European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 27, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Harding s upbringing reportedly brutal from wire reports Tonya Harding s determination to compete in the olympics in the face of adversity was instilled at an Early age by her Mother who used punishment As he prime motivator a published report said wednesday. The Chicago Tribune said Harding s Mother pushed her slapped her and even forced her to urinate on her self rather than interrupt her figure skating lessons As Achild. Her Mother had the vocabulary of a truck Driver said John Mcbride owner of the Valley ice Arena in Beaverton ore., one of the links used by Harding to  .-.,. -. Mcbride said that if Harding 23, failed to jump High enough skate cleanly or work hard enough her Mother Lavona Golden would slap her. Kirsten Spethmann who took skating lessons with Harding in Grade school recalled that Harding s Mother would erupt in an angry fury when her then-5-year old daughter wanted to rest or use the bathroom during practice. I paid for you to practice so you re going to stay on the ice and practice Spethmann said Harding s Mother would scream at the shivering child in the Home made Chiffon skating outfit. Another woman said that one time when Harding protested Golden slapped her so hard that she fell Ona Stool. However Golden defended her treatment of her daughter saying she saw skating As Harding s ticket out of trailer Park poverty. I just wanted her not to have a life like i had said Golden who worked As a waitress to pay for skating lessons and hand sewed her daughter s costume. Meanwhile the oregonian newspaper reported wednesday that Harding whose former husband reportedly is prepared to testify that she was involve from the Start in the plot to disable a figure skating rival is virtually certain to face criminal charges. Sources told the newspaper that Harding s former husband Jeff Gillooly was willing to admit his own role in the Jan. 6 attack on Nancy Kerrigan and testify that Harding helped plan the assault As Well As cover it up after learning the Fri was investigating. The report came on the heels of an Abc news re port tuesday night that Gillooly charged with conspiracy to assault Kerrigan Hopes to have a plea bargain worked out by the end of the week that implicates har Ding. .".-. \. Sources told Abc that Harding s Legal strategy is to maintain she found out about the alleged conspiracy and got involved in a cover up out of fear of Gillooly and Shawn Eckardt her 310-Pound then bodyguard. Abc said Harding will Point out that her divorce papers accuse Gillooly of beating her. Promoters looking to Cash in on the notoriety of the Case Are hot waiting for anything. Harding has been swamped with Money making of fers such As books and movies but has t committed Tony of them said Janis Timlick Legal assistant to one of Harding s lawyers Robert Weaver. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jari. 27,1984 democrats inter viewed a Aid off Steelworker a hard pressed Farmer and one another in responding to president Rea Gan s optimistic state of the Union message saying America is entangled abroad and distressed at Home. 20 year Sago Jan. 27,1974 a Federal appeals court ruled that president Nixon illegally delayed a 1972 pay raise for government civilian pm f Plo yees and service members and that they were entitled to the extra pay that they missed Over three months. 30 year Sago Jan. 27,1964 terrorists at tacked four More Mission stations in the Western Congo and the United nations was urgently asked for help belgian sources said. 40 year Sago Jan. 27,1954 the United states Britain and France accepted the soviet Agenda for the big four foreign ministers conference after the three Western leaders rejected Moscow s demand for the inclusion of China. 50 year Sago Jan. 27,1944 president Roose velt again stepped into the congressional Wrangle Over go voting criticizing a measure passed by the Senate that leaves the Absentee Vot ing process largely in state control. 50 years ago today Jan.27.9.4.4 the German siege of Leningrad is broken ending a 900-Day stranglehold that killed about 750,000 people in the Northern soviet City two thirds of them from cold and starvation. On Italy s Western front american troops win some ground North of Cassino but the germans drive free French troops Back from Monte Abate. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War Bison books corp. 1981 a quake victims struggle Back to normalcy7 los Angeles a Gregg Gar Finkel spent his evening tuesday at the Coin of laundry washing dust and crumbled plaster from his clothes. The earthquake ruined his washing machine. I m going through the motions of nor Malcy said the lawyer from Northridge epicentre of the Jan. 17 earthquake. Right now it s just peeking your head out of the Cave and getting used to the  similar scenes were played out All around los Angeles As people struggled to adjust to life after the quake. And Early wednesday Many of them were shaken awake As another aftershock jolted the san Fernando Valley measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale at 4 28 . Pacific time. The area has been shake by More than 2,500 aftershocks since the 6.6-magnitude quake. A Short time later a car drove around barricades and plunged 40 feet off a quake damaged Section of interstate 10, also known As the Santa Monica free Way. There Are Many signs and Road bocks before that area said California Highway patrol officer Bill  Driver suffered leg injuries. A poll in wednesday s los Angeles times showed that 3 percent of those polled said they would move out of the area because of the quake. In the hard est hit sections 4 percent said they would leave. One in four said the quake was the worst experience of their lives. Tip was grand but a big mistake St. Petersburg Fla.  the Valet s dream a $1,000 tip for bringing around a customer s Cadillac. I saw a $100 Bill. Then i started flip Ping the Money Back and saw another and another 21-year-old Ken Allen said. It just kept Comine and coming and coming. I was just like whoa " whoa is  Berthy or. Of West Virginia did t realize until he stopped for Gas on his Way Home saturday that he had mistakenly Given All his Money to the hotel Valet. You can t imagine what i Felt Ber thy said. I m poor folks. I have grown up scraping Nickels and  he called the hotel and Learned the Money was waiting for him. Allen had turned it in to his Boss All of it. The Valet ended up with a $20 tip. You got to feel Good he got his $1,000 Back he said. There s still honest peo ple and i m one of  King of the Road King Hussein of Jordan tries out a motorcycle at Rockville Harley Davidson inc. In Gaithersburg md., on monday. The King purchased two Harlys and one Bow motorcycle during his visit to the shop according to published reports. Prison Fence electrocuted 15 Birds Calipatria Calif. A the state s first electrified prison death Fence designed to keep inmates from taking flight has killed 15 Birds since it was turned on in november. Calipatria state prison has hired a consultant to find ways to prevent Birds from being electrocuted on the deadly wire Grid. We want to keep them the Birds out of there said it. . Deschler spokesman for the maximum Security prison. It is something that we Don t want to  the electrocuted Birds include a sea Gull two burrowing owls a Finch and a scissor Tail. The $1.5 million death Fence stands 13 feet High and is erected Between two 12 foot fences topped with razor wire de signed to prevent anyone from touching it accidentally. A special wire at the Bottom is sup posed to Send out a Small Shock to keep away rats and other Small animals. Warning signs Are posted in English and Spanish for the prison s 3,900 in mates. As Many As 20 other California Maxi mum and medium Security prisons will get electrified fences in the next few years