European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday january 16,1994 agriculture employees warned on lobby efforts. " u. By the Washington pos Washington Loose cannons at the agriculture department will be fined or jailed says the department Secretary Mike Espy. Espy was none too Happy when he heard that some employees during working hours and using government equipment and funds had been lobbying Congress either for or against his department reorganization plans. Some employees also were writing draft letters to encourage the Public to lobby. Espy s proposal Calls Espy for closing or merging 1,215 agriculture regional Fiel offices for an estimated savings of $1.6 billion Over five years. Espy fired off a memo last month saying he will not tolerate such actions and warned that anyone caught could be thrown in jail. There is no doubt that the use of government Money to encourage members of the Public to lobby the Congress on this or any other Issue violates the anti lobbying act he wrote. Conviction for such a violation carries criminal penalties including a Fine or imprisonment or  but Federal employee Union representatives Are acc ing Espy of infringing on their rights and Are de main oing that he clarify his position. A department spokesman said this is not an Effort to inhibit those employees entitled to lobby on behalf of unions those who have Legal entitlements to lobby such As designated labor  but Lisa Kelly a spokeswoman for the National federation of Federal employees Union said last week that her organization has yet to receive a response to its letter last month challenging the Espy edict. Shooting Star in Dallas famed russian weapons designer Mikhail t. Kalash widely used ak-47 military assault Rifle has recently Nikov looks at a drag nov sport Rifle thursday at a developed a semiautomatic Hunting version of his gun show in Dallas. Kalashnikov who designed the popular military Rifle. Sex mail worker charged in Carrier s death Cedar rapids Iowa a a Man who shot a letter Carrier to death Friday set her up by mailing a certified letter to his son s House knowing she would have to deliver it authorities said. Ronald Wendell Downs 51, was charged with Mur Der in the killing of Gloria Chising who was gunned Down As she delivered the mail. Downs a former postal worker pleaded guilty in 1991 to threatening to kill Heising Linn county District court records show. He was Given a one year sus Pended sentence and was on probation. Downs mailed a certified letter to his son s House on Heising s route . Attorney Stephen Rapp told Khan to. He let himself into the House and am bushed Heising As she made her delivery Rapp said. He said Downs had two guns a single shot sawed off Shotgun and a handgun. When is. Heising arrived in the area Downs chased her shot her two or three times with the Shotgun discarded the Shotgun and then shot her at least twice with the handgun Rapp said. He said Downs re loaded the Shotgun twice. Bob Hilton a news Anchor for Khan said he was driving through the area on his Way to work when he saw a Man and a woman struggling in the Street. She was screaming for her life Hilton said. He was standing Over her in a threatening Way. He was holding some kind of a Long weapon. He pointed it right at her head and shot. And then he shot her a Sec Ond  Hilton said the Man ran away but returned quickly with a pistol and shot her several More times. He unloaded it. It must have been four five six shots. He grabbed her Collar and drug her from the Street Over to the curb Hilton said. Cedar rapids is a Community of 108,000 people located about 105 Miles Northeast of Des judge delays deposition hearings in Jackson Case from wire reports Santa Monica Calif. A judge Friday postponed Michael Jackson s deposition and two hearings in the lawsuit accusing the Singer of child molestation. After meeting with attorneys on both sides Superior court judge David Rothman postponed a hearing originally set for Friday and one set for this week until Jan. 25. Rothman also ordered that Jackson s deposition scheduled for tuesday be taken Between Jan. 25 and feb. 1. Larry Feldman attorney for Jackson s 14-year-old accuser also is seeking to Force the entertainer to answer written pretrial questions. Jackson attorneys have instructed him not to because criminal investigations into child molestation allegations against Jackson Are ongoing. The Trafis scheduled to begin March 21. Body linked to palme Case Salisbury . A decomposed body found last week was that of a one time suspect in the unsolved slaying of swedish prime minister olo palme authorities said Friday. Viktor Gunnarsson 40, a native of Sweden who moved to the United states after he was cleared in palme s 1986 death was reported missing dec. 3, Watauga county sheriff James Lyons said. The body had gunshot wounds in the head an neck. Lyons said authorities were still searching for a weapon and suspects. Even though Gunnarsson was cleared in palme s slaying his name remained linked to the death. Retired swedish police detective wrote a Book claiming Gunnarsson was the killer. Gunnarsson denied the allegations. Palme was shot to death in Stockholm on feb. 28, 1986, As he and his wife Lisbeth walked Home froma movie. Wii cold War activist Dies Warrenton a. Erica Glaser Wallach 71, who evaded nazis in Germany fascists in Spain and a soviet death sentence has died of cancer. At the height of the cold War the German born Wallach spent five years in communist prisons on fabricated espionage charges. She was released in 1955 after the soviets without explanation declared her innocent. Her life already is the subject of a documentary a play and an autobiography. Her son architect Robert s. Wallach said Friday that a second documentary about her life May answer some of the lingering questions about her ordeal. Before she died dec. 22, Erica Wallac authorized a German historian to obtain her records in the former soviet Union. Wallach came to Warrenton in 1957 with he husband retired capt. Robert r. Wallach who died last August. She wrote a Blok about her life Light at Midnight taught French and latin at Highland school for 18 years and was not politically Active at All her son said. 60% of flood funds dried up Washington the Federal emergency a Epa ent Agency has spent 60 percent of the 51billion it expects to spend to help nine midwestern states recover from the summer floods officials said Friday. Most of the unspent Fema Money is earmarked to help people move Homes away from flood prone areas or is awaiting insurance settlements before buildings can be repaired. The Agency has spent Only $3 million to help people move put of flood Plains. Another $126 million is available for that purpose and applications Are still being taken. State House oks prayer Bill Jackson miss. The Mississippi House overwhelmingly approved a Bill that would allow prayer in Public schools As Long As the prayer was initiated by students. The action comes two months after a Jackson High school principal was suspended without pay forthe rest of the school year because he allowed students to read prayers Over the intercom. The House approved the Bill 109-8 thursday an sent it to the Senate. Under the Bill a teacher in any state supported school could permit voluntary participation in nonsectarian no proselytizing student initiated prayers the Bill does not Sanction prayer by the state