European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 4, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 tides buoy up a room  .v.-. _. -. Washington a a surge of Republican women in state politics this year  the gop much closer to the democrats Jih male representation in state Legislatures. J Republican women fared unusually Well in the1994 elections not Only As candidates in open seats but As challengers against incumbents said the Cen Ter for the american woman and politics at Rutgers University in new Jersey. Riding the National gop wave they posted gains that helped offset losses by democratic women so that the number of female legislators dropped Only marginally taking the Long View both parties can cite Prog Ress for women but in neither party have women achieved anything like full representation said Ruthi Mandel director of the new Brunswick n.j., Center.,. A. In All 1,533 women1 will be seated when state Legislatures Convene in the new year Down 14, the Center said in a report released thursday. Among major party women the number of republicans is rising by 87 to 669 while democratic women Are losing 104 seats to end up at 848. That Means 44 percent of female state legislators will be republicans up from 38 percent and 55 per cent will be democrats Down from 62 percent. Looked at another Way 22 percent of All demo cratic state legislators and 19 percent of All Republican legislators will be women. Recounts could change the totals slightly i the Center said a record 85 elected women will be serving in statewide executive offices. Among them Are 19 lieutenant governors 11 education leaders and three Public service commissioners. State offices Are often springboards for higher political achievement. When redistricting created a rash of open . Congressional seats in the 1992 elections women minorities and other newcomers traditionally held Back by the High re election rate for incumbents came to Washington in record numbers. That was not repeated this year. Fatal train wreck Rescue workers gather around the wreckage of a Buda pest Hungary bound train that derailed at a station Friday and slammed into a building killing at least 29 people and injuring 56. The Accident occurred at a Sta Tion near Szolnoky about 43 Miles Southeast of the Capi Tal. The second car of the express train jumped the tracks dragging three other cars with it and some of the overturned carriages smashed into the station building officials said. The hungarian transport min ister said an investigation was underway. North to re Yeai Plains on to show. _ v " a  Chantilly a. A Oliver North will announce on the Larry King live television show this week whether he will run for office in 1996, aides say. Speculation has entered on whether the Iran con tra figure who lost a gop bid to unseat democratic sen. Charles Robb last month will Challenge Virginia s other senator Republican John Warner in two years. _ North has told his top Campaign workers that he will disclose his plans on King s can program wednesday the Gist was it s where i announced my candidacy the first time and it s where i will part the veil for 1996, said Mark Goodin a Campaign adviser. Warner has drawn the anger of some gop activists because he refused to Back Christian conservative Mike Farris in his unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor in 1993 and because he supported Independent Marshall Coleman against North this year.  Farris said last week that he will not run for warn or s seat. Jim Miller who lost the gop Senate Nomi nation to North has said he May Challenge Warner. Madam7 Fleiss faces prison for pandering los Angeles a Heidi Fleiss the High Fly ing Hollywood Madam who once lived in a Swank $1.6 million estate and arranged a Soo a night trysts now faces at least three years in a dreary state prison. A Superior court jury convicted Fleiss on Friday of supplying three prostitutes to undercover police officers posing As clients. She faces a mandatory minimum sentence of a least three years in prison and a maximum of eight years and eight months. Sentencing was set Forjan. 20. Fleiss was re leased on $75,000 bail an went Home with her father  jury which deliberated for four Days dead locked on two other counts of pandering and Fleiss acquitted her of supplying cocaine to an undercover Ponce officer. Fleiss slammed her hands on the defense table and Laid Down her head As the guilty verdicts were  father seated behind her in the front Row of the courtroom Hung his  re confident that she s Strong and Shell see her Way through this defense attorney Anthony Brooklier said. He said he will Appeal. Deputy District attorney Alan Carter said wanderer such As Fleiss exploit sad souls to enrich themselves. When Fleiss a High school dropout was arrested she was living in a $1.6 million Benedict Canyon Man Sion formerly owned by actor Michael Douglas. Federal authorities seized the $375,000 in equity in the House when it was sold last year. Fleiss attorneys never argued that she was t Madam. Instead they suggested that police behaved in  partially agreed acquitting Fleiss on the drug charge and deadlocking on two pandering counts i Felt that the whole investigation of Heidi. That _ they were fishing for a whale and came up very Short,1jury for woman Sheila Mitrowski said. Fleiss was indicted by a grand jury in september1993 following a Complex Multi Agency sting operation. Sammy Lee a Young stylish Beverly Hills police offi cer posed As a hawaiian millionaire named Niko Akai to catch Fleiss. Killer of abortion doctor guard receives 2 life terms Pensacola Fla. A former minister Paul Hill was sentenced Friday to two life sentences the maximum for violating the new Federal Law on clinic Protection in the Shotgun slayings of an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. A judge will decide this week whether Hill . Get he electric chair on state murder charges in the  the state jury that convicted Hill a month ago recommended the death penalty but the judge is not bound by the recommendation. Hill 40, of Pensacola was the first per son in the nation prosecuted under the Federal Law against using violence or otherwise interfering with those entering abortion clinics. Hill a former presbyterian minister killed or. John Bayard Britton 69, and his Volunteer bodyguard retired air Force it. Col. James Barrett 74. Bar rett s wife june 69, was wounded in the attack july 29. The rationale your Honor is simply i was trying to prevent or. Britton from killing the 30 people he was going to kill that Day Hill told . District judge Roger Vinson. Vinson said he did not doubt Hill s. Sincerity about believing he had a higher motive but added god does not look with favor on the taking of any human  the sentence shows that extreme anti abortion zealots Are not  Law and will be punished to the full Mea sure of the Law Eleanor Smeal presi Dent of the feminist majority found action said in a statement. Hill acted As his own lawyer in both Testate and Federal trials but offered no de sense after the two judges refused to let him argue that the slayings were a just. Liable attempt to save lives