European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday december 22,1993 . Water Alert blamed on treatment Crews delay from wire reports Washington the army corps of engineers says failure of water treatment workers to respond quickly to signs of contaminated water caused a recent Alert in the Washington area. Maj. Gen. Stanley g. Genega director of civil works for the corps told a House Public works and transportation committee panel monday that Crews at the water Plant waited two hours before treating water registering High Levels of turbidity or cloudiness. As a result the environmental Protection Agency issued an Alert . 8 telling 1.5 million residents of Washington and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs to boil their water. The Alert was lifted four Days later after further checks found no evidence of the microorganism  or other harmful bacteria. 93 tax forms jumping gun Washington a few 1993 Federal income lax forms Are starting to show up in mailboxes even though the official target Date for delivery is Jan. 3. Because millions of tax forms have to be delivered the internal Revenue service ships them to local Post offices in Advance marked for delivery at a specific Date. But a few get delivered Early every year Quot there have been random sightings Here and there a irs spokeswoman Johnell Hunter said monday. Quot we attribute this to either overzealous postmasters or one who wanted to clean up an area�?T1 in the office. Black film venture planned Washington Black family oriented films will be produced and distributed under a joint venture by Black entertainment television and blockbuster corp., officials said. The agreement announced monday will allow the companies to work together with Independent production companies to develop movies. Assisted suicide ban opposed Constitution supports right to choose group says East Lansing Mich. Apas courts wrestle with Michigan s Law on doctor assisted suicide some members of a state commission say the legislature should reverse the ban enacted to combat or. Jack Kevorkian. Proposals offered monday by three subcommittees of the Michigan commission on death and dying would permit people expected to live less than six months to commit suicide with a physicians help. People should have the Legal right to receive assist Ance and others should have the Legal right to lend it,1 or Martin Kotch representing the state bar association. Said commission member Quot our opinion is that the Constitution supports the right to make such a  others strongly disagreed. A once Jou legalize assisted suicide there is no Way to control the abuses that occur a said Oakland county prosecutor Richard Thompson. He is one of the prosecutors who has brought charges against Kevorkian. Kevorkian staged a 17-Day hunger strike in jail before being freed Friday after promising an Oakland county judge not to assist in any More suicides until higher courts decide on the Law. He was released tuesday from the Detroit Hospital where he had been treated since he left jail. Gunman slays Law office receptionist Philadelphia apr a gunman barged into a Law office monday argued with the receptionist stalked her into a rear office and shot her to death police said. The woman had sought a protective order against an sex Boyfriend. Tressa Clark 25, was shot a multiple times in the Chest and the head after a gunman and an accomplice barged into the Center City Law office said capt. John Apeldorn chief of the homicide division. After arguing with the victim at her desk in the front of the office the suspect followed Clark through the Lith floor offices of Salaman amp Salaman into a rear office and gunned her Down he said. Witnesses told Kew am that the men apparently fled on an inside fire escape. Chief inspector Richard Zappile said a quarrel led to the shooting. A we believe there was a ret was a Boyfriend Girlfriend relationship a relationship. It he said. Accused Hastings neb. Api it a charge look a a year Oia Gytri hostage monday then released her and shot himself to on a child molestation a a Man about to be tried targe took a 13-year-old girl death in front of police officers. �?o1 done to want to Hurt an officer. I done to want to Hurt anyone else a Charles c. Bukowski said before shooting himself in the head with a ,45-caliber semiautomatic pistol Adams county attorney Steve Scherr said. No one else was injured although Bukowski fired More than a dozen shots in the girls Home authorities said. 1 Bukowski 28, was scheduled to appear monday in District court on a charge of having sexual Contact with a 9-year-old girl. He left a five Page note in which he neither admitted nor denied the allegation. A fall he said was t can to remember what  attributed that failure to remember in is note to his Long term use of alcohol and drugs a Scherr said Bukowski also threatened in the note to kill the girls father whom the Man blamed for his being prosecuted said Deputy Adams county attorney Meredith Oaks Peterson. 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