European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes sunday August 27, 1989 dust bands detected orbiting Neptune Pasadena Calif. A voyager 2 Dis covered Broad Flat bands of dust orbiting Nep tune and found evidence the planet has South Ern lights Nasa said saturday. The probe also detected nitrogen in the Atmo sphere of Triton the Moon whose Pink Snow and ice volcanoes were described by excited scientists As unique in the solar system Nasa said. There s dust bands they re Broad said Nasa astronomer Rich Terri la describing the findings from latest photographs. The bands orbit Neptune s Equator As do its narrow ring that were discovered by voyager earlier. The i ton space probe capped its historic 4.43 billion Milc 12-year tour of four planets when it skimmed 3.048 Miles Over Neptune s North pole thursday night then flew past Triton the planet s largest Moon. It made its closest approach about 23,900 Miles above the Moon s surface at 11 10a.m. Central european time on Friday. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 and explored Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and uranus in 1986. Until oct. 2, to Yagur 2 will look Back at Neptune. Then it will head toward interstellar space. Oakland arrest made in Newton investigation Oakland Calif. A a Man described by police As a drug dealer was arrested for investigation of murder in the death of Huey p. New ton but claimed  in killing the Black Panther founder police said Friday. Tyrone Robinson. 25, of Oakland was arrested on a weapons charge around 7 . Tues Day hours after Newton s pc Dawn murder on a West Oakland sidewalk. Investigators believe they recovered the 9mm pistol used in Newton s killing police said but ballistics tests arc still pending. Robinson considered the murder a Means to Advance in the Black guerrilla family a narcotics distribution gang said sgt. Dan Mercado at an Early evening news conference at the Oak land Hall of Justice. Robinson currently on parole for a robbery conviction admitted the killing Early Friday and is scheduled for arraignment tuesday Mercado said. Mercado said that Newton argued with Rob Inson Over a cocaine Deal and that Robinson then shot the 47-year-old former Leader of the 1960s Black Militancy movement. Conrad will be tried for treason report says Hamburg West Germany a prosecutors arc preparing to charge a former . Soldier with High treason for his alleged role in an International spy ring that sold nato secrets to the soviets said a Magazine report saturday. The Hamburg based Der Spiegel Magazine said it would be the first time in West German history that a foreigner would face such charges. According to the Spiegel report Federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe following a lengthy investigation arc preparing to charge retired . Army sgt. 1st class Clyde Lee Conrad with treason in an extremely grave  remains in investigative custody in a West German prison following his arrest last August in bad or Cugnach. Federal judges in february extended Conrad s original detention warrant on suspicion of espionage to include the treason provision. Under West German Law Conrad 42, would have faced a maximum 10-year prison sentence if convicted on espionage charges. He could face a life prison sentence if convicted of High treason. Civil rights protesters hold new silent March in . Washington a thousands of civil rights demonstrators men Clad in Black women and Chil Dren in White marched quietly upon the supreme court and the Capitol on saturday in a protest much like the a act s historic silent March of 1917 in new York City. The Washington March was concerned with one Issue alone the supreme court and its recent hostile decisions diluting affirmative action and minority set aside programs said Benjamin l. Hooks executive director of the a act. But the tone and style of the protest led by six drummers with muffled Drums was fashioned after the new York City March 72 years ago to protest segregation and the lynchings of Blacks in the South. On that occasion . Dubois led 8,000 people Down fifth Avenue in utter silence that Day too the men dressed in Black and the women and children in White. . Park police estimated the turnout when the March began at Only 5.000. But revised that figure to 35.000 As the ranks swelled during the 90-Minulc pro cession to the Capitol from Washington s mall. . Capitol police put the size of Fth crowd that assembled on the Capitol grounds at the end of the March at 18.500. Officer Greg Novitt said. Hooks claimed from the podium that the March had drawn a turnout of 135.000. The protest was aimed specifically at four decisions by the court this year. In the View of civil rights Law yers the ruling in Patterson is. Mclean credit Union sharply limited the previous Power of minorities to sue private parties including schools for discriminatory practices. Similarly the court s decision in Richmond is. . Croson co. Was seen As diluting Job set aside programs and other affirmative action plans. March organizers also assailed the decision in mar tin is. Wilks which allowed White firefighters in Bir Mingham ala., to attack a consent decree calling for the promotion of Blacks As a Case of reverse Dis Crimi  the fourth ruling. Ward s Cove is. Antonio was criticized As shifting the entire Burden of proof i Job discrimination cases to the victims of employer Bias rather than requiring employers to demonstrate at the same time that their hiring practices furthered legitimate business interests. The March culminated with q rally at the Capitol where Hooks and other civil rights leaders were to speak. 6 raid from Page 1 ditch to the United states. Hundreds of judges said they would quit if they did t get More Protection. Barco praised . Aid As indispensable to the Success of his country s offensive. The . Govern ment said it was sending $65 million Worth of helicopters weapons and other equipment to help the colom Bian government. A . Air Force c-5 Galaxy transport plane brought in two Bell helicopters Friday. Colombian army intelligence officers said they interrogated the younger Rodriguez and his father s bodyguards. Officials also said the financial documents they confiscated disclosed the my Dullin Cartel s criminal operations. Reporters who visited the fortress Friday said the evidence included bookkeeping accounts and the names of a number of real estate companies lawyers and other people suspected of working for the Cartel in Bogota and other colombian cities. The reporters said at least 500 soldiers had cordoned off the area and six armoured cars were sent to guard against a counterattack by the drug Cartel. A defense ministry communique said Friday that the army was continuing raids on the property of suspected traffickers and on suspected cocaine smuggling Sites nationwide. It said that 2 tons of cocaine were seized in a raid thursday on a Clandestine Airstrip and that the seven Day offensive so far had netted 6 tons. That brought the total for 1989 to an unprecedented 27 tons of cocaine 9 tons More than was confiscated in All of last year. The country s 32-year-old Justice minister Monica do grief showed signs of growing fear for her safety Highway building Cost Down Washington a Highway construction costs decreased 3 percent in the second Quarter of 1989, the Federal Highway administration has announced. The Overall reduction  from significant de creases in prices for reinforcing steel structural con Crete structural steel and excavation the Agency said. The result lowered the Agency s composite Index for Highway construction costs to 176.7 percent of the 1977 average Cost figure it uses As its base. I was t prepared to work in times of War such Snow do Gricis said in a television interview Friday. Bogota was Rife with rumours that she was considering resigning but her office refused to comment. Do Grioff is known to have received death threats from traffickers. One of her predecessors Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. Was assassinated by drug cartels in 1984. Since 1981,220 judges magistrates and judicial employees have been killed in Colombia in a Campaign of terror aimed at intimidating the courts into dropping All prosecution of drug cases. A colombian soldiers stand near an Arsenal of weapon seized during a raid thursday on the estate of i puled drug Boss Gonzalo Rodriguez Cacha. Apins re b-2 soars into third test following scrubbed flight Edwards fab Calif. A the stealth bomber embarked on its third test flight Over the Mojave desert on sat urday an air Force spokesman said. Related Story Page 6. The Batlik bomber took off at 8 31 . From Edwards fab said capt. Tess Taft an air Force spokeswoman. She did not. Have any other details about the flight. The second test of the b-2 on aug. 16was scrubbed in mid flight because of a hairline crack in a part that had been provided by a defense contractor fined for Billing fraud. The tiny crack in a casing of an accessory drive which Powers the s530 Mil lion High tech Jet s generators and controls caused Oil pressure to drop during the earlier test flight Taft said Friday. The bomber s Maiden flight earlier this summer was termed a Success. Unlike the previous two test flights saturday s was not announced in and Vance by the air Force. The casing for the aircraft s no. I accessory drive was made by Sundstrand aviation of Rockford iii., a company that has been indefinitely suspended from doing business with the govern ment since lost year. Sundstrand was fined $115 million in october for overcharging the govern ment for parts and Billing the Pentagon for baby sitting costs country club dues and executive servants