European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. Apfil14, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 Byrd won t seek another term As Leader Washington i a i Senate democratic Leader Hubert Byrd announced tuesday he will hoi seek re Ekx Tion id the party pm he has held for 3 Tom n Jears. In musing Iff a wide open race to succeed him the Jon a Oil West virginian said he will run Fri a Mnich Senate term and if elected and the chamber remain under democratic control assume the chairmanship of tin1 Senate appropriations co Nullee. Some democratic vat hrs have Crit Icil had s leadership style Over he years saying lie looked bad in Lej Evision and did not project Well. Nerd said thai As chairman of the appropriations com Miller. Which provides Muncy for All Federal programs he would be Able to help West Virginia which he sail has suffered the Reagan administration s economic policies. However. West Virginia gov. Arch Moore Crivici a k vol 4." the army said it docs not plan to con duct test requiring bl4 containment but it has not ruled out such tests in inc future. Or. Suzanne Dandoy executive director of the health department said the draft environmental study is totally in adequate in justifying the need or addressing inc impacts Ofa Hio safety level a facility. We Are opposed to inc construction of a bl4 facility because there is no justification of need or information that demonstrates thai the Public could be Polc Clad Dandoy said in a letter to Dugway s commander. Col. James tip ton. She recommended that u citizen advis Ory Board of stale and National experts be created to evaluate the need for and potential risks associated with a nil facility. Dandoy also recommended the stale be granted full oversight of research Ai Dugway. Specifically the Utah department of health should be apprised of All Micro organisms being tested and should be notified immediately of any accidental Pathogen or Login exposures or releases the department said. The department contends it is possible a worker could be unknowingly contaminated with a Pathogen spreading this in the Community before the Conta Gion is killer of 5 executed in Louisiana electric chair . A a guyanese immigrant Vic cd of killing his Girlfriend and four members of her family including a 4-year-old girl in a jealous rage Wasi Cut a Early wednesday in 1 Louisiana s electric chair. Leslie Lowen Field 34, pro tossed his innocence As he was led into the death chamber. " the one who did this is still out there he said in a final statement. J moments earlier the . Us a prime Couri refused to put off i the execution. It was Louisiana s second co i ration this year and inc nation s fourth. Lowenfield s attorneys argued thai he was mentally ill and therefore unable to understand inc death penalty. They look their final plea to inc High court after the 5lh . Circuit court of appeals . District judge Peter Deer and the Louisiana supreme court All turned Down appeals. Five of the nine . Supreme court justices opposed delaying inc execution. Justice William Brennan wrote a dissent joined by Thurgood Marshall. Harry Buckman and John Paul Stevens issued a so palate statement indicating they would have granted inc re Quested stay. Warden Hilton Butler said Lowenfield Kepi hoping until the end for a fifth delay of As Many execution dates. Butler said Lowenfield a pumped the con dam Neil s customary last meal and spent the evening with Dale Brown the head basketball coach from Louisiana suite University. Brown widely recognised As a motivational speaker had been corresponding with Lowenfield since he look the leu learn on a Lour of Angola s death Row in 1984. Lowenfield a welder from Guyana who came to the United Stales in 1981 on a work permit was convicted in 1984 in the August 1982 Iblings of his estranged Girlfriend who was a Jefferson Parish sheriffs Deputy. And four of hrs. The Case had been appealed unsuccessfully to the state s highest court and the . Supreme court. Lawyers based their latest Appeal on a recent psychological study that found the prisoner to be a paranoid schizophrenic. Before the trial to of Enfield was found competent and he refused to allow his lawyers to use insanity As a defense insisting instead that he was in Florida at the Lime the family was killed. Bui no witnesses backed up his Story of being out of Siulc. Prosecutors said Lowyn Field barged into his Girlfriend s House in Marrero. A new Orleans suburb and shot everybody there. The victims were the Girlfriend. Sheila. Thomas 17 her daughter shanty Osborne. 4 her Stepfather Owen Griffin 45 her Mother. Myrtle Griffin 44 and the Little girl s father. Car Osome. 33. The prosecution said lows nieu was jealous of Thonus. They said the couple had lived together in a Stormy relationship until earlier in the summer of 1982 when beset the House on fire and she moved out
