European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                7 Page 2 b the stars and stripes monday March 8, 1993blood from a car to Torso i by Craig Martin staff writer Rhein main a Germany Dan identification process in the Thomas Case a do cellular Sample fluid from victims garments taken from her apartment Torso tissue blood from a and car blood from victim s Sisters samples sent to Baden Wurttenberge state criminal Laboratory in Stuttgart Germany where Dan is extracted. 10. The a Ray film is developed to make visible the Bonds pattern which is known As a Dan fingerprint Dan is Cut into hundreds of thousands of pieces by a restriction enzyme a a a is  difference different enzymes Are used. A Ray film is placed next to the membrane to detect the radioactive pattern radioactive probe is bound to the Dan pattern on the membrane  difference different regions of Dan Are probed i the negatively charged Dan fragments Are separated into bands in a gel exposed to a positive charged electric Field. Excess Dan probe is washed off the Dan probe Quot binds to specific Dan sequences on the membrane the Dan band pattern. Is transferred to a Nylon membrane source cent Mart of agnostics court testimony the radioactive Dan probe is prepared Sas w. O. Booher a i investigators examine destruction at he world Trade Center. Authorities investigating the world Trade 4 Center terrorist explosion have found bomb making paraphernalia in a vacant new Jersey apartment believed to have been occupied until last week by an associate of Mohammed a. Salameh the prime suspect sources said saturday. See stories on Page 4. Justice May step Down Justice Byron r. 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A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers 21 action line.20 classifieds.2528 comics .2123 crossword .21 education.12 faces n places. 24 focus. 1720 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. 27 letters. 14 Money matters.16 sports.29-36 to listings .35 i weather.13 sense attorneys in the murder trial of a Rhein main noncommissioned officer sunday called an expert in forensic genetics to counter prosecution testimony saturday that linked blood samples from an a and a car to a burning Torso found in september 1991. Or. Arthur s. Eisenberg a forensic scientist from the Texas College of osteopathic Medicine in fort Worth Texas told a packed courtroom of observers and six jurors that he agreed with test results that identified the Torso found in a Forest near Karlsruhe Germany As the body of Yolanda Pengson. But he termed the a and car test results Quot inconclusive and  Eisenberg testified for the defense during the 10th Day of the court martial trial of air Force tech. Sgt. James Ancell Thomas. Thomas 34, assigned to the 435th civil engr so at Rhein main is charged with premeditated murder and desecration of a Corpse. The Torso identified As Pengson s was found sept. 9,1991, burning in a forested area in Ronau a Small town near Karlsruhe about 62 Miles South of Rhein main. The torsos head and hands were severed and have never been found. Prosecutors say they still Arentt certain where or How Pengson 27, was killed. They believe she was killed on or near Rhein main five Miles South of Frankfurt. Chief prosecutor maj. Ronald Gregory said there were no witnesses and their Case relies solely on circumstantial evidence. Part of that circumstantial evidence relies upon Dan testing done by the staff of or. Werner Pflug a Dan specialist at the Badin Wurttemberge state criminal Laboratory in Stuttgart. Dan or detox ribonucleic acid is the genetic code for living things. The process of identification is commonly called genetic fingerprinting. With the exception of identical twins everyone Edna is different. Dan in every cell of a person s body is the same. Pflug s staff used two different types of tests to identify the Torso and the blood from an a found in Thomas workplace and what Pflug identified As blood from the trunk and Driver s seat of a rental car Thomas rented the weekend Pengson disappeared. A witnesses thursday testified Thomas rented a Ford Sierra from Hertz rental at the Rhein main hotel sept. 6, 1991, and returned it sept. 9,1991. During questioning Eisenberg who has worked with the Fri on Dan issues said he did not agree with a test Pflug Aspin from Page 1 10 bases for closing while the air Force suggested about half a dozen Sites. Despite certain opposition from lawmakers on Capitol Hill whose districts Are affected the closings Are considered crucial to Clinton a plans to Cut $122 billion from defense spending Over the coming years. The Pentagon is also under orders to reduce the number of Active duty personnel from 1.8 million at present to 1.4 million by 1997, and Cut 95,000 civilians from the 1 million no uniformed workers in the defense department. T he sources said the Navy lists include the Mare Island Nava shipyard in Valte used to link the blood on the a and blood found in the rental car to the Torso. He testified that he disagreed because there was an absence of a control test during the identification process. Without this control Eisenberg testified the results of the tests on the a and car Quot. Must be determined to be  it was unclear what constitutes a control test. Pflug testified saturday that the Dan samples were a visual match. To Calif. The Navy training Center and the Navy Hospital in Orlando Fla. The naval aviation depot at Pensacola Fla. The naval station in new London Conn. And the Charleston naval shipyard in Charleston . The sources said the Navy also was expected to target one or More of its so called Home ports located in new York City Ingleside Texas and Mobile Ala. The new York times reported in its sunday editions that California facilities on the list included Mcclellan fab near Sacramento Oakland Navy Supply Center treasure Island Nava station Alameda naval air station Monterey Presidio Long Beach Nava shipyard Tustin Murine air station Eltoro Marine air station and March fab East of los Angeles. Quot in science you cannot rely on what you see Quot Eisenberg testified. You need a control to validate the  the test in question known As per has to do with making a copy of a portion of Dan and amplifying it or making an enlargement of it hundreds of times. Last week Thomas attorneys asked the judge to suppress the Dan evidence saying it was inconclusive and unreliable. However the judge ruled to allow the evidence to be presented to the jury. The trial is expected to resume  from Pago 1 Srebrenick Smullen said. This follows a saturday drop of 27 tons to Srebrenick and Konjevic that according to the associated press landed dose to hungry refugees. When the . Airdrop began critics said it would be difficult for the c-130s to pinpoint drop zones from the High altitudes at which they were flying. Since the operation began March 1, a total of 29 . Aircraft have flown from Rhein main to Airdrop 165.86 tons of meals ready to eat and Medicine in flights to Czerska Zepa Konjevic and Srebrenick Smullen said. There was no information As to where the future Airdrop would be Smullen said