European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday december 12, 1993 . The stars Ano stripes Page 7bald Eagle to be pulled from endangered Lis from wire reports Washington a the american Bald Eagle the National Symbol for two centuries is making a comeback Strong enough that soon it will be taken off the endangered species list the head of the fish and wildlife service said Friday because of the Birds Strong recovery in the past three decades Quot we re moving quite close to removing it from the endangered category the director of the service Mol he Beattie said Friday. Fish and wildlife officials said the change will not completely remove the Bird from Protection under the endangered species act but will list the Bald Eagle in the less dire a threatened species category in most parts of the country. The population of Bald eagles found in All states except Hawaii had dwindled in 1974 to 791 nesting pairs. A 1992 Survey found its numbers had risen to 3,014. Researchers credit the comeback in Large part to the Banning of the pesticide Dot which Nad interfered with the reproductive capacity of the Eagle and other Birds. In addition the government launched an Effort to acquire nesting habitat for the Eagle to relocate it in areas where it had died out and to use captive Breeding gets life term Sacramento Calif. A a California Landlady was sentenced Friday to life in prison without possibility of parole for murdering three of her Boardinghouse tenants. The sentence was the Only one that Superior court judge Michael Virga could impose on Dorothea Puente 64. A jury deadlocked oct. 13 on whether to Send her to the Gas chamber. A Puente was accused of killing nine of her tenants in the 1980s, but jurors convicted her last August in Only three of the deaths. They deliberated 24 Days a California record for a murder , 3, killed by Wolf dog Montpelier it. A Wolf dog mauled a 3-year-old boy to death Friday after the youngster wandered away from his Day care Center in Townshend authorities said. About 9 50 a.m., Kevin Michael Lahey wandered into a next door Yard where the 2v4-year-old female Wolf dog was caring for a litter of nine puppies. The 120-Pound animal May have been protecting its puppies after the child walked Over to look at them said Cathy Barrows an animal control officer. The Wolf dog and her 10-Day-old puppies were destroyed after the attack Barrows May leave death Row Trenton . A new jerseys death Row dog will become a free canine after Christie Whitman takes office the governor elect declared Friday. The state supreme court has been asked to decide the Fate of Taro a 110-Pound Akita ordered destroyed by the Borough of Haworth for allegedly biting the lip of 10-year-old brie Halfond on Christmas Day 1990. Whitman who takes office Jan. 18, said during a taping of the show issues and answers that she would Spring Taro. The show was to air today on a pvt to in Philadelphia. However a spokesman later said that Whitman would wait until courts ruled on the matter. Taro had been declared a potentially dangerous before the 1990 incident for killing a neighbors dog and attacking two other animals. The 5-year-old dog has been kept at the Bergen county jail since february 1991, at a Cost of More than $100,000.congressman to quit Oklahoma City the Dean of Oklahoma a congressional members announced his resignation Friday to become an executive with the National Rural electric co operatives association. Rep. Glenn English said he saw the Post As the Areca s general manager and executive vice president As an Opportunity to further programs he As pushed during his 19 years in Congress. The resignation will be effective in Early january. English a Democrat whose 6th congressional District covers much of Western Oklahoma said he was offered the position of general manager and executive vice president thursday night during a meeting of the associations Board of directors. Flaws in Security found at major . Airports by the new York times Agency would not identify the four airports saying the in wash1ngton�?Federal investigators have found formation was irrelevant because the problems were that although airports have made Progress in screening widespread. Airline passengers they have failed to keep Una Tho since september Federal officials have met with air sized people out of restricted areas including Tarmac line and Airport executives and taken Steps to tighten so where unoccupied planes could be targets of terrorists v curits. H a in spot checks at four of the nations largest airports transportation department report made Public thursday said Federal investigators walked unchallenged past Security guards and passed through emergency doors setting off alarms that elicited no response. In one Case an investigator even carried a deactivated hand grenade through a Metaj investigators said they did not try to Board any aircraft parked at the airports. The Agency a inspector general office which carried out the investigation during the summer said reports from Security managers around the nation indicated that the same problems probably existed in All Domestic airports. The report was issued last september and unclassified portions were made Public thursday evening. The the investigators who dressed casually and displayed no visible identification gained Access to Tarmac and other restricted areas in 15 of 20 attempts at the four airports. A once we gained Access we wandered around aircraft parking areas baggage processing centers maintenance areas and ramp administrative offices a the report said. David Hinson who Heads the Federal aviation administration minimized the Security threat posed by terrorists in his formal response to the transportation Secretary Federico Pena was a extremely concerned by the laxness revealed by the report and has ordered an extensive review of Airport Security procedures Richard Mintz a department spokesman said Friday. Colin Ferguson Cente accused of a deadly Long Island train rampage appears in court Friday in Mincola . Train suspect facing mental tests by the new York times Garden City . The lawyer for the Man accused of killing five people aboard a Long Island rail Road train called Friday for an assessment of his client s sanity. But Legal and psychiatric experts said an insanity defense in the crime which police say was carefully planned would be difficult. On Friday morning the defendant Cotin Ferguson wearing a bulletproof Vest and protected by 20 guards appeared emotionless and silent in Nassau county District court where Anthony j. Falanga was appointed his lawyer. While Falanga declined to discuss his plans for a defense he called for his client to a be examined psychiatric ally and added a i think its obvious an evaluation is in in recent Days a picture has emerged of Ferguson As an intelligent frustrated loner who consistently attributed his problems to racism and clashed with almost everyone from authorities in government agencies to his employers and professors to his wife from whom he is divorced. Police say he has volunteered no friends for them to Contact. In the notes Ferguson was carrying at the time of the shooting he listed a Telephone number to be used in the event of an emergency. The Man who answered refused to give his name to a reporter but said he barely knew Ferguson and had not seen him in eight years. Lawyers and menial health experts said proving an insanity defense or claiming Ferguson is incompetent even to stand trial could be difficult for several reasons. Under new York state Law the insanity defense would require Ferguson a lawyer to prove two Points first that Ferguson suffers from a mental disease or defect and second that because of this he lacked the capacity to know what he was doing or to recognize that it was wrong. But Ferguson a comments after the shooting a a ooh my god what have i done a a could be used to show he understood the consequences of his acts the lawyers said and the fact that he was carrying notes detailing specific complaints against people he believed had wronged him supports the argument that he knew what he was doing. Still Barry Feld a Law professor at the University of Minnesota said an insanity defense was plausible because of the heinous nature of the crime. A everybody a initial reaction is you have to be crazy to do something like that a he said. F psychiatrists for the prosecution and defense could y offer different interpretations of Ferguson a notes Feld said adding a the jury would have to make a determination of whether or not people who Are thinking that Way Are insane when they commit a
