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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, December 19, 1990

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday december 19,19902 Sisters electrocuted while taking a Bath Amarillo Texas up two Young Sisters taking a hath were electrocuted when a lamp sitting on a table fell into their tub police said. Jordan Burkham 4, and Hailey Hill 2, were pronounced dead on arrival at a Hospital after the Accident police said. The girls Mother told police officers the lamp had been placed in the bathroom because a ceiling Light was not working. Investigators say the Mother had left her children in he care of a Boyfriend while she ran an errand a. 1 thief takes Cash car from children s Home Strafford map a smiling Man told a woman at a children a Home he had car trouble and needed to make a phone Call. Once inside he pulled a gun and fled with about $75 and an employees car police said monday the 19. Children at the fair Haven children a Home were attending a Christmas dinner when the robbery occurred sunday night. No one was injured. The same suspect also apparently broke into two other Homes on the Campus and stole Small change and other items from the children said Jackie Barger executive director of the Home. A the robbery put kind of a Damper on the children a evening a Barger said. A the whole Campus was worried and upset about  children at the private Center Range in age front 5 to 19, Barger said. A minister called him monday and said members of a local congregation would take up a collection to make up for the stolen  Falls to death aiding research project Camp Bullis Texas a a Soldier fell to his death in a Cave while helping wildlife researchers look for an endangered Salamander species officials said. A four individuals were out doing some environmental Type endeavours. One of the individuals fell into a Cave supposedly anywhere from 80 to 100 feet a said army sgt. Maj. Raymond Morris of fort Sam Houston. The four were preparing to descend into the Cave which had a Steep vertical drop when the Soldier fell into it officials said l in first fell about 15 feet then for some reason released his safety rope and fell the rest of the Way into the Cave officials said. Morris identified the Soldier As Murray Elswort 111, 40. His body was recovered from the Cave about 214hours after the Accident t he other three people on the expedition were an employee of the Texas department of Parks and wildlife a University of Texas graduate student and a civilian worker employed at Camp Bullis Morris said. Morris said Els ii was a non commissioned officer who had been on similar expeditions in the past although he had not assisted the Salamander researchers before computer Chip May link Lockerbie crash to libyan new York apr a computer Chip found in the wreckage of  am flight 103 suggests a libyan planted the bomb that blew the plane out of the sky Over Scotland the Columbia broadening system says. British police discovered the evidence last summer while combing through the Fields around the Village of Lockerbie where the plane crashed dec. 21, 1988, the network reported monday. All 259 people on Board and 11 other people Ontic ground were killed. The computer Chip lodged in the bombs Detonator matched a bomb part carried by a libyan agent arrested in Dakar Senegal 10 months before the new York bound Boeing 747 was destroyed lbs said. A it was constructed and put together in such a Way As to have a libyan signature to it a Vince Cannistraro former chief of the Cia counter terrorism Section told the  investigators suspected the bombing had been carried out by a bomb making cell based in Ger Many and acting on the orders of Ahmed Jibril Leader of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command. In turn investigators believed Jibril was working for Iran to avenge the deaths of 290 people aboard an iranian jetliner that was shot Down in the persian Gulf in july 1988 by the . Guided missile Cruiser Vincennes. But investigators have concluded that Jibril had to change operatives when his German bomb making cell Vigil held Washington a friends and families of hostages in Lebanon held a Church Vigil monday and asked americans to Pray for the captives during the Holiday season. A we have a burning desire to see our loved ones returned to us soon a said Thomas Cicippio of Norristown pa., the brother of Joseph Cicippio who was abducted Jan. 24, 1987. A there we Are once again into the Christmas season a he said. If he were a hostage Cicippio said he would be praying for help from president Bush. Cicippio said his message would be a emr. President my name is Terry Anderson. Do you remember Nie my Freedom was taken away 2,103 Days  Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press is the longest held of the american hostages lie was captured March 16, 1985, and is spending his sixth Christmas in Captivity. Andersons sister Peggy say of Cadiz by said in a letter read at the ceremony a your prayers Are for peace in the Middle East. A�.-�. A say compared the hundreds of hostages who have been released by iraqi president Saddam Hussein with the americans and other Western captives in   a shows what can be accomplished with the full attention of National leadership a she said adding that similar attention should be focused on has tages til Lebanon. Last week say said she planned to go to Lebanon in january in an Effort to find her brother. She said the state department had discouraged the trip but a this is a private initiative born of frustration and desperation and fear that Terry May not survive much longer a the four other americans being held in Lebanon Are was uncovered by German police and that he turned to the libyans lbs  evidence according to the unidentified investigators is the computer Chip which is different from those the Jibril bomb makers were known to use. They used a switch triggered by the plane s Altitude. The Lockerbie bomb was a Swiss made timing device of the Type traced to the libyan agent the report said. In addition the Toshiba radio preferred by the German bomb making cell for concealing explosives was a single speaker Model while the Lockerbie bomb parts of which were in the wreckage was a twin speaker Model lbs said. The libyan operative was spotted in Malta one month before the Lockerbie bombing lbs reported. The radio bomb was put aboard an air Malta flight there and later transferred to  am flight 103, it said. The flight originated in Frankfurt Germany then changed planes at London a Heathrow Airport. A libyan connection was also reported last week in the London newspaper the Independent which quoted unidentified High level sources close to the crash inquiry a asked about the Independent report Friday a spokesman for Scotland a senior Law officer the lord advocate declined to comment on what he called a Media  former captives Bruce Laingen left and Robert Polhill attend a Church Vigil held for Western hostages in Lebanon Thomas Sutherland Edward Austin Tracy Alann Steen and Jesse Jonathan  hostages Are thought to be held by pro iranian islamic shiites in the Southern suburbs of Beirut. In recent weeks Calm has been restored in the War torn City As the syrians have consolidated their hold of the country former hostage Robert Polhill and Bruce Laingen a former . Diplomat who was held hostage in Iran a decade ago lighted candles at the ceremony sponsored by no greater love a group that helps victims of War and the victims family members. In Jackson miss. A the White supremacist twice tried for the 1963 assassination of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers was arrested in Tennessee and his it life said authorities told him lie was being charged anew in the Case. Byron de la Beckwith 70, was arrested monday at his Home in signal Mountain Tenn., on a fugitive warrant issued by the state of Mississippi a they told us head have to go Back to trial a Thelma Beckwith said \ the arrest came after a county grand jury in Jackson heard two Days of testimony about the assassination of Evers Field Secretary Lor the National association Tor the advancement of coloured people when he was shot to death. Sheriffs it. Letupu Clark in Hamilton county Tenn., said Beckwith had been indicted but declined to say whether the charge stemmed from the Evers Case. Beckwith was jailed without bail for an extradition hearing tuesday afternoon in Chattanooga Tenn. In Jackson Hinds county District at Torney de Peters refused to discuss the Case. A i. Evers 37, was slain june 12,1963, out. Side his Jackson Home Beckwith whose fingerprint was found on a Rifle discarded near the scene was tried twice on murder charges in 1964. Two All White juries deadlocked in the Case. The murder charge against Beckwith w As dismissed in 1969 the investigation of Eversz death was reopened amid allegations of jury and evidence tampering. Among those who Testi fied before the most recent grand jury was Eversz widow Myrlie Beckwith a former Greenwood fertilizer Salesman said sunday he expected to be arrested and would fight extradition to Mississippi a tooth Nail and  mrs. Beckwith said her husband was nonchalant when the deputies came. She said he told them a a it a Good to see you boys pm ready to go. In a not  Beckwith a philosophy permits no room for Blacks jews asians or any race other than White  
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