European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 18. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Pelton Given 3 life sentences for spying Baltimore up a Federal judge ignored Ronald Pellon s Pica for leniency tuesday and sentenced the for Mer National Security Agency employee to life in prison for Selling the soviets secrets that caused inestimable dam age to America s intelligence operations. . District judge Herbert Murray saying Pelton s conduct warrants the most serious Penally sentenced the 45 year old communications expert to three life terms plus 10 years All to reserved concurrently the judge said Pellon s five years of espionage caused inestimable damage to  intelligence programs and com promised the safety of the citizens of this  Pelton told the judge he understood he must Send a message of deterrence but added i still urge you to try to tem per your Justice with  in a son voice that at times cracked Pelton said he had found religion. Instead of adopting the motto of our founding fathers in god we Trust i adopted the american dream " said Elton who claimed mounting debts forced him into Selling defense secrets to the soviets. Pelton who had top Sec Rel clearance was convicted of Selling the soviets in formation on the Ivy Bells intelligence plan a is billion submarine recon Naissance operation for 135,000. Defense lawyer Fred Bennett asked the court to sentence Pelton to 30 Yea Nat a medium Security prison because he had cooperated with prosecutors since being convicted of espionage in june. Authorities said Pelton would be Eligi ble for parole in 10 years but added the doubled he would be considered for re lease that soon Pelton was interrogated for 210 hours and appears to have been candid an cooperative As to most issues in helping authorities come up with an assessment of damages a sentencing memorandum said. Patton lot Fri agents before his arrest in an Annapolis. Md., hotel nov. 25. 1985, thai spying was the biggest mis take of my life. Bui when you re broke and desperate and your family can barely survive you do crazy  the International espionage venture which involved secret meetings in Vienna Austria and Clandestine phone Callstrom a Virginia pizza parlor to soviet operatives from 1980 to 1985, caused extraordinary damage prosecutors claim. To the nation. The pc Lon Case was largely overshadowed by the conviction of spy John Walker who headed a family Friend Spring for 20 years. Federal prosecutors said the Pelton and Walker cases were not related. Acle challenges hanukkah display in Public building los Angeles dec. 17 up the american civil liberties Union asked a judge tuesday to order the removal of an orthodox jewish group s 15lh-Ccn-Lury hanukkah menorah from the City Hall Rotunda. Superior court judge Robert o Brien took the Cas under submission and gave no indication when he would Rule on the dispute Over the candelabrum. Hanukkah the eight Day jewish festival of lights starts dec. 26. Backed by the american jewish Congress Thea Clu filed suit last december and won a temporary restraining order barring the hasidic jewish group chabad Zubavitch from lighting the 6-foot brass my Norah inside City  the Acle s objection however inc judge permitted the lighting of another menorah outside on City Hall Steps saying the Steps Are Public property. Tuesday the Acle sought a court declaration that display of the unlighted menorah inside City Hall Vio lates the separation of Church and state. Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin West coast director of chabad Lub Avrich acknowledged the menorah does have religious significance since it is lighted to Cele brate the jewish recapture of the Temple in Jerusalem from the syrians in 165  intends to Light the menorah outside City Hall on the first night of hanukkah and he insisted them Cnorah inside City Hall should stay because of us secular historical  Grossman chabad Zubavitch s attorney said the Acle selected out a jewish Symbol for at tack by challenging inc menorah but not attacking the display of the 20-foot Christmas tree inside City Hall. Sobel said the tree was t challenged because the courts have generally held Christmas Trees to be secular displays. A photo Kirtley Estes shows off his j57 magnum revolver. No charges Likely against paraplegic who shot intruder Dania. Fla. A a paraplegic Man who shot someone he said was breaking into his Home with Hatchet should not be prosecuted police say. Kirtley Estes a 46-year-old landlord who has used a wheelchair since being partially paralysed in a car Accident 29 years ago said the Early Sun Daybreak in attempt was the fifth time he had been victimized since october. He said he was beaten burglarized and robbed in the earlier incidents. Estes said that after the first incident he kept a.357-Calibcr magnum handgun with him and would listen for intruders at  Lime he fired five shots through the window and Hil Willie Lee Munnerlyn twice in the right thigh. Munnerlyn 2s. Of Hollywood was jailed without bail on a charge of armed burglary police  said the 225-Pound Man was responsible for All five crimes he just would t quit coming Bac until i did something said Estes. It was Clear. One of us was going to get his  police sgt. Phil Johnson said tuesday that his department will recommend to the state attorney that no charges be filed against Estes. Eslos owns it apartment units including the four unit building in which he lives on the ground floor. Because of the thefts he said he no longer keeps cosh at his  first Lime he was robbed he was punched repeatedly and j1,400 was taken Estes said. Police say they arc investigating whether Mun Nerlyn was involved in the other four crimes. Witness describes Accident scene in o Neal trial Annapolis my. Up1 the son of actor Ryan o Neal hysterically blamed the son of film director franc Isford Coppola for a boating Accident that killed Young Coppola a witness testified  Neal s lawyer already has said his client lied to investigators about who was driving the  Atkinson said during the Sec Ond Day of the non jury manslaughter trial of Griffin o Neal 22, that he sped his boat to o Neal s rented speedboat May 26 when he heard frantic scream ing for help. He o Neal was hysterical pleading for help Atkinson said. " 1 told him not to do it. I told him not to do it 1 ducked Down " Atkinson quoted o Neal As saying As he pointed this fatally injured Friend Gian Carlo Coppola 23, Young o Neal whose father sat beside him in court for the second Day Hung his head during Atkinson s testimony. Atkinson said a woman on his boat handed o Neal a Towel to wrap around Coppola s bloody head. I think he was trying to help Atkin son said adding he did not smell alcohol on o Neal s breath. O Neal told investigating officers that Coppola was driving the boat but de sense lawyer t. Joseph Touhey Saido Neal had lied because he was shocked and hysterical Over the Deai Nof his lifelong fiend. A 14-fool-Long boat carrying o Najand Coppola Cut Between two Wati one being towed by the other on the South River just South of Annapolis and hit the Low line killing  Neal was indicted on charges of boat manslaughter and five counts of reckless and negligent boat operation. Ca 01 m Sun Jui m,.�wt""" a u.s., Michigan officials differ on chemical Hazard. F  n � 1 re �4.rai , a acc Iiri in �.73t arts Ner billion. According to a Frodo Oscoda Mich. A officials responsible for keeping Theun led states Safe and Michigan clean  potentially hazardous chemical Lea lung from a run Way Ai Wurtsmith air Force base where b-52s arc on 24-hour Alert. Menial enforcement  chemical trichloroethylene which has caused Michigan department of natural resources has said. The base ranks third on the Agency s proposed list of the state s worst pollution Sites. But when department officials said they wanted to remove the chemical once used to clean Jet engines. Air Force officials refused to let them onto the base because of Security. Elmleaf said Well systems designed to purge the chemical could be set up outside the area without threatening the base s Security. In 1977,  was found in seven of the base s Wells at Levels ranging from 2.7 parts per billion to 6,731 part be. Propose environmental Protection Agency Standard Levels above 5 parts per billion make water unsafe for drink ing. Since then Wurtsmith has spent More than is Mil lion to purify local groundwater. Tiny traces of the chemical still Are detected in two of the Wells inside the base while the others Are free of the pollutant the department said. Cape. Roger a Davis a base spokesman said Small amounts of the chemical till seep into the Lake but that it soon disperses to an almost