European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. February 22,1990 1 victim found 6 missing after plunge into Calif Lake Mammoth lakes. Calif. A boats and Heli copters crisscrossed convict Lake on tuesday searching for the bodies of three teen agers and four would be rescuers who fell through thin ice during an Outing for a group of Young offenders. In cars recovered the body of . Forest service Ranger Lauon c utter. 31. On tuesday said Mono county sheriffs spokeswoman Gail Merrill. Sonic of the victims struggled to stay afloat in the in water for 15 minutes before disappearing monday witnesses said we could them Bobbing  said Volunteer firefighter Jim Lam Bert. One pleaded. Throw me a rope but Lambert said they were too far from Shore. The Hole they fell through fro cover within hours. Divers were Able to with stand the 32-Dcgrec water for Only 10-Minulc spans and were dropped two at a time from helicopters into the water where the victims were last seen. Marker buoys bobbed near holes in the ice on the Remote Lake on the East Side of the Sierra Nevada. Although sunny the temperature was near Zero when the recovery operation began. Culler s friends stood on Shore As divers pulled his body the first to be found out of the water 200 Yards away. We go ice skating out there All the time. It s Gonna be hard to go out there  said fellow Ranger Rick Misner. The recovery could be hampered because in the extreme cold the bodies May sink to the Bottom of con it Lake which is 140 feel deep at its deepest Point said Mono county sheriffs department Coroner . So Rolneck or. The 30-Membcr recovery team included divers from Washoe county. Nov. Military personnel and helicopters from China Lake and Sacramento. Calif., and an air boat Able to travel on ice from the Truckee Calif., fire department. The teen age boys aged 13 to 15 from nearby Camp o Neal for Youthful offenders were part of a group on an Outing when they fell through thin ice around noon monday. Strelneck said. Most of the group had stayed on land. It was  said Pierre Labossiere. A reporter for the Mono county review Herald who watched three of the rescuers go into the water. The youths were playing or walking on the ice about 200 Yards from Shore when the surface gave Way. Arriving soon after the boys fell through Labossiere said he saw one youth Bobbing on the surface in an ice Hole. As he and dozens of others on Shore watched help Lessly two other adult rescuers plunged into the Lake in Rescue workers carry the body of drowning victim Clay Ion Cutter 31, from convict Lake on tuesday. Failed attempts to reach the teen Ager still floundering in the icy  Accident happened in the Center of the Lake which is a mile Long and a Quarter mile wide said Forest service spokeswoman Margaret Gorski. Two Camp o Neal Counselor Dave Meyers 53. Of Bishop Calif., and Randy Porter of june Lake Calif., fell into the Lake when they tried to save inc youths Strelneck said. Cutter and Vidar Anderson. 58. A Volunteer firefighter from Long Valley Calif., followed them into the frigid  of the missing teen agers were identified As David Christopher Sellers. 15, of Tulare Calif., and Shawn Rayne Diaz 15, of Dinuba Calif. Two other youths fell into the water but survived a 15-year-old boy who was treated for hypothermia at Centin Cla Mammoth Hospital and released. A teen Ager who clambered out of inc water on his own and did t require treatment. A paramedic plunged through the ice when he tried to reach the teen agers and went Down three times before a diver pulled him out. 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The comp Ais said its top of Lac Linc system 5000 Slot Mac ties would be used at the so arc my Tycho air Poi in Moscow. We Are  pleased to participate in the development of the gaming Industry in the soviet Union said Roger n. Pc Csc. Bally manufacturing president. The Sale of these systems. Is Aljy in that it represents significant growth opportunities for the  Rine s conviction overturned trial was for washing Jap a military appeals court has Oahu Rcd the conviction of a Marine Cordov a who served 226 Days in the Brig in 198krcullcgcdly having sen with another woman ourt documents show. A in an unusual decision the court o. Military review in Washington on thursday found that two of the jury members at Barbara j. Baum s court martial were biased and that the military judge allowed uncorroborated testimony. I think that her trial was flawed in a number of respects and i am glad Haj they recognized the errors that they  said Susan Masling. An attorney with the Washington Law firm of Arnold and Porter which represented Baum at no charge. They technically arc free to retry her at another court martial. However As we understand the Law. She would not be Able to serve any More time in inc Brig so inc Only thing they could get out of another court martial besides a Loi of bad publicity is perhaps galling Jerra bad conduct  Mali Imwold. But la. Col. Ron Slok Effii Marine spokesman said last week that no Deci Sion had been made Cyl on a new trial. The appellate court declined to Rule on several other arguments raised in the a peal including that it is unconstitutional to selectively prosecute and punish homosexual people for sodomy while heterosexuals arc not punished for the same actions. We did t actually think we would on those charges but we did think it was Dort and to Start making a record on Thost Jues Masling said. Baum 257llte ally from Mishawaka ind. But now in own Lakewood. Fla., said saturday she  to be exonerated because i knew Wias Una from the Start and i d said Altman a was t All  _ Baum said she will co Jymie to fight to Force the governmentjt5ay the $ 14,000 Bill from her first Wyco. "1 Rufu Scarf hike the answer that you have no Sam against the  band in an interview. They re going by it it s their own stupid  according to court papers the three judge military appeals panel last week found that two jurors identified Only As sgt. Maj. Moore and col. Nunnally were not impartial. Moore had attended Baum s so called article 32 investigation which is Akin to a grand jury and had listened to the government s key witness. Sergeant major Moore s statement that he attended Appellant s article 32 investigation moreover suggested Jap he had some interest in the que Mem of the Case the judges  Mili tary judge failed to Jim lion Why he at tended the  leaving his reasons  numbly revealed during the Early it Baum s trial that he had discussed a investigation of lesbian activities at Parris Island with a Navy investigator. Colonel Nunnally appears to have Xor judicial knowledge of the evidence interest in the outcome of the the judges wrote. Baum a the first of five women charged in in blk Down in 1988 on alleged lesbians att a inc corps Par Ris Island s.c., Recny Depol. The defense Dupar Ludt s official policy states that  is in compatible with military scr lev the presence in the military of person engage in homosexual conduct. Piously impairs the accomplishment of the military  Baum had been charged with conspiracy to obstruct pc Misc. Sodomy indecent acts Obs prom of Justice and comm . A Stone woman with whom she allegedly had sex Lance Cpl. Diana Maldonado testified against Baum at the court martial. But the appeals panel found the Lack of Independent Corob Oralien Ren dered Maldonado s testimony insufficient As a matter of  Baum was convicted in june 1988. She was sentenced to a year in prison and a dishonourable discharge. But five months later her commanding officer granted Baum clemency. She was freed after serving 226 Days in the Brig at Quanico. A. Her dishonourable discharge was up graded to a bad conduct discharge but left intact were portions of Baum s sen tence that reduced her rank to private and required her to forfeit All pay and allowances. The commander s staff urged clemency be denied but Baum claimed she had been promised leniency by a military prosecutor in Exchange for her Cooper. Action with investigators. The Marine corps denied that that the or netting attorney in the Case had Ever made binding Promise to Baum