European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday August 24,1994 Al at a glance Earl Shinhoster interim head of the National association for the advancement of coloured people moved monday to return the group to its mainstream focus. Mean while Benjamin Chavis the Man whom Shinhoster replaced sued to get his Job Back. See Story on Page 6. Painful admission a . Senator s wife has revealed that for four years she was addicted to a pair of powerful painkillers per covet and Vico in. Page 5 sentencing delayed Rosario Ames sentencing will be delayed so officials can continue interrogating her husband Aldrich Ames about his nine years As a spy for Moscow inside the Cia. Page 10 Mexico vote protested president elect Ernesto Zedillo insisted that Mexico passed the test of democracy in its weekend elections but angry opposition candidates cried foul. Page 12 Lockheed May suffer Lockheed corp. Could be the big Gest loser if the defense department acts on its threat to kill or delay Sev eral Large weapons programs Indus try officials say. 0 16 Index Abby Ann Landers 24 classifieds 25-28 comics 22-24 commentary 15 crossword 24 faces n places. 21 focus. 17-20 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. 27 letters 14 Money matters .16 sports 28-36 to listings. 35 weather. 13 defense attacks dam evidence Simpson attorneys claim blood tests were mishandled los Angeles a . Simp son s defense escalated its attack on Crit ical Dan evidence tuesday grilling police lab technicians on How they handled and documented blood samples found at the double murder scene. Police criminalist Cpl Lin Yamauchi acknowledged that he miss Abele one blood Sample but insisted he took pains to protect blood soaked swatches going so far As to avoid touching them with a ruler while measuring them. I did t want to risk contamination so i made approximations said Yamauchi under questioning from defense attorney Barry Scheck. I tried to avoid touching them As much As  the inquiry came during a contentious hearing to determine if the defens would be allowed to conduct its own tests on newly disclosed blood samples. But the Simpson Camp clearly tried to use the session to Lay the groundwork for its Overall Challenge of Dan evidence. The fight is critical for Simpson. On monday prosecutors said sophisticated tests found the genetic makeup of Simp son s blood matched that of blood found near the slashed bodies of his second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Scientific experts have differed on How to interpret Dan tests so prosecutors must persuade Ito to admit their results. They also must say what the Odds Are that the blood came from Simpson and not someone else. California s appeals courts have been divided on the admissibility of Dan Evi prosecutor Marcia Clark stands behind of. Simpson while she Waits for a Tele phone Call monday in a los Angeles court room. Dence so the defense has room to a never. Simpson s attorneys Are expected to Challenge the test results at a hearing after jury selection. Deputy District attorney Lisa Kahn repeatedly objected to tuesday s line of questioning by the defense calling it irrelevant Superior court judge Lance Ito frequently agreed and told Scheck to ask More pertinent questions. This Issue is very precise Ito said. At one Point Ito was so piqued at the questioning that he sustained his own objection for it to Stop. But at other times he denied Kahn s requests to have questions disallowed. With no known eyewitness to the june 12 killings Dan evidence is crucial to the Case against Simpson. We contend that with regard to All of this evidence there s a real question that All of it has been degraded or contaminated in some Way defense lawyer Johnnie Coch ran or. Said outside the hearing. Prosecutors claim Simpson left blood at the murder scene when he Cut his Finger during a struggle. The defense has Prev idea variety of explanations for . Simpson has pleaded innocent to two counts of murder. Jury selection is to begin sept. 19. The hearing that began monday was scheduled after prosecutors admitted that police had More blood samples than previously disclosed. The defense wants some of those newly disclosed samples to conduct its own tests. Prosecutors argued in court papers that that it would be useless for the defense to conduct its own tests because the Dan tests conducted so far implicate the de  a police criminalist testified last month that Standard blood testing showed Simp son s blood Type a matched blood found at the murder scene and that Only one in 200 people had the same blood Type. Legal experts called the Dan test results the missing piece of the Case against Simp son. This is very significant evidence and is clearly necessary to prove the Case beyond a reasonable doubt said Law professor Stan Ley Goldman of Loyola University Law school. Dod from Page 1 administration s defense budget is no where near sufficient to finance the Force that the review says would be needed. And to top it off defense Secretary William Perry who moved up from Dep Uty Secretary after Aspin resigned last december conceded recently that the military would not be Able to meet the goal of fighting two major regional wars at once for several More years. The Bottom up review stated fairly clearly. That the ability to meet the two War contingency hinged on som Force enhancements being made Perry told the Navy times in an interview last month. But he warned that modernizing forces by outfitting warplanes with precision guided bombs and missiles for example is going to take a few years. To have those Force enhancements then capable of fighting two full scale major regional contingencies is a couple of years ahead of  Dov Zakheim of systems planning corp., a defense oriented technology and strategy company said the administrations clearly torn Over the review. They recognize they Don t have the resources to support it but they have no alternative he said. They re caught Between a strategic Rock and a fiscal hard  with budget pressures already intense the administration is finding itself in the ironic position of haying to use the Bot Tom up review which initially was de signed to help justify further cuts in Mili tary spending to protect the current defense budget level instead. Defense department officials now cite the review to warn the budget s would be raiders in Congress that if they Cut the military budget any More than Clinton Al ready has proposed the ability of the Mil tary to meet the new goals will be i jeopardy. As a result such outside critics As an Drew f. Krepinevich director of the de sense budget project a nonpartisan de sense monitoring group Are calling on Perry to review the review with an Eye toward scrapping it. Although defense department officials insisted that Perry still fully supports the review s conclusions insiders say John Deutch the Deputy Secretary of de sense is quietly giving the document a second look and May end up rewriting it entirely. Indeed in a preliminary memo made Public monday officials warned that budget pressures could Well Force the administration to cancel some of the Mili tary s most pressing big ticket weapons programs for the future including the f 22 fighter and the army s commanche helicopter. It is not certain yet How Many of these programs ultimately will be Cut but the military already has begun to complain about the Prospect of the reductions. Strategists say the services already Are being stretched to carry out their current missions. By far the most serious criticism of the Bottom up review is that it has not produced recommendations for the kinds of sweeping Post cold War changes in . Military policy that Aspin appeared to have in mind when he proposed it two years ago. Despite the demise of the soviet Union analysts said the review would leave military policy essentially unchanged from the Days of the Bush administration. It Calls for Only marginal reductions in troop strength and almost no major cuts in weapons systems. Blockade from Page 1 imposed something of a blockade. The Navy announced monday that it has deployed an additional 10 warships to help . Coast guard vessels pick up Refu gees. The two services have set up a picket line spanning the Florida Straits. But naval warfare experts said an expansion of that Effort perhaps to a total eco nomic embargo would require As Many As 50 warships and dozens of aircraft. The risk is that they d be creating the same sort of problem in Cuba that has resulted in Haiti that the embargo Cre ates such pressure on the Economy that people will want to leave All the More said Dan Goure an analyst for the Cen Ter for strategic and International stud ies. It did t work the first time so Why would you want to repeat it they d be buying themselves an explosion an nobody wants  if the flow of refugees from Cuba in creases markedly the United states will have difficulty in detaining and housing them. One refugee compound at the . Naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba Al ready is nearly full with haitians and other countries Are proving slow to offer help. The United states says it is preparing a separate compound at Quanta Namo that will hold about 10,000 cuban Refu gees if needed. Moreover some critics said they fear that unless Castro agrees soon to take Back refugees being held at Guantanamo the United states could be in the embarrassing position of appearing to operate Long term detention Camps a Black Eye for any democracy