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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Blacks Are urged to reestablish links with jews Dallas a a jewish Leader urged a act convention delegates tuesday to re forge relations with saying both groups had grown less sensitive to the others fears and rabbi David representing the Union of american hebrew said he came to the National association for the advancement of coloured Peoples convention to shatter some myths and stereotypes involving jews and to form a coalition of the breakdown of interaction Between the two communities has made us less sensitive to each others fears and conveying a sense of betrayal and disappoint Saperstein jews have failed to appreciate that affirmative action is As precious to Blacks As Israel is to that Pride i Jesse Jacksons successes has Little to do with his View on the Plout everything to do with his he it was the first time at least 10 years that a prominent jewish Leader had addressed an a act the fissure in Blac jewish relations basically was caused by a misunderstanding about where the jewish Community stands on affirmative he while the majority of the six million jews in America support affirmative action the very vocal and visible anti defamation league of Bani brith opposes affirmative he no myth has been More destructive to Blac jewish he to the Black the Adl represents the entire jewish i am Here today to Tell you that this stereotype is jews Are More supportive of affirmative action than any segment of the White the Union of hebrew congregations has More than a million members and represents 800 Benjamin executive director of the said he Hopes Saperstein speech will warm the Chilly relations Between the two Effort to beef up Security june 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 John Lennon to film producers scared off by British actors name a actor Mark Lindsay was fired As the Star of a movie about John Lennon and Yoko Ono because his real name is Mark the same name As the Rock stars Abc announced the network had said monday that after an exhaustive a virtually unknown British would play the role of the former beatle in a three hour movie imagine the Story of John and this was one of the most exhaustive casting searches in the history of John mama executive producer for Carson said at the we looked at Over 100 and we finally narrowed it Down to the two we think Best captured the spirit of this remarkable Lindsay name surfaced when the Story was published in English newsmen began making inquiries about the Young currently working As a bricklayer with his Lindsay had changed his name when he joined Brit ish because there already was a Mark Chap Man in the a Young actor with limited stage and television he has appeared in several television productions and on stage in regional theater in Abc and Carson productions said in a joint statement that they were unaware Mark Lindsay real name is Mark although purely a Coin we feel it is in the Best interest of this project that another actor be cast As John Mark David Chapman was convicted in the murder of Lennon in new he is currently serving a life Kim a Young japanese american actress who played Wendy Armstrong on no tvs elsewhere Hospital series in the 198284 will continue in her role asap photo Mark Chapman Lindsay too much of a coincidence the network will resume its search for another actor to play the former if the role can be cast in the film will go into production As planned on july to renovate 126 embassies Washington a the state at a Cost of is planning to replace or renovate 126 embassies and consulates Felt to be vulnerable to terrorist the which will affect almost half of the 262 such missions the United states has represents the most ambitious Effort to Date to enhance Security at diplomatic the recommendations were contained in a report by an advisory panel formed last july by Secretary of state George Shultz following terrorist attacks in 1983 at the embassies in Beirut and for Mer Cia Deputy director Bobby Inman chaired the disclosing the state departments acceptance of the assist ant Secretary of state Robert Lamb told a news conference tuesday that about 75 of the posts will be rebuilt at new Loca he said Many of the missions to be re moved Are hard to protect because they have Glass fronts or Are located in Down town areas and share a common Wall with adjacent he face a serious espionage an 82page report submitted by the panel and made Public tuesday said the current situation at overseas posts cannot be allowed to continue As shown by the bombings and take overs at our embassy buildings in the Middle East in recent As Well As by the Levels of electronic and other eaves dropping activities by our there Are simply too Many risks to our diplomatic personnel and activities at posts with these vulnerabilities to allow these buildings to remain potential targets for such it the countries in which the program will be carried out were not the report said the United states must control buildings in which it does Busi Ness adding in contrast to an earlier it is no longer an asset for an embassy to be located on the busiest or most fashionable Street or it also said proximity to other buildings makes guarding sensitive information difficult because of sophisticated spying equip the panel made 91 recommendations for improving Security at some of which were contained in a Classi fied report that was not made Lamb said not All the proposals would be several organizational changes were rec including the creation of a Bureau for diplomatic state department spokesman Edward Djerejian said Shultz supports the recommendations in principle and believes they Are Well thought out and far the report said sweeping changes Are needed because of changes in the global political environment Over the past two dec the peaceful or country of yesterday can be a of insurgency or violence buildings that were located and constructed most carefully in the past May now be unacceptable from a Security stand it mentally deficient alcoholic executed for rap murder up Morris Odell an alcoholic farm worker with an was executed tuesday night for nailing a woman to a taping her and burning her Home in a 1978 rampage on Virginias Eastern who sought help for his uncontrollable drinking shortly before his bloody crime was put to death shortly after 11 Edt in Virginias electric chair at the state he became the 46th person executed in the mite since the resumption of capital Praia hint in 1976 and the second convict put to death on Charles a 34yearold heroin and was executed by lethal injection in Early tuesday for killing a Wom aft during a liquor store Holdup he staged to support his drug who once boasted his two week rampage made the Eastern Shore said hours before his death that he was not afraid because i got the lord with he also apologized to his victims elderly women he raped and burned to death and two teenage Sisters he attacked shooting and paralysing one of the girls who id like to Tell Alt of pm that in sorry and everything and to forgive me and eve Mason if i haunt been on it  have attorney Lloyd Snook Iii made futile appeals to charts Robb and the supreme claiming Mason should be spared because of his limited mental Capac Ity and his history of mental the supreme court rejected the Appeal tuesday and Mason ordered his final meal four Mcdonalds big two orders of two hot fudge an Apple turnover and soft who had an in of 62 and the mental capacity of an was condemned after admitting he nailed the Palm of 71yearold Margaret hand of Nassa Maddox to her living room raped beat then set her Home on burning her to he also confessed to attacking two teen age girls the next Day and admitted that two weeks he raped an 86yearold Eastern Shore woman and torched her in addition to the death Mason was sentenced to seven lire terms plus 100 years for the crime which he dragged about in in the killer for the Eastern he in the Only killer they Ever had around i made the Eastern Shore pop Snook called Mason deeply troubled and said he sought help from a parole offi in the Day before he committed the Margaret hand murder he i cant control my can you put me in a Halfway House Snook he was asking for practically begging for and he didst get inmates at Virginias Century old state Penitentiary in downtown Richmond were put on modified lock Down tuesday to prevent an uprising like the one convicts staged april 18 in a futile attempt to halt the execution of deathrow escape artist James  
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