European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes . Sunday february 28, 1993 off to the frigid zone men and women of the Virginia air National guard Board an air Force c-5 Galaxy transport thursday Enro Ute to Battle Griffin 93, a nato exercise North of the Arctic Circle. Some 170 air National guardsmen and eight of their f-16 fighters will participate in the two week exercise based at Norway s Andora Island. Witness says King begged . To Stop los Angeles a a woman and Man testify ing in Public for the first time said Friday they saw police beating and kicking a compliant Rodney g. King. The woman said King screamed out please Stop Dorothy Gibson broke Down in tears after recalling the violent scene she saw from her apartment Patio on March 3,1991. He did t do anything Gibson said of King. He was just dodging blows. He was on the ground. It seemed i heard him scream out please Stop " can you approximate How Many times the officers struck the Man with their Sticks assistant . Attorney Barry Kowalski asked. So Many times i could t Tell Gibson said. She also said she saw the officers Hogtie King and drag him to the Side of the Road. Then she said she heard the policemen talking and laughing. Defense lawyers suggested in Cross examination that Gibson was too far away to see anything clearly an had embellished her account from watching a video tape of he beating. But she said she had never seen the tape because she did t want to look at the scene again. I saw that when was standing on my Patio not on videotape she said. Gibson lived in the apartment below that of George Holliday the Amateur cameraman who shot the video tape that has been broadcast worldwide. Three White policemen sgt. Stacey c. Koon and offi cers Lawrence m. Powell and Theodore j. Briseno and fired officer Timothy e. Wind Are charged with Violat ing the Black Motorist s civil rights. The four were acquitted last year of almost All state charges of excessive Force in verdicts that sparked deadly riots. If convicted on Federal charges the officers face a maximum penalty of $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison. In a related development a judge agreed to delay by two weeks to March 30 the Start of a trial of three Blacks charged with attempted murder in the attack nonwhite trucker Reginald Denny who was beaten in the hours after the officers acquittals. In a pretrial hearing Superior court judge John  also hinted he might delay the trial even longer to give attorneys More tune to prepare. In the King beating trial Robert Hill testified he Wason his Way Home to the same apartment building the night of the beating. He said he parked got out of his car and saw the beating from about 30 Yards away. They were striking or. King. He screamed and yelled Hill said. He also said he never saw King attack the officers recalled seeing King hogtied and taken away in an ambulance and heard the officers standing around kind of laughing and  Hill s memory also was challenged by the defense on Cross examination. Both witnesses had appeared before a grand jury in the Case but were not called to testify in the state Case. Navy suspect had Gay sex sources say san Diego a a Navy Man accused of killing a shipmate in Japan had engaged in homosexual acts himself with other sailors possibly including the victim according to newspaper reports. In a six Page sworn statement a Sailor who served on the amphibious assault ship Belleau Wood said he and the suspect airman apprentice Terry a Helvey had homosexual relations twice sources told the san Diego Union Tribune. A senior naval official at the Pentagon said Helvey 20, had also had homosexual relations with Seaman Allen Schindler the shipmate Helvey is accused of murdering the Union Tribune reported Friday. The newspaper did not identify its sources by name and said the sources would not identify the Sailor who gave the statement. The new York times in saturday editions reported that Navy officials Are sceptical of the new affidavit. The times quoted a defense department official As saying that Sailor had failed a lie Detector test. Schindler 22, a radioman on the kill eau Wood was awaiting an administrative discharge after declaring his homosexuality when he was beaten to death oct. 27 in a Public rest room near the Sasco naval base in Japan. Helvey is scheduled to be court Martiale april 17 in Yokosuka Japan. Schindler s death has become a rallying Point Forgay rights activists who say it shows the level of Homo phobia that exists in the military the Union Tribune quoting an unidentified senior naval officer at the Pentagon said the new information surfaced after the Marine corps Captain prosecuting Helvey began interviewing potential court martial wit Nesses. In the process of conducting interviews with these witnesses numerous people indicated that Helvey had engaged in homosexual acts including some with Schindler he said. Maria Stevens acting director of Public policy for the Washington based National Gay and lesbian task Force expressed scepticism thursday when told about the new development. Liven if the military is accurate which they have no history of in these cases the military attitudes which Foster this self loathing contributed to the violence she said Man in rubber Nixon mask pulls off Bank robbery f from wire reports Bloomington Minn. A Man wearing rubber Richard Nixon mask robbed a Bank in this Minneapolis suburb and police suspect he is half Ofa duo that has used politicians masks in 31 Bank robberies since 198j the robber armed with a semiautomatic pistol ordered everyone in Norwest corp. To freeze. He demanded Cash and fled in a getaway car that had been stolen the Fri said. Just blocks away he switched to another stole car and disappeared. The Fri declined to say How much Money was taken. Police say two men have worn masks of Ronald Reagan and Michael Dukakis during heists from suburban Chicago into Wisconsin since 1985. The duo apparently started robbing Banks in1985, stopped after two robberies then started again in 1990, said Larry Mefford Bank robbery supervisor for the of Dos Minneapolis office. Authorities believe 25 of the robberies took place in the Chicago area and six in Wisconsin the most recent in la Crosse on feb. 4. Mefford said he believes the duo moved to Minnesota because Chicago authorities have Beeton their Trail. Americans love labradors new York America s favorite dog is the Labrador retriever followed by the Rottweiler an the Cocker Spaniel. That s according to the american Kennel club the nation s leading dog authority which issued its list thursday of the 10 most popular dogs i America. The list is based on the number of acc purebred puppies registered in 1992.  s fourth most popular Breed is the German Shepherd and no. 5 is the poodle. The res of the list includes in order of preference Golden retriever Beagle Dachshund and Shetland sheepdog. The Chow ranked 10th on the acc list. Candy machine kills Man Philadelphia a worker at a Philadelphia Candy factory was killed when his head was caught in a Candy stretching  say Ernest Drummnond 32, was working at the Falcon Candy co when the Accident happened shortly before noon thursday. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he was pronounced dead Man escapes Freak Accident Denver a 180,000-Pound beam fell off truck and flattened Thomas Monroe s car but he Felt Lucky. I think i m going to go buy a couple of lotto tickets said Monroe who was t injured. Monroe was driving on interstate 25 on thursday night when he started to pass a tractor trailer hauling the Concrete i beam. I was driving along and the Doggone thin started falling right Over he said. Monroe said he crawled out of his car through a crack Between the window and the car. New Columbia liftoff set Cape canaveral Fla. Nasa said Friday that it will try to launch space shuttle Columbia on a Laboratory research Mission March 14, More than two weeks late because of confusion Over engine parts. Columbia s nine Day German space lab Mission Isth second of eight shuttle flights planned this year. Liftoff would be at 10 . Est. Shuttle managers had been aiming for liftoff this week. But Nasa discovered earlier this month that workers for engine maker rocket Dyne a division of Rockwell International May have installed the wrong seat retainers on shuttle liquid . Because of a Lack of documentation Nasa was forced to replace Columbia s three oxygen Turbo pumps at the launch pad. It turns out the pumps had the right Seal retainers after All. Discovery s atmospheric research flight no targeted for Early april is running More than a week late As a result of the equipment mix up