European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 361 350 Friday april 10,1992 d 8693 Noriega found guilty on eight of 10 counts Noriega Miami apr Manuel Noriega was convicted thursday on eight of 10 drug and racketeering charges that led to the 1989 . Invasion of Panama. The former panamanian Leader was found guilty of the key counts of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy plus six lesser charges. The eight counts carry a possible maximum sentence of 120 years sentencing was set for july 10. He was acquitted of two lesser charges cocaine distribution and conspiracy to import cocaine. There was no visible reaction from Noriega or the jurors As the verdicts were read. In the Row behind the defense two of Noriega a daughters wept while his wife Felicidad stared Forward without expression. The Federal court trial lasted seven months during which time the government painstakingly built its Case against a head of state it called a a Small Man in a general a uniform a who was a just another crooked  the jury finished work in its fifth Day of deliberations. On wednesday the jurors announced they were deadlocked with one holdout . District judge William Hoveler urged them to try again. Noriega a lawyers maintained he was a victim of . Politics saying the Case a smelled All the Way to Washington. Ency had defended him by portraying the governments witnesses a confessed drug traffickers in Many cases a As unscrupulous thugs looking Only for a a a get out of jail free  the trial marked the first time the United states invaded a Sovereign country and brought Back its Leader for a trial on criminal charges. Noriega whose records say is 54, was indicted on feb. 4, 1988, along with 15 other people including the head of colombians Medellin drug see Noriega on Page 2fame forces Ashe to admit he has aids from wire reports new York a for Arthur Ashe As for Rock Hudson Fame had its Price. Ashe paid the Price in announcing wednesday that he has aids a an unwilling disclosure that dramatized the uneasy balance Between a celebrity a right to privacy and his responsibility to use his Fame on be Alf of a cause. A i am angry that i was put in the unenviable position of having to lie if i was to protect my privacy a he told a news conference. A i did no to commit any crime. I am not running for Public office. I should Reserve the right to keep something like that  the 48-year-old former Tennis Star said he had known since 1988 that he was infected with his the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. He went Public Only after a Usa today reporter asked if it were True that the former athlete had aids. Hudson did not disclose until Days before his death in 1985 that he had aids. The actors homosexuality also became Public. Those who have worked to raise Public awareness of aids said Ashe would be a powerful ally. But they shared his anger Over the Way in which he arrived in their Camp. A a there a no question that with his celebrity status he could be very helpful in the fight against aids a but that decision has to be his Quot said Carisa Cunningham a spokeswoman for the aids action Council a National lobbying group. Ashe the first Black Man to win the Wimbledon Tennis championships in England said he was certain he got the virus during one of his two heart bypass operations he had before 1985, when testing began to screen blood for the aids virus. He said he Learned he had the aids virus when he see Ashe on Page 2 overcome by emotion Arthur Ashe watches As his wife Jeanne reads a statement in which he said he has  say Soldier s death was not by Friendly fire seems Clear by Vince Crawley staff writer the official version enough. Spec. Clarence Cash died feb. 27, 1991, the army says As a result of Ameri officer who accompanied Cash a body to can fire during the Battle of Medina Ridge near the Iraq Kuwait Border. Some soldiers who served with Cash agree with that assessment. But several others in Cash a unit and the american saudi Arabia insist that the iraqi infantry was responsible for the death of the 20-year-old Bradley fighting vehicle Driver. Still other veterans of the Battle say they Are not sure. A what actually happened on the ground May never be known a col. James Riley Cash a former brigade commander told the army times newspaper in mid August. At the same time the Pentagon announced that 35 americans had been see death on Page 2you, stripes and the draw Down a see pages 14-16