European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday August 11,1993 navigator in world War ii finally gets purple heart from wire reports Midwest City okla. It was 49 years late,.but retired maj. Donald e. Collins received a purple heart on monday. Collins then a first lieutenant was a navigator Ona bomber that was struck by enemy fire while flying Over France on july 3,1944. Collins and two other parachuted just before the plane exploded. Three others aboard were killed. Collins landed in a tree and was captured by the nazis. He was held prisoner until april 28,1945. Maj. Gen. Joseph k. Spiers commander of the Oklahoma City air logistics Center said Collins heroics were lost in the shuffle during the hectic final Days of world War ii. Even though this purple heart is 49 years late i m truly delighted to be a part of reckoning that Era Spiers said in presenting the medal at tinker fab okla. Collins 77, received the award on his 50thwedding anniversary. Police punished in sex sting Oakland Park Fla. A vice squad detective was fired and two others were punished for going too far with teen age prostitutes during a videotaped sting operation. The 23-minute tape shows one undercover office receiving Oral sex and another being fondled police chief Edward Overman said monday. Their sergeant was operating the surveillance camera froma room next door the operation should have stopped Well before any sexual Contact was made Overman said. The message is that you re not supposed to get Oral Sexon the  officer Brian Rupp was fired sgt. Glenn Osan iwas demoted to patrolman and suspended for 10 Days and officer Forrest Santalucia was suspended for five Days. The arrests of the two girls led to the discovery Ofa ring of four High school girls allegedly working As prostitutes. Police said the ring members charged $150 a hour. One of the arrested girls said she was making $3,000 a week. Girl missing after 5 Days Sturbridge mass. The search for missing girl dragged of for a fifth Day monday with police checking on known sexual offenders and the family following leads from psychics. Authorities ended their ground search Over the weekend for Holly Piirainen 10, who disappeared thursday when she went to see spine puppies near her grandparents summer Home in Sturbridge where she was staying. Police interviewed area residents monday and traced Down any past sexual offenders who May have been released in the area. Hundreds of people took part in the search starting thursday night after the girl s sneaker was found beside a Road leading officials to speculate that she May have been grabbed by someone in a car. College president sued Jackson miss. Former Mississippi Colleg president Lewis Nobles pocketed about 53 million in contributions to the school Over the last 15 years the College charged in a lawsuit. The College s lawsuit claims Nobles who resigned last week forged papers when confronted about the missing Money earlier this summer. The lawsuit said Nobles personally solicited contributions issued bogus receipts and deposited the Money in his own Bank accounts. Nobles had no comment his daughter said monday. His attorney William a Johnson also declined comment. Teen held in boy s death Savona . A 13-year-old was charged Asan adult in the beating death of a 4-year-old boy who was on his Way to a Park. If Ric Smith pleaded innocent monday to second degree murder. He was ordered held without bail at the county children s Center. Derrick Zobie was beaten to death with a Blun object aug. 2 while on his Way to a recreation program in a Park authorities said. Smith also participated in the program which involved about 60 children authorities said. Police Sam it was unclear what relationship if any the two boys had. Judge forces Wilder s hand of Issue of women in Vii by the Washington Post Richmond a. After More than two years of keeping a distance from the fight Over whether women should be allowed into the Virginia military Institute Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder was ordered into the fray monday by a Federal judge. Although a series of court decisions have said that state funded Vii s males Only policy is unconstitutional Wilder has maintained that while he personally favors admitting women he has no responsibility for fashioning a new policy. But . District judge Jackson l. Riser of Roanoke said monday that the governor must be involved. The judge told Wilder to endorse by sept. 27 a solution for ending what a Federal appeals court called Virginia unfair treatment of women. Although Vii is a Public College the state offers no similar program of rigorous military style instruction for women. Riser s order Means the governor will have to con front the ticklish political question at a time when he i preparing to run for the . Senate next year. The incumbent Wilder s fellow Democrat Charles , has declined to take a stand on the Vii Issue saying it is a state matter. The leading Republican candidate retired Marine . Oliver l. North supports complying with the appeals court ruling in a Way that would keep Vii All male. The . Justice department which sued Virginia Overmi s admissions policy asked Riser to order that women be allowed into the Shenandoah Valley school this fall but the judge rejected that request. For Wilder the Vii question has Lone been a bit like game of tag in which the aim is to avoid being touched by responsibility for the controversy. Although his predecessor As governor Gerald l. Baliles said More than four years ago that Vii s policy was unconstitutional Wilder went nearly a year in office be fore stating even a personal View on the matter. ,. Upriver refugee Gary Reynolds Steps out from his tent near Fenton mo., where he expects to live until he returns Home. Flood victims live like vagabonds to keep watch on Missouri Homes Fenton to. Map for 25 River refugees at campsite Between the floodwaters Edge and a bustling four Lane Highway the roof Over their Heads is a swim Ming Pool cover draped Over some 2-by-6 boards. They have lived out Here for 40 Days and Are Likely to remain another month. But they accept the crude conditions so they can keep watch on their Homes an whatever meager belongings they have left. We feel like vagabonds living on the Side of the Road Here. But we want to be As close As we can to our Home. We got to patrol the neighbourhood said Rich Boyd.  t got nobody else but each  Boyd his wife and two children have been out Here along Missouri route 21 about 20 Miles South of , since july 1. That s when the Maramec River a tributary of the Mississippi spilled its Banks and be came a Lake. The Camp looks like something out of the grapes of Wrath with people living in truck Beds and campers. Once known As tent City the place was dubbed the Canvas condos after three donated generators arrived to Power lights a fan and a stereo. Under the swim Ming Pool cover Are two sofas and two armchairs that were donated. Every Day s an adventure said Gary Reynolds shaving in a minor Hung on a piece of lumber lined with laundry. If the refugees stayed in a red Cross or salvation army shelter they would be unable to guard their Homes. Even though it s All underwater it s All they have left said the Rev. Al Hortiz flood coordinator of the new life evangelistic Center. Nixon wins halt in release of watergate tapes i r a i v k. T Yri i a a � s a to n m Washington a former president Nixon won a potentially lengthy delay in the release of taped conversations he had with aides during the watergate scandal that drove him from office 19 years ago. A Federal judge monday halted All future releases of Nixon s watergate tapes until the National archives returns recordings of strictly personal conversations to the former chief executive. The ruling by . District judge Royce c. Lamberth could delay More releases of tapes,.including the important watergate conversations by five years to 10 years according to lawyers in the Case. We re not going to live with the decision. We Are going to fight it said Patti Goldman an attorney for the nonprofit Public citizen litigation group which has sued for speedier release of the tapes. Only 63 of 4,000 hours of Nixon White House tapes have been released so far to the Public and researchers