European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 5,1993 17th suicide is witnessed by Kevorkian Detroit apr. Jack Kevorkian Wass resent wednesday when an ailing Man in his of committed suicide Kevorkian s attorney  Michael Schwartz said the Man was suffering from Amy trophic lateral sclerosis also known As Lou Gehrig s disease. The Man inhaled Carbon monoxide in Kevorkian s presence Schwartz said. The suicide was the 17th carried out in Kevorkian s presence since 1990. Before wednesday the most recent was May 16. Schwartz said he had soother information on the Man s identity or details of the death. Detroit police were on the scene on Belleisle a Detroit River Island. Police officer Rhoda Vir Gil Madison said officers were called to Belle Isle at9 50 . By a person who Kevorkian reported finding the Bod of a Man inside a Van. Virgil Madison said she had no other  year a state Law that makes assisting Sui cide a felony was passed in response to Kevorkian. On May 20, the Law was struck Down Asun constitutional in Wayne county circuit court but it was reinstated by an appeals court in june. It faces further  the two most recent deaths Kevorkian s attorneys have said he was present during the suicides rather than assisting them. Kevorkian a re tired pathologist helped an Oregon woman commit suicide in 1990 and since has crusade for doctor assisted suicide for some terminally ill people. Als is a degenerative disease of the nerve cells that control movement of Muscles. It is popularly known for Gehrig the new York Yankee baseball player who died of the disease in 1941. 27 in Berlin stolen from office by sue Harper staff writer roughly 270 tickets to a National football league game in Berlin were stolen tuesday night from the enjoy Tours office in Kaiserslautern Germany company spokesman Jim Heilman said wednesday the stolen tickets were reserved by people who retaking a tour package to Berlin to see the game be tween the Minnesota Vikings and the Buffalo Bills at 7p.m. Saturday. Enjoy Tours customers still will get into the game Heilman said. Just what enjoy Tours the Frankfurt Galaxy and the Berlin ticketing Agency will do Possi Bly reprinting tickets or making up special passes was not decided by deadline. Another problem not resolved immediately was How authorities and the nil will handle people who acquired stolen tickets and thai urme to the game. Heilman said he was particularly concerned about the Block n Section of the stadium. Block n seats which Are closest to the 50-Yard line Are sold  took approximately 100 Block n tickets rep resenting the largest portion of tickets stolen in the  Block a the tickets stolen were Row 18 seats 1 through 11 Row 19 seats 1-5, 20 8-17, 21 1-17, 22 1-17,23 5-9, 24 1-15,33 1-8,34 to 16 4-5. In Block 4, Row 21 3-4,22 1-18,23 1-18,24 1-15,25 1-6. In Block 24, row24 25-29,261-30,271-30,28 my. An estimated additional 17 tickets for Block 23 also were stolen but the numbers were not available at press time. Also not available were the numbers of about eight seats in Block j for which tickets were Sto  theft was discovered when enjoy employees found a busted water pipe on the office s second floor Balcony around 8 . Wednesday Heilman said. The burglars broke the water pipe while climbing onto the second floor Balcony. They then entered the second floor office where the tickets were kept by Jimm Yingtse Balcony window open. Enjoy Tours is offering a $600 Reward for information leading to the arrest of the thieves or recovery of the tickets. Enjoy Tours phone number is 0631-70022. Christopher holds folks in Lebanon Nahlah Lebanon a Secretary of state War Ren m. Christopher arrived in the country wednesday for talks on Mideast peace following Israel s Weelon bombardment of Lebanon based guerrillas. Christopher was met at the syrian lebanese Border by lebanese foreign minister fans Bueiz and . Ambas Sador Ryan c. Crocker. Christopher s 13-car motorcade then drove behind motorcycles with wailing sirens to pres ident Elias Herawi s red tiled Stone mansion. Christopher made no statement to the Media As he went into closed door talks with Herawi prime minister Rafik Hariri parliament speaker Nabih Berri and Bueiz. Christopher s trip comes four Days after he brokered cease fire that ended a furious week of rocket and artillery duels in Southern Lebanon Between the Israel army and iranian backed guerrillas with Hezbollah or party food. The attacks left 147 people dead and 496 wounded and forced half a million civilians to flee their Homes in South Lebanon. The fighting had threatened continuation of the Middle East peace process. But at a news conference earlier wednesday in dam ascus Syria Christopher declared that the process was Back on track. Christopher said that he and president Hafez Assad agreed Progress is achievable but that much much hard work is  Christopher appeared before reporters with Syria foreign minister Farouk Sharaa who said the syrians feel somewhat optimistic that Christopher s visit Willet the peace process moving. Syria is the main Power broker in Lebanon where Damascus maintains some 35,000 troops. New rules relieve woes of natural Gas users  Northern Italy Bureau Aviano a Italy a program Taviano Affek taking the heat off Ameri can users of natural Gas and freeing the from paying huge Security deposits. Before the program took effect Sun Day members of Aviano s american Mili tary Community who used natural Gas for Home heating had to pay 500,000 lire about $312 Security Deposit to the local Gas company plus pay a 19-percent tax on their Gas Bills. Now thanks to a three month Initia Tive by a team from the base s Legal mor ale welfare recreation and support staffs natural Gas users no longer Nave to pay the Deposit. In addition they will save 15percent on their Gas Bills and defer their payments. The end to paying Security deposits and the 15 percent value added tax was brought about because Gas company officials will no longer Bill individuals who belong to the american military Community. Instead the officials will Bill the air Force s 401st morale welfare recreation and services so which is entitled total Relief in Italy because it is a . Government entity. Mars officials will charge customers4 percent on their Gas Bills to offset administrative costs connected with Servic ing the accounts said Colin Lennon Mars chief of resource management. Under the arrangement customers can make monthly payments to Mars to offset Large Winter Gas Bills. The program also features a deferred payment plan enabling customers to take up to six months to pay Large Bills. As Many As 500 families who live off base and use natural Gas would be Eligi ble for the program said air Force it. Col. Guy r. Vanderman Deputy com Mander of Aviano s 401st support group. Other off base houses Are heatedly Oil Central heating or kerosene space Heaters. Aviano an hour s drive Northeast of Venice has Damp and cold Winters and Many area Homes and apartments preheated by natural Gas piped from Russia. A single Gas company serves the Avian area. The air base at the foot of the ital Ian Alps has no base housing and Only limited dormitory space. We had some hard cases of people arriving at Aviano in the fall and being hit around Christmas with initial Bills including the Security Deposit of $1,000. The horror stories people heard about those big Bills absolutely turned them off probe continues by Chuck Roberts staff writer Darmstadt Germany German authorities continue to investigate six men who along with an air Force nurse May have smuggled weapons to former Yugoslavia a spokesman for the Darmstadt District at Torney said tuesday. The men were involved in a february search by Ger Man and . Military investigators in which weapons a Ere found in a Wiesbaden Germany residence. The names of the men will not be released unless charges Are filed said District attorney spokesman Georg balls. The men Are either croatians or bosnian.  renting houses and apartments heated by natural Gas Vanderman said. Refunds will be Given to tenants who paid deposits to the Gas company. Similar programs for tax Relief on other heating fuels have been in effect for some time at Aviano and other . Installations in Italy. At Vicenza also in Northern Italy negotiations Are under Way to obtain tax re Lief for the . Military s natural Gas customers said Mark Oswald chief of Civi Law for the . Army s Southern euro Pean task Force. There Are eight different Gas Compa Nies serving the Vicenza area and we have to negotiate with each one he said. The Gas company serving the Cam Darby area in Northwestern Italy is Grant ing tax Relief on natural Gas to tenants . Government leased housing he said. Croats. But balls said he did t know their exact origin. Those under investigation live in the German cities of Frankfurt Wiesbaden and Babenhausen. They have remained free since they were released by German authorities without bail. We have found very Little evidence Here. We believe most of this military equipment had already been ship Ped to the former Yugoslavia balls said. I have to admit we do not have a Good overview on the scope of the illegal Trade that was going  charges could involve smuggling rifles machine guns binoculars Rifle Scopes and other military paraphernalia to the former Yugoslavia balls said 99 we Don t have enough evidence to hold them i custody and we Don t think there s any danger of them eeg the country balls said. All of them have fam Ilies and jobs in Germany. Therefore we released them without  air Force capt. Anka Cosic a former charge nurse assigned to the 7100th combat support Wing Hospital in Wiesbaden received administrative punishment rom the . Military Over the alleged plot. Cosic an american of croatian descent has been transferred Toland Stu Germany where she will be assigned to the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center said land spokeswoman Marie Shaw. Contributing to this report Start writer de Reavis