European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 6,1990 mourning nun sister Sharon poll Nowasa hugs the Mother of her childhood Friend sister Maureen Courtney who was killed during an attack in Nicaragua on Mon Day. Frances Courtney of Milwaukee wis., and poll Nowasa were attending a funeral service for the slain nun at Milwaukee s St. Margaret Mary Church on Friday. Poll Nowasa belongs to the same order As sister Courtney the Sisters of St. Agnes in fond do Lac wis. Bush praises servicewomen for heroic Panama combat Washington a president Bush hailed the heroic performance of american women who fought in the . Invasion of Panama but said Friday that he would Reserve judgment on the role of female troops in combat pending Pentagon review. The involvement of approximately 600 women of the nearly 26,000 american troops who took part in the . Invasion has renewed the debate on the com Bat Issue. Army regulations prohibit women from serving in combat and . Law bars women from combat in the Navy and air Force. Questioned about women s participation in the in Vasion Bush said their original assignments were non combat but any time you have a highly trained Gung to Volunteer Force and they re caught up in some of the firelight that went on a person can be. Put into a combat during the invasion for example. Army capt. Linda l. Bray led male and female troops from a Mili tary police platoon into combat against approximately40 members of the panamanian defense forces hiding in a dog Kennel. Three of the panamanians were killed. Army officials said no female soldiers were killed or wounded in the Overall Panama operation. I would let the heroic performance of these people be weighed and measured and then see if the defens department wanted to recommend to the president any additional changes Bush said at a news briefing. Earlier in the Day the ranking Republican on the Senate armed services committee said Congress would probably Lake a step Forward on the role of women in combat in Light of their stopped up role in Panama. But the senator John Warner of Virginia said he did not foresee full Equality for servicewomen. There Are still certain areas where we cannot co locate men and women in close confinement Warner said in a Telephone interview from san Jose Costa Rica. The former Navy Secretary joined by sen. Sam Nunn. D-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee travelled to Panama this week to review the military operations in the Wake of he dec. 20 invasion that unseated Manuel Antonio Noriega. Warner said that he met with some of the women involved in the panamanian invasion and that they performed with extraordinary professional we will re examine in Congress based on their experiences and determine if we have the right policy said Warner who cautioned against Rushing toward any change. Rep. Patricia Schmo Cdr d-colo., a member of the House armed services committee said this week that she was drafting legislation to allow women to serve in army combat As part of a four year test program. The proposal would open jobs in All ranks to women in a specified number of army infantry artillery and other combat units. It is similar to recent recommendation by the defense advisory committee on women in the services. Panama has reinforced something that has been evident for a Long time that the army s combat designations would not really keep women put of com Bat Schroeder said. The Panama operation showed what a fiction that 13 charged in deaths of 5 found buried on farm Kansas City to. A thirteen people have been charged with murder or conspiracy after five fam ily members were found buried at an Ohio farm rented by the Leader of a religious splinter group Federal authorities said Friday. Five of those charged were arrested late thursday and Early Friday in Kansas City and nearby Independence said George Rodriguez of the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms in Kansas City. Two of those arrested have confessed to their participation in the mass murders Rodriguez said. Me said authorities have a motive but would not release it. The Cleveland Plain dealer quoting police sources the newspaper did not name said the five May have been killed As part of a religious sacrifice. The bodies of the Dennis a cry family were found wednesday night and thursday at a Kir Brid farm. Rodriguez said they were members of a splinter religious group led by Jeffrey Lundgrin a former Lay minister of the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints which is headquartered in Independence. The dead were identified tentatively As Dennis Avery. 49 his wife Cheryl 42 and their three Daugh ters Trina 13, Rebecca 9, and Karen 5. Rodriguez said the family originally from Independence apparently had lived off and on at Lundgrin s farm in Ohio and were killed around april 16-18. Lundgrin 39. And his wife Alice 38, were among those charged and were being sought Friday. Lundgrin was charged with five counts of aggravated murder. His wife was charged with five counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Authorities were led to the bodies on the farm about 25miles non cast of Cleveland by an Anonymous tip. Said Kirtland fire chief Richard Martincic. The Plain dealer quoted a police source As saying cult members had to perform the sacrifice before travelling West where they would be cleansed and could search for a Golden sword which was not further characterized. Ron Luff 29, of Independence was arrested and charged with murder. Those arrested and charged with five counts each of conspiracy to commit aggravated Mur Der were identified As Susan Luff 31, of Springfield and Dennis Patrick 35, Tonya Patrick 33, and Debbie Oliva Rcd 37, All of Independence. Those charged with murder but not in custody this morning were Richard Brand. 26, of Independence Damon Lundgrin 19, no Hometown Given and Gregory Winship 29, of Euclid Ohio. Kathryn Johnson 36, of Holden was charged with conspiracy o commit aggravated murder but not yet arrested. The names of two others charged in the Case were not released. Prosecutor caught in lie Trenton. . My a prosecutor known for d Sci tics on drug raids Sci Igod alter he was caught fabricating a Rory that two men tried to assassinate hit the state attorney general said Friday. Camden county prosecutor Samuel Asbyll who shot out the windows of his car new year s Day and presented it As evidence of an attack has checked into a psychiatric facility attorney general Peter n. Penettie said. The event was staged by prosecutor Asbell apparently acting alone Perretti said. Perretti said it appears several Crim Inal Laws were violated but a decision on filing charges against Asbell would depend upon his psychiatric evaluation. Asbyll held a news conference tues Day to Tell reporters he barely escaped death when two men chased him for about four Miles through Camden s streets. When the gunmen opened fire Asbell said he tired a 12-gauge sawed off Shotgun and a handgun that he kept in his car striking the passenger in the assailants car. No doubt about redoubt steam and smoke billow from the Crater the Volcano which i located Southwest 25 years before it started erupting again of the redoubt Volcano on thursday of Anchorage Alaska was dormant for in mid december
