European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes . Donday february 8,1993 Crowe says Bush erred in not taking Baghdad Providence . Up former president Bush s decision to halt the persian Gulf War ground attack after 100 hours is regrettable and May keep the United states involved in the Middle East for decades said a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. In retrospect the decision to Stop before bringing Saddam Hussein to Heel May have been a mistake retired adm. William j. Crowejr. Told a Brown University audience Friday night Crowe who endorsed Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential race and now serves As chairman of the presi Dent s foreign intelligence advisory Board said achieving significant change in Baghdad requires total Victory not partial publisher delays Book linking mob to Mca records los Angeles a Book about Mca re cords and alleged links to organized crime was held. Back from the Printer because the record Label s former chief questioned its accuracy. Stiffed the True Story of Mca the music business and the mafia was to have gone to printers More than a week ago but was held Back for factual review the Book s editor Craig Nelson said Friday. The Book says among other things., that Irving Azoff the chairman of Mca music entertainment group until 1989, worked with a reputed member of the Gam bin crime family. Nelson said he was confident the Book by former los Angeles times reporter William Knoedelseder still would be released on schedule March 17. Its accuracy was challenged in a letter from a offs attorney. The dispute began when Azoff obtained an Early copy of the Book s uncorrected proofs. Excerpts of the Book appear in the february Issue of los Angeles . Pierce o Donnell an attorney representing Azoff said the Book is filled with errors. On Jan. 25, he sent publisher Harper Collins a letter detailing the prob lems. Knoedel seder who defended his work said he was reviewing the alleged inaccuracies with Harper Collins attorneys but did not anticipate substantial changes. O Donnell said among his objections were the Book s allegations that Azoff was a target of a grand jury investigation that he was a poor manager who benefited financially More than Mca did and statements about a offs personal and business life. Knoedl seder said the Book docs not accuse Azoff of being an organized crime figure. " o Donnell has a seriously flawed Reading of the Book and a seriously flawed knowledge of the facts Knoedelseder said. Lie said reputed mobster Salvatore Pisello s dealing with Mca As an Independent record consultant Are a matter of Public record. It is True that there might have been problems if we had gone to Baghdad or if we had tracked Saddam Down Crowe said but the alternative turned out to be much less than the Clear Cut Victory touted at the time. It is disappointing when you deploy 400,000 troops 6,000 Miles win a decisive Victory and then a year later be faced with the same problems he said. Students at Brown asked Crowe for his views of the president s decision to lift the ban on Gays in the Mili tary. I would prefer or. Clinton did not do it Crowe said. But or. Clinton is serious and he s going to do it. The question is not the end of Western civilization As we know for s4s Tracy Ovitt Knight by Day n Gia White a first grader takes a heroic stance in his costume during a Parade of storybook characters at Witzel elementary school in Daum Holder Germany recently. The event held in connection with the school s i love a Hook week featured elves a Prissy clock witches and fair tale characters. Iman arrested in Seattle area arson spree Everett Wash. Up arson investigators arrested a 27-year-old and Salesman saturday and said hews a suspect in a seven month arson wave that has terrorized the Seattle Everett area since last August. Authorities identified the suspect As Paul Kenneth Keller owner of Keller advertising in Everett and a resident of Lynnwood a suburb Between Seattle and Everett police surrounded the apartment Complex where Keller lived and arrested him at Dawn without later searched Keller s Home car and business. Investigators said Keller cooperated fully with authorities but were not saying he had confessed. They also said family members were cooperating with authorities. Arson investigator Craig Nelson of the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms said Keller May have been involved in setting As Many As 40 fires in thesis Homish King county areas. Jut Nelson said Keller Vas being charged initially with just three fires a nov. 2 arson at a Snohomish business a dec. 2 residential fire in mount Lake Terrace and a Jan. 1 Everett warehouse fire. A seven month investigation led to Keller s arrest. The task Force began closing in on him with the release of three composite sketches and a profile released Jan.27, based on tips received via an arson hot line authorities said. Witnesses provided descriptions of a Man in a White shirt seen in crowds gathered at arson scenes. Police also said Keller s Tennis shoes fit prints found at arson scenes. Nelson said further investigation revealed Keller Hada troubled past including emotional problems and experience with setting fires As a child and a divorce last year they say May have set his arson wave in motion. Nelson said prosecutors would seek $1 million bail when Keller was arraigned sunday morning in Everett. The string of arsons lasted six months and caused More than a million dollars in damages. Homes under construction and Wood framed churches were struck first then carports and Homes sometimes up to half ado in per night. Man receives life sentence in killing of wife children from wire reports Cambridge mass. For three weeks Kenneth Seguin sat silently during his trial never taking the witness stand to describe Why he killed his wife and two children. But after he was convicted and just before he was sentenced Seguin stood before a judge and made a Brief emotional plea for forgiveness. Part of my soul died with my family he said Friday. More of my soul Dies with this Superior court judge Robert Barton sentences cum to life in prison. Seguin 35� was convicted thursday of second degree murder culminating a nearly monthlong trial. Seguin a software executive pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He was accused of drugging his children Danny 7, and Amy 5, then cutting their throats and throwing their bodies into a Pond in april. He then returned Home to his sleeping wife Mary Ann 34, and smashed her head with an a according to testimony. Her body was pulled from the Sudbur River. Seguin apparently tried to kill himself after the murders Ana was found in a state Forest with knife wounds and Little pulse or blood pressure. Of prosecutor opposes move Philadelphia a businessman with aids who is accused of paying teen age boys for sex. Should t be moved to a Hospital while awaiting trial a prosecutor said. Edward Savitz appeared at a court hearing Friday while doctors testified about his condition and the care he is receiving in the medical Wing of a jail. Common pleas court judge Legrome Davis said he will listen to arguments from lawyers tuesday. Michael Silverman an aids specialist called by Savitz s lawyer said Savitz would die in three to six months if kept in the health Wing of the Cit detention Center. The level of care he has received has been marginal at Best Silverman testified. Or. Joseph Chapman medical director for the county prison system said there were 75 prisoners with aids in the system and All necessary care can be Given in the medical Wing of the detention Center the prison Ward of Girard medical Center or on an outpatient basis. Man charged in fiery killing letter Gap . A Man accused of setting his wife on fire was charged with murder after she died in a Hospital an official said. George d. Miller 79, of letter Gap had been charged with malicious assault and arson in the Jan. 21 attack said Gilmer county sheriff Charles Hess. Hazel Miller who was in her mid-70s, died Friday at a Pittsburgh Hospital. Hess said he and a sheriffs Deputy witnessed the attack As they approached the Millers House to answer a Domestic complaint. Miller saw them coming and shut the door he said. I saw George Miller throw something onto his wife and then the inside of the House was full of flames Hess said. He said he kicked in the door and Hazel Miller ran outside. She was covered by flames Hess said. The Deputy used his coat to smother the flames Hess said. The fire destroyed the House but George Miller escaped unhurt. Jackson exhorts haitian rally new York the Rev. Jesse Jackson told 300 cheering haitians at a rally saturday outside the United nations to hold on until democracy is restored and exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide returns to Power. The haitians who had marched about three Miles from City Hall in Snow and freezing temperatures waved flags held up pictures of Aristide and chanted no Aristide no peace we will keep the pressure on until democracy is restored and Aristide is returned Jackson shouted. Aristide became the first freely elected president of Haiti just seven months before he was ousted in a bloody army coup in september 1991. In a meeting Friday with Aristide Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher denounced the Arr backed regime in Haiti As an illegal Power and promised they will not prevail
