European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page2 i i Thi night the stars and stripes tuesday september 3, 1985 nigh stalker7 suspect linked to satanic themes reports say los Angeles a a mols of Devil worship were found in the i Toms of some victims of the night stalker believed responsible for 16 slayings Anvie prime suspect was obsessed with a h Metal song night prowler according 1 news reports sunday. The suspect Richard Ramirez was arrested saturday after he was chased Down and beaten by a group of residents in East los Angeles when he allegedly punched a woman and tried to steal a car. Ramirez 25, was being held without sunday after being booked for invest map of one unspecified count of Murde Jand for attempted Auto theft and Assa Jayhe was not to be arraigned until to he s being housed in Antof the Maxi mum Security cells at Antral jail said Deputy Rick Adams Erlot Angeles county sheriffs spoken flt it s for his own safety and the safety uie  police reused a photograph of Ramirez on Frfd Jdwight. They identified him As the prime Knect in the night stalker series ofor slaying and at least 21 assaults that Nia since feb. 8. The Vic Tims were shot bludgeoned Slabbed Ottnad their throats slashed by an jul Aarant who sneaked into darkened Holajn through unlocked doors or windows pentagrams five awed stars associated with witchcraft ass Kvil worship were paint i on Walls in Fimma of some of the killer s ims unidentified sources quoted by Eles times and los Angela Tele . Reported that the killer tried no gouge 9kt the Eye of at least one victim and ate Mealun some victims Homes. Most of whelk her s attacks have been in los Angeles coins but other victims lived As far away As Sanfrancisco and Orange county 55 Miles sour of los Angeles. Ray Garcia 27, a Kmer classmate of Ramirez who just Moneow the cast san Francisco Bay Community Al Sobrane from Elpaso Texas told the san Francisco examiner that Ramirez was obsessed with satanic themes in the Rock band acc i 1979 album Highway to  the album cover depicts a band member dressed As a Devil while another wean a Pentagram shaped Pendant. Ramirez grew up in Elpaso. Garcia said Ramirez s favorite song was night  the song says in part was that a noise out your window or a Shadow on your Blind and you lie there naked like a body in a Tomb suspended animation As i slip into your  the times and Kab said investigators last month searched an area of East los Angeles where they believed a satanic cult had met and they found Tennis shoe prints which matched prints found at some of the night stalker crime scenes. Police refused to confirm or deny the reports. I have no information at All As to any relationship with any satanic rituals or whatever said Adams. Saturday s arrest relieved the fears of Many California residents who had began to keep doors locked and outdoor areas Well lighted. Schuyler sprawled spokesman for the. Los Angeles county District attorney said Ramirez could be arraigned no earlier than tuesday because of the three Day labor Day weekend. Reagan winds up free week vacation prepares re launch drive Tor tax Reform Santa Barbara. Calif. Up president Reagan ended his three week vacation sunday and prepared for the Kickoff of an aggressive fall Campaign to sell his tax Reform plan. Reagan and his wife Nancy Savoured a final Day of Leisure at their ranch in the Santa Ynez mountains before returning to Washington monday with a Stop in route in Independence mo., for a speech of Reagan s tax proposal. The hour Long visit to Independence in which he will give a speech outside the Jackson county courthouse where Harry s. Truman got his political Start will serve As the springboard for his Campaign to push tax Reform legislation through Congress by the end of the year. Allsho Ullh that goal is regarded by some As illusory White House officials believe the House could approve a tax Reform plan As Early As mid october and they still Harbor Hopes however slim that the Senate could follow suit with the differences in the Bills settled in a conference before Congress recesses for i the year. Plans Call for Reagan to be on the Road once a week through october Ting the need for tax fairness and simplicity to audiences around the coun try. The Nyasa be in Independence a re ran aide skid is that the president i he d be Bact full throttle to sell Tad form after labor Day and he s Paffard to make Good of that  Reagan who Ull take Bis tfx crusade to North Carol inv state University in Raleigh on thursday  that determination 10 Sadr ago when he vowed to  most Exten Sive tax overhaul hrs country has had since the 1920s_ it s a Chota Between the special in Terest and Jujj general inter he declared. The administration estimate that if Reagan s Psi opals Are adopted 58.1 percent of All american families would see their tax Bills decrease 20.7 percent void my higher taxes and 21.2 percent see no change. Teagan s pitch is aimed at Middle Rica where be Hopes to portray his tax proposals As pro family and to Posi Tion himself As a defender of the working class at Odds with powerful special inter ests. As Many As 8,000 people were expected at Independence to cheer Rea Gan s first real Public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery july 13. The Choice of Truman s Hometown for the speech underlines the president s need for bipartisan support in Congress if his goals Are to be achieved. Reagan s often refers in speeches to Truman and other democratic presi dents. West germ austice minister pledges clemency of spies who give selves up Bonn up German Justice min ister Hans Engelhard promised earn bloc spies clemency sunday if Tholf give themselves up. F without giving any detail he said some already have broken a Jan their intelligence agencies and Juned them selves in. F Engelhard made the offer of clemency in a statement Pum Shavin the mass circulation newspaper bin am sonntag. Spies give you Raives up Engelhart said. It will be world your while. He said that per West German Law people who Conan it crimes can get off if they show by air actions that they re pent. / some already have crossed this Golden Bridge Nave cleared their consciences and Haw won Freedom from punish ment Jle said. At the same time they have removed themselves from the influence in foreign  an aide of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in an interview with Bild said the defection of counterspy Hans Joachim Tiedge to East Germany has been a serious blow and the government has ordered stricter Security checks because of the spy scan dal. The scandal began july 30 with the Dis appearance apparently to the East of Sonja Lueneburg confidential Secretary to economics minute Martin Bangemann. Since then seven other espionage cases have come to Light. One involved a Secre tary in the Headquarters of president Rich Ard von Weizsaecker who had Access to top military and diplomatic secrets. The Kohl aide state Secretary Wolf gang Schaeuble said there Are no grounds for hysteria but More secretaries might turn out to be spies. Naturally no one can Rule out the pos Sivility hat in one or the other offices spying is going on without our knowing Schaeuble said. But he said it would be unjust to be sufi icons of secretaries As a group. Sol Bauble last week warned that a Newtou of agents coven the  he a no figures but estimates of the number spies Range from 3,000 to a High As 2\poo. Bild Sai that the East germans were trying to Usu he wife and child of Martin Winkler an last German Diplomat who fled to the Wett last week to blackmail him into return Gnu. The newspaper vivid Winkler 44, hurriedly fled the was German embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina because he had spied for West Germany and he was afraid Tiedge Woald betray him. At the time he fled his wife and child were vacationing in East Berlin the newspaper said. Bild said Winkler fears an East German murder squad will try to loll him but he is Safe in american hands somewhere in South Ger Many and said that he will not be blackmailed into returning to the East. Stateside child sex abuse least 22 were victim one third the time into adult has reported the Tele Dolly cd Angeles Upsy at of Allvine Picans Buse with one at Ith their secret Tio wide study Irvey of 2,627 ran was conducted by the a Angel times. Oll found that 22 percent of responding 27 percent of the in and 16 percent of the men id they were molested As children or 16x1.6iran-missile trill los ajt3eles a a woman lying a key Jefe in a plot Iti tank a Stiles Orui s9 be str a win be sent l 52, whose husband Vin the Case waived a hearing before us. Accused to buy us million to is to Florida to Fahrin also was her he magistrate Volney v. Brownjr. Denies response Obj i Trento. Italy a Dent of the company Thanh red a dam which burst Ano in Vaasa a Village Leav ing More than 23tmead, has disavowed  disaster. I did too anything wrong and i Don t fee