European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes monday january 27, 1986 Man caught in Ferraro s office flees while being questioned new York a an intruder ear trying a camera in a bag was caught in the office of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine it Truro saturday but he slipped away while being questioned by a Security guard police said. Hie Man was found inside the closed fifth floor office when a staff member arrived according to police sgt. Raymond o Donnell. The staffer Joe Mccormick is Cata Loging the former congresswoman i papers according 10 pal Lynn office manager for Ferraro Waller Mondoc s running male in the 1934 presidential race. Mccormick summoned Security and questioned the intruder who said he had a knife and threatened to Stab Mccormick Odonnel said a Security guard arrived and asked to see  papers but the Man refused. The guard took the camera out of the bag and the Man escaped through the door o onor Rotl said. He said police were dusting the camera for fingerprints before having he film developed. The sergeant said there was no sign of forced entry. The last person in the office was Ferraro. On Friday at 5 30 p.m.," he said. We Don t think there was anything missing Flynn said. The intruder was described is a White a pfc in his mid sos. Pentagon shipped toxic wastes to site declared illegal by Epa report says Washington up the Penta gon still shipped tonic wastes to a califor Nia dump even though the Epa bad cited the facility for environmental violations and stopped dumping Ita own waste there a fed. Era report said saturday the report said defense installations sent 6,442 tons of toxic waste to chemical waste management inc s kill Leman Hills  facility for seven months after the environmental Protection Agency banned the site in november 1984. The total amount of waste cited in the report compares to 5,012 tons shipped by defense installation in the eight months before the ban. Another 1,869 tons of waste almost All of ii shredded currency and food Stamps from the Federal Reserve were shipped to the site while the Epa i ban was in effect said the news update Neo nazi sentenced Seattle up a member of a violent Neo nazi group has been sentenced to 7to years in prison for participating in a toiled White supremacist revolution that included murder robbery and counterfeiting and two others have been sentenced to time served and released on Proba Tion. The Long sentence was Given to Thomas Bentley 57, of Hayden Lake Idaho who had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on the first Day of a nearly four month racketeering trial that ended with the conviction of 10 members of the order the government dropped a racketeering charge against Bentley that carried an additional maximum pen Alty of 20 years. In us. District court in Spokane. Randall Rader and George Zaengle two other associates of the order were sentenced essentially to time Al ready served and released on Proba Tion. Captain cleared Genoa. Italy apr an investigating judge who questioned the Captain of the Achille Lauro said he had found no evidence the skipper had aided the hijackers aboard the cruise ship. The Achille Lauro was hijacked oct. 7 while on a Mediterranean cruise and one of its passengers an elderly wheelchair bound american Leon Klinghoffer was shot to death and pushed overboard investigating judge Francesco Paolo cite Plano questioned Cape Gerardo de Rosa for three hours. Report from the eneral accounting office. The Ink used in printing currency and food Stamps is considered hazardous by California Law. The Epa has no authority to prohibit other Federal agencies from using dumps that violate environmental standards Bat it can inform other agencies on locations of environmentally sound disposal Sites. The Gao recommended that the Epa make available to other government offices information on Standard it uses in As Sessing toxic waste dumps. Federal agencies should not dispose of hazardous waste at disposal facilities that Epa deems to be experiencing Gigli fical environmental problems the Gao said. The study was requested by rep. John Ding Ell d-mlch., chairman of tin House Energy and Commerce committee who described the dumping activities As an  he added that his oversight subcommittee As pan of its investigation of hazardous waste handling would scrutinize the Way Federal agencies handle the toxic materials they Gener ate. The Epa had cited Kelly email Hills in Southern California in 1983 and 19b4 for operating without a groundwater monitoring sys tem modifying the facility without prior Agency approval and disposing of dangerous Poi chlorinated biphenyl a pcs in land tills no authorized to receive them. In november the Epa and the stat of Cali fornia announced they had reached a 14 million settlement with chemical waste management for the alleged violations. Since then the Epa has Sard a ban on using Kelleman Hills for superfund wastes will be lifted once problems at the facility Are corrected. Crash site search finds new clues Gander Newfoundland a searchers combing a Hillside where a jul incr crush killed 24s . Soldiers and eight Crew Mem Bers said they round Wallet Mili tary dog lags and burned bits or medical records that could help identify bodies. Roya Canadian mounted police sgt. Hank Johnston said Friday that searchers on their hands and Knees scoured the site of the dec. 12 disaster in heated 12-Squa re Yard area covered with plastic sheeting. Power than half of the 256 Vic Tims mostly soldiers from the loll airborne div at fort Campbell ky., have been identified. The team of 43 experts from the army s Graves respiration service and 30 Canadian officers Are con ducting the search. Johnston said the team which recently found two Bod ies was helped by Good weather. He said the search is expected to be completed Ungcad of the tight week schedule and it is unlikely that More bodies will be found Canadian investigators say they still do not know Why the plane crashed just after Takeoff from Gan Der Hilling about a half mile from the end of the runway. The Soldier were homeward bound from peace keeping duties in the Middle East a Public inquiry into the crash will begin in Ottawa an april 8, headed by Bernard Deschenes chairman of the Canadian aviation safety Board. New York to conduct major probe into granting of contract kickbacks new York a an investigation into possible wrongdoing at City agencies amid a burgeoning kick Back scandal will be As exhaustive As the Knapp commission probe of police corruption in the early1970s, an official said. It s that kind of n scale. There was perceived police corruption then. Now there s perceived corruption in City contracting attorney John s. Martin jr., who is organizing the investigation said Friday. I Don t know of any investigation close to it in the last 10  the investigation by the Knapp commis Sion formed after disclosures by officer. Frank Serpico led to the biggest shakeup in the history of the City s police department. The Knapp commission which operated from 1970-72, found evidence that police teak in to least s4 million a year in bribes from organized crime mostly to Overlook narcotics and prostitution violations. As a result 56 officers were brought up on Crim Inal charges. Martin has been Given an unlimited Bud get and a Broad mandate from mayor Edward i. Koch to examine the Kickback scan dal that has raised the Specter of widespread corruption in the Way City Agen cies award contracts. Geoffrey Lindenauer Deputy director of the parking violations Bureau has been indicted on charges of Eil Orting Money from a company that held a contract to collect overdue Parkins Tinea. He was the highest City official accused of misconduct since 1968. The City also replaced the Bureau s director and pressured its counsel Totake a leave. Last week u businessman alleged that Queens Borough president Donald Manes. Who admitted slashing his wrist two weeks ago after first claiming he was the victim of a mysterious attack had ordered payoffs to Lindenauer. On saturday Koch said he was consid ering a return to mayoral patronage in awarding City jobs and called on Manes to resign. Koch said Manes had no recourse. He has to resign the mayor said Manes must go to jail if there is a credible Case of corruption against him and he is convicted. I am saying there is credible  he said that in the past he had Given much of the responsibility for hiring to his commissioners assuming they would select employees on the Basil of men. That has been abused Koch said. In Stead of hiring on Merit some commission ers have hired on the Attis of political considerations or other More  meanwhile Manes left new York uni verily medical Center on saturday a hos Pital spokesman said. The City s government is no stranger to misconduct charges last year 41 employees of the housing authority alone were charged with taking bribes but the parking Bureau Case has incited far deeper concern. When you re talking about a water in Spector you re talking about one in 100.000 City employees said Tom Kelly a spokes Man for Koch. When you re talking Aboul the indictment of an executive dealing with Public funds it All has to be looked a and the parking Bureau Case it alleged to involve hundreds of thousands of dollars. One troublesome Issue official Tad is that the parking Bureau awarded to Kkt col Lection contracts by a process that allowed it to reject Low bids in favor of whatever contractor it Felt was most qualified. While the City has rules Tor using the selection process said Martin a former fed eral prosecutor All those criteria end up being vague enough that the system can be manipulated by someone who it successful at it. Who knows the  Martin wit that after he examines the parking Bureau contracts he plans to go much broader than  copter crash victims identified Frankfurt the two soldiers killed m the crash of an ah-1 cobra helicopter near  on Jan. 23, have been identified As chief warrant officer Dale l. Mor to 33, from Bangor a and pfc. Ronald a Swadley 22, from Orlanda Fla. Both were members of cob 503rd aviation in 3rd army div in Hanau. Public affairs officials said the helicopter had been participating in exercise certain Sentinel and crashed while in route  to Hanau. There were no other personnel on Board the aircraft and no civilian casualties. An investigation is being conducted into the came of the Accident. The crash brings to four the number of Soldier deaths in certain Sentinel. A mid air collision of two us. Army helicopters on Jan. 17 claimed the lives of chief War rent officer William k. Close 29. Of Largo Fly and chief warrant officer Elmer d. Padgett jr., 29, of Wilmington