European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes Friday May 22, 1992 at a glance % it. Cmdr. Kevin Mattonen and other members of patrol so 23 have been Busy prowling the Mediterranean in their p-3c Orion maritime patrol aircraft. Weinberger passes test former Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger has passed a lie Detector test As part of an Effort to convince special prosecutors he took no part in a cover up to protect former president Ronald Reagan. A Page 4 treaty differences settled All differences with Kazakhstan on the Start missile reduction treaty have been resolved . Officials said wednesday. A Page 5 2nd artists group protests a second artists group has suspended Grant review work for the National endowment for the arts in protest Over decisions by its new  Page 7 end to fighting pledged rival guerrilla factions who have been fighting for control of the new islamic government in Afghanistan agreed thursday to abandon combat As a Means of solving their disputes. A Page 8 growing isolationism seen the los Angeles riots will reinforce increasing . Isolationism the International Institute for strategic studies said thursday. A Page 9 Index j Abby Ann Landers 19 action line .16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces a no places .18 letters. 12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather. 11suspects in trucker s beating plead innocent in los Angeles los Angeles a four Black men pleaded innocent thursday in the near fatal beating of a White truck Driver during rioting that followed the acquittals of four White men in the police beating of Rodney g. King. A judge set bail saying there was no reason under the Law to find the defendants would pose a threat if released. Activists had said denying bail would suggest separate standards of Justice for Blacks and Whites. They noted that the officers who beat King who is Black remained free before and during their trial on assault charges. Three of the men arraigned thursday Are charged with beating Reginald Denny at the Start of three Days of deadly rioting. A fourth is charged with robbing Denny As he Lay on the ground. They were arrested May 12. Damian Monroe Williams 19, Henry Keith Watson 27, and Antoine Miller 20, pleaded innocent to attempted wilful deliberate premeditated murder As Well As aggravated mayhem torture and second degree robbery. Gary Williams 33, pleaded innocent to taking personal property by Means of Force. Municipal court judge William chid Scy or. Set bail at $195,000 for Damian Williams $185,000 for Watson $160,000 for Miller and $50,000 for Gary Williams. Denny s beating took place hours after the verdicts were announced april 29. It was broadcast live via television news helicopters. Denny was admitted to the Hospital in critical condition. He was released May 14. In other riot developments the death toll Rose to 52 thursday with the discovery of a Many a body in the ruins of a burned building in South Central los Angeles. The coroners office was trying to identify the Man. On wednesday police chief designate Willie Williams on wednesday described As a disgrace a manuscript by the sergeant acquitted in the King beating. In his unpublished Memoir ides of March sgt. Stacey c. Koon refers to King As a mandingo a a reference to West african people that has been used As a slur for Black  from Page 1 a does not represent pro life  thursday morning Fitzwater  be drawn Back into the swirl. A i have nothing to add to the Story a he told reporters. A a in a not going to be a second Day Story on this  president Bush refused to comment directly explaining Quot in a not going to get into the details of a very popular television  but he said he was All for two Parent families. Democratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton was equally cautious saying an out of Wedlock birth Quot is not the example we want to set for our  Johnny Carson seized on it in his monologue on the tonight show. A Dan also came out against Gilligan s Island because he thought Gilligan and the skipper were sleeping in adjoining hammocks a Carson joked. And David Letterman announced a list of a Dan Quayle Stop 10 other complaints about  the no. 1 complaint a not enough positive portrayals of really dumb  the Issue divided Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford hosts of the syndicated to show live with Regis amp Kathie Lee. Philbin said the vice president had a Point. Gifford asked what else Murphy could have done under the circumstances. Guardian Angels founders Curtis and Lisa Sliwa also disagreed on their talk show on wac radio in new York. Curtis said Murphy Brown a is setting the wrong  but Lisa asked what Quayle expected Murphy to do a a have an abortion a anyway she added a a in a not sure Dan understood Murphy Browne a a fictional  the Bliwas agreed that callers to their show wanted to talk about nothing else. Quot we Haven to had anything like this since Anita Hill and judge Thomas a Curtis marvelled. A Why is this Rich Guy telling us about parenting a asked a male caller. A first they have nursemaid then governesses then they Send the kids off to boarding  by late morning the slow ask successor at the Mike Joy Behar was sputtering a a in a sick of this topic a no one else seemed to be possibly because they could recall the Golden age of television whose code of decency forced Rob and Laura Petrie to sleep in separate Beds on the Dick Van Dyke show. On monday 38 million people watched the episode in which Murphy Brown unmarried to anchorwoman gave birth to a boy. About the Only person with nothing to say was the woman who plays Murphy Brown Candice Bergen. Her spokesman Allen Eichhorn said that when Fie told her on tuesday about Quayle a remarks she said a ooh really. Of Fine.  a i done to think she cared to jump into the fray a he said. But Diane English the shows producer did. A if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father then head better make sure abortion remains Safe and Legal a she  Page 1 was a Coal Miner. The defense was barred from presenting new evidence because it missed by one Day a deadline for filing an Appeal. Jim Mccloskey an investigator from Princeton n.j., who specializes in helping people he believes Are wrongly convicted and who worked on Coleman a behalf said the lie Detector test was a desperate attempt to save Coleman a life. A we really did not expect him to pass it Quot Mccloskey said. A the pressure was just  after failing the test Coleman was a completely devastated and could hardly speak Mccloskey said a polygraph expert said however that nervousness because of the impending execution would not have affected the tests accuracy. Coleman became the 14th person executed in Virginia and the 175th nationally since the . Supreme court in 1976 let states resume capital punishment. He was previously convicted of the attempted rape of an elementary school teacher and served a year and a half in prison. He also was charged with exposing himself in a Library to a librarian two months before the  said police got the wrong Man both times. Brad Mccoy the murder victims husband drove seven hours to Greenville correctional Center for the execution and said he was frustrated that Coleman never admitted his guilt. A a we la still have scars but we can get our lives Back a Mccoy said outside the prison. A the wont be Able to Hurt anyone else  the execution proceeded after the . Supreme court denied a reprieve in a 7-2 vote. Justices Harry Blackmun and David Souter dissented. Mccloskey said he and a defense attorney Kathleen Behan stayed with Coleman until almost 11 . A the was in remarkably Good humor a Mccloskey  from Page 1 lories earlier this week in the bloodiest conflict in the sex soviet lands the Battle Lor control Over Magorno Karabash. The Region lies within Azerbaijan but is populated mainly by armenians who want Independence or Alliance with Armenia. Nash Chevan has a seven mile Border with Turkey and fears Are rising that Turkey will act on thinly veiled threats to Send troops into the Region in support of Azerbaijan. Turkey and Azerbaijan share a language. The islamic Faith and an ancient deep rooted animosity toward mainly Christian Armenia. Under soviet Rule. They could not form close links but now they Are restoring relations rapidly. Turkish diplomats have been expanding ties with the former soviet asian republics where most of the people Are Muslim and speak turkish dialects. Although the Region is underdeveloped it has Rich reserves of Oil Gas and other natural resources. Itar Tass said Border troops of the Commonwealth of Independent states stationed in the Nash Chevan were put on Alert thursday. The Moscow press Center for Border troops said the Alert was a precaution to protect the troops against increased tensions and prevent their weapons from being stolen. It said Commonwealth forces were not involved in the fighting. The Commonwealth military commander Yevgeny Shaposhnikov on wednesday warned that outside intervention in the armenian azerbaijani conflict could be catastrophic. A if there is military interference by another party that will obviously place us on the verge of a third world War and that cannot be allowed Quot he told a Moscow news conference. Also wednesday Azerbaijan a new nationalist Leader accused the Commonwealth of siding with Armenia in the conflict and threatened to pull out of the Commonwealth a federation of sex soviet republics. Russia alarmed at the escalating tension on its Southern Borders dispatched defense minister Pavel Grachev to hold talks with armenian officials thursday in Yerevan the armenian capital