European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday april 6, 1986 protests Mark anniversary of King s death by the associated press hundreds of people marked the 18th anniversary Fri Day of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. By protesting apartheid at rallies around the country and More than 70 people were arrested including nearly two dozen saturday in Indiana. At least 19 demonstrations were held at schools including Yale University Johns Hopkins Purdue University Penn slate Cornell Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Most Drew fewer than 100 participants. Purdue Campus police arrested 22 people saturday when they refused to leave an anti apartheid demonstration after their permit expired said Joseph l. Bennett director of University Public relations. The group including 19 students had built a shanty Community Mon Day on the Campus in West Lafayette ind., to symbolize the plight of South african Blacks. Hundreds of Purdue students chanting death to apartheid marched on the Campus Friday. Forty demonstrators were arrested Friday at the University of California at Santa Barbara after they refused orders to end their occupation of an administration build ing and 12 people were arrested in Portland ore., after being dragged from a downtown office building. Demonstrators also shouted obscenities in Madison As police Tore Down nine shanties outside the Wisconsin Cali Tol. K protest organizers led by the new York based Ameri can committee on Africa had billed Friday As National divestment protest Day to urge colleges and universities to sell holdings in companies dealing with South Africa. About 300 people gathered in Memphis tenn., at the site where the civil rights Leader was assassinated april 4, 1968. It was the smallest crowd in the history of the annual commemoration. Gerald Mcentee International president of the Ameri can federation of state county and municipal employees the nation s largest Public employees Union told the rally that Reagan administration policies go against King s ideals. One of the largest demonstrations attracted 450 people a photo Wellesley College president Nannerl Keohane. Steps Over demonstrator from at least 15 new England schools to Boston common but organizers said they had expected As Many As 5,000demonstrators. I m Happy that we got the people we did said Organ Izer Leandrea Brandle of the new England students against apartheid. This is the first time the coalition has done  in Goleta calif., police arrested 40 demonstrators at the us Santa Barbara Campus including eight who Dis Robed during a sit in. Nearly 100 students peacefully occupied the administration building during a demonstration that began with a rally calling for the University to sell $2.4 billion Worth of investments in companies doing business in South Africa. Forty people who refused to leave were arrested said University spokeswoman Margaret weeks. In Portland a protest ended when police dragged 12 people from an ism office and cited them for trespassing. Later Cheryl Heuton an ism corp. Spokeswoman said the company actively opposed apartheid and was try ing to Force South Africa to change its policies. In new York City hundreds of peaceful protesters rep resenting student groups at Columbia University Barnard College and Hunter College rallied outside the Headquarters of Citicorp the holding company that owns Citibank. The protesters called for Citibank american Oil Compa Nies and others to Stop doing business in South Africa. In the Madison protest about 150 demonstrators marched from the University of Wisconsin Campus to the Capitol and built the shanties which have come to symbolize the plight of Blacks in South Africa. Security officers quickly dismantled the shacks As about dozen demonstrators locked arms and yelled. You fascists you bozos one demonstrator  arrests were reported. At the University of California at Berkeley 91 protes ters including two accused of carrying Molotov cocktails were arraigned Friday in connection with clashes with police during demonstrations thursday in which 29 people were injured. Demonstrators called for a student strike monday and vowed to rebuild a shanty town on Campus. Dog gives diner something to beef about Larchmont . A most stray dogs Are Content to eat what they find in the trash. But a German Shepherd sauntered into a restaurant and wolfed Down a diner s roast beef Sandwich officials said. The dog then waited calmly out Side before being taken into custody. We then apprehended the roast beef thief said Ralph Montellese chairman of the Westchester Shore humane society in Harrison. The dog walked into the Roy Rog ers in Larchmont climbed onto a woman s Lap and began to eat he Sandwich Montellese said. By the time John Patterson a humane society animal control agent arrived the Sandwich and the woman were gone. There was no identification on the dog other than some roast beef on her face Montellese said. New Jersey town s residents Unwor ried by radioactive Gas seeping into Homes Clinton . A residents of the quaint town of Clinton seem unfazed that radioactive radon Gas seeping into their Homes could affect their health and nearly a month after the problem was discovered fears Center on property values and damage to tourism. I Don t intend to leave Over it says Sandy Rodrigo who lives with her husband and 6-year-old daughter in the Hunter Don county town of 1,900 people about 45 mile West of new York City. The problem became Public after a Home owner using a radon detection kit discovered a Reading of about 1,000 Pic curies a measurement of radioactivity that the government says is equivalent in health danger to smoking 50 packs of cigarettes daily. The government deems four Pic curies Tobe a Safe level. Whenever you re getting 1,000 Piccou Ries it s getting dangerous says Jim Sta Ples a state department of environmental Protection spokesman. Radon a colourless odourless Gas is the. Product of uranium decay and has Bee linked to lung cancer. Staples says officials have not determined the source of the radon. Clinton is several Miles North of the Reading prong a geological formation that contains uranium and stretches from Pennsylvania to upstate new York. Thirty eight of 49 Homes tested Here and in nearby communities had readings of at least 4 Pic curies including a second House that had a Reading of 1,000, he says. The positive readings have prompted the depart ment to test 60 other Homes in Clinton which spreads Over 1.3 Square Miles. Most of the residences tested Are in the Clinton knolls development a Cluster of about 140 ranch split level and by level Homes built about 20 years ago on a Lime Stone Deposit. Mayor Robert Nulman says that while the town is the first in new Jersey to be tested extensively for the naturally occur ring radon it will also be the first to remedy the problem. Well be the most tested and safest town in new Jersey he says. Health officials say the problem can be remedied by ventilating the ground Levels of Homes. The town has offered radon kits at discounts to about 85 homeowners and the department of environmental Protection is offering technical help to reduce the radon Levels. It s one of those things you can get rid of says Fritz Lahmann a store owner. Most of the people have lived with it for 15 or 20 years adds Roger Cook a Mer chant who lives in the development. We Don t see it As a life or death  Clinton knolls resident John Murray agrees i Don t think it s a big Deal. It s easily solved. I m not worried about  Rodrigo says radon is nothing More than a pest. She says she is concerned about her daughter not Only the effect on her health but also the Impact of to reports she terms sensational. One new York television station says the town was sitting on a time  residents seem to be less concerned with their health than they Are with the town s quaint image and property values. In recent years Clinton and nearby communities have enjoyed the attention of commuters who find the Rural areas a Relief from the noise an smog of their big City jobs. Bestsellers compiled by the new York times fiction 1the Bourne supremacy by Robert Ludlum 2break in by Dick Francis 3lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 4the Mammoth Hunters by Jean m. 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