European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a the stars and stripes saturday october 19,1991 at a glance la. Col. Frank Thomas adds touches to a painting depicting action in the persian Gulf War. He is one of two army Reserve artists whose wartime work is being displayed at fort myer a. See Story on Page 16. return Home hundreds of people chased from their Homes by wildfires in four Northwest states were allowed to return As firefighters counted on Calmer weather to help them douse the flames. A Page 4house deletes gun ban despite impassioned appeals from lawmakers who represented texans killed in a restaurant massacre the House Defeated a proposed ban on the sate of 13 semiautomatic weapons and Large ammunition clips. A Page 6official implicated american mercenary Jack Terrell said the Philippines foreign Secretary hired him last year to assassinate a renegade officer who has played a key Rote in attempts to overthrow president Corazon Aquino. A Page 8iraq violating agreement International arms inspector David Kay told a Senate panel that Iraq is continuing to hide its nuclear weapons program from the world Community. A Page 10bad news for recovery a Survey released by the . Chamber of Commerce showed a stagnant manufacturing sector and accelerating inflation raising fresh doubts about recovery from recession. A Page 17 Index ?iv5vv?5wvs-ivv5vivviv>vskvi5wsivi Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces n places. 18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 Thomas now officially Justice As Bush signs his commission Washington a Clarence Thomas on Friday became an associate Justice of the supreme court when president Bush signed a Federal commission elevating him to the Post. Before taking his seat on the nations highest court Thomas must take a judicial oath of office next week. Bush signed the commission a few hours before a White House ceremony where Thomas was to take the oath of office. A a he la be referred to today As Justice a Bush a spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. The White House normally holds supreme court swearing in ceremonies in the ornate but confined East room. But to accommodate hundreds of Thomas family members and friends a As Well As leaders of Congress and the Senate judiciary committee a Bush was holding fridays swearing in outdoors on the South Lawn where he normally welcomes Heads of state. Thomas a Black conservative who has been a Federal appeals judge will not actually take his seat on the High court Jpn til he swears a second judicial oath next week at an investiture ceremony at the supreme court. The White House ceremony follows contentious Senate judiciary committee hearings last weekend that aired Law professor Anita Hills allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas her Boss at two Federal agencies a decade ago. Those proceedings riveted the nations attention and led Thomas to complain bitterly that he was the victim of a a nigh tech the Senate voted 52-48 tuesday evening to confirm him. Thomas will become the 106th supreme court Justice. He succeeds the retired Thurgood Marshall the first and Only other Black in the courts history. Thomas 43, a sharecroppers grandson who escaped from poverty in pin Point ga., to graduate from holy Cross College and Yale Law school became a Federal appeals court judge in 1989 after seven years As chairman of the equal employment Opportunity commission. He served earlier As the education departments civil rights chief. Panel oks Gates As Cia director Washington a the Senate intelligence committee voted 11-4 Friday to endorse Robert Gates nomination to head the Cia despite charges he hid the truth about the Iran Contra affair and slanted intelligence reports in the 1980s. The vote sent the nomination to the full Senate where supporters predicted approval in the next few weeks. Sen. David Boren d-okla., the com Mittee chairman said that despite concerns Over his record Gates has a has matured has grown and is ready to face the challenges ahead and address the concerns of the people he will if confirm shed Gates would take Oyer an Agency trying to redefine its Mission in the Post communist Era. It was the second major nomination vote of the week a coming after the full Senate approved Clarence Thomas for a seat on the supreme court a and the second Success for the Bush administration in the democratic controlled Senate. Gates was supported by four democrats and All seven republicans. All the opposition came from democrats. The debate Over Gates fitness for the Post continued until the formal from Page 1 was imposed. He agreed that he had disgraced the Navy but added a a in be been a Patriot All of my his attorney e. Lawrence Barcella jr., argued unsuccessfully that Paisley should be sentenced to Home detention because he is being treated for prostate cancer. Barcella said later he would consider appealing the sentence. In pleading guilty last june 14, Paisley admitted that he agreed to take kickbacks from three defense firms in return for helping them win lucrative manufacturing contracts during his service As assistant Navy Secretary for research and engineering. Within 15 months after he resigned in 1987, Paisley was paid nearly $500,000 by defense contractors for providing secret Pentagon information he had obtained while working for the Navy according to court papers. Paisley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government taking bribes As a Public official and theft of government property. His convictions carried a maximum prison term of 30 years plus a $750,000 Fine but no other defendant in the Case has received More than three years. So far at least 51 individuals and Paisley businesses have been convicted of trading in confidential Pentagon information since the investigation was made Public in june 1988. Last month Uniss corp. Pleaded guilty to eight counts including bribery and fraud and agreed to pay up to $190 million in fines. Uniss paid Paisley $98,000 six weeks after he resigned his government Post court papers said. Paisley admitted that he manipulated the bid process to help Sperry corp. A which later became Uniss in a merger with Burroughs corp. A win a share of a $2.7 billion contract to produce the Aegis weapons systems for Navy destroyers. Prosecutors said the Day that Paisley left the Pentagon he took with him a secret defense department analysis of competing bids to produce the f-404 Jet engine for the Navy. He shared the information with one of the competitors the Pratt amp Whitney division of United technologies corp. The company hired Paisley As a consultant and paid him $218,000 until the Pentagon procurement investigation became Public according to prosecutors. . from Page 1 out of there were other problems according to neighbors and former acquaintances who described Hennard 35, As a rude impatient and combative loner. Authorities were investigating whether Hennard was driven by a rage against women. A the has an evident problem with women for some reason not All women a police chief . Giacomozzi said thursday. A a we re trying to took into that to see if it can Lead us to where we need to fourteen of the 22 people killed were women As were at least 16 of the wounded. In june Hennard sent a rambling letter from Nevada where his Mother lives to Sisters Jill Fritz 23, and Jana Jernigan 19. He asked the two of them to go out with him saying it would a give me the satisfaction of someday laughing in the face of All those mostly White treacherous female vipers from two towns who tried to destroy me and my about a week after the letter arrived Jernigan said she heard Hennard a screaming at the top of his lungs at a woman in his driveway a How could you go to Killeen and dance with All those gis. You re my wife. Why Are you doing this to me a she said he yelled. Authorities have no evidence he was married. Hennard a parents Are divorced. His father Georges is an orthopaedic surgeon who was born in Switzerland and lives in Houston. His Mother Jeanna once sold Antiques and is now a manicurist in Henderson Nev. Hennard was born oct. 15, 1956, in a Pennsylvania Hospital where his father was then a resident. The family lived across the state line in Waverly n.y., in part of a House owned by Helen Abrams. A they were fighting All the time she and her husband were screaming and the children were crying and so my husband had to put them out of the House a Abrams said. A and we had quite a time getting them out. We had to go through a Hennard graduated from Mayfield High school in Las Cruces n.m., in 1974 while his family was living on the White Sands missile Range there according to school and army records. After High school Hennard enlisted in the Navy and served three years before joining the merchant Marine according to his lawyer Mccormack. A the was very loud a said Isiah Williams a Branch agent for the National maritime Union in san Pedro calif., a Union for merchant marines. A and he appeared to be combative at times. He would come in with a very cold look and be very argumentative loud boisterous sometimes cursing and swearing a Williams said in fridays new York times. In 1989, Hennard a Seaman a License was confiscated for smoking marijuana aboard a ship the coast guard said. Weeks later he entered a drug abuse program at a Houston Hospital in an Effort to get it Back. A the could have taken his lumps and got another Job Quot Mccormack said. A but he wanted to regain his
