European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday May 4,1988 news updates password Winner los Angeles a the biggest single game Winner on Theta game show super password was sentenced monday to five years in prison for an insurance scheme. Kerry Dee Kcal chem 36, had admitted to fraudulently collect Ings 100,000 from an insurance polity by falsely saying his wife had been killed in an out Accident. Kef chem was arrested when a television viewer recognized him As fugitive Ketcher was arrested when he tried to pick up $58,6 10 in winnings from Hii appearance on  the sum would have been inc them s biggest single game award but Abc refused to pay in on the ground Eichem won under n false identity. Fraternity rape Tallahassee Fla. A Florida slate University ordered a fraternity la disband Fui Fife years Tor a rape of a teen age student at inc fraternity House and subsequent cover up officials said. I Hope what we re tiding sends out a message we do take this very seriously Dan of students James Hayes said monday the nature of the whole incident was so serious that to be responsible you have to take  University officials accepted recommendation after a four Day hearing by an administrative hear ing panel made up of a student faculty member and staff representative Hayes announced the sanctions just 10 Days after a strongly worded grand jury interim report urged University officials to crack Down on i Kappa Alpha fraternity where the woman was allegedly raped March 5 by two fraternity members. Of Early retirement Board to help decide officer cuts by Chuck Vinch Washington Braa Washington an undetermined number of air Force lieutenant colonels and colonels face an involuntary retire ment Board this november to help in service meet congressionally mandated officer cuts. Tie specific number of officer in each Grade will be decided by Secretary of the air Force Edward Aldridge jr., according 10 information provided by air Force personnel officials this decision will be based on the actual size of the air Force share of he congressional reduction Force Structure requirements and other pertinent fac tors the statement said. In no ease will the number to be retired exceed 30 per cent of those eligible in each Grade officers affected Are lieutenant Colo Nels who hive been considered for pro motion to colonel three or More Tim Sand colonels Wilb More than five years in Grade As of the Board convening Date officials with the air Force military personnel Center at Randolph fab Texas could not readily give figures for army no critical after car Accident Lan Stuhl West Germany a 32nd army air defense come Soldier was listed m critical condition following a weekend traffic Accident it command spokesman said tuesday. Sol. Leroy d. Thomas 27, of he co Lith signal in received multiple head and Chest injuries after his car hit a ported truck in Darm Slade about 3 30a.m. Saturday Cape. Gaylan Johnson said. Thomas initially was treated at a Darmstadt Hospital. He was transferred sunday morning to the lands Uhl army regional medical Center. Thomas a single Channel radio opera Lor is a native of Irvington . German and military police Are investigating the Accident. Airman in Spain Dies from crash injuries Torrejon a Spain a 21-year old airman died monday of injuries he sustained in a car Accident sunday in nearby Lacatis de he arcs a base spokes Man said. Senior airman Alray t. Jones died at 11 30 . In Madrid s la Paz Hospital. Senior airman Kenneth Fidler said Jones from Miami Fla. Worked in the 401st equipment maim so As an inspection Dock learn member. He is survived by his parents Cecil r. Jones and Doris l Davis both of Miami. A memorial service for Jones will be at 4 . Wednesday Al the Torrejon Chapel. The maximum number of officers in the two grades who would be eligible for Early retirement under those guidelines. Different criteria that will be used for what the air Force Calls non line officers chaplains doctors and lawyers for example will be announced Lacr. The air Force already is using a  Ber of initiatives to Cut its officer strength including reducing the number of new lieutenants allowed on alive duty and encouraging voluntary separations. Officials Laid this will be the first such Early retirement Board convened by the service under the defense officer personnel management act of i9b2. The decision to use such a Board came after less drastic alternatives had been rejected said Cape Chris Canfield. An air Force spokesman in the Pentagon. We could go further on the front end and just say we won t take any new peo ple for a while but then we d end up with a Bubble in that year group some where Down the Road he said. The big picture requires a proper mix among All grades he said. The Early retirement Board is son of a last resort but we really Don t have a Choice if we want in maintain the mix that we need. We just have to have that Board in Light of the other things that Are going  the House and Senate armed service committees arc Likely to rescind or at least defer further officer cuts under four year plan to reduce the military offi cer corps by 6 percent. But any defer ment would depend on the services accepting smaller voluntary cuts. A Cut of 3,200 officers is being discussed for the air Force. That voluntary decrease while less drastic than Congress had planned in sufficient to require the use of the Early retirement Board by the air Force. Offi cer eligible for consideration will gel a special Brief for their review about three months before inc Board meets instruction on providing information to the Board president win be included with the Brief. Selected officers will be Able to Pic their retirement Date but the statement said that Date cannot be later than the first Day of the seventh month after Al Dridge approves inc Board results. Murderer of go s pregnant wife sentenced to life by . Court by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Darci Pierce arrested in july for kid napping and killing a pregnant military wife at an air Force base id new Mem co was sentenced to life in prison last week. Michael cos. With the new Mexico District attorney s office said Pierce also was Given concurrent sentences of 18 years for kidnapping and 18 months for child abuse. Concurrent sentences run simultaneously. The earliest Pierce can be paroled is 30 years Cox said. Pierce 20, was found guilty but men. Lilly ill March 29 in the killing of Cindy Ray who was s i months pregnant. Ray who was 23, and her husband. Staff sol Sam Ray had been stationed at Titbit re a West Germany before being re assigned to Kinland fab , Ray Lias since left the service and a living in Utah. Cox said that under stale Law the guilty but mentally ill finding Means that Pierce did t meet the Legal definition of insanity bul had an obvious mental disorder that impaired her judge ment when the committed the crime. Pierce apparently is despondent Over inc fact that she had no children of her own according to police reports. Pierce the wife of an airman abducted Ray As she was leaving the Kin land base medical clinic following a Rou Tine prenatal examination on july 23, 1987. She forced the pregnant woman into a car and drove into the nearby Manzano mountains where she strangled Ray and used a Blunt object to per form a crude caesarean Section Accord ing to police reports. Pierce then left Ray s body and took the baby girl to a local Hospital where she claimed she had just Given birth police said. The baby was bloody and dirty bul alive. Hospital officials Cumine Pierce and contacted police when they found she had not Given birth a mining persons report on Hay had come in by that time. After several hours of questioning. Pierce admitted taking the baby and led police to Ray s body the next morning police said. The baby named Amelia hat fully re covered and is living with her father in Utah. Pierce s Case is being automatically appealed to the new Mexico supreme coun Cox said bul it will take about a year before her Case is heard. In the meantime she will be held in the Hale prison. Another Convoy Heads up Gulf Manama Bahrain a the third Convoy of u.5.-flaeged kuwaiti tankers in five Days sailed through the Strait of Hormuz and headed up the per Sian Gulf tuesday toward Kuwait. Shipping Industry officials who observed the group said it included the 294,739-Lon Townsend and the 81.283 Lon sea Isle City both Oil products tank ers. They were escorted by the destroyer Merrill and he guided missile frigate John h. Sides the officials said. A . Military spokesman said he had no information on the Convoy. Ship movements usually Are nol announced officially until they have passed certain danger Points such As the iranian held Island of Abu Musa in the Southern Gulf. The convoys had been disrupted after inc guided missile frigate Samuel b. Roberts was severely damaged by a mine in the Central Gulf april 14. Ten crewmen on the Roberts were injured. The United states maintains that Iran Laid the mine that was hit by the Roberta. On april in the United states retaliated by destroying two iranian Oil platforms and sinking or disabling six armed ves Sels in Daylong fighting. Two american pilots died when a helicopter apparently was downed in the fighting. The .Cscorlcd convoys resumed after american and european mine sweepers found and destroyed several More mines in International shipping lanes. The first Convoy after the april 18 fighting reached Kuwait on Friday. 6er.n shooting clubs to reduce sunday noise Berlin Sis German sport shooters using a . Firing Range on weekends have come to an agreement with nearby residents to reduce noise on sundays officials said tuesday the agreement was worked out by officials of Berlin the Dehlendorf District of the City and two shooting clubs and Puu a 55-Dccibel cup on noise from Rose Range located in a residential area in the Dehlendorf District. The 4,000 residents living near the Range had complained for two decades thai Range noise primarily from Skacel shooting disturbed their weekends. The agreement essentially will limit shooting on sunday to Small Caliper weapons said Michael Beer Dehlendorf planning director. Military use of the Range generally is confined to weekdays. Beer said Mem Bers of the . Rod and gun club use Rose Range to a lesser extent than the German shoot cry. He hoped the american group also would abide by the agreement. West Berlin shooting clubs use Allied shooting facilities became. Other than West Berlin police shooting Range there Are no ranges in the occupied City. The noise problem was put before the Westerlin government in january by Jurjen plenum a Dehlendorf District mayor