European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 19. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 seemingly Oil him of the Rush hour traffic Helmut Pourcel signals for a right turn with his six goals and a making himself seen and herds a photo by Kiln g Donkey pulling i cart on a Street in downtown Darm Stadt West Germany. The Urban animal Lover collects discarded food products from markets about twice a week for his Hoo cd companions. Cia defector interviewed on soviet television Moscow a Edward acc How Ard a defector from Llie Cia was inter viewed Friday night on soviet television which showed him m a country Dacha walking Down Moscow s arbat shopping Street and discussing Liis life since he fled to the soviet Union in september 1985. The broadcast included a Home movie Howard made for his family during trav Els around the soviet Union. Although he said he is Happy Howard noted that he has few friends. Howard s wife and son did not accompany him to the soviet Union. His defection to Moscow was the first by someone known to have worked for the Cia. In Only his second Public appearance since defecting almost two years ago Howard said in the if minute interview that he has not been confined to the so Viet Union but has travelled to the East Ern european countries of Hungary and East Germany. He said he works As an economist doing surveys and studies on capitalist countries. In a previous interview on soviet television Howard said had been granted Politi Cal Asylum in the soviet Union and had never done anything that would damage or threaten my country s Security during the interview broadcast Friday after the evening television news show a Cmya Howard shed Little Light on How he managed to slip through Fri surveillance of his Home in new Mexico and reach soviet soil. He said that his disagreements Wilh the Central intelligence Agency were mostly political. I am opposed to secret  Howard spoke mostly in English Dur ing the interview and his remarks were translated into russian. During a stroll Down the arbat he also chatted in rus Sian with his interviewer. The Home movie included shots of Howard wearing a russian style fur hat in red Square and pictures of churches which he said among his favorite Similus in the soviet Union. He also said that he has always been a roman Catholic but it was not Clear where he worshipped. The television camera followed How Ard inside his Dacha which appeared Plush by soviet standards and he told an interviewer he had an apartment in mos cow television did not show that per haps for Security reasons. Howard has not been accessible to West Ern reporters based in Moscow but he said during the interview he had met in mos cow at length Wilh David Wise an Ameri can based in Washington who has written several books critical of the Cia. The de Fector said he might write a Book on his experiences after several years. The soviets reportedly paid Howard for information thai compromised Many Cia operations in the soviet Union and is believed to have Ted to the arrest and execution of at least one soviet working for the Cia. Howard 36, went to work for the Cia s Clandestine service in 1981, and he was fired by the Agency in june 1983, some sources have said he quit because he was angry at being assigned to mos cow and others say he selected Beau so his superiors became concerned about his personal life. . Officials said they were alerted to Howard s cooperation Wilh the soviets by Vitoly Yurchenko a High ranking Kab officer who defected to the West in the summer of 1985 but later returned to the soviet Union. Husband poisoner receives 90-year sentence Seattle up a woman whose greed led her to Poison her Hus band and place cyanide heed Medica Tion on store shelves causing a second death was sentenced to 90 years in prison by a judge who called her crimes  Stella Nickell 44, who has maintained her innocence since her conviction last month stood motionless Dur ing sentencing Friday with the same stoic expression she showed through most of her Ihrck week trial this Spring. . District judge William Dwyer rejected a 230-year sentence sought by prosecutors in the Federal anti Lam paring Case but specified that Nickell serve a minimum of 30 years in prison before she is even considered for parole. In his sentencing order Dwyer gave Nickel 90 years on each of the two tampering counts involving deaths and 10 years on each of the other three but ordered that Alt terms be served concurrently. In addition he ordered Nickell to pay a j250 Fine but he recommended that any compensation to the Snow family be settled through civil Liti gation. Public defender Thomas Hillier said the verdict and sentence would be appealed but he said he anticipates that the process will take at least a year. King county prosecutor Norm Maleng said he would spend the next three weeks reviewing the Federal sen tence before deciding whether to charge Nickell with murder a state crime. Nickell was convicted May 9 of Lac ing extra strength excedrin capsules with cyanide in a 1986 plot to kill her husband Bruce Nickell 52, so she could get out of an unhappy debt rid Den marriage and collect $176,000 in life insurance benefits. Authorities said she contaminated at least four other bottles of Medica Tion with Poison and placed them on store shelves in the Auburn wash., area in an attempt to make the Tam pc rings look like the work of a ran Dom killer. One of the poisoned bottles was bought by sue Snow 40, a Bank manager who died from cyanide poisoning on june 11, 1986. The deaths prompted a National re Call of excedrin capsules by the Bris Tol Myers co. And institution of Feder Al regulations for tamper proof packaging