European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 21, 1992california execution Back on schedule san Francisco a a Federal appeals court lifted an order blocking the execution of double murderer Robert Alton Harris opening the Way for californians first execution in 25 years. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals late sunday overturned a temporary restraining order issued saturday by . District judge Marilyn Hall Patel the decision announced in a statement read by court spokeswoman gun Baptiste Means Harris could be executed As planned Early today for the 1978 murders of two san Diego teenagers. Californians Gas chamber Hasni to been used since 1967. The appeals court sunday also agreed to hear a separate Appeal by defense attorneys. They had appealed a san Diego Federal judges ruling rejecting a request to Block Harris execution based on contentions that prosecutors withheld evidence that Harris brother Danny May have shot one of the boys. No mention was made of that Appeal sunday night. Baptiste said no other information would be available until later monday morning. State attorneys appealed immediately after Patel issued the temporary restraining order barring California from using Gas for executions until an april 28 hearing. In response to a class action lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties Union on behalf of Harris and other death Row inmates Patel said there was enough evidence for the court to consider whether death by Gas constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. If the order Hadnot been overturned before Harris death warrant expired today it would have effectively delayed his execution until at least Early june. The state would have to give 10 Days notice for another death warrant hearing and an execution could not be held until at least 30 Days after that. State and Federal courts have denied numerous other appeals for Harris 39, who was convicted in february 1979 of killing 16-year-old friends John May ski and Michael Baker so he could use their car for a Bank robbery. Recent appeals were based on arguments that Harris Wasny to responsible for his crimes because he suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome and was abused As a child. Gov. Pete Wilson denied a request for clemency thursday. According to trial testimony Harris taunted one victim to a quit crying and die like a Man a then shot both boys and ate their fast food hamburgers. Later prosecutors said he bragged about the Illings. Harris has admitted killing both youths but denied taunting them or eating their food. Boston up a gov. William Weld apparently erred when he claimed a $77,431 mortgage interest deduction on his income for last year and was to meet with his accountant today to review his return his spokesman said. Although their income exceeded $165,000, Weld and his wife Susan claimed they owed no Federal taxes for 1991, in Large part because of the mortgage interest deduction. But spokesman Ray Howell said Friday night that the welds apparently cannot legally deduct most of the interest on an $800,000 refinancing of their Home mortgage. The first term Republican refinanced in 1990 to generate Cash for his gubernatorial Campaign. Quot in be talked to the governors accountant and it appears an error May have been made a Howell said. A i later talked to the governor and he was unfamiliar with this provision of the tax code and is horrified by the possible mistake on his  the welds had the original $80,000 mortgage and a $25,000 second mortgage on their Cambridge Home when they refinanced two years ago. They bought the property in 1975 for $150,000 and it is now assessed at $1.1 million according to the Middlesex county registry of deeds. The governor was vacationing in Virginia when the glitch in his tax return surfaced. He or his accountant apparently made their mistake in listing the entire interest amount As a deduction said certified Public accountant Donald Taub who reviewed the welds return for the Boston Globe. The fiduciary Trust co. Of Boston prepared the tax return in question. It also manages the Weld family trusts Howell said. The governor made his tax returns Public last week. They showed he took in 166,277 in total income but listed $173,855 in deductions. In addition to the mortgage interest Weld deducted $54,240 for charitable donations. Demonstrators against the death penalty gather outside the prison in san Quentin calif., where the execution of Robert Alton Harris was scheduled for  Hunter accused of damaging seabed by the Washington Post Miami a in his quest to find the remnants of a legendary Spanish Fleet hit by a Hurricane in 1622, treasure Hunter Mel Fisher has been blowing craters in the fragile seabed of the Florida keys and causing what Federal officials believe could be lasting damage to the underwater ecosystem. Federal authorities said Fishers methods Are churning up the Sandy sea Bottom of coffin Patch a unique reef area three Miles offshore from Marathon inside the Florida keys National Marine Sanctuary. Authorities say they Are contemplating Legal action to prevent him from damaging a Marine Sanctuary. Officials from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration said they Are determined to Stop Fishers underwater ventures on coffin Patch a 1-mile-Square area consisting of a handful of reefs that feature pillar Coral which has died in Many other parts of the Ocean. For the last 28 years Fisher and his company salvos inc., have been Hunting treasure Laden Spanish ships believed to have sunk in these shallow Waters in route to Spain probably from the mexican Peninsula. As Many As 17 galleons May have been in the flotilla although the precise number has not been confirmed. So far Fisher has brought up riches valued at $28 million from two of the sunken galleons the Atocha and the Santa Margarita. A the government has tried on Many occasions through the years to take control of the artefacts and treasures and they use a different fraud each time a Fisher said from his office in key West. A fall of a sudden because of this new Sanctuary act they Are claiming ownership of the Shipwreck and the treasure a he added. A but admiralty Laws say the government does not control maritime Commerce or Salvage of foreign shipwrecks in International Waters a the . Government and the state of Florida have lost every court fight to Date for the right to the treasure. But Noaa officials said that this time the trouble is not Only what Fisher is looking for but also where and How he is searching. A this is a National Marine Sanctuary designated by Congress and the people from the keys and it comes under the Marine Protection research and sanctuaries act Quot said Thomas a Campbell general Legal counsel for Noaa. A the act forbids the destruction of natural resources and also protects historic resources within  areas off the Florida keys became a Sanctuary in november 1990. Last month divers who police the Marine Sanctuary discovered dozens of Large holes 20 to 30 feet in diameter and 3 to 10 feet deep packing the Ocean floor there. Fisher and his salvos have used boxes that redirect a boats propeller Wash in a Homelike motion to blast the seabed in an Effort to uncover what May be lying underneath it. The technique has left a mile Long stretch of the Ocean floor around coffin Patch resembling a lunar landscape according to Reed Boatright Noaak a Public affairs officer. Noaa officials charge that in his efforts to remove Silt and Sand covering buried treasure Fisher not Only wiped out Large sections of sea grass an important component of the ecology of the Florida keys Coral reef system but also Coral sea fans sponges and other types of sea life Fisher denies any wrongdoing and said he is a devoted Marine biologist who created and cultivated a new Coral reef in earlier Hunts. Low Moon helped launch Paul Revere s High ride san Marcos Texas a listen my children and you shall hear How a lunar phase helped Paul Revere. It was 217 years ago last week that Revere rowed across Boston Harbor to begin the famous ride warning that the British were coming. Two scientists say the Moon was unusually Low that april 18 night allowing him to slip by the British warship Somerset in the Harbor. Quot the question has always been since a British Man of War was posted there specifically to Stop people like Revere Why did no to they Stop him a said Patrick Leehey coordinator of research at the Paul Revere House in Boston. A the usual answers were the sentries were asleep or they did no to  but Donald w. Olson and Russell l. Doescher astronomical observers at Southwest Texas state University said their studies indicate a rare lunar phase probably cloaked Revere in darkness. They used computers to re create the sky Over Boston on april 18,1775. The computer re creation showed the Moon that evening to be in an unusually Low Southern declination because of a rare lunar phase causing it to Rise Southeast of the Somerset a position. On most other evenings the Moon would have risen More directly East of the ship and Revere in his Rowboat would Nave been brightly illuminated As he rowed toward Charlestown Olson and Doescher said. According to his own accounts Revere noticed that the Moon was Low in the sky As he raced to Charlestown. He landed safely borrowed a horse and arrived in Lexington in time to deliver messages to patriots Samuel Adams and Jonn  governor May have erred on taxes