European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday april 22, 1992 at a glance Elton John performs during the Freddie Mercury memorial concert for aids at Wembley stadium North of London on monday night see Story photos on Page 22.perot is big in Texas Texas billionaire h. Ross Perot would narrowly beat president Bush and far outpace Democrat Bill Clinton in Texas if the presidential election were held today a poll says. A Page 4735 haitians rescued coast guard Crews rescued 735 haitians who fled the Island nation on eight a seaworthy sailboats Over the weekend. A Page Retiree Colas saved workers who Are worried they might have to take a 2 percent pay Cut to finance their pensions and retirees fearful of being put on diet Colas can  Page 6 Japan bans italian wines japanese health officials on monday banned the Sale of 19 italian wineries products suspected of being tainted with a  Page 8 War coverage guidelines the Pentagon and major . News organizations Are near agreement on new guidelines for War coverage. A Page 9candy bars go to War the Candy bar War escalated monday when Hershey foods corp., one of the nation s biggest Candy makers began offering refunds to Consumers in response to a similar offer by Mars inc. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 faces a places. 22 letters. 12 Money matters. 17-18 sports. 23-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 acting afghan Leader ready to turn Over reins to Council Kabul Afghanistan apr the acting president of Afghanistan said tuesday that the remnants of ousted president Najibullah a government were ready to surrender Power to a rebel led Council. But sources said the guerrilla factions could not agree on a Leader. Abdul Rahim Hatif a non communist who took Over for Najibullah on sunday said the government also would be willing to cede Power to a  Neutral administration. Quot we have no preference because in principle we have agreed on a full Transfer of All the Powers of the state Quot Hatif said at the presidential compound. Quot we do not want confrontation with the Mui Heddin. We do not want bloodshed Quot be added. Hatif also said the government had no objection Quot in principle Quot to a . Spe Cial envoys efforts to negotiate Najibullah a Safe passage out of the country. All major cities except Kabul Are now under the control of the rebel Mujahed Din or islamic holy warriors whose Lead ers met in Pakistan again tuesday to try to form an interim governing Council that would take Power in Kabul. Afghan sources said the leaders divided for years by personal ambitions and Petty rivalries agreed on the makeup of the Council but remained deadlocked Over who would Lead it. Most of the leaders want the Council to be headed by Ahmed Shah Masood a popular commander who engineered the end of Najibullah a six year Rule and the Domino like fall of 13 provinces within Days. But the Leader of the strict fundamentalist Hebe islami faction Gul Buddin Hematyar is threatening to attack the capital from the groups positions South of Kabul unless the government surrenders within a week. Hematyar has said he would not participate on any Council that included Masood his fiercest rival. Quot a solution is not possible. Hematyar can to agree to anything that includes Ahmed Shah Masood a said Hekma Tyars a Pakistan based spokesman Nawab Salim. With rival rebel groups closing in the capital and the government crippled residents of Kabul fear the Power struggle among competing rebel factions could degenerate into fighting in the capital. An estimated 2 million afghans already have died in the nearly 14-year-old civil War 5 million More have fled their Homes. . Envoy Benon Sevan who has been struggling for months to bring peace to Afghanistan pleaded with the guerrilla factions monday to seize the Opportunity for peace. Quot we Are almost there. Done to risk destroying the Chance for peace Quot said Sevan who is from Cyprus. Quot we do not have months not even Days perhaps. There Are enough dead people in Afghanistan. There is enough  Sevan began trying to mediate a settlement of the conflict Long before Najibullah fell last week. The United nations had proposed installing a Neutral interim government to Rule until elections can be  from Page 1 . Supreme court in 1976 allowed states to resume capital punishment. He was the 169th person put to death since the ruling. Sixteen other states have the death penalty but have not used it. A total of 330 men and women remain on death Row in California and More than 2,300 were on death Row nationally As of january. The last person executed in California was police killer Aaron Mitchell who fought with guards and shouted that he was Jesus Christ As he was strapped into the Gas chamber in 1967. Harris had been scheduled to die just after Midnight but the 9th . Circuit court of appeals in san Francisco put the execution on hold six hours beforehand based on a claim that his brother shot one of the teen agers. It issued three More stays based on a claim that death by Gas is cruel and unusual punishment before the supreme court ordered no More stays. Before the final stay came Down Harris was strapped into the chair by three guards at 3 49 . At 3 51 ., the Telephone in the witness room rang. A Mem Ber of Harris family was heard to say a ooh  Harris was returned to a holding area before the supreme court cleared the Way for his execution nearly 2tft hours later. The american civil liberties Union argued that the Gas chamber used by a diminishing number of states violates a evolving standards of decent recognized under the Constitution. California Arizona and Maryland use Gas for executions Mississippi and North Carolina have Gas or lethal injection. The supreme court overturned the first stay around Midnight and lifted the others before Dawn in a 7-2 vote. Justices Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun dissented. Harris had appealed to the supreme court six times received five execution dates and came within 12 hours of death in 1990 As the Case made its Way through the courts becoming a test of several death penalty issues. According to testimony at his trial Harris and his brother Danny were looking for a getaway car when they came upon John Mayeski and Michael Baker eating hamburgers in a parking lot. Harris forced the 16-year-Olds to drive to a Rural area ordered them out of the car and shot them. Danny Harris who took the stand against his brother and received a 3w-year sentence for kidnapping under a plea bargain testified that his brother taunted one of the boys to Quot quit crying and die like a Man Quot Ana then snot them. Later prosecutors said Robert Harris laughed and bragged about the killings. At the time Harris was on parole for a 1975 manslaughter conviction. Bakery a father san Diego detective Steven Baker asked to be a witness to the execution. Baker arrested Harris after the robbery in 1978 without knowing that his son had been slain earlier in the Day and that Harris was the killer. Quot it was a cops Nightmare a Baker had said. Opponents and supporters of capital Kum sment gathered outside the prison londay. Quot if South Africa can put a freeze on its executions Why can to the state of California Quot asked Magdaleno Rose Avila a member of amnesty International. Gov. Pete Wilson last week refused to Grant clemency. He was unmoved by claims that Harris suffered brain damage from being dropped on his head As a baby that be was abused and then abandoned at 14, and that he suffered fetal alcohol syndrome or damage caused by his mothers drinking during  from Page 1 tic Pate in the ceremony. Quot if she chooses to characterize chief Austin two Moons As a Token the lady is certainly entitled to think so a Lluberes said. A we certainly done to consider him so. It was a splendid Kickoff to the .  Lluberes said he did not know How the american Indian heritage foundation the Falls Church  group that Pale Moon and her husband Wil Rose founded was chosen to organize the water Blessing. The . Exhibit housed in two Veteran geodesic domes and featuring an original edition of the Bill of rights has been widely panned. Critics say the United states comes across As a country in decline rather than on the cutting Edge of technology that the six month Universal exposition was meant to showcase. The charge has been hotly denied by . Lippo officials. A there were sceptics and critics who predicted a less than first class . Participation Quot Usia director Henry e. Catto said before the Pale Moon incident. �?o1 suggested to them that they might wait until it opened and that id eat my hat if they did no to enjoy  but what was to be a proud moment apparently turned sour after Pavilion organizers were informed that some indians were critical of their Choice of Pale Moon who was born Rita Ann Stuntz. A she has not been Able to verify that she a descended from any tribe she claims a said Don Allery former Deputy director of the National Congress of american indians. Quot. She could just As Well claim to be Queen of England. Pale Moon said she is Cherokee by birth and Blackfoot and Ojibwa by adoption but Only became aware of her heritage late in life. She is not registered with any tribe with the Bureau of Indian affairs Allery said in a Telephone interview from Washington . Pale Moons foundation was barred from soliciting donations in Virginia new York and other states during parts of the 1980s for failing to Register As a Charity. In 1989, it filed for bankruptcy with $500,000 in debts which Rose blamed on outside theft and High fund raising costs. The group is now solvent again Pale Moon said. And last year the foundation launched a direct mail Campaign asking donations to save the residents of port Graham Alaska from imminent starvation caused by the Quot Oil spill of 1990,&Quot an inquiry by the Anchorage Alaska daily news later showed that the Village Council had not been informed of the Appeal and that there was no food shortage in the town. Village officials who rejected the foundations offer of 1,000 pounds of beef liver later demanded an apology from the foundation and an accounting of the funds taken in during the Campaign. The Village attorney called the solicitation a fraudulent a threatened Legal action and complained to the . Postal service