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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday february 10,19bb former scout Leader gets prison for child abuse ii i or Marlboro map a former boy scout Leader has been sentenced to 15 Yean in prison for a usually abusing icon age members of troops he supervised in two Maryland coun ties near  Mcdonald Rankin 29. Was sentenced monday by circuit judge . Sovcy Johnson of i i acc forge s county to Concu Rrell 15-year sentences for each of 11 counts of child abuse. I honestly find this troubling Case to be Over whelming and t find inc offences that were committed with these Young boys absolutely incredible Johnson said rejecting Rankin s request fora  with Community service Connecticut firm cleared in fatal poisoning of guard Waterbury Conn. A a company charged with negligent homicide has been acquitted in the Carbon monoxide poisoning death of one Security guard and injury of four others Superior court judge William Lav cry a Quill cd pop industries of Waterbury on Mon Day of one count of criminally negligent Homi cide and four counts of second degree reckless . No individuals were charged. The charges followed the sept. 27, 1985, death of Ralph Esposito 31. Of Beacon Falls and injury of four other guards. Carbon monoxide Gas from two charcoal Bur ners filled the precious Metal reclamation Plant Afler Hurricane Gloria knocked Oul electricity and the factory s ventilation system. Chrysler first in . To include air bags nit Koit a Chrysler motors corp. Will install Driver Iida air bags As Standard equipment on Sii models his year making u the firm Domestic automaker to include the safety feature. .,._,the cars equipped with air bags will be Avail Able in june or july said Chrysler spokeswoman Karen Stewart. The company also plans to include inc feature on several Nihar lines during the 1990 Model year and to add passenger Side air bags As Stan Dard equipment in inc Early 199f a air bags will be installed in the Chrysler fifth Avenue Dodge diploma. Plymouth Gran fury Chrysler Lebaron convertible and Coupe and the Dodge Daytona. Rep. Lloyd decides to seek 8th term in House Chattanooga Tenn. A rep. Mari Lyn Lloyd has reversed a decision to retire and announced her intention to seek an eighth irm in congress."1 wan every one of my supporters to know thai Marilyn is Back in this Campaign and that i am Back in it to win the 59-year-old Tennessee Democrat said monday Al a rally attended by about 300  announcement came seven months after mrs. Lloyd said she planned to retire after this irm to spend More Lime with her family and pursue business  the final analysis 1 feel i have in Obliga Tion 10 my District and my country and i will meet that obligation she said. Vet plans return to Vietnam to dismantle mine Field Marine carps Veteran Gene Chicago up a Marine corps Veteran say he wants to return to Vietnam and dismantle b mine Field he helped Lay two decades ago. A buddy Lold me to september at our in Xhu Marine corps reunion Gene we re still killing them " said Gene Spanos now a suburban Chicago police officer. Spanos said inc news bothered him u a Veter an and As a hither. Spanos. 38. Laid the mine Field is near Gio Linb in the northernmost reaches of what was South Vietnam in 1968, Spanoil was an 18-year-old squad Leader on his first Lour of duty in Vietnam serving Wilh the ii in engineers spawn and the rest of Charlie co built roads and Laid Down duster mines rigged with in wire top Olccel artillery posts. The Fielt Scovera an urea the Styc of four football Fields. After his september reunion Spanos said he talked la his former battalion commander retired la col. Victor Perry. I said. Why can t we help these people?1" he said Perry agreed and now is helping him and three other veterans plan what Spanos Calls the Gio Linh pro  if they can get support from Bolli the United states and Vietnam governments Spanos says he and Ince other combat veterans will return not january with maps and help dismantle inc mine held. I m going. I m going to put the Story where inc Mouth is he said. Spanos said the Effort might Case tensions Between the United Stales and Vietnam and help with the re turn of americans listed As missing in action in Ameri Ca s longest  s certainly our  Wii Pilot receives promotion medal 4 decades offer Mission Chicago a a professor is receiving a Long delayed promotion and a medal from his Days As a world War ii airman when nazi flak sliced into inc b i7 bomber he was piloting Federico genial is survived inc subsequent crash that killed the rest of the Crew. Then a 23-year-old lieutenant who had completed Wodman combat missions gon Yalcs already had been recommended for promotion to Captain and a distinguished flying Cross. Gon ales found himself alive in the plane s wreck age in a German Field. Enemy soldiers took him to a farmhouse and then to a prison Hospital until the War t end. When he resumed Home to san Antonio tens. Genial is is now a 66-year-old associate professor emeritus of cell biology and Anatomy Al Northwestern University in Evans Lon 111. He s truly a hero and he deserves this recognition after All these years said Jean Miller of Newport Beach calif., a Rei Rcd colonel who led Gonzales Squadron the fiord of the 398th bomb group. Gonzales said euphoria Al being alive and the injuries thai forced him to give up flying led him let never pursue the promotion or the medal. Then in 19s6, when Miller saw Conzales at a reunion of the bomber group the Rei Rcd colonel urged him la reapply. On feb. 22, Gonzales will receive his medal Al a ceremony at Randolph fab in san Antonio where he will be honoured with a flyover by a dozen fighter planes Miller said in a Telephone interview monday. Laier Gonzales and the widow of a colonel who died in the crash Wil travel Wilh others connected with the 398th to tour inc bomber group s old base m Nui Hampstead England Gonzales said. Genial is also trans to travel to Neuss West  Many to meet Gerund Peiffer inc Grun Daugher of the woman who offered him Coffee and cigarettes in the farmhouse where he was Laken Afler the crash ill remember her for that kindness said gon sales. Who has been corresponding with Hie grand daughter. Especially in View of the fact thai i was Oul to bomb her country hundreds fail to get social Security checks Marti Shuro . A a sack of social Security checks disappeared in route to the Mains Burg Post office leaving 400 to 500 people without us month s benefits the Man Insburg social Security administration Field office will Issue replacement Cheeks but beneficiaries must Call the office acting manager Sui Len . Duller said most of the beneficiaries in the area receive checks from Philadelphia but 400 to 5dq to chive checks from Birmingham Ala. The checks from Philadelphia arrived the others did not. Pilot who flew Over Reagan ranch convicted of lying los Angeles a an army Pri vate who lied about Why he flew Mio restricted airspace Over president Rea Gan s ranch has been found guilty of making false statements and could face up to 10 years in prison. Ralph William Myers. 33. Of fort Lewis. Wash., was convicted of two counts of making false Statem cols in a ruling monday by . District judge Manuel heal. Sentencing was scheduled March 7. Myers was convicted of lying to officials about the reason he strayed into prohibited airspace in Bis rented plane last aug. 13, inc Day inc president was heading to his ranch North of Santa bar Bara Myers came within 300 to 500 feet of the president s military helicopter and wandered Over Reagan s Rancho Del Cisclo about 120 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. The area is off limits to air traffic when the Prici Ideal is there. Myers Lold secret service and Federal aviation administration agents he was searching the air plane Cabin for a lost Contact Lens. He also said he did t real ize he was in prohibited airspace. He admitted a Day later that he lied Ghat the Lens to addition to 10 years in prison Myers could be ordered to pay a s500.000 Fine. Think about what anyone might say if someone suddenly told them you Al most killed the president of the United states " defense attorney Mare Gold Stein said. Every individual who s approached by the government they d belter make sure thai they re very pm that they keep their Mould shut added defense attorney Manuel Araujo. In other words you cannot be a human beg. In front of the Jov Cromenia. Thai s the danger of this kind of  assistant . Attorney George b. Newhouse or. Accused Myers of making up the Story in an Effort to save his Pilot s License. A License revocation hearing was scheduled wednesday Goldstein , who was absent without leave from the army during the incident said the reason he lied was because he was confused about die situation. "1 was try ing to stay out of More  he said according to court documents  
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