European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday december 5, 1991  turns in parents after discovering drugs from wire reports Waukesha wis. A a 13-year-old boy who feared his parents alleged drug use was hurting their health has turned them in and won Praise from police. The boy from Menomonie Falls contacted police last week after discovering drugs in the House. His Mother and Stepfather were arrested wednesday. A it definitely took courage for the boy to come Forward a Menomonie Falls police capt. Jack Pitrof said monday. The boy indicated a that the reason he checked for drugs was because his parents health was becoming quite bad and he saw drugs in the Home during the last two years a said a search warrant affidavit filed in court. The boy was placed with his biological father. His Stepfather was charged with Possession of a controlled substance but his name was withheld to protect the boys identity. The Stepfather was treed on $1,000 bait. The boy s Mother was not charged. Jet skids off runway Oakland Calif. A a Southwest airlines commuter Jet carrying 44 passengers on a flight from Burbank to Oakland skidded off a runway at Oakland International Airport on tuesday. The incident closed Down one of the facility a runways for much of the Day an Airport spokeswoman said. No one was injured in the incident the spokeswoman said which took place As the plane landed about 11 . From the 50-minute flight from Southern  recalling cars Detroit a general motors corp. On tuesday recalled about 911,000 of its cars for safety repairs. About 830,000 Chevrolet Corsica and Beretta cars built Between 1988 and 1990 were recalled because of a potential problem with shoulder safety Belt retractors. The automaker said a part of the mechanism could become mis positioned keeping the shoulder Belt from operating properly. The automaker also recalled about 60,000 1991 Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac sunbird ears to fix a part on the front doors that if malfunctioning could cause the door Frame to collapse during a crash. The third recall affected about 21,000 1991-Modcl Buick Park Avenue and Ultra Oldsmobile 98 elite and touring Sedan cars and 1992 models of the Buick be Sabre Pontiac Bonneville and Oldsmobile 88 Doyule. The company said that because of a design problem the cars parking Brake May partially release after being  guest pleads innocent Napa Calif. A a 25-year-old Man who said on the syndicated talk show Gerundo that he had sex with his girlfriends 14-year-old daughter pleaded not guilty tuesday to charges of having sex with a minor. Donald Bixler appeared on the show less than a month ago with the girl now 16, and the girls Mother. Napa county municipal court judge Richard Bennett ordered Bixler held in the county jail in lieu of $10,500 bail. Before the show aired people who knew about the Case alerted officials who taped the show and then removed the girl from the couples  shakes California Pasadena Calif. A an earthquake capable of causing considerable damage rumbled through an area from Ensenada Mexico to As far North As san Diego on tuesday but no damage or injuries were reported officials said. The temblor measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck at 9 54 . Local time and was entered 51 Miles Southeast of Ensenada a Border town on the mexican Peninsula of Baja California said Robert finn a spokesman for the California Institute of technology a seismology Laboratory in Pasadena. Quot key witness in Smith trial got $40,000 for interviews by the Washington Post. West Palm Beaufi Fla. The courtroom at the William Kennedy Smith rape trial erupted tuesday after a key prosecution witness who had testified that she saw the alleged victim a a hysterical and a messed up at the Kennedy estate acknowledged she had been paid $40,000 for two interviews about the Case on the television tabloid show a current affair. The admission by Anne Mercer a a Friend of Smiths accuser who called her to the estate after the alleged attack a came under Cross examination by Lead defense attorney Roy e. Black. Black charged that Mercer in addition to being paid had embellished for television her account of what Mercer a lawyer described during one broadcast As the a fall of the Mercer House of  there were loud gasps from the courtroom audience when the $40,000 figure a $25,000 for one interview and $15,000 for another a was revealed. Circuit court judge Mary e. Lupo temporarily halted the proceedings and threatened to a a Clear the room. A number of Kennedy family members including three of Smith s aunts a Ethel Kennedy Eunice Shriver and Patricia Lawford a and his Cousin Christophe massacre site in Killeen plans 92 reopening Killeen Texas apr Lubye a cafeteria where 24 people were killed in the nation s worst mass shooting will reopen Early next year with overwhelming Community support a company official says. A again and again we have heard that Lubye a is just More than a dining place in Killeen. It has been a gathering place a for meetings for social occasions for business people citizens and families a said Ralph Erben president and chief executive officer of Luby s cafeterias inc. A Mcdonald s restaurant where 21 people were killed by a gunman in san Ysidro Calif., in 1984 was razed and Given to the City. It now is a satellite Campus of southwestern Community College and has a Granite memorial to the victims. But some people in Killeen have said closing the cafeteria a would allow the gunman a degree of Victory a control Over this Community that he should not have a Erben said. He said a few people had expressed concern about reopening the cafeteria but most have said they support the idea. Mayor major Blair announced plans for a memorial in a City Park to Honor the shooting victims. Nearly All the 44 people who worked in the cafeteria want it to reopen and want to go Back to work Erben said. The workers Are still on the payroll although the cafeteria has been closed since the shooting. George Hennard 35, drove his pickup through a front window at the cafeteria oct. 16 and then began a shooting rampage that lasted about 15 minutes before he killed himself. Lawford were in the audience. Many members of the Public like new yorker Marilyn Goroncy 57, who said she had waited five hours to get a pass for a courtroom seat said they came to support Smith a i think All the Kennedy have gotten a bad rap a Moroney said. Mercer 33, and her Boyfriend Chuck Desiderio Are key government witnesses because Smiths accuser telephoned them from the Kennedy estate immediately after the alleged attack during the Early morning hours of March 30. The couple picked her up there about 20 minutes later. Under questioning by prosecutor Moira Lasch Mercer described the woman As a shaking  after they left the estate Mercer said her Friend came to her House and cried curled up a with her Knees to her Chest a and a a jumped if she thought a anyone was going to touch  but under questioning by Black Mercer a former Model was forced to retract some of the statements she had made initially to police. A you said she told you she was raped twice and that senator Kennedy sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass was watching the first time a Black asked her Reading from one of Mercer s police statements. Appearing to squirm in her chair and clearly angry Mercer said she had Only inferred that a Kennedy was watching because when she asked her Friend about whether he was she did not answer but a just kept  Mercer was to return wednesday for More questioning by  of Contention visitors to the american museum of natural history in new York Are dwarfed by a controversial Dinosaur exhibit that features the Skeleton of a bar saurus standing five stories Tail As it fends off an attacking Ati saurus. Although the museum s experts say the creature s Anatomy suggests it might have reared up in Battle 140 million years ago other experts say the dinosaurs body was too Long and too heavy a 25 tons a for it to stand up straight. The Skeleton was discovered in Utah in the 1920s. Georgians allegedly Boorish on Tri Atlanta up11 a gov. Zell Miller in Atlanta up1 a gov. Zell Miller is discounting complaints against two state lawmakers and an aide that accused the three of being a crude Quot and a Boorish Quot during an economic development trip to France. State rep. Tom Buck of Columbus chairman of the University system committee denied that he harassed women on the tour and made offensive remarks during a dosing Toast to the French. The charges came in two letters to the governor. State rep. Terry Coleman of Eastman chairman of the appropriations committee and Steve Wright an at e to Miller admitted that they shouted insult guide on one of the Lorraine Region bus Tours Buey were on their own time during the incident. The three men showed up late for some event insulted their French hosts who paid for the Tri cording to letters written by Thomas Mullins exec director of the economic development count a ant Patricia Mccauley a vice pres with health Dyne inc in Atlanta. Miller said he did not know whether the charge True but he discounted them