European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes wednesday May 20,1937 Jal liability dropped Seattle a families of victims of a 1985 Japan air lines jumbo Jet crash in which 520 people were killed have dropped he airline from their class action  Boeing co., which manufactured the 747 aircraft remain a inc sole defendant. The airline and Boeing have apol a for the crash the worst single j Accident in history but neither Foo Raily accepted Legal responsibility in to United stale the families were suing both my and Boeing for damages inking county Superior court but they filed documents last week Dis missing Jal. In March judge Gary Little refused a Albru by the airline and Boeing to have Ivelaw Suil moved to Japan where Ibe crash occurred in july 1985. Moit of the victims were japanese. 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Lottimer 25, was assigned to Del 2,co a 527th military intelligence in since 1984 and was to return to the states next week. Officials said the autopsy indicate death by suicide but the incident u still under investigation. The fort Wayne ind Soldier is sur Vived by his wife Kimberly and a daughter Serena. Committee asks further study of property weight limits for gis by William j. Baytma Washington Bureau Washington a House panel responding to a report that service members absorb significant out of pocket Coas daring Transfer ii taking a Dover look at the numbers. But the House armed services com Mittee is far from convinced thai con or Cox should increase weight limits on personal property the government will transport during assignment changes committee staffer said. The report from the Pentagon nys weight allowances on household goods Are inadequate and discriminate  with dependent or with several Yean at the same Grade level the out of pocket costs service members absorb As result of current. Policy Are excessive it said. Because the defense department findings directly contradict a recent Gen Era accounting office study the House panel has asked the Gao to reconcile the differences the staffer said. "1 want to know Why these results Are so  the Gao said in found insufficient data for establishing new weight limits adding that some  weren t using their full allocations. The Senate armed services committee has agreed that the weight limits should be raised although not Byas Mucha the Pentagon would Uke. The House armed serv ices Starink Bernid the Issue will have Tobe settled in a House Senate conference after both House Pas defense authorization legislation. In my mind it la rest on what Gao lays after it reviews the numbers the House staffer  15 percent of enlisted pc Onnel and 19 percent of officers had to dip into their own pockets to ship property exceed ing the weight limits in fiscal 1985 and1986, according to Pentagon statistics. Ninety is percent of the overweight shipments were for Servic members with  Al  those whose shipments were overweight had a significantly greater number of years in their service Grade than those whose shipment were under the weight maximum. On the average servicemembera1overweight chaises amounted w 62 per cell of their base pay. The overweight charges varied Between 30 and 174 per cent of monthly Basic pay depending upon Grade and dependent status. A frustrated Pentagon  said of he doubters on the House committee i wish i could Send a cop of this study to their constituent tie number show that the limits Are realy incriminate by for people gift dependents and some higher ranks la a letter to House armed services commit lace chairman Les Aspin. D-wis., David Armor assistant defense Secretary for fort management and personnel said that while the Gao could net find sufficient data for establishing new weight limits ii did acknowledge that tone Kravice members needed to ship More household goods Una the weight limits  Pentagon report said that in Addi Tion to facing service member to pay Cut shipping charges the him Taumua Umill Lead to the expense of disposing of House hold goods to comply with shipping restrictions or to avoid overweight charges Tux of replacing Hose goods later. Ii also said that the overweight charge Sand other expenses caused by the present shipping rules constitute a Demot vat ing Penally for servicemen bar acting in compliance with government  costs Are a disincentive to move and have a bearing upon the morale  and their  airman whose driving caused crash that killed Friend gets 1 year term . Bureau Raf Greenham common eng land a. . Rick Lux admits Bis Best Friend died because of him. And now the 2 a year old has a year imprison to think about the september sunday night he held his dying buddy and co worker in his Arras. Tuesday a court martial panel Ofseyer officers found Liu a motor Pool Driver with the Holst Tram so guilty of three charges that Center on drinking and driving. The Shelbyville inj., a Tive win serve one year in confinement be reduced to Al and give up two thirds of his Basic pay while he is confined. He could have gotten a 2la-year jail sentence a dish Ono Rable discharge and an order o forfeit All pay and allowances. Lux a three year Veteran of the air Force was at the wheel of the tented 1983 font Sierra when it dashed an split in half causing the death of 22 year old senior airman Daniel Moore of Roanoke a. The crash also injured an Oiher Friend and an English Motorist. Lux pleaded guilty to negligent Homi cide. Me pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated and reckless driving. The jury found him guilty of those charges Lux Moore and sol Joseph d. Rodg ers a Mechanic in the win were drink ing at a pub in Newbury. Near the base when the pub dosed Ibe three left in the car with Rodax at the wheel. Lux said be had two maybe More pints of Beer there. About a mile into their journey bade to the base. Lux a cd to drive said prosecuting attorney capt Dwight cd Ler. Lux began to Dave Tut and said that instead of ret minx to the base be wanted to do Jane Bills on the Way to visit his Girlfriend in nearby town. Kel Ler said Moore did t Lite lie my Lux was driving. Moore who was Riding in the Back Seal asked three times to get out of the car to walk Back to the Bate Rattler than ride in he car. The third Lime he asked i polled the car off the Side of the Road Keh Craid. Moore opened the door to fat out when Liu gunned the Aurie Unn v keep him from getting out. Lux beaded toward the a time of Wickham on the two Lac Foad. Three Miles later at somewhere Wear 70 rope. Lux hit a car driven by a Tate Vaine a local water authority waste impure in. The car in which the three were Riding  in half. Lux was injured. Rodgers a i tuft failed he was ejected do nth the car s Sunroof and was thrown into Field. Moore also was thrown from the car which had no rear sea befit. Al the court martial. Lux recalled the scene and How he searched for hit Friend i kept Yelling for him. I kept getting for trim. Lux said in a tearful Letti Mihov near the end of his two Day trial Abca found him he was still  he said be held Moore is Hiarm until he slopped breathing. Former go accused of infecting others with aids faces bodily assault charge Bye Dreaves staff writer Nuernberg the former Ameri can Soldier arrested on suspicion of purposely infecting others with toe aids virus has been charged with dangerous bodily assault. The state court of Nuremberg Fuerth charged the Man arrested in february for not using a condom when he had sex with three men and for not telling them he had the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus said court spokesman Werner Guercin. He is also charged with knowingly accepting the fact that he might infect any of the men with whom he had sex Guerrein said. Officials Don t know if any of theman s partners were infected with the virus. The Man was charged March 27. Officials have not decided if there will be a trial Guzman Slid. If the american is brought to trial it will be the second Case of its kind in Germany. A Munich prostitute who tested Posi Tive for aids faces similar charges after authorities discovered she ignored a court Oiler to drop her profession. At the time of the american s arrest . Military authorities described Hamas a former Soldier in Nuernberg but they declined to identify him further. The inn is reportedly a 45-year-old former Cook who ii a Cal kaon in Nuernberg booze Euial  arrest which a widely reported in the German National Media to february came at a time Whaen the ruling bavarian Christas social Union Why ing to push through tougher aids poli cies with its ruling coalition partner inborn the Christian democratic Union and the free  week the Christian social Union came under heavy criticism from All Ger Man political parties for reportedly instructing Border guards to refute in trying the stale to foreigners suspected of having  Csc wants extensive aids test ing in the population especially for civil servants and prison inmates