European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday november 8, 1992 Detroit police chief Stanley Knox Center speak at a press conference Friday concerning the beating death of a Motorist. At right is the Detroit police department executive Deputy chief James  police suspended in Driver s beating death by the new York times Detroit a a Black Motorist was beaten to death thursday night after being stopped by police on suspicion of a drug violation and Friday the police chief suspended without pay two White officers suspected of killing the Motorist As Well As five officers believed to have witnessed the beating. Although an internal police department inquiry into the beating is still under Way police chief Stanley Knox made Clear at a news conference Friday that the investigators had concluded that there was wrongdoing by at least some of the officers involved. Knox referred to the beating As a a senseless act Quot and said the police would seek criminal charges by the office of the Wayne county prosecutor against some and possibly All of the suspended  a this was disgraceful and a total embarrassment a he said. Knox said he did not know whether the beating had been racially motivated. But when asked whether he saw a parallel to the beating of another Black Motorist Rodney g. King by a group of White officers in los Angeles a year and a half ago he said a i think we All it was the acquittal of four officers in the King Case that led to rioting in los Angeles last Spring. In Detroit on Friday City officials moved to demonstrate that they were doing All they could to act quickly. Mayor Coleman a. Young said that a every officer found to be guilty of any misconduct in connection with this tragic incident will be dealt with in the harshest manner  the beating of the Detroit Motorist 35-year-old malice w. Green occurred at 23rd Street and Warren Avenue in a rundown area of the City s West Side. There were no reports of resulting disturbances Friday. The police department did not formally identify the Patricia Ann Green holds a picture of her son malice w. Green who died thursday night after he was beaten. Seven officers under investigation. But a High ranking police official speaking on condition of anonymity said the two officers suspected of the killing both or them plainclothes men were Larry Nevers 52, a 24-year Veteran of the police Force and his partner Walter Bud Zyn 47, a Veteran of 19 years. The official said that Nevers and Budzyn were nicknamed a Starsky and Hutch after the title characters of to show about two policemen. Nevers and Budzyn had a history of brutality complaints against them the official said. But he also said that none of the complaints had Ever been sustained and that Nevers was the most highly decorated member of his  on pay for speeches is challenged Washington apr Federal workers asked a . Appeals court Friday to strike Down a Law that prevents them from getting paid for speeches and articles on topics unrelated to their jobs. A lawyer representing two Federal employee unions and thousands of Federal workers contended in Oral argument that the ban violates the first amendment right of free speech. A Justice department attorney defended the statute before a three judge panel of the . Court of appeals arguing that Congress had the right to prevent even the appearance of impropriety in the Federal work Force. The lawsuit seeks to overturn the portion of a 1989 Law that bans Federal workers from receiving compensation for speeches and non fiction articles on topics unconnected to their work. A Federal District judge agreed that the ban applying to Federal workers was unconstitutional but postponed the effect of the decision pending Appeal. The suit did not Challenge other portions of the Law which impose the same Honor aria ban on Congress and the judicial Branch. Further the suit Only sought Relief for workers represented by the unions those through the gs-15 pay scale. Gs-15 workers can earn a maximum of $83,000.children win $22 million in Bic lighter lawsuit from wire reports Bristow okla. A three children badly burned playing with a Bic cigarette lighter won $22 million in a lawsuit that claimed the lighten sometimes fail to extinguish and then explode because the butane overheats. But lawyers for Bic corp. Said the children were Hurt because adults in the Home left dozens of lighten and matches within the youngsters reach. Bic corp., based in Milford conn., will Appeal Friday s ruling spokeswoman Linda Kwong said. William Debbie and David Balthis suffered first second and third degree bums Over a third of their bodies As they played with the lighter in a bedroom of their grandparents Home feb. 2,1988. William and Debbie were 5 at the time. David was 2vi.motorman sentenced new York a a subway Motorman convicted of killing five people by crashing his train while drunk was sentenced Friday to the maximum five to 15 years in prison. A my heart bleeds deeply for the families involved Quot Robert Ray said before sentencing. Ray 39, was convicted last month on five counts of manslaughter and 15 counts of second and third degree assault but cleared of murder charges in the 1991 crash in which More than 200 people were injured. Jurors decided he did not intentionally kill the passengers in the wreck under Union Square but found him guilty of reckless  show causes stir san Antonio Texas a City and Cable company officials were reviewing the policies of san Antonious Cable television franchise Friday amid an uproar Over a Public Access program instructing teen agers How to commit suicide. The City Council ordered the review to see if Paragon Cable can Weed out such programs. In a segment that aired three times the worst show producer David Leitt a gave explicit step by step instruction on How teens May effectively commit suicide. Encouraging the viewers to try it in their Homes Quot Paragon spokesman . Connolly wrote in a letter to mayor Nelson Wolff. Connolly s letter said Leitt showed the Way to Slit one s wrist where to place the barrel of a gun inside the Mouth when attempting to a blow your drains out Quot and How to properly tie the knot in a noose. Leitt said his program was a spoof or morbid humor for  for bodies ends Norfolk a a the Marine corps on Friday called off its search for the bodies of the crewmen lost when their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during routine exercises near the Canary islands on wednesday night. The body of one of the five crewmen aboard the ch-53e was recovered. The Marine whose body was recovered was identified As 1st it. Mark Gruber 25, of Elizabethtown by. The marines listed As missing and presumed dead were capt. Jeffrey Wright 30, of Conyers a. Staff sgt. Dennis Dwyer 33, of Yellowstone Mont. Lance Cpl Scott p. Paul 21, of Strong Maine and Lance Chi Kenneth Saunders jr., 20, of Hawthorne Fla the cause of the crash was not immediately known. The chopper was operating off the Guam ?l0us assault ship. All were members of the 22nd Marine expeditionary unit from Camp Lejeune  Dies of dehydration Harrisburg a. A a state prison inmate who died of dehydration had been denied water by state corrections department officials a prison medical director said. Corrections officials said such claims Are premature a they did not allow us in his cell. They turned water off and never told us Quot said or Carl a. Hoffman or. John Powell 29, a convicted rapist died june 30 at the state prison at Camp Hill near Harrisburg. He had been held i the prison Hospital in an isolation cell Sinee june 19, when Powell died prison authorities said he had refused to Dunk and eat