European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday january 27,1989 doctors straighten out twisting tale of Snake Green River Wyo. A police said they were led on a search for an elusive Snow Snake by a Man who did t want to admit he was bitten on the lip by a pet Snake he was kissing Good night. The Hunt began Early tuesday after Eric Johnson was bitten and taken to a Hospital in nearby Rock Springs. Doctors there demanded to know what kind of Snake had bitten him in order to treat him. Johnson and a Friend Shawn Macdonald 19, initially told police that Johnson had been walking through town when he saw a Snake in the Snow. Authorities said Johnson told them that the snakebite him when he picked it up. Adding to the mystery were slithering shapes Johnson and Macdonald had made in the Snow Todd substance to their Story police said. However the Hunt was called off shortly after Doc tors told Johnson that he was going to die if they did t find out what kind of Snake had bitten him police officer Don Holthaus said wednesday. Johnson then said that he had been bitten by a pygmy Rattlesnake belonging to Macdonald and that he had made up the Story of finding one in the Snow police said. I guess what had happened they were playing around with the Snake and he Johnson said he was going to kiss it Good night and it kissed him first Holthaus said. They were worried the Snake was going to be destroyed so they Drew tracks in  Johnson who was listed in critical condition for a while is recovering said the officer and the Snake has been returned to Macdonald. Businessman had military contacts court told a Tell ads att Sirki it -.-Newark, . A a South korean american businessman charged in a nerve Gas exportation plot had contacts at . Military bases and possessed army fact sheets available Only to authorized defense contractors a prosecutor said thursday. Assistant . Attorney Anne Singer raised the issues after an attorney for Juhwan Yun asked a judge to release his client on bail. Yun 48, also asked Bendix technologies about buying a chemical agent that could be used to mask the presence of Sarin the deadly nerve Gas that the government accuses him of trying to acquire said Singer. Correspondence found in his posses Sion does show that he has contacts with persons at . Military bases she told . District judge h. Lee Sarokin. She also told the judge Yun was not an authorized defense contractor but had fact sheets provided by the army Only to con tractors on an approved distribution list. Last Friday Singer disclosed that investigators searching Yun s business Pomex International corp., found documents marked secret and confidential regarding National Security. Thursday she said those papers amount to 30 pages in English and 100 pages in korean which indicates some documents were jointly classified by the . And South korean governments. Yun is charged with conspiring to Vio late the arms Export control act and attempting to violate that Law. Singer repeated that Yun boasted of High level contacts with civilian and Mil itary officials of foreign governments including South Korea the people s re Public of China and Yugoslavia. A magistrate had set bail at $2 million which Yun met through friends posting their properties but withdrew it last Fri Day after Singer revealed Yun s alleged Possession of the classified documents. Yun was arrested Jan. 12 at what he thought was to be a meeting with an undercover agent. The government says he conspired with London businessman Charles Caplan to acquire the Gas for possible Export to Iran. Caplan was also indicted and is a fugitive. Defector played role in palestinian arms trafficking Washington api a vat Penn Pankon tit or -.r, a i i i ,. _. A a Veteran cuban Diplomat who defected to the United states says he was a regular participant in a palestinian backed gun running opera Tion on behalf of rebel groups in three latin american countries. Hector Aguililla Saladrigas who spent most of his 14-year diplomatic career involved in Middle East affairs said he defected last fall after becoming disillusioned with Cuba s subversive activities and wide spread official corruption. Aguililla s defection was not publicly disclosed until the state department made him available for an inter View tuesday with the associated press. He had been assigned to the cuban embassy in Madagascar but on oct. 10, during a transit Stop while in route to take up his duties there he asked  officials for political Asylum for himself his wife and two children age 13 and 10. He declined to say where the request was made. Much of his time since his defection has been spent in Cia Deane rings. Aguililla 35, offered a rare glimpse into the role Cuba has played in cooperation with palestinian radicals in the shadowy International arms trafficking business. He said that with palestinian help Cuba arranged for the transport of Large quantities of Western made weaponry to guerrilla groups in Al Salvador Guatemala and Chile and also provides training of a terrorist nature to palestinian militants. Aguililla said that Between 1980 and 1983, while he served As the second ranking official at the cuban embassy in Damascus Syria he routinely made trips to Lebanon s Bekaan Valley where the trunk of his car was loaded with rifles pistols revolvers and smoke bombs. He said palestinian groups particularly two pro marxist factions were the principal source of weaponry which he was Able to transport Back to Syria with out a customs Check because of the diplomatic plate son his car. Seeking a Miracle / of it"6 a fek pm Grimace to a Sterrett aim blessed wednesday by father Jim Field where a yugoslavian woman Mari Holup from Ashkum Iii. Landry is one a Pavlovic claims to have had a series off thousands from across the nation who visions of the Virgin Mary. Virginian seeks to become 1st elected Black governor Days a60 citing Low fund in i f told hundreds of cheering suon orters Wilder the nomination.,. A had a Black governor durings fists ass a compact discs outsell los in first six months of 1 988. Washington a for the first time since they hit record stores com pact discs outsold Vinyl Long playing re cords the first six months of last year joining the cassette in threatening to Ren Der the up obsolete. Manufacturer shipments of cd soared 64 percent to 70.4 million units in the first six months of 1988, up from 43 million units in the first half of 1987, the recording Industry association of America said wednesday. Up deliveries on the other hand declined 22.4 percent to 43.5 million units from the 56 million shipped in 1987 s first six months the association said. Music lovers spent $1 billion for cd which Are More expensive than los in the first six months of 1988, a nearly 50 percent gain in Dollar sales Over the same Renodin 1987. When cd were introduced in 1983, they accounted for just $17.2 million insoles the Rita said. The figures which take into account unsold los and cd returned to manufacturers show that cassette shipments improved 11 percent to 208.1 million units in the january to june period last jew. Compared with 188 million in the first half of 1987