European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Thursday february 3,1994 Soldier from korean War identified by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington More than 43 years after he died on a Frozen Battlefield in North Korea army sgt. Frank m. Morales is finally coming Home. Morales remains Are the first of numerous recently returned sets from the korean War to be identified army officials said tuesday. Since May 1990, communist North Korea has Given the United states 194 coffins containing what Are believed to be the remains of . Service members listed As missing in action since the War which lasted from 19.50 to 1953, the actual number of remains is probably higher be cause Many coffins contained mingled remains belong ing to More than one service member said col. Michael Spinello director of the army s casualty and memorial operations Center. Morales remains were in one of 33 coffins returned by North Korea in late november. His identification was unusually easy because his dog tags were also re turned and the army was Able to match his remains with dental records. Identifying other remains will be More difficult. Den Tal records Are the preferred Means of identification but few such records exist four decades after the War. Many were destroyed in a fire that swept through the military s records depository in St. Louis in 1973. Spinello said he expects that further identifications of the korean War remains will be made but he could not estimate How Many or when. The army has not ruled out the possibility of match ing remains through Dan testing although that will also be difficult because it requires a sufficient Sample of remains and a direct maternal relative must be found to offer a reference Sample he said. The army has contacted Morales widow now living in Forest Hills n.y., about arrangements for his burial. Spinello said Morales also has family still living in his native puerto Rico. I m in Shock Morales 71-year-old widow said in a Telephone interview with the associated press. Shedin t want her first name published. Of my god. I still Don t believe it she  s it. After 40 years who could believe it the Pentagon said Morales was born june 10,1913. He was lost in november 1950, while assigned to l co 3rd in 8th Cav regt 1st Cav div near Ulsan North Korea. On nov. 2, 1950, Morales battalion was overrun in a Surprise attack by chinese forces that decimated the regiment s 1st and 2nd bus the Day before. The 8th Cav regt lost about 600 soldiers Over four Days of fighting. More than 8,100 . Service members Are  counted for in the korean War. Washington has no diplomatic relations with communist North Korea. Although the two signed an agreement last year pledging cooperation in accounting for korean War missing North Korea has not permitted . Casualty officials to enter their country to recover remains. Contributing to this article the associated press in the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 3,1984 president Rea Gan decrying the huge deficits in his proposed spending proposal promised to submit a plan to bal Ance the . Budget but not until after the november elections. 20 years ago feb. 3,1974 Senate democratic Leader Michaelj. Mansfield said the Federal courts must pursue the crimes of watergate As Long As it takes to Deal with the Nixon administration scandal. 30 year Sago feb. 3,1964 Ranger 6, at tempting to Blaze a Trail for . As _ Tro nauts scored a spectacular lunar bulls Eye but the failure of its Cam eras denied the world a glimpse of the Moon s surface. 40 year Sago feb. 3,1954 Gen. Mark a Clark accused the communists of holding Back some Allied prisoners from the korean War in order to sell them Back to us in the future for the reds own evil  50 year Sago feb. 3,1944 the strange Odys sey of a bomb Laden . B-24, cruising aimlessly Over England after its Crew was forced to bail out ended when two Raf spitfires shot it Down Over the North sea military officials said. World War ii 50 years ago too a feb. 3 after five Days of bitter fighting two soviet tank forces encircle 10 German army divisions in the Korsun Shevchenko sky area of the Southern. If ont. The germans attack British troops in the Camp Leone salient of the Anzio beachhead in Italy in the Marshall islands the . Army s 7th div expands its hold on Kwajalein atoll. Source 2194 Days of War. W h. Smith publishers inc. The Wori almanac of world War ii Bison Boovis corp. 1981 a defendant s blast video came ". Of. ,. From Holywood new York a defendants in the world Trade Center bombing smiled tuesday As a defense lawyer showed jurors that clips of spectacular bombings prosecutors had showed them were taken from a movie. A prosecutor countered out of the jury s earshot that it did t matter if it was John Wayne himself because the movie clips had been used by terrorists to introduce videotaped lessons on making a bomb. Four men Are on trial on Federal conspiracy charges in the feb. 26 bombing of the world s second tallest buildings. Six people were killed and More than 1,000 injured. On monday prosecutors showed jurors a videotape of explosions that was seized from defendant Ahmad Ajaj when he entered the country sept. 1,1992. He was still jailed on a false passport charge on the Day of the Trade Center blast. Prosecutors say Ajaj was carrying the recipe for the bomb As Well As detailed instructions on carrying out a terrorist attack. The tape showed what appeared to be a . Embassy exploding in a fireball. A voice on the tape asked do you see these explosions and Aren t they Beautiful an Nice a second part of the videotape began with the message International islamic resistance presents a course in manufacturing explosives and showed a person mixing chemicals. Ajaj s attorney Austin Campriello told . District judge Kevin i. Duffy tues Day in Chambers that he was outraged to learn overnight that the explosion scenes were actually from a 1987 movie death before Dishonour about a group of elite marines assigned to Stop terrorism in an Arab kingdom. The jury has really turned off on us As a result of this movie not As a result of thebom breaking lesson but As a result of the american embassy being blown up which in reality is Hollywood Campriello told a Van drives through the doors of what appears to be a . Target in a video shown inthe world Trade Center bombing trial. Scenes in the video were taken from a Holly Wood movie. Duffy. Campriello said prosecutors deceived jurors because they knew the embassy explosion was from a movie but did not say so. The judge allowed Campriello to show the jury the explosion scenes directly fro the movie. As Campriello noted that the scenes came from an american movie the defendants All smiled. Several jurors also appeared to relax. Later assistant . Attorney Gilmore Childers replayed the bomb akm  it was John Wayne himself on that movie it would t matter a bit Childers said in Chambers. The intent is very Evi Dent of what those tapes were supposed to  decided obviously whoever was putting this together that they wanted a scene with an american embassy blowing up. The entire movie in t on this tape. It just very select scenes obviously intended for a  said the video was clearly anti american and these explosions the government strongly believes were to in cite the viewers of that tape to listen to the rest of the course so they can make sex plosives.". Texas executes killer of teen age clerk Huntsville Texas a an in mate was executed by injection wednes Day for killing a 16-year-old convenience store clerk in a 1980 Holdup. Harold Barnard 51, went to his death after the . Supreme court rejected late hour appeals contending that he was mentally incompetent and that he was drunk at the time of the slaying. Barnard was convicted of murdering Tuan Nguyen at his father s 7-eleven in Galveston. Barnard shot the teen Ager once in the heart with a Rifle. The High school Honor student and his father had filled a bag with Money but Barnard and his three companions fled empty handed. They were arrested in a stolen car a half hour later. There was absolutely no provocation and the robbery apparently had been Complete and Barnard had the Money in his hand said Jack Brock who prosecuted Barnard. This certainly was a Case appropriate for the death penalty and 12 jurors  Barnard said at his trial that he in tended Only to wound the teen Ager. The three others arrested were convicted of lesser charges imprisoned and paroled. Defense attorneys contended on a peal that Barnard suffered from paranoid delusions and that he did t understand his punishment. Prosecutors disputed that. Fellow death Row inmates said the for Mer Carpenter once hurled a typewriter through his cell bars and occasionally went on screaming binges that lasted two Days or More