European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes saturday May 26, 1990 Senate Bill would bar executions of retarded Washington apr the Senate voted thursday to bar the execution of mentally retarded individuals convicted of capital crimes under Federal Law but leaders gave up Hope of finishing work on an omnibus crime Bill this week. Quot for Iod s Sake if you acknowledge you should not put children to death acknowledge that you should not put to death the mentally retarded a sen. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-dcl., said As the Senate debated the crime Bill. Senators Defeated 59-38 an amendment that would have limited the death penalty Protection for the mentally retarded to those who done to know the difference Between right and wrong. Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine had hoped to Complete action on the anti crime Bill before Friday s scheduled Start of a 10-Day recess. But he abandoned that idea after 271 amendments were proposed. The Senate set a june 5 vote on whether to limit debate. The vote on the Issue of the death penalty for the mentally retarded came As president Bush urged Congress to approve a a Good Strong anti crime Bill but restated his opposition to curbs on semiautomatic assault weapons upheld wednesday by the Senate. Also thursday the Senate a dropped from the Bill a provision to allow death Row inmates to base appeals on statistics showing a racial discriminatory pattern within the jurisdiction they were sentenced. Sen. Bob Graham a Flat a one of the critics said the plan would a have the practical consequence of repealing capital punishment. Because no jurisdiction can meet the standards of this  a reversed a wednesday decision and adopted 52-46 a stringent provision designed to Cut Short death Row inmates appeals that can drag on for a decade or longer. The move was designed to Cut Short a Hab was Corpus appeals. Such appeals Are filed after All others Are exhausted and determine whether trials and sentence Ings were carried out in a constitutional manner. Critics of the proposal to protect the mentally retarded from execution said virtually every defendant facing a death sentence would claim to be mentally retarded. Sen. Orrin Hatch a Utah called it a a soft. Liberal  sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., said he had Strong feelings on the Issue because he has a mentally retarded sister. A this is about the Only democracy in the world that has the death penalty and we re arguing about whether we re going to execute the mentally retarded a that says something about our society a Kennedy said. The supreme court ruled in 1989 that mentally retarded people May be executed in capital cases. Senators said the courts have held that an in of 70 is the dividing line used to identify the mentally retarded. The Senate a Bill would apply Only to Federal cases and thus would not reverse the supreme courts ruling As it applies to capital punishment cases in state courts. Goetz says one of his victims faking extent of brain damage new York apr subway gunman Bernhard Goetz says one of the men he shot More than five years ago is faking the extent of his brain damage. Goetz who is being sued for $50 million by the injured Man Darrell cabby held a news conference thursday on the Steps of City Hall and passed out videotapes that he said prove Cabey can function normally. He was to provide evidence Friday at a hearing in state supreme court a new Yorkus trial level court a that Cabey though paralysed from the Waist Down by a Bullet that shattered his spine is fully aware of the world around him. Quot he is not a mental vegetable Quot Goetz said. One of Cabey a lawyers Ronald Kuby said he had seen Goetzl a videotape. A the tape proves nothing but that Darrell knew what he had for lunch and knew who the mayor of new York was on dec. 27,�?� Kuby said. A the tape also shows that there is no depth too Low for Bernhard Goetz to sink a he continued. Quot he harbours a murderous and sadistic hatred for Darrell Cabey. He shot him at Point Blank Range a in the Back a alter saying you done to look so bad Here a another  he a crippled the Young Man for life caused him permanent brain  Ham Katz Goetzl a paralegal said he shot the eight minute videotape at the United cerebral palsy building on East 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue by a a Sumter luge trickery or whatever you want to Call  Goetz 42, shot Cabey now 22, and three other youths with an unlicensed gun on dec. 22, 1984. Goetz a Aid the teens surrounded him on a subway train and were trying to Rob him. A Bernhard Goetz talks to reporters outside City Hall in new York City on thursday. Bus victims families get $72 million Edinburg Texas apr a company whose truck slowed into a school bus in an Accident that killed 21 students has agreed to pay $72 million to 16 of the victims families. Settlements completed thursday Call for Valley coca cola bottling co. Inc. To pay $4.5 million per death lawyers for the families and the company said. Parents w ill receive the bulk of the Money but some of it will go to Trust funds valued from $50,000 to $250,000 that were established for 30 surviving Brothers and Sisters lawyers said. Some of the siblings wont receive the Trust Money until they reach the age of 25. In february a family that lost a child in the wreck settled its wrongful death lawsuit with the company for $1.5 million. That leaves four wrongful death cases unresolved. Mike Mills an attorney for Valley coca cola said two of them a will be closed out  attorneys packed the Small courtroom where Distri court judge Juan Partida approved the settlement thursday. The settlements were taken before the Judy because siblings receiving Trust funds Are minors. A they the families Are not going to want for Man y / a p h1ui things said attorney Abel Orendain who was a pointed to represent 8-year-old Omar Garcia Broth of deceased Abdon Garcia jr., 14. A at least All of the kids will get  Mills declined to say How Many of the soft drink co Cems insurance companies would share in paying the Dai Ages. A truck owned by Valley coca cola ran through Stop sign and knocked the school bus into a Wate filled pit in the Hidalgo county City of Alton on sep 21, 1989. Stateside immune cell discovery could provide clue to is Washington apr researchers in Boston said they have discovered a Type of immune cell that May be one of the villains in multiple sclerosis a brain disease that cripples Young adults. In a study published Friday in the journal science or. David a. Hafler of Harvard and the Brigham and women a Hospital in Boston said his team isolated from the blood samples of multiple sclerosis patients a unique immune cell that attacks myelin the nerve tissue that is destroyed in the is disease process. Hafler said the specific immune cell was isolated in High numbers from the blood of five multiple sclerosis patients but was found in Only very Small numbers in the blood of five people who do not have is. The researcher said it is very Likely that other types of immune cells Are also involved in the is disease process but that the cell found by his team May have a major  firm buys resort in sister City in Oregon Eugene Ore. Up a the Small resort of Loloma Lodge has been sold for $900,000 to Suzuyo construction co. Of Takegawa Japan which is Eugene a sister City. Suzuyo has 6,000 employees and numerous subsidiaries said Gretchen Gross a sales associate with Jean Tate real estate in Eugene. Loloma Lodge is located about 50 Miles East of Eugene. Gross said the company bought the property at the urging of Takegawa City officials who wanted to have a resort near Eugene to further the cultural ties Between the two cities. The resort can accommodate 25 to 30 . Town halts tradition of shooting of stray dogs Vienna a. Apr the City has stopped an 18-year tradition of shooting stray dogs after being inundated with protest Calls. Unable to afford its own do Catcher and Pound Vienna has been using guns to solve its stray dog problem once a year for 18 years. City manager Stanley Gambrell said. The City of 3,000 people had scheduled next wednesday As the Day police officers would set out to shoot the strays this year. But when news stories about the practice appeared throughout the Region wednesday the phones at City Hall rang with irate Calls from animal lovers As far away As the nations capital. Ken Johnson an investigator with the . Humane society a regional office in Tallahassee fla., was among those who called. A we believe that shooting dogs is inhumane and unnecessary a he said. A there is a better  Johnson has offered to help the City develop an animal control program. Police said 20 to 30 dogs Are shot in a typical  flee Homes after Plant explosion Tecumseh Mich. Apr an explosion at a plastics factory forced hundreds of people to evacuate their Homes temporarily and sent up to 14 people to the Hospital with Eye and skin irritation authorities said. Between 500 and 1,000 people were evacuated for several hours thursday by the Accident at Sil tech corp., which makes silicone based fluids police sgt. James Knierm said. Among those evacuated were people gathered for a Golf tournament near the Plant which employs about 10 people in this Southeastern Michigan town. Between 10 and 14 people were treated and released from Herrick memorial health care Center for Eye and skin irritation firefighter David ousterhout said. The fire was extinguished in about two hours the cause of the explosion was under investigation ousterhout said. A a be Van Wieren a conservation officer for the Michigan department of natural resources said no hazardous substances leaked and smoke quickly dissipated