European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. May 23,1989 Exxon Oil spill taking its toll on employees Houston a employees at Exxon corp s credit card Center have been under state of siege for two months As angry customers including More than 17.000 who cancelled their accounts vehemently protest the alas Kan Oil  at the credit card Center Here Are wearing special gloves to handle protest letters purposely soaked with Oil. They spend hours piecing together torn up credit cards in order to determine the account numbers that customers want cancelled. They apologize on behalf of their company dozens of limbs a Day. There arc mornings when i Don t want to go to work Barbara Domino said i just Tell my self i can t let it get to  of the returned credit cards arc torn to shreds covered in Oil or burned. They also Are accompanied by notes Reading. You ought to be Hung for the March 24 Oil spill involving an Exxon shipping co. Tanker. The crisis is taking its loll throughout the Exxon , confronted daily by criticisms of Exxon in the Media and by friends and family members Are questioning their Faith in the corporate  s been deeply painful for every employee that i be worked with talked with and met said Larry Stockman a psychologist on retainer a  with Exxon. They feel devastated by what s Stockman said employees Are embarrassed Thev re Hurt Thev re sad Justice permits lawsuits by disenchanted monies Washington a the supreme court on monday refused to shield the Rev. Sun Myung Moon s unification Church from being sued by two former members who say they were duped into joining it. In another action the court turned Down an Appeal by mass murderer John Wayne Gacy convicted and sentenced to death in 1980 for killing 33 boys and Young men. The court without comment rejected arguments that religious Freedom protects the Church against allegations of brainwashing and fraudulent recruiting. David Molko and Tracy Leal told similar stories in court papers of How they became Church members. Supreme court Roundup known As monies in California and How deprogramming led them to quit. Molko was 27 when he graduated from Law school at Pennsylvania s Temple University in 1978 and decided to visit san Francisco. Soon after arriving there in 1979, he was approached by two men at a bus Stop who told him they be longed to an International Community of people inter ested in social issues. Molko went to dinner with them and later went with a group to a Retreat at a farm outside the City. He said that in the ensuing Days he and others at the Retreat were kept to a tight schedule of lectures group discussions and calisthenic. He said he had no time to himself and. At least at the outset was even accompanied to the bathroom by a group member. Molko said he asked group members several times whether the organization was religious and was told it was not. It was not until the 12th Day after the group arrived at another Retreat called Camp k that he was told the group was part of the unification Church he said. Molko said he was confused and angry but decided to stay on when members convinced him that deception had been necessary because of the Church s negative reputation. Leal was a 19-year-old College student when a Recruiter approached her at a san Francisco bus station in 1979. She said she was not told the group was part of the unification Church until her 22nd Day at the Retreat. Leal and Molko remained Church members for Sev eral months before they were abducted by so called de programmers who had been hired by their parents to counter their indoctrination in the religion. The two Are suing the Church for punitive damages for the emotional distress they say they  also is seeking the return of $6,000 he donated to the Church. The California supreme court voting 6-1 last octo Ber overruled two lower courts and reinstated the suits. It also ordered jury trials. The National Council of churches other religious organizations and a group consisting primarily of col lege professors urged the justices to overrule the slate court. They said the slate court ruling has had and will continue to have a serious chilling effect on religious proselytizing and conversion in California and else  in the Gacy Case the justices rejected arguments that Illinois death penalty Law wrongly gives county prosecutors Complete and unguided discretion to de Termine whether to seek the death penalty in murder  Gacy s Appeal also had contended that he was de Nied a fair trial because the presiding judge limited the testimony of an expert psychiatric witness for the de sense. Secord pleads innocent to obstructing probe Washington a Richard Secord pleaded innocent monday to charges of concealing from Congress More than $1 million in profits he Alleg edly pocketed by Selling arms to Iran and the nicaraguan contras. Prosecutors and defense attorneys said at Secord s arraignment before . District court chief judge Aubrey Robin son that they will discuss whether to Combine the latest set of charges with an earlier indictment. A hearing on the question will be held May 31. Secord was released on his own recognizance. The latest indictment nine counts unsealed May 11 after the conclusion of Oliver North s criminal trial accuses Secord of obstructing the congressional Iran Contra investigation in 1987, per jury and making a false statement. Secord s lawyer Thomas Green said he might have to withdraw from the Case because i was privy to and was a party to discussions with Congress in connection with Secord s 1987 congressional testimony. Therefore. Green might be called As a witness at the trial he said. Green said he would under those Cir  withdraw from the Case in favor of a partner in his Law firm James e. Sharp who stood next to Secord As he was arraigned. Prosecutor Reid win Garton said that usually the entire firm is dismissed As the attorney for a defendant when one of the firm s lawyers becomes a witness in the Case. Weingarten said we must explore propriety of the firm of Sharp Green & link lord representing Secord. Secord pleaded innocent last year to six other criminal charges in an indictment accusing him and three others of illegally diverting More than $14 million in . Iran arms Sale proceeds to the nicaraguan rebels. Charged with the former air Force major general in that 1988 indictment were business partner Albert Hakim former National Security adviser John  and former National Security Council aide North. Conspiracy and theft charges against North relating to the diversion were dropped before his trial. The former National Security Council aide was convicted earlier this month of three criminal charges in the Iran Contra scandal. North enlisted Secord in 19s4 to run weapons secretly to the contras during a congressional cutoff in military Aid to the rebel Force. Secord and Hakim carried out their work for North and the Reagan administration through a network of offshore companies and Swiss Bank accounts dubbed the Enterprise. Secord is accused of lying when he told Congress that he Wasyl taking profits from the in Secord to reprise. In fact said the Federal grand jury indictment Secord used a former internal Revenue serv ice lawyer on a continuous basis to manage Over a million dollars of profits allocated to the defendant Richard v.  he also was accused of lying when he told Congress that his Only financial gain from the arms sales to the contras and Iran was his $6.000-a-Monlh salary. Half a million dollars from the Enterprise funny cd to one of his companies in Virginia was a loan. He was unaware any Money from the Enterprise benefited North who was convicted of illegally accepting a $ 13.800 Home Security system from Secord. I addition the government alleges Secord and Hakim arranged to set aside $200,000 As a death Benefit for the Edu cation of North s children. High tech Bible a hand held electronic Bible that contains both the old testament and the new testament will be displayed at a show in Chicago Early in june. One of the features is display of an entire Pas Sage if for example the user types in key words such As Valley or Shadow or