European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 1, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7senator urges end to honorarium ban by Mike Causey the Washington Post Washington sen. Barbara a. Mikulski d-md., sent an unusual letter monday to Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Maine asking him to pry a senior colleagues Finger off the hold Button and restore moonlighting rights to thousands of Federal government workers. For the last 15 months it has been illegal for government workers to be paid for writing occasional articles or making speeches while off duty. The maximum Fine is $10,000. The full House and the Senate a governmental affairs committee have passed Bills that would eliminate the so called ban on honorariums. A . District court judge ruled last week that the ban violates the free speech rights of government workers. But he allowed the ban to remain until Congress or the courts take final action. When the ban was imposed in 1991, everyone assumed Congress would move quickly to eliminate it. It was Felt that moving the Issue through the courts would take much longer. Thanks to the Senate the courts appear to be moving faster. Any senator can delay a vote by putting a hold on a Bill. Some because of their seniority and committee position have More Power. The Finger on the honorarium hold Button belongs to sen. Robert c. Byrd . He is chairman of the powerful appropriations committee. Mikulski ranks 12th among the committees democrats. Byrd apparently has nothing against rank and file government workers writing or speaking for pay while off duty. But he objects to allowing top paid executives and Senate staffers honorariums for such activities. Mikulski wrote Mitchell that a there is no reason Why a government employee should not be Able to write an article on baseball card collecting in his spare time and pick up a few extra dollars for getting it published. Lets get this taken care of once and for  insiders believe that Byrd is trying to get the Senate leadership to support a either on the Senate floor or in a Senate House conference a language that will keep the ban on congressional staffers. Until the Sticky Issue is resolved . Workers who write or speak off duty risk a Fine if they accept any payment. Witness says beating of King shocked him Simi Valley Calif. Up a los Angeles police officer who witnessed the beating of Rodney g. King testified monday that he was a a shocked by the blows he saw administered to King by a fellow officer on trial for brutality. Rookie officer Rolando Solano also testified that another one of the defendants was his partner the night Kin was beaten Ana bitterly complaint about the Way the incident was handled. Solano testified that officer Theodore j. Briseno said to him immediately following the incident a Sarge should have handled it better. God Damn it Sarge should have handled it better. I thought we were going to have a  Solano on Friday told the court without the jury present that Briseno also expressed concerns about what he believed was undue amount of Force used by his colleagues to subdue and handcuff King who led officers on a High Speed Chase for nearly eight Miles on March 3,1991. But Superior court judge Stanley Weisberg ruled that Solano could Tell the jury Only about Briseno a comments referring to sgt. Stacey c. Koon the highest ranking police official on the scene who orchestrated the beating. Briseno a attorney John Barnett vigorously argued that Solano should be Al pc Lowed to testify about everything he May have heard from Briseno. A officer Briseno took Steps to try to recent it in distinction to the other de pendants in this Case a Barnett said. A a it a extremely important to officer Briseno to have the evidence to show his state of mind right after Rodney King was  Briseno Koon officer Laurence m. Powell and former officer Timothy wind Are accused of assault. Koon and Powell face additional charges for allegedly writing a false police report about the incident. Wind a Rookie was fired after the beating. Solano a comment could greatly help Briseno a defense which is based on a Frame in the now famous videotape of the beating in which he clearly tries to Stop Baton swings aimed at King. The officer is expected to testify later in the trial now in its fourth week. Solano told jurors he saw Powell hit King on the right on the right and left shoulders. The Force of the blows then caused the Baton to deflect into Kings jaw he said. A in your mind were you shocked a asked Deputy District attorney Terry White. A in your mind did you say a my god i can to believe he a swinging it that a Roo de police officer Rolando Solano demonstrates on Deputy District attorney Terry White the kind of blows perceived to have been inflicted on Rodney g. King. High a. Solano replied a yes when the Baton was going up. Hitting in the shoulder was proper but when it came up to the face i thought it was  Solano was called As a defense witness for Powell who is seen on the now famous videotape of the beating delivering the most Baton blows to King. Solano was the first los Angeles police bystander to testify that Powell a blows May have landed on Kings head or face. Prosecutors contend King was struck at least 56 times with the 24-Inch steel police Batons wielded by Powell and co defendant wind. Psychiatrist accused of affair with patient continues practice Boston apr a state medical Board tuesday charged that a psychiatrist accused of having an affair with a patient who later committed suicide had Given a substandard  but the panel refused to suspend her. The Board of registration in Medicine decided or. Margaret bean Bayogo a practice does not pose an immediate Public threat. But the Board said it wanted a further investigation and it referred her Case to the division of Law appeals for a hearing. It ordered that she be supervised by another psychiatrist in the meantime. Bean Bayog who is accused of having an affair with patient Paul Lozano left the Board meeting without comment but had earlier denied the charges. Lozano a student at Harvard medical school in Cambridge had become homesick and worried about making the Grade and he went to bean Bayog. Lozano a family says he became drawn into lurid affair with his doctor who made the Young Man act like her infant son and drove him to suicide. The patients family is also suing her. Judge jailed for growing marijuana Springfield 111. Up a a Woodford county Edge who grew marijuana at his Home in Gridley was sentenced to 26 months in prison monday by a Federal Edge. . District judge Richard Mills sentenced William dark Dalton for marijuana Possession and Man fac ure. He could have been sentenced to up to five years n prison and fined $250,000 on each charge. Dalton 40, pleaded guilty dec. 28 to charges that he imported High Potency marijuana from a sophisticated cannabis growing farm in Colorado and also grew the illegal drug in his own Home. Police found marijuana plants and Plant growing equipment when they raided the former judges Home last fall after receiving information from one of Dalton a former Colorado drug suppliers. The associate circuit judge resigned from the Bench after his arrest. Federal prosecutors said Dalton admitted he had bought several pounds of marijuana from Colorado every year since 1984, and began growing his own cannabis in Early 1991.ozzy Osbourne injured when fans Rush stage from wire reports Irvine Calif. A about 600 people rushed the stage during an Ozzy Osbourne concert and he and several tans suffered cuts and bruises. The heavy Metal Rock musician had asked fans near the front to come on stage during the last song saturday. A it Wasny to supposed to happen that Way a his publicist Mitch Schneider said monday. Osbourne 43, had to crawl off stage to escape the crowd Schneider said. About 12,000 people a re at the concert at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. Damage to equipment was estimated at $100,000.meteorologist Dies Littleton mass. Hurd c. Willett who was credited with developing the five Day method of forecasting the weather has died at age 89. Willett joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge in 1929 As part of the then new meteorological Section of the aeronautical engineering department. He retired from Mit in 1968. He developed the extended forecast method adopted by the weather Bureau in 1939