European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 5 former w. A. Gov. Moore pleads guilty to 5 fraud counts Arch Moore or. Charleston . Apr Arch Moore jr., West Virginia a former three term governor has pleaded guilty to a five count corruption indictment As part of a plea bargain agreement with Federal prosecutors. Moore a Republican and the Only West Virginia governor to serve three four year terms entered his plea before . District judge Walter Hoffman on a tuesday. Hoffman was brought in from Baltimore because Federal judges in the state asked to be excused. Sentencing was set for july 10. . Attorney Michael Carey said the government As part of its agreement with Moore would not ask for a minimum sentence. Moore faces up to 36 years in prison and fines of $ 1.2 million. Moore 67, agreed april 12 to plead guilty to extortion mail fraud tax fraud and obstruction of Justice charges after Federal prosecutors revealed they had secretly recorded a meeting in which he admitted receiving illegal Cash donations in his 1988 Campaign. The recording also allegedly showed that he planned to hide information from Federal investigators. After the hearing Carey said additional allegations against Moore would be detailed at the sentencing hearing. A emr. Moore used Large sums outside the election process a said John Campbell an assistant . Attorney from the Justice departments Public integrity Section. A it was a scheme to run the election outside the limit of the Law a the indictment focuses on felonies committed by Moore during his 1984 Campaign and his term As governor from 1985 to 1989. Among the particulars it charges that Moore used his Public position to extort approximately $573,000 in 1985. He is also accused of filing false income lax returns in 1984 and 1985. Tuesdays action Marks the second time that Moore has been indicted on charges relating to his term of office. In december 1976. He and his 1972 Campaign manager were indicted on charges of extorting $25,000 from the president of a financial holding company trying to get a slate charter for a new Bank. Moore later won acquittal Moore served one term in the stale House of delegates from 1953 to 1954 and was in the . House from 1957 to 1969. He won the governor s office in 1968 by a razor thin margin and defied polls four years later to win re election. In 1984 he returned for a third non consecutive term.17 share Home in Arkansas As floods Batter Southwest North Little Rock Ark. Apr residents were forced into unusual living arrangements on tuesday As the rain swollen Arkansas River reached a record level. For example 17 people from four families were sharing Sandy Pratt a House. A a in a just glad they All have a place to go a said Pratt whose 13 neighbors moved in last week after the Arkansas River flooded. A was Long As we re dry on this Hill they have a place to eat and sleep and get  that Means eating in shifts stepping Over sleeping bodies standing in line for the bathroom and hearing the unending whirr of Washer and dryer. The River reached a record 27.6 feet at Little Rock 4 feet above flood stage forcing an estimated 325 families from their Homes. In Texas the Trinity River caused the regions worst flooding in 80 years with More than 1,600 people seeking shelter. Tuesday afternoon gov. Bill Clements authorized the Texas National guard to Send 50 soldiers to Shore up a levee on the red River near Texarkana that was weakening. Oklahoma a Lake Texoma which crested 27 feet above Normal has forced hundreds of people to evacuate. In the past two weeks floods caused the deaths of 13 people in Texas and one in Oklahoma. Officials said the flooding along the Arkansas River was the worst since a 1927 rampage that prompted construction of Many of the levees along the River. Pratt who grew up in the neighbourhood where she now lives with her husband and two children said she was going grocery shopping Friday night when she Learned relatives and others Down the Street were being told to leave. A i told my Mother a Well i guess id better go to the grocery store because it looks like in a going to have  the company included her parents her Sisters family of three and another neighbors family of eight. The Wombles the irvings and the Carrolls spent the night packing their belongings into rented trucks. On saturday morning they moved in with the Pratts. A you can imagine trying to Cook for 17 people a said Pratt. A we eat in  her sister Vicki Carroll added a we All kind of line up around the Coffee pot and at the  Many of their meals have been provided by the salvation army which has a vendors truck set up at the end of the Block. A was soon As they see us up they come Down with sausage and biscuits and Coffee a Pratt said. Sleeping bags the Couch and a pop up camper in the Back Yard have been used for bed space. A there were bodies everywhere a said Eunice Womble a two dogs stay dry in Long Lake Texas on tuesday As the Trinity River caused the Region s worst flooding in 80 years. Pratt smother. Getting into the bathroom also has been difficult. A a it a almost time to go to bed by the Lime we All get clean a she said. A we have two bathrooms so that  the biggest problem has been laundry she said. A my Washer and dryer. Go  officials say it could be thursday before evacuated families Are allowed to return Home. A we were in the midst of remodelling Quot said Carroll. A my husband took a two week vacation and this is what he  her husband Steve and father Forrest Womble helped National guardsmen City Crews and other volunteers who worked through the night monday to reinforce  worker Safe Mother told by peace corps w1nnetka, 111. Apr Jane Kelley Mother of peace corps Volunteer David Kelley who is being held captive in Africa said she has Learned that he is Safe but still being held by liberian rebels. Kelley said she received a Call from a peace corps official and was told that a reporter in Africa was in touch with the rebels. A we were told he was Safe but nothing further Quot said Kelley on monday. Her 24-year-old son and three Relief workers were kidnapped a week ago As they inspected refugee centers along the liberian guinean Border. One of the Relief workers was freed the next Day and told guinean authorities that the rebels were holding the others for interrogation. The peace corps had hoped for Kelley a release Over the weekend a but we have to play the waiting game a Little longer a Kelley said. Fighting Between the rebels and liberian government troops broke out dec. 24, and humanitarian groups estimate hundreds of rebels and scores of soldiers have been killed. The state department said wednesday that 380 american officials and their dependents had left Liberia As rebel forces moved closer to the capital  of Tirri Ein the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 10, 1950 a France proposed a Broad economic partnership with Germany As a indispensable to the preservation of  it said such an Accord would be the most effective countermeasure to the soviet unions cold War strategy.30 years ago today. May 10, 1960 a . Attorney Gen. William p. Rogers in the first use of the i960 civil rights act asked to inspect voting registration records in four counties in four Southern states.20 years ago today. May 10, 1970 a thousands faced the White House for three hours in sweltering heat applauding demands for a general National strike to cripple the War machine and hasten the end of . Involvement in Southeast asia.10 years ago today ,. May 10, 1980 a a freighter the size of two football Fields smashed into the Sunshine Skyway in St. Petersburg fla., during a blinding thunderstorm tearing away a 1,300-foot Gap that sent a greyhound bus a pickup truck and three cars plunging 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Thirty two people were killed