European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Sunday november 1,1992 top Republican official quits As Fri probes . Treasurer Washington a the director of hispanic outreach for the Bush Quayle Campaign resigned Friday As the Fri pressed its investigation of influence peddling allegations involving the treasurer of the United states. Ernest Olivas or. Stepped Down a Day after . Treasurer Catalina v. Villalpando whose signature appears on All . Currency was placed on administrative leave at her request. The Fri had raided both their residences wednesday. At Issue is whether Villalpando took payoffs a including travel lodging and other benefits a from her former employer communications International inc., said sources familiar with the probe who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The company has enjoyed phenomenal growth because of Federal contracts Over the last decade. Olivas said he resigned because a some May use this Story against the Bush Quayle  the Washington Post reported saturday that Villal Pandos financial disclosure form shows she received a $250,000 corporate Bonus after she was appointed to her government Post. The . Office of government ethics determined in 1989 that the payment did not violate government ethics Laws because officials from the company said it was payment for Villalpando a efforts to help the firm win contracts while she was still its vice president. The new York times put the figure she accepted at $147,000. On wednesday the Fri conducted searches of three residences a commercial storage locker and a suite at communications International offices in Norcross a. The search warrants allege fraud racketeering bribery of Public officials conspiracy to defraud the government and making false statements said Frank Scafidi of the Washington Field office of the Fri. Before joining the administration 1989, Villalpando was a partner and senior vice president of the telecommunications firm. Olivas headed the firms Washington operation before joining the Bush Quayle Campaign. During operation desert storm the firm was one of several providing truck mounted telephones to the military so that . Soldiers in the persian Gulf could Call Home. It also has 10 contracts Worth at least $7.5 million to help maintain telecommunications gear around the country for the army a 7th signal come based in fort Ritchie my. The firm had $143,000 in sales in 1982. But by 1988, it was working on a $16 million Navy contract to Lay More than 100 Miles of fiber optic Cable in Jacksonville fla., said the Atlanta business chronicle. Lesbian pastor would violate Church ethics presbyterians told Irving Texas apr the presbyterian Church can to be True to its moral standards and allow an avowed lesbian As pastor an attorney for 10 churches told the denominations National ruling body Friday. A we Are talking about conduct that is at conflict with the moral principles of the Church a attorney Julius Poppinga told a hearing of the churches highest . Authority. After years of appeals the presbyterian Church .a. Is to Rule whether a homosexual May serve As pastor. The Rev. Jane Spahr was appointed a pastor of the downtown United presbyterian Church in Rochester ., last november. But appeals by a group of 10 churches in an upstate new York presbytery which includes the Rochester Church have prevented her from assuming her duties. Spahr did not speak during a meeting of the churches general Assembly permanent judicial commission. James c. Moore an attorney representing Spahr and the Rochester Church said a at no time did Jesus Christ speak criticize condemn or otherwise address the subject of  Jesus did admonish his followers a to love our fellow human beings As we would be loved Quot Moore said. Poppinga representing the 10 churches countered a did Jesus say anything about drug abuse did Jesus about child i us abuse did Jesus say anything Lesus Sav say anything at about counterfeiting Quot testimony was to resume saturday. The commissions decision is to be announced wednesday from presbyterian Church .a. Headquarters in Louisville by. The local presbytery voted twice to approve Spahr a appointment. A regional judicial panel upheld the decision in july. It ruled 9-1 that the Genesee Valley presbytery official urges i Columbia . A the Citadel should admit women to its All male corps of cadets to avoid a court fight the military College would lose state higher education commissioner Fred Sheheen said in a report released Friday. He wants the commission to vote this week to urge the Citadel to admit women. But while it can recommend the action it has no Legal authority to enforce it. Three female veterans already have sued the school for Access to some of its classes. That trial is scheduled to begin in february. Supporter Sandra Robinson hugs the Rev. Jane Spahr right before the Start of fridays hearing. A acted within constitutional limits because Spahr was ordained in 1974, four years before the general Assembly a declaration that. Homosexuality is a incompatible with Christian Faith and  1 she did not publicly acknowledge her homosexuality until after 1978. Y the Lone dissenter was the commissions Moderator Cuddie Davidson a retired judge who argued that the general Assembly a did not mean to give a License to a preordained pastor to continue this sin or to Start practising  r meantime Spahr has continued working at a special ministry serving homosexuals and people with aids in san Anselmo  admit women Sheheen cited last months 4th . Circuit court of appeals ruling that said the Virginia military Institute need not admit women but the state must have other opportunities for the same Type of education Vii is the Only other state run All male military Academy a establishing another military institution for women is absurd and the Citadel becoming private is absurd a Sheheen said. A that leaves Only one  but James e. Jones jr., chairman of the schools Eov earning Board said the Citadel supports establishing another school for women. . Town tells official to clean up his room from wire reports Salem . The town manager has been Given a contract Extension but its Only Good if he cleans up his office. Selectmen in this town of 25,000 people gave Barry Brenner a one year contract Extension thursday night but attached 14 goals he must meet if he wants to keep his Job one is to get rid of the piles of paper that cover his desk Ana office. Selectman Joseph Gagnon said Brenner does no to let people into the office because of the Mountain of papers. He said town Check vouchers got lost in the pile for six months earlier this year. The selectmen said they would conduct quarterly reviews of Brenner and would fire him if he gets two bad reviews in a  grocery heir indicted Minneapolis a a grand jury has indicted the grocery heir Russell t. Lund or. On two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his estranged wife and her Boyfriend. The Hennepin county indictment thursday night accused the Minnetonka millionaire of shooting Barbara Lund and former Iowa legislator e. Kevin Kelly on aug. 5. Lundus first court appearance to answer the charges Wasny to immediately scheduled. Lund whose father started funds a Chain of upscale grocery stores in the twin cities area was charged with two counts of murder on aug. 29,24 Days after the shootings. He was released from jail after posting $200,000 Cash against a $12 million Bond. A judge approved his release on the condition that he be kept under 24-hour watch in a secure psychiatric  hits school bus Rochester  A a firetruck crashed into a bus carrying elementary school children Friday morning injuring 30 people a school District official said. Twenty four children were taken to area hospitals most with scrapes cuts and bruises. One child appeared to halve serious injuries said Mike Robinson a City school District official. Robinson said four firefighters and two adults also were injured. Several firefighters were trapped in the damaged firetruck for some time. The Accident occurred shortly before 9 . When a firetruck responding to a Call apparently ran into the bus causing it to tip Over. Parents were told to go to the elementary school to find out if their children had been injured. About 50 children were on the bus Robinson  kills 5 children self Perma Mont. A a 27-year-old woman despondent Over a separation from her husband killed herself and her five Young children with exhaust fumes from the family car a Coroner said saturday. The bodies were found thursday in a Remote area of Western Montana by a relative said Sanders county Coroner Mark Denke. He said he believed the murder suicide took place oct. 22 or 23. The bodies of the five children were inside the car and the mothers body was found outside the car near the tailpipe Denke said. A a a she wrote a note telling us what she was doing Denke said. A at 9 30 in the evening she gassed the children after they were asleep a he identified the woman As Mary Barnaby. The children were Richard Barnaby George 8 Syrena George 7 Jasmine Barnaby 3 Eli George 2 and j Jacquelyn George 6 months. Denke said the father Stanley George left the family about a month ago and moved to Arizona. He was informed thursday of the  rattles Alaska Palmer Alaska a a moderate earthquake Shook the coast of the Alaska Peninsula on Friday but no injuries or damage were reported. The Alaska tsunami warning Center in Palmer said the temblor had a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale. It was entered 30 Miles South of Sand Point just East of the Aleutian islands Chain. Seismologists said it was Felt sharply in Sand Point and less severely in King Cove. The quake apparently was unrelated to a recent swarm of earthquakes recorded in and around the aleutians