham Hospital saturday after treatment for a urinary Trad infection. 11 was his fifth Hospital stay covering a total of 11 weeks during this term. He underwent spinal surgery in july to alleviate chronic pain when he left the Hospital Wallace said he would skip the traditional address thai opens an annual ses Sion of the legislature. But by tuesday he declared himself feeling Good enough to give his 16th slate of the state address. Wallace has said he would seek a fifth term Only if the poll show he can win and not end his Long career amid the humiliation of a loss. The former Golden gloves Boxer has said repeatedly i won t go out a  tuesday s address made Wallace the first governor to speak in the legislature s new Sifi million . Alabama got. Reorg c. Wallace  
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