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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. September 11, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 4 More slain in Texas prison gang War the three Stin Rby a in bin s occurred at 7 30 p m. In u Day room where about 50 inmates were exercising. Brown said. . Tens a an inmate was stabbed to death monday a Day after three other fatal prison stabbings. Prompting officials to impose an Emer gency lock Down at 1.1 units in an attempt to quell violence among rival gangs. We re at  said Texas prison director  my Cotter. The four a lamps pushed the number of killings in the nation s second largest corrections system this year to 26. One More than the record 25 during 1984. Gang activity is at an alarming level my Cotler said. Our major concern is that it appears to be open  prison officials had ordered strict Security measures Over the labor Day weekend because they feared a sys tem wide takeover by inmates at All units said Al Hughes. Who on monday was elected chairman of the Texas prison Board. No takeover  broke out in the 37,000-inmate system. Department officials said the triple slaying at the Dar Ripton unit South of Houston on sunday is part of a War Between two hispanic gangs known As the Texas Syndi Cate and the mexican mafia. The slaying monday took the life of a conc Perez 31. Who died of 15 Stab wounds at the Ramsey ii unit infirmary said prison spokesman Charles Brown. A 10-Inch Metal Rod sharpened to a Point was found near the body he said. Perez serving an 8-year sentence for burglary in Brooks county became the sixth Texas prison in Malc killed Liis month and eighth in eight Days. A 31-year-old mexican american inmate serving a 17 year sentence for burglary convictions in Harris and Hayes counties was being held in the death said Brown. On sunday night. Mccotter ordered an Csc lock Down for All inmates in maximum medium an custody at 13 units around the state. Brown said. Aids Pupil spurs . Boy coff new York a More than 250,000 children in two new York districts did not show up for the first Day of school monday As parents protested the City s decision to  an elementary school Pupil with aids attend Public classes. Some demonstrating parents said their children would stay Home until they found out which school the child with the incurable disease was attend ing. The identity of the child and the child s school has not been disclosed. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a usually fatal affliction in which the body s immune system be comes unable to resist disease. It is most Likely to strike homosexuals abusers of inject Abl drugs and Haemophiliacs. It can apparently be spread by sexual con tact contaminated Needles and blood transfusions but not by casual Contact. Some children have been born with the disease because their mothers carried the virus. Mayor Edward i. Koch after visiting one school said none of the children he saw was talking about aids and he said parents were Only scaring them by publicizing the Issue. I m suggesting to the parents Don t upset your child the mayor said out Side Public school 26 in fresh Meadows. You can Only add to the tension of going to school. Don t add to the prob lems of a child by talking about  pupils carry signs protesting a decision to allow a Pupil with aids to attend governors delay vote on Trade Volcker warns against protectionism Miami a Federal Reserve boar chairman Paul Volcker warned monday that the is. Economy is on an unsustainable course because of the deficit and Trade imbalance but said protectionist measure would Send the wrong  Volcker speaking at the annual Southern governors association meeting said the nation s Trade imbalance which is spiralling this year toward $ 150 billion and the Feder Al budget deficit must be dealt with Simul but he said that without the Trade deficit America would have difficulty attracting Money from  the Trade deficit would we have the financial capital to support. A$200 billion Federal deficit Volcker , he added a move toward offi Cial overt protectionist policy is a reverse of what we need. That would give All the wrong  governors some of whom were draft ing a Call for tougher restrictions on imports said they be been unable to convince Congress or voters of the need to act quickly to avoid a National economic crisis. The participants then delayed a vote on policy statement calling on president Rea Gan to restore a proper Trade balance an enforce bilateral Trade agreements. The Burden is on the states to make our interests known said Tennessee gov. Lamar Alexander a Republican. Governors should t be setting foreign policy but we should see our interests get a fair  Rohatyn whose economic advice helped restore new York City s finances after the City s mid-1970s fiscal crisis said his experience was that you have to have some kind of crisis before you can get peo ple to Deal with  governors were divided Over methods for dealing with the  most important message we can Send from Here is living within our Means said gov. John Ashcroft of Missouri a re publican. States Are doing that now and we need to convey that to the  Alexander asked whether the United slates should t encourage foreign coun tries to make Here what you sell Here like the japanese who Are building Auto manufacturing plants in the ."1 have no problem Wilh massive foreign investment Rohatyn said. That s prefer Able to Trade barriers. Trade barriers would t Slop at poorly run second rat companies. They would begin to affect High technology telecommunications and other innovative firms As  North Carolina gov. Jim Martin said no tall industries in the South have shared the economic Good times and that Trade poli cies could equalize the Burden. Quake rocks Chicago area Chicago a a mild earthquake rattled Chicago suburbs during Rush hour monday afternoon with a sound like a deep Tunnel  the quake triggered hundreds of Tele phone Calls to authorities and caused minor damage officials said. The temblor. Which occurred at 5 07 p.m., measured 3.0 on the Richter scale said Don Finley a . Geological Survey spokesman in Washington. Finley did not know where the quake was entered but most reports of ground move ment came from suburbs about 20 Miles West of downtown Chicago. In la Grange police received about 600 Telephone Calls shortly after the quake with Many people reporting minor damage. It was like a deep Tunnel explosion police . James Wade said. I really thought it was an explosion. It was the kind of thing where you expect the phones to Light up and they  most of the damage involved pictures falling off Walls objects being shaken from shelves and cracked ceilings Wade said. Wade said that officials in West Chester nearer Chicago reported Milder effects from the tremor. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion As recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number Means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Thus a Reading of 7.5 reflects an earthquake 10 times stronger than one of 6.5. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. Ii 1945 Vidkun Quisling. German installed puppet Premier of nor Way during the nazi occupation was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death in Oslo. 30 years ago today. Sept. Ii. 1955 in a move to offset Competition from airlines flying the Polar route direct from the West coast to Europe trans world airlines officials in new York announced plans to inaugurate a one plane one Slop overnight service across the Atlantic in their Long Range super a constellations. 20 years ago today sept. Ii 1965 in new Delhi de of Csc minister . Chavan told parliament that Indian forces have fallen Back on the Lahore front and that advancing pakistani forces arc shelling the City of pc Roz pore 10 Miles inside India. 10 years ago today. Sept. Ii 1975 a Federal appeals court in new Orleans reinstated the conviction of William l. Callacy or. For the murder of 22 vietnamese civilians at my Lai  
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