European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. May 16.19b8 the stars and stripes Chappaquiddick Book rips Kennedy claims he wanted to say Kopechne was alone Washington a in he hours after his Cor plunged off the Bridge it Chappaquiddick sen. Edward m. Ken Nedy wanted to Tell police ital Mary to Kopechne was alone in the car Accord ing id a new Bok about the Accident. In an account attributed to a Kennedy Cousin. Joseph Garcon Kennedy told Gargan and a Friend Paul Markham the morning after the Accident that i m going to say that Mary to was  Kopechne drowned in the Accident which has Shad owed Kennedy s political career for 19 years. Jargon and Markham a Cal with Kennedy 1o Lite Bridge shortly after the Accident to iry to Rescue Kopechne from the submerged car and the Book by Leo Kopechne dam orc senator Al privilege the Chappaquiddick cover up is purportedly based i Nurt. On the first extensive interviews Gargan has Given for publication. The Book is being published by Rogn Ery Gateway a conservative publishing House based in Washington after being rejected by a number of new York pub Lishers. A statement issued by Kennedy spokesman Jeff Smith said As the rec Ord shows no reputable publisher would touch this Book. The charges about sen Ator Kennedy ate false. The Book is an irresponsible rehash of All the of Rumor and innuendo and we have no intention of making any fun her  Gargan a lawyer who is now a Mem Ber of the Massachusetts state insurance division s Board of appeals did not re turn Telephone Calls Over the past week. Contacted recently by the Cape cod times he said my god that was 19 a car ago. It s just not worthy of Dis cussing  dam orc of old Saybrook conn., is a former Cap cod resident who has writ ten several books including a flattering spectators Diamine he car in which mar 1 to Knic conc drowned. Account of John f. Kennedy s years on the  House had Given Damore a s250.000 contract but cancelled in. Say ing an Early version of the Book was too unwieldy and that the author failed to provide tape recordings to authenticate the Garcon interviews. Penthouse mag Azine cancelled an excerpt plan on grounds that dam orc Cou in l verify key parts of the Gargan interviews. Hut Jimmy Smith a former Kennedy Campaign aide and now a . Magis trate on Cape cod said in a Telephone interview that he was present for nearly All of the dam orc Gargan sessions in 1983. He declined to go Over specifics but vouched fur the Book s accuracy. Gargan also read the Book and made corrections prior to publication. Smith said. According to dam orc Gargan told him Kennedy proposed that authorities be told Kopechne was alone in the sen Ator s Oldsmobile when it plunged off Liny Dike Bridge Over an Inlet on the East Side of the Massachusetts Island. The Accident occurred during the weekend of july 1s-i9, 1969. Kopechne was one of sin women known As the boiler room girls who had worked on Robert f. Kennedy s Illus presidential campaigns and who attended a parly Gargan had organized. Kennedy was having alternative ideas Alhout the situation wrote author dam orc. Why could t Mary to have been driving the car Why could t she have let him off and driven to the ferry hers land made a wrong turn Kennedy asked to be brought Back to the cottage to establish the Story. Afler a while he could leave Kennedy suggested that when he was Back in Edgartown Gargan could discover the Accident and report to to inc that Mary to had been alone in the car but Gargan purportedly rejected the idea noting that the Trio did not even know if Kopechne Coultis drive or had a License. The senator testified at an official in quest that he had full intention of report ing the Accident when Llie Trio resumed to the Chappaquiddick ferry Landing and the senator swam Back to Edga Nown alone. But he said the tide was pulling him out and for the second time that evening i knew i was going to  the next morning Mofakham and Gar can arrived at the Edgartown hotel to find a freshly shaven and neatly dressed Kennedy chatting with several acquaint ances about sailing on the hotel Balcony. He had not reported the Accident. "1 told them about my own thoughts and feelings As i swam across that Chan Nel. That somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say the Mary to was slim alive the sen Ator has said. The Book said Kennedy did not decide to Tell police thai he was driving until speaking by Telephone with aide David Burke. It took about 10 hours for Kennedy to report the Accident an action thai he later called irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and  the senator pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an acid Chi. He received a two month suspended sen tence and had his License revoked for a year. A manuscript of the Book which is scheduled to be published june 23. Was made available to the associated press. Washingtonian Magazine said in plans id run excerpts in its june Issue. The Book quotes Gargan As saying to Kennedy in 1982, i be Given you 30 years of my life and what do i have to show for it i m a fool in the eyes of my own children because of Chappaquiddick. Markham. Who did not talk to the author declined comment. The Book reporting the scene on the night of the Accident said Kennedy watched Gargan and Markham s Rescue operation and called out can you see her is she in there the account continued Gargan saw the senator stretched out on the Bridge on his Back. Hands clasped behind his head Knees drawn up me senator was looking into the sky rocking Back and Forth repeating. Of my god. What am i going to do anniversary ceremony to Honor Stark victims Mayport naval station. Fla. A relatives and friends of the 37 sailors who died when the frigate Stark was hit by two missiles in the persian Gulf will gather Here on the tint an Nivon sary of the attack to remember their fallen loved ones. A ceremony is scheduled for tuesday at the Stark memorial located on the Dock where the Stark departed in february 19s7 for the routine deployment and where the burned out guided missile frigate returned six months later to a subdued heroes Welcome. More than 140 relatives and friends of those lost in the attack arc expected to attend the service. Our Chapel keeps Ihm regularly in our prayers and they Are a regular part of our prayer life said Navy chaplain Bill Perry who will conduct the ceremonies. We still hold these families in our Pray ers and  this Navy Community was shattered last May 17 when two missiles fired by an iraqi warplane slammed into the Stark. Iraq said Lac Ruthc attack was an Accident. The reason for gathering on the first anniversary is written right on the me Morial. Perry said. You will not be for gotten it reads. Thai s the whole reason for getting Sands of Tim father of Tabatha s donor charged with killing infant in the stars and stripes together on the 7lh," Perry said. Following a dockside ceremony family members will Board a sister ship of lr.5 Stark for a Wreath laying ceremony in the Atlantic. The Stark is still undergoing repairs in a Pascagoula miss shipyard. It is expected to return to Maymort in August. Perry said families of those who sur Vived the attack also have been invited. The trauma of thai week is theirs he said. Penn1ngton Gap a. A. The father of the infant who provided the five vital organs transplanted into 3 year old Tabatha Foster bad been charged Wilh murdering the infant police said Friday. Earl f. Shirks who originally told authorities his 7-Wcck-old daughter was fatally injured in an automobile Accident was charged with first degree murder in the death of Heather h. Orick Lee county sheriff Robert Chadwell said. He is scheduled to be arraigned tuesday. Heather s vital organs were Donald to Tabatha who was the longest survivor of a five Organ transplant until her death last wednesday of Organ failure caused by a blood infection. Authorities said saturday there was no link Between Tabatha s death and the timing of the murder charge being filed against shirks 44, of Pennington Gap. Just a coincidence said Balty Jane Way a sheriffs department dispatcher. Chadwell on Friday refused to discuss the cause of Heather s ocl 30 death and could not be reached Over the weekend for comment. Shirks look his daughter to Lee county Community Hospital on oct. 8, and she died 22 Days later at the children s Hospital at fort Sanders Hospital in . The infant s vital organs were flown to Pittsburgh where Tabatha received the liver pancreas and Small intestine and parts of the stomach and Colon during a 15-hour operation that ended nov. 1. 40 years ago today. May 16, 1948 arabs attacked the new slate of Israel by land and air and censorship was placed on foreign correspondent dispatches from Egypt. 30 years ago today. May 16, 195s Gen. Charles do Gaulle offered to take Power and Lead France out Uthe crisis that followed he insurrection in Algeria. 20 years ago today. May 16, 1968 sen. Robert f. Kennedy won Nebraska s democratic presiden tial primary. In the Republican contest former vice president Richard m. Nixon won. But California gov Ronald Reagan polled nearly 25 percent of the Vole. 10 years ago today May 16,197 the conservative Christian democratic party of former Premier Aldo Moro won a Strong sympathy vote in italian elections in the Wake of the red brigade s kidnapping and assassination of Moro