European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes . So turd a. February to. 1993 Kevorkian faces charges of attempted homicide Pontiac Mich. Apr prosecutors weighed murder charges against or. Jack Kevorkian after learning that one of the 15 people who have died with help from the suicide doctor May have tried to Back out at the last moment. A document that a right to life advocate claimed to have found in a Kevorkian associates garbage reports that 70-year-old Hugh Gale panicked after a Carbon monoxide mask was placed Over his face and cried Quot take it off a \ a this document. With him asking the mask be taken off and the mask was continued takes it out of the realm of assisted suicide and puts it into the realm of attempted homicide a Oakland county prosecutor Richard Thompson said thursday at a news conference held with Macomb county prosecutor Carl Marlinga. Kevorkian a attorneys dismissed the possibility that the 64-year-old doctor ignored gales plea to abort the suicide. Quot a Bunch of right Wing Christian nuts again called or. Kevorkian a murderer. Its laughable a attorney Geoffrey Finger said. Gales wife Cheryl who attended his death also disputed the account in the document. He asked Only once to have the mask removed and he later put it Back on Xyz to quoted her As saying. Her phone number is unpublished and she could not be reached for further comment. Earlier in the Day gov. John Engler signed a Law putting a ban on assisted suicide into effect immediately a month earlier than planned. Minutes after the signing in an apparently unrelated move Law enforcement authorities converged on Kevorkian a Royal Oak apartment and searched it. Thompson said investigators found a second corroborating report on gales death. A decision on charges is expected next week after police question Kevorkian and others Marlinga said. Gale was suffering from emphysema and congestive heart disease. He died feb. 15 at his Roseville Home in Macomb county after breathing Gas through a mask attached to a canister. On wednesday Lynn Mills a member of operation Rescue and inc Christian do fens coalition gave prosecutors what they said appears to be the minutes taken from gales death. The document which bears the apparent signature of Kevorkian and three witnesses said that about 45 seconds after Gale turned on the flow of Gas a the patient became flushed agitated breathing deeply saying a take it off a a the mask was removed and Gale calmed Down and wanted to continue according to the document. After about 20 minutes a the mask was replaced Over his nose and Mouth and he again pulled the clip off the crimped  officials Are investigating whether Hugh Gale above tried to Call off a suicide aided by or. Jack Kevorkian. Again Gale became agitated the report said a and immediately after saying a take it off a once again he fell into unconsciousness. The mask was then left in  Kevorkian a lawyer said Gale had full use of his ands and could have taken the mask off himself if he had wanted to. Quot How could or. Kevorkian murder anybody who could put a mask on himself and then take it off a Finger said. Thompson filed murder charges against Kevorkian in each of the first three suicides in which he was involved. But the charges were dismissed by judges who ruled Michigan had no Law against assisted suicide. No charges have been filed in the deaths since then. On thursday the Michigan legislature passed a ban on assisted suicides effective immediately. The Law makes assisting in a suicide a crime punishable by up to four years in prison and a $2,000 Fine. The american civil liberties Union of Michigan plans to Challenge the new Law in court monday Acle executive director Howard Simon said. Defense nominee grilled on talks Washington a president Clinton a Choice for Deputy defense Secretary was questioned thursday Over a report that he participated in Pentagon budget discussions while he was still on the boards of defense companies. William j. Perry disputed the allegation at his confirmation hearing and members of the Senate armed services committee indicated that it was unlikely to impede his appointment. Several members including chairman Sam Nunn d-ga., had warm Praise for him. A defense daily reported earlier in the Day that Perry a member of the Board of United technologies corp. And other private companies participated in budget discussions prior to taking office. Perry who also is a professor at Stanford University said he has worked at the defense department As a special government employee without compensation but purposely avoided the Deputy defense Secretary a office. Quot one has to be careful in a position like that to avoid any conflicts of interest and i think i have been scrupulous in doing that a Perry told the committee. Perry said he has received briefings on the budget issues As the Pentagon works on a military blueprint for the fiscal year beginning oct. 1, but he has not participated in the decisions. Quot i have had to stay away from All decision processes and serve Only As an adviser a he said. Perry said that if he is confirmed he will resign from the company boards on which he serves and sever All financial ties to them. 3 face life terms for fatal carjacking Orlando Fla. Apr three men who stole two vehicles and admitted to killing two men were convicted thursday of violating a new Federal Law on armed carjacking. The shooting deaths As Well As the wounding of a third Man in a Central Florida pasture nov. 29, occurred during the second of two vehicle thefts. The jury deliberated about six hours before agreeing with prosecutors that All the elements of the crime fit the definition of armed carjacking involving violence under the Law adopted in october. The convictions carry mandatory life sentences in Federal prison. The defendants later will be tried in state court for first degree murder and attempted murder. They could face the electric chair. The three defendants Are Jermaine Foster 19 Gerard Booker 22 and Alf Catholic 21. They were convicted on All five counts a conspiracy two counts of armed carjacking involving death and two counts of using a firearm during a felony. The three admitted to the vehicle thefts robbery and killings. But their attorneys argued that the Case belonged in state court not before a Federal jury. The lawyers contended the car theft was an afterthought to robbery and thus not subject to the Law passed after a nationwide carjacking spree last year. William Sheaffer the attorney for Foster the admitted trigger Man said the defense had asked too much of the jurors in differentiating carjacking from robbery and car theft. A we will Appeal the verdicts and let the appellate court interpret the Law for us All a Sheaffer  is leading cause of workplace death in nyc from wire reports new York a homicide accounts for most of the deaths on the Job in new York City a Federal report says. In an analysis of work related fatalities for 199the Federal Bureau of labor statistics found that of the 177 new York City workers who died of injuries suffered on the Job 69 percent were slain. The overwhelming majority were shot to death. Homicides far surpassed other categories As a cause of death in the workplace nearly quadrupling the percentage of the next ranking cause a workers who were struck or fell. That catch Oil accounted for 18 percent of workers killed. Bureau statistics show that transportation accidents made up 7 percent of workplace deaths fires and explosions comprised 2 percent and other causes were blamed for 3  of women restricted san Francisco a a Federal appeals court reversed itself thursday and decided that permitting male prison guards to conduct random body searches of clothed female inmates violates the constitutional ban on Quot cruel and unusual  an 11-judge panel of the . 9th circuit court of appeals voted 7-4 to uphold a lower court ruling that barred the state of Washington from requiring male guards to conduct random searches at the Washington corrections Center for women in gig Harbor. The majority reasoned that because 85 percent of the women at the Center had been the victims of serious sexual abuse the use of male prison guards to conduct the random searches constituted Quot infliction of pain because of their psychological effects on the female inmates. Gun veto loses in House Trenton . A the state Assembly voted thursday after 10 minutes of debate to override gov. James Florio a veto of a Bill that would weaken the states ban on semiautomatic weapons considered the nations toughest. The override measure now goes to the Senate which has its next voting session March .15. The 54-23 override vote was the minimum needed and All supporting votes came from republicans. Flono is a  in a blink Boston a japanese researchers believe they be figured out Why people get tired eyes from staring at computer screens they blink less so their eyes dry out. One solution is Eye drops. But the researchers suggest an easier remedy May be to Tut the screen upward which would Force computer users to look Down rather than straight ahead. In such a position their Eye openings Are smaller and their eyes Day More slowly the researchers say. A the findings were based on observations of 104 office workers. Toie researchers found that people blink 22 times a minute while relaxing 10 times while Reading a Book and seven times while looking at a computer screen. The study was published As a letter in thursdays Issue of the new England journal of  nominee disqualified los Angeles a a foreign film that had been nominated for an Academy award was disqualified thursday. A place in the world was nominated feb 17 As one of the five foreign language films. It was submitted for nomination by Uruguay but the Academy of motion pictures arts and sciences ruled that the film was essentially a product of Argentina. It was the first time that a movie has been barred from the oscars after a nomination. Academy officials said Uruguay did not understand the rules for submission a place in the world was the nation s first submission. Called in Lugar Enel Mundo in Spanish the movie was filmed in 1991 in Argentina directed by an Argentine Adolfo Arist Arain and financed largely by argentines. It was offered to Argentina a National film Institute for nomination to the oscars As Best foreign film. The Institute however backed another film. Arist Arain then offered the film to represent Uruguay because his wife Katy Saavedra is uruguayan and she co wrote the script