European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 29, 1992 nations face tuna embargo to counter Dolphin killing san Francisco apr after a Compromise Between the government and environmental groups collapsed a judge on monday ordered enforcement of a tuna embargo on nations that fail to ban imports from Dolphin Kil Hng fleets. The embargo effective thursday would Block 53 percent of . Tuna imports according to a government estimate. An Industry group using the government figures has predicted tuna Price increases of 5 to 10 cents a can in two months unless major exporting nations Are exempted. The embargo is required by a . Law aimed at protecting dolphins that swim above yellow Fin tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Since passage of the Law the . Fleet has reduced its annual Dolphin kills from 100,000 to 1,000 in two decades and most other nations also have changed their practices. An order in effect since August 1990, by chief . District judge Thelton Henderson bans . Tuna in de land Fla. Apr a prostitute was found guilty monday in the slaying of the first of seven men authorities believe she killed on Florida highways. The jury was to begin deciding tuesday whether to recommend a death sentence for Aileen Wuo mos 35. She was convicted of first degree murder and felony murder in the killing of businessman Richard Mallory in 1989. The 12-Membcr circuit court jury returned its verdict after deliberating for an hour and 35 minutes. Wuo mos who claimed she killed the men in self defense looked straight ahead As jurors were being polled and quietly said it am innocent a As the jury began to file out of the courtroom. Then As defense attorneys tried to restrain her she said a i was  she called the departing jurors a scumbags of  Wuo mos has been formally charged in four other slayings but no trial dates have been set. Two Simitar killings Are still under investigation. Circuit judge Uriel Blount set a hearing tuesday to determine whether the jury would recommend death in Florida s electric chair or a mandatory 25-year prison sentence without parole. At the close of the two week trial state attorney John Tanner told the jury a she has left you no reasonable Choice except to find her  Tanner said Wuornos fatally shot a would be client As part of her a deadly pattern that claimed seven ports from Mexico and Venezuela which exceed Dolphin kill rates prescribed by . Law. The dispute monday was Over a provision of the Law that forbids tuna imports from countries that buy tuna from Mexico and Venezuela. Environmental groups Call the practice Quot tuna  Henderson ordered the broader embargo Jan. 10, but agreed to the governments request for a stay to clarify its terms. The government and environmental groups had tried to reach an agreement that would have kept the new embargo from taking full effect until the end of february giving most countries time to prepare documentation proving they done to buy tuna from Mexico or Venezuela. Henderson earlier had accepted a plan to exempt those 20 to 22 countries. But he rejected that plan monday in favor of the full embargo after the government and environmentalists failed filigree on which countries would be included in the smaller group. Menus lives. He depicted Wuornos As a cunning calculating killer motivated by greed. Defense attorney William Miller urged the jury to disregard testimony and evidence of the other six slayings in Central and Northern Florida in 1990 and to judge Wuornos Only in the Mallory Case. He also appealed to jurors to disregard Wuornos videotaped jail confessions in determining whether she was justified in fatally shooting Mallory Miller argued that Wuornos was innocent of premeditated murder in Mallory a slaying because he raped tortured and threatened to kill her before she managed to shoot him. Mallory s decomposed body was found in Woods North of Daytona Beach in december 1989. Wuornos told investigators she later shot and killed six other men who picked her up for sex and then became violent. Miller said Wuo mos was a victim trying to please a Lover who later betrayed her and became the states Star witness. He contended that Tyria Moore who was Wuornos live in companion for 4vi years May have been an accomplice and Only cooperated with investigators because she feared arrest. Before she killed Mallory Wuornos had been a prostitute for 17 years and a Only when she was undergoing unbearable torture did she take a life Quot to protect her be if Miller said.  gets free flight to search for missing cat from wire reports Pittsburgh a a Man whose cat escaped from baggage handlers at greater Pittsburgh International Airport flew in from Phoenix at the airlines expense to search for his missing pet. John Drennan 20, an Arizona state University student from Evanston iii., said he was sentimentally attached to his cat Chester. Us air spokesman John Bronson said the cat was being shipped from Chicago to Phoenix in Drennan a portable Kennel. It escaped during a Layover in Pittsburgh. Drennan who had flown to Phoenix on a different flight flew to Pittsburgh later Friday and began combing the Airport. Us air gave him the ticket and put Nim up in a hotel. The cat had not turned up by monday  samples requested Tampa Fla. A about 30 police officers and firefighters have been asked to give samples of their pubic hair to eliminate them As the source of a strand found at a murder scene. The hair was requested in the Case of Robert Andrew Milford 28, accused of murdering a 78-year-old woman and beating her husband in a robbery March 9. Court records show a pubic hair found in the Hall near Louette Hackney a body was microscopically similar to those of Milford. The defense said the hair could have come from officers who investigated the  Dies in Florida Melbourne Fla. A Doyle Northrup a physicist who detected the soviet unions first atomic bomb explosion has died. He was 85. Northrup died of natural causes dec. 15 at Holmes regional nursing Center in Melbourne according to his wife. He lived in nearby satellite Beach. Bom in Washington state Northrup earned a masters degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge. In 1940, he joined the naval ordnance Laboratory and was assigned to de magnetize ships at Pearl Harbor to foil magnetic sea mines. In 1948, he transferred to the air Force and worked As technical director of its technical applications Center and its special weapons Squadron. He was assigned to a top secret project to test radioactivity in air samples from planes and to Monitor seismographs to watch for soviet weapons testing. In 1949, the system uncovered the first soviet test explosion. He reported it to president Harry Truman who made the , Gas discovered Dallas a Oryx Energy co. Announced monday a major Wildcat discovery in the Gulf of Mexico that flowed at 6,496 barrels of Oil and 24.5 million cubic feet of natural Gas a Day. A we estimate Gross potential reserves at 100 to 200 million equivalent barrels making this our top priority in the Gulf Quot said president Robert l. Keiser. Oryx and Amerada Hess each have a 50 percent working interest in the Block. The company Hopes to begin production in the next few years making the area one of its largest Reserve  Patron charged new York a a woman poured gasoline on the outside Walls of a dance club filled with 600 people and threatened to bum it Down but was nested before she could Light the fire. Yvonne Vertha 33, was charged with arson said police spokeswoman sgt. Tina Mohrmann. Vertha had been ejected from the Octagon club in Manhattan Early sunday after getting into a fight with another Patron police said. She threatened to bum the place Down and returned with a gallon of gasoline Mohrmann said. A Aileen Wuo mos is comforted by Public defender Billy Nolas after being convicted of murdering Richard Mallory. Prostitute suspected in 7 deaths is convicted in Florida murder