European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and of ripes inside strikes authorized unofficial publication forthe . Armed forces vol.48, no. 135 thursday August 31. 1989 Good morn d 8693 a most army drug tests for civilians get of by the Baltimore Sun Washington a Federal appeals court tuesday upheld the army s use or mandatory no warning drug tests for thousands of civilian employees who hold critical jobs. The . Circuit court of appeals Here disagreed with a Federal judge who last year struck Down army testing of civilians As an unconstitutional invasion of the workers privacy. The army nevertheless had been allowed to continue with the testing while the circuit court reviewed it. A part of tuesday s ruling directly affects 3,500 army civilians in Law enforcement jobs across the country. The threat to Public safety posed by drug impaired gun toting civilian offi cers is Manifest the most apparent risk arising from the fact that these personnel arc armed Many with automatic weapons and May have Access to other Muni see tests on Back Page world War ii special stripes Magazine d . Recalls envoy to Bulgaria Page 3 d crazy go seeks challenges Page 9 d nil bars 13 for steroids Page 17 jury convicts hotel Queen of tax evasion least Helmsley new York a hotel Queen Lcona Helmsle was convicted wednesday of tax evasion for charging personal expenses to her businesses but she was acquitted of the most serious charge against her extor Tion conspiracy. She was found guilty of 3.1 of the 41 counts on which she was tried. The counts on which she was convicted related to evading $ 1.2 million in taxes from 1983 to 1985.Helmsley showed Little emotion while the jury fore Man read off the verdict but she occasionally Shook her head. Her co defendants former aides Frank Turco and Joseph Licari were convicted of assisting in the tax evasion scheme. Turco who had been charged in the extortion conspiracy was also acquitted on that charge. All three also were acquitted on mail fraud charges. Each of the 33 counts Helmsley was convicted of carries a maximum prison term of three or five years. She could also face fines As High As $8 million. Helmsley 69, was depicted at the trial As arrogant Penny pinching and mean spirited. Her former House keeper testified that Helmsley once told her we Don t pay taxes. Only the Little people pay  her 80-year-old husband. Harry who Heads a Multi billion Dollar real estate Empire was charged in the april 1988 indictment but was not tried because the judge found him mentally incompetent. The verdict came in the fifth Day of deliberations . District court. The bulk of the expenses on which the tax charge were based were $3.1 million in renovations and operating costs at the lavish Greenwich conn., mansion Dunn Cllon Hall which the Helms lays purchased for $11 million in june 1983. Many of the Bills were altered to make it appear the work was done at corporate offices. Prosecutors con tended that the phony Bills resulted in unreported in come on the Helms lays personal lax returns and incorrect business deductions on the corporate returns. The expenses included More than $1 million for Pool enclosure with a Marble dance floor on the roof Jade figures Worth $500,000, a $130,000 indoor out door sound system similar to one Helmsley had admired in Disney world and thousands of dollars in landscaping work. The prosecution also alleged that $320,172 incl Mulcy s personal purchases were charged to the Park Lane hotel one of several luxury Helmsley hotels in Manhattan. These items ranged from tens of thousands of Dol Lars in designer clothing to an $8 Purchase of under Wear. Another item was a $45,000 Silver clock specially designed in the shape of the Helmsley building a birthday present to Helmsley from his  the trial the hotel s former comptroller quoted Turco As saying the accounting system at the Park Lane was the Helmsley Cheet the government  extortion conspiracy charge alleged that three liquor sales representatives were forced to kick Back a percentage of their sales to keep accounts at Helmsle hotels. A former Helmsley executive Milton Muckler Testi fied that Turco once held up several envelopes and said this is Cash. This is what mrs. Helmsley  the extortion charge also covered three televisions see tax on Back Page cuban american wins Pepper s Congress seat Miami a Republican Elcana Ros la Linen who became the first cuban american elected to con Gross pledged wednesday to unite Miami s Multi eth Nic Community after an emotional race for the late rep. Claude Pepper s scat. I think it s been a terribly divisive and ethnically divisive Campaign Ros Lehtinen said on abcs today show after defeating. Democrat Gerald Rich Man in tuesday s special election. But now it s Lime for Healing now we have to reach outto All those sections she said. "1 know there Are a lot of people out there who feel alienated. It was a very Bitte Bailie but now we re going to Start Healing those  Richman. Who did t Rule out seeking the seat again in the scheduled election in 14 months also promised Early wednesday to try to ease the ethnic tensions. "1 and she will unify the Community Richma said. During the monthlong Campaign Ros Echt inn re fused to debate Richman after claims that his Ameri can seat theme stirred prejudices against  had said his remark this is an american seat was an Appeal to voters to decide on qualifications not Birthplace. He also said it was a response to gop National chairman Lee Atwater s statement that the party wanted to elect a cuban american. It was a rough Campaign. Wounds from it need to heal said rep. Guy Vander Jagt r-mich., chairman of the National Republican congressional , 37, a state senator since 1982 and wife of . Attorney Dexter Lehtinen called on Rich Man and his supporters to meet with her to discuss the drug and crime problems facing Miami. We do not have the luxury to waste time on Divi Sive politics she told More than 1,500 cheering sup porters most from Miami s conservative cuban Community. We must focus on what we have in common and not Ponder on the , the Liberal advocate for the elderly and the Only person to hold the scat died May 30 at age 88.Ros-Lchtincn s Campaign included appearances by president Bush and vice president Dan Quayle. He Campaign chairman was the president s son Jeb Bush. Atwater called the Victory a gop Milestone in the  seat has been a democratic seat since it was created he said from Washington. For us to win it Isa major  with All 159 precincts reporting Ros Lehtinen had see Congress on Back Page a ass fied ads in Stupe my ghz be today