European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday december 28,1994 i at a glance confessed spy Aldrich h. Ames shown in an undated Fri photo says there probably Are other moles inside the. Cia. See Story on Page 6. Air strikes halted russian president Boris Yeltsin said he had ordered a halt to the bombing of Chechnya and wanted new peace talks. Page 4 Texas gets bigger Texas added 356,000 people in one year to surpass new York As the nation s second most populous state the census Bureau reported tuesday. ,. Paget won t last Long most new year s resolutions Are doomed before the Calendar even reads Jan. 2, a researcher says. V pages Middle East clash israeli troops battling palestinians protesting the expansion of a jewish settlement knocked a palestinian minister unconscious. Hijackers plan told extremists who seized an air France flight in Algiers planned to blow up the plane and its 171 occupants Over Paris former hostages said. A. -.-. Page 10 Back to the malls shoppers got Back Down to Busic Ness after Christmas hitting stores and malls in Force. Page 14 Index j Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 22-25 comics. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 education. 10 faces i places. 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 23 Jumble. 23 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports. 27-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 apology i from Page 1 helicopter. Is a grave violation of the sovereignty of the dark democratic peopled Republic of Korea and a deliberate act for espionage on it the news Agency s statement said. V the North has said Hall will not be re leased until it completes its investigation. Its statement tuesday said Washington must admit its responsibility. And dearly show an honest and reasonable attitude before it is too late Hilemon s body was returned As part Ofa Deal worked out by . Rep. Bill Rich Ardson d-n.m., who said last week that North Korea had agreed to free Hall very on tuesday Richardson told Abc s Haiti from Page 1 sit Ion around the building. On monday scores of discharged Hai Tian soldiers forced their Way into the Headquarters and clashed with haitian officers inside. Cps. Jean Pierre Benoit said Active duty haitian soldiers also took part in the protest ,. /.-. Reporters saw the bodies of two of the dead one in uniform outside the sex soldiers died at the military Hospi Tal one from a gunshot wound to the backhand one from two shots through the Chest. . Soldiers had the situation under control about two hours after the violence erupted. They arrested at least a doze people in the Headquarters parking lot including discharged and Active duty haitian soldiers. Thousands of people later demonstrate around the Plaza. Today show obviously the North koreans Are squeezing us they re putting us through water torture. But i think it s important to stay Cool. Nothing is final with the weekend . Officials had sent Pyongyang a letter expressing regret that the helicopter had strayed Over the Border but that was not enough for the North koreans. Jim Coles a spokesman for the .and . Military presence in Korea adamantly denied accusations of espionage. As we have said this was a routine training flight that unfortunately strayed into dark airspace he said tuesday. . Officials have said the pilots May have been disoriented because fresh heavy Snow had covered landmarks and navigational markers. North Korea rejected that claimed the helicopter was flying at a Low Altitude of 1,200 feet when it Crosse the Nigger zone separating the two to reas at 10 35 ., the korean Centra news Agency statement said. After two warning signals the helicopter lowered its Altitude and continued to Fly North the statement said. Anti air Craft gunners opened fire at 10 45 Hit by one shot the helicopter Fella flame to a Ravine it said. North Korea said the fact that the helicopter did not respond to our warn ing signals but tried to escape. Eloquently proves that the intrusion was not a stray flight " Lee Hamilton the outgoing chairman of the House foreign relations commit tee told the to Fajr show he has no Evi Dence that the helicopter was on a spy Mission. And the Indiana Democrat warned that unless Hall is released the nuclear agreement would be in jeopardy. Uj5. Troops take a prisoner outside Haiti army Headquarters in port a Prince on monday. Closed from Page ble involvement of others in the a written statement issued last week the . Army Europe command said that the investigation is Complete and that there Are no other suspects. We Are not aware of any reason Why Smith picked the Mckemy quarters said it. Col. Mariano f. Rowland Deputy chief of Public was no evidence that Smith had Ever met any of the Mckemy family or even knew anyone in the family s apart ment building according to the was there any evidence that Smith and the Mckeys had crossed paths inthe hours before the killing when Smith said he was getting drunk at a club near the housing area. Brent Mckemy and his wife were asleep in their bedroom when their daughter disappeared from her front door was not locked investigators s All very bizarre is How Smith s lawyer Joel Cohen has described the Lack of details about the killing. The negotiated plea that resulted inthe dropping of the death penalty charges against Smith also avoided a pos sible controversy with the German government which does not permit capital punishment and was attempting to get jurisdiction in the plea bargain also had not been expected by German police investigator who had helped solve the Case. I was surprised because the army Hada tight Case and wanted to take it to the United states said Georg Nauth spokesman for the Darmstadt City police. Smith formerly of Btry a 4th Bri 27th Field arty in Babenhausen had Bee scheduled for military trial Jan. 10 in fort Belvoir a. One German investigator close to therase said that under German Law. Smith probably would have been judged insane. When one remembers that even sea soned investigators were shocked at the Way the child had been mutilated i find it difficult to imagine Smith to be totally sane no matter How much he had to Elora Smith drink that night said the investigator who asked to remain Anonymous. Smith originally claimed to have had about 14 to 16 Beers at the bar the investigator said. Even the life sentence is severe by German standards Nauth said. I doubt if he would have been deemed sane at the time of the crime and he As an adolescent from 18 to 21 at the time of Crim would have been tried in a youth court and received a maximum sentence of 10 years he said. Technically Smith could be eligible for parole from the prison at fort leaven Worth kan., in 10 years army officials have said. Smith s apprehension was the result of work coordinated by military and Ger Man civilian authorities. The Dan specialists of the Hessen state crime Laboratory were part of that Effort. Or. Harald Schneider was one of Thedna specialists who conducted the test ing used to implicate took 1,900 blood samples which made it the largest Dan sweep in Ger Man history Schneider said. Schneider s four Man staff worked the tests for three months. We did a preliminary test on All Sam Ples. Then we started in the weeding out process and when we got to test number1,412 we had our Man Schneider said. He said the first test run of samples left them with 95 suspects the second run of those left them with six suspects the third with three and the fourth with one which they retested three times to be also ran the sperm tests from the samples found on Elora s body and Schneider said. It was More complicated than usual because the sperm was mixed with her blood. But in the end we could pin it on . Arnold Woltermann was the textile expert at the Hessen crime lab who examined the fibres on Mckemy s body. The threads were picked from he body and clothing with adhesive tape Woltermann said. And because weddin t find any such fibres in the Mckemy household we were certain the killer was an the police eventually found a sweat shirt in Smith s possessions that not Only had similar fibres but also fibres that matched those from the girl s clothing. Smith s sentence is subject to review by the court martial convening authority Brig. Gen. Joseph g. Garrett Iii commander of the 32nd army air defense come in Darm Stadt. An Appeal is automatic
