European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. July 19, 1990 the stars and stripes Paga 5 trial witness Bettye Smith enters Chattanooga court Washington a a reluctant witness flown in from Tennessee under court order testified tuesday she had provided mayor Manon Barry with cocaine for More than six years and had used it with him Many times Bettye Lynn Smith the ninth witness who has testified to seeing Barry use illegal drugs said she had Given him cocaine As recently As the Start of the year less than a month before his arrest. Smith appeared Only after being ordered by a . Magistrate in Chattanooga to return to the nations capital to testify. Smith had been undergoing treatment of stress at a psychiatric Hospital. In Washington Smith was questioned about her fitness to testify by . District court judge Thomas Penfield Jackson who had demanded her return pending the Chattanooga hearing. Til  Smith said choking Back tears when Jackson asked her whether she was prepared to testify against Barry whom she described As a a close personal Friend of  once the trial questioning began Smith outlined in a soft Calm voice a Long history of drug use with Barry. But she testified under Cross examination that pre a caption antidepressants she had taken tuesday morning prevented her from recalling exact dates on which she supplied the mayor with drugs. Prosecutors planned to end their Case with the testimony of Smith and Doris Crenshaw another Friend of the mayor. The defense was preparing to open its Case wednesday and plans testimony from 10 to 15 witnesses said Barry attorney r. Kenneth Mundy. Smith told the jury that she and the mayor snorted cocaine powder at her Capitol Hil Home a maybe five times in 1983 and up to half a dozen times a year after that until 1986 when she stopped using the drug with him. She continued to Supply him she said. To give it to him and he would go into the bathroom of her Home Smith testified. Smith also testified she never saw Barry use or possess cocaine in the Bahamas a although other witnesses has e testified that she and the mayor used drugs during a thanksgiving 1987 trip there. Early in january was the last time she offered cocaine to the mayor she said. He went in the bathroom and a was in there Long enough to use the cocaine a a but i Don t know if he ingested it a Smith said on Jan. 18, former Model Rasheeda Moore persuaded Barry to come to her room at the Vista hotel where the mayor was arrested after being videotaped smoking crack cocaine. Moore was a former Girlfriend of Barry s. Smith said that she and Barry were dose friends but that their relationship was a not a sexual Friendship. Mundy zeroed in on Smith s recollection of the last time she gave Barry drugs and Smith acknowledged that she could not be sure whether it was in december 1989 or january 1990. She had testified under questioning from assistant . Attorney Judith Retchin that she had provided Barry with cocaine about a week prior to his arrest. A it was sometime during the Christmas holidays a Smith finally told Mundy her testimony relates specifically to one of the 14 criminal charges against Barry that he possessed cocaine Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 18 of this year. Barry is accused of 10 Misdemeanour cocaine Possession counts one Misdemeanour count of conspiracy and three felony counts of lying to a grand jury. Attending tuesdays proceedings was nation of islam Leader Louis Farrakhan who was allowed Access to the trial last week after the judge reversed himself. Jackson had previously barred the Muslim Leader my ing his presence might intimidate witnesses and jurors. Nasa reveals 60 truly gains support from Cape canaveral Fla apr Nasa said tuesday it will attempt to launch at least one shuttle in the next two months a a and possibly two a if the Agency is Lucky and Atlantis Hydrogen leak can be corrected at the pad. Earlier tuesday president Bush expressed support for Nasa administrator Richard truly handling of the troubled National aeronautics and space administration. On monday the Bush administration announced it would form an outside committee to look at Long term space goals. The space Agency has been hit by the most severe criticism since the 1986 challenger disaster because of the shuttle problems and Mirror imperfections on the Hubble space Telescope that make a precise focus impossible. A these shots Are highly Complex a the president said in Washington. A we have been the leaders in space and i want to see us continue to be the leaders in  William Lenoir head of nasal a space flight program said Nasa is not under any pressure from congressional critics a for anywhere  Nasa plans during the next few Days to begin trying to repair Atlantis fuel line at the launch pad Lenoir said. Engineers believe the leak is somewhere around a rim on the external tank Side of a 17-Inch diameter valve. The valve is in a pipe that carries fuel from the tank to the main engines. If the rims Seal is not cracked workers will tighten the 48 bolts in that area Lenoir said. Atlantis leak was discovered durin the first tanking test june 29, which prompted Nasa to ground the three shuttle Fleet. Columbian a leak was detected during fueling for a May 30 launch attempt. I provided there Are no leaks Nasa will attempt to launch Atlantis on a secret military flight around aug. 10 or aug. 12, followed by Columbia s astronomy Mission in mid september. Columbian a Leaky plumbing was replaced with components taken from the new shuttle endeavour under construction in California. That leak was located around a Shaft on the or biter Side of the 17-Inch-diameter valve Lenoir said. If Atlantis problem cannot be corrected at the pad the shuttle will be returned to the hangar and Columbia will be moved Back out to the pad for an Early september liftoff Lenoir said Atlantis then will follow discovery a flight with the Sun exploring Ulysses satellite in october. Discovery must lift off with Ulysses Between oct. 5 and oct. 23 because of Earth s alignment with the Sun and Jupiter or else the Mission must wait 13 months. Philadelphia doctor kills his family takes own life latino named to head . School District los Angeles apr the school Board has appointed William Anton a longtime administrator As superintendent. He is the first latino to head the nations second largest school District. At a closed meeting monday the seven member Board also approved spending an estimated $225,000 to buy out the remaining 11 months of superintendent Leo Nard b Ritt ones con t act. Britton 59. Announced last week he was quitting the $164,55 5-a-year Job. He said he would leave As of june 30, 1991. Anton a 6 5-year-old Deputy superin ten Dent accepted a three year contract and will take Over Friday. A if anyone can bring this District together at this critical time Bill is the one to do that a said Mark Slavkin one of six Board members to Back Anton. As superintendent Anton will have to contend with budget cutbacks of $220 million overcrowded schools and Calls to break up the 610,000-student District into smaller  time Philadelphia apr a. Used an intravenous solution to Milf his ailing wife two children and himself in a bedroom of their mansion police said tuesday. Or. Anthony Paul 49, left a suicide note at his office and at his three Story House in the affluent Chestnut Hill Section police said. The notes referred to financial difficulty and to the medical problems of his wife Melanie 47, and daughter Medina 17, said detective it. Thomas Quinn. A the decided to take the family with him a Quinn said. Quot he indicated he did no to want to leave his son As a Ward of the  the bodies were found tuesday morning in a second floor bedroom. A copy of the suicide note was discovered tuesday morning at the Fox Chase cancer Center where Paul had worked for 15 years said spokesman Eric Rosenthal. Paul had been at work on monday. The bodies of the daughter and the son Raiva 12, were on mattresses on the floor. Paul a body was slumped on the floor near a bed and his wife a body was on the bed Quinn said. There was no sign of a struggle he said. Neighbors said the family kept to themselves though they had attended some neighbourhood parties since moving in about five years ago. A they were very quiet and to themselves a said next door neighbor Barbara Flewwellin. Quot the Only activity i Ever heard was the kids out by the Pool and a tenant trimming  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 19, 1950 a . Forces in Korea lashed out at the communists in offensives around Taejon As they reoccupied the City a strategic airfield.30 years ago today. A the first group of americans from the strife torn Congo to arrive in West Germany landed at Rhein main a West Germany aboard a c-124 troop Carrier. The members of the evangelical Mission appeared tired after their flight.20 years ago today. July 19, 1970 a sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., broke sharply with president Nixon saying the administrations hostility to the South May Cost it the 1972 election.10 years ago  19, 1980 a Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican presidential nomination launching his Campaign with a scathing attack on president Carter and a pledge to forge a a new consensus to restore the american spirit to the Public