European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 16, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 Light work an inspector checks out reflectors to ahead Highl shield Al the Avistar inter National transportation Plant Al Springfield Ohio the company 1$ the nation s largest manufacturer of medium and heavy duty trucks. Marine lost in desert buried with honors Minneapolis a More lliatl150 mourners looked on As a 9-year-old Marine who was left behind on a desert raining Mission was buried with full military honors by fort Snelling National cemetery. We be brought our boy Home there. Janice Bornhoft of Victory lutheran Church said at wednesday s service for Jason roller 19, of min Neapolis. Jason lived a full life Bornho Elsaid. It was a Short life but a full life. And 1 believe that is one of the i its he left  Rother s skeletal remains were found . 4 about two Miles North of the Marine corps base in  Calif. And less than a mile from a Highway Rother had last been seen on a raining exercise aug. 31, i Miles from where his remains were found. Three officers Are facing courts mar tial in connection with the Case and two others have been relieved of their com mands. It was human error. It s As simple As thai said maj. Gen. Gene deccan commanding general of the Marine corps air ground combat Center Attlen Tonine Palms who attended the service. He was progressing Well progressing normally clearly a Good Marine said maj John Coleman operations officer at amp Jcj Cunt n.c., where rather was based. Six marines from fort Snelling a Tedas pallbearers and seven participated in a 21-gun Salute during Rothsr s burial. Alone bugler played laps. It s going to be really hard. I Don think a Day will go by that i will not think of him said role or s Mother Cecelia King of Minneapolis. I just Hope some Day i can think of him without crying and just remember the Good times.". Officers presented mrs. King and Rother s father Jeff Rothsr of Cleve land Wilh american flags. Jeff Rothsr who divorced his wife in 1974, said head lost Contact with his three sons until. Recently. Jason and 1 were just starting to build new relationship to open the lines of communication. We were just starting Roget re acquainted role or said. Jason s death has brought him closer to his other sons 18-year-old Stephen and 17-year-old Robert role or said. I May have lost one son but i m kind of gelling two Back he said. 4 indicted judge finds ego douse for Santa in plot against Cranston rival los Angeles a four businessmen were indicted wednesday on charges that they devised an illegal scheme to Aid the Campaign of Californi Asen. Alan Cranston by tunnelling Money loan opponent of his chief rival. The five count Federal indictment alleging violations of election Laws con tends that i 20,000 was used for an advertising Campaign in support of american Independent party candidate de Vailen who ran against Republican rep. De Zschau and Cranston in the 1986 . Senate Campaign in califor Nia. Indicted were Michael r. Goland 41,and Lyle r. Cisman 11, both of Beverly Hills and Sandore Habalow 45, and Michael b. Altman 42, both of los an Geles a we were not involved in any Way even indirectly said Cranston spokes Man Murray Flanders in a Telephone Call from Washington . In a news conference acting , at Jon icy Gary Cess outlined the alleged scheme in which the defendants were said to have solicited some 55 contributors to write checks to Green Stripe Media which produced a television and i Braw. Those who wrote checks were then reimbursed for the amounts which ran from s1, to j4.000. He declined today whether those who wrote the checks knew they were violating election Laws. The individuals were told different things by different people of Cess said. Valien and his Campaign manager. Iri Shidler both said. In Telephone inter views thai they had no knowledge of the original source of the contributions. They said they were Happy that pros ecu. Tors were looking at foreign Al torts to influence elections. / a we Are elated that they prosecutors Are trying to bring to Light the foreign elements that arc trying to run this coun try Vahon said san. Francisco a Sant Claus exists a judge has ruled after an appearance on the witness chair from a Rosy nosed old gent in a red suit and White Beard who rumbled a familiar hoho to "1 am going to make a determination thai there is a Santa Claus municipal court judge George t. Choppelas said wednesday. He was presiding at Sanfrancisco s mock court of historical re View and appeals a just for fun son Francisco tradition with a real judge an lawyers. As Long us there is love and generosity and gift giving Choppelas went on this court is going to find that there really really is a Santa  in a grave tone the judge said he was drawing partly on Legal precedent set invite run vie Miracle on 34th Street in which a new York court found for the defendant Santa Claus.". Pallas cop Dallas a in what has already proved the deadliest year for Dallas police an undercover police officer was fatally shot in a drug swing operation that went awry becoming the fifth member of the department lobe slain. Officer Lawrence r. Cadena 43, Iwa killed tuesday night White trying to buy drugs from several suspects Al a convenience Giorc lie was trying 10 make a drug buy arrest with his partner police spokesman de Spencer said. Another Man was killed and two others wounded in an Exchange of gunfire. R sol James Chandler described the department s mood As somber following the fifth shooting death of an officer this year. Four was  he said five was just. I Don t know. Wojdon i know what to say ,. Before 1988, the year Wilh the  killings was 1972, when three offi cers died. -. . Cadena shot in the Abdomen Chest and both arms was pronounced dead Ataylor University medical Center in Dallas about 10 30 . Tuesday about Choppelas made his own ruling after a rollicking 90-minute trial to consider the question is there really a Santa Claus some 150 spectators and journalists listened to the half serious half comical testimony about love and spirit the inquiry started with a radio announcer s dramatic Reading of Clement Moore s a visit from St. Nicholas anti Claus lawyer Frank Winston objected to the poem. Pro Claus lawyer Wendy incl Der acuity supervisor then asked the spectators which of them had never written a letter to Santa Claus the request outrage Winston who advised the audience take the fifth  Winston poked fun at a Santa Clau doll which was introduced As evidence he flipped it upside Down and said made m Taiwan hah there is no proof Santa Claus was Ever in san Francisco he said noting that his fingerprints have never Bee found by police. He Drew a retort thai Santa was no criminal. Testifying for inc pro Claus Side .post office communications specialist Alan Wald displayed a Large drawing of the Santa Claus ind. Postmark and said firmly that none of the thousands of let ters from children addressed to the gentleman was returned to  Winston said however thai it was not possible for Santa to be in zillions of places at once around the world. He has helpers said Nelder. He  finally s hoho hot boomed out from behind a door and Santa himself toting a sack Wilh toys and a Golf club appeared and Sal Down in the witness chair. Winston attacked him but Santa quickly put him in his place i got a letter from you when you were 6 Yea sold he told the prosecutor. 30 minutes after the shoot out. Hector Jacomino 20, of Dallas died of gunshot wounds to the Chest and Back. He died at Parkland memorial Hospital emergency room supervisor Randy Blanca Rosarid. Javier Suarcz Medina 20, was in Crit ical condition wednesday at Parkland with wounds to the Chest and Abdomen and Fernando Fernandez 17, was in serious condition with wounds to Bot legs officials said. It is my understanding thai it was Abuy bust situation a drug buy and we had More than one officer at the scene police chief Mack vines said.  the drug Deal reaching fruition they were hijacked As they say shots were exchanged and our officer was fatally  -. Chandler alleged that Medina fire the shots that killed Cadena while Fernandez was definitely an Active participant in this robbery attempt and Mur Der " police were readying charges of capital murder and unlawful delivery of a con trolled substance against the men Chan Dler said -. Police Al the scene of the shoot out recovered 107 Grams or about 4 ounces of a while powder believed to be cocaine. Jacomino who was in a car across the Street from the Slop v go convenience store when he was Shol dead drove me Dina to the store for inc drug Deal. Chan Dler said. " Jacomino was fatally Shol by Bullet fired by backup police officer 5gt. David Mccoy authorities said. Police said they do not know whether Jacomino was armed. Cadena Wilh 17 years As a police offi cer had been a narcotics officer since1986. He also worked in thai division froml97t-si. V the City Council observed 30 seconds of silence wednesday in Honor of the slain officer. The other officers killed ills year Are James Joe while he questioned two Bur Glary suspects John Glenn Chase in a confrontation Wilh a homeless person Gary Mccarthy during an attempted robbery in a grocery store and Walter Williams while answering a disturbance Inan apartment Complex