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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday january 26,1994 John Wayne Bobbitt left is surrounded by journalists monday in Niagara Falls ., As he arrives to submit blood samples As part of a paternity suit oled by Beatrice Williams right. John Bobbitt submits to tests in paternity suit Niagara Falls  Up John Wayne Bobbitt submitted monday to blood tests to determine whether he fathered a 13-month-old boy. He also expressed Shock that his wife Lorena got away with chopping off his Penis. Bobbitt 26, achieved International notoriety last june when his wife Cut off his Penis with a Kitchen knife. Lorena Bobbitt admitted she Cut her husband but said he had raped her before the incident. She was charged with malicious wounding but a jury in Manassas va., found her innocent Friday by reason of insanity. Beatrice Williams of Niagara Falls filed a paternity suit against John Bobbitt in october claiming he is the father of her son. The child was born dec. 30, 1992, and boat itt misnamed on the birth certificate. Williams a bookkeeper accountant is seeking child support. Bobbin s attorney Michael Lacono said monday that his client was never involved with Williams. He certainly knew her but to say they had a relationship we re denying that. We re denying that they Ever had sex at All Lacono said Williams lawyer William Berard said his client had a three month relationship with Bobbitt that ended shortly after she told him she was pregnant. Lacono said Bobbitt underwent a Dan blood test monday. Results Are expected in three to four weeks. Meanwhile Bobbitt whose Organ was surgically reattached told the syndicated television show american journal that he was shocked when he Learned his estranged wife had been acquitted. I turned to my Mother and said what she got away with it Bobbitt said. He blamed prosecutor Paul Ebert for the verdict. In addition to prosecuting Lorena Bobbitt s trial Ebert handled the Case against John Bobbitt who was tried late last year on a charge of marital rape. He was acquitted. -. However in Ebert s closing arguments to the jury in Lorena Bobbitt s Case he said he believed that John Bobbitt had raped his wife although the prosecutor said this did not excuse her action. I believed All along that it was a setup. The whole trial the prosecution was totally biased one sided because the prosecutor had to prosecute both people me and my wife Bobbitt said. He said he Felt Ebert believed Lorena Bobbitt s ver Sion of what happened and no matter what i said to him you know he just did t want to believe it. So i went to his office. I could just Tell by the look in his eyes. He did t want to take any information. He just wanted to throw. In the  Bobbitt said his family was very upset about this miscarriage of  he said he was just upset at the judicial system  a Usa today can Gallup poll found that 52 per cent of 693 adults questioned had no sympathy for John Bobbitt and 51 percent of women surveyed said Lorena Bobbitt was justified in amputating his Organ. But John Bobbitt told american journal every where i go i get a lot of sympathy very Little hostility. You know everybody s coming up to me and talking to me and shaking my  Dick Tracy s wife says she s fed up Chicago a after 45 years of marriage Dick Tracy is about to face an occupational Hazard encountered by Many police officers divorce. In the feb. 7 comic strip Thebert nosed crime stopper will be served with divorce papers from his wife Tess. She says that she s had enough of the lonely life of a police wife and that Tracy s Truelove is his career. Tracy is about to return Home from the Fri Academy in Washington to try to save his marriage when terrorists threaten to blow up a presidential Monument if Theydon t get $1 billion. The Issue of divorce is one that Many police officers grapple with and it is some times referred to As an occupational Hazard of the Job Tribune Media services which Syndicate the comic strip said monday in announcing tie plot. While statistics on the divorce rate among police vary widely one report cites the rate As High As 84  Dick Tracy was created 1931 by Chester Gould. Claims on Vietnam pos discounted Washington a the Clinton administration dismissed As implausible the claims in two russian documents that North Vietnam held twice As Many american prisoners of War As it released following the . Pullout. A group of analysts from the Central intelligence Agency the defense Intelli gence Agency and the state depart ment s Bureau of intelligence and re search concluded that the documents Are authentic but almost certainly wrong the Pentagon said monday. In our analysis of these documents we encountered the same problems that we have experienced since the beginning of the conflict in Vietnam inaccuracies inconsistencies exaggerations and fabrications the analysts wrote in an assessment of the documents received from russian archives last year. One document known As the "1205 report purports to be a russian Lan Guage translation of an official Vietnam Ese report on american pos held in the communist led North in 1972. It was provided last april to the .-russian joint commission that is investigating is sues related to pos and the missing in action from the cold War Era. The 1205 report asserts that North Vietnam held 1,205 american prisoners in mid september 1972 compared with the 591 americans who actually were re leased in operation Homecoming in Early 1973. The implication is that Viet Nam withheld a substantial number of pos and has been lying about it eve since. The vietnamese government has denounced the document As a fabrication As has Gen. Tran  Quang the sup posed author of the speech cited in the1205 report. The . Analysis of this document concluded that it was indeed produced by the former soviet Gru or military intelligence Agency but that the information contained in it is not believable without further supporting evidence. Citing multiple incongruities in the report the analysts said that at most 73 americans not yet accounted for from Vietnam could have been held in Addi Tion to 4he 591 declared prisoners. That makes the claim of 1,205 prisoners in consistent with our understanding of How Many americans would have survived the events in which they were lost to become captives they wrote. Returning pos also were unaware of any other american prisoners the analysts said. So for hundreds of captives to have remained unknown to other americans they would have to have been put in a separate prison system the analysts concluded. We have found no evidence of an additional system they wrote. Our Bottom line is that the document is not what the russian Gru claimed itto be and the information suggesting that More than 600 additional  is not accurate. We cannot Dis miss the document As a Complete Fabrica Tion but we need More information to understand its origin and  a second document studied by the . Analysts is known As the "735 re  it is a fragmentary soviet Gru re port that was provided to the .-rus-Sian joint commission on pos and mias at a meeting in Moscow last sep tember. . Analysts said they believe that the document is authentic not a Fabrica Tion As claimed by Hanoi but that it reference to additional american pos is hot credible. The 735 report is a russian language translation of the text of an Oral report presented to a vietnamese communist party gathering in late 1970 or Early 1971. The speaker and the time and place of the presentation Are not mentioned. We have no idea where the number735 came from the . Analysts wrote adding it is possible the speakers exaggerated the figures for political   
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