European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Saturday november 14,1992 Case for special probe into iraqi Loans builds by the new York times Washington a the Justice department has taken the first step toward appointing an Independent counsel to investigate the government s handling of a politically sensitive Bank fraud  Iraq the official leading the departments internal inquiry said thursday. The official Frederick b. Lacey a former Federal judge who was appointed by attorney general William p. Barr last month to help him decide whether to appoint an Independent counsel said allegations of wrongdoing by . Officials were serious enough to move on to the next phase of the investigation. Barr accepted that recommendation Lacey said and directed him to Complete his inquiry by dec. 8 and give him a final recommendation on whether Barr should seek appointment of a special prosecutor. An Independent counsel would be named by a panel of Federal appeals court judges. Lacey s recommendation is a further embarrassment for Barr who has resisted appointing a special counsel in the Bank fraud Case and has expressed reservation guard chief among dead in air crash Juneau Alaska apr the commander of alaskans army National guard was among eight men killed when a National guard plane crashed into a Snow covered Mountainside during a storm officials said. There were no survivors in thursdays crash of the c-12f twin in inc plane officials said. The plane in route from Elmendorf fab in Anchorage was attempting an instrument aided Landing thursday morning when it lost Contact with the Tower said Petty officer Erik Lott. Low Clouds and rain mixed with Snow were reported at the time. A coast guard helicopter found the wreckage five hours later at the 2,600-foot Elevation on the Chikat Peninsula about 30 Miles West of Juneau Lott said. Among the victims was Brig. Gen. Thomas c. Carroll 44, Deputy commissioner and chief of staff of alaskans department of military and veterans affairs and commander of the Alaska army National guard. Carroll was promoted to brigadier general on oct. 6. His father maj. Gen Thomas p. Carroll was killed in an air crash while inspecting damage shortly after the 1964 earthquake that devastated Anchorage. The bodies were to be removed Friday weather permitting. Low Clouds and blowing Snow prevented their removal thursday officials said. About the Law under which such prosecutors operate. A by accepting Lacey s recommendation Barr in effect acknowledged the possibility of criminal wrongdoing by Bush administration officials in the scandal involving the Atlanta Branch of the Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro. Barr appointed Lacey last month under increasing pressure from Congress and from a struggle Over the governments handling of the multimillion Dollar Bank fraud Case among the Justice department the Central intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of investigation. The fraud Case involves charges against Christopher p. Drogoul a banker accused of running a scheme to extend billions of dollars in Loans and credits to Iraq from the Atlanta Branch of an italian owned Bank in violation of the Bank s regulations. Some of the Loans were used to finance iraqi weapons programs. At Issue in the Justice department inquiry is whether the Cia fully cooperated with the department and prosecutors in the Case and whether the department bungled the prosecution. Compensation for time lost Bobby Joe Leaster 42, or Boston holds a Check Tor $75,000, the first payment of a $1 million annuity from the state of Massachusetts As compensation for the 15 years Leaster spent in prison for a murder he did no to commit. Leaster who makes $375 a week As a youth Counselor for the City of Boston said he was pleased to have the Money but said it could not make up for the time he spent behind bars. He was released from prison six years ago after a witness to the shooting came Forward. Kissinger apologizes for 69 wiretap of aide by the new York times Washington a after More than two decades Henry a. Kissinger has apologized for his role in wiretapping the Home Telephone of Morton h. Halperin who was then a White House aide. As a result Halperin dropped on thursday his 19-year-old lawsuit seeking damages for the 1969 Telephone tap ending one of the longest running feuds in Washington. A it is something if circumstances were repeated i would not do again Quot Kissinger wrote Halperin his former protege and National Security aide who had been suspected of disclosing classified information to reporters. Kissinger was then president Richard Nixon s National Security adviser. He later served As Secretary of state. Kissinger a letter written in december 1991, was made Public thursday after senior judge John Helm Pratt of . District court dismissed the lawsuit. Halperin delayed his action until earlier court rulings were vacated. �?o1 agreed to the dismissal of the Case in return for the letter from Kissinger Quot said Halperin a senior associate of the Carnegie endowment for International peace. Kissinger said he accepted a moral responsibility because he had a acquiesced in the tap Quot which was conducted without a court order. J. Edgar Hoover the director of the Fri at the time originally identified Halperin As a possible source of the news disclosures. The tapping was prompted by newspaper articles in May 1969 describing the . Bombing of Viet Cong and North vietnamese Supply dumps in  says he told of doubts about Demjan Juk from wire reports Nashville Tenn. A a former prosecutor testified thursday that he told his Justice department superiors in 1980 it was ethically wrong to press a Case against John Demianiuk As the notorious nazi death Camp guard a Ivan the terrible because the evidence was too contradictory. George Parker told a Federal judge investigating the prosecutors conduct that they disposed of a five Page Mcc he wrote describing his a gnawing doubts about the Case in a meeting that lasted no More than 25 minutes. Parker is the first of a half dozen former prosecutors expected to testify in an extraordinary judicial inquiry into How the Justice department handled one of its most important nazi cases. Judges from the 6th . Circuit court of appeals ordered the inquiry to find out if prosecutors misled them into approving Dema Njuki a 1986 extradition to Israel where he was convicted As the notorious guard of the Treblinka death Camp in Poland and sentenced to death. The discovery of new evidence from the former soviet Union last year has thrown the verdict into doubt and strengthened Dema Njuki a Appeal to the israeli supreme  rethink marxism Amherst mass. A marxist scholars at an International conference said their ranks Are swelling As researchers pursue socialist ideas that languished for decades in the Shadow of the soviet Model. The three Day conference opened thursday at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. More than 500 scholars artists and activists from around the country and , including Brazil and Germany signed up for 130 discussion panels on a rethinking marxism Quot sponsored by a quarterly academic journal of that name. Free from the taint of what former president Reagan called a the evil Empire a researchers say they Are pursuing several socialist strains different from totalitarian states set up by the soviets after their 1917  suicide kills 2 Lexington . A a Man who committed suicide tuesday night by shooting himself in the head accidentally killed a Friend standing next to him authorities said. A single Bullet passed through the head of 22-year-Ola Joseph r. Shatly then struck 23-year-old Frances Nichols Hall in the face and lodged in her neck said Davidson county sheriffs sgt Rick Johnson. Shatley died at the scene. Hall died at a Hospital wednesday morning. The shooting happened at an intersection where Shatley was sitting in the Drivers seat of his car and Hall stood outside the car talking to him Johnson said. Shatley paralysed from the Waist Down was injured in a motorcycle Accident three years ago said his Stepfather Steve  linked to leukaemia Philadelphia a a renegade protein formed by two genes that Swap positions triggers certain forms of leukaemia scientists reported thursday. The finding May Lead to a screening test and better treatments they said. The Exchange is involved in about 90 percent of acute leukaemia in infants and an estimated 40 percent in older children researchers at Thomas Jefferson University said. The protein appears to contribute to acute Lymphocyte in Mylo cystic and Monoc tic leukaemia a sometimes Fata cancers of White blood cells that strike mostly children about 2,000 new cases of acute leukaemia it amp cur each year. Results a fihe study by drs. Carlo Croce and is am r Fonda Sissy of the journal cell. 15 3nottr ver important step in identifying a a fiends Spon sible for acute leukaemia said human geneticist Ray White of the University of Utah m Salt Lake City. 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