European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday october 22,1991 taking a Day off Quot president Bush carries his clubs before a round of Golf sunday at a course in Gainesville a. The president spent the weekend at Camp David md., before returning to Washington in the afternoon. On sunday night Shelton Conn. Apr sgt. Vincent Casertano loved catching speeders with his radar gun. A you got Mem dead to right a he said. A How Are they going to tight it a but now Casertano says he was the one getting zapped during 20 years with a radar gun at his Side. Like scores of officers around the country Casertano suspects Long term exposure to radiation from the device gave him cancer. Surgeons removed his thyroid and surrounding Lymph nodes after he was diagnosed with cancer in 1988. A when i woke up i could t move my head. I was Cut car to ear. 1 saw one priest come in then later two More. 1 thought this must be the end Quot the Shelton police officer said. Casertano 55, is Back at work minus the hand held radar gun he used to Stop thousands of speeders in this town 10 Miles West of new Haven. Connecticut found itself in the Middle of the safety debate last week when the state police banned hand held radar guns As a precaution while studies Are conducted into possible links Between cancer and the devices. Adam Berluti a state police spokesman said his department has 210 outside mounted units More than enough to maintain Speed enforcement while its 70 hand Baton Rouge la. Apr evangelist Jimmy Swaggart recently found associating with a prostitute told his followers sunday that a Demon spirits were responsible for his troubles. Appearing somber but tearless before 500 members of his congregation Swaggart said he was temporarily stepping Down but a will not  sitting in a leather chair in front of the pulpit at his 7,000-Seal family worship Center Swaggart said he had a problem but did no to say what it was a in my mind i knew it was Demon spirits without warning without any stimulation. Psychology says something has to trigger it. But when Demon spirits function they done to have to have any stimulation or triggering devices. A the pressure of it would become so unbearable and somebody May ask the question a Well Why did t you go for help a a and that a the question that s where i was wrong. The president and his wife Barbara paid their respects at a Wake for Natalie Rehnquist wife of supreme court chief Justice William Rehnquist. She died last week of cancer. Held units Are put aside. The ban tuesday was believed to be the first of its kind by a state police Agency. By Friday at least 13 municipal police departments in Connecticut had followed suit. The Shelton police department was not among them. Two other departments Rocky Hill and Windsor locks imposed similar bans before state police acted. The St. Petersburg fla., police department believed to be the first to act on fears of a cancer link in january replaced hand held units with units outside patrol cars. The Hernando county fla., sheriffs department moved its radar transmitters outside cruisers earlier this year. Data collected by an Ohio trooper Gary Poynter for the fraternal order of police showed that dozens of officers were stricken with cancer in parts of the body where they would have been most exposed to radiation. The findings were published in Law enforcement news in 1990. An estimated 75,000 hand held and mounted radar units Are used by police in the United states according to custom signals inc. Of Overland Park Kan., the nations leading manufacturer of radar guns. A radar gun transmits a beam of Energy that comes Back at a different frequency after hitting a moving object. Speed is calculated from the change in frequencies. But before you judge me try to put yourself in my  on oct. 11, Swaggart was driving in Indio calif., near Palm Springs and was pulled Over for a traffic violation. In the car with him was a woman who said she was a prostitute. The woman said Swaggart had picked her up and asked her for sex. Swaggart was forced to resign in 1988 from the assemblies of god ministry after rival preacher Marvin Gorman released photos of Swaggart with a prostitute. Last month a jury in a defamation lawsuit against Swaggart and others awarded Gorman $10 million. Gorman claimed Swaggart spread false rumours that Gorman had engaged in several adulterous affairs. Swaggart who stills Heads Jimmy Swaggart ministries said he would not step Down but suggested he would take a leave of absence. Quot i done to know what will happen in the future a he said. A i done to know what will happen to the television ministry. 1 do not have any plans except to get   lands plane after father Dies at controls from wire reports a Shaniko Ore. A a woman in the Back seat of a single engine air plane reached Over the body of her father who died of an apparent heart attack at the controls and landed the plane at a Small Airstrip authorities said. Patty Sharp 23, had never flown a plane before. A for someone to have absolutely no flying experience and the circumstances she was under she was very very Lucky a Wasco county sheriffs sgt. Charles Butler said. Sharp and her father Patrick Sharp 62, had taken off in the Piper cub for a Day of sightseeing and photography saturday in Eastern Oregon. She was talking to her father when he slumped Over. She reached Over his body to grab the controls she said. A i can t imagine How she had any rudder control a Butler said. Rudders which steer a plane Are foot controlled. A group of ranchers boy scouts and their scoutmaster who had watched the plane circling tried to resuscitate the Pilot for about 30 minutes before paramedics  foe joins race Wichita Kan. A a National anti abortion Leader launched his democratic presidential Campaign by saying he knows he is going to be ridiculed As a single Issue candidate. The Rev. Pat Mahoney of Boca Raton fla., a Leader of the National group operation Rescue announced saturday that he was joining five prominent democrats in a run for the nomination. Mahoney was arrested three times during abortion clinic protests in Wichita this summer. A i have a larger National network right now than any other candidate a Mahoney said of the 120 anti abortion groups run by operation  letter auctioned Detroit a a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 sold for $28,600 during a Telephone auction. Collectors and dealers nationwide bid on the letter saturday at the Dumouchel Tes gallery in Detroit. The presidents letter is dated oct. 16, 1863, and addressed to . Durant an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad. Dumouchelle spokesman Joe Walker said the Tetter was of interest because of Lincoln a apparent befuddlement with a Telegram sent to him by Durant. A i remember receiving nothing from you. And i do not comprehend your dispatch of today a Lincoln wrote. A in fact i do not remember if i Ever knew who you Are and 1 have very Little Conception As to what you Are telegraphing  threatens baby new York a a Man put his baby daughter on the Edge of a 19-Story building in the Bronx and threatened to push her off saturday then was shot by police to end the rooftop stand off officers said. The child was unharmed. The Man Alfred Taliaferro 24, from 177 Willis ave. In the Mott Haven Section had stood on the Edge of the same roof once before in the last two weeks threatening to jump police said. This time he was distraught Over a custody Battle for his 1-year-old daughter they said. A i can do whatever 1 want with the baby. Its my baby a a police spokesman detective Ralph St. Just said Taliaferro told the officers trying to coax him away from the Edge of the roof saturday night. As Taliaferro was setting the child on the Edge of the roof threatening to push her off officer Lemar rein of the 40th precinct shot him twice once in each leg. Taliaferro who was treated at Lincoln Hospital was arrested and charged with second degree attempted murder burglary endangering the welfare of a minor reckless endangerment and second degree assault St. Just said. Connecticut curbs radar guns Over feared links to cancer Swaggart blames woes on Demon spirits