European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. September 3, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 protester injured trying to Stop arms train Concord Calif. A a Viet Nam Veteran kneeling on a track in an Effort to Slop 3 munitions train outside the . Naval weapons station Here was critically injured tuesday when the train struck him. S. Brian Willson. 47. Of san Rafael Calif., lost his right pkg below the knee and suffered head injuries and extensive damage to his kit foot a spokeswoman at John Muir Hospital said. Willson leading about 25 demonstrators protesting alleged arms shipments from the weapons station to Central America was kneeling on the track after a news conference when the engine bit him As a contingent of marines fellow demonstrators and reporters looked on. They be killed my dad. They be Mur dered my dad shouted Gabriel Rauen l Marine staff sol. Robert s. Stufflebeam went before a court martial tuesday on charges of improper fraternization with soviet women while he was assigned la the embassy in Moscow. Proceeding began at the Quantico va., Marine base with a Day Long hearing on various defense motions a Marine spokesman said. Testimony is expected to begin later this week. Stufflebeam 25. Of Bloomington iii., was ordered to trial last june by it. Gen. Frank e. Peter san the commanding Gen eral a i Quantico where Marine embassy guards Are trained. Stufflebeam served in Moscow from Fay 10, 1985, to May 2j, 1936. When he left Moscow and rotated to the Marine base at Camp Pond Luton Calif., he was the no. 2 Man in charge of the mos cow Security detachment having received a meritorious promotion to staff sergeant on Jan. 2, 1986. Stuff Webcam s tour at the Moscow embassy overlapped that of set. Clayton j. Lone rec who was convicted last month on espionage charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Lon Cree was convicted of passing embassy floor plans and he identities of american agents in Moscow to the russians after becoming involved sexually with a soviet woman. Tufik beam has never been accused of espionage in connection with the sex and spy scandal that enveloped Lone tree. But he was arrested As a result of information developed by military investigators probing Lorte rec s activities. Stufflebeam now stands accused of improper fraternization with soviet Georgia executes killer of teen Jackson a. A William Billy Mitchell cursing those who de Nied him clemency was executed in Georgia s electric chair tuesday for Mur Dering a 14-year-old boy in a robbery that netted si60. Mitchell 35, was the fourth person executed in the stale this year and the i Ith since Georgia resumed executions in 1983. Nationwide 90 people have been executed since the 1976 . Supreme court ruling that allowed slates to reinstate the death penalty. Seconds before he was electrocuted a cocky and smiling Mitchell gave a clenched fist Salute to his lawyers and cursed Wayne Snow chairman of the state Board of pardons and paroles. Snow said at a news conference earlier in the Day that no clemency would be grunted because Mitchell s was one Case where it seems. There were no re deeming qualities in this Mitchell waved before the electrical switch to the wooden chair was engaged at 7 14 . He was pronounced dead at 7 21 ., said department of corrections spokesman John Siler. It s Long overdue said the victim s brother Jeffrey Carr who stood outside the prison. That s what everybody in the family feels about Mitchell s lawyers appealed to the . Supreme court after being turned Down monday by the i Ith . Circuit court of appeals but the High court voted 5-3 to deny a last minute request for a stay of execution. The Georgia Board of pardons and paroles also upheld the death sentence tuesday even though Mitchell s lawyers had asked the Board in a letter Noi to consider the Case. The letter expressed Mitchell s regret for he pain suffered by the family of the victim but noted that the Board had de Nied clemency to other condemned men who had been Model prisoners. Mitchell pleaded guilty to killing Christoper Carr during a Holdup at a grocery store in Sylvester where Carr s Mother worked. She was shot four limes during the robbery. The . Supreme court upheld Mitchell s sentence in june after ruling on april 22 in another Case thai Georgia s death penalty docs not Dis Criminate on the basis of race. Mitchell also was sentenced to life in prison for killing a so year old Man the Day before the Sylvester robbery. In Texas a Federal judge hailed the scheduled execution of James Demou Chrite 32, who was to have been the sixth person executed in Texas this year and the 26th since the supreme court ruling. He had faced lethal injection shortly after Midnight tuesday for the 1976 Rab cry slayings of two Young pizza parlor workers in Houston. His lawyers appealed to . District judge Lynn Hughes to spare the inmate saying his violent nature May be the re sult of childhood beatings from his father. Hughes issued an indefinite stay Early in the afternoon. Women making false official statements and lying about his conduct under oath to military investigators. If convicted on All nine counts lodged against him. Stuff Mcbeam could be sentenced to a maximum 4vj years in Pris on a dishonourable discharge loss of All pay and allowances and a reduction in rank to private. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 3, 1947 president Truman told the inter american defense Confer ence in Quila Dinha Brazil that the United slates had an aversion to Vio Lence but said other nations should t see that As an invitation to take liberties with inc foundations of International peace. 30 years ago today. Sept. 3, 1957 to test How the human nervous system would Lake the Shock of atomic warfare 100 army sol Diers and 15 Sci lists crouched in trenches 4,800 Yards from a blast with a Force equal to 10,000 tons of int 20 years ago today. Sept. 3, 1967 Stockholm led Sec Den into an unprecedented traffic revolution As the City of a million was emptied of cars to prepare for the switch to right hand traffic. 10 years ago today. Sept. 3. 1977 former president Richard Niton said in his last televised interview Wilh David Frost that he believed Rosemary Woods account of the is a minute Gap in the watergate tapes
