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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 7 a. To seek stiff penalty for Oil spill Pittsburgh a gov. Rober Casey instructed state officials wednes Day to seek maximum civil penalties an consider criminal charges against Ash land Oil inc. For a Jan. 2 fuel tank col lapse that polluted two major Rivers in three states. The governor following the recommendations of a task Force report that he released at a news conference told the department of environmental re sources to seek maximum civil damage against Ashland. He declined to say How much the damages might total. Casey also asked the state attorney general to consider criminal charges against the company but said he  recommend filing charges against individuals. In . District court meanwhile Ashland promised in a consent decree to pay $680,000 in Federal cleanup expenses and to clean contaminated soil and ground water at its Floreffe Termi Nal South of Pittsburgh. A Navy Honor guard lifts the Flag from the casket of capt. William e. Nordeen the . Military attacb.6 who was killed by a Navy Captain buried terrorist bomb last week in Athens Greece. Seated during the ceremonies at Arlington National cemetery from right a photo Are Nordeen s widow Patricia 12-year-old daughter Annabel and Mother mrs. Edna Helena Capello. 70 tons of marijuana on seized ship probe revived i r Seattle a a ship carrying More than 70 tons of Well packaged mar Ijuana arrived in port wednesday after being seized on the High seas by a coast guard Cutter for not flying a Flag an refusing orders to Stop. The coast guard Cutter Boutwell sporting a makeshift Flag showing a Mari Juana Leaf with a red line diagonally across it towed the panamanian registered encounter Bay to a Seattle pier. Our Best estimate is there is some where in excess of 72 tons of marijuana on Board said the Boutwell s Captain Cecil Allison. He described the drug As very High Grade with very few stems an very few  Allison said the marijuana with Street value estimated at $280 million consisted of about 8,000 Bales packed i four Large shipping containers. Each Bale in a Blue Nylon sack contained eight packets of marijuana vacuum sealed in double plastic wrappings. You would like to get s9me of you freeze dried food packed this Well the Captain said. The marijuana vessel a 180-foot converted offshore Oil Rig Supply ship was under tight Security As agents of the .drug enforcement administration secured the ship s cargo and the 18-Mem-ber Crew. Crew members were being fingerprinted aboard the Boutwell poor to a scheduled appearance before a . Mag Istrate wednesday afternoon. The coast guard said thirteen of the Crew were from Indonesia Thailand and Singapore three were from the unite states and one each from Britain and new zealand. The Crew members were cooperative but All refused to talk about the drug shipment Allison said. If it can be proved the ship was bound for the United states they could face felony charges of a few years to life imprison depending on poor convictions and sentencing guidelines said Gary Liming special agent in charge of the drug enforcement administration i Seattle. The owner of the encounter Bay was listed As countess shipping corp. Of  said the pot was probably from the far East possibly Thailand with California the eventual destination. With an estimated Street value of$2,000 per Pound the marijuana is Worth about $280 million making it on of the largest drug seizures in maritime history and the biggest on the Westcoast said coast guard it. Eldo de Long. Sixty rounds were fired from a .50-Cal-Iber machine gun aboard the 378-foot Boutwell into the encounter Bay s engine room after the vessel refused to Stop. Permission to Board the ship was obtained from the panamanian embassy after suspicions were raised when it was spotted in International Waters off the Central Washington coast from a coast guard c-130 aircraft Delong said. It was t flying a Flag the name an Home port weren t readily visible and it s kind of unusual to see this Type of vessel in this area he explained. Authorities had no idea about the ves Sel s cargo before boarding he said. Coast guard members display contents of one of four containers on the ship. A photo in death of Paisley s wife Seattle a police reopened a investigation into the 1968 death of the second wife of Melvyn Paisley a Centra figure in the Pentagon procurement investigation because of discrepancies be tween his Story and an autopsy report authorities said wednesday. The autopsy and a separate medical investigator s report that contains pais Ley s account include inconsistencies said maj. Terry Allman head of the King county police criminal investigation division. The May 7, 1968, death of 30-year-Oldmary Lou Paisley was ruled accidental at the time. Allman would not detail any discrepancies but said the fact that a woman had taken a drink along with two sleep ing pills and a woman of fairly Small stature and then gotten up in the mid dle of the night to paint and was found face Down in a rag. Seemed  medical examiner records from 1968show Paisley told investigators his wife had an alcoholic drink and took two of his Coriden sleeping pills before going to bed the night of her death. Several hours later the records Quot him As saying he awoke to find his wife face Down in the bathroom on a Towel containing Carbon tetrachloride a clean ing solvent for paintbrushes. The autopsy report is confidential. Bucking county medical examiner or. Donald Reay said there was no Trace of sleeping pills alcohol or Carbon Tetra Chloride in the dead woman s blood. La tests May not have been sensitive enough to detect Small amounts but there is noway of knowing now for sure he said. Melvyn Paisley is a former assistant Navy Secretary and sex Boeing co. Executive who has been accused of bribing Pentagon officials and steering military contracts to companies he later served Asa private consultant. I think the general publicity about the Man piqued our interest and we went Back and looked at the limited information in the Case county police spokes Man Dick Larson said wednesday. Since the death of Paisley s second wife Paisley has married and divorced a third wife and now is married a fourth time  
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