European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 b the stars and stripes . Thursday december 24,1992 3 officers Are to be tried in fatal Detroit beating Detroit a a judge wednesday ordered a lice White officers to stand trial in the fatal beating of a Black Motorist but dismissed felony charges against the Black sergeant accused of allowing the beating to take place. District judge Alex j. Allen dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against sgt. Freddie Douglas saying the prosecution had not shown that Douglas failure to Stop officers from beating malice Green caused the Detroit Many a death last month. Wayne county assistant prosecutor Douglas Baker said he would Appeal the dismissal. Douglas still faces a Misdemeanour charge of wilful neglect of duty. Allen ordered officers Larry Nevers and Walter Bud Zyn to stand trial on second degree murder charges and also bound Over officer Robert Lessnau on a charge of Assaul tar Ith intent to commit great bodily harm. Dougla was the Only Black officer charged. The beating raised tensions in Detroit with its echoes of the Rodney King Case in los Angeles in which four White officers were charged in the beating of a Black Motorist. Green was also Black. Allen made the ruling at the end of a seven Day preliminary hearing at which witnesses testified flashlight swinging officers brutally beat Green outside a suspected crack House. There was no testimony that race was a motive. During the hearings prosecutors had to prove there was probable cause the officers committed the crimes with which they were charged. Nevers Budzyn and Lessnau will be arraigned Jan. 21. No trial Date was set. Police chief Stanley Knox suspended seven officers without pay the Day after the beating. The four officers charged were fired by Knox Midway through the preliminary hearing their attorneys say they will Appeal. Three other officers remain suspended while their role in the incident is studied by the department. They have not been charged with a crime. Yugoslav Milic Djokich gazes at the mighty Mississippi which has been flowing past his stranded ship for months. Seamen stuck on Shoals of embargo new Orleans apr Milic Djokich stood on the Bridge of the 10-Story cargo ship and stared at the paddle boat full of tourists chugging by far below. Across the other Side of the ship drifted the High pitched whistle music of a dockside Steamboat. Djokich Shook his head and shrugged. Its just another Day on the Mississippi for the yugoslav Seaman. And the Christmas holidays will be no different. Because of the . Embargo against Yugoslavia djo Kicas a ship the Zeta has been anchored at new Orleans for six months. Two other ships full of yugoslav Crew members also arc idled on the River waiting for word on when they can continue. Forty nine seamen in All Are stranded on the three vessels. A we done to know what Well do Quot said Djokich 34. A it s not an easy life. We cannot work. We Haven to any Djokich who is the zetas second mate and some of his fellow seamen said they Are worried their jobs Arentt going to last much longer if the embargo continues. Their paychecks rarely arrive now and when they do they contain Only portions of their contracted salaries. Since the ships Are anchored in the Middle of the River to avoid wharf fees seamen can go ashore Only if they pay a tug $5 each Way. Most men try to go ashore once a week to walk the French Quarter for a few hours and if they can afford it buy some tapes or a few drinks. A a it a not fair a Djokich said. A the american people Are Good but your government is not so Good. America is Good for one thing a music. Rock Milena ship management co. Operates the Zeta and its not fair. The american people Are Good but your government is not so Good. America is Good for one thing a music. Rock a Milic Djokich the mos Levina in new Orleans and three other vessels in Charleston . New York and Baltimore that Are forbidden to leave . Shores under the embargo Rigel ship management handles the bar the third ship Lull of yugoslav Crew members anchored in new Orleans. The company argues that All its ships sail under maltese flags and have no connection with the former yugoslav government or its two remaining provinces of Serbia and Montenegro. But a Federal judge in August rejected that claim in Light of the company a connection with Jugo Slovanski Ocean ska a Lovidia a montenegrin company. A month before the . Security Council imposed sanctions against Yugoslavia on May 30, Jop moved most of its employees and operations to Malta and started Milena. The company a 22 ships were also sold and re flagged. Milena is appealing its Case. Meanwhile its attorney Jack Clegg said the . Government is unfairly Burn Dening the company by expecting it to maintain the Crew and ships without Aid. Djokich said he is normally paid about is 000month hut has received Only s200 a month. A new de icing regulations working airlines believe from wire reports Washington a new Federal aircraft de icing regulations seem to be working Well so far but have yet to be tested by a prolonged bout of wintry weather airline officials say. A we have to honestly say that we be not yet this Winter experienced the kind of severe icing conditions that would test the program in a real world sense a Jerry Cosley a spokesman for trans world airlines said tuesday. But he added a we think the rules Are sen. Alfonse m. Do Amato r-n.y., on tuesday released a general accounting office audit that concluded the new aircraft de icing regulations will improve flight safety but that the required inspections were not Tough enough. The rules adopted by the Federal aviation administration in november allow pilots of most Large planes to determine from inside their aircraft whether ice has formed again after de icing fluids have been applied. But the Gao report said external inspections should be required because a no matter now careful pilots Are they can held in Cliff incident Carson Calif a an 18-year-old Man was arrested tuesday for allegedly forcing two members of his own gang to jump Over a 200-foot Cliff in los Angeles. David Salanoa faces attempted murder charges stemming from monday nights incident that resulted in serious injuries to a 16-year-old boy and a 22-year-old Man. Police said Salanoa was arrested about 1 . On an unrelated warrant and held without bail. A second suspect was still being sought. Police believe Salanoa and an accomplice threatened to shoot the pair if they did not jump Over the Cliff. Both boys jumped rolling and skidding their Way most of the Way Down. Despite multiple fractures and some internal injuries the 16-year-old was Able walk Down to the Beach and climb Back up to the Road a mile away. Bleeding badly he got a resident to Call 911. The other victim suffered head injuries. Both were in fair condition. Police said Salanoa might have held the two responsible for his brother a apparent suicide last studies band program Houston a a Texas Southern University officials Are considering whether to reinstate the school band program following a shoplifting scandal in Japan and the use of no student musicians. University officials next month will discuss a possible successor to the Ocean of soul band University spokesman Chuck Smith said monday. Tsu president William Harris disbanded the Ocean of soul band last week after students and no student band members were caught shoplifting $22,000 Worth of electronics during a trip to Japan. He also reassigned the bands director and three use aids shield los Angeles a surgeons for the first time have used a new device to protect operating room personnel from infections such As the aids virus and hepatitis. The Battery operated electronic device is connected to a surgical patient with an electrode while the surgeon nurses and others in the operating room stand on special pads. If fluids from the patient leak through surgical gloves or gowns they Complete an electrical circuit and activate an alarm. The alarm alerts medical personnel to replace a Leaky Glove or change a tainted gown and Wash away the fluid before the infections from the aids causing human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis virus can spread. Doctors said the device used tuesday during a total knee replacement operation at the University or Southern California medical Center was the first such use. 1 he device has been tested at four . Hospitals in the past 18 months by its manufacturer san Diego based income. The device is called a Barrier integrity Monitor Early warning system
