European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday december 23, 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 7 mexican again convicted in slaying of drug agent los Angeles apr the brother in Law of a former mexican president has become the seventh person convicted in . Courts in the governments All out Effort to avenge the torture slaying of drug agent Enrique Camarena. Ruben Zuno Arce 64, was convicted monday of charges including conspiracy and kidnapping. He could get life in prison at sentencing feb. 8. Zuno was tried along with or. Humberto Alvarez Machain a mexican gynaecologist who was kidnapped by Bounty Hunters Eaid by the . Government and was taken to the United states. Despite protests from Mexico the . Supreme court ruled the kidnapping Legal. The government had claimed Alvarez used his medical expertise to keep Camarena alive while he was tortured but prosecutors offered Little evidence to Back that claim and . District judge Edward Rafeedie last week cleared Alvarez of All code words Santa and Tricky Rescue in Cuba Washington apr almost nothing happens in cubans tightly run society without the governments approval. But twice in less than two years Orestes Lorenzo Perez an intrepid former air Force Pilot has managed to outman Euver his homelands formidable internal Security network. Lorenzo made headlines in March 1991 by stealing a soviet built Mig fighter Jet and flying it Solo to South Florida a feat that seems tame compared with his latest James Bond like exploit. Appearing tired but jubilant monday Lorenzo 37, described in detail How he daringly flew in his Cessna plane into Cuba literally snatching his wife and two sons from a Highway East of Havana and flew them to Freedom. Lorenzo had tried to pressure cuban authorities to allow his family to join him. It looked hopeless after his wife Vicky 35, was informed More than a year ago by the government officials that the family would never be allowed to leave. There was a tone of vindication in Lorenzo a voice As he recounted at a news conference How he almost single hand edly defied the communist system he had once revered. A my children did no to know what Christmas was a he said with a wave of the hand toward his sons. A they did no to know what Santa Claus when he escaped to the United states 21 months ago he promised his wife that she and the boys would eventually be Able to join him. Postcards and letters by the thousands were written to cuban authorities on the family a behalf. Some foreign government leaders tried to intervene with cuban authorities. Lorenzo tried a hunger strike. Nothing worked. So he took matters into his own hands buying the Cessna for $30,000 with the help of a Rich Benefactor. He launched his do or die Mission saturday. The Circle of people in on Lorenzo a secret was sex Zuno a brother in Law of former mexican president Luis Echeverria was also convicted in 1990, but the verdict was overturned when Rafeedie ruled he had been misled on the evidence. Drug enforcement administration chief Robert Bonner said monday that the investigation of Camare nays slaying will continue. Seven people have been convicted in the United states and about two dozen in Mexico in connection with the 1985 slaying. The bodies of Camarena and a Dea employed Pilot were found in a Field in Mexico. Prosecutors theorized Camarena was punished for Dea raids on marijuana plantations that resulted in the destruction of $5 billion Worth of the drug. Prosecutors accused Zuno of membership in a Guadalajara drug Cartel and said he helped plan Camare nays kidnapping in meetings with High ranking mexican government officials. Orestes Lorenzo Perez describes the Rescue of his family As his wife Vicky watches their sleepy son Alejandro. Tremley Small. The . Government was not informed he said because to do otherwise would have been seen As a provocation by cuban authorities if the plan had failed. Even his children were not told until moments before they boarded the Craft. Among the handful of others in on the scheme were two mexican women who went to Cuba last week on Lorenzo a behalf and filled Vicky in on the code words that were to signal that the plan was on. When he called her she was to Tell him a your father is a Little sick but he a that meant she had been informed of the Rescue operation. When he replied that he had bought a video for the children that was the tip off that he would be touching Down the following evening near Matanzas Cuba. She left her House in Havana with sons Reniel 11, and Alejandro 6. She took no possessions not even a visa she had received last year from the . Consular office in Havana. To have been caught by police with that document would could have meant instant trouble. Group urges mandatory Organ donation Washington apr a Public ethics organization says people have a a social duty to give up their body organs upon death and proposes mandatory donation of organs unless the person or a relative objects. The communitarian network decrying a the wastage of a precious human resource a said 2,000 people a year die for want of a new Organ and thousands More endure painful and expensive treatment to survive with defective organs. The network is a think tank that believes society gives too much priority to individual rights and not enough attention to individual responsibilities. It was founded by sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University. The networks idea Drew fire however from Andrew Kimbrell policy director of the foundation on economic trends a watchdog group on bioethics issues. A currently we can give our body As a gift and that is a positive Choice a he said. A but with something As intimate and with As Many religious and ethical implications As the human body we done to want the state to make that Kimbrell argued that Organ transplants could help Only a few thousand people a year because of Low survival rates and a shortage of transplant doctors. Under the networks proposal people could opt not to have their organs removed if they objected on religious or philosophical grounds or found the idea disturbing. Their wishes would be noted in a National computer registry on their Drivers License and in Hospital checking records. Family members also could act on their tank leaking Oil into Connecticut River from wire reports new London Conn. The coast guard and environmental officials worked monday to contain thousands of Gallons of Oil leaking from a Barge that ran aground on a ledge in the Mouth of the thames River. The 295-foot Barge hit Black ledge before Dawn monday while being pulled by a tugboat spilling an estimated 15,000 to 19,000 Gallons of heating Oil the coast guard said. The ruptured tank one of 12 on the Barge contained 39,000 Gallons of Oil. Coast guard it. Phillip Cyl said. The Barge was carrying its capacity of 1.3 million Point to defect Phoenix a Home videos taken by passengers killed in a plane crash helped uncover trouble with a fuel valve used in up to 2,800 Cessna. Investigators have not determined whether the breakdown caused the june 19 crash that killed 10 people on a grand Canyon sightseeing flight but the government called monday for stepped up inspections of similar planes. The Pilot and All nine passengers were killed when the twin engine Cessna 402c went Down just after Takeoff. Three videotapes salvaged from the plane showed the right propeller slowing Down and the Pilot reaching Between the seats for a fuel control lever the National transportation safety Board said. That led inspectors to a Sticky Inlet valve in a fuel tank inside a Wing the Agency card Granny Dies St. Paul Minn. A grandma Ruth Blumenfeld whose picture appeared on 80 Novelty greeting cards that sold More than 1 million copies in several countries has died at age 101. a picture appeared on humorous cards sold in the United states Canada Australia England and Ireland As Well As on to shirts and calendars. Some of the cards produced by inn vision of Chicago were slightly risque. One Christmas card pictured Blumenfeld sitting on a bed with Santa Claus. The caption said a Well he a no Tom Selleck but. A another card showed her dressed As a Princess holding a mop. Inside the card read a i done to do housework. I m a teens forced off Cliff los Angeles a two boys were forced at gunpoint to jump Over a sea Cliff in los Angeles on monday after two armed robbers ordered them to a jump or City fire department spokesman Michael Hallett said the 16-year-old victims were accosted As they walked along the Cliffs in the san Pedro District about 7 20 . Hallett said the suspects demanded Money. When the victims said they did no to have any the gunmen told them to jump or be shot. Both boys leaped Over the 70-foot Cliff rolling and skidding most of the Way Down. One victim was Able to walk Down to the Beach and climb Back up to the Road three Miles away. He ran to the nearest House and called police. Both were hospitalized at Harbor Urcla medical Center in serious Star jailed Mineola . A former pro football Star Mark Gastineau was jailed after agreeing to return to Arizona to face contempt charges for violating the terms of a court ordered drug treatment program. A judge monday ordered that the 36-year-old Gastineau be held until Arizona officials arrive to pick him up. A warrant for Gastineau was issued in Arizona in july when he failed to appear in court. He was arrested at a suburban new York Railroad station saturday after an officer ran a Check on his License plates. The former new York jets defensive end was arrested in 1991 for allegedly picking up a package containing about 200 amphetamines at a Phoenix Airport. Prosecutors said that the charge would be dropped if he completed the one year program but that Gastineau had failed to attend counselling sessions submit to urine tests or pay fees
