European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday october 28,1994 Friendly fire charges anger officers Fame by scrupps Howard news service Denver a Denver family feels anguished and betrayed by charges that one of their own was guilty of homicide in 26 Friendly fire deaths Over Iraq last april. We re angry with the air Force said Rob May the younger brother of it. Col. Randy May who is As signed to the 53rdfighter so at Span Dahlem a Germany. A  six people died april-14 when american f 15 fighter planes shot Down two . Black Hawk Heli exp ters mistaking them for iraqi Hind aircraft. Randy May one of the f-15 pilots is Berng charged with dereliction of duty and negligent homicide. Five Crew members of an airborne warning and control system plane arc charged with dereliction of duty for failing to notify the fighters that the Black Hawks herein the area. ". A the May family most of whom live in Denver re Maiji very proud of Randy. Rob May said. His brother has been an exemplary officer throughout a 20-year military career that has included a citation for valor during operation desert storm. We take Young men and bring them up in the ways of the military which is to be aggressive defend your country Rob May said. As near As i can Tell every thing Randy got that Day told him these were hostile  Rob May said he worries about the stress these accusations cause his Mother pne  be never wanted to have happen is for a reporter to go stick a Mike in her face and go your son just greased 26 people. How s that make you feel " ,. A  but he vows that his brother will be vindicated. Both to and his attorney arc very confident that once the facts Are presented and out he will be  mined to have acted in accordance with his  was Western agent files show new York a top soviet leaders considered the late scientist an Drei Sakharov so dangerous that the Kremlin figured he must be receiving orders from Western intelligence Agen cies according to Kab files released wednesday. In the trove of formerly top secret documents the Kab depicted sakha Rov the human rights advocate exiled by the Kremlin and awarded a Nobel peace prize by the West As psychologically fragile and a dupe of his wife an foreign agents. For Many years Sakharov challenged soviet Power by advocating nuclear Dis armament criticizing soviet foreign policy and publicizing human rights abuses. The files illustrate How much fear one Man could inspire at the to echelons of the soviet regime. Sakharov s behaviour docs not often correspond to the accepted norms says one document a memo to the communist party Central committee dated aug. 26, 1980, arid signed by Kab chief Yuri Andropov. It is excessively prone to the influence of people who surround him his wife above All and it patently violates common  the memo quotes soviet psychiatrist who diagnosed Sakharov As a Patho logical personality which is common i families with hereditary  it also asserts that his wife Yelena homier received instructions from . _ intelligence services. I has been established that Bon Ner s activities which feed the anti so pietism of her husband not Only arc bused on her hostile attitude to the so Viet system but also correspond to the instructions of intelligence services in the Usa and other foreign anti soviet centers the memo states.-. Family members and Brandeis University officials who released excerpts of the files at a new York news conference said the documents reveal How deeply soviet leaders feared and reviled Sakharov. They Are a unique record of the length the  Union was willing to go to harass a Man they consid ered to be enemy no. 1 of a totalitarian state said Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz. _ Sakharov a nuclear physics who was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1975, was exiled from Moscow. Ai Ler criticizing the 1979 soviet invasion of Afghani Stan.  released in 1986 by former soviet presi Dent Mikhail Gorbachev and served in the russian parliament before his death in 1989. The documents released wednesday Are a Sample of71 Kab files turned Over to Bonner last May in a Cere Mony in Moscow. At that time the head of russian counterintelligence Sergei Stepahin noted they Werea Small fraction of the estimated 520 volumes of Materi Al compiled on Sakharov by the Kab. Natan Suharansky and Tatiana yank Clovich read Kab files about the late russian dissident Andrei Sakharov pictured in the foreground after a news conference in new York on wednesday. Tat Iaria Yankelevich Sakharov s stepdaughter said most of the 70 files consist of memos to the Central committee from 1967 to 1990. They include documents signed by each Kab chief in that period. Yankelevich said one of the most surprising aspects of the dossier is that it lacks any suggestion or nuance that the allegations Are fabricated. It was a representation of reality As they saw it she said. Natan Suharansky a Sakharov Friend and fellow dissident said the documents reveal the seamless Ness of soviet government deception. Even top secret reports prepared for a Small Circle of decision makers used the same ideology Laden language As propaganda aimed atthe party s rank and file. Those who wrote these memos their Job was to create reality. Members of the politburo accepted it As " Suharansky said. How could these people an fact Alyze reality if they were deceiving themselves flood claims May hit $700 million in Texas from the associated press Houston insured losses from deadly flooding could reach $700 million  insurance commissioner said wednesday. Commissioner j. Robert Hunter said that 23,000 claims had been submitted to insurers for damage to Homes vehicles and property but that the number could climb to 35,000. The estimate is based on an expected average claim of $20,000. It does t include still undetermined uninsured losses. Flooding from three Days of heavy rain last wee killed 20 people and forced about 14,000 others from their Homes. Damage was spread Over 35 counties in Southeastern Texas. S wan Kilie r m u St Shoyei Syracuse by a teen Ager must shovel manure at the zoo for 350 hours stay Home for nine months and give up smoking for killing obie the popular Swan he attacked during a Drunken visit to a Pond. "  ,. A a Dan Doney also was ordered tuesday to serve three years probation publish a letter of apology in a weekly newspaper and pay the Village of Manlius $1,098. -.,. 01 v a a Doney 17, was convicted last month of criminal mischief criminal trespass and torture of an animal. Obie s legs were broken and it was beheaded at the Manlius Swan Pond last april. Women accuse each other Camden . Two women who were dubbed Thelma and Louise after they were accused of bailing the abusive sex Lover of one defendant out of jail and killing him turned on each other in court. Each insisted tuesday that the other fired theft alshits. Margaret Kosmin and Tammy Ann Molewicz outlined their accounts in separate court appearances As they pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the dec. 27 slaying of William Kelly jr., Kosmari s sex Lover. Both originally were charged with murder according to Kosmin Kelly was killed in retaliation for years of abusing her. When the women posted his $1,000 bail he had spent eight Days in jail on charges of dragging Kosmin by the hair and beating her with a club. The prosecutor said that legally it does not matter which woman pulled the trigger. Kosmin could get up to 25 years in prison at sentencing dec. 16 Molewicz could get 20 years. Hostages beat gunman Chalmette la. A bar Patron fired shots and held More than a dozen people captive until the hostages overpowered him and beat him with Beer bottles while police broke Down the door Earl wednesday. Victor Bob dising is being held on 15 counts of attempted second degree murder 15 counts of second degree kidnapping carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest. None of the 24 patrons in Brewster s bar managed to escape when the hostages were first taken tuesday night said chief Deputy Anthony Fernandez of the St. Bernard Parish sheriff department. After about 1\h hours hostage Timothy Cavignac noticed that the gunman had loosened his grip on his pistol. He jumped the gunman and wrestled him to the floor the sheriff said. Police then broke in the front door of the bar and captured the suspect. Killer s honeymoon snuffed White Plains . Two Days after a killer married his victim s widow a judge indefinitely delayed the honeymoon. Joseph Ricco was sentenced wednesday to 25years to life in prison for murdering Joseph Vitali his wife s first husband. Prosecutors said Ricco 29, shot Vitali outside his Home in june 1991 because he was having an affair with Michaelann Vigliotti Vitali. After the murder Ricco and the woman got engaged and he moved into the apartment she shared with Joseph Vitali. They were married in a Jailhouse ceremony monday. She did not attend Herne husband s sentencing. Ricco said he was innocent. Westchester county court judge Kenneth Lange was unmoved and imposed the maximum sentence