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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, June 2, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Star and stripes sunday june 2. 1991 the Star and stripes b Page 7wedtech figure s conviction reversed new Ork a \ cd Oil Cost reversed l. Robert Wallach s conviction m the we tech Case. Ruling that false testimony tainted his trial on charges he took a votes to lobby ins Friend. . At Torney general Edwin Meese. I he 2nd . Circuit court of appeals on Friday ordered a new trial for Wallach and two co defendants saving the government should have known that it key prosecution witness lied. Robert Bork. The unsuccessful . Supreme court nominee who represented Wallach in his Appeal said he was glad what he termed a a miscarriage of Justice Quot had been collected. Wallach 56. Was convicted m August 1989 of accepting $425,000 from we tech corp., a now defunct defense con tractor to Irv to influence Meese and other of facials on government contracts. Others convicted in the scandal include ex-. Rep. Mario Biaggi a new York Democrat and Lormer Bronx Borough president san lev Simon. A voiding to trial evidence. We tech grew trom a Small machine shop into a-sl00 million government contractor through various bribery schemes. Bettie it collapsed in. 1986-amid Al Lega. Wallach toils of corruption the Bronx based company was praised by than pc Sidcot Reagan and other officials As an example of a minority Enterprise help me an impoverished neighbourhood.  that Meese and his staff had helped we tech obtain contracts but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Me Esuf who resigned As attorney general in 19,88. Testified that Wallach never asked him  anything improper. A. Wallach attended Law school with Meese and rep resented him at confirmation hearings for. The attorney general s Post anti at a special prosecutor s investigation in 1984. W Allach a conviction was the second we tech ease reversed by the 2nd c Lecuit y ourt. I Asi june the Couit Luew out the convict ions Olex i -.s. Rep. A obit Gai Era. Also a new \ Ork Democrat. Anti his Wile who were charged with Colo Itig Pavolis trom w Evtech of Licals. L our we tech of leers. Including com pan president Anthony Tia right. Pleaded guilty to bribery related charges anti helped the government build eases against Public officials. In the Wallachy a decision the appeals i court said Guan has credibility was tainted when he lied on the witness stand about gambling. His cooperation agreement with the gov eminent a barred him from gambling. Guarigla was convicted earlier this War of Peri Urx i Las sentencing is  s Gulf casualties honoured with memorial Juanita Melendez touches the memorial that includes the name of her son Delwin Delgado one of 23 members from the aircraft Carrier Saratoga who died during the Gulf crisis. The memorial was unveiled Friday at May port naval air station Fla. Mayport naval Mahon i la apr a Granite memorial to 23 people from the aircraft Carrier Saratoga who lost their lives during the persian Gull crisis was unveiled of Nav. M an Oak Grove that w ill become part of a larger memorial Park. But the parents of at least one dead Sailor said they still want some answers from the Navy about their son s de Atli. I he 5, 0 Pound French Creek Black Granite Stone the same Type used in the Vietnam veterans memorial in washing ton was unveiled near the front Gate of the base that serves As Home to the Saratoga. Four marines pulled a draped Flag from the Marker at a ceremony attended by about--500 people. A 21.-gun Salute was followed by the playing of �?otaps.�?�. Quot we Grieve for them and their families but we will never forget their spirit they loved their country. They  ship. I hey loved their squadrons Quot said.-. Vice a do. John ready commander of the Atlantic fleets air units. E.  sailors from the Saratoga perished during a ferry Accident on dec. 21 Oil the coast of Haifa Israel. About kill Saratoga sailors on leave during w a preparations were in the private ferry Vav Heidi it laundered and Sank. A a. I he Navy Marilie c corps medal w Aspi e-., seated posthumously to Petty Allicer 3rd lass Delwin Delgado,-.26,. A passenger on. The Larrv who dived repeatedly into the water to save ins shipmates Blore drown my himself. Ready  to Delgado s Mother Juanita Melendez. Larold and Delore Mcc i eight parents of airmail Brent a. Mcc Rei Glit 23, of i in Nence Kyd a said they had unanswered questions about the death of their Only son in the ferry Accident. A a lie was an excellent swimmer and i can t understand How my son could have died when lie was an excellent swimmer a mrs. Mcc Rei Glit said. It. John single cd. A Saratoga spokesman. Said the Navy had ahups4-Watnplcled its report on the Accident. V also honoured in the memorial Are c mar. Michael Scott speedier who was Fly -. Ing an i a is Hornet that was shot Down. Over Iraq Oil Jan. 17. The lust night of the air War and airman Stephen a. Bud Ian 21. Of Bethlehem. Conn who collapsed and died  ship l be. 22.in Gainesville. Fla. A a task Force investigating Jast Augustus mutilation slayings. Of five let?.iege students named a prime suspect on Friday. The suspect is Danny Harold rolling who is jailed in an unrelated grocery store . John Joyce a spokesman for the investigators made the announcement at a news conference in Gainesville before a Quot Quot court Quot in Ocala decided rolling was competent to plead guilty to the Holdup. A the naming of roiling As the prime suspect does not necessarily exclude other individuals who May Sliu. Be under investigation. The homicide investigation is continuing a Joyce said adding that rolling had been under investigation for six months. ,. Rolling 37,-also has been identified As a suspect in the slayings of three people in his Hometown of Shreveport la where lie is wanted in the shooting of his father a retired if Stew  a a a a it took this Long to. Get our Case w Here we wanted it to feel comfortable naming any suspects a Joyce Saiid. 7 a a rolling has not been charged in the Gainesville slayings and no timetable has been set for presenting the ease to a grand jury Joyce said. Sources have said for months that rolling was a suspect in the killings of they five University of Florida and Santa. Be Community College students. Genetic tests linked him to at least one of the three crime scene Sall Oil Campus apartments the sources said. Since the Gainesville investigation began last August the Only other suspect named by investigators was Edward Lewis Humphrey a 9-year old univ i sity of Florida student. He is serving a 22-month sentence in a state prison mental Hospital alter being. Convicted of assaulting his elderly grandmother  killings. Bedford Texas up a a Hospital has mailed letters to 5,01 0 former Patie its informing them a one time staff doctor died from complications plaids and reassuring them that transmission is a highly  an  Friday. A a or. Humberto Guajardo an Anaesthesiologist at Harris methodist i la bus medical staff from Jan. 25. 1984, to dec. 28, 1989, died in february of this year said r. William Whitman or. Administrator of the Dallas area Hospital. At the time of his death and during his tenure at the. Hospital Hospital officials were not aware that Guajardo was infected with the aids virus he said. It was confirmed May 20 by Hospital officials. Whitman said the staff had reviewed the records of 5,000 patients treated by Guajardo and determined there a is virtually no Chance Quot that any of them could  been exposed to the his virus. A in fact the i exas department of health and Cen ters for disease control of the . Department of health and human services Bot Bijold us that the risk of transmission of inv virus is highly unlike la and there is a t ui3.5e_f r Nijor v pne Ern to.  he said. A. Y. C. Whitman said the Hospital had a responsibility however to inform patients about the discovery following the doctor s death and to reassure them by providing the Best information  to Date Only one documented Case in the United states exists in which a health care worker apparently transmitted the aids virus to a patient he said. An investigation by the cd found in that Case a Florida dentist apparently committed a number of lapses in Standard infection control procedures. Whitman said tests will be available at no Cost Lor those patients who choose to be tested Lor the aids virus. Quot sex temptations Singer David Ruffin 50, Dies i 11ladllpi 11a up i David Rul i  Mer Lead Singer Libit a1 a Llu Vav or Grump the Quot i Elitt a is died saturday of an apparent drug overdose police said. He was 50 years old. Police said Ruffin was brought by a a mousing. Driver to the emergency room of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania about 2 55 . File limousine Driver told emergency. Room stall that the cards occupant May have overdosed on drugs and tentatively identified him said l  Duffy a police detective. Lire Mil confirmed Ruffin s identity though fingerprints. Duffy said the police did not have an address for rut Fin and did not know what he was  Philadelphia  
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