European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 6, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5 police defend Progress in alleged rape Case Palm Beach Fla. Apr nearly a week after a woman said she was raped at the Kennedy family com found police have made no arrests and the woman ired Quot two criminal lawyers As her family complained about Progress in the Case. A police say they re trying their Best under intense pressure., a a a / a a instead of one detective i have assigned three or four detectives to work this Case a police capt. Brian Roche said thursday in Palm Beach county circuit court. A  a by William Kennedy Smith 30, a Nephew of . Sen. Edward Kennedy is the prime suspect according to the Palm Beach Post which quoted an unnamed source. Police have refused to confirm or deny the report and Smith has denied any wrongdoing a a in be cancelled Days off. I want to bring this Case to a successful conclusion As soon As we can a said Roche who is head of detectives. A Roche was in court for a hearing on Public Access to the police report on the incident in which the 29-year-old woman said she was raped Early last saturday. The Palm Beach Post the Palm Beach daily news and television station a pts sued for release of the report. 4 but police done to want to give out any More  about the alleged rape because they say intense Media attention is harming the investigation. Circuit judge Richard Oftedal said he hoped to Rule Friday on releasing the report. On March 29 the woman met sen. Kennedy 59 his son Patrick Kennedy 24 and Smith at the a bar club. The woman said they invited her Over to  and it was there she was assaulted. Smith the elder Kennedy Massachusetts senior senator and Patrick a democratic Rhode Island state lawmaker have All denied any wrongdoing. Roche said the police have been Quot inundated with Media worldwide Media about the incident. The woman a Stepfather meanwhile told the Boston Globe he a impatient with Progress in the Case. Police chief Joseph Terlizzese has said the alleged victim went to the Kenny Dysh walled Seaside estate for drinks after leaving the nightspot. The woman told police she was raped about 4 . Saturday and was treated at a Hospital that afternoon. The daily news in new York reported Friday that waitress Michele Cassone said she was at a bar the night the Kenned group gathered there and was at the compound at the invitation of Patrick and Edward Kennedy when the alleged rape occurred. She said she sat with the senator and his son on an Esplanade overlooking the sea and never saw the other woman or Smith. An hour later Cassone said she was sitting with Patrick Kennedy in a Small  room of the mansion when the senator came in wearing an Oxford cloth shirt. She said she thought he also was wearing shorts but All she could see was the shirt. She said she turned to Patrick and said a i think ill go Home now. This is getting  a admits fault in deaths Washington apr six men who died at a veterans Hospital in suburban Chicago were victims of bad care the government said Friday in accepting blame. A mistakes were made a veterans affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski said. A the medical a Are was clearly not what it should  \ the vans admission of some responsibility comes a week after department investigators questioned delays Between diagnosis and surgery poor supervision and other practices at the North Chicago Hospital. The a said 120 patients died Between june 1989 and March 1990. After extensive review of 15 cases the Agency acknowledged blame in six deaths said or. James Holsinger jr., the vans chief medical officer. In one of the six a there was absolutely no question in our minds that the a was at fault in the care of the patient Quot Holsinger said Friday a in the other five a we were not clearly sure if the complication was natural or the complication was due to less than Quality care a he said. A whenever we see this we find in favor of the veterans. That a a longstanding  but in nine of the 15 deaths the a takes no blame. A the care Issue was not the determining Factor in what happened to the patients a Holsinger said. L Vav it y a v say t at 1a Atlantis lifts off Friday morning from pad 398 at Kennedy space  carries 5 into orbit Cape canaveral Fla. Yap Atlantis thundered into orbit Friday with five astronauts and an immense Observatory that will stalk the hottest most powerful rays in the heavens. Except for the failure of one of several thrusters during ascent a minor problem that was not expected to affect the flight a fall systems aboard Atlantis appear to be performing exceptionally Well a said Mission controls Jeff Carr. It was the 39th launch of a shuttle and the first of 1991, after a hiatus of four months. The main event of the flight which will last five Days is the release of the Gamma Ray Observatory. Mission commander Steven Nagel arid his Crew of four will place the spacecraft in a 279-mile-High orbit on sunday. On monday astronauts Jerry Ross and Jay Apt Are scheduled to take the first space walk by americans in More than five years. The y arc to spend six hours in the open cargo Bay testing equipment needed to build a space station. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago april 6,1981 y soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev made an Unna Nourice visit to Czechoslovakia to hold a mini Summit with  the Warsaw pact allies and discuss. Labor unrest in Poland. 20 years ago april 6,1971 a at the rate of 250 attacks a Day . Warplanes Are Quot knocking the heir out of the communist Supply dumps in Laos according to it. Gen. James w. Sutherland or. The supplies fed the North vietnamese War machine in South Vietnam and Cambodia 30 years ago april 6,1961 a . Military banking facilities announced an Exchange rate of 3.96 West German Marks to the Dollar and an american airline advertised round trip flights Between new York and Frankfurt for $104. 40 year Sago april 6,1951 a Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the electric chair for their involve Merit in delivering Ator tic bomb secrets to the soviet Union. Pacific Northwest could have huge earthquake report says by Sandra Blakeslee the new York times. Geologists have discovered striking evidence the Pacific Northwest Long viewed As relatively Safe from earthquakes is a seismic Dangar zone that could produce one of the strongest earthquakes Ever. A we now realize that the most dangerous fault in the United states lies off the Pacific Northwest a said or. Thomas Heaton a seismologist at the . Geological Survey office in Pasadena Calif. A similar earthquake risk exists at a fault off the coast of Alaska. The new evidence is reported in fridays Issue of the journal science by James c. Savage and Michael Lisowski geologists with the geological Survey office in Menlo Park Calif. Using measurements obtained Over eight years they found that mountains along the olympic Peninsula of Washington Are slowly being squeezed together while the coastline rises both Are Clear signs that major earthquake stresses Are building in the Region. The scientists did not project when a quake might occur but said enough Strain had built up on the fault to warrant serious efforts to revise building codes and to modify existing buildings. Earthquake provisions in building codes in Oregon and most of Washington Are no stricter than those in upstate new York or new England areas of much lower earthquake risk. In fact the researchers said the stresses they observed could cause a quake measuring up to 9.5 on the Richter scale. Such a quake could cause coastal areas to drop As much As six feet in minutes and could generate huge Waves along the fault line from Vancouver b.c., to Mendocino Calif. A More significantly such an earthquake which would last about three minutes would cause most of the buildings in a City like Portland ore., to collapse. Heaton said people in the Region have been complacent because no great earthquake has occurred since european settlers arrived. Recent research shows the coastal regions of. Washington and far Northern California experienced one or More massive earthquakes about 300 years ago and that such earthquakes May strike the Region every 400 to 500 years. Copter crashes near Convoy Pilot Dies Fallbrook Calif. Up a helicopter struck a Power line and crashed onto a Busy Highway near Camp Pendleton on Friday killing the Pilot and narrowly missing a military Convoy the California Highway patrol said. The southbound lanes of interstate 15 a few Miles South of the Riverside county line Vivere closed while emergency Crews cleared the wreckage from the traffic lanes. A Only debris from the helicopter hit the military vehicle a Humy in Quot a cup dispatcher said. A was far As we know there was one person in the vehicle and he escaped without injury. Quot reports Are there was Only one person on the helicopter and it is believed he did not survive a the dispatcher said. Fire officials also spid they had received reports of at least one fatality. The crash occurred less than 10.miles from Camp Pendleton where marines have been returning from duty in the persian Gulf. Base officials had no immediate information on the incident. Initial reports that the helicopter was a military aircraft were erroneous