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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, February 15, 1993

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes . Monday february 15,1903 founder Hopes to Channel will be no. I with a Bullet by Harry  associated press Washington if tracer fire thrills you an scuds make your heart thud Don t touch that dial. The military Channel is planning to bombard you with visions of War 24 hours a Day. Military and. Aviation Are hugely popular say Douglas keenly the visionary who Hopes to give new meaning to the term Domestic warfare. Acc  is betting there will be an audience for 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 keenly said from his office in Louisville ky.,he s raised about $1 million of the $6 million to $7 Mil lion it will take to make the military Channel a  Money is being spent in film production and get Ting programs ready for the debut late this year. If you like news on television Cable to is willing to give you a 24-hour Channel he reasoned. If it s sports it will Supply you All the time any time. If it s courtroom dramas you like you get 24-hour court  cartoons you got a cartoon Channel. So we arc going to have a 24-hour military  whether he succeeds depends first on what happen with the Cable to Law enacted last year. It limits Cable companies ability to raise rates. That really threw a Monkey wrench into plans Todd additional channels said Michael Lustman of time Warner Cable the second largest Cable  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  Danny Harold rolling shown in a 1991 photo report edly has told details of the murders of five students. A typical Day of programming on the military Chan Nel might have a couple of classic War movies in the morning. There would be news in the evening and per haps a Navy show called night traps about Landing on carriers. Prime time would be devoted to world War ii history Battle histories and documentaries. Instead of running present Day Public service ads we would run ones from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s," keenly said. Old recruiting ads will come  he s also thinking about a poetic segment on stealth aircraft there la be no talk just music. You just watch it Fly for six  and he s planning to run a series on the 8th air Force in England in the 1940s called hurry Home Honey. A Coney also intends to cover breaking military news. For an incident like the Jan. 17 shoo Down of an Iraq 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 Blumberg spokeswoman for the National Cable television association said the military Chan Nel 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 Channel s debut and he sees nothing but Victory in the air. Already Cable operators Are calling him he says to make sure they re put on his list. Man awaiting trial reportedly admits to Florida killings Miami a the Man awaiting trial in the 1990 slayings of five Gainesville College students has told investigators details Only the killer would know a news paper 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 in mate 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 s Public defender Rick Parker did not re turn 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. 6 slain in Bronx Valentine s massacre new York up1 in what appeared to be a  s Day massacre six people were found shot to death in a Bronx apartment after police were alerted by an Anonymous caller. Three men and three women ranging in age fro about 17 to 35, were found dead sunday morning lying face Down in the sixth floor apartment living room Allor most shot in the head said officer Kim Royster a police spokeswoman. The victims were described As hispanic but police had no identifications. There were no signs of struggle or burglary in the Mott Haven apartment. The victims All fully clothed were not tied up the officer said. The apartment was not in disarray. The door was open that was How the person who called police knew Royster said. Police got the Anonymous Call about 9 17 a.m., she said. Investigators had. Not yet determined when the shootings occurred. It also was not known if the murders were mob or drug related. Detectives were investigating. Woman receives probation after confessing to arson from wire reports Medford Ore. A woman who admitted setting 26 Brush fires at the Peak of the fire season last summer was sentenced to  Williams 39, pleaded guilty Friday to six counts of  Exchange for her plea judge Loren Sawyer sentenced her to three years probation and ordered her to receive psychological treatment. The reason she came Forward was she was afraid she was going to Hurt someone Deputy District attorney Doug Mcgeary said. She was very scared. Williams started the fires with a cigarette lighter Over a wide area of Jackson county Mcgeary said. All were quickly contained by watchful neigh Borsand firefighters. No one was injured and damages generally were confined to grass fences Trees and Rush Mcgeary said. Addict can keep cello West Palm Beach Fla. A concert cellist who lost her career to crack cocaine addiction does t have to sell her $45,000 cello to pay for he rehabilitation a judge ruled. Circuit judge James Stewart rejected an attempt by Bonnie Rae Hartman s sex husband to be named her guardian As Well As his suggestion that she sell the 200-year-old Carlo Antonio Testore cello. She has not and does not intend to sell that instrument Hartman s attorney Stanley Hyman wrote in court records. Hartman 39, a graduate of the Juilliard school inner York City who a decade ago played on records and in orchestras was released last week from drug treatment program and is living in a Halfway House. She is infected with the aids virus and i indigent but wants to live on her own Hyman said. Hartman s sex husband Joseph Bongiorno jr., double bassist with the new York City opera said his actions were a humanitarian  Man admits to killings Lexington  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 wit the slayings police chief Leroy Pearson said. He could receive the death penalty if convicted. Ricky Douglas Wright 34 Kathleen Vassar right 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 s former Girlfriend. Abc to probe dateline new York 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 sidesaddle 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 . The owners of an Redcar company were charged with Bank fraud and theft for allegedly stealing millions of dollars fro 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 an Susanna Scaretta lost millions of dollars gambling in Atlantic City no. An exact amount was no available. The couple surrendered thursday said feb agent Armando Palmieri. They were arraigned and freed on $500,000 Bond each  
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