European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. April 26. 19q7 the stars and stripes Page 7 3 plead guilty in puerto Rico hotel Blaze san Juan puerto Rico api three hotel employees pleaded guilty Friday to Federal charges of Sel Ling the new year s eve fire that killed 97 people at the Dupont Plaza and two of them pleaded guilty to murder counts. Sentencing was set for june 22. The three changed heir anon pleas As part of a Deal with Federal prosecutors. Their trial on arson charges had been scheduled to begin monday in . District court. Hector Escudero Aponte a 35-year-old maintenance worker also pleaded guilty to a charge of first degree murder in the death of secret service agent Manuel de Jesus Marrero Olero who was investigating a coun Ler Feil Moncy Case and died in the fire at the Beach front hotel. The two other defendants Are Armando Jimenez Rivera 29, a bartender s assistant and Jose Francisco Rivera Lopez 40, a bartender. Boeing reports orders for 14 More airliners immediately after the Federal court hearing. Rivera was taken to puerto Rico Superior court where he three race charge of first degree murder and conspiracy. Rivera pleaded guilty in charges of second degree murder and conspiracy. Second degree murder carries a prison sentence of 12 to 30 years. The trial for Rivera and Aponto in Superior court is scheduled to begin aug. 24. . Attorney Daniel Lopez Homo who filed the murder charge against Aponte Al Friday hearing said prosecutors agreed not to uck the death penalty. The maximum sentence for Federal arson charges is life in prison or death he said they recommended Aponte be Given concur rent terms up to life and that Rivera and Lopez be sentenced to 24 and 25 years respectively. Judge Jose a. Fusle who is not bound by the recommendations agreed to a prosecution request that the terms of the plea agreement be scaled. The three defendant were charged with arson that interfered with interstate Commerce All arc members of the teamsters Union which has denied involvement in the ire. It began in the ground floor ballroom soon after a meeting by members of the Union which was engaged in bitter contract negotiations with the hotel. Aponte was accused of setting the fire with canned fuel provided by Rivera who also shielded him from View Lopez was alleged to have instigated the arson the fire spread quickly through she Bottom floors of the 20-Story hotel which was occupied by nearly 1,000 guests. Eighty six of the victims died in the second floor Casino. In addition to killing 97 people the fire injured 146, civil suits totalling More than $563 million have been filed Seattle Wash. A Boeing commercial aircraft co. Announced Fri Day that four airlines have ordered a total of 14 additional aircraft with a value of about $343 million. Delta air lines a . Carrier in creased its orders for the 767-300 jetliner by six Al a Price of More than $300 Mil lion Boeing said. Delta now has ordered is of the 767 300i, each configured to Cany 2s4 Pas sengers with delivery of the first planes to be next february. Lufthansa the German National air line has ordered five additional 737-300 aircraft bringing to 15 the number of the High tech twin jets on order by the car Rier. The total order is valued at about ii30 million. Qantas the australian airline has or dered its first 767-3qoer, for about $75 million. Boeing said Qantas is the fourth Carrier to order the extended Range ver Sion of the wide body 767. Qantas which is to receive the 251-Pas Senger plane in March 1989, has taken options on an additional six 767-300ers. Air prance ordered two additional 737-200s for delivery in june and a gust at a Cost of j36 million. Boeing said. Air France currently has 15 of the earlier Model 737. Aircraft listening to urine May reveal illness East Lansing Mich. A scientists someday May Check for drugs or illnesses in people by listen ing to their urine Michigan state University scientists said As they demonstrated a Way to hear Chemi cals in liquid. I think in a few years As you re walking Dawn a Street and you meet a Friend instead of asking How do you feel today you la be Able to ask How do you sound Joday " biochemistry professor Charles Sweeley joked Friday As researchers turned a graph of chemical components into musical notes. The process developed by Michi Gan state researchers could free a Busy scientist from scanning Yards of printouts to detect a single substance they said. It also could allow surgeons to listen to the heart s performance rather than watch a heart Monitor they said. Sweeley showed a graph of the peaks and valleys representing substances found in urine the height of a Peak represented the amount of each substance. By using a device known As a computerized Gas chromatograph a personal computer and a digital music synthesizer to assign musical notes to the printout researchers produced a cedes of notes loud or soft Bell or drum to represent the components of the urine. If Normal urine is assigned the notes of a familiar song foreign substances in the urine produce a sour note easily detected research ers said Sweeley and John Holland another biochemistry professor joined with Michigan state music professors Ron Ald Newman and Mark Sullivan to develop the approach. The procedure was demonstrated first at a conference in Tokyo Lale last year. The researchers work is scheduled to be published in a research journal next month. Bakker took part in homosexual acts rival says Nashville Tenn. A television evangelist John  Fri Day he was told that former pal club Leader Jim Bakker was involved in homosexual acts and had used prostitutes. Ankerberg. A Southern Baptist minister also said a Little Circle within the pal ministry Hod swapped spouses and diverted funds from the organization s trea sury. He said Bakker s wife Tammy knew of her husband s infidelity and at one Point attempted to leave him. Bakker 47, resigned As pal president last month after acknowledging he had had a sexual Liaison with a female Church Secre tary. Bakker belongs to the assemblies of god a pentecostal denomination which has 2.5 million members and 11,000 churches in the United Stales. He is Best known for his religious television pro Gram thai featured him and his wife. An Terburg made his allegations in inter views on the Cable news network and the Abc television network. Officials with pal which stands for Praise the lord or people thai love. Were not available for comment but the organization released a statement read by a spokeswoman. We have no knowledge of any such problems and arc not Able to comment on or. Ankerberg s accusations Al this  the statement said. Our ministry at pal is that of love and restoration and we Hope you will Pray with us that cod will help All of his people during this time. Again it is Only or. Anker Berg s  Ankerberg said witnesses had told him of homosexual encounters by Bakker and that he brought the witnesses to the Rev. Jerry Falwell pal s interim Leader. Falwell did not return phone Calls Friday night from the associated press. Ankerberg whose John Ankur Borg show is broadcast weekly by three satellite television networks claimed in March that he had evidence pal officials had tried to cover up evidence of Bank r s adultery. Ankerberg said that his own investigation had led him to believe what he had earlier thought were rumours of homosexual activity by Bakker. I talked to people that were there and people that ought to know who have said they have been witnesses to the fact Ankerberg said asked whether he believed them he said yes i  he also said Bakker did participate. According to people i talked with with  Ankur Borg also alleged that an inner Cir Cle of lop pal officials had sex with each others spouses and used prostitutes. He would not name the i individuals. There s about 50 people a Little Circle i would Call them that there s been wife swapping that s gone on. I be seen Les Limo by from  Ankerberg said on Abc widow of f-16 Pilot wins $3.1 million award Tampa Fla. A a Federal jury has ordered general dynamics corp., to hts nation s largest defense contractor to pay $3.1 million to the widow of an air Force Pilot whose f-16 fighter Jet crashed four years ago the negligence lawsuit brought by Janei Harduvel and her 7-year-old daughter was the first of its kind 10 go to trial. I m very very Happy that inc truth has conic out Harduvel 35, said Afler jurors issued their verdict. General dynamics said it would a peal. It had blamed the crash that killed Cape. Ted Harduvel on Pilot error. Harduvel s suit claimed that Early Model f-i6s such As her husband was Fly ing were flawed by faulty and potentially dangerous electrical wiring. General dynamics the suit claimed knew of the Dan Ger bul failed to warn the Ai r Force. Harduvel. Who lives in nearby Lut said the verdict was a vindication of her husband who crashed while on a train ing flight in november 19h2 in South Korea. It s not. To me. That i  said liar Duvol to me it was a question of my husband s Honor and that he was   said she turned Down an offer from general dynamics to Felt la for  before filing her Sun in 1984. After the verdict the find her Diu Fighier carried Flowers to her Hus band s Brave a i Myrtle Hilt cemetery. In Washington air Force spoke Sumii Cape. Jerry Thomas Decimal u Eom Meni on the trial