European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 9, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Excia analyst convicted of spying for Chinal v .,.-. Lai Chin thecia analyst who admitted he was a paid spy for China but claimed his motives were those of a Loyal american has been convicted of conspiracy espionage and tax cheating. R a jury returned the verdict late Friday after deliberating 3 hours and 24 minutes. Chin 63, stood with his hands behind his Back As he was pronounced guilty on 17 separate charges spanning a period from the korean War to late 1985, four years after he retired. He was the first american Ever charged with spying for the communist government in China. His wife Cathy broke into tears As the verdict was announced. Chin could get up to two life terms in prison plus an additional 83 years and be fined up to s3.3 million. Though he was paid $30,000 a year by the Cia Chin amassed a Small Fortune in real estate including 29 rental properties that Likely will go to the . Defense attorney Jacob Stein who remained in the courtroom for nearly 30 minutes to console mrs. Chin and other family members said he was certain he would a peal the verdict on at least some counts. But Well have to review it he said declining further . Attorney Joseph Aroma the chief prosecutor would say Only that we re pleased that we were Able to discover an american citizen who had been spying for another country for 30 there were hints during the trial that the government Learned of Chin s activities through a chinese defector. Chin himself suggested that his chinese handler of filing the Man who paid him and debriefed him in fre quent visits to Hong Kong had probably defected. Abc to reported Early Friday that it had Learned from government sources that another chinese official who had escorted Chin in a visit to peking had defected and in formed the Cia about Chin last fall. Wrap session Kedric Wolfe left relaxes it Boston s Logan Airport promising two free tickets to anyone who manages to while Jot palermino tries to do likewise. An airline is become As twisted As Wolfe. Chin a diabetic was born in peking but left China during the communist revolution and became a naturalized . Citizen in 1970. . District judge Robert Merhige did not set a Date for sentencing but indicated that it Likely would not occur for at least a month. Chin s defense entered on his claim that the stolen classified documents he tunnelled to peking were of no consequence to National Security and that he was motivated Only by a desire to improve sino am incan relations. He said his Homeland was such a closed society with so much suspicion and paranoia about the United states that he was convinced it was impossible for the communist leadership to receive Bona fide information about America s intentions. Two of the charges related to the period in which Chin first began working for the us. Government As a stale department translator in the interrogation of chinese prisoners in South Korea. Man suffocates after 400-Pounder sits on him in bar East St. Louis Iii. A a Man believed to have attacked a bar owner died when a 400pound tavern employee sat on him to hold him for police authorities said. Police said no charges Are planned against the employee big Tony Butler 29. The name of the 34-year-old victim was being withheld pending notification of his family they said. We could have shot him but we were trying to subdue him said Sherman Hamilton 55, the owner of the place in East St. Louis which is located across the River from St. Louis. He was alive when we put him on the floor. He would t Stop struggling and he was struggling hard Hamilton said. It was a horrible thing. A real Freak the St. Clair county Coroner s office listed the preliminary cause of death As suffocation. The stale s attorney has taken the Case under advisement. The incident began about 3 . Friday when the assailant began to harass several customers Hamilton said. We tried to make him feel Welcome but he kept on being a pain the tavern owner said. Employees forced the Man to leave three times the last time about 4 45 ., he said. But the Man resumed moments later Hamilton said and several patrons ran to the rear of the tavern. Hamilton said he confronted the Man and the Man attacked him with a knife. Hamilton s son came to his Aid and struck the assailant with the butt of a pistol. Other employees including Butler also helped to subdue the Man Hamilton said. They disarmed him and placed Handcuffs on his wrists he said. Butler sat on the Man to hold him until police arrived Hamil ton said. Ambulance medics arrived shortly before police but they could not revive the Man authorities said. Hamilton suffered a broken thumb and a knife wound on the Back of his head police said. His son Sherman Hamilton ii . Tourists flooding new Orleans Tor Mardi gras by Bill Cormier new Orleans a three Days before fat tuesday tourists were flooding into town merchants were checking their stocks of liquor to make sure they had enough and police were readying the Long of the Law. I m going to be partying like crazy hic everyone else Sais go Frey Warner a 27-year-old toolmaker who came from Adelaide Australia for what he Hopes will be the wildest few Days of his life. Warner is among More than a million Jet seufts fasting that Jesus spent in the w de a christians Are supposed to by Navy themselves during Lent. But Mardi gras comes first. Carnival season officially began Jan. 6, but the festivities marking the final Days before Lent did t really get rolling until last week. Mardi gras sweeps you along like a tidal wave with saturday s crowds a Little rowdies than Friday s and so on. And there s a Little something for everyone from contests for Best costumed families to the Gay Beauty pageant in the heart of the French Quarter. The jugglers clowns magicians and musicians Are forced off the most heavily travelled of the Quarter s streets and a sea of humanity takes Over in their place. It s been dubbed the greatest free show on Earth Complete with marching bands Flambeau Torch bearers in White smocks and wildly costumed members of the secret carnival "krcwcs,1 who toss the crowd souvenirs from atop their floats. Warner and some backpacking buddies were caught up Friday night in thei Krywe of Hermes Parade one of 61 Schedu cd by the City s masked marching clubs in the 12 Days before Ash wednesday. When Mardi gras is Over. Sanitation department Crews will sweep tons of de Bris from fashionable St. Charles Avenue and from the French Quarter whose streets Are too narrow now for inc really big parades. And police though renowned for their great restraint during carnival will cart away drunks who Don t know the party is Over. Throngs of Parade goers some in cos tume and Many getting drunker by the hour have lined the streets the past nights to catch the throws tossed by masked and costumed float riders. The eagerly sought treasure cheap aluminium doubloons that hit the Asphalt with a Clink sending people scrambling. Or colourful strings of plastic beads. Innovative marchers toss anything from plastic cups and tomahawks to Caps and Bikini panties. Ill be out every night until Mardi gras. My pockets Are full of beads said Virginia Kindelan a 23-year-old student at Loyola University Here and a Veteran of four previous Mardi gras celebrations. Loud raucous behaviour is usually Toler ated some say encouraged at this Lime of year. But police Are beefing up patrols to haul off anyone who gels Loo boisterous or disorderly. We Start getting our largest crowds this weekend said sgt. Juan Quinton. On Friday night he had about 100 officers in the French Quarter where a Texas visitor was stabbed to death in his hotel Friday morning. On a quiet night about 12 officers patrol the Quarter Quinton said. In the most serious carnival related disturbance reported so far this year a Torch bearer was shot and wounded by another bearer he was arguing with at the end of a Parade. Nobody else was Hurt and the Man with the gun was arrested. And the parly goes on. I came Here for Mardi gras because it s a Good time la s snowing in England really quite Nasty said Mark Wheeler of Brighton England. You want to be where it is warmer in
