European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 2, 1994 the stars and stripes pages Pic of from Page 4 i commander of the 17th air Force. We Are confident that the article 32hearing will take care of the matter said capt Earl Martin Iii May s Lea defense attorney. The facts will come out  a _ but there is concern in some quarters Only per Soji Olio stepped Forward and that the facts of the Case May be com unequivocally took responsibility for his promised somewhat by the military s part in the tragedy. J desire to show the world that it does t take the Dove rings at All  Don t think it is right to t for his Squadron v i think he is taking the heat for whole lot of people at in Ciurlik air base including the Lead Pilot said Piper whose husband is a retired colonel Andlor Mermet pilots when i read the Accident report the Only compassion i Felt for those under investigation was for lieutenant colonel May said Piper of san Anto Nio adding that May seemed to be the right prosecute one person so severely to make the military look Good to have a scape Goat said an airman at Ramstein a Germany who requested anonymity. If there is a court martial air for Ecol. Jim Reed said he believes it will be because the facts warrant it and not be cause of some misguided notion that there must be a political sacrificial.  ".,v  court martial hearing involving May should be based on the facts an the complexities of military operations and not based on a received feeling to placate the Public said Reed who was t May s commander during the 1991 per Sian Gulf War. Army chief warrant officer 2 Rod Brown who flies Black Hawk helicopters out of Katterbach Germany said the military is no different from the rest of society in respect to holding people account Able for their actions. Still Brown is uneasy about the Prospect of watch ing a fellow flier walk into a court room to face a negligent homicide rap. When you rein a potentially hostile Environ ment certain Deci Sions have to remade quickly. There is so much that goes on in a cockpit during a the charge of negligent homicide i typically associated with cases involving car accidents where a Driver is intoxicated or grossly at fault in some Fash Ion Fiore said. While it is the least severe on the homicide ladder negligent homicide is the easiest charge to prove. The prosecution Fiore said has to prove negligence. They Don t have to prove  the prosecution has to establish that All of the following elements exist according to the Ucma that a certain person is dead. That this death resulted from the act or failure to act of the accused. That the killing by the accused was unlawful. That the act or failure to act of the accused which caused the death amounted to simple negligence which is defined As the absence of due care. That under the circumstances the conduct of the it f to a ask is it i free said. The Mother of air Force 1st it. Laura Ashley Piper who died in the Friendly fire incident agrees but she wonders Why the Lead Pilot and those above May weren t drawn into the Legal fray. Joan Piper fears the military is that s probably one of the toughest decisions he will have to make Fiore said of May s dilemma on whether to choose a Bench or jury trial. In the end however Piper doubt that May and the others will receive hefty sentences. Using May As the fall Guy though she i Don t expect any severe action to acknowledges that the lieutenant Colo be taken against May and the others Nel bears the ultimate responsibility Piper said. I really Don  american boy hit by gunmen Dies organs to be donated Hospital says Messina Sicily a a 7-year-old american boy shot by bandits on an ital Ian Highway died saturday the Hospital said and his parents asked that his or Gans be donated. The family from Bodega Bay calif., was driving a rented car through Calabria on the Way to Sicily on thursday night. Bandits drove up beside them and fired several shots. One of the shots hit Nicho Las Green in the head in the Back seat of the car putting him into a coma. After the boy was declared brain dead the greens expressed the wish to do Nate his organs said Rosario i Salvo head of the intensive care department at Messina polyclinic. A Short while later in the Early afternoon the boy died an in Tensive care worker said the employee said it was too soon to say which organs might be transplanted or who might receive them but the ital Ian news Agency Agi reported that Nich Olas heart kidneys lungs and Corneas would be transplanted. Maggie Green her British husband Reginald Nicholas and a younger Daugh Ter were heading to Palermo Sicily from Paestum a site of ancient ruins Southeast of Naples when they met up with the bandits. Gangs of robbers Are known to prey on motorists on that stretch of Roadway 360 is mile Southeast of Rome. The italian news Agency Ansa said that the couple s vagueness in remembering details was hampering the investigation but that police believed they have pinpointed the gang. After Meetin of top police officials from Rome for local authorities Friday and saturday police patrols were stepped up and Rai state television re ported that two suspects were arrested for three recent holdups at rest stops. The two weren t suspected in the attack on the greens Rai said. Jones lawyer reveals statement by Clinton Washington a in an Lith hour settlement offer in the Paula Jones sexual harassment Case president Clin ton conceded that he May have met the woman in a hotel room and said he regretted untrue assertions. Made about her Jones lawyer said sat urday. Joseph Camma rata disclosed the draft of a statement by Clinton that the president s lawyer sent by fax machine to Jones lawyers last May in an at Jones tempt to stave off a lawsuit. The settlement talks delayed the filing of the lawsuit but negotiations collapsed when White House sources were quoted on television As saying that the delay was due to Jones not having a Case. According to Cammarata Clinton s draft statement says i do not Challenge Jones claim that the two met in a room at the Excel Sior hotel in 1991, although i have no recollection of it. I May very Well have met her in the past. She did not engage in any improper or sexual conduct and i regret the untrue assertions which have been made about her conduct which May have adversely challenged her character and Good name it added according to Cammarata. It has been known that Clinton offered statement to Settle the matter but its terms were not known. The new York times Magazine first obtained the tet of the statement fora Story on Clinton lawyer Robert Bennett being published today. R 6 Venlo Netherlands a six mans were killed Here saturday and "12 injured when fire engulfed five stopped cars after they were hit from behind by a truck a fire brigade spokesman said. \ the identities of the victims were not re leased by emergency services that were still trying to Trace relatives. This was the worst Accident i be overseen and i Hope it s the last like it said Robert Lowas the fire officer in charge of the Rescue operation. We believe the cars stopped for a Brit army Convoy and were hit by a Lorrick carrying 28,000 tons of washing Sowder he said. One of the car caught fire and ignited  -.,. Five of the victims burned to death in their cars and another Vyas thrown out of his car and killed in the collision. The Accident happened on the a67 High Way just 150 Yards from the German Border near the Southern dutch City of Venlo. The cars had crossed the Border from Germany and were heading into the Netherlands. Survivors and victims were taken to the City s Hospital and a Hospital in Ven Ray. Lowas said British soldiers helped pull survivors out of the wreckage. I still Don t know which regiment the soldiers were from but they saved a lot of lives said Lowas