European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago. 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday july 24,1963 Senate kills Patent bid for rebel Flag insignia Washington tap the Senate refused thursday to Grant the United daughters of the confederacy a renewed Patent on an insignia featuring the e Confederate Flag. The vote came after the chamber s Only Black member called the Flag a cruel reminder that Blacks were once Quot human chattel Quot in America. The Senate initially approved the Courtesy measure a As it has in the past a on a vote of 52-48 when sen. Jesse Helms . Offered it As an amendment to president Clinton s National service legislation. But the chamber reversed itself and killed the amendment on a 75-25 vote after an emotional debate thursday. Quot i would like to put a stake through the heart of this Dracula a said sen. Carol Moseley Braun d-ill., whose indignant stand against the Helms amendment swayed the votes of other senators. Helms was trying to reverse a Senate judiciary committee action May 6 that he said Quot was the result of a Good Faith  members of the panel refused to renew the groups 95-year-Otd Patent after Moseley Braun the first Black woman in the Senate objected. The Confederate stars and bars the original Confederate Flag is at the Center of the insignia sur rounded by a broken Gold ring. The Patent quietly won a 14-year Extension from the Senate last year As did those accorded several other similar organizations including the United daughters the sons of Union veterans and the daughters of Union veterans. But the Bill got left behind with other unfinished business when the House adjourned for the year. Quot there a not an evil member of the Udo Quot Helms said in arguing for the Patent renewal. Quot there a not a member of the Udo that wants to pick a fight with anybody.�?�. But Moseley Braun her voice breaking at times said the Issue was Quot whether or not americans such As myself. Will have to suffer the indignity of being reminded time and time again that at one Point in this country a history we were human chattel we were property we could be traded bought and  Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin the grandson of a Confederate army surgeon initially voted with Helms but changed his vote. Heflin said his ancestors Quot thought what they were doing was right but we Are living today in a different world. We must get racism behind us and we must move  trapped Man chose life in cutting off leg Punxsutawney a. Apr a Man who relied on guts and the Blade of his pocketknife to amputate his Teg and free himself from beneath a fallen tree said he chose the Only option he had. Quot it was a terrible ordeal that i had to go through being trapped in the Woods Quot Donald Wyman said thursday. I had a life and death situation and that was my Only Choice a life or death. I have so much to live for that i did the Only thing i could a chose  the 37-year-old construction worker was wheeled into a Hospital cafeteria to speak publicly for the first time about the harrowing incident. Clad in pyjamas he sat in a wheelchair a Pink Blanket hiding his legs. Wyman spoke for less than 45 seconds and did not take questions. His wife Janet and 17-Ycar-old son Brian accompanied him. Wyman became trapped tuesday while collecting Wood to build his House. A huge log rolled onto his Shin in a secluded area. He spent about an hour shouting for help before deciding that head have to remove the Bottom of his leg or die in the Woods. After freeing himself Wyman crawled several Hundred feet to a Bulldozer drove it to his truck and then drove two Miles to a farm twisting a makeshift Tourniquet on his severed limb with a wrench. The Farmer drove Wyman to meet an ambulance that took him to Punxsutawney Hospital. Firefighters had to saw through the 2tt-foot-thick tree to recover the leg. The severed limb arrived in the emergency room about 30 minutes after Wyman. The surgeon Quot determined that the limb was not suitable for re implantation. Surgery was performed to address the amputated site a said or. Franklin Bizousky who runs the emergency room. A Hospital spokesman said Wyman is in fair condition on a Quot positive Road to  Wyman said he appreciates the Public a concern and apologized for not speaking publicly sooner. Quot yesterday i Wasny to up to much of anything a Wyman said. Donald Wyman holds hands with his wife Janet in Punxsutawney a on thursday As he explains How he amputated Bis leg to free himself from a fallen tree. Drugs alcohol also cited in beaten Man s death Detroit apr blows to the head combined with cocaine and alcohol caused the death of a Motorist allegedly beaten to death by police a pathologist testified thursday. # Oakland county chief medical examiner or. Ljubisa Dragovic said blows to the head could not have been the sole cause of death for malice Green even though an autopsy said that was the reason. Dragovic a defense witness said his review of autopsy materials showed no swelling of Green s brain a a finding he said would be essential to show Green died from Blunt Force trauma. A if there is no such thing then that mechanism of death is out a he testified thursday. Quot you have to offer another reason. To show Why this Man  Green 35, died nov. 5 after a confrontation with plainclothes police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Mudzyn. Nevers and Budzyn Are charged with second degree murder and face up to life in prison if convicted. Their trials Are being heard simultaneously before separate juries. The autopsy was prepared by Kali Tiraki Wayne county a assistant medical examiner. It showed Green died of at least 14 blows to the head in a beating that Tore off part of his Scalp. Photographs and tissue showed that greens brain was bruised Dragovic said. But he said i Raki a autopsy was incomplete and his conclusion wrong. The death he said was caused by the combined effects of cocaine alcohol and the bruising which together brought on a fatal seizure. A toxicology report showed Green had both alcohol and cocaine in his  arrests two others linked to . Bomb plot from wire reports Newark n j. A the Fri has arrested two More people in a plot to blow up the United nations and other new York City landmarks officials said. The arrests bring the number of suspects in custody to 12. The two suspects were identified As Mata Rawi Mohammed Saleh 44, and Ashraf Mohammed 31. They were arrested thursday night at a beachfront Motel in North Wildwood said James c. Esposito head of the Fri office in Newark. They were to be arraigned Friday. Sateh has been a fugitive since he was charged in the terrorist conspiracy the Fri said. Mohammed was being held pending charges of harbouring a Federal fugitive. Eight Muslim fundamentalists were arrested june 24 after Federal agents raided a new York City Safe House where five suspects were mixing explosives officials said. The Meff were accused of plotting to bomb the United nations the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and a Federal building housing the Fri. A ninth suspect was arrested june 30 in Philadelphia. And an indictment july 14 added one of the men already under arrest in the feb. 26 world Trade Center bombing to the  conviction parked Annapolis my. A Maryland a highest court has thrown out the conviction of a Man sentenced for being parked while intoxicated saying that no such crime exists. The Maryland court of appeals ruled unanimously wednesday that an intoxicated person sitting in a parked vehicle May not be convicted of Drunken driving. Judge Howard s. Chasanow writing for the court said the states Drunken driving Laws sought to prevent intoxicated people from posing dangerous risks with their vehicles. The ruling came in the Case of Boyce c. Atkinson of Bunnell Fla. Atkinson was arrested by a Harford county sheriff s Deputy and charged with driving under the influence in 1992. Atkinsons jeep was parked on the shoulder of . 40, and he was asleep in his vehicle with the key in the  tied to Coal dispute Lund ale . A a nonunion Coal mining subcontractor was killed thursday in an apparent strike related shooting state police said. Eddie York 35, was shot once in the head As he drove from the slab Fork mine near Arch of West Virginia a Ruffner mine said trooper Ric Robinson. York was a subcontractor with Duskins contracting a nonunion company that a working at the two mines he said. The United mine workers have been on strike since May 10, a week after a 60-Day contract Extension expired. The Union says the strike centers on Job Security. The strike has been expanded several times and the Union says about 16,000 miners Are on strike in seven  draws suspension Palm Beach Fla. A an air traffic controller who fell asleep and forced a jetliner to land without guidance has been suspended without pay for 20 Days. Rodney Tatum s suspension ordered by the Federal aviation administration is set to begin aug. 26. But a spokesman for the National air traffic controllers association said an Appeal was Likely. Tatum 36, was found dozing and shoeless a gun cleaning kit nearby while working Solo on a Midnight shift april 29 at Palm Beach International Airport. A Delta air lines Jet with 42 passengers landed without guidance and other planes were unable to get a response from the  launch planned Cape canaveral.  said thursday it was ready to try again this morning to launch the space shuttle discovery on a nine aay flight. A launch attempt last saturday was stopped with less than an hour to go because of a faulty electronic switch in a system that frees the bolted Down spacecraft from the launch pad. Nasa has replaced the switch. The launch is scheduled for 9 27 . Edt today