European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 3, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 cigarette ignites blast that kills 2 children at Home from wire reports Chesterfield to. Clifford Foster Sharon Wiley and her three sons left a Home for 24 hours after they smelled propane. Hours after returning a cigarette Foster was smoking outside triggered an explosion that killed two of the Girlfriend Wiley and her children left thursday because they smelled Gas the sheriffs department said. When they could not find anyone to fix the problem they returned to the Home on new year s eve. Shortly before Midnight Friday Foster and 8 year old Joshua Wiley left the House for a Short time fire marshal Dave Nichols said. Foster was smoking a cigarette when the two approached the front door Early saturday and that triggered the explosion Nichols said. The blast threw Foster and Joshua away from the House which collapsed and was engulfed in flames. Wiley escaped but the bodies of 6-year-old Corey and 11-year-old Kenny were found in the rubble Nichols said. Wiley was in satisfactory condition at St. John s mercy Hospital said Hospital spokesman Bill Mcshane. Foster and Joshua were in critical condition. It was not known where the apparent Gas leak originated. Boy 6, killed by Friend Diamond bar Calif. A 6-year-old boy was shot to death by a 12-year-old Friend during a game of cops and the boys were playing in the younger boy s room Friday night when the older boy found a gun under a mattress and fired it hitting the 6-year-old in the head a los Angeles county sheriffs spokesman said. The older boy apparently did not realize that the .38-caliber revolver was a real weapon. The gun belonged to the slain boy s grandmother who brought it with her during a visit from los Angeles the spokesman said. War crimes papers sold new York two papers marking world War ii atrocities sold at auction for a total of More than $3,700, a third More than top estimates. A paper signed by 21 defendants in the Nurnberg Germany trials of nazi War criminals sold for $2,475, while the two Page testimony of a Auschwitz Poland death Camp survivor fetched $1,320.the papers were among 301 letters and documents of famous people sold thursday night atthe Herman Darvick autograph auctions at a local interest in the world War ii items said Darvick has intensified with the release of Steven Spielberg s film Schindler s list the Story of Agerman businessman who kept More than 1,000 jews from dying in concentration Camps. Proclamation to be shown Washington the emancipation proclamation credited by Many historians with transforming the civil War into a struggle for human Liberty will be displayed at the National archives for eight Days in january. All five pages of the rarely seen document will be on View in the Rotunda of the archives building from Jan. 13 through Jan. 20.the proclamation was last displayed in january 1993, drawing a response so overwhelming that archives officials said they decided on a return emancipation proclamation issued by president Lincoln on Jan. 1,1863, declared that All persons held As slaves within the rebel states Are and henceforth shall be quake hits san Francisco san Francisco. A minor earthquake struck the san Francisco Bay area saturday night. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. The quake which came As one Sharp Jolt struck at 7 11 . It apparently was Felt strongest in the Western half of san Francisco and in Daly City which is just outside the City . Geological Survey in Menlo Park said the quake measured 2.7 on the Richter scale. It was entered on the san Andreas fault about 10 Miles West of san Page of the uses said the quake was widely Felt but no damage was Likely. Nuclear Medicine tests at a Sites to be probed Washington a the government will investigate whether patients at Vete ans hospitals in the 1940s and 50s were subject to nuclear Medicine re search without their knowledge the department of veterans affairs says. And at Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge records show that As Many As 125 mentally retarded children from the Fernald state school in Waltham mass., and 23 pregnant women ingested radioactive material in federally sponsored studies without being told of the radiation the Boston Globe and Boston Herald reported recently. The a probe and the newspapers revelations add to the growing controversy Over the government s role in human radiation research with the White House plan Ning an inter Agency meeting today to focus on the Issue. Mit records show that the 23 pregnant women Whereat the Boston lying in Hospital and were injected up to seven times each with a radioactive form of Iron in 1955, the Globe and Herald reported. The purpose to discover How Long Iron transmitted from the Mother s blood stayed in the baby after birth. You be probably received More radiation exposure at commercial flight altitudes this year than these kids got. I know i have said Frank Masse director of radiation Protection at Mit. Masse who was not at Mit when the Fernald school experiments were conducted said the experiments were within today s Federal guidelines for use of human subjects in radiation testing. He said similar experiments would be approved today. Veterans affairs Secretary Jesse Brown announced the a probe after the departments of defense and Energy said they would review their files to learn the scope of the experiments. \ we plan to leave no Stone unturned in our review of this research Brown said in a statement adding that the investigation will examine the circumstances sur rounding nuclear Medicine research at a facilities. We Are going to look at All the facts and if we de Termine that a was engaged in any inappropriate re search we will disclose that finding to the american people notify veterans involved and take appropriate action he said. Motorcyclist gets taken for a ride and a a Brenda Saucier veil flows from under a helmet As she and new husband Tony ride off together in Dhoxi miss., after she arranged a Surprise wedding at a Bike shop. Biloxi miss. A Brenda Smith had never been Able to Surprise her Boyfriend Tony Saucier until now. She caught him completely off guard Friday when a motorcycle ride turned into his wedding. She got me Saucier said. I be never heard of a Surprise he had wanted to marry her for almost three years. She kept turning him Down because he wanted to Elope. She wanted a ceremony. Sheg tit. About 30 leather Clad bikers were on hand for the nuptials at the Gulf coast Harley Davidson motorcycle shop. Even the Rev. Faye Blankenship of Vancleave s Cornerstone Church wore a leather jacket As she con ducted the ceremony. Saucier was set up by his Friend Todd Hazelwood who told him they were going to the store to get seme Bike parts. He s got a lifetime to try but hell never be Able to get me Back for this one. I got him Good Hazelwood said. He had no when the big moment came. Saucier just grinned and said his vows. Blankenship told those in attendance to support the couple s marriage even when the tank is empty and the tires Are the Groom wore a Denim Vest decorated with Harley buttons. The Bride had a traditional wedding dress sort of. Under her homemade Satin and lace wore Black jeans and boots. Witness in hasidic slaying Case doubted by the new York times new York Days after Law enforcement officials identified z Man they said was a second suspect in the 1991 killing of a hasidic scholar in Crown Heights Brooklyn doubts have Arisen about the reliability of a witness who provided detectives with a new account of the killing. The witness John Anderson told new York news Day that he had not seen the second suspect Ernesto Edwards Stab the scholar Yankel Rosenbaum during the disturbances in Crown Heights. Edwards is currently in a new York state prison for an unrelated crime. And Richard Green the director of a youth services program in Crown Heights who knows Anderson said saturday that Anderson had changed his version of the events in Crown Heights so often that anything he says has to be taken with big grains of at the same time police commissioner Raymond w. Kelly expressed Confidence saturday in the work of detectives and in the credibility of the evidence that was turned Over to the Brooklyn District attorney Charles j. Hynes. And another High level police official said that despite the doubts about Anderson s veracity Edwards was a real the latest developments came As Hynes continued his efforts to have the Justice department pursue a civil rights Case against Edwards who Haj Lesof been charged and against Lemerick Nelson jr., a Young Black Man who was tried in state court and acquitted of the slaying of Rosenbaum. Both Hynes and the . At Torney general Janet Reno have said they Are continuing to pursue investigations of the killings but Law enforcement officials have said they think Hynes and Reno Hope that the other will ultimately press charges. The new scepticism about Anderson As a viable wit Ness appears to make a shaky Case even More wobbly. It was Anderson who testified at Nelson s trial saying then that Rosenbaum had instigated the fight with a group of Young Black men and youths who surrounded him and that he had not seen who had stabbed Rosen Baum. But in the version that detectives said Anderson supplied Anderson said Nelson had stabbed Rosen Baum once before handing the knife to Edwards who then stabbed him three times
