European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. August 27, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Exxon admits Boycott hurting its sales new York up Exxon corp., which said in could sell All the gasoline it could make this summer acknowledged Friday that a nationwide Boycott continues to Al acct sales five months after i Calaska Oil spill with 39,000 credit cards returned to Date. Overall the Boycotts have had a slight Impact on sales mostly on a localized basis a spokesman for the world s largest Oil company said in reply to a question. To Date 39.000 credit card Hoders have cancelled since the March 24 spill. Month ago it was 36.000." the spokesman said Exxon usually de Clines to Sav How Many cards normally Are cancelled for competitive reasons. Although the cancellations Are less than i percent of Exxon s 7 million cred it card holders they provide Concrete evidence a segment of the Public has not forgotten or forgiven the spill by the Exxon Valde. The worst in . History. Only a Small percentage of the custom ers who returned their cards have elected to reinstate their  the spokesman said. He declined to give the figure. The spokesman said most of the cancellations came from Short term rather than Long term card holders which he would not define in terms of the length of time held. Exxon chairman Lawrence Rawl said in late april after 10.000 cards had been returned in the first month after the March 24 spill that it was unlikely a Boycott would have any effect on company sales. With talk about potential shortages and that sort of stuff it s hard for me to  How this summer we can t sell All the gasoline we can  Rawl told an april 25 meeting of new York securities analysts. But the higher gasoline pump prices triggered by the spill and the crude Oil production limits imposed by the 13-na Tion organization of Petroleum Export ing countries resulted in motorists de Mand this summer being much less than projected. As a result Exxon and other major Oil companies Are seeing their earnings fall olt. Exxon s operating earnings for the  Ond Quarter ended june 30 were 79 cents a share compared with 90 cents a share in the second Quarter of 1988. Michael Young of Smith Barney har Ris Upham & co. In new York said i estimate now that earnings will be down20 percent in the third  the analyst added a lot of in is just the Industry s condition not related to the Boycott. The Industry condition is the dominant Factor although the boy Cott is a  Oil companies Are hurting from a fall in Oil prices due to open s failure to enforce its production quotas on Mem Bers nations Kuwait and the United Arab emirates. Homicide trial opens for boy being tried As adult Stroudsburg. A. Not a 10-year-old Pennsylvania Hoy was charged As an adult Friday in the fatal shooting of a 7-Ycar-old neighbor. Experts in a Mcninc Law say that if the Case goes to trial he will be the youngest person tried As an adult in a homicide Case in this country in the 20lh Century. The boy Cameron Robert Kocher was 9 years and 10 months old on the Day in March when police say he loaded his father s High powered Hunting Rifle and fatally shot a girl who had bragged that she was better than he was at video games. The boy s lawyer. Charles Hansford entered a plea of not guilty in Monroe county court and the boy left with his parents who had earlier posted a Bond of $50,000, the Case has divided people in Cameron s Home town. Kresgeville. A Rural Village about 25 Miles Southof Stroudsburg in the Pocono mountains of Northeast Ern Pennsylvania. There Are those who believe Cameron acted deliberately and there Are those who believe the slay ing was a horrible mistake by a boy who was an Honor student a cub scout the Only child of churchgoing parents who lived in a House far from any mean City streets. More broadly the Case goes to the heart of a debate Over How this country should Deal with violent Youn criminals a debate fuelled by a growing sense of frustration with a Legal system that allows people to escape punishment for crimes because of their age. Hunter Hurst director of the National Center for juvenile Justice a private research organization in Pittsburgh cites As evidence of this frustration the moves by several Stales to toughen sentences for Juve Niles who commit violent crimes and the decision in june by the . Supreme court upholding the constitutionality of executing 16-year-Olds, those efforts Are statements of concern and frustration with our current policies Hurst said. We have Young people who really arc not responding and they re causing a lot of  before 1900, children who were As Young As Camer on when they committed their crimes were tried convicted and in rare instances even executed years after their crimes. In most states crimes involving children younger than 18 arc usually tried in juvenile courts even Cummin Kuncher escorted by parents Patricia and Keith Kocher. Uriu s at the Monroe count pa., courthouse. Crimes As serious As murder where proceedings Are not Public. However this is not the Case in Pennsylvania. A conviction for first degree murder in Pennsylva Nia automatically brings a sentence of life imprison ment or if the prosecutor seeks it the death penalty. However the state s prosecutor Mark Pazuhanich has already said that he will not the seek death penalty in this Case. Instead the slate would seek Long term psychiatric evaluation and treatment for Cameron and that some aspect of punishment May be  in arguing for inc Transfer to a juvenile court Hans Ford had appealed to the court s humanity in dealing with a child of very tender  he said the boy did not really understand the mean ing of death or what he has done. The state plans to present testimony however that shows the boy deliberately prepared to take a shot an then tried to hide the evidence. 3 . Teen agers charged with defacing american Flag Sands of time Duncan . A three teen agers have been charged with defacing the american Flag raising constitutional questions in Light of the recent supreme court ruling on Flag burning an american civil liberties Union official said Friday the charge stems from a vandalism spree wednesday at Byrnes High school in which two flags were burned paint was sloshed on floors books were scattered and fire extinguishers sprayed. Three 13-year-old boys students at another school were charged thursday in family court with defacing the Flag entering without breaking grand larceny and arson. It has been illegal in South Carolina since 1916 to publicly mutilate deface defile defy jeer at trample upon or cast contempt on either byword or  the american Flag. Form of political expression under the Constitution. Steven Bates executive director of the South Carolina Acle. Said the state Law should now be considered unconstitutional. The suspects ought to be prosecuted under property crime  Bates said. They weren t desecrating the Flag they i q Vears ago were destroying other Peoples property. A a in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 27, 1949 the House armed services committee voted unanimously to Clear air Force and defense department officials of collusion fraud or dishonesty in the b-36 bomber program. Aug. 27, 1959 close to 300,000 spectators lined the streets of Bonn to Greet president Eisenhower As he arrived in West Germany for talks with West Germa Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. 20 years ago today. Aug. 27 1969 speaking at a convention of the american legion in Atlanta Secretary of defense Mclvin Laird charged congressional critics who demanded fur ther cuts in the defense budget were urging a dangerous  solicitor Holman c. Gossett or. Said he would have to examine the Case be fore deciding whether to prosecute. Aug. 27, 1979 German police sources said 24 . Army soldiers three German women and a turkish couple had been taken into custody in a crackdown on heroin trafficking in Central Germany