European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes Friday april 10, 1992 at a glance Terry Anderson the associated press reporter held hostage in Lebanon will receive a $245,500 Cash award from the Freedom forum. See Story on Page 18. Voters flock to Elvis some Post offices Are already Short of ballots in the . Postal service s fledgling poll As to which portrait of Elvis should be featured on a stamp next year. A Page 4 planes used for Golf trips vice president Dan Quayle used military planes several times to take trips in the last two years with then transportation Secretary Samuel k. Skinner mostly to play Golf a government report disclosed. A Page 5 defense budget passes test the Senate refused thursday to trim about $4 billion from president Bush s planned $292 billion defense budget for next year. A Page 6 cleanup plans announced the nuclear regulatory commission has announced action to Force the cleanup of 46 radioactive waste Sites in the United states. A Page 7 Arafat leaves Hospital Yasser Arafat left a Hospital thursday after treatment for injuries suffered in a crash Landing that killed three people. A Page 8 death March remembered aging veterans gathered on mount Samat Philippines with dignitaries from the United states Japan and the Philippines to commemorate the world War ii fall of Bataan a half Century ago. A Page 10 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 action line .16 comics.19-21 commentary.13 faces a places .18 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather.11noriega from Page 1 Cartel Pablo Escobar. At the time Noriega was still in Power in Panama and sneered at . Demands that he step Down. On dec. 20,1989, the United states invaded Panama. . Forces tracked Noriega to a Vatican Mission in Panama City surrounded it and blasted the panamanian Leader with Rock music until he surrendered. His trial opened in . District court on sept. 5 with jury selection opening arguments began sept. 16. The government called 46 witnesses plus 14 others on rebuttal after the defense rested. The defense called 19 to the stand. The most crucial prosecution witnesses were confessed drug traffickers some with violent streaks including Carlos Lehder Max Mermelstein and Jose Quot Pepey Cabrera. In Exchange for pointing the Finger at Noriega they won reduced sentences immunity from other charges and sometimes the right to keep millions of dollars in drug profits. The witnesses said Noriega s formal relationship with the Medellin traffickers began in late 1981. Leftist colombian guerrillas had kidnapped the sister of the Cartel s Ochoa Brothers. As head of Panama a powerful g-2 intelligence division Noriega negotiated her release. In response pleased Cartel leaders sent emissaries to him in Early 1982 to establish a business arrangement prosecutors said. Soon prosecutors said drug and Cash Laden colombian planes were flying into panamanian airports shipping cocaine on to the United states and laundering their profits in panamanian Banks. Star witness Floyd Carlton a panamanian drug and gun smuggler said he made four trips from Colombia to Remote panamanian air strips with loads of Cartel cocaine. Each time he said he passed along up to $200,000 in Cash to Noriega through an  from Page 1 killed by Friendly fire in the persian Gulf War the Pentagon s report listed no names but detailed How each of the soldiers died and the announcement said two Bradley from Cash a unit were hit by main gun rounds from an m1a1 tank. Capt. Orville Cupp disagrees. Cnapp then a first lieutenant inspected Cash a Bradley before escorting the Drivers body to saudi Arabia. Quot from what i saw of the vehicle i can to say that a 120-millimeter round hit it a Cupp said. . Tanks fired 120mm rounds. The iraqi tanks did not. A i saw the vehicle. I talked to the troops a Cupp said. Quot one of my contributions to that War was to get his Cash a remains out of there. In a not going to forget that Day for a Long time to  the army said it stands by its findings regarding Gulf War deaths. Quot we realize there Are people who were involved in these actions and who done to agree with our reports a said maj. Barbara Goodno an army spokeswoman. Quot we also know that in some cases we attributed deaths to Friendly fire when the unit was in fact engaging the enemy at the time of the incident. After a lengthy review our Best judgment is that the actual penetration and damage to Cash a vehicle was caused by a depleted uranium round a she said. When the stars and stripes listed Cash As a Friendly fire victim in a january Story Cupp said be called Cash a unit. Quot a lot of Guys still left there said a no that s not the Way it happened a a Cupp said. Sgt. David Smith who fought in the Battle said the iraqi infantry was responsible for Cash a death. Quot ill take that to my grave a he said. Smith a gunner on a Bradley near Cash a vehicle estimated he was no More than 300 feet away when Cash was hit and he immediately pulled up alongside. Smith and his vehicle commander staff sgt. Robert Hager spotted three iraqis with anti tank weapons running from the area. Smith said he believes Cash s Bradley was later hit by an american tank round after its Crew had abandoned it. Cash a vehicle was hit in the afternoon after the main assault on Medina Ridge. The Bradley was part of a scout platoon of the 4th in 66th Armor regt ordered to pass through formations of soldering iraqi vehicles. Enemy infantry units were in the area and some . Soldiers reported enemy tanks in the distance. As the platoon rushed past an enemy Bunker the Lead Bradley was hit Ana stopped. The army a terse Friendly fire statement in August said that this vehicle was also hit by american tank fire. None of its crewmen was seriously injured. Cash screw Wasny to so Lucky. Frederick a. Wiggins the platoon sergeant lost a leg. Sgt. Rick Knight a gunner was wounded and still carries shrapnel. Cash died and was the 3rd inf dives Only combat fatality in the War. Witnesses said they saw enemy soldiers firing rocket propelled grenades not far from Cash s Cash vehicle. The soviet made rpg-7 is a shoulder fired rocket launcher with a Range of More than 1,000 feet. Its rockets can penetrate Armor up to a foot thick. At first the army said Cash had been killed by rugs. A that was the report that came in from every Soldier on the scene a Riley told the army times in August. However ballistics experts later found traces of radiation in Cash a Bradley indicating it was hit by a . Main gun tank round american main gun tank rounds included uranium. Iraqi tank rounds did not. Sandra Cash 20, said army officials first told her that enemy fire killed her husband. Six months later the Pentagon sent a letter saying her husband died from Friendly fire. She and her husband had been stationed in Aschaffenbur Germany for a year when he deployed to saudi Arabia. Their daughter had died at birth in december and Clarence was Given the option to remain with his wife in Germany. He chose to deploy. A a that a the Way he was a said Cpl. Richard England. A the would have Felt like he deserted chickened out. He was a Gung to kind of Guy. He was High  shortly after being notified of the Battlefield death Sandra Cash said someone from her husbands unit called and told her Quot whatever they Tell you its not Friendly  she said she trusts the caller and did not want to identify him. England who still carries a snapshot of Cash in his Wallet said an american tank round probably killed his Friend. The 22-year-old England drove the first Bradley that was hit by what he thinks were rugs. He bases his opinion on destruction to Cash a Bradley damage that was described to him. A i did no to want to go Back and see it a he said. Hager said he believes the first Bradley was hit by an Reg and that iraqi ambush teams shot at the units other vehicles. A one even shot at me and my Bradley a he said it was possible that Cash a Bradley was hit first by an Reg and later by an american tank round. A the track burned five hours a he said. Quot when the brigade came up behind us they could have shot at  Gulf War veterans said it was not uncommon for american tanks to accidentally shoot burning american vehicles. Knight said he Wasny to certain How Cash died except to say that a main tank round was responsible. The holes left in the Bradley a one in front one on the right Side where the Hull meets the Turret a were apparently caused by a Sabot round a hard Shell which leaves clean entry and exit holes while wrecking the inside of a vehicle. Quot no Way it would be rugs a Knight said. Quot i know a round had gone right through the vehicle. If anything it was a tank  at the time he was hit he assumed an enemy tank had fired off a Lucky shot. While he was Home recovering Knight said people from the unit called him. A they told me people were saying it was Friendly fire but not to believe it a Knight said. Quot i did no to know what to believe about  interviewed a few weeks ago Knight remained Uncertain. A fall i can Tell you is i done to know a he said. A i was in the vehicle and i done to know what hit us a Ashe from Page 1 was admitted to new York Hospital for brain surgery in september 1988 after his right hand became paralysed. When surgeons operated they found toxoplasmosis a protozoan parasite that can attack patients whose immunity is weakened by aids. In Light of ashes disclosure an american red Cross spokeswoman said the Odds that a patient will get an aids tainted blood transfusion Are about 1 in 45,000 now that blood is screened. That is based on an Assumption of five blood units per recipient. More people Are killed by lightning or die from a penicillin reaction than get the aids Sims from a transfusion red Cross spokeswoman us Hall said. In a statement Ashe read before taking questions he said he decided not to disclose in 1988 he had the aids Sims because a any admission of his infection at that time would have seriously permanently and a my wife and i believed a unnecessarily in fanged upon my family a right to  a just As i am sure everyone in this room has some personal matter he or she would like to keep private so did we a Ashe said while announcing that his wife and 5-year-old daughter Quot Are in excellent health and both Are  when Ashe came to the portion of the statement where he began to speak of the Challenge of telling his daughter he has the disease he was overcome by emotion. His wife Jeanne walked to the podium and read a even though we be begun preparing camera for this news beginning tonight Jeanne and i must teach tier How to react to new different and sometimes cruel comments that have Little to do with her