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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 9, 1994 us. The stars and stripes Page 7 postal service rethinking plans for a bomb stamp from the associated press Washington a bowing to White House concern the . Postal service is reconsidering plans for a stamp to commemorate the end of world War ii with a picture of a mushroom shaped Cloud. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said wednesday that chief of staff Leon Panetta has told postmaster general Marvin Runyon about the White houses concerns. Although Runyon gets the final say on stamp issuance he bowed to White House pressure last month and approved a a Madonna arid child Christmas stamp for 1995. Suicide Law derailed Salem Ore. A a Federal judge has suspended Oregon a bid to become the first place in the nation to Sanction doctor assisted suicide for the terminally ill. . District judge Michael Hogan issued a temporary restraining order wednesday blocking the Law which was supposed to have taken effect thursday. Hogan plans to hear arguments dec. 19 on whether the Law is constitutional. Oregon voters narrowly approved the assisted suicide measure nov. 8. The Law would allow patients to request life ending medication if a doctor determines that they have less than six months to live. The patient must ask for the drugs three times a including once in writing a get a second doctor s opinion and wait 15 a Days v a a a a a v a a a War crimes suspect probed Washington the Justice department moved to strip an Ohio real estate agent of his . Citizenship wednesday on grounds that he All amp Gedly. Persecuted jews and others while serving in the nazi sponsored lithuanian Security police during world War ii. The departments office of special investigations charged that Algimantas Dailide 73, on at least one occasion participated in the arrest of jews who had escaped irom b armed wire enclosed ghettos in the province around Vilnius Lithuania s capital. The office cited captured records in the lithuanian Central state archives. Arrest order for shakur los Angeles a a judge ordered the arrest of tupac shakur when the rapper failed to show up wednesday for a court hearing on weapons charges a week after he was shot. Shakur is charged with a felony count of carrying a concealed 9 a pistol in a vehicle when he and Maurice Harding were stopped april 29 for speeding in Hollywood Harding was charged with the same offence and shakur also was charged with a count of carrying a loaded firearm. A both shakur 23, and Harding 27, failed to show up for the pretrial hearing. Afterwards Superior _ court judge Paul Flynn revoked their $20,000 bail and issued arrest warrants Deputy District. Attorney Scott Goodwin said. It was the second time in the past week that shakur was involved in a criminal Case. He was convicted thursday in new York City of sexually abusing a 20-year-old woman he had invited to his hotel room the jury acquitted him of sodomy a and weapons charges. The Day before his conviction he was shot in the hand head and Groin and robbed of about $40,000 Quot in jewelry at a Manhattan recording studio. His attorneys have not said where shakur is recuperating. A a _. Michigan killer executed Michigan City ind. A a robber who killed a brinks guard died in the electric chair Early thursday for the murder of a police officer who tried to arrest him. Gregory Resnover 43, turned Down a last meal and a final Shower. He was pronounced dead at 12 13 . After two jolts of electricity coursed through his body for a total of 30 seconds. Resnover was convicted in the december 1980 shooting of Indianapolis police sgt. Jack Ohrberg. Resnover also was convicted of killing brinks guard William e. Sieg or. During a $50,000 Holdup at a Kmart store in August 1980. Ohrberg was killed while trying to arrest. Resnover and Tommie j. Smith for the guard s killing. Smith who fired the Bullet that killed Ohrberg is on death Row. A a a workers i 11 get paid battered county vows Santa Ana Calif. Apr Orange county supervisors told employees investors and creditors wednesday that the county would emerge strongly from bankruptcy but offered few specifics except to Promise no immediate pay losses for employees. In a statement read to reporters after a Daylong secret meeting Board of supervisors chairman Thomas Riley said the crisis will pass and the county a future re Mains Bright.  a a a ��7 a ��.�?T����. A payroll for All county and school employees that is currently coming due will be met in full a Riley said that limited Assurance was made on a Day when major credit rating agencies downgraded certain Bonds issued by the governments wrapped up in the Grange county financial crisis. The county is the largest local government Ever to file for bankruptcy Protection. Its filing tuesday showed it has issued $2.3 billion in Bonds securities that Standard amp poor a downgraded to a speculative rating the holders of those securities now unsecured creditors were Given no assurances that they would get Back 100 cents on the Dollar. A a it a too Early to Tell a said Bruce Bennett the bankruptcy lawyer retained by the county. Moody a investor service also suspended the ratings on some uninsured Bonds issued by the county. As for the extent to which the county will pay its Bills chief administrative officer Ernie Schneider Only repeated Riley a Assurance that the payrolls of the county arid its schools wont be affected for now. A Schneider said the county wont go Forward with some projects that had been funded by Bonds. The director of employee relations for the Orange county employees association which represents 11,000 of the county a 16,000 workers said it remains business As usual for those employees. A a there a absolutely no panic a said  Berardino. Opposing military a role peace activists from left Stephen dear Jean Chapman and Scott Jacobson stand near the Entrance of Seymour Johnson fab in Goldsboro n.c., holding signs protesting use of . Armed forces to shield the american Way of lire while much of the world suffers in poverty. The demonstrators members of the Pax Christl spirit of life Plo shares plan another action at the air base saturday. Dear is the brother of Pax Christ member John dear who with several others vandalized an f-15e strike Eagle at Seymour Johnson last year. _ say by the new York times a a r a a Washington a the Colorado Man who opened fire on the White House six weeks ago believed he was shooting at president Clinton after having spotted a Gray haired Man walking inside the compound Federal a a Law enforcement officials said wednesday. A 7 the potential target Dennis Basso a 40-year-old furrier and designer from new York who somewhat resembles Clinton had just emerged from the West Wing of the White House As part of a private tour said peo pie familiar with the investigation. Basso and three other members of his party were thrown to the ground by secret service agents As Francisco m. Duran a 26-year-old former army medic who was Dis honorable discharged began firing with a semiautomatic assault Rifle outside the White House Fence said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. A Clinton was upstairs in a rear second floor room watching College football on television that saturday afternoon and was never in danger. Although Duran has been charged with trying to assassinate the president the secret service has not publicly disclosed evidence that he actually believed he was shooting at Clinton. The link Between Basso a oct 29 visit to the White House and the shooting was first reported wednesday by the daily news of new York. Federal officials who confirmed details Otthat account declined wednesday to say Why they believed Duran thought he was shooting at Clinton but they indicated they had information to support the theory. Duran was indicted by a Federal grand jury last month on 11 felony charges and would face a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted of trying to assassinate the president. At a hearing in Federal court last month an attorney for Duran entered a plea of innocent to All of the charges against his client a Colorado hotel worker. Reached on wednesday afternoon at his office in Manhattan Basso refused to discuss the incident except to say that he did not believe he resembled the president. A i done to want to comment because i feel that is in the Best interests of everyone a said Basso whose clients include Elizabeth Taylor and Ivana Trump. Basso said he met first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in september at a fund raising dinner for her brother Hugh Rodham a candidate in Florida for the . Senate. Basso said the White House had arranged the private tour for him and three friends after he announced plans to hold his own fund raising dinner for Rodham  
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