European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 11. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 gun found in wreckage of jetliner Cayucos. Calif Ai searchers found a gun wednesday in the wreckage of a Jet that crashed an a Hillside and investigators said gunfire could be heard on the cockpit i in Ulm before inc disaster Liml tilled and 43 aboard. In Washington sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said investigators arc virtually Cir Tjin the fiery crash Dai id Burke of the Pacific Southwest airlines plane monday was Dauwd by a gunman disa bling the flight Crew. \1 the Accident scene. Richard hot thing. Agent in charge of the Fri s los Angeles of fice said Only that inc flight voice a cording showed someone entered the cockpit will out authorization just before the d i Sasler Bui investigators have not Mcd out the possibility thai the Crew was Prev Cal Al from flying inc aircraft in a struggle or by sudden decompression of the cockpit from bullets shattering sections of the Windshield the Washington source said. About 40 searchers going through Jet debris and body pans strewn Over the 1 a acre site found the gun in two to three inches of mud bruising said. News reports have said that David Burke fired last month by us air the owner of spa May have carried a hand gun aboard the plane seeking revenge against former Boss Ray Thomson. Both were among the victims of the crash. Patricia Goldman who is heading the National transportation safety Board investigation said inc Airliner s flight data recorder was found and was being taken to Washington for examination. The Black Box voice recorder was found earlier. Goldman said the investigation so far indicates there were no structural prob lems with the plane. The Pilot had reported gunfire just be fore the plane crashed. The Fri said in appeared the crash was the result of criminal activity meanwhile conflicting portraits emerged of the Man who May have taken the lives of dozens of strangers in order to gel even for his firing. A Federal Ivo Urce when requested Anonym Ity told the associated pre that Burke left 3 suicide message on his answering machine detail ing plans to kill Thomson. Burke 35, who worked 14 years for us air which recently bought spa Wai fired As a  Angeles customer service agent on nov. 18 after he was filmed by a hidden camera taking Money from fight cocktail sates. Abc news said i uric Learned his for Mer Boss would be on flight 1771, bought a one Way ticket and smuggled a gun and six rounds of ammunition aboard using airline identification to avoid Security checks at los Angeles International Airport. While some relatives and friends portrayed Burke As a likable Champion of civil rights others in Rochester. N.y., where he lived until a year ago said he was violence prone and the father of As Many As 11 children out of Wedlock. One Friend of burkes whose identity was confirmed by the Rochester times Union but withheld Al his request de scribed Burke As a drug dealer who gave up he cocaine business when he was intimidated by police. I know for a fact that at one Lime he was supporting other people s drug a bils the Friend said. He was no Petty dealer. He was dealing in Quantity. He was using his Airport connections to move the  Burke had been investigated by police and the Fri in Rochester for alleged co Caine trafficking and car theft and was thought to have stolen Airport funds in new York but charges weren t filed in any of the cases armed with a search warrant late tues Day Fri agents entered Burke s Long Beach condominium and look away iwo cardboard boxes and a Metal Hric raw. Al the crash scene body parts were Wen still being found and taken to a Morro Bay mortuary for examination. Investigators from the National transport lion safety Hoard Federal aviation administration and Fri examined the wreckage. Researchers find possible cause of crib death Boston of a newly discovered defect in the hearts of some babies May be responsible for half of at cases of sudden infant death syndrome Side major killer of infants researchers say. The baffling syndrome also known As crib death is the most common cause of death among infants 2 weeks to 1 year of age. The new evidence suggests that these babies hearts frequently have a defect in their electrical stimulation that could make their hearts stall when they begin to Speed up for any reason. The discovery does not provide immediate new ways to prevent crib deaths but the researchers say in May someday help identify babies who Are at High risk so they could be treated with drugs. In is not something that will save lives next year but it s a clue that there is something defective in the Way the nervous system controls the heart said or. Daniel c. Shannon a co author of the study at Massachusetts general Hospital. The number of children studied was Loo Small to be certain How Many crib deaths arc caused by the heart defect but Shannon said our observations suggest it might account for  sudden infant death syndrome has Long been a med ical mystery. Seemingly healthy babies die without warning often in their sleep. The latest research published in the current new England journal of Medicine substantiates a theory proposed by or. Peter Schwartz of the University of Milan in Italy More than Loy Cartago. Or. Arthur Moss of the University of Rochester said the new report is also consistent with other research including some by his group the new research was directed by Dror Sadoch an astrophysicist at Tel Aviv University in Israel while woman indicted in cyanide poisoning Seattle a a woman was indicted wednes Day in the cyanide poisoning of her husband and an other woman who died in june 1986 after taking Cap Sules of extra strength excedrin laced with the deadly substance Fri spokesman Joe Smith said Stella Nickil 43. Of Auburn wash., was charged with two counts of Caus ing death by Means of tampering with a consumer product. Conviction on such a charge could bring a Maxi mum penalty of life in prison Smith said. The indictments were resumed by a Federal grand jury sitting in Seattle and she was arrested Smith said. Bruce Nickel of Auburn was 52 when he died june 5, 1986, of what was initially believed to be a neural causes. Five Days later Susan Kalherine Snow of Auburn collapsed at her Home and died inc same Day. An autopsy found no cause of death but toxicology lest results determined she died of cyanide poisoning. Poisoned extra strength est Drin capsules were found in her Home. Two Days after that authorities determined cyanide was in a capsule taken from a bottle used by Nickil before he died and test results on june 19 determined Nickell died of acute cyanide poisoning. The manufacturer of the drug Bristol Myers issued a recall of All its non pre Crillion capsule medications. Michigan inmates gain free postage Lansing. Mich. A each prisoner in the Michigan corrections system is entitled to 10 first class postage Stamps a month the state court of appeals has ruled in a decision thai could Cost nearly j560.000 a year. The ruling by the three judge appeals panel struck Down a department of Correct ions policy that free sumps be provided Only to indigent inmates. We Don t think it s proper to give free Stamps 10 inmates who have the ability 10 pay for them. On the other hand be Dun l think just because a prisoner is indigent that he or she should t have Contact with the outside world specifically family  said department spokesman Leo Lalonde. We re going to have to look at the issues to make that distinction. We re going to Asl. Our Legal advisers to Ell us How to proceed As a result of the ruling  said there Are 31.200 prisoners in the stale penal system. If each received 10, 22-cent postage Stamps each month for a year the total cosi to the state would be j559.6so.the appeals court ruling came in a lawsuit filed in 1981 by prisoner Ronald i Jordan who contended he was entitled to free Stamps because he was indigent. Working temporarily Al Massachusetts general. Employing techniques Sadoch developed to look Al electromagnetic radial Ion from space the researchers used a computer to Analyse 5,000 heartbeats from each baby the researchers found a defect in the Cycle of electrical stimulation Hal the Hean experiences each Lime in beats. When the Cycle starts the heart is polarized. Its cells Are More negative inside than outside. In becomes de polarized when sodium ions move into inc cells. This triggers the heart s rhythmic contraction. Before it can beat again potassium ions must move into the Ceils re polarizing them. The researchers studied  of 10 babies who had died of s1ds and 29 who were Normal. They found that in half the crib death victims the Beans were sometimes abnormally slow to a polarize. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. Ii 1947 Secretary of stale George c. Mar shall charged the soviet Union was taking assets out of Eastern Germany at the Rale of More than $500 million a year and demanded that the withdrawals cease by january 30 years ago today. Dec. Ii 1957 indonesian officials in Jakarta changed their minds and gave the go ahead to an Airlift of dutch nationals out of the country. The first 80 to be expelled in the dispute Over dutch Possession of West new Guinea flew out on two indonesian airways planes. 20 years Ogo Roc a. Dec. 11, 1967 Jim Garrison. New Orleans District attorney said on a television show that the Federal government was concealing the identity of president John f. Kennedy s assassins. 10 years ago today. Dec. 11, 1977 the food and drug administration told inc nation s grocers and other retailer they must place saccharin warning posters near their store entrances and in aisles where products containing Sac charin were sold