European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes _  senators seeking data on Vietnam War mias Washington a a delegation of . Senators was to leave thursday night for Southeast Asia to continue the search for information about american servicemen missing from the Vietnam War. The team will assess Hanoi a promised cooperation with . Efforts to account for missing americans. The senators Are scheduled to return nov. 23. The team is headed by sen. John f. Kerry d-mass., chairman of the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs. The trip is the second by committee members to Vietnam and probably the last As the panel winds up a year of work and prepares to Issue a report in mid de com bar. It goes out of existence at the end of the year. Kerry and the top Republican on the panel sen. Robert c. Smith of new Hampshire said wednesday that they will urge president elect Clinton to keep a panel in place to continue the work the committee has started. A this committee has unearthed Large amounts of documents and information that Are beyond our capacity to research a Smith said. A some entity is going to have to take  at a hearing wednesday committee members were Given a letter from russian president Doris n. Yeltsin that said americans were held in prison Camps after world War ii. The letter said that some were a summarily executed Andrew Martinez a 19-year-old University of California Sophomore strolls around the Berkeley Campus Clad Only in a Backpack shoes and a strategically placed Bandanna. University spokeswoman Pat me-2 teens arrested in Jacksonville Fla. A police investigating Rock throwing and sniper attacks along one of the busiest highways for tourists visiting Florida arrested two teen agers in the wounding of a Motorist. One of the teens had been charged in another attack on interstate 295, and both could be involved in others sheriff Jim Mcmillan said wednesday investigators also said there could be More arrests in a nine month rash of attacks on the 20-mile Beltway around Jacksonville. More than 30 incidents have been reported in which shots were fired at motorists or rocks or other heavy objects were hurled at their cars. A Man was killed july 4 when his car was hit by a piece of Concrete and crashed. Three others have been Hurt. Last week the National guard began dusk to Dawn patrols of the Beltway which carries 80,000 vehicles a Day after the american automobile association warned motorists to avoid it. Many tourists from the North use the route. The aaa said wednesday that it Isnit ready to drop its warning and As Many As 150 National guardsmen kept up patrols with camouflaged vehicles and helicopters. The sheriff agreed with the caution. A i think it is pre but that others still live in his country voluntarily. His letter also said some americans had been forced to renounce their citizenship. Smith characterized the information As new and said Quot this is a difficult Mea culpa for  russian leaders Are almost certain that no . Citizens Are still being detained Yeltsin said in his letter read to the committee by the general who serves As russian head of a .-russian commission searching for american pos and mias. Gen. Dmitri to Logonov said he had pored through russian archives but had found no evidence that any americans captured in the korean or Vietnam wars had been taken to the former soviet Union. He said he knew Only of nine american servicemen who deserted in the Vietnam War and went to the soviet Union. He added however a hypothetically we cannot dismiss the possibility that americans were taken from Vietnam to the soviet Union but we have no precise information about any specific cases. Last August to Logonov signed a statement printed in a soviet newspaper that said several dozen americans had been jailed by soviet secret police during and after world War ii and that one was executed on orders of soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The statement said most were forced to renounce their citizenship. Two americans trapped in the soviet Union for years were interviewed by an associated press reporter shortly thereafter. Broom said Martinez was being placed on interim suspension wednesday while his Case is reviewed Martinez says he shucks his shorts and almost everything else As a Means of free  shooting mature to say we be solved the problem out there a he said. The two boys Ages 16 and 17, were charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing from a moving car into the car of Debra Lewis on july 29, the Bullet hit her ear and lodged in her jaw a efm shocked it was kids but i m Happy someone was caught a Lewis said. Police acting on a tip arrested the 17-year-old tuesday and the 16-year-old wednesday Mcmillan said. Their names were not released because they Are juveniles. The boys belong to a gang called the English estates posse and the attacks might have been part of an initiation rite Mcmillan said. English estates is a housing development near the Highway. A i really can to speak to motives a Mcmillan said. A i can to speculate As to Why they were out doing these things. Certainly a projectile going into a moving car is not just having  the 16-year-old was charged in August with conspiring to shoot a vehicle in another incident on 1-295, Mcmillan said. He also was stopped but not arrested near the High Fly tuesday after shots were heard the sheriff said. Friday november 13,1992deaf, mute teen wins right to enter speech contest from wire reports Boston a a Rhode Island High school student who is deaf and mute Hopes she set a precedent this week by winning the right to compete in the Annua voice of democracy contest a National speech contest for High school students. Shannon Merryman 16, of Bristol challenged a contest Rule requiring All participants to submit an audio tape of their speech. She asked that she be allowed to submit a videotape of herself making her speech in sign language. The contest sponsor the veterans of foreign wars initially refused arguing that a videotape would give Merryman an unfair advantage because the rest of the entries would not be visual. Merryman then filed a complaint in . District court in Providence . But the complaint was dismissed tuesday when the vow agreed to allow Merryman to use an interpreter to make the audio tape. Merryman who lost her hearing when she was 2 As a result of spinal meningitis will be the first deaf person to enter the 46-year-old contest which annually attracts about 200,000 entrants. Winners Are named on state regional and National Levels. This years assigned topic is a my voice in americans  charged in theft Houston a a sheriffs Deputy has been charged with stealing from his Church a a collection plate. Houston police said Edward Estmere Webb jr., 44, was charged with Misdemeanour theft monday after the collections began thinning at the Southeast Church of Christ. Police spokesman Alvin Wright said about $600 was taken from the collection plate Over several sundays. He said Church officials were tipped to watch Webb at sunday  scolded for to shirt Colorado City Ariz. A a teen age boy was reprimanded for wearing a to shirt to school depicting the Penguin Batman a Archenemy. The boys Mother said the principal complained that wearing the shirt was a sign of Devil worship. James Bateman 14, said he is fed up with the rigidity in Colorado City a primarily polygamous breakaway mormon town in the Arizona strip a mile from the Utah line. He said he was hassled by students and teachers two years ago when he wore Short sleeved shirts to school. On nov. 4, the boy wore the to shirt picturing actor Danny Devito As the Penguin. By lunchtime he was in the office of principal Lawrence Steed who a told me that my to shirt was not appropriate in his school a the youth said in an  fined for sex Houston a a former roman Catholic Charity official who had sex with a woman suffering from multiple personalities was ordered to pay her $295,000. A jury said tuesday that 69-year-old Morris Robichaux was negligent in initiating sex with Melanie Kramer in 1988 two Days after she completed an 18-month stay in a mental Hospital Robichaux the former president of the St. Vincent Depaul society at Corpus Christi Catholic Church had claimed that one of Kramer a 10 personalities had encouraged his advances at her Home where he had gone to deliver a Check from his Charity. Kramer a psychiatrists testified that she suffered setbacks because of the episode and returned to the Hospital wanted Weed Cutter thief St. Paul Minn a police Are looking for the Weed Cutter Bandit a Man wielding a Weed Cutter held up a service station tuesday by threatening the station manager and two other employees with the manual tools Sharp serrated Edge. The robber grabbed an undisclosed amount of Money from the Safe and a Cash Register then used the Weed Cutter to sever a surveillance camera from the ceiling. The Man then forced the employees into a rear room and fled leaving the Weed Cutter behind. Cheeky display