European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 3, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page t left daughters stayed aloof neighbors say a a a St. Charles 111, a David and Sharon schoo lived in a comfortable. Tudor style suburban Home with a Pool swings and a child s playhouse in the Back Yard. However daughters Nicole 9, and Diana 4, were rarely seen outside the Home and were often believed to live elsewhere neighbors say. Quot we were always saying whereas the kids a a said Toni Potts who lives next door to the schoos and shares a Large Pond with them. Quot they would be driving off to go some where and we never saw the kids a she said. The schoos were arrested monday after their children were left at Home atone while the couple took at nine Day vacation in Acapulco Mexico. On thursday Joseph Kuzma put up $10,000 on a $100,000 Bond to bail his daughter and son in Law out of the Kane county corrections Center in Geneva. He said he had not seen or spoken to his daughter in eight years. At a news conference with the couples lawyer Kuzma said he believed the Cou pie and the children need psychiatric care. Conflict Between his daughter and her Stepmother had caused the estrangement he said. The couple face felony charges of child abandonment and cruelty to children and Misdemeanour charges of child endanger ment. A preliminary hearing is set for tuesday. Neighbors said the schoos seemed withdrawn a almost reclusive a in the close knit 12-Home Community in an unincorporated area outside St. Charles. It is a Community where the doors Are unlocked during the Day and folks socialize regularly. They said that schoo a 45-year-old Engineer with a smoke alarm company waited until Well after dark before cutting the grass and that his wife 35, rarely spoke to neighbors. Quot i had my baby and was taking it Over to see my Best Friend when i saw mrs. Schoo out front a Potts said. "1 turned the baby Carriage around to show her the baby since we Nad spoken once or twice when i was pregnant. But when she saw me coming she dropped her Rake turned around and ran into the housed neighbors say Nicole waited for the school bus at the Edge of her own driveway instead of standing with other children at the designated bus Stop. Younger sister Diana was rarely if Ever seen. Many neighbors said they did t even Sharon and David schoo follow their attorney Gerard Kepple from the Kane county corrections Center in Geneva 111., after the couple posted Bond. Know the schoos had a second child. Quot we always thought they were Peculiar a said Connie Stadelmann who lives across the Street from the schoos. Nicole and Diana ran to Stancl Mann a Home dec. 21 after a smoke alarm was accidentally triggered in their Home. Nicole and Diana were placed in the custody of the Illinois department of children and family services after they told authorities their parents had gone to Mexico on dec. 20, leaving them Home alone. The state has placed them in a Foster Home pending the preliminary hearing tuesday. A a a a. The couple often called police to keep other neighbourhood children out of their end and off their property said a neigh or who asked that his name not be used. Chicago television stations reported thursday that Sharon schoo and her first husband gave her 4-year-old son up for adoption in the late 1970s, about the time they divorced. Tycoon acquitted in plot to abduct son Alexandria a. Up a a millionaire accused of plotting to Kidnap his son and reprogram the Dupont Fortune heir from following political extremist Lyndon Larouche was acquitted thursday and the judge urged him to reconcile with his son. . District judge , Ellis Iii also chastised authorities for moving to prosecute the Case saying that when police Learned of the alleged kidnapping plot they should have told e. Newbold Smith to Stop flirting with a felony. Assistant . Attorney Lawrence Leiser countered a we concluded a crime was committed. The jury disagreed. That a the criminal Justice  the Case against Smith 66, and four others acquitted thursday a including a Veteran de Programmer in cult cases hinged on secret tapes made by a police informant. Defense attorneys conceded the men had discussed the idea but said they never acted to carry it out. The eight Man four woman jury returned the innocent verdicts after 12 hours of deliberation Over two Days. The defendants would have faced life in prison and fines up to $500,000-if they had been convicted on charges of conspiracy to Kidnap. According to prosecutors the plan was to use a seductive woman to lure Smiths 36-year-old son Lewis Dupont Smith to a hotel room slip him a drugged drink and then spirit him to a family yacht off the Atlantic coast for deprogramming or intensive therapy to undo the effects indoctrination. The trial included 10 Days of testimony spread Over three weeks. The trial capped a Long deteriorating relationship Between the father and son. After the son gave Larouche organizations $212,000, his parents had him declared mentally incompetent. Control of his Multi Millie a Dollar Fortune was replaced with a monthly allowance. Lewis Dupont Smith who ran for Congress on a Larouche ticket in 1990, had recently purchased a $500,000 jibs me outside of Philadelphia which he planned to turn Over to Larouche organizations. That prompted the summer discussions of a possible deprogramming. A a Larouche a former presidential candidate has endorsed theories of High level conspiracy against him. He was convicted in 1988 on tax and mail fraud conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 15 years in Pris 1,000 flee of missile Rig Monroe la. A about 1,000 residents returned Home Friday after ringing in the rfcs year As evacuees because a truck carrying army anti aircraft missiles swerved across an interstate Highway and Quot crashed the tractor trailer Rig jumped a 30-foot canal and came to rest in the Carport of a House where about 16 men were playing dominoes thursday. Quot we heard a bang one hell of a bang a said Frederick Hayes one of to nose inside the House when the truck hit. The trucks Driver Bob Mcgee Cor 47, of Florida and his wife Marion 58, were in stable condition Friday at St. Francis medical Center _ bomb experts from Barksdale fab about 10q Miles to the West were brought in to take the Hawk missiles off the flatbed and Check them for damage. A the acc Milc stretch of interstate 20 was closed for about 18 hours until they finished their work late Friday morning. The missiles were not damaged police capt. Tommy Poland said. The truck spilled diesel fuel which fire units washed Down and covered with dirt and Sand to pc vent fire police chief Joe Stewart said. The shipment with a Driver and a backup Driver originated in Concord calif., he said. It was in route to the red River army depot in Texarkana Texas following stops in Illinois and Alabama. The truck was of Vnod by a private company contracted by the army. Quot it was westbound on 1-20, just entering the City limits Quot Stewart said. Quot for some reason we do not know at this time the 18-Wheeler crossed the median crossed the eastbound lanes jumped a 30-foot Concrete canal went through a Chain link Fence and came to rest under the Carport of a House a. Stewart said he was not warned that the shipment would be moving through his City. No charges Tiad been filed Friday. Stewart said investigators had been Able to talk to the truck Driy or Only briefly. Intrepid robot of fit on. Dante an 8-foot-tall Nasa robot that was preparing to descend into an Antarctic Volcano was baited by a computer glitch Friday after creeping Only about 21 feet into mount Erebus shown in a file photo Dante was restarted by scientists in Antarctica but they were proceeding cautiously because they had not pinpointed the problem according to Nasa officials