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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 3, 1993 . The stars and strides Page 7 panel of . Judges rules on Iran Contra response from wire reports Washington a a special Federal court panel ordered Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh on wednesday to prepare a volume of comments by those criticized in Nis final report on the Iran Contra scandal and then hang up his hat. The judges split in a 2-to-l ruling on the question of whether Walsh should have the Opportunity to respond to demands for corrections and other complaints made by those Walsh has mentioned unfavourably in his three volume report. Their _ comments the last of them due today will constitute the final volume. It will be up to the court to decide How much to make Public. The judges said that former president Ronald Reagan wanted the office terminated completely and was apparently a a concerned that Walsh might want to reply to criticisms. On Seattle a a Man irritated by a persistent car alarm has been charged with second a Grce murder for shooting a College student who  figure out How to turn it off. Terrance Milton Hall 57, was charged tuesday in the thanksgiving death of Steven Burgess 21, of Shady Cove Ore. Hall an unemployed electrician was being held on $500,000 bail bending his arraignment thursday in King county Superior court. Burgess a student at itt technical Institute near Seattle and three friends had just parked the rented jeep when its Alarin went off. Burgess was trying to find the alarm under the Hood when Hall no lived in a Small trailer across the Street approached him. Hall screamed at the Young people Toj amp top the noise then fired a shot into the vehicles Grille. Burgess then told the gunman to go away and pushed him on the shoulder according to court documents. Hall then shot Burgess in the Chest the prosecutors office said. _ provoked Man charged Charleston . A a Man who bickered daily with Rock throwing children cutting through his Yard was charged with shooting a 13-year-old boy in  authorities said. A $1 million Bona was set wednesday for 34-year-old Thomas Hitchcock. He was held on a charge of assault and Battery with intent to kill. Antagonism Between Hitchcock and children who used his Yard As a shortcut had escalated to Rock throwing by the students a just about every Day they be gone by a police sgt. Chris Ross said. On tuesday Hitchcock yelled at a group of about 30 children again and some pelted him with rocks his lawyer Peter Deluca said. T Hitchcock grabbed a pistol from his car went inside his House and fired from a Kitchen window that had been broken by a Rock the lawyer said. Anton Pearson 13, was shot in , on wednesday his condition was downgraded from fair to serious a medical University Hospital spokeswoman said. Ross said Pearson was not involved in the Rock throwing. School official shot dead Wauwatosa wis. A an associate principal was fatally shot wednesday in a hallway at a. Suburban Milwaukee High school. Dale Breitlow 46, was pronounced dead at Milwaukee county medical Complex following the shooting at Wauwatosa a West High school authorities cd rid police were searching for a suspect described As a 17 to 20-Yearold male. Police chief Barry Weber said police had a list of several suspects a none of them believed to be currently attending the school. Judge denies suicide Bias Pontiac Mich. A a judge whose first wife committed suicide in 1974 refused to disqualify himself from a hearing to decide whether or. Jack Kevorkian should stand trial for assisting a suicide. Oakland county District judge Daniel Sawicki said his wife a suicide has no bearing on the Case. Defense attorney Michael Schwartz had argued that height be biased against Kevorkian because of his Fife s death. Kevorkian who has been present at 20 suicides remained in the Oakland county jail on a $50,000 Cash Bond thursday pending a dec. 10 hearing in the oct. 22 death of Merian Frederick 72, of Ann Arbor. 18 die As commuter plane into Minnesota Hill Hibbing Minn. Apr a commuter plane flying through fog and freezing rain slammed into a Hillside about a mile Short of the local Airport killing All 16 passengers and two Crew members. The weather at the time of the crash was foggy with freezing drizzle and visibility was limited to. About a mile authorities said. The Northwest airline twin engine Turboprop disappeared from radar screens just before 8 . Wednesday a Federal aviation administration spokesman said. It crashed moments later on a snowy Mound of mining waste near a City Park. Sheriffs Deputy Bill Hangman Riding a snowmobile found the wreckage about 40 minutes after the plane was reported overdue. A the plane was demolished a he said. A the fuselage is so compressed nobody could have made  it apparently bounced or skidded before coming to rest upside Down broken in three pieces and resting on the Side of a 150-foot Hill with All but one of the bodies inside. A there was no sign of an explosion but debris was scattered Over about 50 Yards of Snow blanketed ground police said. Wrapped Christmas presents were strewn among the crumpled wreckage. The flight was in route from Minneapolis to hib Bing a distance of about 200 Miles it was operated for Northwest by express airlines ii inc. The plane was two to three Miles from the Hibbing Airport at an Altitude of 7,500 feet when it disappeared from radar said Faa spokesman Mort Edc Stcin. Northwest spokesman Jon Austin said the crash appear it entry occurred during the planets approach. A the last thing toe controller saw was a plane dropping off the scope a made Stein said. Robert Corcoran operations officer with the Faa in Chicago said controllers said they received no distress Call from the plane. Investigators from the National transportation safety Board were dispatched to investigate he crash. Officials said the weather May have posed problems including the formation of ice on an air planet swings which can impair flying. But they added that the plane a British aerospace Jet Stream 31, was designed to Fly in rough Winter weather. Hibbing is in the heart of the mesabi Iron Range an area in northeastern Minnesota where Taconite a used in the steel making process a is produced. Mine dumps often hundreds of feet High Are where Man made piles of waste Ore Are stored. Was in Case Erik Menendez holds a get Well card from an admirer in Italy during a break in proceedings at his murder trial wednesday in Van Guys Calif. 7 los Angeles apr the psychiatrist who first examined Erik Menendez after his arrest on charges of killing his wealthy parents told jurors the Young Man was a Basket ease who was afraid to say he had been sexually molested. A Menendez 23, and his 25-year-old brother Lyle arc charged with murder in the aug. 20,1989, Shotgun killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion. Prosecutors contend the Brothers killed out of greed and hatred. The defense contends they killed in Sel defense gripped by fear that their abusive parents would kill them. Superior court judge Stanley Wrisberg overruled objections to the psychiatrists appearance on the stand saving Quot the evidence seems to be the focal Point of the  or. William Vicary testified wednesday that it took three months of treatment and Strong anti anxiety medication before Erik Menendez blurted out the a duty secret that his father had molested him and that his Mother did nothing to Stop it. Vicary s testimony corroborated Menendez a account and contradicted prosecution claims that the Brothers made up the sex abuse Story to try to justify the killings the psychiatrist said that Menan Dezz a behaviour was consistent with that of a child abuse victim and that he saw no signs the defendant was making it . Testimony in the 5-month-old Case is expected to end today and final arguments Are set for next week. C 12 issued subpoenas in Jackson Case Santa Monica Calif. A twelve people were subpoenaed in the sexual molestation lawsuit against Singer Michael Jackson and another was told to report for questioning by police considering criminal charges. Los Angeles police detectives who for five months have investigated molestation allegations made by a 13-Ycar-old boy contacted longtime Jackson associate Ben Brown and scheduled an interview for thursday. Brown is the founder of Steeltown records and former president of the defunct Jackson records founded by family patriarch Joe Jackson. Brown ran Michael Jackson s Home studio in Encino where his 1979 hit album off the Wall was produced. He has known the Jacksons for 25 years and produced and released the Jackson 5�?Ts first record dig Fjoy a when they announced the allegations i said the Michael Jackson i know  Hurt children. But now i have questions a Brown told the associated press on wednesday. A i have had concerns with Michael spending so much time with children. 1 Felt he was kind of vulnerable for these kinds of charges a a said Brown. Recalling his years working at the Jackson studio Brown Sauk a the Basic safeguards that one should take in dealing with children were not Jef place. I thought Michael should change and limit his closeness with children a Brown watched Jackson grow from a child Star to a superstar and now he a publishing a a Good bad and ugly Book about the Jacksons called in the Eye of the storm. It will be released next year los Angeles police and Santa Barbara county authorities investigating the child sex allegations Haven to filed any criminal charges. Evidence has been seized during raids at Jackson a never and ranch in Santa Barbara county and at residences in los Angeles and Las vegas. A the lawsuit brought by the teen Ager is scheduled for trial March 21 in los Angeles Superior court. On wednesday a maid at Jackson a 2,500-acre Nev Erland ranch Gayle go froth said she has been subpoenaed by the boys attorney Larry Feldman to give a deposition t  
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