European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 2,1995 at a glance a chinese woman strolls by a pos Ter promoting the non governmental organizations forum on women in Huai Roii China. On Fri Day the conference tackled three key obstacles to Equality few women in government male control of economic Power and violence. See Story on Page 9. Payback for Ames the prosecutors of spy Aldrich h. Ames have presented a $549,000 Check generated by the Sale. Of Ames assets to a Federal fund for crime victims. Pages fires Burn Forest two wildfires charred National for est land and burned up fiber optic Cable in Southern California. Page6 cancer study tests show Promise that a cloned genetic element May prevent the endless cell division that allows can cer to grow unchecked. Page 7 catholics on movies the Catholic communications Campaign plans to open a National toll free movie review line giving moral ratings next week. Page 10 Kennedy pops question John f. Kennedyjr. Has proposed to his live in Girlfriend Caroline Beer Sette the new York Post reports. Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 21-26 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 crossword. In faces places. 15 focus. 16-17 Horoscope. 22 Jumble 22 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 religion 10 sports 27-32 to listings 31 weather 11 in Given life in sex torture deaths of teens Toronto a a jury convicted Paul Bernardo of first degree murder Friday in the sex slayings of two teen age girls bringing to a close the sensational murder trial that has riveted canadians this summer " after deliberating for seven hours the eight men arid four women jurors also found him guilty of kidnapping forcible confinement aggravated sexual assault and committing an indignity to a body. Bernardo received concurrent life sentences on the first degree murder charges sentencing on the other charges will be discussed at a sept. 15 hearing where lawyers will also review dozens of rape charges against Bernardo relating to attacks in Scarborough Ontario. Defense lawyer John Rosen said he will recommend that his client Appeal the ruling. ,. I Bernardo admitted hat he and jus then wife Karla Homolka abducted Les lie Mahaffy. 14, and Kristen French 15, during separate episodes in 1991 and 1992 and abused them sexually for Day while videotaping the acts. But he testified that he was not present when either girl died and has blamed the deaths on Homolka. The decision came after a four month trial in which jurors endured some of the most gruesome explicit evidence Ever de tapes depicting Bernardo raping de grading and humiliating French and Mahaffy were played from Page. 1 Homolka 25, struck a Deal with the government to testify against Bernardo a33-year-old former bookkeeper and plead guilty to manslaughter. She is serv ing a 12-year prison term. Homolka s plea bargain also Grants her immunity in the Case of her sister Tammy 15, who choked to death on her own vomit Christmas eve 1990 Afier the couple drugged and sexually assaulted a. A. Homolka who maintained she was battered into submission testified that Ber Nardo used her participation in Tammy s death to blackmail her into helping fulfil his depraved sexual fantasies with other girls. the Way to police Headquarters Fuhrma told Hodge told you i d get you nig Ger according to Bailey. Lucienne Coleman a Deputy District attorney told her superiors that Fuhr Man had discussed Nicole Brown Simp son s breast enlargements with another officer. The woman said Fuhrma scrawled swastikas on the locker of that officer after the Man married a jewish woman. Coleman said the officer kept a logo his contacts with Fuhrman because they were so unusual but later destroyed it because he did t want to be involve Din the Simpson Case she said she told Simpson Case prosecutors who dismissed the account As defense new disclosures came As the Sha Ken defense team switched direction after Ito s limiting decision on thursday. Apparently they decided to try attacking Fuhrman from another direction rather than fight in the appeals courts to gain admission of the disputed tapes. Defense attorney Gerald Uelmen said the Fuhrman interview tapes offer new evidence that relate to defense allegations that Fuhrman planted evidence Uelmen told Ito he should reconsider his decision to allow into evidence the Glove and blood drops on Simpson s driveway and foyer. The evidence was collected by police on june 13, 1994, just hours after Nicol Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found slashed to death. Ito ordered Uelmen to file papers by thursday Ito ruled that Only two of 61 references in the Fuhrman tapes could be heard by the jury. Forty one of the taped references included the word Nigger 18 talked about violence or framing suspects and two entered on. Fuhrman s att nude about the Simpson Case. The two remarks Ito approved for jury consumption include the racial they included no profanity and were the most innocuous of those culled by the defense from some 16 hours of taped conversations Between Fuhrman and a screenwriter. Ronald Goldman s family praises judge Lance Ito s ruling on the Mark Fuhrman tapes during a news conference outside their Home thursday in Agoura Hills Calif. The fam ily is from left Patti Goldman Fred Gollman Michael Glass the Stepson of Fred Goldman a and daughter Kim Goldman. Cochran called Ito s ruling one of the cruellest unfair decisions Ever rendered in a criminal court in this Cochran said Friday that because it took so Long for Ito to make his ruling attorneys were not prepared to Call Fuhr Man or Laura Hart Mckinny the Nort Carolina screenwriter who recorded the conversations " Ito said thursday that Mckinny could Tell jurors nine of whom Are Black what she heard during conversations with the now retired detective. All of Fuhrman s rhetoric about police misconduct was barred from the most of Fuhrman s Calm casual use of hateful invective which was played Ata hearing tuesday will not be heard by the panellists. Simpson s attorneys called the tapes blockbuster and suggested it would prove that Fuhrman was a liar who had planted evidence to Frame Simpson for the murders of his sex wife and her Friend. In his 10-Page ruling Ito acknowledged that he was required to allow some mention of the word Nigger in court because Fuhrman testified he had no used it in the past 10 years. But the Only two examples juror would hear Are one in which Fuhrman says we have no niggers where i grew,up." and another Iri which he is asked Why do they live in that area and re sponds that s where niggers Ito said he was allowing Only statements which he did not consider inflammatory implying that the jurors would be blinded by emotion if the heard angry repetition of what the judge called the single most insulting inflammatory and provocative term in use in modern Day District attorney Gil Garcetti praised the judge s ruling As an Effort to keep therase focused on relevant evidence that helps the jury determine whether or. Simpson is responsible for the murders but trial prosecutor Christopher Par Den who is Black called the ruling the worst i could have anticipated. Jus hearing one excerpt has an Impact on me. Darden passionately implored the judge at the trial s outset the word Nigger from the trial. As for Fuhrman s accounts of police brutality and misconduct Ito said the de sense did t prove the incidents happened and even if they did they Are irrelevant to the specific charges against Simpson. A act requests probe of Fuhrman s remarks Washington a the Justice department is reviewing an a act re quest that the Federal Agency investigate alleged racist incidents recounted by re tired los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman on tapes reviewed by the judge at the . Simpson trial. The department s civil rights division is j looking at the letter and at the Issue and i do not know at this time How Long that re View will take Deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick said thursday. The los Angeles chapter of the nation Al association for the advancement of coloured people wrote to attorney Gener Al Janet Reno on aug. 18, asking her to open an Independent intensive investigation of the incidents allegedly involving the los Angeles police department Fuhrman discussed them in a series a taped interviews with a North Carolina screenwriter. The civil rights group cited several allegations by Fuhrman in the tapes including police officers tampering with evidence m criminal arrests and singling out Blacks for arrests without probable cause
