European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagel the stars and stripes monday september 2,1985 lice arrest night stalker suspect los Angeles a a Mav identified As the prime suspect in the 16 night stalker to sayings was arrested saturday after a mob chased and bean in when he pulled a woman from her car and tried to steal to police and witnesses s me it s me it s me i m Lucky the cops me Richard Ramirez shouted in Spanish As rearrested according to witnesses who talked to television station Friday had identified Ramirez 25, As the prime suspect in the slayings and in 21 other nighttime attack since february that had spread fear throughout Southern capture ended an hour Long Chase that began when shoppers at a liquor store reported that Ramirez picked Upa Cwi paper inked at his photograph on the cover and fled said los Angeles police commander William Booth police launched an air and ground search As pm Fatsi tinted saying that the Man was seen crossing thirty Lin into unincorporated county territory where fish Nauy was arrested. Up at one Point Ramirez ran where at least one nun Strock him with Sibie Barbecue said. A Ramirez ended up in Mast los Angeles neighbor Hood where he to steal a car but crashed it into a Bouse while Ming to Back it out of a crossed the Lireet and pulled Angle de la Torre 29, from her car in front of her Home and tried to grab he keys m3ses said. Uthit her in the stomach. She fought Back said the woman s brother Juan Hernandez 17. She recognized apply Mcrichard Ramirez. I m Lucky the cops caught me . She screamed it s the killer the killer my brother in Law took a Metal stick from the Gate started chasing him Hernandez said of Manuel Dela Torre 35. He hit him in inc in three As Ramirez tried to flee neighbors emerged from then Homes and joined in the fight police said. We ran after him Halfway Down the Street. We cornered him said a Man who joined the mob five Miles East of downtown los Angeles. We just All gang tackled him. And we just held him Down. Sheriffs deputies took Ramirez for questioning to the Hollenbeck station where a surging crowd of about 500 jeering people gathered outside shouting kill him kill him about 50 officers formed a human Chain to protect the handcuffed Ramirez As be walked from the station to an unmarked police car for Transfer to the main county at the station Ramirez was booked for investigation of murder said police it. Dan was kept at the station for five hours As police awaited reinforcements to ensure his safety during the move Cooke said. Two patrol cars and seven police motor cycles escorted the Auto taking Ramirez to the killer entered Homes through unlocked doors and windows at night bludgeoning knifing raping and shoot ing victims ranging in age from 16 to 83. Most of the killer s attacks have been in lot Angele county but other victims lived As far away As san fran Cisco about 400 Miles North and Orange county 55 mile South. Four kidnappings and molestations involving childrens Young As 6, May also be linked to the killer police said delegation of 8 senators visits Moscow to discuss fall Summit with Gorbachev Moscow a eight senators arrived in Moscow on saturday to meet with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev an help mend what one of their hosts called very bad relations Between the United slates and the soviet Union. Senate minority Leader Robert c. Byrd,d-w.va., who Heads the delegation said he was carrying a letter from president Rea Gan that he will give Gorbachev. He declined to divulge its delegation is scheduled to Nuet with Gorbachev on tuesday and Wilt be the firs group of . Senators to do so since he became the communist party s general Secretary in March. Byrd said the senators wanted to help pave the Way for a Summit Between the leaders of our countries in Geneva in he also stressed that they want to make the soviets understand they will have to satisfy the Senate before the United states could ratify any treaty with the soviet is a very critical Lime in the history of relations Between our two great countries audit May very Well set the Lone for Many years in these relations said Byrd wearing a world War ii anniversary Lapel pin he received in Kiev the tint Stop on the soviet american people want peace the president wants peace Congress wants peace he said. By coming Here we be Lieve we can contribute to what we Hope willbe a constructive Byrd and other senators repeatedly stressed that their visit was pan of the pro Cess of preparing for the november sum Mit. But Georgi Arbatova head of the .a.and Canada Institute and one of the group s soviet hosts was More restrained. Arbatova standing on the Side while Byr talked of the Senate s constitutional role in ratifying treaties said that has been understood since 1979 when the Senate did t ratify the Salt ii treaty speaking before to cameras later Arba Tov added we understand very Well the role of the Senate. The problem is we Don thave any treaty to Arbatova who is a leading soviet spokes Man on relations with Washington was asked How important he thought the senators visit was. I would t connect it with the Summit bad wine kills 25 in China peking up at least 25 people died 11 were blinded and 64 others sick ened after drinking wine made from Indus trial alcohol in China s Central Sichuan province the official people s daily news paper said. Four men found guilty of using Methyl alcohol to make the wine were sentenced to death by courts in the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing the newspaper said. He said. I think our relations with the sen ate and House of representatives Are very significant by themselves with the Summit or without the asked for his assessment of , Arbatova said very bad i m sorry to senators accompanying Byrd Are Strom Thurmond , Claiborne Pell,. Sam Nunn a Georgia Dennis de Corrini a Ariz. Paul Sarbanes Warnerr a. And George Mitchell headed a Senate delegation that met with then president Yuri Andropov on aug. 19,1983. They were the last outsider to see Andropov before he died the follow ing february. Thurmond a senior Senate conservative with 31 years tenure is a frequent critic of the soviet Union and is making his first trip to it. The soviet is a tremendous Power. The United states is a tremendous Power he said. If we can to anything to assist this. Summit or Lay the groundwork that would help the people of these two great nation get together it would be to the Benefit of the entire was asked if he believes the Kremlin can be trusted As a negotiating partner and replied if or. Re can and or. Gorbachev entered into a treaty we would Trust them until that treaty is Bro Ken gunmen kill 2 at Florida soccer Field opa Locka Fla. A police said saturday they were still without a motive or suspects in a shooting spree that left former professional soccer Star Colin Fowles and a Spectator dead an two other people wounded during a pick up soccer game Here thursday night. Fowles an original member of the North american soccer league s fort Lauderdale strikers was shot in the stomach and Pelvis and died around 8 30 p.m., according to the Dade county med ical examiner when several gunmen burst onto the playing held and opened fire. A woman in her 20s, still unidentified on saturday also was Vil cd. The two injured people identified a Glenton Dacres 21, and Janet Timmons 24, both of Miami were reported in fair condition in a local Hospital. Fowles and and several players on Adade county league team were playing a pickup game at Bunche Park in opa lock a Northern Miami suburb when the shooting by As Many As five gunmen broke out according to county recreation officials. About 100 players and Spectator scrambled for safety hiding behind cars poles and Trees when the shooting started for no apparent reason creating a mass of confusion metro Dade policeman Al Carballosa said. It s still rather confused. We Don know what occurred said sgt. Mike Diaz. We re trying to find out who the targets were. From what we understand the shooting erupted a bit away from the actual game itself. It apparently Over flowed into the Fowles 33, was a native of Jamaica who lived in England for 10 years and moved to the United states As a teen Ager later becoming a citizen. 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