European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday july 23,1990. 1 icy on gis a special by Chuck Vinch uyt Washington Bureau Washington a the six military intelligence soldiers who allegedly left their unit in Augsburg West Germany on a bizarre religious Mission have been labelled a special category absentees Quot 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 Peri and Clyde Lee Conrad cases an army military police operations Agency official said Friday. Rather the regulation was modified Quot based on a Lack of guidance among commanders concerning special category absentees the official said the six who have been charged with desertion Ere picked up near Pensacola fla., More than it Eek ago after police stopped one of them driving Quot a Van with broken taillights. A a a a Quot the soldiers Are members of a cult called the end of the world. A member of to fitter unit said they were on a Mission to destroy Urff Antichrist the biblical figure who some Bel to will Challenge Christ a second coming a spread Universal evil they Quot were being held at fort Benning ga., but the news updates shrimpers arrested. Galveston Texas apr five shrimpers were arrested off the Texas coast in a Federal crackdown on fishermen working without net equipment that protects sea turtles. Two shrimp boat captains arrested off Freeport and Galveston were headed for the Harris county jail in Houston. Three others arrested off port of Connor were held without bail in the nieces county jail in Corpus Christi pending court hearings. All Are accused of violating Federal Laws that require them to use Turtle exclude devices or teds to protect turtles that can get caught in shrimp nets and drown the penalty for criminal Ted violations can be up to six months in Federal prison and $25,000 per incident. The nests bring to six the number of captains accused of Ted violations after their shrimp boats were boarded in Texas Waters communist party sued Moscow apr one of the leaders of a Radical Reform group is suing the communist party for firing him after he announced he was quitting to help form an Independent party Tass said Friday Vyacheslav Shostakowsky asked Frunze District court to protect his Quot professional Honor and human dignity Quot in a suit filed against Moscow a communist party organization Tass said. Shostakowsky had been the Rector of Moscow a higher party school a party run institution that concentrates on continuing ideological education for party members. He was fired after declaring to the communist party Congress last thursday that he and other leaders of the democratic platform Reform group were quitting the party to form an opposition group. Shostakowsky made the statement after Reform politician Boris n. Yeltsin shocked the Congress by announcing his own resignation from the party. Since then some of the party a leading reformers including the mayors of both Moscow and Leningrad have announced that they Are also quitting the communist party. 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 Laigle and More modern. A. A the Arm usually considers missing soldiers absent without Leavic , for 30 Driy before they Are upgraded to the  offence. The june 27 change id valves army regulation 63010, which governs Famce policy in awol and Deser Tion cases. Uff Tfir the change a missing Soldier with Security clearances of top secret or higher can be declared a deserter within 30 Days Quot a Quot the regulation also allows commanders to immediately report special category absentees to local prove fat marshals. Army policy normally Calls for waiting 24 hours after soldiers Are discovered absent before re porting them. Missing soldiers with High level clearances done to become special category absentees automatically Quot 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 rials Doe sex marshal find staff judge advocate before making that dec icon he said. A the maximum penalty for convicted deserters varies depending on the circumstances military Legal officials said. Desertion in wartime can result in a death sentence. Service members who 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 j Ai i and a Disho no Rabl e discharge. Personnel who desert in peacetime and later turn themselves in can get up to two years in jail and dishonourable discharge while those who desert and Are apprehended by authorities can get up to three years in jail and a dishonourable  it looks like the Augsburg soldiers would fall into the terminated by apprehension category of deserters the Pillitary Legal official said. The is amp have been identified As sgt. Annette Eccles ton 22 pfc William n. Setterberg 20 spec. Kenneth g. Beason 26 Lisec. Vance a Davis 25 pfc. Michael a Hueckstaedt 19 arid pfc. Kris p. Perlock 20. The members of the 701st military intelligence brigade were trained As cryptographers or code Breakers whose Job was to intercept and decipher enemy communications in wartime. . At Che Abidjan Ivory coast apr liberian president Samuel Doe expelled the . Military attache saturday accusing him of providing support to rebels seeking to overthrow the go vehement in Washington the state Quot department confirmed col. David Staley had been expelled from Liberia but said the charges against him were unbound Quot colonel Staley departed Monrovia today Quot state department spokesman Adam Shub said. Quot our embassy has protested vigorously to the government of Libe Ria. In accordance with the Normal Diplo a Matic practice we withdrew colonel  Shub said the charges which also accused Staley of encouraging government forces to defect were Quot entirely without  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 said. The rebels who began their offensive in december overran most of Northern Monrovia on Friday capturing the City a 2-Square-Milc port area in the Northern suburb o f b ush Rod isl and. They advanced toward the two Bridges linking the Island to the Center of the City where Doe was believed to be in his exec it fac mansion. Witnesses reported heavy government casualties but gave no figures. It was not immediately Clear How Staley left Tom City. A. Rebels took control of All Access routes into the capt Friday. Staley May have been evacuated by helicopters based on . Warships of amp Liberia. The ships were sent in Case emergency evacuation of am e Picans became necessary. The state department said Friday that the United states had turned Down a re it a St 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 Appeal from foreign minister j. Rudolph Johnson and eight other prominent liberians for a temporary . Force. T government representatives and the 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 who took Power in a 1980 coup of corruption mismanagement and human rights abuses. Taylor Nas promised to maintain close . Ties if he comes to Power but he has ruled out immediate elections. Tapping from hotel ruins raises Hope of More philippine Baguio Philippines a 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 Dpi blog. The death toll has topped 700. More aftershocks rattled Baguio and Manila 130 Miles to the Sou in delaying Rescue efforts and cracking Walls of the Baguio Cathedral. Seismologists said one aftershock measured 2 in 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 j ,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 times against debris blocking Access to the basement gymnasium where about 10 people were believed trapped. Balimbin said he heard four distinct knocks in response. About 40 people re main unaccounted for at the Hyatt whose terraced front collapsed during the quake. It another refiner John Dilla said that workers had been hearing the knocks since Friday night but that they were growing fainter. Recovery efforts were suspended Early 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 j 35 people were believed dead inside eight factories in Baguio but rescuers had not entered the buildings. I 9� others were killed in landslides in one Village in Nueva Vizcaya that figure was not included in the death tally. Officials More than 900 people were feared stranded in a Mountain pass along the Border of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ceciia provinces. In Manila president Corazon Aquino defended her government against criticism that n has been slow and ineffective in Aid survivors my victims but the complaints persisted. Gangs of armed robbers and looters roamed Baguio after Sundown. _ Quot there a no sanitation Quot said australian John Pike 44, who was evacuated to Manila on saturday. Quot the situation is horrible and not much is being done. In a week there might he an outbreak of  Pike said the governments information network has collapsed and most people a done to know where to get information on where to get Relief goods or  also saturday communist rebels declared a unilateral cease fire in Manila and the quake ravaged North. Right Wing Miti Tail dissidents offered to do the same on Friday if the government suspended efforts to capture them. In a statement saturday to news organizations the general command of the communist new Peoples army promised to suspend attacks in Manila and Central Luzon Quot during this time of National  rebel soldiers who tried to topple Aquino in december made the same offer on Friday. Many leaders of the rebel movement Are graduates of the philippine military Academy located in Baguio