European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 the stars and stripes . Monday february 15, 1993 founder Hopes to Channel will be no. 1 with a Bullet by Harry f. Rosenthal. The associated press Washington a if tracer fire thrills you and scuds make your heart thud done to touch that dial. The military Channel is planning to bombard you with visions of War 24 hours a Day. A military and aviation Are hugely popular a says Douglas Keeney the visionary who Hopes to give new meaning to the term a Domestic Keeney is betting there will be an audience for a Cable to Channel devoted entirely to Battle War machinery and fighting men and women. John Wayne movies will have a prominent Niche he says. So far Keeney said from his office in Louisville Kyd a he a raised about $1 million of the $6 million to $7 million it will take to make the military Channel a reality. The Money is being spent in film production and get Ting programs ready for the debut late this year. A if you like news in television Cable to is willing to give you a 24-hour Channel a he reasoned. A if its sports it will Supply you All the time any time. If its courtroom dramas you like you get 24-hour court to. Want cartoons you got a cartoon Channel. So we Are going to have a 24-hour military whether he succeeds depends first on what happens with the Cable to Law enacted last year. It limits Cable companies ability to raise rates. A that realty threw a Monkey wrench into plans to add additional channels a said Michael Lustman of time Wamer Cable the second largest Cable company. A it still is up in the air As to what kind of restrictions the Federal communications commission will put on Cable to operators ability to raise a typical Day of programming on the military Channel might have a couple of classic War movies in the morning. There would be news in the evening and perhaps a Navy show called night traps about Landing on carriers. Prime time would be devoted to world War ii history Battle histories and documentaries. A instead of running present Day Public service ads we would run ones from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s,�?� Keeney said. A old recruiting ads will come on a he a also thinking about a poetic segment on stealth aircraft a a there la be no talk just music. You just watch it Fly for six and he a planning to run a series on the 8th air Force in England in the 1940s called hurry Home Honey. Keeney also intends to cover breaking military news. For an incident like the Jan. 17 shoo Down of an iraqi plane by a . F-16, he says the military Channel would go live to the breaking news and follow the Story All Day. Advertisers he Hopes will be drawn to what will be predominantly male audience. Bridgit Blum Berg spokeswoman for the National Cable television association said the military Channel is one of a wave of such ventures trying to take advantage of new technology that will allow Cable systems to carry 500 channels. Currently Channel capacity is full. But Keeney is planning for his channels debut and he sees nothing but Victor yen the air. Already Cable operators Are calling him he says to make sure they re put on his awaiting trial Danny Harold rolling shown in a 1991 photo reportedly has told details of the murders of five students. Miami apr the Man awaiting trial in the 1990 slayings of five Gainesville College students has told investigators details Only the killer would know a newspaper reported saturday. Danny Harold rolling a 38-year-old Louisiana drifter already serving a life prison term for unrelated robberies gave the details himself and through another inmate at Florida state prison the Miami Herald said citing four unidentified Law enforcement sources. Investigators believe rolling because he gave them unpublished details about How knife wounds were inflicted on victims the layout of the murder scenes items found at the scenes and How the victims were selected according to the sources. The Herald said the sources would not give specifics however. A closed door hearing in the rolling Case is scheduled next week. Will Irby spokesman for the slayings task Force would neither confirm nor deny the report. Rolling a Public defender Rick Parker did not return a Telephone message left at his Home saturday. Rolling talked to investigators in sessions late last month and last week both he and a Friend Bobby Lewis who is serving a life sentence for murder spoke with them the Herald reported. The five victims All students at the University of Florida or nearby Santa be Community College were found slain in Campus area apartments in late August 1990. Rolling has maintained he is innocent. Friends family eulogize Marine killed in Somalia Elizabeth . A the first american Serviceman killed in Somalia gave More than food to the starving a the gave them his life Quot mourners at a memorial were told saturday. Marine pfc. Domingo Arroyo jr., 21, was killed Jan. 12 during a skirmish with somalian gunmen in Mogadishu. He was the first american casualty of operation restore Hope. A private Arroyo gave them More than bread a gov. Jim Florio told about 300 people including nearly 200 marines. A the gave them his Florio compared Arroyo known As Jun Ito to former baseball great Roberto Clemente who was killed in a 1972 plane crash on his Way to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He recalled that a sign Reading a radios Amigo Quot was lit up in Pittsburgh shortly after clementes death. A today we say a Adios Jun Ito to another great puerto rican american Quot Florio said. The tribute was organized by Eddy Androvich president of the new Jersey first Marine division association. It was attended by arroyos Mother Ramona Ortiz who lives in Elizabeth and one of his father and another brother live in puerto Rico where Arroyo was receives probation after confessing to arson from wire reports Medford Ore. A a woman who admitted setting 26 Brush fires at the Peak of the fire season last summer was sentenced to probation. Susan Williams 39, pleaded guilty Friday to six counts of arson. In Exchange for her plea judge Loren Sawyer sentenced her to three years probation and ordered her to receive psychological treatment. A the reason she came Forward was she was afraid she was going to Hurt someone a Deputy District attorney Doug Mcgeary said. A she was very scared. A a a. A a Williams started the fires with a cigarette lighter Over a wide area of Jackson county Mcgeary said. All were quickly contained by watchful neighbors and firefighters. No one was injured and damages generally were confined to grass fences Trees and Brush Mcgeary can keep cello West Palm Beach Fla. A concert cellist who lost her career to crack cocaine addiction does no to have to sell her $45,000 cello to pay for her rehabilitation a judge ruled. Circuit judge James Stewart rejected an attempt by Bonnie Rae Hartman sex husband to be named her guardian As Well As his suggestion that she sell the 200-year-old Carlo Antonio Testore cello. A she has not and does not intend to sell that instrument a Hartman a attorney Stanley Hyman wrote in court records. Hartman 39, a graduate of the Juilliard school in new York City who a decade ago played on records and in orchestras was released last week from a drug treatment program and is living in a Halfway House. She is infected with he aids virus and is indigent but wants to live on her own Hyman said. Hartman sex husband Joseph Bongiorno jr., a double bassist with the new York City opera said his actions were a a humanitarian effort.Man admits to killings Lexington . A a Man confessed to killing a couple and their 10-year-old son because he thought they were interfering in problems he was having with his Girlfriend police said. Robert Lee Wilson 42, was charged Friday with the slayings police chief Leroy Pearson said. He could receive the death penalty if convicted. Ricky Douglas Wright 34 Kathleen Vassar Wright 32 and their son Robert Shane Wright were found shot to death in their Home thursday. Wright apparently told neighbors that Wilson had threatened him earlier Pearson said. Kathleen Wright was friends with Wilson a former Girlfriend. to probe dateline new York a Abc news will investigate circumstances surrounding the dateline Abc report that provoked a lawsuit from general motors corp. Abc news president Michael Gartner told his staff Friday the network hired two lawyers to investigate the nov. 17 sequence titled waiting to explode. The report suggested 4.7 million pm pickups made Between 1973 and 1987 with a sidesaddle Quot gasoline tanks mounted outside their frames Are prone to catching fire when hit from the Side Abc did not Tell viewers a pm pickup truck used in a crash test was rigged with incendiary devices. Pm sued Abc on monday for defamation. The network settled the lawsuit tuesday with an on air retraction and apology to pm. Armoured car owners charged Bohemia . A the owners of an armoured car company were charged with Bank fraud and theft for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from storage vaults to use for gambling. Up to $13.5 million in Bank Money was missing from Revere armoured inc. Vaults according to court papers. Citibank lost at least $11.5 million and North Fork Bank lost at least $2 million. Federal prosecutors said owners Robert and _ Susanna Scaretta lost millions of dollars gambling in Atlantic City an exact amount was not available. The couple surrendered thursday said Fri agent Armando Palmieri. They were arraigned and freed on $500,000 Bond each
