European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 0 the stars and stripes saturday March 14, 1992agent with Fri shot to death during Holdup Kansas City to. Apr Federal agents investigated Telephone tips and followed leads round the clock Friday to find the killer of an Fri agent. A a we be had roughly 40 phone Calls based on the publicity the Case has gotten and the news of the Reward a said Fri special agent Jeff Lanza. More than 100 Fri agents were working 12-hour shifts to investigate the wednesday night killing of special agent Stanley c. Ronquest jr., 52. Ronquest a 21-year Fri Veteran was in Kansas City on temporary assignment and had been scheduled to return to Washington on thursday. The slaying was apparently the result of a random Street attack and not related to his Job authorities said. A woman told investigators that she gave Ronquest a ride to the downtown historic suites of America hotel and As Ronquest got out of her car two men approached him and one said a give me your Wallet or you re  Ronquest responded that he had a gun and a struggle ensued the woman told investigators. She said Ronquest and an assailant tumbled Down a Short flight of Steps and then she heard a shot. The Fri is offering a $50,000 Reward for information about the shooting. Ronquest worked out of the organized crime Section of the Agency a criminal investigative division. A giant stick in the mud a Delta air lines jetliner remains mired in the mud Tenn is id off a runway after the Pilot attempted to turn and Snow on thursday despite efforts to free it by work the aircraft around when adjacent tax Vays were closed ers at greater Rochester International Airport in new because of a heavy snowfall. No one was injured in the York state. The Jet whose flight originated in Nashville mishap. See other weather news Page 11.suspect to drop castration request lawyer says Houston apr a Man who asked to be castrated rather than face trial on a child molesting charge has changed his mind an attorney representing the Many a family says. State District judge Mike Mcspadden last week approved Steven Allen butlers request to be castrated instead of going to trial on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. But attorney Charles Freeman said thursday that Butler told him Over the weekend that head rather go to trial. A the told me at that time i have never wanted to be castrated. I just wanted to keep my options open a a Freeman said. Freeman said Butler 28, told him that he feared being sentenced to life in prison if convicted. At the time of his arrest Butler was on probation after pleading guilty to indecency with a 7-year-old girl. Because of that he May have Felt he had no Choice but toot for the surgery Freeman said. The lawyer said he would file Legal action on butlers behalf shortly. Mcspadden said he was unaware Butler had changed his mind but added that he had that option. No Date for the surgery had been set. A whenever he wants to have it done he can with the understanding that he can change his mind at any time a the judge said. Butler has been in jail without Bond since april. He volunteered for castration after Reading about Mcspadden a support of the surgery for some sex offenders. Mcspadden ruled last week that if Butler underwent castration he would be placed on probation for 10 years. At a news conference thursday one of butlers Sisters Stephanie said that her brother was innocent and that the family wants him to face the  receives severed Lamb s head in mail Boston a it seemed like a fairly routine crime a equipment was being filched from a computer company. Routine that is until an informant in the Case received the severed head of a Lamb in the mail. Now the Case has taken a bizarre twist with some wondering whether the underworld was responsible or whether the act was one of increasingly violent High tech criminals. The message though was unmistakable. A a it a the silence of the lambs Quot said Roger Cox an attorney for the recipient of the head Edward Desmond or. A someone does no to want him cooperating with the government any  the incident recalled the film the godfather in which mobsters leave a horses head in a movie producers bed As a threat As Well As the silence of the lambs last years thriller about an Fri trainees Pursuit of a serial killer. Federal prosecutors wont comment on whether the Case might have mafia links and Cox said he does no to think the mob was involved. But Edith Flynn a professor of criminology at northeastern University specializing in organized crime said the signs Are there. A my guess is that once the prosecution is done you la find the fingerprints of organized crime behind this operation a Flynn said. Desmond 28, helped the government during its 2vi-year investigation that led to the july 1991 indictment of 16 people a including himself a on charges of stealing $6 million in equipment from digital equipment corp. The computer parts were resold in California. Cox said thursday that he and Federal prosecutors Are negotiating a plea bargain for Desmond who plans to testify at the trial in August. The White Box with a Boston postmark arrived at Desmond a Home in suburban Lexington on feb. 28. A the opened it up and Here a this hideous severed lambs head a Cox said. A when he called me his voice was  head wrap causing headache for candidate Portland Ore. Apr a mayoral candidate who belongs to the sikh Faith was told that his photograph  run in a state voters guide unless he took off the head wrap he wears for religious purposes. A a it a a violation of our religion to take it off for pictures a Sardar Singh Khalsa said. The state elections division  accept Khalsa a photograph for the voters pamphlet because the Law says candidates pictures in the guide can to include hats. Khalsa a Carpenter said that the turban like wrap Isnit a hat and that followers of his Faith Are supposed to Wear it at All times in Public. The elections director Colleen Sealock said she sympathizes. But the attorney general s office has said the wrap a very clearly fits the definition of a hat a Sealock said. Diver dealt setback in ironclad study Washington apr a Delaware diver lost another round thursday in his bid to explore the wreckage of the civil War ironclad Monitor which he says is disintegrating in the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras , Federal administrative Law judge William Ogden recommended that the National oceanic and atmospheric administration reaffirm its denial of a permit to Peter e. Hess a Wilmington attorney who accompanied a previous Monitor expedition. A permit is needed because the remains of the ironclad whose standoff Battle with the Confederate ironclad Merrimack ended the Era of wooden fighting ships is in a Federal maritime preserve. The oceanic administration argued at a feb. 13 hearing that Hess a scuba diver who was on a 1990 Monitor photographing expedition led by Gary Gentile of Philadelphia Nad not shown that he is qualified to Lead a new photography and research Mission. Hess said he wanted to use electronic devices similar to those used on offshore Oil rigs to measure the extent of corrosion of the vessel. He said the vessel could col lapse in a few years if nothing is done a a a conclusion disputed by Noaa and some other divers. The Agency has granted exploring permission to Rod Farb an author and photographer from Cedar Grove ., who has led expeditions to the site for the last three years. Farb has said he is going Back in May. The Monitor which Sank in a Gale off Cape Hatteras on dec. 31,1862, lies at a depth of 235 feet. The Union vessel had fought the Merrimack at Hampton roads va., nine months earlier. Though both ships survived the Merrimack was destroyed by its own Crew in the evacuation of Norfolk shortly after the Battle. Hess said he will file objections with Noaa which must decide whether to accept the administrative judges recommendation. If the recommendation is accepted Hess could Appeal to a Federal court. He said it would be premature to say now whether he will do so