European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 15. 1987 California court upholds Excia Man death sentence of killers a Francisco Al i the California supreme court Hac upheld a death sentence for the. First time since Ihrck justices it re Defeated in an election Campaign Hal focused on capital punishment. The court on thursday unanimously upheld the death sentence of David Ghent of san Jose for the Faial stabbing of a woman after an attempted rape in 1978, Ghent s attorney Robert Carrow said thursday thai he will file in a coition for a rehearing by inc slate supreme court within the next two weeks. Ghent can still Appeal 10 the . Supreme court and make additional challenges in state and Federal courts. Chief Justice Rose Bird and iwo colleagues were Defeated last november after an election Campaign that focused on inc fact that lie court had reversed 56 of if death sentences since California s death penalty Lav was reinstated in 1977. The four sentences that the slate supreme court let stand arc still in various stages of Appeal and numer Ous other appeals Are pending. The new California court reversed one death sentence earlier this year and nobody has been executed in the state since the death Penally was reinstated. The 7-0 opinion in Ghent s Case was written by chief Justice Malcolm Lucas. Justices Allen Broussard and Stanley Mosk wrote separate opinions expressing reservations Aboul errors in the Inal but concurring with the result. In is apparel ,. Hal the court Recognises that a number of errors occurred Ai rial both in the Guill and Piatty phases but concluded that those errors did not warrant a reversal in this Case Carrow said. He said he was disappointed by the ruling and believed the court did not address All of the substantial Legal issues raised in Ghent s Appeal. Ghent first irid to rape in Housemate Jacqueline pc skill during the Early morning hours of feb. 21, 1978, before going to the Home of some other acquaintances. Paul and Patricia Bert. Ghent was convicted of assault Wilh intent to rape his Housemate and of attempted rape and first degree murder of mrs. Bert. Afler one rial ended in a deadlocked jury Over whether it was a capital crime a jury in his second trial found he murder came in the course of an attempted rape and Ghent was sentenced to death. Ghent did not deny inc killing hut contended it was not premeditated and also denied that he had raped or tried to rape mrs. Bert. In upholding the conviction and sentence inc court followed a . Supreme court decision that allows disqualification of prospective jurors if heir opposition to the death penalty would prevent or substantially impair the performance of their duties to Fol Low the Law. Free flight instruction up pm Toto mall Hall receives some flight lesions Ham around hit Titi old record by Uakini pilots Jenny a Carer left and Dick Rutan. Hall 6, and his schoolmates were contestants in a paper air plane Al Jinx contest that was sponsored by c hex Cereal unit Piedmont air lines and held in Houston last week. Interviewed by Ira Gate panel Washington a congressional investigators on Friday interviewed Edwin p. Wilson the convicted former Cia official at a maximum Security prison in Illinois As part of their investigation into the Iran Conga Case. Hah Havel a spokesman for the Louse Iran Centra committee said congressional staffers flew to Mari on iii., to talk to Wilson who knew some of the Fig ures involved in the Case. I understand he wanted 10 Nilk with them Havel said. Paul Blumenthal. An at-1 Lorney for Wilson Idcnli-1 find the three As Cameron Holmes and David Faulkn-1 or of inc Senate Commilles and Allan Hobron of the Wilson House committee. Wilson who is serving a 52-year sentence for illegally Selling weapons to Libya and plot Ting to kill Federal prosecutors and witnesses has claimed in recent television and newspaper interviews Ihal he was a one time business partner of retired maj. Gen. Richard v. Accord. Accord said he knew Wilson but has flatly denied that he had any business association with the former Cia official. Secord is under investigation by Lawrence Walsh the Independent counsel in the Iran Contra Case for his role in helping former National Security Council aide Oliver l. North sell weapons to ran and divert the profits to . Havel said one of the issues that investigators want to question Wilson about is a feb. 16, 1984, cashier s Check for $33,000 that Secord made out to Thomas g. Clinics another former Cia official who was once associated with Wilson. A copy of the Check was introduced in the Iran Centra hearings. Testimony in the Public Iran Centra hearings which ended aug. 3, showed that clinics worked with Accord in supplying weapons to the Nicaragua contras. See Ord has said the Check represented a loan to Clines and had nothing to do with a line that Clines company had to pay in 1984 for Over toiling the . Government on shipping costs. Clinics was involved in the egyptian american transport and service co., or Ealco a now defunct firm that pleaded guilty to filing false statements Wilh inc . Government. East co was created to ship . Military equipment to Egypt. Wilson whose estate is tied up in . A bankruptcy court has filed papers seeking to pursue financial claims against Clines Accord and several egyptians who he says was involved in eats co. Wilson contends that he provided sirt up Money for Ealco bul never received a promised return on his investment. British joblessness Down London a unemployment in Britain fell to a seasonally adjusted 10.4 percent of the work Force in july from 10.5 percent in june the department of employment said thursday. Thai was lie 13th consecutive monthly decline and brought the number of Job icy to ils lowest level in More Tolian four years. Spun silk hair syndrome identified in children Chicago a a rare apparently inherited disorder gives some children s hair the appearance of spun Glass and makes even the daily habit of combing an impossible task a researcher says. The hair is unmanageable and Flics All Over the place. It s very Selling to mothers because icy can t comb the child s hair said or. Robert g. Crounse. Associate Dean for the Basic sciences at East Carolina University school of Medicine in Greenville . The cause of inc syndrome spun silk hair which affects both male and female children is Noi yet known Crounse said. The Rale of occurrence is also unknown bul probably not More than a few dozen eases exist in inc United Stales he said. Only the hair on the child s head is affected. The child s Init resembles the Friz pics thai his Mother May have received from a bad permanent. Only there has t been any permanent said Crounse author of one of iwo articles on the rare disorder in the August Issue of Archive offal ology and Laboratory Medicine. This is a curiosity a very impressive condition said or. Allan Lomci pro Fessor and head of the Section of dermatology of the University of Chicago Priller school of Medicine. The children s hair is very straight and Sticks out in All directions. It looks like inc most wild kind of Hairdo Lorincz said. You can i comb it Damn. It just bounces Back into thai self determined  children fall Icid Wilh the syndrome have a grooved hair Shaft instead of a Normal Flat or round hair Shaft Crounse said. People with flatter hair shafts tend to have curly hair and people with round hair shafts lend to have Slraight hair Crounse said. The syndrome usually becomes Evi Dent when children begin growing hair Between the Ages of 3 months to 9 months. Crounse said. Research has not yet linked the syndrome to a specific Gene and in is nut Yel known How Many Gunc rations inc apparently hereditary disorder skips he said. Some of the children grow out of the disorder and others do not Crounse said