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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 5, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9divorce lawyers try to clean up image Chicago apr an organization of divorce lawyers a trying to clean up its members . Law image As Legal Lothario a has adopted guidelines governing such things As sleeping with clients and using children As weapons. A the Public thinks most lawyers Are Arnie Beckers. Most divorce lawyers Are not Arnie Beckers a Sanford Dranoff president of the american Academy of matrimonial lawyers said tuesday referring to the series Sleazy divorce lawyer. The Chicago based group has drafted non binding guidelines that Call for a avoiding the use of youngsters As bargaining chips. A steering Clear of sexual entanglements with clients. A avoiding harassment of opposing attorneys. A recommending reconciliation when appropriate. A considering the welfare of the children. The group which represents about 1.200 of the nation s 40,000 divorce lawyers already has general ethical guidelines but these Are to first to Deal specifically with sexual issues and certain other matters Dranoff said. A the goal is to make sure that the tactics employed by Arnie Becker and in a War of the roses Are fiction rather than reality a he said. Sex with clients is a particularly sensitive ethical Issue for the Legal profession. The California bar recently passed a measure bar ring lawyers from demanding or coercing sex with a client. When sexual relations do occur the lawyers must prove the relationship did t interfere with their professional representation. The american bar association which represents about half the nation s 750,000 lawyers is not considering guidelines specifically for divorce attorneys said George Kuhlman Aba ethics counsel. The Aba has guidelines for lawyers in general. Quot we Haven t seen anything in the Domestic relations Field that would make us want to take a closer look a Kuhlman said. A it s possible that the sex with clients Issue which has been coming up a fair amount might be a Little More frequent in the context of Domestic relations Law. But not by much."2nd army drops Forward from unit s name by Ken Claison Bremerhaven Bureau the 2nd army div fwd dropped its a a Forward designation sunday because the divisions two fort Hood Texas based brigades have been inactivated As part of the army wide troop reduction said maj. Roger King a unit spokesman. The brigade in Karlstedt Germany is no longer deployed a a Forward of its Parent unit now being the Only Active unit wearing the a hell on wheels Patch. The 2nd army div name on official documents will be followed by a minus Symbol in parenthesis King said indicating it is smaller than a division. The brigade sized unit based at Lucius d. Clay Cavern in Karlstedt Germany is a . Army Europe unit but was still linked by lineage and As a Forward deployed brigade of the division in Texas. The 2nd army div is said to have been Gen. George s. Patton  favorite even though he was the division commander for just Over a year during world War ii from november 1940 to january 1942. Patton a son Gen. George s. Patton Iii also commanded the division from 1975 to 1977. Unit lore says it was Patton who ordered the division s soldiers to Wear their Patch on their chests Over their hearts unlike any other army units who Wear their Patch on their sleeve. By other accounts it was his wife Beatrice who requested the unit Patch be on the soldiers chests As the division was closest to her ambush kills 2 soldiers searching for abductees Ankara Turkey apr guerrillas ambushed turkish troops who were searching for five tourists kidnapped by kurdish rebels while on a Field trip in search of Noah s Ark Anatolia news Agency reported tuesday. Two soldiers were killed. Officials said a wide scale military operation to find and Rescue the five abducted westerners had so far failed. The five were identified As Ronald Wyatt 57, of Nashville. Tenn. Marvin t. Wilson of Garland Texas Richard m. Rives of North Carolina briton Gareth Thomas and australian Allen Roberts. They were ordered from their minibus and led away at gunpoint by kurdish rebels in Bingol province last Friday night. Wyatt has searched Turkey for Noah s Ark since 1977, and the vehicle the five men were travelling in was bound for an excavation site. The Bible says the Ark made landfall near mount Ararat in Eastern tur key after the deluge. Doug Snider a Nashville associate of Wyatt in his quest said Wyatt was in Turkey to get excavation permits for live portions of a to documentary of his expedition. The turkish Driver later told police the kidnappers announced themselves to be guerrillas of the kurdish labor party or pkg. The pkg has been fighting since 1984 for an Independent marxist state for kurd in Southeastern Turkey Home to about half of turkeys 12 million kurdish minority. More than 3.000 people have died in the fighting. Turkish officials say the search is being conducted by 2,500 police commandos and elite police teams in about five provinces. A senior official of the special governorship for the area in Diyarbakir said Security forces had made no Contact with the abductors so far. Lavt Luil Nellt. I lie do tit nay my Uii Mouw sub he   landfall near mount Ararat in Eastern tur abductors so far. North Korea May Aid probe for gis missing from War Tokyo apr North korean offi a with no preconditions they indicate. A a i i   Odom Iii thit ice Iio Tokyo apr North korean officials have indicated they Are willing to investigate the thousands of americans missing in action or taken prisoner in the korean War a representative of a . Veterans group said wednesday. Former army staff sgt. Tom Gregory of the chosen few the first . Veterans group allowed to visit since the War said officials in the capital of Pyongyang assured him the North will investigate whether any of the americans Are still alive. The chosen few has 3,700 members mostly former marines who Are veterans of the 1950 chosen Reservoir Battle. Husband s heart. Photos of the unit in action in world War 11, however still show the Patch on the sleeve. Nevertheless the division was Given official exemption to the uniform regulations in 1963 by then Secretary of the army Cyrus Vance. Formed in 1940, it is the longest continuously serving armoured division in the army and included the 66th Armor regt and 41st inf regt. The brigade in Karlstedt still includes elements of those regiments As it has since the divisions inception. The division earned its a hell on wheels motto during world War ii for its rapid Progress across Belgium after the Normandy breakout according to a former division commander who wrote a foreword to a unit history. The division stormed across the Plains of Northern Europe fought in the Battle of the bulge and was the first . Unit to occupy Berlin. The brigade from Karlstedt and one from fort Hood fought this year in the Gulf War. The unit in Karlstedt is larger than a Standard armoured brigade because in addition to its one infantry and two Armor battalions it includes a division Headquarters staff its own military intelligence and Engineer companies and Field artillery and Forward support battalions King said. The divisions two other brigades were inactivated at fort Hood in october ll>90 and May 1991, respectively he said. A with no preconditions they indicated a willingness to re examine the Issue of whether any american soldiers Are still alive in North Korea Quot said Gregory who was in Tokyo after an eight Day visit to communist North Korea one of the worlds most isolated countries. A a the North had always said it was a closed Issue so i was surprised they agreed to look into it a he said in a Telephone interview. Of the 5 million americans who fought in the korean War 8,177 remain listed As missing in action and 389 pos Are unaccounted for Gregory it did. More than 33.600 . Service members  to defend himself deputies escort Donald Leroy Evans charged in the Kidnap slaying of 10-year-old Beatrice Louise Routh from the courtroom in Gulfport miss., tuesday following a hearing on a motion that Evans be allowed to represent himself. Evans has admitted to killing the girl and claims to have killed More than 60 other people across the country  
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