European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday october 29,1994 Tail Hook plaintiff millions Las vegas a a former Navy aviator should get $5 million to $10 Mil lion in damages for alleged sexual assault at the 1991 Tail Hook convention her at Torney said in closing arguments thurs  ,. V ,. We have lost the Best of the Best Dennis Schoville said of Paul Coughlin who was once described As a Brightstar in a Navy report Coughlin 32, a former Navy lieutenant who was the original whistle Blower inthe Case is suing Hilton hotel corp. And the Las vegas Hilton site of the Conven Tion. She claims the resort failed to pro vide proper Security. Jurors began deliberations after Scho Ville and Hilton attorney Eugene wait wrapped up the seven week trial wit closing arguments. The jurors will decide whether Hilton hotels was negligent. If so the jury would also decide whether Hilton mus pay damages and How much. The jurors deliberated for two hours before adjourn in the stars and stripes 10 years ago oct. 29,1984 More than20,000 poles flocked to an outdoor mass for a pro Solidarity priest who has not been seen since oct. 19 and who was believed to have been killed by polish police. 20 years ago oct. 29,1974 president Ford calling Vietnam veterans the silent heroes of their generation ordered the Federal government to hire 70,000 of them by july 1,1975. 30 years ago oct. 29,1964 a Low flying bomber crashed into a Chain of buildings at Al Centra naval air facility Calif. During a Navy Day Corn Rem Ortive flight killing nine peo ple including the plane s three rember Crew. 40 years ago oct. 29,1954 president Eisen Hower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said they have not found new proposals for the reunification of Germany in the latest soviet note proposing a four Power con Ference. I world War ii 50 years ago today oct. 29 a japanese Kamikaze attack severely damages the . Aircraft Carrier intrepid off Luzon Island in the Philippines on Leyte . Troops occupy cation Hill and Abutog on the Eastern coast. In the Netherlands polish tank forces take Breda and Canadian soldiers Advance rapidly on the Beveland Peninsula German paratroops push american armoured troops out of Liessel. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 aping until Friday morning. Wait did t deny that Coughlin was assaulted. But based on the 19 years of Tail Hook conventions at the hotel he said attacks weren t predictable and thu the hotel should t be held responsible. The Law does not charge a hotel proprietor with knowing that which is not reasonably foreseeable he said. Wait said that thousands and thou Sands of people attended Tail Hook conventions Over the years and that Only nce did someone complain. A woman in 1988 said she was attacked but did t pursue her complaint. After the 1991 convention More than80 women claimed they were sexually assaulted by Drunken Navy and Marine aviators and a dozen filed lawsuits in stat and Federal court in Las vegas. Coughlin s Case is the first to go to trial. She settled with the san Diego based Tail Hook association for an Undis closed amount Days before the trial began gun a misfired police officer says Louisville by. A the Lexington police officer who killed a surren Dering teen Ager said his pistol Acci dentally fired while he was unlocking it a newspaper reported Friday. Sgt. Phil Vogel also said in a statement to his attorney that the shot was fired after he determined that Antonio or Lari do Sullivan a suspect in a september shooting did not have a gun in his hand the courier journal of Louisville reported.  y a /.,-the news of a White officer killing Ablack suspect caused about 200 Black youths to rampage through parts of downtown Lexington on tuesday a least 15 people were injured. Vogel and three other off ice is went to the House of Sullivan s Girlfriend tuesday to arrest him on charges of assault and Wanton endangerment. Sullivan 18, was shot in the head As he emerged from a closet where he had been hiding. The Louisville paper said Vogel s at Torney David Franklin Gaye the statement to police and Federal pros ecu j. Vogel s statement said he cocked his 9mm semiautomatic Beretta and aimed it at Sullivan s Chest after the teen emerged from the closet and did t raise his hands a person familiar with the statement told the newspaper. The statement said that when Sullivan finally raised his hands Vogel Bejan to unlock his pistol while raising it and that it fired at this Point. Franklin would not comment on the statement. New York officers Anthony Scandariato left and Josh Heber on thursday show some of the weapons found in a Van belonging to a Man arrested for soliciting a prostitute. Flamethrower among arms found in Van new York a Man arrested for soliciting a prostitute had an Arsenal of weapons in his Van including More than a dozen pipe bombs a bulletproof Vest and a flame thrower police said  Almeda 36, was arrested in the Bronx Borough thursday after he agreed to pay an undercover policewoman posing As a prostitute $10 for sex said detective Joseph Mccon Ville a police spokesman. Police seized Almeda s Van As part of an anti prostitution Campaign that forces arrested Johns to forfeit prop erty. Police said items found in the Back included 18 pipe bombs a flame thrower a number of explosive canis ters a dozen clips for Uzi surr techie guns a Shotgun with a laser sight swords machetes and 1,000 rounds of ammunition much of it illegal Black Talon bul lets. Also found were a Bullet proof Vest a canister of Mace a Gas mask and two sets of hand cuffs police said. Olmeda capt. Richard Romaine said police did t know what Olmeda intended Todo with the weapons. 1 Olmeda was charged with soliciting a prostitute and various weapons charges. Tribe orders rare whipping for discipline \1a to t for x to n a / a a . ". B. Warm Springs Ore. A an Indian tribe has turned to its tradition of whipping As a Way to discipline a teen age girl who kept running away fro Home. " a tribal juvenile court judge ordered the punishment for the 17-year-old girl who was Given five strokes with a Belt last month after she committed a number of offences Over a two year period. It was not Clear what other offences the girl committed court officials either did not return Telephone Calls or declined to Dis cuss the Case. Officials from the confederated tribes of the warm Springs reservation would not identify the teen age girl the Whipman or others involved. Although disciplining children by whipping has its roots in ancient North West Indian culture this was the first time in recent memory that a whipping had been imposed on the reservation Home to the Wasco warm Springs and paiute tribes. Indian Law contains a Bill of right with most of the same provisions As the . Constitution including a ban on cruel and unusual punishment but tribes have wide leeway to interpret that provi Sion said Charles Wilkinson a Law pro Fessor at the University of Colorado and co author of a textbook on Indian Law. " cruel and unusual May not mean the same thing on the reservation As it does in Sari Francisco Wilkinson said. Indian families traditionally do not use Corporal punishment said Louie Pitt jr.,director of governmental affairs for the warm Springs tribes. Neither he nor Wil son Wewa jr., a warm Springs religious Leader could recall use of a tribal whip Man in their 20 years on the reservation