European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 1993witness fingers jurors in bomb Case new York a Willie Hernandez moosh stood in front of the jury Box like a Man choosing doughnuts at a bakery and pointed put the men he recognized As the ones he encountered just hours before the world Trade Center bombing. Trouble was he pointed out two jurors. Quot it was a person such As this a moosh said tuesday As he pointed to one juror drawing laughter and bemused looks from others in the jury Box. His testimony was to have been a crucial piece of the fizzle prosecutors arc assembling to prove that the our men on trial conspired to bomb the Trade Center. The blast killed six people and injured More than 1,000. Prosecutors had hoped that moosh would Point out defendants Mahmud Abou Halima and Mohammed a. Salach As the men who came to his Gas station be tween 3 and 4 . On feb. 26, the Day a bomb rocked the twin Lowers. Prosecutors say a yellow Van carried the bomb into the Trade Center and was destroyed in the blast. They say no witnesses saw the Van driven into the Trade Center so moosh May be As close As they can come to an eyewitness on the Day of the attack. Quot this is devastating to their conspiracy Case,&Quot.defense attorney Austin Campriello told . District judge Kevin t. Duffy out of the jury s hearing. But assistant . Attorney Gilmore Childers said the misidentification was not a devastating unless i plan to indict juror no. 6.�?� he pointed out that moosh Quot did not go Down the table for the defendants at All. He stopped in the jury  moosh testified that he was working at a Gas station in Jersey City n.j., when a yellow Ryder Van arrived followed by a Blue car. He described the cards Driver As a Quot White person with Orange coloured hair Quot who had freckles and some Beard and was husky. Abou Halima 34, is a Large Man with red hair. Childers asked him to look around the courtroom for the Man. Moosh looking somewhat confused ventured toward press benches in the Back of the courtroom and looked Over the reporters before approaching the jury Quot look All Over Quot Childers urged moosh continued peering at the jury Box finally pointing toward one of the Anonymous jurors a Young Man with Strawberry Blond hair and Pink skin. One juror laughed loudly As several others smiled or appeared startled. A the record should reflect that he was pointing at juror no. 6,�?� Duffy said. A Short time later moosh was asked to identify the Man who drove the Van this time he picked juror no 5, a Man with a Black Beard. Sal amen 26, a bearded Man prosecutors say drove the Van was seated several feet away. A in the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 9,1983 a bribery charges were filed against West German economics minister Otto Lamsdorff accusing him of accepting 135,000 Marks about $50,000 at the time from the flick holding co. In Exchange for tax Breaks. 20 years ago dec. 9,1973 a president Nixon s auditors concluded that he made a $117,370 profit on a 1970 san Clemente calif., land Deal but paid no taxes on it saying other lawyers told him at the time that there was no capital gain. 30 years ago dec. 9,1963 a president Johnson protected by one of the tightest Security nets Ever seen came to new York on his first trip away from Washington since becoming the nation s chief executive after the assassination of president Kennedy. 40 years ago dec. 9,1953 a president Eisenhower proposed to the United nations that the world body set up an International atomic Energy Agency to move humanity out of Quot this dark chamber of horrors into the tight,"50 years ago dec. 9,1943 a the Western world teemed with rumours in the Wake of three Middle East conferences including a Stockholm report that the German ally Bulgaria had begun moves to get out of the War l. World War ii50 years ago today dec. 91 a 9 a 4 3 american soldiers capture Rocca do Evandro cementing the allies hold on Monte Camino on the Western italian front a German counterattack in the Monte Sammu Cro sector fails to drive Allied forces Back. On the Southern soviet front red army units closing in on Znamenak take nearby Mede Rovo and attack Znamenak itself. Source 2194 Day of War w h. A myth publisher inc. Work almanac Book of world wat ii Bison Book corp 1981 i Safe at last bosnian Muslim refugees arrive at new Yorkus Kennedy Airport on tuesday As part of an air or of about 750 muslims from War torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Airlift organized by the . High commissioner for refugees and the International organization for migration is to take place throughout this week. At ratings for video games considered by the Washington Post a Broad coalition of video game producers and rental shops has reached Basic agreement on creating a National system to rate games for violence sex and profanity Industry executives said tuesday. The group hoped to announce its plans today effectively pre Empting legislation that would give the Industry a year to implement a rating system hearings on the Bill Are scheduled for today As Well. Americans Are expected to spend roughly $5,5 billion this year on video games and player units. As sales Rise violent and sexually tinged titles have led to Calls in Congress for a rating system that would help parents make intelligent choices about what their children play particular criticism has been directed at a game called night trap in which the player tries to defend a group of sorority pyjamas against is. The girls wearing Short. Lood sucking assailants. The characters Are real actors rather than the computer generated figures of traditional games also singled out. Is the Street fighting game mortal combat in which the successful player can triumphantly Pluck out the spinal column of a victim. Video game makers generally contend that there is no scientific evidence that games make people prone to violence Quot its preposterous to claim there is a causal relationship Between a video game and a crack dealer getting a Bullet in the Back a said Tom Zito president of digital pictures inc., which produced night trap. William White jr., marketing vice president of Industry giant Sega of America inc., said terms of the . Rating system had not been worked out. Some companies he said want the Washington based software publishers association to take charge of the system. Quot we believe in self regulation rather than government regulation Quot he said. The legislation sponsored by sen. Joseph Lieberman d-conn., and sen. Herb Kohl d-wia., has helped Spur the often feuding Industry to come together White said. Eilene Rosel Ithai general counsel of the software publishers association said the coalition would work with Congress parents and teachers groups to Quot come up with something that everyone is very Happy with Quot it roped to have a system in place no later than the end of 1994. The coalition might implement a specific rating system such As the motion of picture Industry did two decades ago or a Abeling system. White said the group also would work with retailers and rental shops to publicize the system and assure that juveniles could not obtain games w without their pare nts1 Perm Mission. Officer guilty of lesser charge in shooting Newark. . A a police officer was acquitted monday of the most serious charges in the shooting of a teenage car theft suspect who was comatose for weeks after what prosecutors called an ambush. The shooting occurred at the height of the City a War against Auto theft last year. The jury in its second Day of deliberations convicted Kenneth Holloway 31, of Only a fourth degree aggravated assault charge of pointing a weapon. He was acquitted of second degree aggravated assault official misconduct and illegal weapons Possession among other charges. Assistant Essex county prosecutor Giunn Goldberg said the conviction leaves Holloway facing an 18-month prison term when he is sentenced Jan. 10. A we Don t expect he will be allowed to continue As a police officer a Goldberg said. A the is going to  Goldberg said during the trial that frustration with Auto theft prompted Holloway to shoot Howard Caesar on june 9, 1992, with a gun other than his police issued 9 my weapon. But defense attorney Lucas Phillips said five other officers at the shooting lied to make his client a Scapegoat so they could return to work after pleading guilty to lesser charges or agreeing initially to cooperate with investigators. Phillips said prosecutors went aft a Bis client because he was the Only Black officer at the shooting and they feared possible unrest if a White officer were charged with shooting the Black youth