European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday june 18, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7wising up five great horned owl adolescents appear wide eyed and eager to learn As they huddle on a rope at the Lancaster wildlife Center in Millersville a. The owls 2vi ordered to kill his starving chickens from wire reports Plant City Fla. A a Farmer who let thousands of his chickens starve because he afford to feed them was ordered by a judge tuesday to destroy the rest of the flock. As Many As 10,000 chickens died of starvation at the farm in the past a a weeks Hillsborough county sheriffs officials said. About 15,000 More were found starving monday deputies said. A they died because i did no to feed them a said Dauod Kiswani owner of the 8-acre farm South of Plant City in Central Florida. A i did no to have enough Money to feed during a two year downward spiral wholesale egg prices fell from 55 cents a dozen to As Low As 19 cents. A dozen eggs Cost 35-40 cents to produce said Kiswani a 19-year-old son names to change Naperville 111. A Naperville Central High school bowing to the concerns of american indians will drop the redskins As the nickname for its sports teams school officials said tuesday. A new name has yet to be chosen to replace the one in use for 54 years High school principal Tom Paulsen said. The District 203 school Board on a 5-2 vote monday night decided to Stop using the redskins As the teams nickname effective july 1.juice charges settled Philadelphia a a California company has agreed to pay the Federal government $6 million to Settle charges that it sold the department of defense diluted juice at the Price of pure Orange juice. The settlement by Paramount Citrus association of san Fernando calif., kept the Case from going to court . Attorney Michael m. Bayl son said tuesday. In addition former pc Plant manager Ari Karbala paid a $900,000 settlement to avoid prosecution Baylson said. Pc said in a statement that Karbala was solely responsible for Selling adulterated juice to the government. He was later fired the statement said. The department of defense thought it was buying 100 percent pure Orange juice concentrate from pc but an investigation found that pc had used cheaper ingredients such As Apple juice Pear juice and sugar. Months old were taken to the Center after being separated from their parents. They will be trained in the ways of Wise owls before being returned to the wild. Lansing Mich. Apr Michigan a mandatory life sentence for drug Possession without a Chance of parole the toughest in the nation was struck Down As unconstitutional tuesday by the state supreme court. The Law applied to anyone caught possessing More than 650 Grams of cocaine about 23 ounces. The High court said the Law was a unduly disproportionate and equal in Michigan Only to the penalty for first degree murder. A the defendants in this Case have been punished More severely than they could have been for second degree murder rape mutilation armed robbery or other exceptionally grave and violent crimes a the majority wrote. The justices ordered that those sentenced under the Law be considered for parole after serving 10 years. About 160 people have been sentenced under the Law. Last year the . Supreme court ruled that the Michigan Law did not violate the . Constitutions ban on a cruel and unusual the state Constitution has a similar provision but substitutes a a or for Alabama is the Only other state where Possession draws a mandatory life sentence but it applies Only if an offender is caught with a minimum 22 pounds of drugs. Although the High court found the sentencing Law unconstitutional its 4-3 opinion reinstated the cocaine convictions of Ruth Bullock and Kenneth Hasson. It ordered that they be considered Lor parole after serving 10 years. Philadelphia a Federal officials with help from sources in the former soviet Union Are investigating whether As Many As 500 americans obtained citizenship illegally by concealing world War ii connections to nazism. So far at least five complaints seeking to revoke individuals citizenship have been filed in Federal court in Philadelphia Justice department spokesman Dean St. Dennis said tuesday. The filings Are part of an investigation of 500 people that is being conducted by the Justice departments office of special investigations St. Dennis said. T he most recent complaint was filed monday against Jonas Stelmokas 75, a retired architect and longtime Leader in Philadelphia a lithuanian Community. It alleges that Stelmokas who was born in Moscow a advocated assisted participated or acquiesced in the murder and other persecution of jews and other unarmed civilians in Lithuania while serving As a second lieutenant and platoon commander in the a i con gang deaths lower in . Los Angeles up police credit a 2-month-old truce Between the crips and bloods with drastically reducing the number of gang related deaths in South Central los Angeles a Deputy chief reported tuesday. Deputy chief Matthew Hunt commanding officer of the los Angeles police department s South Bureau said the numbers of gang related homicides and drive by shootings have dropped since the City a two deadliest gangs agreed to make peace after the april riots. Police reported two gang related homicides in South los Angeles last month compared with la in May 1991. Hunt told the police commission. Quot there a no question the amount of violent crime has decreased a Hunt said. Hunt said he did not have statistics for other crimes but said robberies had increased Over the past few weeks and drug sales remain a very lie said it was not Clear whether gangs had anything to do with the crime increase. The gangs declared the truce after the three Days of fiery riots which claimed nearly 60 lives and resulted in $775 million in property damage. Police initially reacted to the truce with scepticism predicting the hatreds formed during the 4-decade War Between crips and bloods would prove stronger than peace. But Hunt cautioned that the truce would stick Only if social services a and especially jobs a Are provided to the gang members. A if the social conditions remain the same we re going to have the same problems we had during the unrest a he said. The defendants in this Case have to it Een punished More severely than they could have been for second degree a Michigan s supreme court they were arrested feb. 24, 1988, at Lansing a capital City Airport after Hasson arrived from los Angeles and was picked up by Bullock. Police found about 33 pounds of cocaine with a Street value of $11 million in Massones Luggage. In a dissent Justice Patricia Boyle said that while the sentence was harsh a nevertheless where the social harm caused by the criminal conduct at Issue is As devastating As that created by the drug epidemic in existence today the penalty is not the office of attorney general Frank Kelley which argued in favor of the Law was restrained in its reaction to the ruling. A we Felt the actions of the legislature were constitutional and should have been upheld by the court a said spokesman Chris Dewitt. A unfortunately the supreme court in a close decision Felt otherwise. A ties trolled 3rd lithuanian Schutzman Schaft in. Stelmokas lawyer John Rogers Carroll has declined to comment. So far 42 a i persecutors have been stripped of . Citizenship As a result of the special investigations offices prosecutions said Neal Sher who Heads the of fice. He said 30 people have been deported. Petitions to cancel citizenship also were filed in led eral court in Philadelphia on april 21 against Johann Breyer 66, a retired Philadelphia tool and die maker and on sept. 5 against Nikolaus Schiffer 72, of new Ringgold. The government has said Breyer was a member of the so called deaths head battalion a division of the nazi is that guarded concentration Camps. Schiffer is accused of concealing world War ii wartime participation As a guard at three concentration Camps a Sachsenhause Maidanek and Mossenburg a and of also serving at the nazi Wal fun is training Camp in Poland. . Citizens checked for nazi court voids no parole drug Law
