European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 24, 1937 the stars and stripes Page 7 Marine guard charged with perjury reportedly changed statements during inquiry by Norm an Black a military writer Washington a former Moscow american embassy guard who was questioned repeatedly by he Marine corps in connection Wilh an espionage scandal involving two other marines was charted monday with 11 counts of false statements and perjury. Up. Robert j. Williams 22, of the Bronx new York City was informed of the charges monday at the Quanico v�., Marine base said it. Col. John Shotwelll spokesman for the corps. The marines charged Williams with nine counts of making false statements and two counts of perjury stemming from the manner in which he repeatedly changed his statements involving the alleged activities of sgt. Clayton j. Lone tree and Cpl Arnold Bracy the spokes Man said. Basically he if accused of lying while being interrogated by naval investigative service agents Holwell said. Lonetree is awaiting a court martial on espionage charges stemming from his alleged delivery of classified documents and other items to soviet agents while posted to the . Embassy in Moscow. Bracy also a former Moscow guard had been accused of espionage but the corps dropped All charges against him june 12 when it could not develop sufficient Evi Dence. Slot Walt indicated the corps was not blaming Williams far its difficulties in pursuing the cases against Lonetree and Bracy. Williams worked As a guard in mos cow from March 1986 to september 1986, and then in Vienna Austria from september 1986 to april 1987, Holwell said. Thus his Tours overlapped those of Lonetree who also worked in Moscow until he was transferred to Vienna last fall. I Moscow tour overlapped Bra by s. Williams and other Moscow embassy guards were resumed to the United Stales in april for questioning amid an uproar Over alleged espionage activities by guards stationed there. Holwell said Williams has never been suspected of espionage himself but that he repeatedly gave conflicting stories As he was questioned about his knowledge of Lone rec s and Bracy i activities. Throughout his questioning his statements about what he knew or what he saw kept changing Shotwell said. The Marine corps finally decided that the Best thing to do was to prefer charges and tet an article 32 hearing try to sort out what s True and what s not he said. An article 32 hearing � similar to a grand jury proceeding in the civilian court system. Williams will be Given a military attorney and will appear before a hearing officer who Musl make a recommendation As to whether he should face a court martial. Shotwell said no Dale had yet been set for the article 32 hearing. Williams remains attached to the Quanico base but has not been con fined behind bars or restricted in any Way the spokesman said. According to the Marine corps Wil Liams graduated from High school in Ridgefield nj., and joined the Marine corps in october 1982. He became an embassy guard in july 1985, with his first assignment taking him to Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia. He served there from july 985 to january 1986, then Drew his assignment to Moscow three months later. Folwell s roots go deep in Virginia Community Badih Beveridge Lynchburg a. A this has been fal Weli country for a Long time As you might guess driving by the Falwell Airport or the Falwell truck and body shop bul the name once was associated More with bootlegging than religion As it is now. The Rev. Jerry Falwell built a National following with his old time gospel hour television Broad cast and his moral majority political organization and he is in the thick of the fight Over the pal ministry. His relatives who remember Falwell s father As a Bootlegger wish the preacher Well As he pleads for Money to keep pal going. I Hope hell be Abt to keep the thing afloat Calvin Falwell a Cousin said. The family has Al ways admired him for taking on the challenges he a Nephew Carey Falwell agrees. I know the work he docs is Good work he said. Anything he can do to help a Christian organisation Good the Falwell came to Virginia in the 1600s, mov ing West county by county until they settled in Lynchburg in the 1350s, according to Jerry Falwell jr., who Lias completed a family history. Hezekiah Carey Falwell moved onto a 1,000-acre tract of land East of town still in the family hands Jerry or. Said from his Home in Charlottesville where he recently graduated from the University of Virginia Law school. One of Hezekiah s daughters married George Bruce who started the first stage coach business in Lynchburg. Two generations later the evangelist s father Carey Hezekiah Falwell became one of the most powerful local citizens. He built a business Empire of bootlegging services stations a hotel and a night club the merry Garden which seated 1,000 an featured such musicians As Tommy Dorsey Jerry or. Falwell went into a Long depression after he shot his brother. Garland to death in 1931. Garland had opened fire on Carey during a Drunken argument Jerry or. Said. Carey Falwell pleaded self defense and was acquitted but he never quite recovered it bothered him so much he started drinking and got cirrhosis of the liver which killed him in 1948, Jerry or. Said. The Falwell Are not traditionally religious people. Jerry Falwell Learned religion from his mopier Helen Beasley Falwell a fundamentalist who used to turn on religious radio shows so her children would Bear the word As they slept in on sundays Jerry or. dad was an agnostic and his Grandfather was an atheist Jerry or. Said. They were real wealthy and looked Down on now some of the Falwell have become christians Jerry or. Said bul most Are not avid Church Don t Hale religion like dad s dad or dad s Granddad did he said. After Jerry Falwell became the preacher in the family he built a massive Christian Empire from his Thomas Road Baptist Church to Liberty University to his old time gospel the other Falwell Are involved in secular Busi Nesses bul Jerry or. Said they do not have the Power in the Community that Carey Falwell once had. Calvin fal Etc for example is a businessman and president of the Lynchburg men the class a team that once had new York mets Star Pitcher do right Gooden on its roster. Calvin also ii part owner of Falwell Airport a Small Landing strip on the Steep slope of a nearby Mountain. We be been flying out of it for 40 years he said but Jerry Falwell has outgrown the strip. His Jet needs a full instrument Landing approach. Campaign official denies rumours Bush involved in adulterous affair Washington a people spreading rumours about George Bush private me should be ashamed of them selves the vice president s Campaign spokeswoman says. And Bush s Iowa Campaign director Points the Finger of shame at backers of sen. Bob Dole As the purveyors of gossip but Dole s spokesman denied the Kansas Republican s Campaign has been suggesting Bush has had a Long term extramarital affair. Ii is not in our interest and not in anybody else a to pass along gossip said Wall hiker Dole s Senate spokesman. The flurry of rumours that stories would be printed accusing Bush of Adul Tery swept political circles in recent Days and Drew this from Bush s eldest son George Bush or the answer to the big a question is and that was Bush s response monday when he was asked at a photo Opportunity if he had any comment on the rumours. No was his answer Ai he waved to the cameras along with the president of Chad his Sene Habre Barbara his wife of 42 years was standing behind him outside the vice president s residence in Washington. For Bush the rumours were a chilling Echo of the controversy that forced democratic front runner Gary Hirt out of the 1988 Field last month because of questions about his relationship with Miami woman Donna Rice. Since Hart s withdrawal All the presidential hopefuls have faced the Prospect of questions about Bush rumours made it into print with Short newsmagazine items. In its various versions the rumours linked Bush romantically with a female aide or with the wife of a prominent sup Porter. Neither Newsweek nor . News is world report mentioned any women s names in their Brief items. White House spokesman Martin Fitzwa Ler belittled the rumours saying i hear gos sip in the White House press room and i m sure that s All it is. It s individuals who Are responsible for peddling this false Rumor should be ashamed of themselves Bush s Campaign spokeswoman Barbara Pardu Esaid. George Wittoroff Bush s Campaign director in Iowa said he believed the Rumor were coming from the Dole Campaign. The Only Republican presidential Campaign from which any such news came to us in Iowa was the Dole Camp he said. And Wil Graff added a dig at Dole playing off his reputation from 1976 As a gop Hatchet think that it is unfortunate that any other presidential Campaign and particularly the Dole Campaign is reporting to something that is unsubstantiated by fact Wittgraf went on. Its unfair to senator Dole who has been trying to move beyond the mean and Nasty image he has had in the , Dole s press aide denied any complicity in spreading the re not in the business of passing along gossip. And we Don t do George Bush or. Asked his father directly. Newsweek be heard the rumours. What about it the newsmagazine quoted George or. As asking. They re just not True the vice presi Dent replied according to Newsweek. They re trying to undermine one of my father s great political strengths the strength of our the younger Bush said monday. Services held in Texas for slain Soldier Elpaso Texas a a military policeman kilted on duty in Honduras was buried monday at fort Bliss nation Al military cemetery As his wife and three children looked on. Staff sol Randall j. Harris 34, of we Ming Lon Ohio was shot to death june 13,two weeks before he would have completed a four month tour of duty at Palmerola airbase. A honduran air Force Serviceman was arrested shortly after. About 225 people at tended the funeral service at fort Bliss where Harris was based i knew Randy Harris was special from the time i walked to the door of his House to Tell his he had died said chaplain maj Gregory Schannep. My heart broke when 1 saw a wooden plaque carved by the kids. H said wet come Back dad you re no. I forever.1" All off duty fort Bliss military police men attended the service As Well As representatives from the . Border patrol the Texas department of Public safety the Elpaso police department and the Elpaso county sheriffs office
