European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 19, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 child playing with lighter Likely caused fatal fire from wire reports Carbondale 111. A fire that killed eight children probably was started by the youngsters playing with a lighter authorities said. Fire chief Clifford Manis said wednesday that the Only survivor an 8-year-old girl told investigators that she saw at least one of the children playing with a lighter hours before the fire Early sunday. The girl told investigators that she mistakenly thought she had put out a soldering Blanket and later awoke to find the House filled with smoke police said. \ Camilla Fulks 25, lost her three children in the fire. Authorities said Foulks was supposed to have been baby sitting but instead went to a liquor store a Friend s House and finally to a bar to dance. Officials said Fulks May be charged with manslaughter child endangerment or reckless conduct. Miracle trips sex i Kansas City to. A former Soldier who mistakenly received a government Check for nearly $837,000 May have believed it was a Miracle but a jury did t. William h. Irvin Iii illegally cashed the $836,939.19 Check in june 1992, a Federal jury concluded wednesday. It convicted him of knowingly spending government Money filing a false tax return an laundering some of it through cashier s checks. Irvin said he believed the Money was a gift from go because it appeared after he prayed for self sufficiency on a lonely Road one night. He is an Airport Security i officer who makes about $12,000 a year. The Check was the result of a computer error. Irvin was entitled to Only $183.69 from the government. Irvin a persian Gulf War Veteran faces up to 43 years in prison and a $1.25 million Fine. Gunplay turns tables Columbus Ohio a hunger striking gubernatorial candidate who has been living in a tent outside the statehouse could face charges for pulling a loaded gun on a Man who threatened him wednesday. Billy Inmon s anti Gay Campaign platform apparently led to the confrontation in his tent. Inmon said the Man identified himself As a homosexual and threatened to urinate on him. Inmon said he fended the Man off with the gun for which he has no permit. Inmon who Calls himself an ultraconservative and is running As an Independent has been fasting since aug. 1 to protest gov. George Voinovich s refusal to debate him. Voinovich fired Inmon As Ohio state fair manager after the 1992 fair where Inmon caused a Flap by trying to ban Gay rights groups from distributing pamphlets. No charges were filed against Inmon s alleged assailant. Stunt costs woman s life East Providence . A woman dangling from a rooftop on a dare from her husband slipped and plummeted five stories to her death police said. Amy Wright 34, had attached herself to her husband with a clothesline and climbed Over the roofs Edge Early tuesday. She either lost her grip or let go to hang no Harf fled when she slipped through the rope detective it. John Lynch said. Wright s husband Colin had been drinking at the time Lynch said. No immediate charges were filed. Man tries to bite dog Ventura Calif. A Simi Valley Man has been arrested for alleged assault on a police dog after he tried to bite the dog on the head during a Battle that erupted when police showed up to arrest him. Police said Daniel Sean Casey 40 was booked a Ventura county jail on suspicion of Corporal punishment of a child and assaulting Charly one of the Simi Valley police department s Law enforcement  was treated at Simi Valley Hospital for dog bites to his Arm and his leg. The fight Between the suspect and the dog was preceded by a report to Simi Valley police that Casey had assaulted a 14-year-old boy without  further violence feared among haitians in Cuba Washington a. The haitian refugee population at the . Navy base in Cuba is falling but tensions in the teeming tent City Are rising. Some american officials worry that last weekend s riot could prove More than an isolated incident. The Pentagon says it does not expect a widening Cycle of violence but some military officers say privately that the longer the refugees Are kept in limbo at Guantanamo Bay naval station the More Likely Trou ble will occur again. Nearly 15,000 haitians Are penned up in Row after Row of tents that fill an unused Airstrip at Guantanamo Bay on a Barren stretch of Rocky land near the South Eastern tip of Cuba. They have no communication with the outside world no escape from the tropical heat and no idea when they la see normalcy again. Razor wire encircles the Camp creating the impression of imprisonment for refugees who for All the hard ships at least have food some medical care and safety. Some have been there As Long As two months and the uncertainty has become hard to Bear. We would expect there Are going to be sporadic episodes of protests by some of the discontented said one officer who spoke on condition of anonymity. There Are no plans to add More military police in response to saturday s Melee in which an estimated 750 haitians vented their frustration by breaking through Camp barriers and hurling rocks and other objects. About 120 refugees leapt info Guantanamo Bay but were picked up and returned. Twenty american military policemen and 45 haitians were injured. One positive note is that the Camp population is slowly declining. After 339 refugees who had volunteered for repatriation were shipped out of Guantanamo Bay on wednesday the total population slipped to 14,716. That compares with a Peak of 16,554 on july 20 and is the lowest since the first week of july. Navy it. Ernest Duplessis spokesman for the Mili tary task Force running the haitian Camps said in a Telephone interview that work is under Way to combat the boredom that was at the Root of saturday s uprising. Officials Are looking for ways to provide mail privileges and ice for the refugees. The military plans to bring in books provide More tutoring and English Les sons for youngsters and set up a radio station Duples Sis said. They already Are publishing a Rice a week newspaper. But there is a limit to the amenities the Pentagon will provide. It does not want to Mike conditions so Good that the Camp is preferred to returning Home. Refugee rights groups have complained that some refugees Are being incarcerated in cages at Quanta Namo and that there is no Way of protecting their civil rights. Duplessis said some haitians have been put in administrative segregation at two Sites Camp bulk Lcy and Camp Hunt away from the main refugee Popula Tion for violating Camp rules. The Only people put in isolation he said were those who have proven to be dangerous to the rest of the  cuban refugees leave the City of Coj mar about 12 Miles East of Havana on thursday. Cubans gathered by the hundreds Early thursday along a seawall near Havana waiting for boats to carry them to the United states As the Cas Tro government loosened its grip on emigration from Cuba. Florida seeks Aid on cuban influx key West Fla a gov. Lawton Chiles on wednesday asked the Federal government for Emer gency help in handling the largest wave of cuban refugees to arrive in Florida since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. His plea came amid reports that cubans were flee ing the communist Island without police interference. The coast guard picked up More than 500 cubans on wednesday the biggest single Day total since the Mariel boat lift brought 125,000 people to Florida during a five month period. On tuesday the number was 339, and on monday it was 282. So far this year 6,872 cubans have arrived compared with 3,656 in 1993. This is approaching an emergency said Chiles who also repeated his request to the Justice depart ment to make Money available to help state and local governments pay for immigration costs. Cuban journalists who spoke to the associated press in Mexico City by phone said people were set Ting off openly from beaches and harbours around Havana with no apparent interference from police. Unidentified . Officials told the new York times and the Miami Herald that cuban Leader Fidel Castro had quietly begun allowing cubans to leave. Our impression is that Border guards Are not enforcing cuban Law As energetically As they were be fore a . Official said in the Herald s thursday editions. People Are Able to build rafts and leave in boats without  an Anonymous senior state department official said in thursday s editions of the times that Castro was still stopping Large boats but was letting people on rafts go. This is a policy decision he took a week and a half ago the official said. Rafael Dausa director of political affairs at the cuban interest Section in Washington told the times that Cuba had t changed its policy on Depar Tures. But he said Cuba would Stop trying to halt refugees if the United states did t take measures to Stop the flow. Among other measures cuban officials want the United states to lift its economic embargo of Cuba. Chiles called on the Federal government to increase the number of Navy ships in the Atlantic Ocean be tween the United states and Cuba and to prepare to put into effect its emergency plans for handling Large influx of aliens