European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 50, no. 351 350 tuesday March 31,1992 d 8693 saudis deny Patriot reports Riyadh says it did t give China missile technology Riyadh saudi Arabia a the defense ministry on monday denied reports that China received . Patriot missile technology from saudi Arabia. A ministry spokesman said the reports were a totally a we suffice by referring to . Defense Secretary Dick Cheney a statements of categorical denial of the veracity of the reports a said the spokesman who is not named in line with standing rules. His statements were carried by the official saudi press Agency. London a sunday Telegraph reported that the Pentagon has evidence China received . Patriot missile technology from saudi Arabia rather than Israel As previously suspected. Israel radio in an unattributed report saturday said . Investigators apparently found no evidence that Israel sold the missile technology to China. Patriot batteries deployed in saudi Arabia and Israel crewed by americans were used during the persian Gulf War to intercept and destroy iraqi scud missiles. Cheney said sunday that he did not believe the saudis passed on the missile technology. However he said he had not yet heard from the inspectors who returned sunday after a we Klong visit. A fall the patriots that Are in saudi Arabia arc manned by americans. There no patriots manned by saudis a Cheney see patriots on Page 2 baby taken off life support but donation fight goes on fort Lauderdale Fla. Apr a 9-Day-old baby born without a full brain barely Clung to life monday after being removed from life support equipment. As she Lay in her Hospital bed the state supreme court rebuffed her parents attempts to have her immediately declared brain dead. A lower court last week had blocked the parents of Little Theresa Ann Campo Pearson from having her declared brain dead so her organs could be donated immediately. On monday morning the states highest court said it would not consider the Case on an emergency basis. Hospital officials said the baby could die Ai any time. Her organs were deteriorating and doctors said they probably would not be suitable for transplant. But attorneys for the parents waitress Laura Campo and Cement worker Justin Pearson of Coral Springs said they were acting on principle when they asked the state supreme court in Tallahassee for an emergency ruling. They wanted the High court to declare Theresa and All babies like her born without a cerebrum dead at birth. A a it a a lot More ethical to save one life with a transplant than to have two go Down. Because when she goes Down she brings Down All the other babies she could have saved a said attorney Scott Mager who filed the Appeal. It was almost immediately rejected by the High court which said it lacked jurisdiction. Mager said he would take the Case Back to a state District court of appeals in West Palm Beach and ask those judges to Rule that the Case is a an Issue of great Public importance a which would make it possible for the . Supreme court to consider it. Theresa was born March 21 with Anen Cephal or Only a brain Stem. Dori Gallagher watches Over her Niece Theresa Ann Campo Pearson at Broward general medical Center in fort Lauderdale now no goom Ggeorgie by Irvin Molotsky the new York times Washington imitating Johnny Carson president Bush held an envelope to his brow and gave his answer to the question sealed inside. His answer was a wheel of Fortune Mclaughlin group and Mario Cuomo. The question inside the envelope called on the president to name a a game show a talk show am a Bush a impression of Carsons swamp Karnak the magnificent delighted the guests saturday night at the annual dinner of the Gridiron club the 107-year-old organization of Washington journalists. Adopting the routine used so often by Carson who has received Many laughs at Bush a expense in the past the president put on a red Cape and told Carson Flyte jokes. A May your first born Many a congressman a Bush declared. Congress usually gets a Large share of the ribbing at Gridiron dinners and this was especially so la year in View of the attention that has been drawn recently to privileges available to members. To the tune of the House i live in participants portraying members of Congress Sang what is America to me a Salt seat Good pay and Perks her free political plutocracy a that Samerica to me. The House we live in is More than Juste Bank. It s a monumental tribute to the privilege of rank. A parking space for members a no tickets do the right to be elitist a that s America to me. The place we work in is More than just a dome. It takes a Heap of freebies to make this House sen be Ordie on Page 2 Man reportedly carrying Ruby s gun arrested Washington a the gun Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald was seized by . Capitol police this weekend after a Man offered to show it to House speaker Thomas s. Foley the Washington Post reported. Capitol police confirmed sunday night the arrest of Robert Luongo whom the Post described As a representative of the $220,000 guns owner. Luongo 37, of Ocean Ridge Fla., was held in jail overnight after his arrest saturday police said. Luongo was charged with a Misdemeanour count of carrying a pistol without a License. He was scheduled to be arraigned today in District of Columbia Superior court. He was released after posting Bond sunday. Luongo was quoted As saying he feared the ,38-caliber Colt cobra would wind up being destroyed As Are other firearms seized in the District of Columbia. Capitol police spokesman Dan Nichols described the gun seized from Luongo As a Colt cobra six shot .38-caliber revolver with the serial number 2744-lw. The Post said that was the serial number on the gun Ruby used to shoot Oswald on nov. 24, 1963, two Days after the assassination of president Kennedy. A the approached our officers and said he had an historical gun in a locked gun Case in his Possession a said Nichols who added he could not confirm whether it was Ruby a gun. A the fact that the gun is historically significant is not relevant to our Case a Nichols said it would be up to a judge to decide see gun on Page 2
