European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 13, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 7senate Bill would ban Croton funds Washington a the Senate appropriations committee on thursday passed a $8.4 billion military construction Bill for 1992 that prohibits spending . Funds on a new nato air base in Italy that the Bush administration says is critically needed. Sen. Jim Sasser chairman of the Senate a subcommittee on military construction told the full committee that the proposed air base at Croton Italy was a an extravagance that a shrinking . Military can do without. The House military construction Bill also prohibits spending on Croton. The Croton base was proposed by nato As a new Home for the . 401st tactical fighter Wing which includes 72 f-16 fighter aircraft. The 401st had been based in Spain but the Spanish government has required the Wing to leave. Sasser noted that Gen. John r. Galvin commander of nato forces in Europe had strongly urged . Financing for Croton which he contended was critical to providing a credible defense of Allied interests in the Mediterranean area. Sasser said that in Light of Pentagon decisions to close dozens of bases in the United states the administration could not justify building a new one in Italy particularly since the risk of War against the soviet Union had diminished. Republican sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska told the committee that he might recommend revising the Bill later to add funds in the event that the philippine Senate rejects an Extension of the leasing agreement under which . Forces operate from Subic Bay naval base. The current philippine bases agreement is set to expire next monday. Subic Bay is the largest . Naval station outside the United states. If the . Navy is required to leave Subic As appears Likely from a preliminary philippine Senate vote this week the United states would have to find naval facilities elsewhere in the Pacific Stevens said. The committee Bill which now will be considered by the full Senate specifically prohibits the use of any portion of the . Contribution to natos common budget for construction at Croton. The Bill includes $254 million for the . Contribution to the nato budget the House military construction Bill provides $158 million. The administration asked for $358 million. The Bill a Overall spending total of $8.4 billion is $149 million less than requested by the administration and $69 million More than established in the House military construction Bill. House and Senate negotiators will meet to reconcile the two Bills. The Bill is for military construction spending for the budget year beginning the Bill also provides $297 million for beginning the 1991 round of . Military base closures As recommended earlier this summer by the commission of base closures and realignments and approved by president Bush and the Congress. Hostage holding youth disarmed by classmate police Lead away a 17-year-old ninth grader accused of holding 22 fellow students hostage wednesday. Rapid City . Apr a boy armed with a sawed off Shotgun took 22 fellow High school students hostage for about four hours wednesday and demanded pizza soda and cigarettes before a student disarmed him police said. No one was injured. The gunman a 17-year-old ninth grader at rapid City Stevens High school gave up after a hostage took the Shotgun away when he rested it on a table while lighting a cigarette police chief Tom Hennies said. The youth was arrested without incident Hennies said. His name Wasny to released because of his age. The student walked into a math class wearing a Trench coat pulled out the Shotgun and ordered the teacher to leave Hennies said. Police said the youth fired about 10 shots during the standoff but no one was hit. He released four of the students As he negotiated with authorities Over the schools intercom system police said. At one Point he demanded pizza which was delivered. Later police delivered soda and cigarettes to the room. Chris Ericks a 17-Ycar-old senior said he saw an Opportunity to disarm the gunman when the cigarettes arrived. The gunman had the Only lighter and students approached him to have their cigarettes lit Ericks said. When the gunman rested the Shotgun on a Tabic while lighting cigarettes Ericks said he a nuck up from behind grabbed the weapon and pointed it at him. A i knew we were never going to get out unless somebody in the room took action a Ericks said. The students were on a first name basis with the gunman and talked with him about school related topics during the standoff Ericks said. Ericks said the gunman appeared Calm but shot holes in the chalkboard Pencil Sharpener and overhead projector. A special response team was called to the school As were the parents of the students being held police said. Stevens student Jason Craig told radio station Kyls that the boy a Friend of his hinted he might take such action. Craig said his Friend asked him a a a what do you think would happen if i walked into math class tomorrow with a Shotgun a a prosecutors drop plea in sex Case fort Lauderdale Fla. Apr prosecutors withdrew a plea agreement with a self proclaimed nymphomaniac and her husband on prostitution charges wednesday after reports that their lawyer tried to sell a videotape of the woman with a client. Kathy willets and her husband Broward county sheriffs Deputy Jeffrey willets had planned to enter guilty pleas to prostitution related charges wednesday. But the state abruptly withdrew the plea agreement during a hearing before Broward circuit judge John a. Frusciante. A reporter had said the office of Ellis Rubin the willets so attorney offered to sell a videotape of Kathy willets engaged in a sex act. Reporter Steve Wilson of the syndicated program inside edition said one of Rubin a sons attorney Guy Rubin offered to sell the program for $60,000 a videotape of Kathy willets having sex with former fort Lauderdale vice mayor Doug Danziger. The couple charged clients from $50 to $150 an hour and made As much As $25,000 Over six months investigators said. They face trial on the original charges oct. 2. Couple claim Flag caused eviction Hayward Calif. Up a California couple have sued their former landlords for allegedly evicting them from their Hayward Home for flying the . Flag during the persian Gulf crisis. William and Susan Barker said the landlords Robert and Louise Johnson evicted them after the barkers 18-year-old son Murray refused to take Down a Flag he flew to support of . Troops in the persian Gulf when ordered to do so by Robert Johnson. The suit filed last week in Alameda county Superior court claims Johnson came to the House feb. 9 and ordered the Flag removed because As a Jehovah a witness he believes that flags represent Indianapolis a a woman who had been a fugitive since her prison escape 22 years ago until her arrest this summer gained her Freedom wednesday when a judge accepted a release agreement. Mary Louise Wright 41, was placed on probation for one year and ordered to perform 100 hours of Community service. A i knew one Day it was going to catch up with me a Wright said As she was escorted Back to the Marion county jail for processing before her release. A but in a glad now a she said. A for the false images or idols. The barkers claim their eviction several months later was triggered by the Flag incident and say their constitutional rights to free speech were violated. The suit seeks unspecified damages for emotional distress and Legal fees based on a retaliatory  it also claims the property was in disrepair and no Effort was made to Correct deficiencies. The barkers now live in Fremont. Their attorney Clifford Hirsch said that the Issue centers on the first amendment right to free speech and that complaints about the condition of first time in 22 years in a  Marion Superior court judge Webster Brewer Wrights attorney and prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett All noted that Wright had led a crime free life since 1969, when she scaled a Fence at the Indiana women a prison. She had just begun a one-to-10-year sentence there for assault and Battery. Wright was arrested july 24 after a state trooper stopped her for driving with a broken Brake Light. She had lived in her old neighbourhood and elsewhere in Indianapolis under her the House Are secondary. A the landlord cannot decide whether a symbolic or decorative Flag May be flown from the premises a he said. A no one is contesting the right of the landlord to exercise his religious beliefs. However those beliefs cannot be imposed upon a  Diane Silva the Johnsonsr attorney said she had not yet seen the lawsuit but said the dispute is Over other matters relating to the tenancy. A my clients absolutely deny that Flag flying had anything to do with it a she said wednesday. A they were extremely shocked by the  Freedom own name after her escape at age 19. After her arrest she was returned to prison to serve the remainder of her sen tence. Wright had been convicted of attacking a 63-year-old nurse at the Indiana girls school where she was sent for truancy. She has said the nurse slapped her face and hit her in the stomach so she struck Back. The judge noted the release was conditional on the performance of Community service. Wright already has agreed to work with Goodwill industries. Captured fugitive finally wins