European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 27, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 in Federal office buildings Washington a the lawmakers who helped ban smoking on most Domestic flights have a new target Federal office buildings including the White House and Capitol. A we really want the Federal government to establish the Model and Standard to follow a said rep. Richard j. Durbin Dill. Durbin is working on the legislation with sen. Frank a Lautenburg . The proposal also would apply to facilities that provide federally funded children s services such As schools getting head Start Money. The Campaign against smoking is a personal crusade for Durbin. As a 14-year-old he watched his father a two pack a Day smoker die of lung cancer. A that has its Impact on you Quot Durbin said. Quot my Brothers and i made Damn certain we did no to  Durbin believes a recent government report classify ing secondhand tobacco smoke As a cancer agent More dangerous than arsenic or radon bolsters the Case for additional legislation the environmental Protection Agency report estimated that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in adults and As Many As 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia in children. Quot the conclusion is we re headed for smoke free buildings Quot Durbin said. The general services administration which manages Many Federal office buildings allows Agency Heads to designate some smoking areas but bars smoking in most parts of its buildings. But the Capitol legislative office buildings the supreme court and the White House except for the East and West wings Are outside Gas jurisdiction. 20-year sentence Trenton . Apr a woman who claimed that battering by her husband led her to do wrong was sentenced to 20 years in prison monday for helping carry out the fatal abduction of Exxon executive Sidney Reso. Irene j. Seale who led authorities to Resos grave last year also received five years probation Ana was fined $500,000 on Federal charges in the Case . District judge Garrett e. Brown rejected defense assertions that Seale suffered from battered women a syndrome. The judge said she was a Quot full participant Quot in the crime with her husband Arthur. Reso 57, president of Exxon co. International was shot in the Arm during the april 29 kidnapping outside his Morris township Home. He was then kept handcuffed bound and gagged in a Box in a storage vault. He died May 3, and the Seales buried him in a shallow grave in Bass River state Park. It was not until weeks later that the Seales were arrested and Resos body was recovered. The 20-year sentence was agreed to by the . Attorney s office. Seales had faced up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to extortion and conspiracy charges. Her husband a former policeman was sentenced to 95 years in prison nov. 30 after pleading guilty to Federal charges of extortion weapons Possession conspiracy and mail fraud. In a thin quavering voice she read a letter she had sent to Brown in which she described her role in the abduction. A at the time of my arrest i was physically mentally and emotionally exhausted. I had to Tell my Story a she said. Quot i had to give the Reso family  she also described the toll the crime took on her and her two children. The proposed legislation targeted at Federal office buildings would a ban smoking in All indoor facilities that provide federally funded services for children under 18, such As schools getting head Start Money. A allow workers to Light up Only in areas with separate ventilation systems so Smoky air is not. Recirculated. A require Agency directors and office managers to enforce the policy. A carry a Fine of $1,000 for violations. Source restaurants amp institutions Magazine sets Edward Codina Quot i think they should be held to the same standards As other workers Quot said Sherri Watson of the american lung association. Officials at the tobacco Institute declined to return Telephone messages left Friday and monday. Lauten bergs office also declined to comment until the Bill is introduced probably this week. A few years ago Durbin said he found himself trapped Between two smokers on a Phoenix to Chicago flight and unable to do anything but direct the fumes away with the overhead fan. As a result Durbin helped push through a smoking ban on . Flights of two hours or less in 1987. Two years later Congress extended the ban to nearly All Domestic flights. Irene j. Seale stands in court monday during sentencing for the kidnapping of Exxon executive Sidney Reso. Teens admit they made up baby for Sale tale tust1n, Calif. A a 17-Ycar-old girl gave birth at Home by herself then helped concoct a Story about How her Boyfriend bought the Newborn in a parking Jot for $10 from a Man who wanted drugs police said. The baby a boy was Fine. The tale fooled police for a Day before the father Robert Garcia 18, confessed monday that it Wasny to True. A was most Young people they were simply afraid to Tell their parents a said police chief Doug Franks. Garcia initially told police he was walking through a shopping Center parking lot saturday night when a Man in a car offered to Trade the baby for drugs. Garcia told police he did no to have drugs but gave the Man $10 to get the baby away from him. The child was being cared for monday at a children a Home. Authorities were considering whether to file charges against Garcia which could include child abandonment sex with a minor and filing a false report with police. But none seemed Likely Franks said. The Mother a Junior in High school hid her pregnancy by telling her father she was gaining weight Franks said. While her father was at work saturday she delivered by herself in her bedroom. Tobacco Industry a upset by Kentucky smoking ban from wire reports Frankfort  smoking will be barred in government buildings in Thi state where tobacco remains the largest Cash crop an official told a hostile legislative tobacco panel monday. Finance Secretary Pat Mulloy said the policy balances the interests of smokers and nonsmokers by allowing smoking in designated areas such As cafeterias in state buildings and restaurants at state resort Parks. But members of the general Assembly a tobacco task Force argued the policy sends the wrong message in a state Shose Economy depends on its tobacco crop. Quot i think we have done irreparable harm to a major Industry in this state a said Static sen. Rick Rand. Mulloy who drafted the legislation said the policy was driven by complaints from state workers and concern about the health effects of smoke. Tourist copter crashes Hilo Hawaii a a sightseeing helicopter giving tourists a look at lava flowing from Kilauea Volcano crashed off Hawaii Island killing at least three passengers. A fourth person was missing. The five scat Hiller fh-1100 helicopter was flying Over Ocean water steaming from Contact with the lava when it want Down monday morning. The Pilot was rescued by another sightseeing helicopter and was listed in satisfactory condition. Rescue workers recovered the bodies of two men and one woman. The search for a Man missing in the crash was to resume tuesday. The four passengers were tourists from Asia police said. Russia thanks american Boston a it was nearly 50 years ago that Martin Hanley helped bring Relief supplies to Russia during world War ii but the russians never forgot him. They just had trouble tracking him Down. Hanley a retired merchant Seaman from Boston recently received a Bronze medal from russian president Boris n. Yeltsin for his role in helping us the port City of Murmansk c medal which bears Hanley a name in russian was issued in 1985 to Mark the 40th anniversary of the wars end. It took nearly eight years for russian authorities to find him. Quot when i opened the letter 1 nearly dropped. Dead Quot said Hanley 76. Quot this is really  As an american living overseas Hanley signed on with a dutch merchant ship to deliver supplies to beleaguered european port cities. Fourteen ships transporting supplies were lost at sea. Right to die Battle Jefferson City to. Tho it Missouri supreme court should end a family a Long Legal Nightmare by dismissing the state s opposition to a fathers right to die petition the state attorney general said monday. But about 50 demonstrators outside the office of. Attorney general Jay Nixon urged him to drop his motion to drop the Case. Nixon said in an interview that Missouri should drop its opposition because it is invading the privacy of patient Christine Busalacchi and her family. The 22-year-old woman s father Peter Busalacchi has asked the Missouri supreme court for permission to remove her feeding tube. A rotate judge ruled last year that Christine Busalacchi is in a persistent vegetative state with no Hope of recovery. Car hits Day care Center Garden Grove Calif. A a car crashed through a playground Wall at a Day care Center and landed atop a Sandbox during recess injuring six children. Darrell Emerson Nelson 43, was arrested for investigation of Drunken driving and jailed for tests for other drugs. He was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.04 percent half the Legal limit police said. At least three of the children were in critical condition. Those Hurt ranged in age from 2 to 6. Nelson helped teachers lift one end of the car to free children trapped underneath. Nelson said he was trying to a turn into the Early childhood schools children a Village in the los Angeles suburb of Garden Grove on monday but swerved and accelerated to avoid hitting an oncoming car. He was going to the Center to get a Job application for his wife he said