European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 26, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 use of umbrella causes mistrial in murder Case from wire reports Englewood Colo. A for the want of an umbrella a trial was lost. District judge Michael Bitda declared a mistrial in a murder Case thursday after a Young woman on the jury borrowed an umbrella from a prosecution witness for $5. The judge said the act could have Given jurors the impression that the witness Harold Mason w As a Nice Guy. William Harland a 34-Ycar-old computer expert was being tried on charges of killing his brother in Law Darrell Allen. Invoking Colo Radoye make my Day Law Harland said he opened fire after Allen and Mason broke into his Home in 1992. Mason a twice convicted Felon and alleged crack user told authorities that Harland lured Allen to the Home to gun him Down. During the trial a juror who was leaving for Home during a downpour spotted a Man with an umbrella enter the courthouse. She asked to borrow it and offered $5. The umbrella owner took the Money and the juror s name and phone number. Hours later when Mason took the stand the juror recognized him and fold other jurors. Decorated vet Dies at 85 Oak Hill . A Stanley Bender who won the medal of Honor for knocking out two German machine gun nests during world War ii died of cancer wednesday. He was 85. Bender was an army staff sergeant when two months after the june 1944 Normandy invasion he stormed through a rain of bullets and grenades to take out the machine gunners. His actions were credited with inspiring his troops to overwhelm the occupied town of la Lande France. Bender also was awarded Frances highest award the Croix de Guerre As Well As the purple heart the Bronze Star and seven Battle stars. Two Bridges on the West Virginia Turnpike w Ere named in benders Honor the first on nov. 8,1954, and the second in 1987. Perot Campaign chided Washington the Federal election commission criticized Ross Perot a 1992 _ presidential Campaign for violating Campaign finance Laws but decided against taking further action officials said Friday. The commission sent two letters of admonishment to Perot Campaign officials outlining the violations and asking them to a take Steps to ensure that this activity does not occur in the the letters were released to the Public Friday. The commission said the Perot Campaign broke the Law when it accepted excessive contributions failed to reimburse Campaign workers for some expenses failed to disclose disputed debts and failed to report some financial activities Miner facing jail in killing Charleston . A a Union Coal Miner was convicted Friday in the shooting death of a nonunion worker during a 1993 United mine workers strike. A Federal jury found Jerry Dale Lowe of Yolyn guilty on conspiracy and weapons charges in the death of Eddie York 39, of Lenore. Lowe faces up to 50 years in prison and a is million Fine when he is sentenced aug. 26. York was shot in the Back of the head As he crossed the unions picket line outside the Arch Mineral Ruffner mine in july 1993. Buttafuoco shop targeted Baldwin n. Y. A shots were fired into the fagade of a Long Island Auto body store owned by Joey Buttafuoco who served prison time for his affair with an underage Amy Fisher police said Friday. _ the Burly Mechanic discovered the damage when he came to work Friday morning at the Complete Auto body in Baldwin about 40 Miles cast of new York City. Police said that so far they had found no connection with an unknown sniper who wounded two people on the Southern state Parkway near Baldwin about 3 45 . Friday. Buttafuoco a sexual fling with Fisher landed him in prison and Cost his wife a Bullet in the head Fisher is currently serving a five-to-15-year sentence for the crime which captivated the nation and inspired three television movies. Down to Earth Sagan doubts Spacey claims by Tom Paulson Seattle Post intelligencer Seattle a Nancy Reagan a Trust in astrology stories of alien abductions and surveys showing one in four adult americans does no to know Earth revolves around the Sun Are All symptoms of the same dangerous disorder Carl Sagan says. A we live in a society fundamentally based on science and technology. And almost nobody understands science and technology a said Sagan an astronomer at Cornell University in Ithaca n.y., who has become widely known for popularizing science. Because of the enormous Power science has Over our daily lives this knowledge Gap is a formula for social disaster and political abuse he said. Sagan was the keynote speaker Friday for a conference titled a the pay Sagan Aetiology of belief a sponsored by the committee for scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal the organization was created in 1976 by scientists and others to evaluate so called a a fringe science critically. Psychiatrist John or Mack of Harvard University in Cambridge mass., has drawn wide Media attention for urging a serious evaluation of claims of ufos abduction and interplanetary sexual abuse. Mack contends that examination of these Seif reported ufos abductees under hypnosis indicates they Are not lying and so must be believed. But Sagan and others Friday countered that the fact that someone believes something to be True docs not make it so. Sagan said that it is statistically plausible that extraterrestrial life exists but that this is not the same thing As proof. �?o1 would love it alien visitations on Earth even if they were Short sullen Grumpy and sexually obsessed a. Up Flo beliefs in alien objects from space such As this alleged ufos photographed in 1967, can Stem from scientific illiteracy astronomer Carl Sagan believes. He said. A but there just Isnit any Good Elizabeth Loftus a psychologist at Seattle a University of Washington and an expert on a false memory syndrome a also spoke Friday of the social Cost of scientific illiteracy. Loftus is a Strong critic of claims of repressed memories of sexual abuse. Given the premise of unconscious repression that a a ology a a a a _ Quot to accept uncritically almost any claims elicited from pervades psychology Loftus said the Public has come people As a result of psychotherapy. But scientific studies have shown she said that such memories Are easily created through suggestions made by the therapist during therapy. Fri on film Agency seeking help from moviegoers in nabbing criminals new York apr coming soon to a theater near you the of big a most wanted. Real life criminals will join the bad boys of the movies on screen under an Fri plan to seek help from moviegoers in capturing dangerous fugitives. The first Felon on film Kenneth of Donnell 49, an Escapee from the Passaic county n.j., jail. His picture and description a White male 5-foot-10, 190 pounds with Brown eyes Gray hair and tattoos on his arms and calves a began appearing on local movie screens Friday said Joe Valiqu Etc of the of big a new York City office. A a a of Donnell a picture will have a two week run with a number appearing on screen for people to Call with information. If the process is successful it will be expanded nationwide Valiquette said a a it a the same As the rationale Back in 1950 for the creation of the 10-most-Wantcd list a Valiquette said. A we want to generate publicity get assistance from the some extra information on of Donnell he Speaks fluent Spanish and italian he was serving a 16-Ycar sentence on robbery and weapons convictions before his escape this year. The Fri is working on the plan with the Kansas City National Cinema network. With Access to More than 4,000 movie screens across the country non usually provides advertising Public service announcements and other productions shown before a movie. A they came to us and they wanted to test it a said Brad Epstein non vice president of marketing. A we done to know it will work out but we were open to it As a in the new York area the criminals will appear before the feature presentation in All Loews Heaters Vii Quetie said. Wanted top 10 deadbeats in Georgia by Cox news service Atlanta a state welfare officials Are enlisting a tactic from the old West in their Campaign to Trace parents who Haven to paid child support. A a wanted posters Are to show the names and photographs of Georgia a 10 worst deadbeats. A failure to pay child support is a crime a said gov. Zell Miller announcing the new program last week. A we intend to treat these criminals As the criminals that they stale officials plan to put up More than 2,500 posters at All state office buildings and at any private business that wants them beginning the first week of july. But the move is already drawing fire from groups that believe Georgia a collection Laws discriminate against men . A a Sonny Burmeister president of the children a rights Council of Georgia said he will petition Liis Board to file a lawsuit to prevent the state from carrying out the poster Campaign. Burmeister said he believes a child could be irreparably harmed from the Public embarrassment of having a Parent on the posters. A a a this is bad politics and its done simply to please an electorate during a political race. And the ultimate victim is the child a he said. State officials counter that the tactic has been employed successfully in Florida and Massachusetts and will boost child support collections in Georgia which have risen steadily Over the past 10 years. State officials say they done to really expect to collect from the 10 people shown on the poster a half of whom Are believed to be living out of state. But they expect others to pay up to avoid the Public embarrassment that would come if their names and photographs eventually were added to the list
