European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 00 Newport . A a Navy commander convicted of sexually pursuing enlisted women under his com Mand was fined $10,000 monday and ordered to forfeit $30,000 in pay but the All male court martial panel spared him a jail term. Cmdr. John r. Hollis also was ordered confined to the Newport naval base for 60 Days and had his chances of future promotion severely reduced. But the jury of s Navy captains declined to dismiss Hollis from the serv a or impose a jail term As requested by the prosecution. Or had faced up to eight years in prison and ouster from u Navy for his conviction last week on four counts of fraternization and one of adultery. The 39-year-old commander wearing his dress uniform showed no reaction As he listened to the jury president read the sentence following nearly three hours of deliberation. " afterwards Hollis said i m still in the Navy but declined further comment. The Fine and forfeiture of pay at the rate of $1,000 a month for 30 months will take effect after the sentence is reviewed by a Superior officer attorneys said. That is expected to take several months. In a pre sentencing statement to the jury Hollis stressed his Happy marriage Loyal service record and his alcoholism in a plea for leniency. But a Navy prosecutor said new evidence showing hol Lis has been accused with fraternizing with women in Sev eral other commands before coming to Newport showed a Lack of rehabilitative potential and supported the government s request for dismissal and a jail term. It. . Fans the prosecutor said Hollis actions Dis honoured the uniform and compromised the Chain of com Mand. To a degree you decide the future of the United states Navy by sending a warning to others who might be tempted to follow his course of conduct Evans said. But cmdr. Timothy Boudewyns the defense lawyer argued that dismissal or confinement was too severe and asked for a Fine or a promotion ban. The accused is charged with being All too human i m afraid. And All too human while being a commanding officer he said. He has in fact been branded with a red a for  Hollis who did not testify during the trial stopped Short of admitting to the charges when he addressed the panel but said he had Learned a big  i won t Ever get in a situation like this Ever again he told the panel. Four Petty officers testified during the court martial that Hollis had dated and romantically pursued them from december 1984 to August 1985. One of the women said she had an eight month affair with Hollis. On monday Evans submitted four new affidavits de tailing other accusations of fraternization against Hollis including a memo from a former commander who said he warned Hollis against such activities. Fraternization on terms of military Equality by offi cers with enlisted personnel is a violation of Navy Law. The defense contended that the charges were fabricated by oversexed women who gossiped about men All  lawyer Stephen Mills also accused Navy investigators of conspiring with the women to further their own careers. Hollis said a jail term would certainly have a devastating effect on his wife and two children. His wife Linda did not attend any of the sessions but pleaded for leniency in a statement presented to the panel. Oil prices continue to fall making traders nervous new York a the Winter thaw in Oil prices took another step monday with the main Grade of . Crude dropping below $13 a barrel in futures markets and falling under $20 a barrel in Oil company contracts. The Market is definitely not convinced that this thing has stopped falling said Peter Beutel an Oil trading analyst at the commodities firm of Rudolf Wolff futures inc. He said traders appeared to be searching nervously for the Bottom of the Price de Cline and described monday s Market As. Like a Guy in a minefield putting his Fin Gers to his ears and stepping  on the new York mercantile Exchange West Texas intermediate crude for april delivery plunged As Low As $12.15 a barrel during trading monday before recovering slightly to close at $12.27. That still left the Best known Domestic crude Down 99 cents a barrel from Friday s close. The last time West Texas intermediate sold for such prices was in 1978. Closer to Consumers pocketbooks More big Oil companies Cut prices for their con tract purchases. Chevron corp. Reduced the Price it will pay for West Texas intermediate by $2 a barrel to $18. At the Start of 1986, Chevron was paying $28 a barrel. Sun co., which began the year at $28.50 a barrel announced its Lith Price change of 1986, cutting West Texas intermediate by $1 a barrel to $16. Phillips Petroleum  $1 to $16 a barrel and Diamond Shamrock corp. Lowered prices $1 to $15.50.the latest cuts left the . Oil Industry quoting contract prices ranging from $15 to $19.50 a barrel. It marked the first time since 1979 that Domestic Oil companies Al were below the $20-a-barrel level. Prices at the gasoline pump have not fallen As fast As in the markets for crude Oil in part because of the lag As Oil companies follow the futures Market. In addition re finers have yet to use up crude Oil Pur chased when prices were higher. The drop in Oil prices has improved the Outlook for non inflationary economic growth contributing to a Steep slide in in Terest rates in the United states and a re Cord increase in Stock prices. Saudi Arabia s Oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani has predicted prices could drop As Low As $10 a barrel for popularly traded Rudes before stabilizing. Edward Dellamonte an analyst at Prudential Bache securities inc., said $10 could be the floor for Oil prices but added if or. Yamani does t see cooperation around $10, it could be $8." the organization of Petroleum Export ing countries has been asking non Mem Bers to cooperate in reducing production. Speechless Speakes a photo White House spokesman Larry Speakes is apparently speechless As he holds a t shirt with the letters . The letters refer to president Reagan s sons of bitches remark after he tried to end a picture taking session at the White House. Speakes said Reagan does t recall saying it although journalists heard it piped through loudspeakers into the White House press room. Vagabonds say they re getting a bum rap fewer doctors City ousts Landfill tenants to make Park nurses smoking Survey report Berkeley Calif. A Vagabond who had set up housekeeping in their cars and buses on a waterfront lot a year ago were evicted monday because the City plans to use the Landfill area As a Park. It s criminal to be alive in this City and be poor said Radical Rob As he and about 30 other people were evicted from the area dubbed Rainbow Village that had been set aside 13 months ago As a temporary Home for drifters and their vehicles. I Don t like it at All said Rob who like most of his neighbors declined to give his last name. I know the City could do better. I know the state could do  under an agreement Between the City the state lands commission and nearby Marriott inn the Landfill area will be used for a Park said Berkeley spokesman David Poock. If it in the said the City could lose $760,000 in state and Federal funding that had been designated for Park development. It s not Good for the people out Here. Wish we could have come up with a better solution Poock said. The Village has been open since january 1985 and Only people who paid $30 a month could live there legally. Poock said the Resi dents must leave immediately but May leave their cars and buses for up to a month. Poock said he had been trying to find Homes for the residents but that Many preferred to live in their vehicles. Everybody s got to be someplace said Doc Stanley who has issued a Call for All bag ladies to attend a May 1 Demon stration at the Marina to protest the plight of the homeless. The Universal declaration of human rights Grants me the right to residence he said sitting in his 1969 Green Pontiac. It s the property class of America that says not Here it s just  Stanley said the residents had lived to Gether peacefully. Are there drunks yes. Are they Rowdy yes. Do you have to do anything about it no he said. The Village is nestled Between the Marina and a dump. A White clapboard sign that reads Rainbow Village lies at the foot of a Quarter mile Long dirt Road that leads tothe 80-by-100-foot lot. Outside the Fence sits the Shell of a motor boat with the Village s address 2001 Rainbow Village Junction written on its Side and a Large White bus with a sign that reads Send a bag lady to Berkeley format  there Are several recycling bins for Glass aluminium and tin As Well As a 15-foot Square Garden protected by picket Fence painted in Bright red Blue Green and purple. Four outhouses sit beside a faucet that provides clean water for the 24 buses trucks and cars. One Black and purple bus is decorated with stained Glass windows while a Silver bus has a sculpture on its Hood made with toys toothpaste tubes a guitar and a american Flag. New York up nearly 17 percent of doctors and 25 percent of nurses smoke cigarettes but their numbers Are dropping steadily according to a Survey by the Ameri can cancer society. It also shows More women physicians smoke than male doctors and that More women nurses smoke than women in the population at Large. The Survey questioned 11,324 physicians,2,892 dentists and 44,564 nurses about their smoking habits and compared the results to that of 19 studies into the smoking habits of health workers conducted Between 1954 an the late 1970s. The study s results show a uniform decline in the number of physicians who smoke from More than half in 1954 to an estimated 16.7 percent today. Smoking rates for nurses Are consistently higher than that of physicians but they too show a downward trend. According to the sur vey 14.1 percent of dentists surveyed smoke