European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 truck Driver pleads innocent to 27 deaths Radcliff by. A a Man police say was drunk when his pickup truck rammed a Church bus has pleaded inno cent to 27 counts or murder while a Pas Tor told 1,200 mourners that the trag Edies ultimately will he turned into  Larry w. Mahoney 3-1, entered thee la Friday through his attorney in a caring in Carroll District court at Carrollton near the site of the May 14  was silent and kept his head bowed and his eyes lowered during the hearing. Meanwhile in Rad lilt friends family and Community members packed the first Assembly of god Church where the Rev. W. Don Tunnison told an eve Ning funeral service that people around the world have offered condolences. The world is grieving with us in this tragedy,11 he said his voice wavering at times. Church members say phone Cal shave been received from As far As Hon Duras Japan Germany and Argentina. Youth evangelist Dave Roc Var of fort Worth Texas in a spirited Benediction promised those in attendance to turn the tragedy into triumphs against the use of alcohol. His words were greeted with thunderous applause. The Radcliff Church which owned thebus and lost 13 members was filled with 1,000 mourners while another 250 stood outside in the Selling Sun embracing one other and holding hands listening to eulogies and hymns. Inside carnations roses and lilies lined the altar and surrounded eight caskets. Pictures and personal mementos were placed around each casket baseball from one boy s first Home run a Blue graduation Cap for a High school senior who would have graduated this a photo Larry w. Mahoney 34, is led from court in Carrollton ky., after being arraigned. Week. Pictures of four other victims were placed on pedestals near the coffins. Two of them including the bus Driver were among the four remembered in funerals saturday. My heart is crushed Tunnison told mourners. He recited a poem he wrote that said in part we rejoice together i blessings weep together in losses be cause we arc family we will Rise again out of this  the victims were killed the night of May 14 when their bus was hit head on by Mahoney. Who was driving on the wrong Side of the Road on interstate 71. Police say Mahoney s blood alcohol level was 2 i times the Legal limit at the time of the crash. The victims mostly teen agers were returning from a Daylong Outing at Kings Island amusement Park near Cincinnati. Of 67 people on the bus 40 children escaped but 11 remain hospitalized including five in critical condition. After Friday s hearing in Carrollton. Mahoney was taken to the psychiatric unit at the Kentucky slate reformatory in Lagrange where doctors will deter mine if he is competent to stand trial. Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty. During the hearing Mahoney s Mother Mary wept occasionally while his father John also wiped lean from his eyes. Mahony was permitted 10-minute, private meetings with family members after the hearing. About so people some of them friends gathered outside the courthouse door As Mahoney was led to a state police Cruiser some shouting Larry we re with you and hang in there  aides say congressman required non office duties Washington a former aides and staff members to rep. Gerry Sikorski say the congressman regularly had them perform personal and Campaign services for him and his family often at taxpayers expense according to a published report saturday. Lone Yates who worked As an executive assistant in the Minnesota Democrat s office in 1983 and 1984.told the Washington Post once 1 remember staff was sent Over to the House to do the  i just got tired of feeling like a piece of property Yates added. The Post reported that several staff members an others familiar with Sikorski s office most of whom it did not identify said the three term congressman had a member of his staff shovel Snow off the sidewalk near his Capitol Hill Home last year. Sikorski also sent some employees from his legislative office in Washington to Minnesota to help his 1986 re cd Calion Campaign while they were paid the irregular government salaries the Post said citing House records and former staffers. Sikorski contacted Early saturday by the associated press said the accusations were unfounded and had come from a disgruntled former employee. He said some aides who were also personal friends had volunteered on occasion to take care of personal tasks for him but that he made no requests for such assist Ance. The St. Paul Pioneer press dispatch also reported in saturday editions that Sikorski had asked staff Mem Bers to take care of personal errands. The Minnesota newspaper said several former staff members complained about being asked to Complete personal tasks for Sikorski such As escorting his daughter Home from school and tending his wife s dogs. Dennis m. Mcgrann Sikorski s administrative assistant said i do know that the Post was informed that the allegations innuendos and Many outright lies contained in the Story came from an individual who was terminated from the staff who vowed  he declined to name inc former staffer. We requested a personal interview Friday from the Post said Mcgrann but inc Post  the Post reported it had made four unsuccessful attempts to interview Sikorski about the allegations. Aides told the newspaper they look care of dry cleaning looked after Sikorski s House ran errands arranged for personal travel and drove his daughter to and from school. The newspaper said former aides said Sikorski s wife Susan who Breeds terriers called staff members to the family s town House to help her Bob inc dogs tails and deliver them to be artificially inseminated. In another Case the Post said aides said can niches a former exc Culic assistant to Sikorski rushed a tuna Sandwich to school for Sikorski s daughter who had left Home without her lunch but was then criticized by the Minnesota lawmaker because the child disliked tuna fish. However Hess defended Sikorski. Gerry kept inc office working hard but in s no different in any other office Hess said. Attorney says students being punished unfairly new Brunswick . A fifteen Rutgers University students who face aggravated hazing charges in the drinking death of a freshman arc being punished for an Accident their attorneys said. One boy accidentally died and no the stale is going to punish 15 others said Mark Denbeaux a Newark attorney for one of inc students. The students seven of whom were officers of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity House were named in a Middlesex county grand jury indictment that charged them with aggravated hazing in inc feb. 12 death of James Callahan of North Bergen. Superior court judge George j. Nicola released inc students on their own recognizance Afler they pleaded innocent Fri Day. They arc scheduled to appear at a pre trial conference july 5. An autopsy showed Callahan 18. Died from alcohol poisoning after drinking More than 23 ounces of alcohol at a Lambda Chi Alpha initiation party prosecutor Alan Rockoff said. An autopsy showed Callahan had a 0.434 percent blood alcohol Content or More than four limes inc level consid ered legally drunk in new Jersey. I still maintain it was not a hazing  said attorney Joseph j. Dis Conza who represents Lambda Chi Al Pha s Board of trustees and one student. It was really a tragic incident and Crimi Nal charges should never have  aggravated hazing charges carry maximum sentence or 18 months in Pris on and a $7,500 Tine Rockoff said. Former newspaper editor Dies of aids complications Manhattan Beach. Calif not Bill Cox. A newspaper editor in Kentucky and Hawaii no wrote an editorial that disclosed he had aids died Here Friday of complications from that disease. He was 39. Cox was managing editor of the Honolulu Star bulletin in 1986 when he made known his illness of acquire immune deficiency syndrome in a labor Day column. As a journalist. I have spent my career trying to shed Light in dark Cor ners he wrote aids is surely on of our darkest Corners. It can use some  Cox resigned from the Star bulletin shortly after his column ran. Saying redid not feel Well enough to continue supervising the staff and later moved Loc Alifornia. Afterwards he lectured to professional journalism groups on coverage of the aids epidemic. Cox was born in Owensboro ky.,and graduated from inc University of Missouri in 1971. Later that year he joined the courier journal in Louis Ville by. He left in 1978 to work forthe Miami Herald but returned less than a year later to become City editor of the courier journal. He held that Post for five years until he moved Loha Waii in january 1984. His survivors include Mark Meyer a companion with whom he lived in Manhattan Beach his parents. Homer and Ann Cox of Owensboro and an aunt Myrtle a Asllan of Louisville