European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april 29, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 troubled officer May have to testify in King trial from wire reports los Angeles a police training expert May to testify in Rodney King s lawsuit despite psychologist s warning that he May suffer a nervous breakdown. Psychologist Debra Glaser said set. Mark Conta suffers from situational depression because he has been ostracized since his testimony helped convict two officers of violating King s civil rights. \ in that Federal trial Conta testified that King s March 3,1991, beating by officers violated police training and policies. Conta said he did t feel part of the police department anymore Glaser testified wednesday outside the jury s presence. He used to feel a real camaraderie with the officers. Now he said that kinship was teen cleared in sister s death Oakland Calif. A teen Ager whose journal entry of dear diary. I killed my Little sister led to her murder conviction was acquitted at a second trial wednesday. The girl who was 14 when her 4-year-old half sister died in August 1992, was convicted of murder last year. Her conviction was overturned when a ruled that her first set of lawyers had represented her incompetently. At her second trial this week the girl now 16, had a new lawyer and a new judge. After the prosecution rested its Case Sisk you county Superior court judge James e. Kleaver ruled that the evidence failed to prove the girl s guilt. ". -. The girl testified that she had fabricated the apparent confession so her Mother could have a answer to the puzzling death. Lawyers on both sides agreed that the teen is deeply troubled. Colin Powell talks Tough san Francisco rather than declare his candidacy for president retired . Army Gen. Colin l. Powell on wednesday did what would be presidential candidates Are expected to do As they nit the lecture circuit he insisted he has t decided whether to seek the White House told some Good jokes identified himself As a family Man tiptoed around Touchy issues and risked offending no one except Kim ii Sung. If the North korean Leader threatens other countries with nuclear weapons then it will disappear in a few Days As a political entity it will cease to exist warned Powell alluding to the United states nuclear retaliatory might. That was the sole Tough talk in Powell s address to the newspaper association of America convention on wednesday. Hunters track killer lion Sacramento Calif. Professional trackers stalking a killer Mountain lion in the Sierra Foothills reported finding new lion prints in the Vicinity where a woman was attacked and mutilated last weekend. While the tracks were at least a Day old the six Hunters still considered their discovery wednesday a major breakthrough in their Effort to find and destroy the lion that killed Barbara Schoener a 40 year old Jogger who is survived by her husband and two Small a Nikiten. Lion scat was found in the area tuesday according to the department of fish and game. Twas shipped to a Laboratory for analysis to see if it contained any human remains. According to investigators the lion killed the Placerville woman on saturday and ate some of her body. Drug using parents beamed Washington growing numbers of infants and toddlers Are being removed from their Homes and placed in Foster care because they have been neglected by parents addicted to drugs or alcohol a study says. The report by the general accounting office also found that More than half the Young children i Foster care have serious health problems including prenatal exposure to drugs. Twisted remains Mobile Homes and their reran lit in ruins at Saga More Village estates in West Lafayette ind., in the aftermath of a Tornado Early wednesday. Three people were killed and More than 60 injured by the twister that swept through Northwestern county. Dozens were left homeless. Gov Evan Dayh declared the county a disaster area and the National guard called out to help with clean up efforts. Big renovations deliver trouble to Post office official in Chicago Chicago up a High ranking Chicago postal official ordered a lavish $200,000 reconstruction of her office because of a rivalry with the City s postmaster according to a published report thursday. The Chicago Sun times quoted unidentified sources As saying that Chicago processing and distribution Man Ager Celestine Greene redecorated her office with ultramodern bathroom and Kitchen fixtures because she was jealous of the office of Chicago postmaster Jimmie Mason who is of equal rank. The revelations Are the latest in a string of damaging stories about corruption poor service criminal behaviour and indifference to customer complaints that have plagued the Chicago postal operation for months postmaster general Marvin Kenyon has set up a Tusk Force of National managers to figure out How to improve the ailing Chicago postal service which consistently gets the lowest customer satisfaction Marks in Tho country Greene apparently accomplished the redecoration by asking permission for routine office expansion and turning the request into a Carle Blanche to create an elaborate second Home despite a warning from postal inspectors the posh Job included u bathroom with a tub equipped with a Whirlpool and a Kitchen outfitted with ultramodern equipment and costly oversized Wood cabinets Wall to Wall carpeting and a dishwasher Lowry fab ends High flying status As training Center by Scripps Howard news service Denver a historical 56-year run As one of the nation s top military training centers comes to on end at Lowry fab this week As the Mission s leaders ceremonially step Down and the last students graduate. It s been a sad thing to watch this base go from its heyday Down to Zero said col. Jerry Wiseman com Mander of the 3400th technical training group. We used to see Large groups of students marching in formation All Over the base stopping traffic he said last week. I did t see a single student this in its heyday which ran from the Early 1940s until last fall More than 175 courses at a time were taught on the base. Nearly 1,000 instructors taught everything from Load ing bombs onto aircraft to cooking mauls for hundreds Fairmen to ordering supplies Bach year an average of 22,000 men and women finished courses that lasted from four weeks to 11 months. Base historian Mike Levy estimated that nearly 1.2 million students have passed through Lowry. Only 250 remain and by today even they will be gone. Their graduation Marks the end of Lowry s existence As a training Center which has spanned the eras of tur ret mounted machine guns. U-52 bombers and guided missiles. The base provided training for u full Range of the air Force s Mission but did not provide flight training which eventually made it vulnerable to clo sure. After today s Fin a graduation the dwindling forces at the base will concentrate on closing the inc by sept 30, some indians making big Money from casinos by Man Neapolis St. Paul Star Tribune Minneapolis every enrolled member of an Indian tribe will make an estimated $500,000 this year from Casino profits Casino executives say. Members of the Dew Alanton Dakota Community were paid about $400,000 last year. About 150 members of the tribe based in Shakopee and prior Lake receive the per capita payments. The payments have been a closely held secret for years because tribal leaders feared a backlash from Whites especially those who oppose Indian gaming and from less successful Indian tribes Robert Wynecoop who oversees Indian gaining for the Bureau of Indian affairs in Minneapolis air the disclosure could have sweeping elicit i Don t think any other tribe nationally Comei near that one he Baid of the per capita figure. The amount is Many times higher than those unofficially reported on other reservations in Minnesota mostly because Mystic Lake in the most profitable Casi no and is on a reservation close to the twin cities with few enrolled members. Bar restaurant and report owners in Minnesota have lobbied hard to get a piece of the gambling action say ing gaming has stolen profits from their Biumi Hciks and Hurt the state because Indian Cakinos Are exempt from ionic taxes. Nationally opponents Kuch As Donald ii ump Aruj other Catino owner in Atlantic City n.j., Ami vegas Law have complained lobbying coi Igich for change in the i a Law Idt gave Inbok the Light i open
