European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . 1 thursday october 13,1994panel to seek hidden facts on Juk Case Washington a nearly 31 years after John f. Kennedy a assassination investigators armed with a mandate from Congress Are beginning a new quest to learn what the Federal gov Crnic nth a files can Tell them about the Case. At its first hearing tuesday the new assassinations records review Board was told that the investigation was marked with a secrecy deceit obfuscation rumours and innuendo Quot which contributed to a Quot corrosive decline in Raineri cans Trust in their government. James Lesar a Washington lawyer said the Board can restore the Confidence of the american people a that they have a right to know their own after 30 years he said a justifications for the continued withholding of such facts Pale in comparison with the need to end the mistrust. President Kennedy was shot nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas As he Rode in an open car on a Mission to mend political fences in the Texas democratic party. A a a a a a v a a a a. A a. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the slaying but was killed before he could be questioned extensively. An investigative commission headed by then chief Justice Earl Warren decided that Oswald acted alone. Conspiracy theories flowered and continue to this Day. The new review Board is charged by Congress to ferret out assassination related documents from government files. Under the Law setting up the panel All government records about Kennedy a slaying a should carry a presumption of immediate disclosure Quot and All eventually should be disclosed. A Only in the rarest of cases is there any legitimate need for continued Protection of such records Quot the Law says. The five member Board is chaired by John Tunheim chief Deputy attorney general of Minnesota and includes two Law professors a professor of history and Law and a librarian specializing in rare books and special collections. Government agencies were directed by the Law passed in 1992, to provide the National archives with All records in their Possession bearing on the assassination. The Cia and the Fri have sent hundreds of thousands of documents to the archives but thousands of others Are being withheld or have been provided with huge sections blanked physicians come out with new name san Francisco a the american association of physicians for human rights came out of the euphemistic closet tuesday. The group which represents 1,550 homosexual doctors and medical students in North America changed its name on National coming out Day to better reflect its Mission. Athe group is now called the Gay and lesbian medical association or Glam. A was an organization dedicated to eliminating the necessity of the closet we Felt we had an obligation to be out and honest and Clear about who we Are Quot said Ben Schatz the groups executive director. Comments on lesbian cause Flap in new York Albany . A a month away from election Day one candidates homosexuality has become an Issue in the race for new York attorney general. Former family court judge and consumer official Karen Burstein is seeking to become the first openly homosexual candidate elected to statewide office in new York. .���1 a. On monday a prominent Republican supporter of Burstein rival Dennis Vacco assailed her sexual orientation. A a a a a a. A a a a v Quot the next attorney general be an admitted lesbian Quot Staten Island Borough president Guy Molina i said in a speech. Molinari said that burst in a homosexuality should be widely publicized and that Vacco was being a too much of a gentleman in not raising the Issue. But molinaris oldest brother Robert who is homosexual apologized for his politician brother. A i done to see Why you have to go into it except for political Points. And it does make Points with some people Quot the 67-year-old retired new York City schoolteacher told the daily news from his Santa Barbara calif., Home. Gov. Mario Cuomo also ripped the Staten Island Borough president. A it must be that he made a political calculation that there Are a lot of stupid or shallow or mean people in this society . The Borough presidents remarks were criticized by homosexual groups and by Republican gubernatorial candidate George Pataki. A of tuesday Vacco denied any role in molinaris attack saying he has instructed his staff not to make an Issue of Burstein a sexuality. But he refused to condemn his supporter. A How do you expect a first time entrant in a race for Public office to control Guy Molinari or the attitudes of All my supporters across the state a Vacco asked. Burstein apparently was mollified calling Vacco Quot a More rational human being than Molinari but stressed that her sexual orientation should be irrelevant to the Campaign. \ a of course i think people should not allow this to happen a she said. Dick Dadey of the Gay advocacy group Empire state Pride Agenda accused Vacco of a having his surrogates now speak what he feels he cannot speak a after issuing his disclaimer Vacco criticized Burstein for her 1977 vote As a state senator against a Bill stiffening child pornography penalties. He painted Burstein As Burstein has said she regrets the vote. President Clinton looks Over a sparkling new 1995 Ford Mustang As he Tours the Assembly Plant in Dearborn mich., on tuesday. Clinton was in the Detroit area to meet with Auto executives from Ford Chrysler general motors and with officials of the United j workers Union. Phoenix a a tripod Bob Crane used in videotaping his sexual escapades was probably used to kill him an expert witness testified tuesday. The Star of the old to sitcom hogans heroes was struck on the head by at least three blows said homicide investigator Rod Englert of the mul Tomah county sheriffs office in Portland Ore. Cranes body was found in his bed and bloodstains on the Sheet showed two parallel lines slighting curving inward to a that were a consistent with a tripod Quot Englert testified. Cranes longtime Friend John Henry Carpenter is charged with first degree murder. Prosecutors contend that Carpenter killed Crane because he wanted to end the Friendship that gave Carpenter Access to women attracted by the actors Fame. Carpenter 66, is free on $98,000 Bond. Also tuesday photo expert Jim Elbert presented still photos taken from a Homem Jide videotape Crane made in Dalla of him and Carpenter having sex simultaneously with a woman. The photo showed a second tripod investigators believe was missing from cranes Scottsdale apartment after his slaying. 1 a prosecutors said they were considering showing jurors the videotape wednesday to prove the existence of a second tripod and to illustrate the relationship Between Carpenter and Crane. The defense has objected that doing so would pre judicially a inflame the passions of the cranes body was found june 29, 1978, in the Scottsdale apartment in which Crane stayed while performing in a dinner theater production. An electric Cord was wrapped around his neck but investigators have said it had nothing to do with causing his death. A Crane played col. Robert Hogan in Hogan s heroes a comedy set in a nazi prisoner of War Camp during world War ii. The lbs series ran from 1965 to 1971
