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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 19, 1990

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 19, 1590 the stars and stripes Page t a state police col . Buckalew holds a Coupon form used in submitting an Anonymous tip. Coupons in War Charleston . Apr West virginians can now fight the War on drugs by filling out a Coupon that is Paft of a state police program hailed As the new wave in citizen crime righting. Civil libertarians warned that the program a tips can be mailed or phoned in anonymously a will encourage people spy on each other. A this kind of program will not make us drug free. It will just make us Unifree a said Bob of Brien of the american civil liberties Union. The statewide program encourages residents to fill out coupons giving the name and address of suspected drug users or dealers an address of suspicious activity or the License plate numbers of cars in suspected drug areas. On the Coupon Are a toll free Telephone number and the address of state police headquarter the coupons will be available at state police offices and will be carried in police cruisers trooper Ric Robinson said. They will also be passed out at the state fair in August he said. Quot its the first time that its been done in recent memory on a statewide basis a said Syverin Sorensen Deputy director of the chiefs of police National drug task Force in Washington. The program was adapted from one started by a newspaper in Mingo county. Authorities received nearly 700 replies after the Williamson . Daily news printed coupons on its own and invited people to mail them to state police. Last month Federal state and local authorities arrested 46 people in Mingo county As a result of the Coupon tips. Wally Warden editor of the Williamson newspaper said six people have been convicted so far. Criminal charges filed state bldg. Fire. A. ,.a 10. New York not a the fire department on tuesday filed criminal charges against the management of the Empire state building a some 24 hours after a fim injured 38 people in the landmark skyscraper. The charges asserted that defects in the alarm system had slowed the response of firefighters. Two summonses were filed against the building management each answerable on sept. 6 in criminal court in Manhattan. A department spokesman. Assistant fire commissioner John Mulligan said to was unclear How much time May have been lost As a result of defects in the alarm. He said the matter was under investigation by the departments Bureau of fire prevention. A spokesman for Howard Rubenstein associates which represents the building agent Helmsley Spear inc., denied the accusations. The spokesman said computer printouts would prove that the alarm system was working perfectly. The cause of the Blaze which began shortly before 6 30 . On monday in an unoccupied suite of offices on the 51st floor of the 102-Story Manhattan building on fifth Avenue remained under in Vest Iga lion fire commissioner Carlos a. Rivera said tuesday. But Mulligan said a fire marshals Are leaning toward the theory that it was an accidental Blaze that began in the electrical  Mulligan said firefighters had tried to use a building wide Public address system to advise people they were in . But when a Deputy chief tried to use the microphone Mulligan said a the whole a system went Down Quot possibly because of the fire. Fire officials described the fire As the worst to hit the Empire state building since july 28, 1945, when a b-25 bomber crashed into the 78th and 79th floors starting a gasoline fire that killed 14 people and injured 25, the 59-year-od building where 10,000 people work was said to be largely Back to Normal tuesday except for the suite of offices on the 51st floor where the Blaze began and in several areas on the floor above and below which were damaged by smoke and water. Of the 34 injured firefighters two remained hospitalized tuesday with Burns described As serious but not life threatening. Us. Miami apr Orlando Bosch a terrorist to some and an anti communist hero to others was freed by the Justice department on tuesday after spending the past 14 years in . And venezuelan prisons. The longtime cuban militant left the metropolitan correctional Center outside Miami but sped past reporters at the Gate without making a statement. His attorney Hank Adorno refused to discuss details of the agreement with the Justice department but took pains to say his client has abandoned his violent opposition to the government of Fidel Castro. An earlier agreement to free Bosch fell through last week when he refused a requirement by the immigration and naturalization service that he keep a log of All visitors. He contended that this would make him an informant. Adorno refused to say if either Side had Given in on that condition or if they had compromised. Justice department spokesman Dan Eramian in Washington said Bosch was released because he had renounced violence and said there had been no changes in the governments conditions. The other Points Bosch had accepted called for Vir Tual House arrest allowing him outside Only Between 11 . And 2 . He must also Wear a monitoring device allow Surprise searches of his Home and tapping of his Telephone and must a void any Contact with anti Castro groups. Bosch was convicted of the 1968 homemade Bazooka attack on a polish freighter in the port of Miami. After serving his sentence he violated parole by leaving the country without permission. Venezuelan authorities later arrested him for masterminding the bombing of a cuban Airliner in 1976, killing All 73 aboard. They held him for ii years but twice failed to convict him in the Case. It finally freed him to return to the United states. Bosch 63, was arrested on his arrival in Miami As an Quot excl Dable Quot or undesirable alien. The ins released a report linking him to right Wing terrorist groups responsible for 50 bombings in Miami new York and latin America. For the past two years Miami a cuban exile Community had raised Money for him held demonstrations in his support and for a Day even shut Down Commerce on Calls Ocho the main Street of Miami a Little Havana neighbourhood. Texas executes sex male prostitute Huntsville Texas apr a former male prostitute with a criminal record dating to childhood was executed by injection Early wednesday for killing a Man he claimed had made homosexual advances Mickl Derrick 33, was pronounced dead at 12 17 ., six minutes after the injection. The execution was the 37th in the stale since Texas resumed capital punishment in 1982, and the 134th nationwide since the supreme court allowed slates to resume executions in 1976. Asked if he had any final words Derrick asked for forgiveness. �?o1 just ask everybody 1 Ever hurl or done anything wrong to to just forgive me for whatever Vring i done to them a he said. Derrick was put to death after the . Supreme court rejected his request for a stay of execution 5-4 tuesday afternoon. Derrick was convicted in 1982 of the oct. 10, 1980, slaying of Edward Sonnier at Sonniera a Houston apartment. Sonnier was stabbed 19 limes. A medical examiner testified that any one of 16 wounds could have killed him. Derrick contended Sonnier had tried it it Force him to have sex. Quot in a not bitter Quot he said in a recent interview. Quot feel sorry for everybody. They re not deterring crime by this. They re not stopping anything by executing. Each time they execute one Guy they be got four or five capital cases wailing right on behind. And it ainu to going to  defends Nixon urges reassessment by the los Angeles times los Angeles a former president Reagan declared tuesday that much of the criticism levelled at sex president Nixon Quot was based on nothing at  Reagan urged historians to re evaluate Nixon a place in history following an hour Long meeting with Nixon. In 1974, Nixon with his top aides under indictment and his administration battered became the first president to resign the office. But Reagan said tuesday that Nixon a achievements far outweighed his failings. Quot i think much of the criticism was based on nothing at All a Reagan said in a Brief interview. �?o1 think that looking at it fairly they should View some of the great strides that he made in International relations and so Forth with our  Reagan s remarks came on the first Day of Nixon strip to Southern California. It was a visit that began without fanfare tuesday but that is expected to Peak on thursday when dignitaries gather to dedicate the Richard m. Nixon libary and Birthplace in Yorba Linda Calif. Nixon limping slightly left the meeting at Reagan a office at 3 01 ., say ing Only Quot its a Nice Day Here As aides escorted him into a waiting car. Although neither former Leader would discuss the meeting in detail an aide who attended the session described it As a cordial mixture of Small talk shared recollections and discussion of world events. Quot it was two very Well respected presidents and world leaders chewing the fat Over what is going on in the world a said the aide. After discussing the first time they met a Reagan then the president of the screen actors Guild was testifying be fore the House in american activities committee in 1947 when Nixon was a Junior congressman a Reagan and Nixon shared opinions on the state of affairs in the soviet Union and Eastern Europe the aide said. And the former presidents agreed they should strongly support president Bush As he carries out his own policies. Nixon according to the aide was especially forceful in stressing the importance of former presidents lending their support to the incumbent. Quot we know that from sitting there Quot Nixon reportedly said  
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