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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 8, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5thieves out to get outhouse election signs Auburn . Up Rob. Outhouse is a candidate for sheriff in Cayuga county and he s got a problem his Campaign signs Are disappearing As fast As he can put them up. A a we be posted so Many Campaign signs that i believe that the souvenir Hunters Are keeping them for posterity a the 14-Vear sheriff s Deputy said Friday. �?o1 think they re probably adorning dorm room Walls around Central new  he said he s spent $1,600 on the signs but the Money a not the Only problem. It s also wasting the time of his Volunteer Campaign workers and squandering the permission of homeowners who let him Post the 22 by 28-Inch signs on their lawns he said. In fact it s gotten so bad he placed a newspaper advertisement saying a please leave our signs alone. If you wish you can Contact us and Well give you an autographed  then again. Outhouse a pronounced the Way it s spelled a has been getting plenty of free publicity from his disappearing posters including a spot on the Cable news network. And he said the name itself has advantages. A the television people asked me if i had Ever thought about changing my name. 1 said no it s unforgettable. People meet me and they remember who 1 am and what 1  outhouse the endorsed Republican candidate faces a primary Challenge sept. 12 from unde Sheritt Richard Noga. Democrat Peter Pinckney a former Deputy also Hopes to replace the retiring Robert Sponagle who is believed to be the state s senior sheriff w Ith 25 years in office. He s a Good sport about his name partly because he has t heard a new joke about it in years. A i done to expect that people Are going to come up with something i Haven t heard before Quot he said. "1 think it s a boost rather than a Knock. 1 think it May have made me a better person."2 Milwaukee cops fired in Dahmer Case Milwaukee a two police officers were fired Friday for leaving an a obviously incapacitated naked boy in the hands of Jeffrey l. Dahmer two months before dismembered bodies were found in Dahmer a apartment. A third officer was fired but his Dis Gabrish Balcerzak Missal was stayed. Chief Philip Arreola cited a facts of omissions by the officers in the May 27 encounter. They included a failure to take witnesses names at the scene and failure to take the 14-year-old boy into protective custody. The mutilated bodies of 11 males including the youth Koserak Inthasom phone were later found in Dahmer s apartment. Witnesses summoned police on May 27 after seeing the youth on the Street naked and bleeding records show. Dahmer has admitted killing and dismembering 17 males since 1978. A i have concluded the officers failed to properly perform their duties Quot Arreola said. Patrolmen John a. Balcerzak 34, Joseph Gabrish 28, and Richard Porubcan 25, were suspended july 26. On Friday Arreola fired Balcerzak and Gabrish. He stayed the dismissal of Porubcan who will be under close supervision for one year effectively on Job probation. The chief said Porubcan was allowed to keep his Job because he is relatively inexperienced and because he was less culpable in handling the incident. A state investigation has concluded that the officers committed no crimes. Laurie Eggert an attorney for the police Union said Balcerzak and Gabrish would Appeal the decision. Porubcan issued a statement saying he was saddened by his colleagues dismissal. The three officers questioned Dahmer but decided to leave Sintha Somphone at Dahmer a apartment after accepting his explanation that the boy was his 19-year-old Lover records show. Dahmer later said he killed the boy As soon As the officers left according to court records. The three officers violated department procedures by failing to take an a obviously incapacitated child into protective custody Quot Arreola said. A was chief i recognize that both 1 and the entire department must accept responsibility for the inadequate police response of May 27th, 1991,&Quot Arreola said. Dahmer 31, a former Candy factory worker has been charged with 15 counts of first degree intentional homicide. The crime carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Police said Dahmer confessed to killing two 14-year-old boys a Hitchhiker in Ohio and several Young men he lured to his apartment. Police recordings show the officers joked about needing to be a Odelous cd after leaving the boy with to Jarnier. Police investigated Dahmer a apartment july 22 after a handcuffed Man flagged Down officers and said he had been threatened  sentenced in plot to damage atomic Sites Phoenix a a member of the environmental group Earth first was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for in thl stars and stripes10 years ago sept. 8,1981 a a nato spokesman expressed concern when the soviet Union failed to report the number of troops involved in Maneu vers off the coast of the Baltic states. Previously the soviets had always complied with the 1975 Accord that required notification of troop Maneu vers involving More than 25,000 men.20 years ago sept. 8,1971 a the defense and state departments prodded american diplomats and military commanders overseas to move More aggressively against discrimination aimed at Black . Service Mem ers and asked for reports on a what positive actions Are being taken."30 years ago sept. 8,1961 a the United states and France concluded an agreement providing for the training of French nato forces in the use of american atomic weapons.40 years ago sept. 8,1951 a communist police confiscated All Western vehicles found in East Berlin in retaliation for a Short lived tax on Eastern vehicles levied by an american sector Borough. His role in an alleged conspiracy to damage nuclear installations in three states. Mark Davis sentence was the maximum permitted unde an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property at Snow bowl ski resort near Flagstaff. . District judge Robert Broomfield also accepted plea bargains on behalf of the four other defendants in what authorities said was a conspiracy to damage nuclear Sites in California Colorado and Arizona. The group apparently conducted several rehearsal attacks in preparation for the larger projects to come. The rehearsals included vandalizing the ski resort damaging Power poles near a uranium mine near the grand Canyon and damaging Power lines leading to an Arizona Aqueduct. Broomfield ordered Davis to report for prison sept. 23. Davis had asked for time to get his affairs in order and an Opportunity to spend time with his daughters. Davis also was ordered to pay about $20,000 restitution for the ski resort damage. In a lengthy and emotional statement Davis told the judge he acknowledged his actions and his responsibility for them. But he also said he was trying to protect himself and others against the potentially deadly danger of nuclear plants. A a in a not an anarchist. I m not a terrorist. I m not a revolutionary a he said. A what i did was an attempt to Wake people  his attorney. Wellborn Jack jr., said Davis a knows As a participant in this trial that a Monkey wrenching As a form of environmental activism As a political expression is  the term applies to acts of environmental protest and comes from a Book by the late environmentalist Edward Abbey. The Hook gave Rise to the activist organization Earth first and its founder Dave Foreman of Tucson was aiming the defendants. 32 More inmates deported to Cuba Birmingham Ala. A thirty two cubans were deported Friday in the second group of Mariel boat lift immigrants sent Home since authorities put Down a recent prison uprising. The 32 were shackled and under heavy guard As they were escorted aboard a government plane at Birmingham for the flight to Havana. Their departure left 56 cuban detainees at the Talladega Federal correctional institution about 40 Miles East of Birmingham. On aug. 31, 31 cubans were sent Home. At one time 2,746 of the 125,000 cubans who came to the United states in the 1980 boat lift were held in Federal prisons under deportation orders after being convicted of crimes in this country. That number was Down to 145 after fridays departures although others Are imprisoned whom Cuba has not agreed to accept. On aug. 21, cubans look ii prison workers hostage to Back up their demand against being returned Home. One hostage was released almost immediately be cause he had been injured and another was released a week later in return for an Opportunity for the cubans to speak to a Spanish speaking reporter. The remaining nine hostages seven men and two women were freed aug. 30 in a pre Dawn storming of a prison unit by Fri and Bureau of prisons agents. At Talladega prison spokesman de Crosley said it could Lake another week or two to Complete an investigation into the uprising. Paper retires Gay writer in different Job Houston apr a columnist fired by the Houston Post for defying orders not to publicly discuss his homosexuality has accepted an offer to return As a member of its editorial Board the newspapers editor said Friday. Juan Palomo who wanted to disclose that he was Gay in a july 9 column was fired aug. 30 after he was interviewed by the Houston press an alternative weekly. About his dispute with Post editors. The editors had ordered him to delete discussion of his homosexuality from the column. Charles Cooper the posts senior vice president and editor Aid that in his new position Palomo will he writing opinion columns and will have other duties on the editorial staff. A a we be worked out a Deal that is Good for Juan and Good for the Post Quot Cooper said. A now we want to put it All behind us and concentrate on producing a great  45, said it has been a difficult period for everyone involved. A i look Forward to once again being a member of the Post team a Palomo said. A in the end what matters most to me and i Hope to my readers is that my voice will still be heard in   
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