European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 16, 1989 the stars and stripes Pago 5 state secrets can t kill trial says court by the Baltimore Sun Washington a Federal appeals court re jct Inga sweeping claim of government Power ruled Fri Day thai . Official May not Stop a court Case just because they think National secrets Are involved. Clearing the Way for a Federal judge Here logo ahead with the trial of a Taw Suil challenging Fri tactics against a american communist party member 25 years ago the circuit court said the department of Justice cannot gel a lawsuit dismissed simply by claim. Ing that state secrets arc at risk in the Case. The court said that since there is no absolute Power to do thai judges in such cases should be led free to decide one secret or classified document Al a Lime whether to keep materials out of the Case As it proceeds in court. One of the three judges on the panel circuit judge Douglas h. Ginsburg argued hat inc other two judges had gone too far and contended thai there would be no Way to have an item by item review of secrets thai would avoid most untoward consequences to cur rent foreign intelligence activities of this  but Ginsburg wrote because of the sensitive nature of the secrets involved he could not explain fully Why he disagreed with inc majority. So he included 12 pages As part of his opinion 11 completely Blank one almost Wank with a notation Al the lop of each Page " text deleted. He said he hoped that what was hidden in those parts of his opinion would persuade other colleagues on the full Bench of the circuit court or the supreme court of the error of today s  in the past when the government claimed that a Case involved slate secrets it had to file a formal plea to keep those from surfacing and had to offer some proof As to Why inc material should be omitted. In this Case however the department of Justice had argued that merely by claiming slate  in was entitled to have a lawsuit dismissed entirely even be fore a government Agency had filed any formal reply to the claims in inc lawsuit. The circuit court rejected hat claim in an opinion by senior judge Mas Rosenn. Ginsburg who withdrew As a supreme court Nomi Nee in 1987 after revelations that he had smoked Mari Juana while a College professor went along with rejection of the government s broadest claim but dissented on the Issue of whether an Ilam by Ilam review of secrets should now be allowed. The Case involves a lawsuit by Lillic Albertson Agi inst the government claiming injuries by the Fri to her and to her late husband William who had been a figure in the american communist party. The Fri had been investigating the Albertsons in 1964. Her lawsuit claims and it sought to discredit them with fellow communists by planting in his car a phony report making it appear that he was an informant for the Fri or the police. The ploy worked Wil Liam Albertson was dusted from the party lost his Job Al a party bookshop and lost most of his friends. With Friday s ruling. Mrs. Albertson s Case can move Forward. 5 killed in shooting rampage Glen Ellen Calif. A a Jeal Ous winery worker went on a shooting rampage Friday and kilted five people including a woman believed to be his wife before fleeing with his three Young daughters authorities said. Police helicopters searched the Lush Region of vineyards and wineries in California s wine country and authorities issued an All Points bulletin for Ramon Salcido 2k, investigators found the bodies of a woman believed to be Salcido s Rhollie in a and two girls Al the Home of his in Laws. They found another woman believed  his wife dead a Salcido s Home. A fifth victim was shot dead near the grand Cru winery where Salcido worked one investigator described the in Laws House As one of the most horrible crime scenes he had seen in his life a violent violent  said Sonoma county sheriff Richard Michaels none body was found in a bedroom a second in the Kitchen and the third i n a Hall. Salcido. 28. Was believed to be armed with is veral weapons i Chaelson said. Salcido neighbor Richard Clark said he could see it coming.",Clark, who has known Salcido for about four years said his neighbor liked  and liked scaring people with guns he s crazy  around with a gun. Said Clark. One Lime he threatened Tobolo his wife s head  he said if he found someone. With his wife he d kill them he was. Real jealous. He drank a lot. Two or three times a Day he would Conn Home from the winery to Sec if we conc was police prepare to enter the House where three bodies were found with his  the gunman first went to inc ranch of a locally prominent Man Bob Kundic. And shot ranch worker Kenneth Tutti in the right shoulder m Chaelson said Butti 33, was in fair condition at Santa Rosa memorial Hospital. Then Saki do went to the winery and shot a male co worker to death before fleeing in his battered Brown Ford Sedan Michaelson said. The body was found in a car near the winery. He then went to his Home in nearby Boyes hot Springs where the body of the woman believed to be his wife an Gela Elaine Richards was found Michaelson said. Salcido s three children Ages 2,3 and 4, were reported missing. Later authorities found three bodies at the Home of Salcido s father in Law Robert l. Richards in the nearby Low n of Cotati said sheriffs la Gary Zanolini. The. Bodies were tentatively identified As Salcido s Mother in Law a oui a and. Two of the Richard Young daughters. Richards was not Home at the time and was uninjured. Gas prices expected to drop again Washington a Energy Secretary James d. Wilkins said Friday Gas Oline prices which indecent Days jumped to their highest Levels in three years arc Likely to return soon to nor Mal seasonal  Watkins unusual statement was prompted by consumer reaction to Price rises following the Alaska Oil spill he said the effect on the Market of the alaskan spill was More imagined than real. Many Consumers have Befun questioning the adequacy of the nation s sup ply of crude Oil,1 Watkins said adding that inc loss of crude Oil As a result of inc March 24 spill was about 17 hours of National consumption. Supplies arc not "threatened.". Wai Kins said., shortages have not of  shipments of alaskan North slope crude from the port of Valdez were temporarily curtailed after the spill but the How has returned to Normal. Gasoline Price increases1 have been largest on the West coast which is the main destination of alaskan crude. Nationally the average Price of a gallon of gasoline Rose 10 percent to is 10, in inc last month according  Lundburg Survey a los Angeles publication thai checks prices at 12,000 gasoline stations nationwide. Analysts mostly attribute inc Price in creases to higher crude Oil prices and widespread anticipation that gasoline supplies will be squeezed by an increase in summer Auto travel. Drug dealer pleads guilty to save family . Says new York apr a. Chinese Busi Nessman described a one of the world s major heroin traffickers surprised prosecutors Friday by pleading guilty to charges he conspired to. Import huge quantities of the drug into the United Laws Kan Yuleung. -56, also known As Jonny Kon had been identified As the drug enforcement administration s no. I heroin Largel when he was arrested in new York in March 1988, Kon was charged with leading an organization thai smuggled or attempted to smuggle 1,000 pounds of heroin into the United states from Southeast Asia be tween january 1984 and december 1987. Prosecutors said Kan s guilty Pica was unexpected although some negotiations had taken place earner in the week. Assistant . Attorney Catherine Palmer said Ron wanted to spare Mem Bers of his family who had been accused of helping him return the drug Money to asm the possibility of lengthy mandatory prison terms. Kon s wife brother and sister also pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy charges not covered by new Federal sentencing guidelines which would base required mandatory prison terms under the bid guidelines they could still receive As much As life in prison but there is no mandatory minimum sentence. Kon faces up to life in prison and under the new guidelines will be required to sen e Al least 24 to 30 Jears. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. ,. April 16, 1949 the United nations general Assembly passed a Resolution calling on the five permanent members of the Security Council to limit their use of the veto. 30 years ago Roc a. Ai Ril 16, 1959 president Eisenhower announced the resignation of Secretary of state John Foster Dulles who was suffering from cancer but did not immediately name a successor. 20 years ago foe a. April 16, 1969 a Navy reconnaissance plane with 31 men aboard was reported missing near the Border of North and South Korea and a North korean radio station said inc plane had been Shoi Down after intruding into North korean air. Space 10 years ago foday. April 16 1979 an earthquake struck the Adriatic coast near Montenegro Yugoslavia killing some 200 people injuring hundreds and causing heavy damage