European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 24,1993 Clinton mourns death of longtime Friend Foster Little Rock Ark. Apas friends and colleagues gathered for the Mineral of White House Deputy counsel Vincent Foster jr., president Clinton on Friday remembered his longtime Friend As a one of the Ablest and Best people i Ever  Foster 48, died tuesday of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound. His body was discovered in a secluded Park along the Potomac River in the Virginia suburbs. �?o1 Don t think irony of us will Ever know exactly Why his life ended the Way it did Quot Clinton said As he left the White House to Fly to Little Rock. A but today i think that we should All determine not to judge his lire by the Way it ended solely. Quot he was a terrific Friend a great father a great husband and a great lawyer. He was one of the Ablest and Best people i Ever knew in my life. That s what makes this Day the More painful. A but we have to accept the fact that there Are Many things we re not in control of Many things we done to understand. And we have to be grateful for what his life was. A a a Clinton was accompanied on air Force one by a larger than usual contingent of passengers including attorney general Janet Reno Arkansas Sens. Dale bumpers and David Pryor White House chief of staff Thomas a a Mack Mclarty White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum other top Justice department and White House officials and friends of Fosters. The president was joined in Little Rock by his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea. A dozens of mourners were turned away from St. Andrews Cathedral after it was filled to capacity. Foster the father of three was to be buried in his Hometown of Hope Ark., after the funeral in Little Rock where he once was a Law partner with Hillary Clinton. A a Clinton a Friendship with Foster goes Back 42 years when they. A along with Mclarty a attended kindergarten in Hope. Investigators talked to Foster s colleagues on thursday and supervised a search of his office As they tried to confirm a preliminary conclusion that he committed suicide. The . Park police inquiry is not addressing the question of what might have motivated Foster to take his life. However a Justice department spokesman said that is part of the department s investigation. Asked Friday about the investigation Clinton said a a it a just a Normal routine thing that would be done. I done to think anything s going to come out of it other than what you already know. Ass John Boho changing Tough air Force staff sgt. Jeffery Carmouche of the 36th Security police so at Pitburg a Germany makes his Way across the Monkey bars Friday during peacekeeper Challenge at the base. The Competition among Security police serving in the . Air forces in Europe will determine the commands Nln participants in the air forces worldwide contest at Kirtland fab n.m., in  City official Dies after Beer Keg explodes Heerlen Netherlands apr police Friday were investigating the explosion of a Beer Keg in City Hall which Kil Leaone person and injured two others. The explosion occurred thursday night As City official Frans Van Der Leuten was fastening the tap in preparation for party for renovation workers said police spokesman Jos Koevoet. A it wreaked havoc a said Koevoet. A the lid blasted off toward the ceiling striking the Man. He had of course been standing Over it with his nose practically on the thing and died on  two bystanders a construction worker and his son were hospitalized with facial injuries. . Inspectors arrive in Iraq offer Baghdad agrees to checks Baghdad Iraq apr . Inspectors arrived Friday to Check nuclear Sites after Baghdad agreed to Long term monitoring of its weapons programs to avoid another showdown with the West. The 15-member inspection team also will prepare for an Airlift of about 86 pounds of nuclear fuel to Russia in an Effort to prevent a revival of Baghdad a nuclear weapons program team Leader Maurizio Zifferer said. Zifferer Deputy director of the United nations in to emotional atomic. Energy Agency said the Airlift will Start in september and last until March. Such cargo had been transported by ship in the past. But . Officials overseeing the destruction of iraqis nonconventional weapons said a special plane was being adapted to guard against radiation leakage even in the event of a crash. Another team of . Inspectors planned to leave new York for Baghdad on Friday with surveillance cameras for two missile testing Sites Yam Al Azim and Al Rajah 45 Miles South of Baghdad. Baghdad a initial refusal to permit the cameras into the Sites provoked the threat of Western military action. Foreign minister Mohammed said Al Sahaf said thursday he hoped iraqis approval of the monitoring plan would help ease crippling economic sanctions imposed after iraq�?Ts1990 invasion of Kuwait. But Rolf ekes head of the . Special commission charged with eliminating iraqis weapons of mass destruction said he amid not recommend that sanctions be eased. A the problem in Iraq is that you done to really Trust them a he told lbs news on Friday. A you Are suspicious and you have reason to be  ekes added that he was not satisfied that Iraq had been stripped of its capacity to produce Long Range missiles despite its agreement to have the two disputed test Sites monitored. Under a Compromise reached last weekend the Cam Cras it wont be used until after High level . Discussions beginning in August ekes told the Security Council on thursday. Until then Iraq will notify the United nations in Advance of All test firings so that inspectors could be present he said during the closed session briefing in new  athlete pleads to ration card sales by Mark k1nkade staff writer Hanau Germany a the military career of a leading female basketball player in the army in Europe lies in shambles after she pleaded guilty thursday to Selling ration cards. But the plea could secure her an honorable discharge and an easier move to civilian life. Staff sgt. Brenda Myers 32, of the 548th Light equipment Maint co in Hanau pleaded gun Ltd to charges that she conspired with a former Soldier now living in Germany to sell 30 ration cards for $3,000 to the wife of a Hanau Soldier. Myers was sentenced by judge it. Col. Larty Vick to 45 Days confinement forfeiture of $500 for one month and reduction to the lowest enlisted Grade. The sentence Means Myers May stay in the army for a while and wont have a bad conduct discharge if v corps approves the sentence. However her career in the military is ruined according to her defense counsel. A but at least she can have a Chance when she is a civilian because she wont have to Era lain a bad conduct discharge a said Charles White a civilian attorney in Frankfurt. Myers has been a fixture on Hanau based basketball teams since 1990. In 1993, she was named the Best female basketball player for the 104th area support group headquartered in Hanau. Each support group in Germany selected a top player. Myers a native of demine n.m., was arrested and charged Jan. 23 after army investigators found six ration cards at her borne. She signed an affidavit that detailed her involvement in the ration card scheme. Specifically Myers a agreed to sell the cards for Shunte Gleason Humphreys a former army administrative specialist stationed in Mann heirs. In her statement Myers said she and Gleason Humphreys had been friends since they played basketball against each other in Community games in 1990. Gleason Humphreys left the service in 1991. Myers said Gleason Humphreys approached her in september and asked if she knew anyone willing to buy Blank ration cards. Myers agreed to try to sell the cards. In Exchange she would receive two ration cards for each 10 she sold. A sold 30 cards to Hannelore Cobb the German wife of an american Soldier in Hanau. Myers said in her statement that she made three transactions from september to december with Cobb. Myers gave Gleason Humphreys All the Money from the sales and was Given six Blank ration cards As payment for her services. Gleason Humphreys apparently stole the Blank cards from the Mannheim Community when she left the army White said. Gleason Humphreys who has lived in Germany since leaving the army was tend in a German court and received probation White said. Ration card offences violate the status of forces agreement that governs tax issues involving . Forces in Germany. Cobb also was tried in German court a v corps spokesman told the stars and stapes. But the spokesman said he did t know where the trial was held or what were the results. During the trial Myers said a there was no excuse for what she did. Her com Mander capt. Dorian Livingston testified on Myers behalf saying she would Welcome the Chance to supervise her again. The court also admitted to the record the written testimony of Myers first sergeant sgt. 1st Gass Levi Harris who asked the court for leniency for her. Vick rendered his sentence after Myers took the stand to give an unworn statement in which she detailed her background and 12-year army career her family of 10 Brothers and Sisters her disabled father and life in her Small southwestern town. White argued in closing statements that Myers admission of guilt was the first step toward rehabilitation and that keeping her in the army would prove a Good example to Young soldiers. A they will see her doing labor around the Post and remember what could Hap men. White argued. A that will prove to e a deterrent to  under the uniform code of military Justice Myers could have received a Baa conduct discharge six months confinement loss of two thirds of her pay Forsa months and reduction to the lowest enlisted Grade