European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday May 16,1986 american jewish leaders Hail death sentence for Artukovic los Angeles a the death sentence Given Andrija Artukovic for ordering the Slaughter of hundreds. Of thousands of people during world War ii shows Justice May be do toyed but not denied jewish leaders say. The Hui year old a Lvovic who served 05 Croatia s Interior minister during world War 11, was found guilty wednesday by a panel of five judges in Zag Brub Yugo Slavia and ordered to die before a firing squad. M Ilko ii ski who headed the judicial panel said aft. Kovic under Protection and in collaboration with the nazis. Ordered persecution torture and murder of. Hundreds of thousands of jews serbs croats and gypsies Many them women and children.". Rabbi Marvin hic of the Simon Wiesel hat Center for holocaust studies Aid Artukovic had a much belter life than Many of his victims and feel no compassion for him.". He said death by a firing sound was the least that society could do for the memory of the martyred millions who suffered and who Are not Here to defend themselves or to be represented by lawyers As or. Art Akovic Irv Rubin National chairman of the militant jewish defense league said it s not Joy that i feel that he faces the firing squad but a tremendous sense of former israeli defense minister Moshe Arens asked his reaction to the Artukovic verdict while visiting los Angeles said i am in favor of prosecuting people who Are guilty of committing War however Ari Akovic s son Rad a 37-year-old los an Geles stockbroker said the trial was a classic communist political show trial and the verdict will be appealed through yugoslavian courts. The younger Arm Kovic Suid he is convinced his father who Lime Tor j6 years in Seal Beach killed no one und ordered no executions during his term As Interior minister. His harshest words were aimed lit the . Justice department s office of special investigations a nazi Hunt ing division that Nas succeeded a deporting a number of reputed nazis from the United states in recent years. The us. Government through the Osi has been collaborating with the police of a communist regime Rad Artukovic said contending it was wrong to return his aged father to a country where he could present no Legal defense to the charges against him. He said he would Call for a congressional investigation on that Issue. They re tossing a lot of concepts we americans believe in out the window he said. We have a right to defend ourselves and we were denied the elder Artukovic was extradited from the United Stales feb. 12 after a decades Long Legal Bailie by Yugo Slavian authorities to bring him to trial he fled to Italy immediately after the War and also lived briefly in Ireland before going to the United Stales. He was never an Ameri can War memorial fund seeks families of 39 casualties Washington a a search is under Way for family members of 39 casualties of the Vietnam War and whose names Are being added to those listed on the Viet veterans memorial the 39 casualties Are among 109 names that were omitted from the list of Vietnam War dead originally inscribed on Ibe a shape memorial on the mall in Washington. A memorial Day ceremony is planned to Honor the servicemen who Are being added and the Vietnam voter and memorial fund is trying to locate the family members to invite them to the ceremony. Neither the defense department nor the Vietnam Veter an memorial fund have addresses for any relatives of these men said Rebecca Kirtland vice president of the fund. Tie names of 95 servicemen who died during the Viet War were left off the memorial because of a technicality and 14 others who Are being added died later of Woods sustained in Vietnam she said. Anyone knowing relative of one of the following people a asked to Call the fund at 202-659-9419. Those men with their rank service and Home of record it col. James a Vaughn air Force Hii Alsville Ark. Sgt Kenneth Alston air Force Sanlee Calif. Maj. Genet. Wright air Force sin Diego Ensign Allan Lombard Dunning jr., nary stoning ton Conn. Maj. Warren l. Long air Force orm Fla. Sgt. Arthur b. Crews air Force Barnesville a. Petty officer . Weslie David Mewburn Navy Atlanta. Staff sgt. Glen e. Wallace air Force Albany a. Staff sgt. Clyde a. Crow air Force Boise Idaho. 1st it Terry l. Banning air Force Andalusia i. La. Cmdr John Clarence Thomas Navy Portland and. Maj. William j. Griffin air Force Homedale Iowa. 1st it. James n. Spangler air Force Mayking by staff sgt. Charles e. Stuart Bangor Maine. Lance Cpl Gregory Chalmers Davis Marine corps n. Andover mass. . James e. Francis air Force St. Louis. Capt. Russell t. Plait air Force Las Cruces . A.. Miguel a. Hernandez Diaz air Force new York City. . Allan s. Major air Force Masc la . A.. Abraham Schwartz air Force Brooklyn . Capt John , air Force Cincinnati. 1st it Robert h. Price air Force Milton free water Ore. Sgt Marvin l. Dooley air Force Seneca . Sgt Franklin d. Waters air Force greer.. Sgt. Wayne moneymaker air Force Knoxville Tenn. Maj. Ray e. Mccune air Force Waco Texas. Capt. Jon m. Olsson air Force san Antonio Texas. A.. Jan d. Miller air Force. Clarkston Wash sol. Alan c. Martin air Force Nova Scotia Canada. The following for whom no family members Are known died later of wounds received in Vietnam spec. 4 Ronnie d. Beets army Odessa Texas pfc. Charles k. Fink army. Bedford a. Petty officer 2.c. Christopher Loring Maher Navy Montgomery Ala. Airman Michael Kelly Mcguire Navy Buffalo . Seaman apprentice Charles Albert Philhower Navy Morristown , pfc. Joel b. Simpson army Battle Creek Mich. Lance Cpl. James Edward Snock Marine corps Philadelphia. Richard Edward Stephan Navy Mercer . Pfc. Joshua b. Stewart. Army Salt Lake City. Spec. 4 Owen Webster army Vinalhaven Maine. American airlines adds $5 surcharge for extra Security on european lights new York a american airlines announced wednesday it will charge passengers is Eilora for intensified Security measures on .-Europe flights which have suffered a Sharp drop in bookings because of fears about terrorism. The announcement by the United Stales no. 2 Carrier came one Day after pan american world airways one of the leading . Airlines with flights to Europe announced formation of what it called an elite Security Force to foil pan am said last month it planned a Security surcharge american Aid its strengthened Security measures in clude requiring passport information when making trans Atlantic reservations a Ray screening or hand inspection of All checked bags use of a questionnaire about checked bags at All . Cities and detailed inspections of All air Craft prior to departure. American is the second largest airline behind United airlines. From its Dallas fort Worth Headquarters it serves London Paris and Frankfurt it also offers service Between Chicago and Paris Manchester England Frank Furt Munich and in Essendorf Germany. Stateside too Many fingers on her gun gets sheriff s Deputy fired Ellicott City my. A a female sheriffs Deputy was fired because she had to use both Index fingers10 fire her handgun the sheriff says Howard county sheriff Virginia l. Donnelly said tues Day she considered Sharon Ritchie s inability to fire using one Index Finger a liability. Slate standards permit officers to hold a weapon with two hands for accuracy but demand that they use Only one Finger to pull the rigger said Carl l. Barl of the Maryland police training commission. Bad said Ritchie s Case was the first time the question had come to the attention of the commission which establishes performance standards. -. The one Finger requirement is necessary it a Law enforcement officer is to be Able to use a weapon quickly he said. By the time they gel two fingers on the trigger they might be dead.". Ritchie a probationary officer who was discharged on april 30 declined o comment on her dismissal the sheriff said Ritchie had used two Finger to qualify with a ,38-caliber handgun but i did not find Oul about it until she tried to qualify with the 9mm weapon which replaced the ,38-caliber, secret service arrests Man for passing bogus Money Orlando a. A the secret service has arrested a Printer on a charge of passing counterfeit currency at Walt Disney world and investigators recovered ii i 1, 000 in bogus Bills. Ken Keene head of the secret service office in Orl a do said $100,000 in counterfeit $20 Bills was found ii a Plant in Miami where the Money was believed to have been printed. An additional 111,000 in phony Bills was seized in Woods near the theme Park. Gerald Dunne Dunbar. 25, was arrested after tour counterfeit s2q Bills were passed in the magic kingdom. Dunbar look investigators to the Woods where the Money was hidden Kernc said. He said Dunbar was on i Way to new York to sell counterfeit notes to a customer Dunbar was being held pending a hearing before a fed eral magistrate. No Date was set. Many working in new Hampshire Many looking in Louisiana Washington a new Hampshire Tad the nation s lowest unemployment rate in March while Louisi Ana battered by bad limes in the Petroleum Industry maintained its spot As the slate with the most jobs ettness government figures showed new England continued to Lead the nation in providing jobs for its residents new Hampshire had the lowest unemployment rate Ai 3.8 percent followed by Connecticut at 4.0 percent and Massachusetts at 4.3 percent Louisiana saw its unemployment rate drop 0.3 Peron from february but the state still managed a Job Tennett rate of 13.1 percent Well above the 7.5 percent Tab nationwide the labor department said Virginia had the second highest unemployment rate 11.7_percent. Until february West Virginia Lead the jobless Charti for nearly js4 years. Just a year ago Wicen wot Virginia s unemployment rate was is percent joblessness m Louisiana was 1 1 .7 percent. Texas and Oklahoma the other two primary Oil producing slates have seen their respective unemployment Rale in Ibe past year climb 1.2 and 0.6 percentage Points to 6.4 percent and 8.0 percent the Bureau of labor statistic said. However Wyoming had the biggest year to year percentage increase in joblessness rising from 7.9 percent in March 1s85 10 1d.6 percent the same month this year. Illinois and Kentucky also had unemployment increase of 1 percentage Point or More Over the year. Children s car seat recalled because of adjustment lever Elverson. A. A Greco children product . Has recalled us Model it Ioco car seat rating it May not provide Protection in some cars because an adjustment Tever could be held in the release position. No injuries have been reported because of the company Jaid. But it said in some cars the vehicle1 scat could interfere with the redline Adius ment it thu mechanism when the seat is used in the infant position. Should the adjustment Latch be held in the an Accident the company believes that the it Jolo May not provide adequate Protection Greco a pee who ought i of a seat can Contact thee Cabai ctr Apo 0,3 a Slac g spokesman in Munich said thursday
