European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday decembers 19bb the stars and stripes Page 5 . Officers pulled from  in South Lebanon by Norman Black a military writer Washington the Reagan administration has ordered american Mil itary officers assigned to United nations peacekeeping duties in the Mideast out of the unit that patrols Southern Lebanon officials said thurs Day. The decision comes nine months after the abduction of the senior . Military officer assigned to that unit known As the observer croup Lebanon of the . Truce supervision organisation. Marine la. Col. William r. Hibe 1" was kidnapped sch 17 while driving on a coastal Road Between the lebanese City of Tyre and the Border town of Nasou a where the . Observers have a Headquarters he was the ninth american to be seized As a hostage in Lebanon All apparently by pro iranian moslem Funda mentalists. The administration officials said the americans assigned to observer group Lebanon were ordered out Over the past week. The . Truce supervision organization or unto has an authorized strength of 299 military personnel drawn from 17 nations. The United slates and the soviet Union each pro vide 36 men. Of the 36 americans assigned to unto 16 have normally been As signed to the observer group Lebanon neither the defense department nor the state department would discuss the matter publicly thursday the sources said however the Deci Sion had been coordinated Between the two departments and the while House and that the United Stales had informed the United nations it hoped to resume participation in the observer group Lebanon when conditions in Southern Lebanon  the administration also made Clear it would continue to support All other . Operations in the Region the sources said. Unto was organised to observe and maintain the cease fire ordered by the . Security Council in july 1948 following Israel s creation and supervise the general armistice agreements among Jordan Syria Egypt Lebanon and is Rael. It serves As the focal Point for All . Middle East peacekeeping operations and monitors cease fire violations along the israeli Borders. The United states has reduced the number of americans patrolling with the . Unit inside Lebanon since Hig gins kidnapping. Rut the administration had denied having plans to withdraw american sol Diers from the team entirely stressing the need to demonstrate . Support for the peacekeeping efforts. The slate department in response to the continuing civil strife in Lebanon and the fighting Between christians and moslem Long ago ordered Alt american civilians Oul of Lebanon and trimmed the staff of the . Embassy in Beirut Only Between 10 and 30 people now a assigned to the embassy officials say. Light snowfall a i he snowfall cascaded Over the in Flake. The 2,700 bulb so Inake hands Ter Section of fifth Avenue and 57lh 50 feet Over the traffic and is High and Street in new York City when mayor Bright enough to Light a Way far Santa Edward Koch lit up this 27-foot Snow and the Reindeer pulling his so Eljah. Accuser recons fest Ronny in police killer Case Dallas a the wrong Man spent 11 years in prison for the murder of a police officer his former accuser said As he recanted i testimony in a dramatic real Tift epilogue to the documentary movie the thin Blue line.".  "1 feel like it s my responsibility to step Forward to be n Man and admit my part in it said David Ray Harris who it age 16 testified in 1977 that Randall Dale Adams killed Dallas police officer Robert Wood. Harris now a death Row inmate in an unrelated killing was the first witness to testify wednesday in a state District Couit hearing in which Adams is seeking a new trial. Adams was convicted of the nov. 28,1976, shooting deals of Wood and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison. He has maintained his innocence and the thin Blue line a Public broadcasting service production released to selected Heaters this summer questioned his conviction. In testimony thursday a woman who told he trial judge Hal in was Adams she saw at the scene of the kill i no said she did t understand the judge s quest Ion. Emily Blocker was questioned by Adams lawyer about the discrepancy Between her testimony and her statement in the movie when she said she failed to pick Adams out of a lineup. Did you tie to the judge asked defense attorney Randy schaffer.,. Blocker replied "1 guess i did t understand the judge s  but she also testified that filmmaker Errol. Morris coached Crin the movie. He said whal the he kits just a movie. Anything you Don t remember. I la re member for you blockers id. Morris who was in the courtroom told reporters Blocker was not coached although he stopped Short of saying he committed the murder Harris said his Finger was on the trigger of-1 the ,22-Catiber gun thai killed Wood. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 3, 194s according to an official decree published by the romanian government All property belonging to the roman Catholic Church in Romania was henceforth properly of the state 30 years ago . 3, 1958 a British foreign office spokesman reported that his country had information to confirm that the soviet Union was supplying arms including Jet fighters and tanks to Iraq. 20 years ago today. Dec,3, 1968 president elect Richard m. Ninon appointed or. Henry a kiss Inger a German born Harvard University educator As assistant to the president for National Security affairs. 10 years ago . 3, 978 the Federal government allowed new Mexico to become the finl hate in the country to distribute marijuana to cancer chemotherapy patients for control of pain and nausea dogs find 5th woman s body near Massachusetts Highway new Bedford mass. A police dogs found a fifth body thursday apparently that of a woman in a search along two highways in Southeastern Massachusetts that was prompted by the discovery of four women s bodies. The clothed. And decomposed re Mains were found near Freetown off route 140, less than three Miles from the site where the first body was discovered in july said Thomas Gibney of the Bristol county District attorney s office Gibney said authorities would continue the search. He said the officer who found the body told him thai to appeared to be a woman. No other de tails were available District attorney Ronald a. Pina has expressed fears thai the deaths Are re lated and linked to the disappearance of several women from the Weld Square area known by police As a Center for local drug trading and prostitution. There arc things Hal Are not coincidence that arc in common Pina said after the fifth body was found. Authorities said the bodies of three women were found near the same inter state 195 exit in Dartmouth and a fourth body was discovered near Freetown about 10 Miles away. State trooper Jose Gonsalves said one of the victims was strangled and the cause of death in the other four cases is not known