European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q strategic air come reorganizing air divisions Page 2 d Navy won t Appeal Billig decision Page s d visit . What to see where to go daily Magazine g pistons beat bulls jazz celts triurnph.spot1s, Page 21 the St ars Andis ripes Jlko Alfou of Fiji a Quilic Tio fat 1ki . Feb Leif vol. 47, no. 28 sunday May 1s.19bb Good morning d 8693 a Senate votes to increase military s role in drug War Washington not the sen hit voted overwhelmingly Friday to to Nam Llic military s role m reducing the now of narcotics across american Bor Ders. A a major departure from current Law. The measure would permit specially rained and Aulon cd military person Nel to make drug arrests in International Waters. It also Calls for the president to approve additional surveillance of Ameri can Borders by the military and directs inc Secretary of defense to urge slate governors to draw up plans for involving inc National guard in drug fighting efforts. The measure an amendment to Mili tary budget legislation pending before the Senate was adopted by an 83-6 vote Over the protests of senators who called it Foolhardy. They said it would Tat strained resources of the armed forces while doing Little to solve the country s drug problem. But the House has already approved a proposal More extensive than thai voted by the Senate thus assuring thai the armed forces will become More deeply engaged in combating the importation of drugs. The White House has signalled general see Orus on Back Page Kabul blast kills at least 1 1, injures 12 Kabul. Afghanistan api a bomb exploded inside a Trucl. Saturday near reviewing stands being prepared for farce cell ceremonies to Mark the pullout of soviet soldiers. Eleven afghans were killed and 12 were reported wounded. The blast occurred in the heart of Kabul at 5 4 . In a housing area on the Banks of the Kabul River. A Western photographer on inc scene Lold the associated press that n baby and an 11 year old girl were among those killed and that All the casualties were afghan civilians. Most appeared to have been occur Panis of nearby Homes destroyed by the Impact of the explosion he said. When the bomb exploded some of the houses nearby just the photographer said other witnesses said they saw four bodies being re moved from one House. The blast was so great thai it shattered the windows of a bus depot across the River 300 Yards away and left a Crater 20 feel wide and 13 feet deep. Soviet troops arrived afterwards the photographer said by Telephone. Vladimir Schrut Deputy chief of the soviet Corn munis party Central committee s propaganda depart ment also provided casualty figures to foreign report ers covering the pullout which is to begin sunday. In Moscow the official Tass news Agency reported that the blast killed 11 people and wounded 13. Tass blamed afghan anti government the explosion demolished embankment Walls on both sides of the River which threads through this ancient capital City whose streets Are now filled with soviet troops tanks and armoured personnel carriers. Blood was visible on the Gates of a nearby factory and personal belongings including carpet slippers were scattered in the Street. Witnesses said flames were visible when they arrived shortly after the blast. The Laige truck in which see blast on Back Page a soviet hell Cypler Patmos Over the Kabul Airport in Advance of inc scheduled it it of the withdrawal of troops. App Oslo army team s search for truth solved abuse Case by Deedee arr1ngton Doke Bur Iii Kaiserslautern it tuned Wilh the May 1987 death of a baby whose father had literally Sha Ken the life out of him coupled Wilh rumours that another baby belonging to inc father had died a Long time ago. Jul in courts of Law rumours stand up about As Well As absent witnesses. Then a pair of Young 21 St support come prosecutors coordinated a search for truth relentlessly Trail ing a Rumor and a Hunch by phone from West Ger Many to the Banks of a Louisiana Bayou and inside a crumbling Cofty. Their quest resulted in two murder convictions against an army computer specialist. In March Sec. Kirklan c. Curry was found guilty by a general court martial of killing his two sons. Kirklan Lee and Erik acc in 1976 and i9s7, and sentenced to life imprisonment in fort Kan the two boys both of whom died before reaching their first birthdays were Curry s children by differ ent women. Kirklan Lee Curry s child by his i wife Beth died of suffocation in Alexandria. A. In May 1976, under Uncertain circumstances. Erik Lee died of shaken baby syndrome at the army regional Medica Center in Lan Stuhl West Germany in May 1987, the second boy was Curry s child by Denise Brangaitis. To whom Curry never was married. We did t Start out Wilh the idea we could prove our Case mid Cut Peter Cullen. Who with Cape. Larry Morris prosecuted Curry on behalf of the government. The Case just got better As it went like most great teams the pairing of Cullen and Morris was somewhat unlikely. Cullen the More re served of inc two is 27, bespectacled and Speaks with a faint Irish lilt. Morris. 31, has a rakish at and a courtroom Demeanour that approaches brashness. Cullen was the first to become involved with the Curry Case an involvement that began when the local criminal investigation come Agency notified his office of Erik Lee s suspicious death at land continued on Page 3
