European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes . Monday june 6,1994 Ca Rostenkowski picks lawyer from Chicago for defense from wire reports Washington a rep. Dan Rostenkowski has chosen a former Federal prosecutor in Chicago to help him Battle Federal charges that he corruptly profited from his seat of Power on Capitol Hill. In a statement saturday in which he again proclaimed his innocence and vowed to mount a a vigorous and compelling defense Rostenkowski said he had selected Chicago attorney Dan k. Webb to direct that Effort. Webb who was . Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1981 to 1985, will replace Washington defense lawyer Robert Bennett on the highly publicized and politically charged Case. Bennett is said to have advised the Illinois Democrat to accept a Pica bargain with Federal prosecutors in which he would have pleaded guilty to a felony resigned from Congress and served at least a limited prison sentence. But Rostenkowski who temporarily stepped Down As chairman of the House ways and Means committee after his indictment on 17 felony counts Early last week made Clear that he had no intention of accepting such a Deal. A i intend to plead not guilty to each and very charge of this indictment a Rostenkowski said. A there will be no deals. I intend to win at  suspect held Langhorne pay a Man in a wheelchair rolled up to a car at a Busy shopping Center shot the Driver to death and was arrested after he fled police said. Colson Derby jr., 40, was being held saturday without bail in Bucks county prison. Police said Derby shot 40-Ycar-old Pat Mooney five times Friday afternoon As Mooney sat in his c in the shopping centers parking lot. Derby to non quickly wheeled to his car flipped the chair inside and fled police said. He was caught several Miles away on interstate 95 in suburban Philadelphia. Authorities said they did not know what prompted the  protest flouts Law Milwaukee a protesters chained and cemented themselves to cars blocking an abortion clinic saturday and claimed to be the first to break a Federal Law against such demonstrations. Legislation signed by president Clinton on May 26 prohibits protesters from blocking Access to women s health clinics or threatening patients and employees. The measure is called face Freedom of Access to clinic entrances act. A it is wrong for any Law to penalize lifesaving action a said Monica Migliorno Miller spokeswoman for the protesters. A Milwaukee pro lifers Are the first in the nation to a break face for the Sake of protecting the defenceless unborn a she said. At least five protesters used Cement and chains to fasten themselves to two vehicles blocking the doors to the clinic. Firefighters freed them. Across the Street other protesters erected 3-foot-High White crosses Sang hymns and  kills woman in Home Ozark Ala. A a Small truck careened off a Rural Highway into a House and overturned killing a woman sitting on her sofa watching television. Annice Bright 60, was crushed under bricks and smashed furniture late Friday when the truck driven by Michael Lee Johnson crashed into her living room the Coroner said. Brights grandchild was treated for minor injuries As was Johnson 19. Johnson was charged with murder and Drunken driving state trooper Charles Ward said. The House is about 60 feet from a slight curve on the Highway North of Ozark in Southeastern Alabama. It was raining at the time of the  wife seeks divorce Santa Ana Calif. A blaming irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage the wife of former los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates has filed for divorce. Sima l. Gates filed divorce papers in Orange county Superior court 011 May 5, four Days before a Federal judge dropped her husband from Rodney Kings lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages for his 1991 beating by police. A phone message was left for Daryl Gates at his los Angeles business office saturday Sima Gates residence is unlisted. Freighter with refugees Miami apr cuban gunboats fired for More than four hours saturday on a cuban freighter loaded with Florida bound refugees who reportedly hijacked the vessel. Seven people were injured one critically. Four of the wounded including the ships Captain were taken by coast guard helicopters to key West memorial Hospital. Three people who were Hurt scrambling for cover during the shooting were treated on the ship the coast guard said. The freighter was hijacked by the people aboard a tvs to reported saturday night and a coast guard official said authorities believe a hijacking May have occurred. A there May be something to that effect a coast guard Petty officer Tim Keene said by Telephone from key West. Passengers said three gunboats chased and tried to Stop the 125-foot freighter Rene Bedia Morales soon after it left the port of Mariel on cubans Northern coast about 1 . They said the gunboats continued to fire even after passengers showed them children were aboard. A at one Point they threw ropes to try to drag us in. We Cut the rope to get Loose again a Ija Risa Cuesta a stepdaughter of one of the boat s officers told radio station a cml in Miami. The shooting continued for More than four hours passengers said moving from cuban to International Waters. A the gunboats could not Stop the boat because these people were willing to die before they would Stop a said Arturo Cobo director of the cuban transit Center in key West. The ships Captain who was shot in the neck was in critical condition. One of the other three wounded was released from the Hospital the other two were in stable condition. Late saturday the coast guard brought 59 people ashore Keene said. The . Immigration and naturalization service was processing them at the coast guard base before turning them Over to the cuban transit Center in key West he said. A Ham operator in Panama received a mayday Call about 4 ., when the ship was about 15 Miles off the coast of Cuba. The operator relayed the Call to the . Coast guard which dispatched a Falcon Jet a patrol Craft and a couple of helicopters. The Jet located the boat about 67 Miles Southwest of key West in International Waters. The patrol Craft Point Lobos arrived about 8 45 ., coast guard spokeswoman Simone Adair said. Passengers said the jets appearance chased the gunboats away. Jos6 Ponce a spokesman for the cuban interest Section in Washington which represents the cuban government said saturday that he had heard nothing about the attack. Gordon b. Hinckley a mormon apostle praises Church president Ezra Taft Benson at Bensons funeral saturday. Leader of mormons revered at funeral in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City apr mormon Church president Ezra Taft Benson was remembered saturday As a Plain spoken Champion of Freedom who loathed communism defended the rights of Farmers and inspired his people. A the never got Over his boyhood love for Freedom a Gordon b. Hinckley a Church apostle and Counselor to Benson told thousands gathered for the leaders funeral. A rather it grew within him nurtured by what he saw of oppression in other lands and by what he observed firsthand of a growing dominance of government in this land Over the lives of the people a Hinckley said. Benson . Agriculture Secretary under president Eisenhower died last monday of congestive heart failure at age 94. He was president of the 8.7-Niillionn Iem Ber Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints for about eight years. Benson was Honorey during a nearly two hour service in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. The 6,000 seat Tabernacle was just Over half full Church leaders had encouraged members to watch on television. The service was carried live by Salt Lake City a four network affiliated stations and beamed via satellite to about 3,000 churches in the United states Canada and the Caribbean. Later saturday Benson was buried next to his wife of 66 years Flora and a few Yards from his parents in his Hometown of Whitney Idaho a farm Community in the Southeast Corner of the state. Flora Benson died in 1992. The cemetery is about a mile from the farmhouse where Benson was born in 1899. Nearly 500 people waited in the Bright afternoon Sun for the motorcade to arrive from the Tabernacle. Hundreds of spectators lined the 100-mile route a May we Honor this Lowboy who became a Prophet Reed Benson Ezra Bensons eldest son told the crowd As the White fluff from nearby Cottonwood Trees floated through the cemetery