European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 3, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 5 my. Lawmaker s aide jumps to death paper says bizarre demands made of male staffers new York al1 the top aide to a Maryland congressman jumped to Hii death from a hotel window sunday after the Washington Host reported he had made bizarre demand of male staff members including a Keg one to do a Tript Case. Tom Pappas. Is chief assistant to rep. Hoy i. Dyson fell 18 stories to a seventh floor roof of the Helmsley pal Ace hold said police spokesman it. Ste phen Davis. The death appeared to be a suicide. Davis said. I Apps left a note on hotel stationery according in Davis who declined to disclose its con Gnu the Post article quoted former staff members As saying Dyson had reded control of his Washington office to i a Pas. The newspaper said Pappas used Rainey from Dyson s re election Campaign to a i Ruit for a company Pappas owned.  salaries of up to $50.000 for single Young men. Then coerced them to or Ciati a with him. I son. A j a cat uld Democrat was registered in a different room from Pap Pas sunday at the hotel Davis said. The congressman was interviewed by Detec Tives who would not comment on the questioning. A hotel operator said a Roy p. Dyson was registered Bui was not answering his phone Dyson was elected to the mouse in 19ko. Unseating rep. Robert a. Bauman a conservative Republican who was caught in a scandal when the Post reported he was seen in Public with Young male prostitutes. The Posi s front Page article Aboul Dyson sunday came As the Federal elec Tion commission investigates allegations his Campaign disclosure reports con Cicili d $6,650 in payments to i Apps. Pappas. Paid j 72.200 As Dyson s administrative assistant Lasi year also owns a company  associates that received 1119,642 in fees and expenses since 1980, a revised Dyson s Campaign reports shows. Mark Traier Republican chairman in Dyson s District told the Easton my Star Democrat he tiled the complaint that led to the Fec investigation but it was the. Post that had raised questions Aboul sexual discrimination and Uhal Frazer called the apparently established preference for Young males in the recruiting and hiring  the newspaper quoted Dyson staff members As saying pappus told one male employee Hal he would have to perform a striptease at a 1987 office Retreat. The unidentified aide refused. Scoll ourth was quoted As saying that when he was recruited to be Dyson s press Secretary in december 1936 he was told he could not Date for a year and should devote nil his time 10 the office. Ourth quit within is months. The article also quoted Andy Hira 22, a special assistant to t Apps As saying he was fired for refusing to slay at a party in Dyson s Annapolis hotel suite last no vember after Dyson announced he would run for re to eolian in 1988. Fellow staff member James Fox quit because of similar demands. Hira was quoted As saying. The newspaper quoted a memo from Pappas dated nov. 14 As saying. It is important for everyone on this staff id remember that Tom Pappas is inc chief of staff responsible for everyone s pay Check. When he expresses a wish How Ever blight in should be Lakin  those interviewed were quoted As say ing icy did not believe the pressure went beyond unending dinners and Par ties organi cd by i Apps. Former aide also were quoted As saying Pappas excluded female staff members from his social activities. The newspaper said i Apps issued a statement saying Dyson s office has been run in an efficient and will strut lured manner. The office has been Man aged in a Way which has served the Pei Pic of the 1st congressional District of Maryland Well for Many  neighbors and former staff members told the Post thai Dyson frequently stayed at Pappas Large Frame House in acc Keck md., Aboul 20 Miles South of Washington. Dyson s residence is further South in St. Mary s county. Jackson gets a hug democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson gift a Hue Bli Ilir tilt inn children in a Hen Start Nigram at Cleveland. Voters in the Ohio City to � the polls tuesday in the suit1 s presidential primary election. 1 Man Dies in . Copter crash liw Vork Al i a sightseeing helicopter carry ing five people crashed Inlo the East River and Sank sunday killing a passenger who was trapped underwater for More than an hour and a half authorities said. The other four including the 22-year-old Pilot were pulled out of the murky Waler by police Harbor unit officers who found two men clinging to pontoons and two grasping for other Bis of wreckage. They were nol seriously injured. The Accident Occum a almost three years to inc Day after a Heli tonic Operand by a subsidiary of the same company Island helicopter corp. Plunged into the him Kiver with Viglin people aboard. One Man a West German businessman died. In sunday morning s Accident the helicopter had just completed a 5-1o-20-minute Lour of Manhattan when i plunged Inlo llu1 Mer about 15 blocks North of its destination the .14lh Siree heliport police said. The aircraft a Bell 2g4-b, was hovering about 1,000 feel above the River awaiting permission to land when the Pilot experienced performance difficulties said George Dempster chairman of Island helicopters. The Pilot activated emergency flotation pontoons and initiated emergency Landing procedures Dempster said. On Impact however the flotation de vices apparently separated from the rest of the Craft. Rescue efforts culminated in scuba divers finding a passenger strapped to a rear scat of the helicopter on the Bailom of the River 35 feel below the Sui lace. The water temperature was in the mid ids and the Man had been under Waler More than Ion minutes divers said. The passenger identified As Takashi Oyama by the japanese consulate was taken to Bellvue Hospital where he died at 9 05 p.m., said Peter sch clean a Hospital administrator. Three of inc others also were taken to Hill Vuc where they were listed in stable condition. They were the Pilot Robert Marshall of sea Cliff n.v., and two passengers Yuichiro us Uki 30, of Columbus Ohio and Furman Alexander 31, u resident of Australia. A passenger identified As Gotthilf Max Christian. 55, of Munich West Germany was taken to a Subrini Hospital where hew As in Good condition according to a policy spokeswoman sgt. Diane Kubler. Former italian pos return to Texas Camp in spirit of Friendship Hereford Texas al1 several llah Ansho were prisoners of War in Tunas have resumed to embrace As friends inc people icy once considered their enemy. More than 100 residents of deaf Smith and Castro counties welcomed the i it former prisoner and Thi in wives who resumed for a visit saturday to the world War 11 prisoner of War Camp near this Panhandle Community. La is Good to see the same place and remember the years i lost said Angelo Sacchi who was 211 when captured. I have mostly Good memories particularly Wilh inc american nurses because 1 was hospitalised for three  they visited it Chapel they built in 1945 As a Monu ment to five countrymen who died while Al inc Camp 50 Miles Southwest of Amarillo audio Man oni. A former italian officer said the prisoners were relieved to go to Texas because prism life there was better than in France or England. It is a Good thing to remember what was our life for three years Man oni said. But in was still the life of a  Gara Vick a member of Castro county historical society gave the former pos a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and documents related to the Camp and gave each former prisoner a piece of the Camp s barbed wire Fence. The visitors donated j100 to the Castro county historical commission for restoration of their Chapel. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 3. 1948 the British ordered a -18-hour cease fire Between jews and arabs in Jarusak a. 30 years ago today May a 1958 the soviet Union in ils hard United nations Security Council veto rejected presi Dent Eisenhower s Arctic inspection plan after denouncing it As a trick to get military data in soviet territory. 20 years ago today. May 3, 1968 a North vietnamese spokesman said a proposal to hold preliminary peace talks on Are indonesian Cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin was unacceptable to Hanoi. J 0 years ago today. May 3, 1978 in u report to Congress the Ciener Al accounting office said the k-16 Jet fighter had severe but probably correctable engine problems and noted Hal until most new nines it had been put into Pru Duclion while design and testing were still going on