European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes wednesday february 19,1992 a attorney Michael Schwartz left shares a laugh with his client or. Jack Kevorkian before mondays court hearing. Prosecution dealt 3 setbacks in hearing on assisted suicides Rochester Hills Mich. Apr a judge dealt three blows to the prosecution and one to the defense monday and scheduled a feb. 28 decision on whether or. Jack Kevorkian will stand trial for two assisted suicides. Kevorkian was indicted after two women killed themselves in a Remote Cabin oct. 23 using suicide devices he invented. His lawyers portrayed him during the three Day hearing As an Angel of mercy who helped the women escape terrible pain. Prosecutors say neither of the women was terminally ill. One of the women Marjorie Wantz was mentally ill and should have received treatment assistant Oakland county prosecutor Larry Bunting argued. Wantz 58, of Sodus died from an injection of potassium Chloride. Sherry Miller 43, of Roseville died from inhaling Carbon monoxide. Oakland county District judge James Sheehy will decide feb. 28 whether the Kevorkian a 63-year-old retired pathologist should be charged with first degree murder second degree murder or manslaughter or whether the charges should be dismissed completely. First degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of Austin Texas up a Texas will to sue the aluminium co. Of America for contaminating a vital Gulf coast Estuary with Mercury for More than 20 years attorney general Dan Morales said monday an official with the Texas Parks and wildlife department said the lawsuit is necessary because of stalled negotiations with Alcoa Over ongoing pollution problems at Lavaca Bay. A after More than a year of negotiation the three state and two Federal agencies involved were faced with the fact that discussions with Alcoa were not moving toward a progressive Resolution of the problem a said David Sager of the wildlife department. Morales said the lawsuit will seek to Force Alcoa to clean up the contaminated Bay located North of Killeen Texas up Lubye a cafeteria officials hoping that extensive remodelling will Lay nightmarish memories to rest said monday that they will reopen next month the cafeteria where a gunman killed 23 people including himself last year in americans worst mass slaying. Workers have been giving the cafeteria a major face lift a from repainting the Brick exterior to replacing the carpet and adding a second exit. The staff will Wear newly a signed uniforms. A everything in the dining room within the customers View will be changed just to get the old memories behind us and make a fresh Start a said buddy Schrader Lubye a vice president for marketing. Schrader said 38 of 43 cafeteria employees who have remained on the payroll since the shooting in october plan to return to work next month. Life in prison without parole. Manslaughter carries up to 15 years in prison. The judge agreed to allow into evidence a police videotape of the Cabin and the two women a bodies which the defense denounced As a a Stephen King  but Sheehy refused to hear from an expert on medical ethics who was to testify that giving a patient drugs to help them die was unethical. The judge also declined to allow two psychiatrists who had treated Wantz to testify. Bunting had hoped to have the doctors explain Why they had tried to have her committed during a Hospital stay. He said that would prove her pain was emotional and not physical. Sheehy also refused to admit As evidence a 1991 civil court injunction that barred Kevorkian from assisting with More suicides. That ruling was issued after Kevorkian helped an Oregon woman kill herself in 1990 in Michigan. A first degree murder charge against Kevorkian in that Case was dismissed by a judge who ruled that Michigan has no Law against assisted suicide. Corpus Christi. It will ask for compensation for damages and civil penalties he said. Morales said Alcoa has discharged Mercury into Lavaca Bay from its Point Comfort Plant a at Levels As High As 67 pounds per Day a since the late 1960s. The Texas department of health closed portions of the Bay in 1988, when elevated Levels of Mercury were found in Fin fish and shellfish. Mercury can cause deformities and brain damage in people. It poses the greatest risk to pregnant women and children through the consumption of Mercury Laden seafood. A Lavaca Bay is one of the most productive estuaries on the Gulf coast a Morales said. A contamination of this resource has caused tremendous losses to the local Economy and the  the san Antonio restaurant Chain and the Killeen Community decided that remodelling would be better than tearing Down the facility which opened in 1990. A everyone 1 visited with in the Community said a whatever you do lets be sure to have Lubye a reopen a a said mayor major Blair. The $95,000 remodelling was intended to wipe out the memories of the oct 16 lunchtime attack by George Hennard who drove his pickup truck through the cafeterias front window Ana began firing at the diners. Hennard fatally shot 22 people in the cafeteria before killing himself. A woman critically injured in the attack died the following week bringing the death toll to 24. Blair said a memorial to the massacre victims will be constructed soon in a nearby Park.  deserves a hand for nabbing Young thief from wire reports Providence . A a politicians handshake can earn More than votes. Mayor Vincent a. Cianci or. Was pulling up to his House sunday night when he saw police chasing a youth who had just abandoned a stolen car. The youth had left the car in front of Ciancios Home after a Chase from East Providence. The mayor got out of his car stepped in front of the running youth and said a Chi in a mayor  Cianci stuck out his hand the youth took it a and the mayor did no to let go until a patrolman clamped on the Handcuffs. A it was a scene out of a movie a police it. John Reis said. A Cianci is pulling up to his House and there Sall these police cars. He a got his scanner on so he knows what its All about. A the just gets out like he a looking for votes. I guess it stunned the  electrocuted Roy Alton . A a couple were electrocuted in their Home after a fallen Power line electrically charged the House. Michael Snell 34, and his wife Suzanne 33, died sunday morning apparently while checking Sparks in the basement of their Home in Roy Alton 40 Miles Northeast of Buffalo investigators said. Firefighters said the Snells could have been electrocuted by almost anything they touched in the basement. Their children Nathaniel 7, and Danielle 5, were not Hurt. A neighbor Douglas Vogt said Nathaniel dressed his sister took her outside and honked the Horn of the family a car until neighbors came. Investigators said a High voltage Power line apparently fell on a service line leading to the ouse electrically charging the building. A transformer on a nearby Utility pole also caught  Dies at cemetery Hamden Conn. A a 25-year-old Man died after he lost control of his car crashed into a cemetery and was hurled from the car into a Headstone police said. Marshall Gambrell died of head injuries in the crash sunday. Gambrelli a car went out of control crossed a Grassy area and crashed through a hedgerow into Beaverdale memorial Park. Gambrell was thrown from the car and into a Marble Headstone police said. Gambrell from Alexandria va., had been visiting relatives in , 2 sons killed new York a a fire swept a House in Queens Early monday killing a woman and her two sons. Fire authorities said Donna Dejesus 27, and her sons Nick 6, and Mike 2, died in the Blaze. Their bodies were found on the second floor beneath debris from a collapsed ceiling firefighters said. At least two people escaped from the first floor of the House and were treated at St. Johns Hospital for smoke  to be replaced Oakland Calif. A encyclopaedia Britanni Ca which promises to replace volumes lost in natural disasters says that because of the Oakland Hills fire it expects to replace a lot More than its yearly average of 25 to 5u volumes. Britannica guarantees free replacement of volumes purchased within the last rive years if lost in an earthquake flood or fire said Salesman Jun Zuntag. That amounts to Between 25 and 50 volumes a year said Britannica spokesman Larry Grinnell. The offer applies this year to any recent buyers among the More than 3,000 homeowners affected by the fire last oct. 20. A and we expect it to be More than a handful a Grinnell said. Zuntag said about a dozen fire victims have in tired about replacing their encyclopedias but Grinnell said he expects More Calls. Texas to sue firm Over pollution site of Texas massacre to reopen