European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 1s88 the stars and stripes Page 7 hair anniversary cast members of the musical hair appear in a scene from he 20lh anniversary production of the play which was id open in Chicago tuesday the locale of the production ha.1 been moved from the play s original new York set tiny to the riot turn streets of Chicago during the 1968 democratic National convention. Justice dept. Probe of lawmaker found signs of misconduct Washington a a Justice department investigation of Kip. Demand is Germain chairman of the House banking committee found substantial evidence of serious and sustained misconduct according to court documents. The department nonetheless deceit cd to prosecute the Rhode Island Democrat after investigating whether he accepted meals from lobbyists and failed to report them on his financial disclosure form the court papers said. The documents unsealed last week quote a May 31 idler Hal the Justice department sent to the House committee on standards of official conduct stating it had declined to prosecute St Germain. We believe it is appropriate to refer the matter to your committee to consider whether representative St Germain has violated any relevant standards of con duct the department said in the Letic signed by John c. Acc  then the act ing assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. St Germain on monday night denied the ethics committee was reviewing jus Tice department evidence on him. That is absolutely unfounded. This seems curious to me that it comes out eight Days before the election he said in a Telephone interview. The ethics committee conducted a thorough investigation of me and they cleared me. Justice conducted a thorough grand jury investigation of me and the found they Hart nothing to proceed  is Germain was  for allegedly accepting food drink and entertainment from James o. Freeman lobbyist for the . League of savings institutions and other financial Industry lobbyists. According to the court papers a Feder Al judge in september granted the ethics committee Access to grand jury information. The Justice department s investigation had focused on a possible violation of anti bribery statutes thai prohibit members of Congress from accepting anything of value in return for an official act and on whether he should have Dis closed the meals Freeman purchased on his annual financial statement. Last May the department said it was declining to prosecute St Germain und had dosed inc investigation. Its letter to the ethics commit acc was quoted in pleadings filed by the ethics panel in . District court to obtain the Complete record of inc grand jury s investigation of St Germain. The papers were ordered unsealed last week by . District judge Aubrey e. Robinson jr., on a motion by the Washington 1 Osl and Public citizen a Public interest Law firm founded by Ralph Nader. Only portions of  depart mint Fuller quoted in pleadings filed in the newspaper Case by the committee were released by Robinson. The pleadings reveal that in response to the May 31 letter the ethics commit acc voted formally to request inc grand jury material. . Records 288fh murder sets homicide Mark Washington api the nation s capital set a grisly Standard monday when police recorded  homicide of hs8, a City record for the most homicides in a single year. The 288 deaths exceeded inc Mark Sci in 1969. Authorities blamed the upsurge in violence on drugs. Police chief Maurice t. Turner blamed inc High number of slayings on violent turf Battles Between drug dealers. Fiji in percent of the year s homicides have been drug related Turner said compared with 33 per cent As recently As 1986. In the past few years jamaican drug gangs infiltrated the Washington metropolitan area local and Federal authorities say. Turner said turf Battles were exacerbated by the introduction of new drugs. This is one of the last major cities in this country to have an infusion of crack Turner said. When crack arrived in of her cities like new York murder ales went up there  most recently a drug combining marijuana pc and cocaine has hit the directs. Fueling the wars. It s called beaming Short for beam me up Scotty an expression from the Star trek television series. Turner said officers still Are not armed with 9mmsemiautomatic weapons to combat heavily armed drug dealers despite a Promise he made eight months ago because no Money in the City s fiscal 1988 budget was earmarked for the weapons. But Turner promised offi cers would be equipped with More sophisticated weapons with in two years. .-.-. Mefi n e c o rps to d i Scharg e former hostage Camp Pendleton. Calif. Ai a Marine with emotional troubles caused by the 444 Days of Captivity at the . Embassy in Iran will be honorable discharged soon despite his desire to re main in the service officials said. Staff set John d. Mckerl or. 35, who contends his problems Ari manageable willbe discharged with a 10 a a cent medical disability within 20 Days i conting to statement released monday y the Marine corps in Washington . Mcknel who is is Iliond at Camp Pendleton was a Marine guard at the embassy in Tehran when it was stormed by radicals on nov. 3, 1979, after the revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran and brought the Ayatollah Ruhollah phonic in to Power he was among nine marines and 42 civilians held hostage 444 Days before being released Jan. 20,1981. Mckerl a Marine for nearly 13 years has said civilian doctors diagnosed him in 1985 As suffering from Post traumatic stress syndrome. The Federal privacy act of 1974 prohibits release of details of Mckerl s career and military doctors diagnosis of his medical condition due to the nature of his disability and the length of his service staff sgt.  emitted to two years of his base pay about 134,000 As a sever Ance payment the Marine corps statement said. The commandant of the Marine corps due to the special circumstances involved conducted an in depth review of staff sgt. Mckeel s Case to ensure that every Avail Able option had been  Telephone Calls to Mckeel s Home in san Marcos 35 mics North of san Diego vent unanswered monday evening. Mcknel a Dallas native has said he won t fight the discharge because his enlistment is up in March and he has no Legal right to re enlist because he has fewer than 18 years in the service. However he does t believe the marines have treated him fairly or exhausted All efforts to find a Job that his condition will allow him to handle i m perfectly capable of doing a Good Job. They just won t give me one my keel said last month when he first complained publicly about his situation. Mckerl said civilian doctors who diag nosed him wattled to place him in a treat ment program for former prisoners of War but the marines would t approve it. Prosecutor suing teen Ager Brawley advisers Poughkeepsie . A a prosecutor filed an $800 million defamation lawsuit monday against Tawana Braw try the Black Leeis Ager who a grand jury said concocted a Story of abduction and rape by six White non. Dule Hess county prosecutor Steven Pagones Law suit also named As defendants inc Rev. Ai Sharp Lon  c. Vemon Mason and Alton Maddox advisers to Brawley who had claimed that Pagones was involved in the purported Awick last november. A grand jury cleared Pagones of any involvement in ii Case that began when Brawley then 16, was found in was pincers Falls smeared with dog fecs and Wilh racial slurs written on her body. Brawley never cooperated with the grand jury and her advisers dismissed the resulting report As the product  racist system., i Hope he goes through with in. Sharp Lon said in response to the lawsuit monday. Well 1 think that or. Pagones has the potential of making history in being the fireman w due himself into jail he said.,.-. Sharp Lon said Brawley would Tell her Story in court and along with other witnesses would prove Pogo Nev involvement. He will be proven guilty of rape and sodomy and will go to jail Sharpton said. Mason had no comment on the lawsuit according to a receptionist at his Law office Maddon did not immediately return Telephone Calls for comment. A aeons lawyer Gerald Hayes also did not return Telephone Calls. Pagones had said at a news conference on oct. 10that he intended to file suit