European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Sunday january 24,1993ex-Carter by Susanne. Schafer a military writer Washington a defense Secretary los Aspin is expected to tap William Perry the Pentagon s research and engineering chief during the Carter administration As his top Deputy defense department officials said  also is planning a reorganization of his own offices said the officials speaking on condition of anonymity. The nomination of Perry As Deputy Secretary of defense a along with several other key civilian appointments at the Pentagon a will be up to president Clinton. But Aspin was Likely to get his Way on the list. Despite developments in Iraq and other hot spots around the Worlo forma nominations for the Pentagon s highest posts have lagged behind those at the state department and other agencies. Aspin has no plans Quot at the moment to comment on the clashes with Iraq and does t formally expect to meet with the Pentagon press corps until this week said the official. Quot the Secretary has been hard at work preparing to present the president with a series of appointments a said the official. Frank Wisner a former ambassador to Egypt and the current undersecretary of state for International Security affairs is expected to be named undersecretary of defense for policy. It _ Wisner brings with him a specialization in arms control having headed the team that put the finishing touches on the second strategic arms reduction treaty signed this month in Moscow. Aspin is also expected to fill several top positions with members of his former staff at the House armed services committee. A. The Secretary intends to realign his offices a which had been divided into policy Ana acquisition sectors a into More groupings of policy financial management by the new York times Washington a the Likely nomination to a senior Pentagon Post of an official who helped shape the Bush administration s policy of aiding Iraq before the persian Gulf War is causing deep concern among some Senate democrats staff aides said Friday. President Clinton is considering appointing the official James Covey to a new position of assistant Secre. Tary of defense for regional conflicts,.administration officials said. Covey who until recently was the second ranking official in the state department s Middle East Bureau was involved in pressing agencies to provide Aid to Iraq As part of president Bush s failed Effort to bring Lari president Saddam Hussein into what he called the family of nations. To choose defense Secretary Les Aspin listens to president Clinton during a Cabinet meeting Friday at the White House. Manpower and readiness issues officials said. The policy Branch would in turn be divided into four sections in line with Aspinw a views of the major problems facing the Pentagon a regional conflicts nuclear and arms proliferation economic conversion of the defense Industry and dealing with the emerging democracies in the former soviet Union the officials added. One democratic staff member said Covey a career foreign service officer would face rough going in a confirmation hearing because of his identification with the Iraq policy. In late 1989, Covey was a co author of a memorandum to James a. Baker Iii then Secretary of state urging that Bush continue Federal loan guarantees to Iraq despite evidence that Baghdad was secretly obtaining technology to build nuclear weapons. Quot there have been several Calls to the defense department asking Why the president would name this Guy a said one senior democratic staff aide. Covey who is already at work at the Pentagon did not return Telephone Calls. A state department spokeswoman said Covey was one of Many officials who dealt with policy toward Iraq in the Bush administration Quot he was in no Way solely responsible for the iraqi policy at the time she said. Buttafuoco threatens suit Over mock trial by newday new York a your Honor we the mock television jury find the defendant Joey Buttafuoco. Quot Cut a Buttafuoco s lawyers warned the producers of the Ger at show Friday a Quot or Well sue monday 12 Quot impartial mock jurors on Geraldo Rivera s talk show will decide whether to indict Buttafuoco for statutory rape of 16-year-old Amy Fisher in the summer of 1991 and conspiracy to shoot his wife Mary to last May. The show was taped earlier this month. Evidence includes previously televised comments by Fisher Buttafuoco and others such As Steve Dunleavy of the tabloid to show a current affair. Lawyers Barry Slotnick and Raoul Felder serve As defense attorney and prosecutor respectively and retired state us Ereme court Justice Howard Goldfluss is the judge Lut Cafuoco 36, refused to participate. Buttafuoco a lawyers Michael Rindenow and mar Vyn Kornberg Are crying foul even though Kornberg says he already knows that the jury ruled in favor of his client. Quot the Point is they Are trying n real person in effigy for crimes he was never charged with and 1 think lbs and the producers better think twice before airing  added Rindenow Quot the attorneys for or. Buttafuoco do not care what the verdicts Are. We care that there is even a forum for such  Rindenow said that he sent a letter to Geraldo offi. Vials in new York on Friday warning them to Quot cease and desist from airing the program. Quot the Nassau county District attorney chose not to indict Joseph Buttafuoco and therefore Geraldo Rivera and his associates have no right to try and indict him. What they re doing is unprecedented Quot he said in an interview. Slander was mentioned As a basis for a potential suit if the show is aired Rindenow. Said Quot we will undertake whatever Legal Buttafuoco Steps Are  Kornberg added that anyone appearing on the show faces possible slander suits citing muck prosecutor Felder s opening argument to the jury. Late Friday Geraldo spokesman Jeff for Del said Quot with my gift for the terribly obvious the Geraldo program is not a court of Law. And i assure you we have every intention of airing this broadcast on monday it would take an act of god to Stop it such As an earthquake or hell freezing  Erdel said that the show screened More than 2,000 people to find 12 who did no to have an opinion of Joey Buttafuoco so the mock trial would be  mayor proposes barricades to Cut crime from wire reports Chicago confronting a murder wave that made 1992 the second deadliest year m Chicago s history and criticism that he has not done enough Aboul mayor Richard a Daley says he wants to Block off streets in every Ward As a Way of discouraging criminals by limiting their movements. The plan which City officials Hope to begin by the summer will probably mean building Concrete  strategic Points of entry to. Neighbourhoods. Some opposition to the idea has emerged with people saying they would be More afraid of being clocked in than relieved that criminals were blocked out. But a spokeswoman for the mayor said Friday that the plan would not be imposed on any neighbourhoods that strongly objected. \. Daley told the Chicago Tribune that hts. Administration had Bacn working on the plan for several months and that it would seek support m each a amp a before setting up the barricades intended primarily to Block Access by  told sex wife of killing Northampton mass. A three years ago Kenneth Mitchell extended a hand to his sex wife pointing to bite Marks on it. He told her they were inflicted by a woman head killed at random As a Scapegoat for his personal problems. For nearly three years Denise Marie Seckinger kept her sex husband s secret according to court documents released Friday a week after Mitchell committed suicide. Last month Seckinger contacted authorities and Mitchell 34, killed himself As police closed in on him. He left behind a note admitting he had stabbed Sharon Galligan a 20-year-Oid University of Massachusetts student on dec. 19,1989, at a shopping mail near her school. According to a search warrant request tiled Jan. 16, Seckinger told a detective she saw Mitchell four. Days after the murder. The couple had divorced in 1981. 1dewi Sukarno sentenced Meeker Colo. A former indonesian first lady Cwi Sukarno was sentenced Friday to 60 Days in jail for slashing fellow Jet setter Maria Osmena in the face with a wine Glass. At a hearing in Rio Blanco county District court Sukarno pleaded with judge . Devilbiss for compassion. Last month Sukarno 52, pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to charges of Secona degree assault and disorderly conduct avoiding a High profile trial and a possible prison term of 16 years. The charges stemmed from an incident at a party in Aspen on Jan 2,1992, which was attended by Ivana Trump Model Eue Macpherson and billionaire oilman David Koch. Authorities said Sukarno slashed Osmena granddaughter of a former philippine president with a wine Glass after she was insulted. A two Inch shard of Glass was removed from Osmena Scheek and 37 stitches were required to close the  term recommended Newark . A Federal prosecutors have _ recommended a 20-year prison sentence for Irene j. Seale half of the maximum sentence she could have received for participating with her husband Arthur in the fatal kidnapping of an Exxon official Sidney j. Reso. Irene Seale 45, will be sentenced monday by judge Garrett e. Brownjr of . District court in Trenton. She also faces sentencing on state charges of helping to Kidnap Reso on april 29,1992. The Seales were arrested 51 Days later Irene Seale began negotiating with the . Attorneys office within two Days of the couple s arrest june 19 and agreed to testify against her husband. She also led investigators to Resos body m a shallow grave in the Pine barrens off the Garden state Parkway in Southern new Jersey. Because of Irene Seale s cooperation Michael Chertoff the . Attorney for new Jersey recommended that she receive the 20-year sentence and a $250,000 Fine. But he opposed any further reduction in the sentence