European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 b the stars and stripes . Saturday March 6,1993 lesbian officer in of loses Chance to Block discharge san Angelo Texas up a supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia on thursday denied a motion by a lesbian officer at Goodfellow fab to Block efforts to discharge her because of her sexual orientation. As the decision was issued in Washington an air Force administrative discharge hearing for 1st it Heidi do Jesus 26, began at the san Angelo base. Do Jesus faces discharge because of her relationship with an enlisted woman at the base. She filed a Federal lawsuit in december challenging the military s ban on homosexuals. De Jesus is a logistics and safety officer assigned to the base s transportation Squadron. She was stripped of her top secret clearance after military officials monitored her off base apartment last summer. The surveillance found that de Jesus was having a relationship with airman 1st class Laura Little 22, a Security police guard. At the san Angelo hearing de Jesus told a Board of inquiry that she was proud to have served in the air Force. She said that before coming to Goodfellow she served at Fairchild fab near Spokane wash., for 14 months and won an achievement medal from her superiors. Air Force attorneys presented affidavits from Little about her relationship with de Jesus a base official said. A tether affidavit from a . Border patrolman said he had known de Jesus and her sexual orientation base spokesman capt. Mike Murk said. The air Force told the Board de Jesus had maintained an unprofessional relationship with an enlisted member. The hearing was to continue Friday. The Board Only has the authority to make recommendations and a decision will be made by the Secretary of the air Force Murk said. Bear hug two Polar bears get Friendly while enjoying a morning Bucu Cirque . will be moving to a new a swim in the Sun recently at the Rio Grande zoo in Al City later this year. A a a Gay Sailor says he was threatened by Navy Chicago up a a homosexual Sailor being questioned in a shipmates beating death in Japan said he was pressured to identify other Gay sailors a report said thursday. 1 the Sailor said he was questioned about his diary and threatened with sodomy charges if he did not name other Gays the Chicago Tribune said. Seaman Charles David Malcolm told the newspaper 4hat his diary for 1992 disappeared when he was taken off the amphibious assault snip Belleau Wood on Jan. Two weeks ago an agent for the naval criminal investigative service questioned him about two sex acts with another Belleau Wood Sailor he described in the diary he said. The investigator asked Malcolm to name other Gay sailors on the ship saying there was enough evidence to charge him with sodomy. A i told her a its none of your business. In a not going to help you go on a Witch Hunt a Malcolm said. Malcolm is a chaplain s assistant from California. After Seaman Allen Schindler was slain he faked his own beating to get off the Belleau Wood he said. He was being detained in Legal hold in Yokosuka Japan for making a false statement. Schindler was beaten up in a Park in Casebo Japan. Airman apprentice Terry Helvey 21, of Westland mich., was charged with murder and is scheduled to be court Martiale next month. Boy who Cut off hand sues parents for letting him use saw Newport news. A. Up a 16-Ycar-old boy who Cut off his hand last year while working with a Cir Cutar saw is suing his parents for $2 million claiming a violated child la. A tool. They violated child labor Laws by letting him use the David Clinkinbeard s lawsuit filed in circuit court noted that Virginia a child labor Law states no child under 18 shall be a permitted or suffered to work or operate a any circular saw band saw or Guillotine doctors reattached Clinkinbeard a hand after he had sawed it off in january 1992 while earning $4 an hour helping remodel a Friend so biome. Clinkinbeard a attorney Leonard Heath jr., said he filed the lawsuit after he spoke with the boys Mother about Legal options for her son. Thursday s daily press reported Clinkinbeard a parents knew about the lawsuit before the Bov filed it. Y Heath would not comment on whether the parents have insurance that might cover the Accident and has a instructed David not to speak with the press right Basra gets 322 years in prison from wire reports # los Angeles a rapist who sometimes impersonated a police officer to approach his victims was sentenced thursday to 322 years in prison the maximum possible. Wayne Taira 33, was convicted on 43 counts in a 1986-87 crime spree in Southern California involving n Superior judge John Ouderkirk said he levied the most severe penalty to ensure Taira a will never victimize any of these women again or their children grandchildren or great grandchildren. Prosecutors said Taira approached victims As they walked or jogged and sometimes showed a fake police badge or a real gun to get closer to them. Taira a labourer originally from los Angeles a charged after being arrested in Oregon. His California sentence will Start after he serves a 50-year sentence in Oregon where he pleaded guilty to robbery and kidnapping in two sexual inspection tightened Washington a the agriculture department is tightening inspection regulations to prohibit the slightest speck of focal matter on processed beef a step taken to prevent new outbreaks of food poisoning. The action comes after at least two children died and 475 people fell ill this year As a result of an e. Coli bacteria poisoning outbreak linked to hamburgers at Jack in the Box restaurants in the Pacific Northwest. A third child also died of e. Coli complications but the source of her infection has not been determined. A department memo that was sent this week to meat inspectors and Plant operators noted a the urgency of the present situation with e. it said no level of contamination by fees or undigested food would be allowed on carcasses or Boneless beef. The memo also said All contamination with fees milk or undigested food must be Cut from the carcass before it Oan be washed. Previously inspectors could try to Hose off contamination. But critics said the water pressure could imbed the contaminated material in the carcass. Fees milk and undigested food can carry e. Coli bids to halt casinos Phoenix a the Arizona House passed a at wide Casino gambling ban thursday giving gov. Fife Symington the Legal ammunition he sought to fight the spread of federally sanctioned Indian gambling. The move was the latest example of backlash against a Federal Law implemented last year that has spurred construction or plans for big reservation casinos in several states. More than a dozen lawsuits have been filed challenging the Law. Doug Cole Symington a press Secretary said the governor planned to sign the Bill Friday. The legislation would ban All Casino Type gambling in Arizona including Charity Casino night Quot fund raising events. The idea is to Stop the spread of reservation casinos under the Federal Law which allows Indian tribes to offer any kind of gambling that a allowed in the state. The tribes have argued successfully in court that because the state allows Casino style gambling at Charity fund raising events it May not prohibit similar games on the porn raids begin Miami a about 300 customs service agents Ana other Law enforcement officials served 31 search warrants in 15 states and 30 cities thursday in the states pornography crackdown in the United the crackdown on three High tech computerized operations based in Denmark was part of a yearlong undercover customs investigation known As operation Longaro that began in Miami. I Here were no arrests thursday. But the evidence elected could produce criminal charges customs spokesman Michael Sheehan said. Search warrants were served in California Connecticut Georgia Florida Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri Montana new Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Virginia and Washington state. Sheehan said it was the first Long term lcs10ni0 specifically target the illegal importation distribution Sale and use of High no orgy exchanges of child pornography through computer bulletin boards. V y h
