European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday july 22,1990 on6 cult gis a special category absentees by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a the six military intelligence soldiers who deserted from their unit in Augsburg West Germany on a bizarre religious Mission have been labelled a special category absentees under a recent change in army regulations. The change which affects personnel with Access to top secret information has nothing to do with recent High profile espionage incidents such As the Michael pen and Clyde Lee Conrad cases an army military police operations Agency official said Friday. Fall Era. He regulation was modified a based on a Lack of guidance among commanders concerning special category absentees the official said. The j six have Een charged with desertion were picked up near Pensacola fla., More than a week ago after police stopped one of them driving a Van with broken taillights. The soldiers Are members of a cult called the end of the world. A member of their unit said they were on a Mission to destroy the Antichrist the biblical figure who it is believed will Challenge Christ a second coming and spread Universal evil. They were being held at fort Binning ga., but the . Temperatures july 20 army was expected to move them to fort Knox ky., Over the weekend. Maj. Joe Padilla an army spokesman in the Pentagon said the move was being made because the confinement facilities at Knox Are larger and More Modem. The army usually considers missing soldiers absent without leave or awol for 30 Days before they Are upgraded to the More serious desertion offence. The june 27 change involves army regulation 63010, which governs service policy on awol and desertion cases. Under the change a missing Soldier with Security clearances of top secret or higher can be declared a deserter within 30 Days. The regulation also allows commanders to immediately report special category absentees to local Provost marshals army policy normally Calls for waiting 24 hours after soldiers Are discovered absent before reporting them. Missing soldiers with High level clearances done to become special category absentees automatically. A the commander decides whether to declare a Soldier As a special category Absentee based on a preliminary inquiry of emergency care facilities friends and family members Quot the official said. The commander also consults with the local Provost marshal and staff judge advocate before making that decision he said. The maximum penalty for convicted deserters varies depending on the circumstances military Legal offi. Vials said. Desertion in wartime can result in a death sentence service members wh6 desert to avoid hazardous duty that Falls Short of actual combat such As the Navy a persian Gulf Oil Tanker escort operations can get up to five years in jail and a dishonourable discharge. Personnel who desert in peacetime and later turn themselves in can get up to two years in jail and a dishonourable discharge while those who desert and Are apprehended by authorities can get up to three years in jail and a dishonourable discharge. A it looks like the Augsburg soldiers would fall into the a terminated by apprehension category of deserters a the military Legal official said. The six have been identified As sgt. Annette Eccles ton 22 pfc. William n. Setterberg 20 spec. Kenneth g. Beason 26 spec. Vance a. Davis 25 pfc. Michael j. Hueckstaedt 19 and pfc. Kris p. Perlock 20. 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Military attache saturday accusing him of providing support to rebels seek my to overthrow the government. In Washington the state department confirmed col. David Staley had been expelled from Liberia but said the charges against him were unfounded. A colonel Staley departed Monrovia today Quot state department spokesman Adam Shub said. A your embassy has protested vigorously to the government of Liberia. In accordance with the non Al diplomatic practice we withdrew colonel  Shub said the charges which also accused Staley of encouraging government forces to defect were a entirely without foundation a Doe in a news release received by the British broadcasting corp. In London alleged that Staley had used . Government vehicles to provide supplies to the rebels led by former Doe aide Charles Taylor and had also Given them advice. Staley who had been in Liberia for two years also used abusive language in front of liberian officers in describing Doe the news release  rebels who by an their offensive in december overran most of Northern Monrovia on Friday capturing the City s 2-Square-mile port area in the Northern suburb of Bushrod Island. They advanced toward the two Bridges inking the Island to the Center of the City where Doe was believed to be in his executive mansion. Witnesses reported heavy government casualties but gave no figures. It was not immediately Clear How Staley left the City. T rebels took control of All Access routes into the capital Friday. Staley May have been evacuated by helicopters based on . Warships off Liberia. The ships were sent in Case emergency evacuation of americans became necessary. The state department said Friday that i the United states had turned Down a re quest by some liberian officials for dispatching a . Peacekeeping Force to Monrovia to Stop the fighting. Spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler confirmed that president Bush had received an i Appeal from foreign minister j. Rudolph i Johnson and eight other prominent liberians for a temporary , Force. L government representatives and the i rebels have met intermittently for peace talks in neighbouring Sierra Leone. However rebel demands that Doe resign before any cease fire is implemented have stalled the negotiations. The rebels have accused Doe Whol took Power in a 1980 coup of corrupt Tion mismanagement and Numan rights i abuses. Taylor has promised to maintain close . Ties if he comes to Power but he has ruled out immediate   u1 . Tapping from hotel ruins raises Hope of More philippine quake survivors european weather forecast Lor sunday pity Douay wet if Muon Hin us Najj Tim tog. High Tempe Datura Toj a Low 48-64. Sunup sunday 9 23. Sunrise monday 6.41. A Vook for monday partly Cloudy with continued period of Tuni Tun in tit Tui of 87j�t 47162n<j a of y ry0flwm# 62 temperatures recorded saturday 4am 4pm Adana i Aslor dirty. I Athene i Aviano i Bertel t Bremerhaven f Brussau la 77 65 79 64 63 60 63 _. Cop Meagan. 73 Frankfurt p 96 London i 64 Madrid p 79 Munich i 63 Pirn. I 64 flt woe f prov new try det 13, 2nd Weitz wig. Graben tray Bact. Other worldwide temperatures 4m 4pm 63 70 59 66 73 55 55 66 64 62 97 61 91 a4 .r0, 1 Dublin halon in Jerusalem Lisbon i glow 93 73 Mun Lesii t 72 46 Moscow t 66 57 Obj. 64 63 Tan Anlu. R 83 75 Vancouver t 79 63 73 55 77 61 61 59 77 57  Goudy a Piri y Cloudy. I Lair i hire supplied by Assoc a Dpi Ess Baguio Philippines apr miners said they heard tapping sounds saturday beneath a hotel destroyed by an earthquake raising Hopes that some victims May be alive five Days after the temblor. The death toll has topped 700. More aftershocks rattled Baguio and Manila 130 Miles to the South delaying Rescue efforts and cracking Walls of the Baguio Cathedral. Seismologists said one aftershock measured 2 on the Richter scale in Manila and May have been stronger elsewhere. The official death toll from mondays quake Rose to 729. But officials said it May approach 1,000 because hundreds were feared dead in an Industrial Park and a Remote farming area of Nueva Vizcaya province. Miner Quilino Balimbin said he crawled through a Tunnel beneath the wrecked Hyatt hotel and knocked four against debris blocking Access to the basement gymnasium where about in people were believed trapped. Balimbin said he heard four distinct knocks in response. About 40 people re main unaccounted for at the Hyatt who terraced front collapsed during the quake. Another Miner John Dilia said that workers had been hearing the knocks since fonday night but that they were growing fainter. Recovery efforts were suspended Eany saturday so miners could strengthen the Tunnel after Strong aftershocks rocked the area. Five Days after the earthquake officials said reports of damage and deaths were still coming in from Remote areas. Jose de Jesus presidential Relief coordinator said 135 people were believed dead inside eight factories in Baguio but rescuers had not entered the buildings. 9-8 others were killed in landslides in one Village in Nueva Vizcaya. That figure was not included in the death tally. Officials said More than 900 people were feared stranded in a Mountain pass alone the Border of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Erica provinces. J r. President Corazon Aquino de l Bov eminent against criticism that it has been slow and ineffective in Aid ing victims but the complaints persisted. Gangs of armed robbers and looter roamed Baguio after Sundown. A a there a no sanitation a said Australia John Pike 44, who was evacuated to Manil on saturday. A the situation is horrible am not much is being done. In a week then might be an outbreak of  Pike said the governments information network has collapsed and most Peop Don t know where to get information of where to get Relief goods or  also saturday communist rebels declared a unilateral cease fire in Manila arte the quake ravaged North. Right Wing Mill tary dissidents offered to do the same or fonday if the government suspended Effort to capture them. In a statement saturday to news organize tons the general command of the communist new Peoples army promised to suspend attacks in Manila and Central Luzon a during this time of National  rebel soldiers who tried to topple Anu inc in december made the same offer on Friday. Many leaders of the rebel movement Are graduates of the philippine military Academy located in Baguio