European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 stars and stripes july 2007 lady Bird Johnson Dies by Kelley Shannon the associated press Texas a quiet woman who once turned Down a class valedictorians medal because she feared Public lady Bird Johnson found herself pulled suddenly into the Public Eye As first lady when her husband Lyndon Johnson be came president amid when she died of natural causes at her Austin Home at age Johnson was remembered As Loving and yet Strong in spirit and in her dedication to her family and her passion for Johnson was a Strong Texas said family Friend and spokesman Neal com paring her to historic Texas political women like Ann Richards and Barbara she was hospitalized with a stroke in 2002 that made speaking but she continued to make Public appearances and in May attended an event at the lbs Library and along with tenaciously supporting his adm Nistra she was a Champion for the environment and the preservation of native plants and despite her medical she occasionally visited the lady Bird Johnson wildflower Center she confounded in 1982 and delighted in the wildflowers around austins town As first she was perhaps Best known As the determined environmentalist who wanted Roadside billboards and junkyards replaced with Trees and she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to beautify the million Frank lbs Lyndon Johnson and lady Bird Johnson at the lbs ranch near in lady Bird died wednesday at Highway beautification passed in was known As the lady Bird and she made speeches and lobbied Congress to win its in addition to her two lady Bird Johnsons survivors include seven a step grandchild and several parents in caged kids Case Hope to get children Back by Ropko the associated press Ohio a couple facing a two year prison sentence for forcing some of their 11 adopted special needs children to sleep in cages Hope to get the children Michael and Sharen Gravelle were sentenced in february on four felony child endangering charges and seven mis demean the couple Are free on Bond pending we still have an inside shot at getting our children which was our goal and we still stand by Michael Gravelle said wednesday in the couples first Public comments since they were the Gravelled who ranged in age from 1 to suffered from problems such As fetal alcohol syndrome and a disorder that involves eating nonfood authorities removed them in Michael Gravelle september 2005 from their Home in about 60 Miles West of the children were placed in Foster care in fall Sharen Gravelle said she thinks often about the children who the couple said they took in because no one else to do i didst even get a Chance to say she the Chance of the couple get Ting the children Back appears re about three weeks the Ohio supreme court refused to consider an Appeal of the custody Case that put the children into Fos Ter Michael Gravelle repeated his past comments that he and his wife made enclosed Beds for the safety of the troubled Chil Dren they they built a Case on a 11 locked a heard kids in he Sharen Gravelle jury Evi including testimony from the that the Grav Elles put sometimes for Pun in Small Wooda Dwire the Gravelled Are out of Money for the Legal Battle and Are Hope Ful they will receive financial sup port to fight what they say is an unfair they say they Are working Par time jobs and have tried with out Success to sell the House where Michael Gravelle built what prosecutors called cages in the upstairs Man pleads guilty to spying for Saddam Detroit an Iraq born citizen accused of spying for Saddam Hussein former regime and sharing information with the executed dictators intelligence ser vice has pleaded guilty in the Ghazi of dear pleaded guilty to acting As an agent of the government of Iraq under Saddam the attorneys office said carries out first execution in 60 years Sioux a 25yearold Man was executed by lethal injection for the torture and slaying of a teenager who was forced to drink hydrochloric acid during a robbery of his it was this Central states first execution in 60 Eujah Page gave up his appeals and asked to die for the 2000 Mur Der of Chester Allan who was also kicked and bashed with Large rocks in a Tor Ture session at a Gulch in the Black Hills that lasted two to three Page died at wednes Day from a lethal injection administered at the South Dakota state third suspect caught in nyc cop shooting new York the third suspect in a shooting that left a new York City police officer paralysed and his partner wounded was Cap tured Early thursday in the Penn Sylvania a bloodhound picked up Rob Ert Ellis scent near tanners not far from where an other suspect was apprehended Ellis tried to run but was Cap tured by two Pennsylvania state said Pennsylvania state police James House leans toward contempt in firings Washington a panel in the House of representatives cleared the Way thursday for con tempt proceedings against former White House counsel har Riet Miers after she obeyed presi Dent Bush and skipped a hearing on the firings of democrats want to know if the prosecutors were dismissed at the White houses perhaps to make room for Bush Bush has denied there that there were improper political to from the associated press it this sunday with your copy of ome automated action when transformers hits the movie scene your entertainment and lifestyle