European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes Friday May 20,19b8 army no Given 8 years for raping female Soldier Heidelberg an army sergeant was sentenced to eight years in prison for raping a female unlisted Soldier 10 Days after she had arrived in West Germany army officials said thursday. Sol. William c. Fairley 28. Of cob 63rd signal in in  was convicted wednesday in a one Day court martial. He also was Given a dishonourable discharge reduced in rank la private one and ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances. The rape occurred Early on Jan. 16 in  an army spokesman said. Fairly who had left a wedding reception at i 30 ., started giving the victim a driving Lour of the area raped her. And then drove a Lew More hours White trying to persuade her not to report the crime. The victim reported the crime immediately the spokesman id. Pact May be of cd in time for Summit Byrd says Washington a the  medium Range missile treaty could be approved be fore president Reagan leaves for Moscow wednesday. Senate majority Leader Robert Byrd d-w.va., said thursday. If Only the legitimate and serious Points of order and amendments arc called up this treaty can be approved in time for the president to Lake it with him to the Summit Byrd told reporters. The Senate voted 91-6 wednesday to reject the first conservative attack on the treaty. That was anoint of order raised by sen. Jesse Helms , who claimed soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev was t authorized to sign the pact and the Senate therefore should not ratify it. The first Vole would indicate the Senate did nut think it was a serious Point. I did not think it was Byrd said. Crowe cautions on use of military in drug fight Detroit a using the armed forces in an All out assault on drug trafficking would involve civil rights Trade ens americans May not want to contemplate the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said. To solve the drug problem and still Guaran tee All americans the rights and privileges they enjoy today is a difficult thing . William j. Crowejr. Told a news conference wednesday before a luncheon speech Ai the economic club of Detroit. Crowe chairman of the joint chiefs since october 1985, said the armed forces would carry out whatever Ami drug Trade measures Congress assigned them. I think there Are things we can do primarily identification surveillance and tracking of peo ple bringing in drugs in illicit fashion he said. But he said. To truly Slop the now of drugs you would have to increase police Powers and do some searches and seizures thai Are nol contemplated  soviet missiles drop from Jet damaging farm Warsaw Poland a two missiles dropped from a soviet military Jet and exploded on a private farm in southwestern Poland on thursday damaging buildings and knocking out Power but causing no injuries the official news Agency Pap reported. The Accident occurred near the town of or meow in Legnica province the report said. It gave no details on How the Accident occurred. The province is Home base for the soviet led Warsaw pact s Northern group of forces about 50 Miles from the East German Border. The Pap report said the missiles left to Era cars in a private farm Field cracks and splits in sonic buildings and unspecified damage to roof  also damaged was a 300-Yard Section of High Power lines interrupting electricity and shutting Down the water pumping system for free meow a town of about 5,000 people. Colombian drug Kingpin found guilty on All counts Jacksonville Fla a Carlos Lender Rivas the biggest foreign drug dealer Ever brought to trial in this country was found guilty thursday of running a smuggling operation that shipped tons of cocaine from Colombia to the United states the verdict against the reputed Leader of Colombia s violent Medellin drug Cartel came just after 11  Following seven Days of deliberation. Lender 38, and co defendant Jack Carllon Reed 57, were convicted of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 ions of cocaine using Norman s Cay in the Bahamas from 1978 to i960. Lehder was found guilty on All counts conspiracy two counts of importation of cocaine seven counts of Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and one charge of engaging in a continuing criminal Enterprise. He looked Down then stared straight ahead As the court clerk read the verdicts. Two jurors cried with one sobbing and burying her face in her hands As the seven month trial came to an end. Lehder now faces life plus 150 years in prison and up to 1350.000 in fines and possible forfeiture of Mil Lions of dollars in real estate. Reed of san Pedro calif., was convicted on a single conspiracy court and faces up to 15 years in prison and $25,000 in Fine. Prosecutors and government witnesses had de scribed Lehder As a one time new York Street Hood who put together a vast cocaine smuggling Empire after he was deported to his Homeland. Authorities said the Medellin Cartel named for � City in Colombia was bal in cd to be responsible for so percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United states. Prosecutors called Lehder the biggest foreign drug smuggler Ever brought to trial in the United states.  attorney Robert Merkle called him the Henry Ford of drag trafficking pioneering mass shipments of cocaine by air from Colombia to the United slates. A forfeiture hearing was scheduled for Lacr thurs Day and attorneys refused to comment until after the proceedings. Tragedy from Page 1 said the saturday crash was no Accident. This was a crash and this was caused by a drunk  out of 46,000 fatalities on our highways every year less than 100 even involve school buses Miller said. It s the safest form of transportation. We be got 350,000 school buses on our highways they transport 21 million kids to school every Day and they be done an extraordinarily Good  the Kentucky crash involved a converted school bus carrying members of a Church group from an amusement Park near Cincinnati. Most of the victims were military dependents or had lies to nearby fort a Jinx. The service at the High school s 2,400-seat foot Ball stadium was to include hymns and a performance by the Post military band said Lilia s. Handte Secre Tarylo mayor Joseph Hutherson. Right now fort kno is kind of our mainstay she said. They Are being very involved because there Are a lot of military families in  the fort hits also sent chaplains and Counselor to help families. On wednesday grief Counselor from the National organization for victim assistance conducted a sem Inar in Rad lift for school Counselor military person Nel and others dealing with victims families. Also the National transportation safely Board said it located a witness to the crash and someone who saw what ii believed to be the pickup truck Cross the Grassy median and head North in the southbound lanes. The truck Driver Larry Mab Oncy Slid Hosp Tallud in Louisville about 35 Miles Southwest of Radcliff was charged with 27 counts of murder one for each of those who died in the Accident. Authorities said he was intoxicated at the time of the crash. Thirteen other people remained hospitalized wednesday. In Cleveland four people remained hospitalized wednesday from a Public transit bus Accident that lulled a teen age passenger. Police were checking re ports that the bus accelerated after striking a car. Tuesday s Accident started when a Motorist tried to male a left turn in front of the bus. The bus struck the car and then lurched out of control striking n tree a pole and a Fence before grating a building and another pole said patrolman Emil Cielec. In Clinton Comers n.y., a safely Board inspection found no structural or mechanical problems with a bus that overturned monday killing three people and in Juring 20 others authorities said wednesday. However mechanical failure has not been ruled out As the cause of the Accident police said. Troops from Page 1 marxist leadership to Power in Afghanistan. The Kremlin sent troops and tanks in december 1979 to help the Allied afghan government fight  moslem rebels. Under a  Accord signed in Geneva on april 14, the soviets began pulling out their 115,000 troops from Afghanistan on sunday and Are expected to Complete the withdrawal within nine months. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said after the signing ceremonies in Geneva that his govern ment would release casualty figures once the pullout began. No Dale for the Gen Zimov military press conference has been announced. A . State department report released in Decem Ber estimated the total number of soviet casualty sin Afghanistan since 1979 at at least 33,000 to 35,000, More than one third of whom were killed. That would make the number of men killed in com Bat Between 11,000 and 12,700, or More. Those Esti mates do nol include heavy losses id disease the stale department report added. The report said disease is rampant among the soviet troops particularly dysentery and hepatitis caused by poor Hygiene. If the death figures mentioned by Rosental Are Cor rect then the soviet Union suffered far fewer losses in Afghanistan than the United states did in the Vietnam  total of 47,253 americans were killed or mortally wounded in combat in Vietnam and adjacent military Heaters of Southeast Asia and More than 150,000 were  rejected a reporter s suggestion that the Kremlin was abandoning an Allied government still beleaguered by a nationwide insurgency. To withdraw troops does not mean to leave the country in the lurch the no Vosti official said. We leave Many cultural and economic facilities there. The soviet Union is nol abandoning  the first soviet soldiers to be withdrawn under the Geneva accords about 1.300 men from a motor died Rifle unit crossed the Border Al Ter Nelm Afghanistan in the soviet Central asian Republic of Uzbekistan on wednesday. Tour from Page 1 get request which is being developed the official said. All we re doing is soliciting opinions at this Point he said with Usa eur commander Gen. Glenn Kotis retiring soon we thought it would be Worth while to see what he thinks of the idea since he Wilt no longer have a constituency to answer to Solo  the army probably Wilt want to get comments from commanders in the other Long tour overseas areas be fore making a decision As Well and that will Lake some Lime he said. Although some personnel officials feel increasing overseas Lour lengths would have minimal Impact on troop morale the army reportedly has received a sub Stantial number of complaints from soldiers in Alaska and Hawaii where the accompanied tour was raise from 36 to 48 months in april 1987