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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday september 4.19b6 woman who gave Belushi drugs sentenced los Angeles up Cathy eve Lyn Smith a former rack backup Singer Olio confessed to injecting comedian John Belushi with a fatal dose of cocaine and heroin in 1982, was sentenced tues Day to three years in prison. Smith 39. Originally had been charged will murder. On june 11 the pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of furnishing and administering the heroin and cocaine Speed Bahs thai killed be Lushi. Ten other drug administering charges were dismissed. Of Lulushi 33, rocketed to Fame in the 1970s on abcs saturday night live and also starred in such movies As Ani Mal House and the blues  he was found dead March 5,1985, of an overdose of heroin and cocaine in a j200-a-Day Bungalow Ai the chateau Marmont hold on the Sunset strip. It s Clear to me that John Belushi was responsible for his own death Superior court judge David Horowitz said in sentencing Smith. Prosecutors said she was a heroin addict at the Lime of Belushi death and is ill is. Belushi s widow Judith his younger brother Bill and a sister in Law were in the courtroom. That fact does not however absolve you of responsibility for your own action the judge said. You provided drugs for several peo-pli.1, and you injected those drugs into several people he judge told  did so on a continuing basis and for a substantial period of time. And every time you stuck a Needle Inlo some one s Arm you were putting their life a risk. As a result of your actions John by Lushi is dead. That behaviour to me i totally unacceptable. And to make it Clear to you How unacceptable in is i believe a prison term is  Horowitz then sentenced Smith who faced up to eight years and eight months in stale prison to a three year term. Smith showed no emotion As the judge sentenced her. She will be eligible for parole in 18 months. Smith of Toronto was initially questioned by police following Belushi s death but was allowed to return to Canada. A june 19s2 article in the tabloid National enquirer quoted Smith As say ing i killed John  that spurred a reinvestigation of his death. In March 1983 the los Angeles county grand jury indicted her. A key piece of prosecution evidence was her admission in a taped interview that she injected Belushi with heroin about 20 times on the last Day of his life. Zimbabwe won t get new . Economic a Washington not the uni said tuesday that it would provide a jew eco nomic Aid to Zimbabwe because Rul coun try s Lack of diplomatic civility the move which will Cost zip babe $20 Mil lion Hal it might have Etc Ejk in the a Chi for eign Aid budget and so in lion approved Fortis year but not yet auf rated followed an Epi Sode there on july fuck. At an in depend a Day Celebration at . Embassy pm babe Cabinet minister at tacked the re pm administration for its refusal to impose Hari economic sanctions on South Africa. His Marks prompted a walkout by for Mer present Carter and a senior american dip Kington announced a few Days Laler that i impending Aid Ard would review its Aid icy anti-. Protests sparked by Qadhafi Harare Zimbabwe up1 the presence of libyan Leader coi. Moa mar Qadhafi at the non aligned Summit in Harare wednesday touched off iwo anti american demonstration despite Light Security measures. Gadhof who arrived in Zimbabwe monday night on his first trip abroad since the . Raid on Libya in april was greeted at the morning session of the Summit by about 100 chanting libyan and zimbabwean demonstrators chant ing Down with Reagan Down with  when inc libyan Leader emerged for lunch he was again surrounded by chanting demonstrators shouting Down with the ., Down with the ." Qadhafi stopped smiled and raised his fist in the air and joined the chant before speeding off in a limousine allowed by a cavalcade of Security cars and an open backed truck tilled with machine gun lot ing zimbabwean Security police. U.s., German opposition to terrorism reaffirmed Bonn up the . Ambassador to the  nations Vernon Walters and German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher wednesday reaffirmed the determination of their governments to keep fighting International terrorism Genscher s ministry said. The ministry issued a one paragraph statement saying Hal wallers who was Dis patched to Europe by president Reagan to enlist Allied support for further . Sanctions against Libya met with Genscher on terrorism and other Mutual concerns. The statement said the two officials also Dis cussed the slate of East West relations and the situation in South Africa. Both sides underscored their determination to continue joint efforts in combating terror ism the ministry said. A ministry spokesman said the conversation asked Jusi Over an hour. Jetliner was told before crash that another plane was in area cerr1tos, Calif. A controllers were track ing up to 10 Small planes when an Aero Mexico dc-9 collided with a single engine aircraft and the jetliner s Pilot was warned about one of them shortly before the crash investigators said. The Piper pa-28 Archer that smashed into the Jet liner on sunday was among the planes on radar screens about the Lime of the crash but was not the subject of the warning John Lauber head of he National transportation safety Board investigation said tuesday. The 10 also included a Grumman Yankee whose Pilot held a series of conversations with the controller just before the jetliner and the Piper plummeted into this suburban los Angeles neighbourhood Lauber said lit a news conference. All 67 people on the two planes i re killed As Well As up to 24 on the ground. A controller had warned inc dc-9 Pilot about 75 seconds before the crash about a third Small plan investigators discovered tuesday by examining radar records he said. That third plane was t in radio Contact with the controller and because ii had no position indicating transponder the controller could t Tell the dc-9 Pilot the Small plane s Altitude Lauber said. The Aero Mexico Pilot acknowledged receiving the transmission hut the Crew never responded that the saw the aircraft in question he said. The Grumman s Pilot talked on radio for a minute with the Contro Ter Usi before the collision possibly distracting the controller s attention As the paths of thedc-9 and Piper converged Lauber said. Investigators trying to reconstruct the events leading to the crash which occurred in Clear skies shortly be fore noon have determined that the Piper was in the Airport terminal control area without permission Lauber said. Its Pilot was t in radio Contact with controllers he said. Lauber said he was unable � Jay if the warning about the other plane May have drawn the attention of the acro Mexico Crew from the approaching Piper wreckage from the crash which occurred As the Aero Mexico Jet was descending toward los Angeles International Airport plunged into a Cerritos neigh boyhood. The resulting fire destroyed 11 Homes. The confirmed dead included 58 passengers and six Crew members aboard flight 498 and the three people in the Piper. Numbers from various sources indicated that up to 24 others on the ground also died which could bring the total death toll to 91. Daniloff from Page 1 Mother and grandmother a brooch and a  those items were nol listed by the Danik its when they entered the country 5 a years so or on their outgoing customs declaration because they did not consider them valuable or believe they were made of Gold or Silver mrs. Daniloff said. Mrs. Danilof said the items disputed by authorities were confiscated and she was used they Are being valued at $2,210. Earlier wednesday the chairman of . News & world report Mortimer b. Zuckerman Mcl with so Viet officials in a bid to free the 52-year-old Daniloff. He called the espionage charges against Daniloff outrageous and demanded he be freed immediately. Another correspondent for the Magazine in mos cow Jeff Trimble said Zuckerman s first meeting of the Day with a senior soviet official whom he refused to identify produced no firm results. Zuckerman met with another official later wednes Day and then left the country. In a related development the Baltimore Sun reported wednesday that Reagan administration officials Are working on a plan to free Daniloff the paper quoted unidentified officials As saying that Daniloff would be Given Over to the . Ambassador in Moscow Arthur Hartman and resumed to the United states. In Exchange. Gennady f. Zakharov. The soviet arrested aug. 23 in new York City on spy charges would be released until his trial to the soviet ambassador to the United sum. Ambassador Yuri Dubinin would then guarantee Zakharov s appearance at his trial the newspaper , a in. Employee who does not have diplomatic immunity was charged with buying secret in formation from an undercover Fri agent and ii being held without bail. Mrs. Daniloff and Zuckerman have said the journalist s arrest appeared to be in retaliation for Zajis Rov s arrest but the soviets have denied any link in an interview on abcs today show Zucker Man said he found in his meetings with. Soviet officials that nobody. Feels enu rely comfortable in getting involved themselves with the kgb.". Zuckerman said the Security Agency s 10-Day investigation into Damn Oft activities coincided with Acourt Dale in Brooklyn set Tor Zakharov. Dodds from Page 1 structures in the Community. Dodds Germany Region officials expected Lud Wissburg elementary school children to join the list of those not attending classes Friday bul the school Prin Cipal Patrick Buckley said the school will open onetime. If you had talked to me on monday i d have said there s no  he said wednesday. We bad no water and no electricity. But they be been turned on and there s no problem. Sad a Flugeim elementary also will open on time despite earlier worries that the Frankfurt area school would delay classes because of construction. Two regu or classrooms two special classrooms a. Teacher lounge Media Center and a multipurpose room have been added to the facility. Bad Nim Heim principal Felix Martinez Laid he expects 470 children to attend classes at the renovated facility. We re going to be  said Boe Wingen Elemen tary school principal Dee Edwards. Those jackhammers you hear in die background Are part of the Reno vation but Well be ready  Edwards said she experts Sis  will see workers installing plumbing and electrical equipment under a renovation project with a february completion i can t say it now. But we re going to look Tike school when we re finished Edwards said  
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