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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 31, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7. / California teachers face tougher sex drug Law from the associated pres Sacramento Calif. Schoolteachers convicted of sex or drug crimes will be forever barred from California classrooms under a Bill signed into Law monday by gov. Pete Wilson previously teachers convicted of felonies could have Thor credentials restored after one year. The5 new Law permanently revokes the credentials of teachers convicted of felony sex offences or distributing drugs to Mif tors. We re Here to close a dangerous As Well a an absurd loophole in the Law Wilson said at a hews  California teachers association had opposed the original version of the Bill. But Wilson and the Bill s sponsor sen. Tim Leslie a carnelian Bay said the narrower amended version was supported by most  teachers convicted of sex or drug offences returned to the state s classrooms Between 1989 and 1993, said Amador county Deputy District attorney Vernon  sponsored the Bill after the Amador county District attorney s office contacted him about an accused child molester who was applying to have his credentials restored. Feather satellite orbited Vandenberg fab Calif. An Atlas rocket carried an $84 million military weather satellite into orbit monday the air Force said. The morning launch was a Success and the satellite was functioning normally maj. Billy Birdwell said. The spacecraft part of the defens meteorological satellite program was designed to provide weather data for . Military operations worldwide from a Polar orbit at an Altitude of More than 526  will replace another satellite that is near the end of its 27-month operational life Span. Alaskan Village flooded Fairbanks Alaska army helicopters evacuated most of the  the Village of Allakaket Early tuesday after the Koyukuk River surged to its highest level in 40  Chinook ch47 helicopters carried flood victims to fort Wainwright near Fairbanks where they were Given food and shelter. No injuries were reported said1 capt. Mike Haller an Alaska National guard spokesman in  Many As 75 percent of the Village s 35 to 40 Homes were flooded and the Community s Only Landing strip was under 5 feet of water officials Laid. The Koyukuk River and several other streams in Interior Alaska have been rising because of heavy Rains last  is 180 Miles Northwest of Fairbanks. Jewel dealers robbed Columbus Ohio diamonds and jewelry Worth up to $3 million were stolen from Safe Deposit boxes at a hotel where a group of jewellers had gathered for a  dealers attending the mid America jewelry show at the Hyatt Regency hotel this weekend filed police reports that listed As missing More than 500loose and mounted diamonds a ring and undetermined numbers of earrings bracelets and watches. The jewels were taken Friday night or saturday morning the dealers said. The items Are Worth $2 million to $3 million said Moti Hasson a new York based jewelry dealer and spokesman for the group. Carnival worker charged Sacramento Calif. A carnival worker who was operating a Ferris wheel when a 4-Ycar-old boy fell 20 feel and landed face Down on the pavement has been charged with being under the influence of an illegal  boy fell from the 40-foot High wheel saturday night and landed just feet from his Mother who made a desperate attempt to catch him. He was listed in fair condition � the Accident museum agrees to alter exhibit on atomic bomb Washington a bending to pressure from lawmakers and veterans groups the smithsonian institution has agreed to broaden the scope of a planned exhibit Joithe american bombing of Japan in world War ii. The expanded exhibit will detail events in the Pacific War leading to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiro Shima and Nagasaki Trie smithsonian s National air an space museum said in a statement mondays a the museum said it was responding to complaints from veterans groups and military historians that the atomic bomb exhibit lacked balance because it failed to provide adequate explanation of the events leading up to the bombing. We Felt that their concerns were valid and we think this new exhibit couple with changes within the Origi Nal exhibition address those concerns said Martin Harwit the museum s dire the exhibit already had Beeri revised once in response to the criticism. It will include the front fuselage of the Enola Gay the b-29 that aug. 6,1945, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Man who flew the Zenbia Gay on that Mission said the expanded exhibit will be a plus  there has been at least an admission on the part of the smithsonian that they really lacked balance and con text in the exhibit retired Brig. Gen. Paul a Tibbets 79, said in a Telephone interview. Earlier this month rep. Peter Blute r-mass., led two dozen members of Congress who wrote to Robert me Cormick Adams the smithsonian s Secretary complaining that the exhibit wrongly portrays Japan As an in Nocent victim of the atomic bomb and urging changes. After the Enola Gay dropped the a bomb on Hiroshima an atomic raid on Nagasaki three Days later led to Japan s surrender and the War s end. The original exhibit includes graphic photographic depictions of the destruction of More than half of Hiroshima and the deaths of some 130,000 japanese. Now to arrive at the exhibit titled the last act the atomic bomb and the end of world War ii visitors first will pass through the Pacific War show consisting of about 50 photographs and covering 4,000 Square feet. The added exhibit also will include a Grumman f6f-3 hellcat described As the most successful Carrier based fighter used in the War. Tearful wife of lobster boy Given 12 years for slaying Mary Teresa Stiles and her attorney Arnold Levine Lis ten to her sentence monday in a Tampa Fla., court Tampa Fla. A even As she was sentenced monday to 12 years in prison the wife of carnival per former lobster boy maintained that the contract slay ing of her pincer handed husband protected her family. My husband was going to kill my family i believe that from the Bottom of my heart Mary Teresa Stiles said through tears As she stood before the judge. I m sorry this happened but my family is Safe  acting circuit judge William Fuente said he was genuinely sympathetic to the 56-year-old grandmother and had no doubt she was a pattered spouse. Mary Stiles was convicted in july in the november 1992 death of 55-year-old carnival performer Grady Stiles jr., who was born with claw like hands and appeared in sideshows As lobster boy. A neighbor Christopher Wyant 19, who was paid $1,500, shot him twice in the Back of the head As Grady Stiles sat in his trailer watching television. Wyant was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 27.years." by y y the judge gave Mary Stiles concurrent sentences for manslaughter and conspiracy to commit first degree murder. She already has served nearly two years in jail or under House arrest. Defense attorney Arnold Levine estimated his client will end up serving no More than a third of the remain ing 10 years and could be out of prison in As Little As a year and a half. Throughout her two week murder trial Mary Stiles portrayed her claw handed stub legged husband As a Drunken brute who routinely swatted her butted her with his head sexually abused her with a Blackjack and threatened her and her family with death. Two sentenced in hazing death by Tim o Neil St. Louis Post dispatch St. Louis. Two fraternity Brothers pleaded guilty monday in the hazing death of a pledge in february and were sentenced to 30 Days in jail and 500 hours of Community service. The prosecutor recommended that the two visit col lege campuses and speak out against violence in Frater nity initiation rites. The victim s family asked the court to make them do Volunteer work in a morgue maybe seeing bodies will make them remember what they  said Marisa Milliard a sister of the Vic Tim Michael Davis 25, of University City to. Davis a student at Southeast Missouri state univer sity in Cape Crar Dudu died feb 15 after Kapp Alpha pm fraternity member1 repeatedly be at and kicked Hun during a nation Miccu a. The University banned the fraternity torn it campy Iid sixteen defendant rust been the it cd us m the death seven Ere Alvi ensured us in voluntary manslaughter. Chapter members Mikel Giles 22, of Dallas and Cedric Murphy 22, of Memphis tenn., pleaded guilty in St Louis circuit court to involuntary manslaughter a felony and to Misdemeanour hazing. Thir cases had been moved to St. Louis from Cape Girardeau on a recommendation by Cape Girardeau county prosecutor Morley Swingle St. Louis circuit judge Margaret Encill sentenced Giles and Murphy to 30 Days in the Cape Girardeau county jail for Haing. For in voluntary manslaughter she put them on hic years probation with a suspended imposition of sentence and ordered them to serve 500 hour of Community service. Suspended imposition mean the convictions oui be removed from their record if they successfully com plete probation a he Sruv Tunur for involuntary Man Slaughter w seven yearn in Pori  
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