European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday september 29, 1990lottery Luck really a glitch Concord . A ticket agents took advantage of a computer Elitch that allowed them to buy we inc lottery tickets Worth is million after the numbers were already drawn letter officials said thursday. James Wimsatt new Hampshire sweepstakes director Vul six people illegally played the win nine numbers in the Tri state megabucks game for Vermont. New Hampshire and Maine. I he wednesday night drawing had a  million Jackpot he which one legitimate winning to vet w of 1 no or merits were made for the invalid megabucks tickets Wimsatt said. However he said at least 10 vendors issued about 5 t winning tickets Worth a total of about $156.0 it. For the daily lottery that was drawn that same Nicht. Some of those winning tickets a Worth As much As $5, 00 each a were cashed in but the state won t lose and Money because it is insured against such a problem he said. The state is investigating the scam and if any of the ticket buyers Are caught they will be forced to return the ill gotten winnings Wimsatt said. A its like if you walk into a Bank and the vault s open and no ones watching you Quot he said. A you done to just w a a in and help  the daily numbers tickets Cost 50 cents and is megabucks tickets Are is. Officials said the computer program that is supposed to halt ticket sales 10 minutes before the drawings malfunctioned. Dave Long a spokesman for the megabucks came said three people in Maine two in new Hampshire and one in Vermont played the winning numbers right after the drawing a i he legitimate winning ticket was sold in Maine. News briefs26 soviet soldiers seek Asylum in w. Germany Wiesbaden West Germany apr More than two dozen soviet soldiers based in East Germany have fled to West Germany and asked for Asylum officials said Friday. State Interior ministry spokesman Christian a Aleize said the soviet soldiers had arrived in Central Hessen state Quot Over the past few weeks. Quot the 26th arrived with his wife today a Jaletzky said Friday adding that the couple applied for Asylum in the states a Irsfeld Rothenburg District 72 Miles Northeast of Frankfurt. Jaletzky said the latest soviet Asylum seeker Mav be an officer since lower ranking soviet service members were normally not accompanied in foreign countries by their spouses. The spokesman said the soviets were being kept at refugee centers set up for Asylum seekers in  in Rome bid novelist Moravia Farewell Rome map a Italy is film and literary world and hundreds of fellow romans paid last respects Friday to novelist Alberto Moravia considered by Many critics to have Bee n Italy s leading writer Over the past four decades. Moravia died wednesday of a heart attack at his Home by the tiber River. He was Sibom in Rome he always lived in the City and set Manv of his works such As Quot the woman of Rome and Quot two women Quot in and around the City. Industrialized nations plan for shortage in Oil Supply Paris apr the United states and 20 other industrialized nations Laid plans Friday to try to protect the West from a potential Oil Supply crisis but said there w As no immediate need to tap strategic reserves to offset the loss of Oil from Iraq and Kuwait. 4 the International Energy Agency said that eight weeks after Iraq s invasion of Kuwait Oil markets remain adequately supplied and no product shortages have materialized in member countries. _ after a closed door meeting the Agency a governing Board members released a communique that urged member nations to intensify Energy conservation and efficiency measures. _ they also urged governments to allow the full increase in Oil prices to pass through to the Market and suggested flexibility in environmental regulations. _ the communique called on member countries to make the necessary decisions enabling them to act immediately and effectively if a crisis arises. If a significant shortfall of Oil supplies develops the Board will Call an emergency session. The governing Board will also meet sometime during october. Oil companies were advised to continue drawing on commercial stocks and to use discretion in purchases to minimize volatility in the world Oil Market. In new York on Friday Oil prices were narrowly lower in quiet Early trading. Prices briefly topped the $40-a-Barrci Mark on thursday. By mid Oming on Friday the november contract for Light crude was off 29 cents a 42-gallon barrel costing $39.25 on the new York mercantile Exchange. The Agency a members include Japan Australia new zealand Canada most of the Western european countries and the United states. Most official Western Oil stocks Are held by the United states Japan and West Germany. But the Energy Agency made no Call for the germans and japanese to emulate the United states. President Bush on wednesday ordered the Sale of 5 million barrels of Oil from the . Strategic Reserve which contains 590 million barrels of Oil. A administration officials said the move was a test to see if the system would work in an emergency. Some . Officials have advocated similar action from West Germany which has 197 million barrels in its reserves and Japan with 215 million barrels. To Brien from Page 1 and was twice named chairman of the democratic National committee. O Brien left politics in 1972 and in 1975 was named commissioner of the National basketball association where his negotiating and mediating talents were put to Good use. He remained in that Post until 1984. It was o Briens democratic party office that was broken into in Washington a watergate Complex in 1972, a burglary that set off one of the major scandals in american political annals. O Brien was with Kennedy when the president was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, and he was with sen. Robert f. Kennedy when he was assassinated in los Angeles in 1968. Of Brien was bom in Springfield mass., a son of Irish Catholic immigrants who operated a Small Rooming House and restaurant. After service in world War ii of Brien directed Foster Furcolow a unsuccessful congressional Campaign. But two years later the candidate was elected and of Brien followed him to Washington. He soon returned to Springfield joining the Cam name from Page 1 the offerings Are not very inspiring. The top runner after two Days of Calls was the unimaginative Quot former East Germany a a while others suggested Quot of land Quot or  Quot possies a West German Slang for the residents of East Germany is derived from the word Ost which is East in German. Whoever wins the contest wont get Rich. The society is offering the Winner either a Book or a subscription to its Magazine on the German language. Anyone can enter the contest which closes on dec. 12. Send entries to Gesellschaft fur Deutsche Spracher Postrach 2559, 6200 Wiesbaden. Pain staff of rep. John f. Kennedy who was challenging sen. Henry Cabot Lodge a the Symbol of protestant republicanism in Massachusetts and a pillar of the Eastern establishment in Congress. Of Brien became director of the Campaign recruited an army of volunteers to work for the handsome Young millionaire and stressed the importance of voter registration and other grass roots tactics. Kennedy upset Lodge and in 1958 he easily won re election. In 1959, Kennedy decided to run for president and named of Brien his Campaign director. The candidate won each of the seven primaries he entered. He is survived by his wife Elva Brassard of Brien a son Lawrence f. Of Brien Iii of Washington two grandsons and a sister Mary Placzek of Wilbraham mass. Funeral services were set for tuesday in Springfield Bush from Page 1 the .-led forces deployed in the persian Gulf to counter Iraq according to a news report. A Turkey enforced the . Air embargo against Iraq by searching planes bound for Iraq. A Spain and South Korea said they were withdrawing envoys from their embassies in Kuwait following a Day of angry protests from Western governments Over iraqis efforts to intimidate foreign diplomats. For the past five weeks iraqi soldiers have been trying to starve diplomats out of their compounds in Kuwait at last word the . Ambassador and envoys in More than a dozen other embassies were still holding out. The iraqi forces have Cut off water electricity and any supplies to the embassies. Iraq says the embassies must close because Kuwait was annexed and made a province of Iraq. The diplomatic War escalated this month when Iraq raided several Western diplomatic compounds in Kuwait City. A in Yugoslavia the croatian Republic accused Federal authorities of breaking . Sanctions against Iraq by servicing and testing iraqi warplanes the state news Agency Tan Jug said. There was no immediate response from the National government.16 convicted in Aquino assassination from wire reports an anti corruption court in Manila Philippines convicted a general and 15 other soldiers Friday in the 19s3 assassination of opposition Leader Binigno Aquino and sentenced them to life in prison. In its decision the three judge court acquitted 17 soldiers and three civilians including former tourism Secretary Jose As Paras in the murder of the nations Foremost opposition Leader who was the husband or now president Corazon Aquino. At about the same time the verdict was being delivered shots were fired at the Home of a member of Aquino a Cabinet. One person was killed and another was wounded. Radio station Dexl said the shooting occurred at the Home of Luis Santos Secretary of local governments 610 Miles Southeast of Manila in Davao City. In a report from Davao the station said Santos had leaned Over to kiss a grandchild when a Bullet whizzed passed him and struck a member of his household. Santos confirmed the shooting by Telephone to the associated press. Quot Hie Secretary said a member of his household was killed and another wounded. The verdict in Manila came Down on the one year anniversary of the death of former president Ferdinand Marcos in exile in Honolulu. No judgment was rendered on former armed forces chief Gen. Fabian ver former information minister Gregorio Cen Dana and a Captain. All three men Are at Large but were tried in absent a. Another Soldier in the list of 40 accused died during the trial. The murder of Aquino sparked widespread protests that led to the overthrow of 20-year dictator Marcos in a civilian backed military revolt and swept his wife to Power. Brig. Gen. Luther Custodio was the highest officer convicted Friday. He is the former chief of the aviation Security command who was stricken with cancer and arrived in a wheelchair As the decision was being read