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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 11, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 11, 1994 a . The stars and stripes Page 72 off duty officers accused of gun attack from Are reports los Angeles a two off duty los Angeles police officers were arrested after allegedly firing at a bus and a California Highway patrol officer who was writing a ticket a sheriff s sergeant said. Los Angeles officers Michael Herrera 30, and Ted Teyechea 29, were booked wednesday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon of a police officer said sheriffs Deputy Rich Erickson. They were held on $25,000 bail each. V a there Are indications that alcohol was involved a said sheriffs Deputy Angie Mclaughlin. Both men fired at the cup officer about 2 . On a freeway in suburban Carson said cup officer Todd Sturges. No one was Hurt. Investigators found two handguns and an undetermined number of Shell casings in the pickup that the suspects were driving Mclaughlin said. The cup officer was issuing a ticket to a Driver when a bus drove by and passengers yelled that someone was shooting at them Mclaughlin said. The. Officer pursued the suspects. A More shots were fired As he chased them Mclaughlin  heart mismatched Portland Ore. A a 15-year-old boy died 10 Days after surgeons Cut open his Chest for a heart transplant Only to discover that the Organ had the wrong blood Type. Or. Adnan Coba Oglu head of Oregon health sciences University a heart transplant program said the preparatory surgery did not hasten the boys death. Mark Alvin Desylvia died Friday of a degenerative heart disease. \ this is the second time since 1991 that University surgeons brought a heart with the wrong blood Type into an operating room. The last time they actually transplanted the mismatched Organ based on faulty information received from another Hospital. This time Coba Oglu said the transplant team somehow received the impression that a compatible heart was on the Way. When he did a last minute double Check and Learned that the heart was of an incompatible blood Type he stopped the operation. The wrong blood Type increases the risk of tissue rejection and  theory discounted Sheffield Lake Ohio a a a defense attorney discounts suggestions that heavy Metal music May have led to the slaying of the father of olympic ice dancer Elizabeth Punsalan. Her brother has been charged with the killing. Ricardo Punsalan 20, Elizabeth a brother spent the 10 hours Between his release from a psychiatric Hospital and the death of his father listening to heavy Metal music the morning journal of Lorain reported wednesday. Defense attorney Joseph Grunda said Punsalan has not mentioned being influenced by music. A a in be heard rumours about that before but they Are just rumours a Grunda  avoids inquiry Oklahoma City a gov. David Walters who of headed guilty last year to violating Campaign finance Laws narrowly avoided an impeachment inquiry when the Oklahoma House voted against the move. A a we re glad to have it behind us a Walters said after wednesdays 52-47 vote. A we done to hold anything against  Walters who is completing his first four year term has said he will not seek re election. Walters pleaded guilty in october to accepting $18,500 from a contributor during his 1990 Campaign. The Legal limit for donations is $5,000.gun victim s widow sues Houston a the widow of a Scot who was shot to death after being mistaken for a burglar filed a wrongful death lawsuit wednesday against the Homeowner who killed her husband. Andrew de Vries a 29-year-old scottish businessman was killed last month As he banged on the Back door of Jeffrey Agee a Houston Home. De Vries winding up a night on the town with another scottish businessman was lost and had gone knocking on doors in the neighbourhood police said. He had been drinking but his blood alcohol level was below the Legal limit. Windle Turley the attorney for de Vries widow Allison said the lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in damages but would not specify the amount. Virginia defends plan Vii Roanoke a. Apr the states attorney g enc Al thursday defended a plan to keep Virginia military Institute All male by setting up a separate but similar program for women. The Virginia women a Institute for leadership a is designed to create the goal of a female citizen Soldier in Virginia in the same Way that Virginia produces male citizen soldiers a James Gilmore told . District judge Jackson Kyser. A a it a a Good Opportunity for  he said in a hearing that resulted from a 1990 Justice department lawsuit. Kiser ruled three years ago that a min a unique educational environment Woula be ruined if women were brought on Campus. The 4th . Circuit court of appeals in Richmond overturned his ruling but gave the state the option of giving equivalent financial support to a separate program for women. The program at Mary Baldwin College a private women a school 30 Miles from a min a Lexington Campus would have the same goal of preparing students for leadership but without pm is sometimes harsh 24-hour military atmosphere. ,. A the evidence will show that the innovative holistic program envisioned for Mary Baldwin would be in far greater demand among the Young women of Virginia than a Mere Mirror image replication of Vii a Gilmore said. The Justice department returned to court to argue that the Mary Baldwin alternative allows sexual discrimination to continue in a Way the appeals court barred. The program omits the essential components of a min a unique experience Justice department attorney Gary Haugen said and bases the differences on gender stereotypes. The Justice department wants Kiser to Force Vii to admit women. Haugen likened the states position now to its maintaining separate but supposedly equal Public schools for Blacks a practice found unconstitutional decades ago. These satellite images of the . Capitol shown in various degrees of Resolution were released by three american companies wednesday to show the Type of material that the firms want to sell Over the objection of Cia officials. Agencies cautious on Washington apr the photograph of the Capitol was taken from an Earth orbiting satellite. It shows windows crosswalks and sharply defined shadows. Its the kind of detail an enemy Power planning airstrikes would love to have. And its available on the open Market. The picture is one example of what experts believe May burgeon into a $15 billion worldwide Market a with . Companies positioned to take the Lead. The problem is that a Remote sensing technology a As it is called has uses potentially More lethal than map making meteorology and environmental planning. While . Companies Are eager for Export licenses the defense department and the Central intelligence Agency Are wary of giving away government secrets. A my principal concern a Cia director James Wool sey told two House committees wednesday a is to prelude the Export of sensitive technologies and capabilities and to minimize any Chance of damage to the Security of the United  members of the House intelligence committee and the committee on science space and technology responded that cold War Era secrecy is blocking american companies out of a lucrative Market. Rep. George e. Brown jr., d-calif., chairman of the science panel accused the National Security agencies of a living in a never never land of the past in objecting to . Exports of satellite technology. Tots never got toys from donated Cash by the Washington Post Washington a the Marine toys for tots foundation bought no toys with the nearly $10 million it collected through a direct mail Campaign in the last two years officials acknowledge. The Charity also is the target of a Federal probe into whether its former president diverted Money from the nonprofit organization and engaged in other financial improprieties for his personal Benefit according to foundation officials Ana others. The foundation is the chief fund raising Arm for the Marine reserves Christmas gift drive. Marine Reserve officials said that they Are scrambling to Correct the problems but that they Are worried the foundations questionable management practices will jeopardize the Success of the annual gift drive which began More than 40 years ago. Of All the Money the foundation raised in its most recent fiscal year 10 percent went to buy toys financial records show. The rest was spent on management fund raising expenses and materials used to promote the reserves toy Appeal. These funds included corporate gifts and Money donated by Federal workers through the combined Federal Campaign. And for the second year in a Row the donations mailed in by More than 200,000 people across the country did not cover the Cost of running the massive direct mail Effort according to the Charity s records. Foundation officials said the most serious problems Stem from their former president and chairman Jerry l. King. He was dismissed last summer after the Buffalo news of new York reported that he had been convicted of tax evasion and conspiring to Deal in counterfeit Money  
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