European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7senators tackling sensitive Mia Issue by Jack Cheevers the los Angeles times los Angeles a one sunday afternoon last july Gladys Fleckenstein sat in a Friend s living room gazing intently at a color photograph of a Paunchy Middle aged Man standing before a grass roofed building his right Arm around an asian woman. Although she had not seen him in nearly 23 years Fleckenstein was certain she recognized the Man. She was sure he was her son it. Cmdr. Larry j. Stevens a Navy Jet Pilot from los Angeles. He had been declared missing in action after being shot Down during an attack on a North vietnamese truck Convoy on Valentine s Day 1969. A i thought a my god he is alive a Quot Fleckenstein said monday. A a in be known he a alive All these years just knew it. But now in be got the proof. I be got the real  Fleckenstein s maternal certainty was bolstered Over the weekend when a Colorado state University forensic anthropologist said he had positively identified the Man in the photo As Stevens by comparing it with a Black and White photo of the Pilot taken the year he disappeared. A it is one and the same person a Michael Charney 80, a specialist in identifying human remains and people in photos said monday. Stevens is among the 2,200 a a a we dispute led to rape of . Service members stil misted As missing in action from the Vietnam War. Charney a comments came As the Senate prepared to open a series of hearings beginning tuesday on the . Governments efforts to locate and retrieve americans missing in Southeast Asia. The Senate select committee for pow Mia affairs was formed after the release in july of a series of photos purportedly showing american prisoners of War including Stevens. Fleckenstein 70, is scheduled to testify before the committee thursday along with a Tennessee circuit court judge who obtained the purported photo of Stevens with the Aid of his Bailiff a former Captain in the Royal laotian army. The judge Hamilton Gayden said monday that the photo of Stevens was taken last year at a Camp for american prisoners on Savoy Island in Vietnam s Cam Ranh Bay site of a giant . Military installation during the Vietnam War. The photo clearly shows a Middle aged caucasian Man wearing glasses a Light coloured Polo shirt pants and a Wristwatch. If alive Stevens would be 49 next month. Gayden said that the photo was shot by the vietnamese prison commander and that the woman in the picture is the commander s wife. He said the photo was smuggled out of Vietnam by a laotian businessman and mailed to his Bailiff from Thailand. Navy cmdr. Greg Elar Tung. A Pentagon spokesman said department of defense authorities plan to conduct their own comparison of the photos but have not yet done so. A we done to know who s in it and the investigation is ongoing Quot he said. Frances Zwenig the Senate committees staff director. Said Fleckenstein and Gayden Are expected to play key roles in the hearings providing a Case study Quot examples of the governments handling of Mia cases in which there is some documentary evidence. Also scheduled to testify Are relatives of other my As defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Bill Bell chief of the . Government s pow Mia office in Hanoi the vietnamese capital. Fleckenstein said she plans to a Pound on the government Quot to intensify its efforts to locale american service members. Believed to be held by the Hanoi government and get them released. Quot in a going to Tell them a i want you to go in and bring my son Home and the rest of the men. I know he s alive and you know he a alive Quot she said. Charney said that a mechanical Engineer at Colorado state in fort Collins used a computer scanner to produce outlines of the facial features of the men in the color and Black and White photos. Charney then superimposed one image onto the other and they matched within 1 100th of an Inch he  guardian Angels protest As William Kennedy Smith arrives for jury selection monday with his Mother Jean at the Palm Beach county courthouse. From wire reports West Palm Beach Fla. William Kennedy Smiths lawyers asserted for the first time that Smith s accuser willingly had sex with him and then cried rape after the two got into an argument. The glimpse of Smith s defense was contained in court papers filed monday after a third Day of jury selection for his trial. The 31-year-old Nephew of sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-muss., is accused of raping the woman now 30, on March 30 at the Kennedy family s Palm Beach estate. As of monday no members of the six person jury had been seated for the trial opening arguments Are set for Dee. 2. A the defense will seek to show that the woman and Smith argued after having had consensual sex a his lawyers said in a document hinting they might claim revenge was her motive. No details of the supposed argument were Given. His lawyers argued previously that emotional instability and traumatic experiences such As abortions spurred her to fabricate the accusation. But rulings by judge Mary Lupo have sharply restricted their ability to make such claims to jurors. In court papers monday Smiths lawyers also asked the judge to allow testimony about the alleged victims past cocaine use. Prosecutors say such evidence is irrelevant because she did not use drugs the night of the alleged rape. They also asked to introduce evidence about an alleged incident years ago in which the woman broke a car Antenna in revenge after arguing with another woman. A the incident concerning the ear Antenna is relevant to show True intent Quot in the rape ease the defense said. The lawyers argued that Tive woman similarly took an urn and of flyer items front the Kennedy estate a not because she needed a evidence to prove that she had been raped a hut As  members of the guardian Angels the Volunteer anti crime group based in new York picketed outside the Kennedy estate sunday and outside the courthouse monday. Their Leader Curtis Sliwa said they urge both sides in the irial to Quot keep it  at court monday lawyers questioned eight new prospective jurors a for a total of 22 Over three Days. Thirteen candidates have been placed in the Pintil for future questioning and nine were excused. A new Issue emerged monday when one woman candidate More Nee Sakolsky said the judge s trial schedule which envisions holding court on saturdays might make it difficult for her to observe the jewish Sah Bath. Sakolsky told the court for example that she would not he Able to ride in any vehicle to and from court from Sundown Friday to saturday s Sunset. Although Lupo initially wanted to excuse Sakolsky Lead defense attorney Roy l. Black objected and the judge permitted the lawyers to question Sakolsky a saying later she would Quot Iron it  pee wee oks Deal to avoid trial Sarasota Fla. Apr an attorney for pee wee Herman said monday that the actor has agreed to plead no contest to an indecent exposure charge stemming from his arrest in an adult movie theater. Under the Deal the pee we s playhouse Star a whose real name is Paul Reubens a would pay a $50 Fine plus court costs and perform 50 hours of Community service. He would be free of a conviction on the Misdemeanour charge because prosecutors said they would not seek a guilty finding. If convicted in a trial Reubens could have faced 60 Days in jail and a $500 Fine. A it was an offer too Good to refuse Quot attorney Ron Dresnick said. A pee wee wants to get the whole thing behind him and to avoid the personal trauma of a  Reubens. 39, grew up in Sarasota and lives in studio City. Calif. He Vas arrested at an adult theater in Sarasota on july 26 after detectives said they saw him masturbating twice in 10 minutes during showings of pornographic movies. Soon after Reubens was arrested prosecutors offered him a $500 Fine and a years probation and Community service in Exchange for a guilty plea. Those negotiations collapsed when authorities released a booking photograph of Reubens with Long hair Ponytail and a Goatee very different from the animated childlike character he plays. After Reubens arrest lbs dropped reruns of the saturday morning children shit pee we s playhouse. On oct. 29, prosecutors offered Reubens the Deal he has agreed to accept. Sarasota county judge Judy Goldman had set a hearing on that offer i fir tuesday. Dresnick said he and Reubens would not show up tuesday but expected the judge to set a plea Date possibly for late this week. Reubens attorneys maintained he would have been cleared at a trial. They said the testimony of undercover detectives was questionable and a theater Security camera videotape showed Reubens in the lobby during the time when he allegedly was inside exposing  . State offices May be closed on 5 Days by the new York times Albany . A seeking ways to close the slates $700 million budget Gap the administration of gov. Mario m. Cuomo is considering a plan to shut Down most stale government offices on live weekdays before Jan. 6. Under the plan most state employees would be told to stay Home a and to forfeit their pay a on the Day alter thanksgiving As Well As the thursdays and fridays after Christmas and new year s Day. Administration officials stressed monday that the plan could be revised or abandoned. Nevertheless it indicated How grim the search has become Lor a Uel Icil reducing program. I he proposal to shut Down offices would probably save the slate from $120 million to $101 million