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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 14, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 3 Pershing destruction Sites considered Salt Lake cite a three Sites arc being considered As locations for destruction of the rockets used on Pershing ii intermediate Range nuclear missiles a department of defense spokesman has said. The missiles would he banned under inc proposed intermediate nuclear forces treaty signed lava week by presi Dent Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The topple army depot Hercules aerospace in Magna and the Pueblo army depot 105 Miles South of Denver Are being considered As disposal Sites for the rockets. Maj. Randy Morecr said in a Tele phone interview from Washington. The army bum cd two Pershing ii rockets at Tooel army depot on nov. 14 us a test of its ability to comply with the treaty s provisions for destroying medium and Shorter Range nuclear weapons. However a Hercules official said the statement came As a Surprise. We be had no notification la it that seven in the works said company Public affairs manager Susan p Dondl Flaim. The sail Lake Tribune quoted an Anonymous source As spying he believed the army was thinking of Hercules Tekoa test Range not its production facility in the Salt Lake City suburb of Magna. Hercules uses the Tekoa Tysl Range in the West Utah desert to test rocket motors. In a related development a Colorado air Quality expert has confirmed that the military approached his office earlier this year and requested permission to test the destruction of Pershing rockets Ai the Pueblo army depot John Clousy manager of the station Ary sources program for the Colorado air pollution control division said Permis Sion was denied because of concern Over air emissions. The Utah air conservation commit tee then granted permission to Burn tie rockets at the too Csc depot but said no More would be burned in Utah until the army had studied alternative disposal methods Allen Ken i her. Spokesman for the depot said that an environmental assess ment on inc project was being prepared by Clodyne Brown engineering of Huni Seville Ala. It would include alternate disposal Means he said. Sinatra or. Sued by former Friend Farrakhan leads 1,000 in protest of klan activities Houston a a woman suing Frank Sinatra or. For is million Over an alleged nightclub confrontation had left threatening messages on his answering machine and wanted revenge alter their relationship soured the entertainer has testified. Charmain St. Cyr. 43, of Houston contends she was injured in a fall after Sinatra pushed her. The enter Tainer the son of Singer Frank Sinatra testified he pushed her away from him because he was afraid she might Hurt him. Sinatra said he me is Cyr when she gave him her business card after a performance he gave in Houston in january 1985. As an old saying you walked Well " Sinatra told inc woman who is representing herself in the Rase. I was impressed 10 see a lady with stature. I had seen the outside. I wanted to Sec what was  when you say what was inside do you mean the heart and soul asked St. Cyr. " was going to Start a Little higher up in the head answered Sinatra. Thai s where the thinking  Sinatra said he and St. Cyr spoke by phone in the ensuing weeks and became intimate after Sinatra re la retd 10 Houston for a five Day stay in March. After inc relationship went sour he said St. Cyr called his Beverly Hills calif., Home and left threatening Mes sages on his answering machine. Sinatra testified he saw St. Cyr again As he was waiting to perform in a Houston nightclub in july 1986, when she walked up to a table where he was Silling with friends. You looked Al me with a smile on your face Sina Ira said. You walked toward me in n straight line. I had a thought to look to heaven and say Why me Char null St. Cyr App Noto Sinatra said the women began embarrassing him in front of his acquaintances so he left the table but she followed him. He said he finally gave her two minutes total to him during which time she said she could not stand rejection and wanted revenge and an apology. Sinatra said he tried to walk away again but she followed him. He said when he turned around they were  Sinatra said that because he could not see her hands he became afraid of what she might try to do and pushed her away to Arm s length. Newburgh . A about 1,000 people chanting no Justice no peace and death to  marched saturday to protest a series of alleged racially motivated attacks in new York City and the Hudson Valley. Protesters were led by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan. Who spoke to the crowd about the Case of a Black to can Agar who was found lying in a Road at Wappinger Falls just South of Poughkeepsie last month with racial slurs scrawled on her body in what appeared to be charcoal. Her family said she was kidnapped by a while Man posing As a police officer and assaulted by him and other whiles Over a four Day period. You will not do to another Black girl in America what you did to Tawana Brawley and get away with it Farrakhan old the crowd. Civil rights leaders have called for a stale and Feder Al investigation of the assault on the girl who survived the attack saying local police cannot be trusted to investigate a Case in which their own officers May have been involved. Black people around this stale Are being murdered brutalized and sodomized almost on a daily  the Rev. Al Sharp Lon of Brooklyn said. Sharpton called for the immediate arrest of the racial beasts who arc terrorizing the state and criticized Coy. Mario Cuomo for being silent about the Rise of racism in new York. Cuomo spokeswoman Kathy Mechan disputed the accusation. We certainly never let any of these prob lems slide by she said. The governor has been at inc forefront asking his prosecutors to head up the invest  the slate will Monitor the Brawley investigation she said. Missouri jury recommends death for cop killing Liberty to. A a Man was found guilty saturday of first degree murder in the slaying of a Missouri stale trooper who was gunned Down during a Routi no t Raftice Stop and a j Ury recommended the death sentence. A Clay county jury deliberated about four hours before convicting Clennon Paul Sycel 32, who was charged in the shooting death of trooper Russell Harper an is year patrol Veteran near Springfield on feb. 8. Greene county prosecutor the Mountjoy asked jurors to retin the death Penally. The panel could have recommended a Ife term without parole. Glenn Sweet docs not deserve to live Mountjoy said. He docs Nui deserve your mercy. Out there of Hal farm Road what Chance did Glenn Sweet give Russell Harper for i if but defense attorney to Gaither said the jury should spare Sweet s life. Sweel testified in his own defense Friday saying he was at a Friend s Louse in Springfield when Harper was killed. Bui Mountjoy told the jury thai Sycel had been identified by two motorists As the Man who shot Harper. He also pointed out that Sweet had hidden in a Friend s House and changed his appearance after Harper s death. Sweet was arrested feb. 10 in a Friend s attic. A .223-caliber hk93 As Sault Rifle was Sci cd in a Gull cd car on the properly along with ammunition and Sweet s truck. Gail her argued Hal two people who identified Sweet As the gunman had seen the suspect Tor less than 10 seconds each. Nine state witnesses each had nine stories Aboul what happened he said. Catholic Bishops clarify birth control doctrine Washington a the president of the National conference of Catholic Bishops on saturday reaffirmed Church doctrine on contraceptives after the Bishop s recent statement on aids provoked a flood of Telephone Calls. The Bishops on thursday said they would tolerate educational programs acknowledging that medical experts advocate the use of condoms As a Means of reducing the risk of acquiring or transmitting the aids virus. We Are not promoting the use of prophylactics but merely providing information that is part of the factual picture the Bishops said in a 30-Page statement developed by a Lask Force of Bishops. Archbishop John l. May of St. Louis president of the conference said saturday Hal the statement had been misunderstood. I want to stress that our statement does not Call for any changes in the Church s constant teaching concern ing proper moral behaviour he said. Church teaching considers condoms to be an unacceptable Means of birth control. The statement acknowledges Hal Public health officials Are recommending the use of condoms and that lots fact will be pan of comprehensive Fici Ual presentations on the disease May said. Such presentations however should reflect the fact thai Safe sex practices Are at Best Only partially effective and Hal they do not Lake into account either the real values that arc at stake or the fundamental Good of the human person May said. The statement urges abstinence outside of marriage and Fidelity within marriage As Well � j the avoidance of intravenous drug abuse As the Only morally Correct and medically sure ways to prevent the spread of aids May said. Bill Ryan a spokesman for the conference said the archbishop decided to Issue the statement because we have been getting floods of phone Call from individuals who seem to have a misunderstanding of what the Bishops arc   
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