European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday october 12,1988 l news updates Oil Price forecast Kuwait a a kuwaiti economist on tuesday predicted that Oil prices will Settle around j15 a barrel unless producers Radi Cally change their behaviour by refraining from flooding the world Market with Oil. Jassim Al Saadoun chairman of a group of Oil consultants also criticized the failure of inc organization of Petroleum exporting countries to prop up prices. Gandhi s slaying new Delhi India a the supreme court on tuesday dismissed an Appeal by a sikh sentenced to death for his part in the 1984 assassination of prime min ister Indira Gandhi. A pane of three judges said it found no Merit to entertain the petition of Kehar Singh one of the two sikhs sentenced to deathly hanging for Gandhi s murder. The court also dismissed a Peti Tion by Pratap Singh a sikh Doc Tor who said the conviction was deceitful because no autopsy was performed on Gandhi s body. Lawsuits Over film Venice Italy up1 an investigating magistrate threw out two lawsuits against the Las temptation of Christ monday ruling that the him is far fro being  magistrate Felice Casson said there Are no grounds for he charge of having publicly shown scorn for the Catholic religion brought against american director Martin Scorsese and Paolo Portoghesi president of the Venice Bien Nale by Milan lawyer Pietro Bianco. Casson also rejected a request by an organization cutting itself the National secretariat for reaction to the moral defense of Man thai the film be confiscated. Athens smog Athens Greece a More than 10,000 people on monday gathered in a Central Athens Square to protest the socialist government s inability to solve the City s smog problem. The demonstrators chanted no to the Nefos and they held up banners Reading the Nefos kills. The government has to take More  Nefos the greek word for Cloud is what athenians Call the Brown smog that forms Over the capital on warm still Days. The Nefos is a daily threat for us and our children theodores Katrivanos told the crowd. He is president of an organization whose members Are legislators from the City and Athens suburbs. Panamanian guest Panama City Panama a children from the Low income neighbourhood of san Miguelito Sang peace and  Sarah who turns 11 on Friday is visiting Panama As a guest of the country s de Facto ruler ceo. Manuel Antonio Noriega. She spent the last full Day of her slay atthe mayor s office at the local Mil itary Headquarters and with other children. She smiled broadly when presented with a cake a panamanian hag decoration on top. Children also gave her a doll in native dress a Blouse with detailed applique work done by the Kuna Indiana and a bouquet of Flowers. Witnesses Tell of hearing Stethem shot by Hijacker by de reacts Stan writer Frankfurt West Germany an american witness found it hard to control his voice tuesday As he described the moment when a . Navy diver was murdered on a hijacked Twa flight. During the second Landing in Beirut we were told by Purser Uli Derickson that we would hear a noise but were to remain silent and scaled with our Heads Between our Knees and our hands locked behind our Heads or we would suffer the consequences Leo Byron. 52, testified in the hijacking and murder trial of Mohammed Ali Hamadi. I then Felt some warm air a if the front door of the plane had been opened he said his voice cracking. I heard scuffling and a shot. The plane moved another 50 Yards and members of the amal militia came on  Byron testified that lie was Sillin close to the curtain separating the rest of the plane from first class when Twa flight 847 was commandeered june 14, 1985, while in route from Athens to Rome. The plane was ordered to Beirut Lebanon by Hamadi and an accomplice identified by authorities As Hassan Ezzeddine. The hijackers emptied first class and brought men Forward for beatings there Byron said. During the 17-Day ordeal the plane twice flew Between Beirut and Algiers before the hostages were released. Neither Byron nor fellow passenger Sarah Ann Ashmore saw who pulled the trigger when Petty officer 2nd class Robert Dean Stethem was murdered at Beirut Airport but both said they fell Hamadi was in charge. Ash orc 50, testified that she got a glimpse of the two hijackers through an opening Between the curtain panels Sepa rating first class from the rest of the inc plane. They were dragging a Limp body across the Gangway Aid Ashmore who was returning from a Mediterranean cruise with her teen age daughter when the plane was hijacked. Then they were out of my vision and shortly thereafter i heard a muffled shot and heard the body being thrown out of the  after the first Beirut Landing she saw Stethem who had been severely beaten being helped Back to a scat by Derickson who tried to quiet his cries of pain. Ash orc fighting to recall event of three years ago also testified thai Hama i robbed her of s 10,000 Worth of jewel by. She said she Felt he later instructed the amal militia members to Rob the other passengers. Hamadi a lebanese Shi Ilc moslem identified As a member of the party of god or Hezbollah has testified that he was Only following orders during the hijacking and that it was his accomplice who idled the 27-year-old Sailor but according to German Law if Hamadi cannot Snow he tried to prevent inc crime he will be sentenced As if he pulled the trigger if convicted of Mur Der Hamadi laces a life sentence which Means Al least i pc Sor imprisonment. Two More passengers were expected to testify on wednesday. Air Force sergeant gets 6-year term for killing wife then cutting up body from stiff and win reports utrecht Netherlands a dutch court sentenced on tuesday a , air Force sergeant to six years in prison and commitment to a mental institution for killing his turkish bom wife and cutting her body into pieces. Sgt. Charles Donald Short 34, a native of Highwood iii., was convicted of homicide m the March killing of his 31 year old wife Esin has Turk. The court took into consideration the Way he disposed of the remains of her body his attorney Leo Puls told the associated press. The court ruling also said there was a danger thai Short might commit similar offences pub said. Short who was a medical equipment and repair technician at the Oesterberg a clinic cat his wife s body Inlo a Large number of pieces which be put into Plas tic garbage bags and dropped near Monnikendam about 35 Miles from the base. Short beat and stabbed his wife to death because the had threatened to leave him and Lake the couple s 8-Monlh old son puts told the a. The couple was married in 1986 i the turkish Capi Tal of Ankara where Short was serving Al the time the wire service reported. Short had asked for his commitment to an institution although psychiatric experts argued that treatment Hai Tittle Chance of Success since he Peak 110 dutch Puls said. . Officials have asked that Short be returned to . Custody for court mar tial in the killing. However Short s civil Ian attorney objected to Hii release to the United slates and filed a suit to prevent dutch authorities from handing he Over. The court of appeals in the Hague will Rule oct 27 on whether the ministry of Justice should release Short to . Authorities. Short could face the death pen ally in a military court. The death penalty is banned in the Netherlands. Of sergeant sentenced for video club thefts Zaragoza a Spain a technical sergeant with 20 years to the air Force was Dis honorable discharged and sentenced to six months in confinement for stealing a television set iwo videocassette recorders and 5780 in Cash from the base video dub. Tech. Sgt Charlese Banks of the 406th tac fighter training Wing fuels division also was reduced to the lowest enlisted rank following his conviction in a general court martial Flat ended sell 29, a base spokes Man said tuesday. Banks who pleaded not guilty to All charges in a trial by judge alone was convicted on two specification of larceny for stealing the video equipment and the j780. He was acquitted on related charges that he stole 128 videotapes and an additional $1,225 from dub funds. The no who had been stationed at Zaragoza a for five years also was or dered by the military judge to pay a Fine of j1,500 or serve an additional us months in confinement. Mouse in Beer claimant denies extortion Jacksonville Fla. A a Man who claimed he found a mouse in a can of Coors Beer pleaded innocent monday to charges of extortion and tampering. James n. Harvey 30, was charged sept. 27 with a stale Law thai prohibits tampering with consumer products and with extortion for asking representatives of the Adolph Coors co. For $35,000 in Exchange for the can of Beer and the mouse. He remained free on Bond and a pre trial hearing was scheduled for Friday if convicted of both counts Harvey could face up to 30 years in prison. Harvey a construction worker claimed he purchased a can of Coors on july 27 and discovered a mouse after taking a few swallows. On july 29, Harvey called the Coors consumer hot line and reported finding the rodent. Coors initially offered to pay $ 1,500 for the mouse and the can but he refused and later asked for $35,000. A judge later ordered Harvey to turn Over both the mouse and the can for Lesting. A University of Florida pathologist determined that based on inc amount of decomposition the rodent could not have been in the can when in was pack aged on May 13. Hit run Driver blamed in motorcyclist s death Rhein main a West Germany a 23-year-old airman was killed Early sunday morning when his motor Cycle was forced off the Road by a hit and run Driver a base spokesman said tuesday senior airman Gary a Benninger of the 435th Field Maint so was driving his motorcycle on b-44 near the Frank Furt stadium when he apparently was struck by another vehicle causing him to hit a Guardrail. He was pronounced dead at the scene by a German doctor at 3 25 . Sunday. German police Are continuing to investigate the Accident the spokesman said. Benninger who was assigned to Rhein main in november 1987, u sur Vived by his parents Carol Ann Harmon of Eugene Ore., and Harry Evers Ben Nin Crof Springfield Ore. A memorial service will be held at i . Thursday in the Rhein main a Chapel