European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 13, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 .will help russians junk chemical weapons Washington apr Russia agreed to accept . Help in destroying some 44,000 tons of chemical weapons members of a House armed services committee delegation said tuesday. The agreement negotiated by administration officials and key members of Congress amounts to a Promise by Russia to accelerate the destruction of the worlds largest chemical weapons stockpile. Reps. H. Martin Lancaster d-n.c., and Glen Browder d-aia., leaders of the House delegation announced the agreement after they returned from five Days of negotiations in Moscow. The lawmakers said president Clinton and russian president Boris sin plan to highlight the agreement during Clinton a visit to Moscow this week. Browder called the destruction of russians chemical weapons stockpile a one of the most formidable tasks facing the world Community in its efforts to achieve a global convention Banning chemical during the negotiations the lawmakers emphasized to their russian counterparts that a refusal to cooperate would threaten the prospects of receiving Cong res Faith in my wife than to bump off her Harding a bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt called the allegations a i would never get involved in anything like that a Eckardt told the oregonian. A that would be jeopardizing my future my career. 1 mean that a not something i could do or there was no indication that Harding had any involvement in the attack or knew anything about it the Boston apr Massachusetts is trying a new approach to rehabilitating its notoriously bad Drivers group therapy. Motorists who cause five accidents or get five moving violations within three years must attend eight hours of a reality therapy a in which offenders in groups of up to 20 will talk about Why they drive the Way they do. The registry of motor vehicles said 20,000 of the states 4.2 million Drivers will have to attend the $90 course. Mot everyone thinks it will work. A a it a inbred. Massachusetts Drivers Are inconsiderate. Signally approved financial Aid. The . Program of destroying chemical weapons is under Way in accordance with an earlier agreement the lawmakers said. A it is time that the russians get on with their Side of the agreements Quot Lancaster said. Under the new agreement the United states would provide funds to help the russians build a Laboratory and develop the technology needed to destroy the weapons. The United states would also provide training and technical assistance in setting up destruction Sites logging the Type and Quantity of weapons and addressing environmental and safety concerns. The lawmakers credited Thomas Pickering the . Ambassador to Russia and Harold Smith assistant Secretary of defense for atomic Energy with moving the negotiations Forward. Browder was recently appointed As an observer to the chemical weapons disarmament talks in Geneva. Lancaster has been participating in those talks for the past five years. In an interview tuesday with Koin to in Portland Harding denied any link to the attack saying she Felt cheated of the Chance to compete with Kerrigan. A i really wanted to skate against her a she said. The minister Eugene c. Saunders told investigators an acquaintance played the tape recording for him the newspaper reported. Saunders turned to Gary Crowe a private investigator and told him about the alleged plot. According to what Saunders told Crowe about the tape a Man with connections to Harding had approached Saunders acquaintance and asked him to arrange an a a accidents that would Knock Kerrigan out of the figure skating Competition. They want to it there first and they go like hell a said body shop Man Rob Degallo. A a in be repaired Peoples cars from California new Jersey. They can to believe the Way we drive Ralph Hingson a behavioural scientist at Boston University who found that Massachusetts reputation As a state of Lousy Drivers is Well deserved said the course could help. A we find that if people Are engaged and brought into their problems the Way this course does they re More Likely to Stop driving badly a he owner accused of slaying tax collector from wire reports North Miami Beach Fla. A Interpol and the Fri were searching wednesday for a restaurateur accused of ambushing and killing the tax collector who froze his Bank account. Donald Bonham a 61-year-old employee of the state Revenue department was shot four times on his front porch dec. 24 As he carried groceries into his Home. Pietro Venezia owner of an italian cafe in Miami s trendy Coconut Grove Section,.was charged with murder. Venezia 40, is an italian citizen. A Day before he was slain Bonham ordered the restaurant s accounts Frozen because it owed an undisclosed amount in Back group widens goals Washington a a National abortion rights group plans to run candidates in local school Board races. Y a a a a a a a /. A local chapters of the National abortion amp reproductive rights action league have had successes in school Board races in Northern California and Colorado. But this will be the first year that the National Headquarters will get involved president Kate Michelman said tuesday. The move reflects a broadening of the organizations goals that led it to add to its name earlier this month. It was formerly the National abortion rights action survives fiery crash Shannon City Iowa burned and bleeding from an Accident that killed his Mother and a family Friend a 9-year-old boy walked a Miles in the dark through Snow and ice to get help. A please open up. My mothers dead they wrecked the truck. They re dead a Matthew Witt told a farm family that answered his Knock on the door monday night. He was in serious condition with Burns on his fingers and legs the boy had been a passenger in a pickup that drove past two Road closed signs rolled off a Bridge landed in a Creek and burst into flames. Four trails of blood were found where he had tried to climb a 13-foot embankment. He arrived at Brandy pop Csc Home with his legs and feet Bare because his jeans socks and shoes had been burned off. Temperatures were in the Low a teens. A y. A lifer flees during funeral Parkersburg . A Man serving a life prison term slipped past guards to Freedom at his mothers funeral tuesday apparently with the help of relatives. Gary Allen Gibson 38, was viewing his mothers body at a funeral Home when a throng of family members surrounded him and moved toward an exit Deputy Warden Paul Kirby said. A in just a moment he was gone a said David Byers manager of Burdette funeral Home. Kirby believes a Driver was waiting outside for Gibson. Gibson was sentenced to life without parole in the mid-1980s for being a repeat offender Kirby said. Gibson a crimes included burglary armed robbery voluntary manslaughter and destruction of property Kirby said. Harassment policy backed los Angeles a the National organization for women is defending the county fire departments sexual harassment policy which includes a ban on adult magazines in stations. A firefighter Playboy Magazine and the american civil liberties Union of Southern California have sued the fire department contending that the policy violates free speech monday now filed a Brief in . District court in defense of the ban. Tammy Bruce president of the los Angeles now chapter said allowing firefighters to read sexually explicit magazines in fire stations creates a hostile work environment for female employees. Capt. Steven w. Johnson said his shift includes personal time and Breaks when he should be allowed to read what he wants. A court hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction is scheduled for Jan. 24. Winner s husband guard probed in attack on skater Portland Ore. A the Fri is investigating allegations that the husband of figure skater Tonya Harding and her bodyguard arranged last week s at tack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan the oregonian reported wednesday. A Portland minister told investigators he had listened to a tape recording of Harding a husband and bodyguard plotting with a third Man described As a a hit Many from Arizona to injure Kerrigan. Law enforcement sources told the associated press that the Fri would announce arrests later wednesday. Dewey Blanton a spokesman for Kerrigan said wednesday that the skaters family a was informed by the Fri of an impending development. It was not Clear if the announcements were related to the oregonians Story. Kerrigan was struck on the leg after a practice session thursday suffering severe bruises that forced her to withdraw from the . Olympic trials in Detroit. The International committee of the . Figure skating association named Kerrigan to the team along with Harding who won the . Championship at the trials. Harding a husband Jeff Gillooly acknowledged he was being investigated but told the newspaper he was not involved in the Kerrigan attack. A i do that a Gillooly said. A i have More Tonya Harding arrives in Portland Ore., on monday with her bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt left and her father Al Harding after winning the . Skating title. Newspaper said. State s bad Drivers to receive therapy
