European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 c the stars and stripes monday december 9,1991houston elects Lanier mayor in Runoff Houston apr wealthy Developer Bob Lanier Defeated Black state lawmaker Sylvester Turner in a Runoff election saturday to become mayor of the nation s fourth largest City. With 99 percent of the vote counted Lanier had 151,932 votes or 53.8 percent to Turners 130,666, or 46.2 percent. Lanier 66, a longtime government insider and former Texas Highway com Mission chairman was making his first run at elective office. Turner 37, a two term legislator and attorney was trying to become the City a first Black mayor. A we look Forward to unifying this wonderful City. All of us As one City pulling together caring for each other looking out for each other working As a team a Lanier said. A a it a time for us to pursue the destiny of this great City. A my Hope is that 10 years from now we can look Back All of us and see a City that a Safe again to see neighbourhoods rebuilt  a i ran the race and i finished the race a Turner said in a tearful Concession speech. Quot to or. Lanier let me Send my Best wishes As the future mayor of this City. Let me also say it very quickly the City will Only be great when we stand True to the words we  polls released in the Days just before the balloting considered the race too close to Call but the same polls showed Turner damaged by recent disclosures alleging questionable personal and professional activities. Lanier succeeds incumbent Kathy Whitmire who finished third in balloting nov. 5 As she tried for a record sixth consecutive two year  mom found hanged with 2 children Yucaipa Calif. Up a neighbors of Katerina Williams who was found hanged with two of her children in the family a garage remembered her saturday As the perfect homemaker with a Beautiful smile a Green thumb and a willingness to help others. Williams 11-year-old son found his Mother his sister Nadja 4 and his brother Kevin 2, in the garage of the family a Home Friday. A note was also found and authorities have closed the Book on what they arc convinced is a suicide and double slaying. Sheriffs investigators wont comment on the suicide note or speculate on a possible motive. But neighbors say that at least two months before the tragedy the 36-year-old homemaker showed signs of deep depression. The 5-foot-9, German born woman was always slender but she began to lose weight. She began to neglect herself and her House. Normally cheerful and talkative she retreated from friends and neighbors. A we noticed she was not herself a remembered Gwen of Fallon Williams next door neighbor. A i remember remarking that she seemed unhappy. She Wasny to coming Over As often in the last two  neighbors agreed it was strange behaviour for the normally cheerful Jehovah s witness who liked to help neighbors and could often be seen watering fruit Trees in the family s Back Yard. Quot she was always doing something for us a of Fallon said. Quot there was one windstorm when she raked up All the leaves in our Yard. One time she even made curtains for Ruth s  neighbor Ruth Mcintyre paid a visit to the Williams Home a night before the deaths Only to be turned away by a solemn in talkative Williams. Mcintyre a frequent visitor to the Home had always found it immaculate. She was shocked when she saw the condition of Williams Kitchen described As a terribly  sheriffs Deputy Debbie Dorrough said Williams Robert Williams jr., ii poses in a recent picture with his sister Nadja 4, and brother Kevin 2. Wrote her last words on a piece of paper torn from a Small notepad. The note found in the living room made Quot some reference to being despondent a Dor rough said. The cause of Williams turmoil was not immediately Clear. The bodies were discovered by Williams 11-year-old son Robert Williams jr., upon Nis return from school. He ran to the Home of a neighbor who called police. Robert Williams sr., the husband and father of the two children was at his Job As an insurance broker when the discovery was made. Neighbors said Katerina Williams often helped out her husband at the office. County paramedics who handled the Call were so shocked that they had to be relieved from duty county fire capt. Jerry Hendershot said. A a it a not something we see everyday a hanging let alone a family like that a Hendershot told the los Angeles times. Dallas paper is publishing final edition Dallas apr the Dallas times Herald said sunday that it was Selling substantially All of its assets to the . Belo corp., publisher of the Dallas morning news for $55 million. The times Herald will publish its last edition today editor Roy e. Bode said. The companies also were settling All outstanding litigation he said. The times Herald printing co., publisher of the times Herald said that All of its 900 full time employees will be offered salary and benefits for 60 Days. Bode said a proportionate offer is being made to qualifying part time employees. Additional compensation is being offered to longtime employees. The times Herald has been publishing since 1879. A this action was inevitable a said John Buzzetta the papers publisher. A in the last year we approached More than 100 potential investors or buyers for this newspaper. These efforts were not  the transaction with . Belo corp. Was reviewed by the . Department of Justice Bode said. A this recession has been especially difficult for Media companies and particularly hard on the second newspaper company in a Market a Buzzetta said. Bode said the times Herald does not anticipate a bankruptcy filing and expects to pay All of its suppliers. The morning news will Honor All prepaid subscriptions to times Herald subscribers beginning today and will be delivered to  defense witness admits using Guesswork from wire reports West Palm Beach Fla. A criminal evidence expert hired by the defense in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial acknowledged under Cross examination sunday that his testimony was based bartender Anthony Liott laughs alter responding to a question from prosecutor Moira k. Lasch on saturday. On visual examinations and Guesswork. Henry Lee chief criminologist of the state of Connecticut had said the alleged victims clothing showed no signs of grass stains or other damage consistent with the struggle on the Kennedy estate Lawn described by the woman. In a rare sunday court session ordered in Hopes the trial will be Over by Christmas Lee said he was not allowed to use the clothing still held by police As evidence. Assistant state attorney Ellen Roberts asked if he bought a similar dress and underwear to use in grass stain tests on the Lawn. �?o1 was Here for one Day and did not have time to go out and buy a dress a Lee said adding that defense attorneys did no to buy a duplicate dress for him. Quot i did not have $125 in my  Smith the 31-year-old Nephew of sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., is charged with sexual Battery Florida Slegal equivalent to rape and Misdemeanour Battery. A 30-year-old woman claims he raped her after they met at a nightclub during easter weekend. Earlier during defense questioning Lee testified that he saw the dress and underwear and could observe no grass soil blood stains or other damage. A because there Are no grass stains on the dress does no to mean a rape did no to occur is that Correct a Roberts asked later. Quot that a Correct a Lee said. Lee said he went to the estate with defense lawyer Mark Seiden last june and did a a Transfer test a wiping a White handkerchief on the grass and Concrete the trial of the decade a pages 14-16 to show How stains Transfer to fabric. Quot if the dress behaviour was like the handkerchief a he said it would have been stained from Contact with the ground. But on Cross examination Roberts held up the handkerchief and the Black acetate and Rayon dress and said a in reality these two things done to relate at All do they a a a that a Correct a Lee replied. Lee was one of several witnesses hired by the defense to Analyse the conditions at the Kennedy estate in an Effort to show that physical evidence in the Case was inconsistent with a rape. Palm Beach county circuit judge Mary Lupo ordered the courthouse opened for the unusual weekend session after telling jurors the Case will probably be submitted to them by the end of the week. The prosecution suffered a major setback saturday when the judge refused to permit its final witness an expert on rape to testify. Lupo acknowledged that testimony from an expert on rape and its effects on a victims behaviour a May have a substantial Impact on the july but she said permitting him to testify now would have a Quot devastating effects on the trial schedule since the defense sought a delay of several Days to prepare for the witness. She agreed with the defense that prosecutors Nad not notified them of the witness in a timely fashion. The defense a first witness was bartender Anthony Liott a Friend of the accusers who testified that he met her on the night of the alleged rape. In eight statements to authorities the woman never mentioned meeting Liott and the defense used his testimony to highlight the woman so memory lapses on the events of March 30 and to insinuate she was making a a a Date with another Man. But under questioning by prosecutor Moira k. Lasch Liott said he never had a romantic relationship with the 30-year-old woman. He described her As a a shy and a never loud and said she drank no alcohol or 20-minute Chat