European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Wednesday december 29,1993 most charges dropped against Texas senator Austin Texas apr most of the ethics charges against sen Kay Bailey Hutchison were dismissed tuesday by a judge who said the indictments were Loo vague. Visiting judge John onion or. Dismissed charges of official misconduct tampering with evidence and Tam picking with government records All stemming from her stint As state treasurer. During a hearing the judge let stand one felony charge of misconduct and gave prosecutors 10 Days to Amend the indictments. Hutchison a Republican sought dismissal of the charges claiming they were produced by a predominantly democratic Travis county grand jury and a politically motivated county District attorney Democrat Ronnie Earle. / the charges alleged she used state employees and state equipment for her personal Benefit then destroyed records As a cover up. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 51 years in prison. Hutchison denied any wrongdoing. She resigned As treasurer after defeating Democrat Bob Krueger in a june special election for Lloyd Bent sends Senate seat. Bentsen was named . Treasury Secretary. Hutchison served 214 years As treasurer and plans to run for the Senate in 1994. Hutchisonn a lawyers said the indictments were so vague that they could not plan a defense. Quot its groping around in the darkness for Light without More specificity a attorney Lewis Dickson said. Onion agreed on four of the five charges saying Hutchison had a right to be told in greater detail through the indictments what the charges were about. Steve Mccleery an assistant prosecutor said that onions rulings were routine Ana that his office will Amend the indictments to be More specific. Hutchisonn a Lead lawyer Dick Deguerin asked onion to set a trial Date on the remaining misconduct charge but the judge refused saying he wanted to first take up amended  leaves $500,000 estate to Best Friend cat a Seattle apr when Ann Morgan died she left her $500,000 estate to a much younger male companion a her cat tinker. Morgans will stipulates that her apartment be maintained and a caretaker be hired Tor tinker a Huffy White turkish Angora cat that she described As Quot my Best Friend and  a she Felt that once you took an animal it was a lifelong commitment a said Ruth Ward a Friend of morgans. Morgan 74, died in May a a month after putting tinker in her will. After tinkers death the balance of morgans estate will go to Charity. Morgan never married and lived alone. She got tinker about 10 years ago after having previously owned a number of dogs. Quot this cat was Annas life a Ward said. A at the time she got tinker Ann was not feeling Well and was depressed. The Kitten gave her a reason to Steep Tiv ing. You could see the smile return to her face after she brought it  tinker heir to the estate of his late mistress Ann Morgan eyes his new caretaker Dorothy Mulkirn. Morgans estate will pay the $385 monthly rent for Kerbs salary. Tinkers vet pet cemetery and flow Nast amp no the apartment a caretakers salary tilt Era a vet Bills his eventual burial at i pet cemetery a a ers for his grave at Christmas amp cd easter. V Pollard allegedly put secrets in letters Page 8 the stars and Stripe Washington shooting victim identified As London Man from wire reports Washington a 28-year-old londoner slain in an apparent robbery in Washington four Days before Christmas has been identified As Adam Fox who worked As a bartender. Police said monday that they have made no arrests in the slaying. Douglas Plain a Friend of the victims said he saw Fox Early dec. 21 As Fox hailed a cab to go Home and minutes later heard gunfire. �?o1 heard first one shot then another a Plain said. A i ducked because it sounded so  Plain said that when he went Back toward the intersection where he had last seen Fox there was no sign of him and he thought Fox had taken a cab. Plain said that on Christmas eve two police officers told him that the body of a Man shot in an apparent robbery had been found. He went with the officers to the morgue and identified foxes body. Police Sliffe the body was found three blocks from where Plain said he last saw Fox alive. Friends said Fox came to the United states about seven years ago and worked in bars and nightclubs in Northwest  told to spy suit says san Francisco a a former Tower records Security guard says in a lawsuit that he was ordered to spy on Gay store managers. Hush am a a Eddie Haroun who supervised Security at 11 san Francisco Bay area stores said he was forced to quit in february after refusing his superiors orders to Bug a managers office to find out if the manager was a arranging personal homosexual liaisons on company time and  Haroun also was told to spy on Eay managers outside of work the lawsuit stated Jamerson Allen a lawyer representing Tower said monday that the company would not comment on pending litigation. The company intended a to terminate or demote Gay store managers because homosexuals do not fit the image of Tower records a the lawsuit charged. The lawsuit also claims that Tower discriminated against Haroun because he is Black. He said he was subjected to racial epithets during the 3 Viz years he worked at Tower. The lawsuit filed last week in san Francisco Superior court seeks unspecified  wedding set los Angeles a two firefighters who stood Side by Side fighting the devastating Laguna Beach wildfire Wilt wed in new York City s times Square on new years eve in a ceremony to be broadcast on network television. Laura Turpin 27, and Bob Hutnyan 37, will Exchange vows on disk Clarks new year s rocking eve 94. �?o1 can to think of a More perfect Way to end the year and help begin 1994 on a High note a Clark said in a statement issued monday. The show is to be carried on Abc to. Turpin and Hutnyan met seven months ago at a Huntington Beach firefighting Academy. They worked Side by Side during the oct. 27 fire that destroyed 366 structures in Laguna Beach an upscale coastal Community that is Home to a number of artists Turpin accepted Hutnyan a proposal Over the thanksgiving Holiday. Clark s broadcast will be his 22nd consecutive new years countdown. His guests Are to include Singer Bariy Manilow and musicians Brooks amp Dunn and Daryl  mail rises 3.7% Washington the . Postal service handled 3.9 billion pieces of mail during the Holiday season. The mail total from the Friday after thanksgiving until the Day before Christmas was 3,933,882,000 items spokesman Lou Eberhardt said monday. The Peak Day was dec. 20 with 281 million items he said. The seasonal mail total is up 3,7 percent from last year. Washington apr admitted spy Jonathan Pollard put classified information in some of his letters from prison a an act that defense Secretary Les Aspin emphasized last week in urging president Clinton not to Grant leniency to Pollard a Pentagon official says. It was unclear whether Pollard was trying to pass the information along or whether he unintentionally included it in some prison letters while referring to his Case said the official speaking on condition of anonymity. Pollard has been jailed since 1987 for spying for Israel. Neither a defense official nor unidentified officials quoted in tuesdays new York times would say what was in the letters or to whom they were addressed. Pollard a has included classified information in 14 of his letters most recently in 1992, including information classified at the top secret codeword level Quot Aspinw a written recommendation to Clinton said according to the times Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy in the mid-1980s before he was arrested outside the israeli embassy in Washington. Man holding kids hostage surrenders Hamburg. . Fay a a he. Hamburg no. Apr a new Jersey Man held two of his children hostage for several hours monday in the states third family hostage standoff in five Days. Shortly after Midnight monday a Man raped his estranged wife before she could flee with two of their children the Sussex county prosecutors office said. Police said the Man remained at the Home with his 6-year-old and 2-Ycar-uld sons. He refused to leave authorities said and told police that he had a handgun and w Ould harm the children. About two dozen police officers surrounded the House assistant prosecutor Palleria said after sneaking to police or several hours the Man released the children and eventually surrendered. Officers recovered a Bow and arrows but no gun Palleria said. The husband was charged with aggravated be Luz Sault violation of a court order and three coun criminal restraint. On sunday police in Middlesex county subdue Man who briefly held his brother at gunpoint in fro their Mother. On thursday a Man despondent Over not i enough Money for Holiday gifts took his Girlfriend her two children Ages 3 and 4, hostage after an i a  a vials a standoff at the Motel w they lived ended with the Many a surrender 15 t Ater Bergen county prosecutor John Fahy said