European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday june 15,1987 news updates plane crash mystery Baton Rouge la. Up medical experts found no reason Why gubernatorial candidate Noel Butch Baum would have been incapacitated before his Small plane crashed into a Remote okla homa pasture. The report issued by Oklahoma medical examiner Fred b. Jordan said studies of Bauer s blood and body fluids showed no signs of poisons alcohol or drugs Jordan s report said the tests uncovered no medical reasons Why Baum 49, was unable to land his single engine Cessna p2io before it ran out of fuel and crashed in a Remote pasture to Northwest okla homa on june 3. Bhagwan s jewelry Portland. Ore. Up about $500,000 Worth of jewelry and Eon studded watches once worn by Indian guru Bhagwan Shorce Rajnesh will be sold by one of the world s leading auction Bouses. The . Customs service has turned Over o London base Christie s auction House 23 valuable items including a jewelled headband ornament a Bracelet and 21 watches some Worth an estimated 140,000 each. Christie s will hold the auctioning new York in september with the proceeds going to the . Treasury a spokesman said. The watches and jewels were among items seized from the guru in Charlotte n.c., in october 1985. Protest costs Rocio Edge a. A the Lasi of the 186 activists arrested i january during protests of Trident ii missile tests at Cape canaveral have pleaded no contest to tres passing charges. The three demonstrators con tended that trespassing on .government properly was a Essary evil justified to avoid the greater evil of nuclear . Broward county judge Daniel Cital rejected the defense after attorneys for the three protesters introduced Testi Mony from a psychologist a presbyterian minister an International lawyer and a retired Navy Admiral. 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Willoughby submitted Aletter of resignation last month to the commander of the 310th theater army area cd at fort Belvoir v, and twas subsequently accepted said maj. Bruce Bell an army spokesman. Willoughby had been nominated to receive his first Star when he was selected to become the Deputy commander of hat unit at fort Belvoir in March. A month later the army s inspector Gener Al opened an inquiry based on i complaint filed by an unidentified constituent of rep. Phil Crane Roll. The inquiry focused initially on whether Willoughby had plagiarized an emotional tribute to a fellow officer an Vietnam War hero. It was broadened in May to include charges that the colonel had improperly worn various Vietnam War decorations on his uniform to which he was not entitled. Both charges if sustained would have had a bearing on Willoughby s Nomi nation to become a brigadier general be cause they could have led to charges of conduct unbecoming an officer. An army official who asked not to be named said Willoughby had written in his letter of resignation that he wanted to continue fighting the charges but that he did t want to put the army or his family through any More  the unusual investigation of Willoughby focused on a tribute he wrote to capt. Dean Phillips a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran who died aug. 22, 1985, of cancer. The tribute appeared several months later in an edition of army Reserve Magazine. The appearance of Willoughby s trib Ute followed the publication of a copy righted tribute to Phillip in the Wah Ingon Post on aug. 31, 1985, written by Lewis Puller a Pentagon attorney. Puller had served in Vietnam with Phillips. Willoughby had served As Phil lips stateside commander in the army Reserve i eth special forces group at fort Meade my. Willoughby later acknowledged there were numerous similarities Between his tribute and that of Puller. But he de scribed them As quite innocent and certainly not deliberately  last month Willoughby acknowledged to the Trade publication defense week that he had for a time worn som Vietnam decorations on his uniform to which he was not entitled. He attribute that action to poor advice from army Reserve personnel officials about his eligibility for the patches based on a Tempo Rary deployment to Vietnam in the mid 1960s. Pope preys for slain polish priest Warsaw Poland up Pope John Paul in in one of the most emotional slops on his we Klong visit to Poland Knell i prayer sunday at the grave of a pro Solidarity priest slain by pol ish secret police agents in 1984. The Pope then embraced the weeping parents of the Rev. Jerz Popieluszko at Warsaw s St. Sta nistas Kostka Church in front of a subdued crowd of 30,000 kept at Bay by a human Chain of policemen and steel barriers. The Pope underlined the importance of Popieluszko s martyrdom during the week by invoking his name Al least three times during speeches. John Paul arrived at the grave site about and hour before his final mass. He went into the stucco Church and Knell before the main altar. The crowd had held an Over night Vigil wailing for the Pope s arrival in a nearby Park but Only 200 people were allowed inside the Church gales and another 200 inside the Church. The pontiff Knelt in front of the grave prayed and solemnly kissed the Tomb. Afterwards he embraced la victim s weeping parents Stanislaw Popieluszko 81, and his wife Maria 71. Then he blessed a Bell dedicated to Popieluszko that car Ries the priest s motto god and  the Bell was rung for the first Lime and continued pealing Long after the Pope departed to cries of Soli  the visit was one of two unofficial events on the Pon Tiff 5 schedule left off the offi Cial itinerary at the request of the government. The other was thursday night s meeting with Solidarity founder Lech Walesa in Gdansk. Popic Rusiko a frail Man who was 37 when he died was on of the few rank and file priests who spoke his mind during Poland s period of martial Law from december 1981 through july 1983 after the outlawing of Solidarity the East bloc s first Independent Trade Union. His fiery sermons at St. Stanislaw Kostka Drew thousands every sunday. But As the crowds brew so did official anger. The state circulated re ports aimed at discrediting him and he was summoned for interrogation 14 limes by police. On oct. 19, 1984, three secret police officers forced his car to a halt near the Northwest City of by Goszcz beat him senseless and threw his trussed body into a nearby Reservoir according to testimony Al their trial the first open hearing of Ili kind in the East bloc. The murder shattered the overwhelmingly Catholic nation of 38 million and threatened to undermine the regime of Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski who was responsible for outlawing Soli Darity and imposing martial Law. The pontiff prays during mass in Warsaw sunday. Wal xxx dependent requirements for Federal jobs eased 79 h i 70 59 Aiu Citta p i Washington is civilian employees and service members family Mem Der who hold civil service jobs overseas now have a better Chance than Ever of securing government tips upon return to the states personnel officials said. A three pan amendment to an executive order requires family members in appropriated fund jobs to hold their overseas positions for 18 months Down from the previous 2-year requirement to be exempt from stateside competitive civil service hiring procedures. Extends from two years to three the time that the employee has 10 find a Job before losing his or her non competitive status. Affords family members of non appropriated fund employees the same re turn considerations As family members of appropriated fund employees and service members. The easing of qualifications results from a March amendment to the 1982 executive order that dictates hiring requirements for government jobs in the slates. The office of personnel management in Washington can waive the three year application deadline in cases where the Job seeker lives in a Region with few fed eral Job openings. Some requirements in the executive order do not change. For example the employee seeking non  appointment must be a . Ii in must have Al least a fully successful performance rating and must qualify for the positions for which they apply