European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stats and stripes . Saturday november 21,1992 . Strategy reportedly leaked in next King Case Washington up someone has leaked the Justice departments strategy plan for the civil rights Case in the police beating of Rodney g. King National Public radio planned to report. In a report for broadcast Friday apr said the leak puts crucial information into the defense a hands and is a major breach of department Security procedures that could result in criminal obstruction of Justice charges. A this casts such a Shadow Over the integrity of the Justice department that i simply cannot discuss it a said John Dunne the assistant attorney general for civil rights who is in charge of the King prosecution. Other department sources said a major investigation is under Way to determine who leaked the document called an a a order of proof memo. The document out lines the governments Case listing everything from its evidence and witnesses to the weak links in the Case. The three officers and one fired officer were indicted for violating Kings civil rights after a state court jury failed last Spring to convict the four on most charges involved in the assault of King. The verdicts touched off three Days of riots leaving More than 50 people killed. Since the four were indicted on the civil rights charges Many have worried that More rioting would break out if they were acquitted again in the trial that is scheduled to begin in february. The civil rights charges Are considered More difficult to prove than the charges in the state Case because prosecutors have to prove the officers intentionally used unreasonable Force to deprive King of his rights. Dream is Over before it began crewman John Ackroyd looks Al the remnants of the Kart h winds a round the world balloon project thursday at Stead Airport in Reno Nev. The project was grounded indefinitely after High desert winds ripped apart a dome Over the launch site and part of the inflatable Craft. The double balloon vessel with a Crew of two americans and a russian was to take off next week to spend 12 to 21 Days Drifting with the Jet Stream at the same Altitude As jetliners 22,000 to 35,000 feet High. No one was injured when gusts up to 40 Mph carried the Craft s Anchor balloon into the desert where it ripped on Sagebrush before collapsing in a Heap. Black officer s shooting causes stir by the new York times new York a race was not a Factor in the mistaken shooting of a Black plainclothes officer by other officers in Brooklyn the chief of the new York City transit police said thursday. But the head of the Black police fraternal organization said tuesday s incident snowed that Black officers working undercover face special dangers from White colleagues. T he Brooklyn District attorney is investigating the shooting near a subway Entrance in which two transit officers sprayed 21 bullets at a colleague standing about 10 feet away and holding a gun on a woman suspect. All the officers were in Plain clothes. Officer Perwin Pannell the 27-year-old officer who was wounded in the neck was with his partner when they were confronted by three other officers two of whom opened fire. The chief Michael f. Of Connor stressed that such factors As tension poor lighting and confusion contributed to the shooting. Bui he also said the transit police would immediately begin developing a training course to inform officers about racial issues that might affect officers working in plainclothes. Representatives of Black and hispanic transit police organizations said they would help create the curriculum. Erie Adams vice president of the guardians association the Black officers fraternal organization said the shooting highlighted the need for greater sensitivity by White officers who. He suggested might be too Quick to assume that a Black Man with a gun a especially in a or to to state that race did no to play a part in this that would be  a Eric Adams vice president of Black officers group rough clothes in a High crime neighbourhood a is a criminal rather than a colleague. Quot for me to state that race did no to play a part in this that would be lying a Adams said. A was it currently stands the climate is not Safe. We need our transit cops to know that the Black Guy wearing Adidas sneakers and a backwards baseball Cap might be a  of Connor also announced thursday that special training for undercover officers which had been suspended because of renovations to the transit police Academy would resume monday. Fifty officers will go through the classes every Day. A Only one of the five officers involved in tuesday s incident had received the training which covers such things As tactics and safety procedures. He is the wounded officers partner Kenneth Donnelly. It Robert j. Valentino said that All the transit police a 4,300 officers alternate Between uniformed and plainclothes duty. But he said that at present Only 7s0 of the officers had received plainclothes duty  wants air Force to plan space program from wire reports Washington a an expert panel thursday recommended that the air Force assume responsibility for developing a space launch system to replace the space shuttle. Vice president Dan Quayle a space policy advisory Board said the air Force should take charge of the program instead of handling it with Nasa As Haa been recommended. The program would immediately begin developing Quot a new generation space launch capability to replace existing manned and unmanned launchers a the panel  eyes White House san Diego a defense Secretary Dick Cheney is considering a presidential bid in 1996. A a in a obviously interested in the 1996 contest a Cheney told the editorial Board of the san Diego Union Tribune this week. A i wont make a decision for some time but clearly its something in a going to take a Good hard look  the 51-year-old Cheney was president Gerald Ford s chief of staff. He left his . House seat representing Wyoming to become defense Secretary in 1989.comic sales soaring new York a the comic Book detailing the death of Superman is Selling faster than any comic Ever forcing a second press run to keep up with demand its publisher said thursday. The Book a with an initial press run of about 3 million a arrived in stores wednesday. Calls from sold out retailers prompted the decision for a second run a do comics spokesman said. The comic costs $1.25, with a special edition featuring a Black armband and a trading card Selling for $2.50. The Man of steel is eliminated a temporarily it will turn out a in a cataclysmic showdown with bad Guy doomsday Gay film Grants rejected Washington the chief of the National endowment for the arts has decided to reject Grant requests for three Gay and lesbian film festivals an Nea source said thursday. Annc Imelda radice Nea acting chairwoman was expected to inform the groups officially in a letter Friday that was Likely to renew critics attacks that she is responding to political pressures. The Money was to go to the Gay and lesbian Media coalition in los Angeles the new festival in new York and the Pittsburgh International lesbian and Gay film  bans Cut sales new Orleans a workplace smoking restrictions in California Cost the tobacco Industry $203 million a year in lost sales and a nationwide workplace smoking ban could Cost cigarette makers $4 billion a study says. The study based on interviews with 24,000 californians found that 13.7 percent of workers smoked in workplaces despite bans compared with 20,6 percent who smoked where there were no restrictions. Restrictions also encouraged smokers to smoke fewer cigarettes researchers  liable for deaths Springfield 111, a the Illinois supreme court ruled thursday that women May be convicted of murder if they knew that their boyfriends were abusing their children and if the children later die of the abuse. The court made the ruling in two cases a one in which Violetta Burgos of Chicago was convicted of murder in the april 1986 death of her 3-year-old daughter Eleticia Asbury. Oot Ern which Barbara Peters of Willow Springs was convicted in the december 1987 saying of her 20-month-old son Bobby Peters. Burgos received 60 years in prison Peters got 30 years. The women argued that they did no to cause the injuries and could not be held accountable for the children s deaths. 1 he court upheld their convictions saying the nuni is the abuse by their boyfriends but slut allowed their children to he exposed to the men