European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 17, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3ex-intelligence workers seek to Clear names Panama City Panama up1 two former civilian intelligence employees of the . Army in Panama Are fighting to Clear their records of allegations As yet unproved that they spied for Cuba Ana used drugs. Marcela Bodkin and Tony mines lost their jobs last september at the . Southern come in Panama following allegations from an Anonymous tipster. Bodkin 40, had 14 years of experience As a military and civilian employee of the . Defense department in Asia the United states and Panama. Mines 39, is a . Defense intelligence analyst who had served for 15 years in Europe the United states and latin America. Bodkin claims they have been unjustly investigated and sanctioned for allegations made by an unknown tipster in 1990 when the two worked at the Southern come the Headquarters for . Military operations in Central and South America. A though the investigation has been closed and no evidence was found to Back up the charges we have not been formally vindicated a said Bodkin. Two democrats in the . House edolphus towns of new York and Ronald v. Dellums of California have asked defense Secretary Dick Cheney to explain Why Bodkin and mines were sanctioned despite being cleared. The investigation started after the unnamed informer told . Army intelligence that Bodkin and mines were seen at a baby Shower in Panama City in february 1990, where four cubans were allegedly present. During the party mines handed the cubans an envelope said the informer whose identity has been withheld by the army. Under . Defense regulations All personnel with Security clearances Are obligated to report any Contact with nationals of communist countries. Bodkin and mines say they did not file a report because there were no cubans at the party. The unidentified tipster also told army intelligence that the two used drugs and were homosexuals both violations of defense department regulations. Bodkin and mines who had no previous drug records denied both allegations. In May 1990, army intelligence decided to investigate the charge of Contact with the cubans but not the drug and sex accusations. Three months later the superiors of Bodkin and mines were informed of All three accusations and were told that the agents Security clearance was suspended. Both were transferred to non sensitive work at the Southern come. Mines whose term in Panama expired in october 1990, was transferred to the Pentagon. Without a sent experience Security clearance he was Given Frej manual labor tasks despite his cup err and qualifications he claimed. In March 1991, army intelligence concluded that there was no connection Between the two and the cubans. But the findings were made known to neither Bodkin nor mines who had to apply through the Freedom of information act to have the reports released in june 1991. Bodkin claimed that the probe was suspect even before it closed. Bodkin and mines also questioned Why Only they were investigated although the tipster originally also named a third . Army employee. Equal Opportunity officials at the . Southern come Are investigating bodkins complaints of possible racism because the third person named in the investigation was White while Bodkin and mines Are both Black. Sets Dave Dudlo in a meeting of minds 1st it Richard l. King or. Righta protocol officer from Pitburg a Germany huddles with a translator and a russian Soldier after one of the operation provide Hope flights landed Friday in  Hope Airlift soars into 2nd week operation provide Hope concluded its first week sunday with three flights leaving Germany and Turkey bound for the Commonwealth of Independent states. Midway through the humanitarian Mission 39 flights have transported 190.3 tons of medical supplies and 1,137.1 tons of food to 13 cities in the Commonwealth according to a joint information Bureau spokesman at Rhein main a Germany. At least 64 flights will carry 2,250 tons of food and medical supplies to 22 cities in the former soviet Union Over the two week period. The three sunday flights were bound for Yerevan Armenia Minsk Belarus and St. Petersburg Russia Star wars whistle Blower fired by army Washington apr a Pentagon scientist said saturday that he has been fired for complaining about Iva Ste fraud and abuse in the a Star wars missile defense program. Aldric Saucier 55, said an army colonel handed him his dismissal notice Friday afternoon. Saucier said he had just returned to his office after conferring with the staff of a House panel on National Security. He said the panel is investigating his waste fraud and abuse allegations. A they the army waited until everybody else had gone Home. It was the Valentines Day massacre a said Saucier adding that he was fired because a i  rep. John Conyers jr., d-mich., chairman of the House government operations committee called the army a action  the dismissal letter said Saucier had not a demonstrated he can acceptably perform the duties of a government scientist regardless of Grade or  a congressional source familiar with the probe said staff investigators a give a lot of credence to Saucier a disclosures and will ask current and former directors of the strategic defense initiative a popular Lary called a Star wars a to respond to the allegations. A we take what he is saying very seriously a said the source speaking on condition he not be identified. A this Guy is a wealth of information. He a been at the meetings he watched As the decisions were  Thomas Devine a lawyer working on the Saucier Case for the governmental accountability project said he would file a complaint with Federal civil service officials monday under the terms of the whistle blowers Protection  Man kills 4 people during rampage Irvington Ala. Apr a gunman went on a rampage through a Rural Community saturday killing four people and wounding three others before driving off in one victims Van police said. Police were searching for Jason Oric Williams 24. They said he apparently quarrelled with Gerald and Claire Para icim a couple he lived with in this town seven Miles Southwest of Mobile. Paravicini was found shot to death in the Road outside his Home and his wife had been badly beaten with the .22-Calibcr Rifle used in the slaying said Gardner Wilcox a spokesman for the Mobile county sheriffs department. / mrs. Paravicini a 16-year-old son Jeffrey Carr was shot through the Mouth but survived Wilcox said. The gunman then ran about a Quarter mile Down the Road to another Home where he apparently shot and killed residents Fred and Linda Barber and their 23-year-old son Bryan Wilcox said. Another son Brad was shot in the hand. He broke through a Glass door and ran for help and Williams fled in the Barbers Van Wilcox said. Carr was hospitalized in stable condition at the University of South Alabama medical Center. Mrs. Paravicini was treated there and released. Brad Barber was hospitalized in stable condition at the University a Knol Wood  Man bowled Over by Coupon Bonanza Calamus Iowa a notice to the 339 shoppers whose cheerios boxes came without a cents off Coupon inside they be been found. The Box of cheerios that Audrey Henning bought was Short on of a but stuffed with 340 coupons Worth 50 cents off the regular Price of the Cereal. The Bonanza which general Mills blames on an Assembly line glitch was discovered recently when Hennings great granddaughter was trying to fix herself a bowl of Cereal and could not get much of anything to pour out of the Box. A there was some Cereal in the Bottom and a Little bit on top but i told them i got Gyp Ped a said Henning 81, of Calamus a town in East Central Iowa. The company smoothed things Over by sending Henning a Betty Crocker Cookbook plus plastic doodads for her great grandchildren. General Mills officials said they believe a glitch in the automated filling line caused the problem. A the problem is that the other 339 packages near that one did no to get a Coupon then a said spokeswoman Kathryn Newton who said she had never heard of a similar incident. If Henning who admits to eating a a lot of cheerios a bought one Box of cheerios a month it would take her More than 28 years to use All the coupons. They have no expiration Date