European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday april 6, 1986 stateside a photo National Park service workers dismantle a sign in Washington s Lafayette Park across from the White House. New rules ban Large protest signs in Park across from White House Washington a Large protest signs will no longer be a part of the landscape of Lafayette Park under new guidelines officials say Are needed to preserve the natural Beauty of the Square across from the White House. . Park service officials estimated that nearly 20 signs some of which have lined the Park sidewalk across from the executive mansion for several years were Dis mantled and removed Friday the first Day the new regulations took effect. I think its disgusting that they would remove them said Maria Robohn 19, a student at George Washington University who passed through the Park several hours after the signs had been taken away. I understand they were not the most Beautiful things but i liked to see the White House and the signs too. Some of the signs 1 admit were sometimes tasteless but Overall i think they re important. It s always True if you have Freedom you re going to have Good and the wooden signs some of which were 12 feet High carried slogans such As live by the bomb die by the bomb and dismantle nuclear weapons is this what we want outside the White House is this in Good taste said Jacques Chretien 20, of Mclean va., As he gestured toward the signs before they were removed. I think a Little tasteful censorship in this Case is tears rolled Down the Cheeks of Mark Parker 22, As he sat in front of his sign before it was removed. Under the new regulations stationary signs can be no larger than 4 feet by 4 feet and no thicker than a Quarter of an Inch. Signs May also not be raised More than 6 feet from the ground. Each demonstrator can have no More than two signs and must remain within three feet of them. Exempt from the guidelines Are hand carried signs. One Man identified As Robert a. Dorrough 26, of Washington was arrested after refusing to move away from his sign. He was charged with violating the new rules according to . Park police. Violators face fines of up to $500 and up to six months in jail. Our concerns Are aesthetic concerns about the Park and Public safety said Park service spokeswoman Sandra Alley. We want to protect the Park itself the grass statues the Brick sidewalks and with the proliferation of the signs in the past several years we did not have regulations to address those As Park service workers Tore the signs Down several men who said they were members of conservative Young americans for Freedom cheered. The signs Don do any harm said William Thomas 39, who has spent the past five years in the Park or in front of the White House protesting nuclear weapons with his signs. Thomas had a new sign conforming to the new rules. He is fighting the new regulations with a lawsuit in . District court but a judge postponed a hearing on the suit Friday because he said he did not understand Thomas complaint. Gunman gives up after killing 2 Chicago a a gunman who killed his landlord and a police officer and held a 74-year-old woman hostage for 35 hours surrendered Early saturday walking out with his hands raised and releasing his captive unharmed police said. He surrendered voluntarily said Richard Rochford a Deputy police superintendent. He saw the police superintendent on to and he Felt he was treated fairly. He simply told us i m willing to come out and he a crowd of residents in the North Side neighbourhood stood at police lines to watch the surrender. Two people shouted shoot him shoot him police superintendent Fred Rice had made repeated televised appeals to the gunman identified As John Pasch jr., 57, to give up since shortly after the siege by 100 police officers began at 3 . Thursday. We kept reassuring him that he would t be Hurt Rochford said of the negotiations leading to Pasch s sur Render. The alternative Rice had told reporters Friday night was violence and police entered the apartment building where Pasch had held the woman and found a revolver and a Rifle Rochford said. The hostage Jean Wiwatowski who suffers from a heart condition was taken to Illinois masonic Hospital where she was treated and released said or. Max d. Koenigsberg. No charges were immediately filed police sgt. Ray mond Gawne said. The standoff began when the gunman shot and killed his landlord and a police officer at his House then barricaded himself inside Wiwatowski s apartment next door. The ordeal began simply As a landlord tenant dispute Rice said. The gunman was behind in his rent and when the landlord Leslie Shearer 45, of suburban Barrington came to collect he was shot Rice said. Officer Richard Clark 48, who As part of the District s tactical unit was not in uniform was shot when he responded to reports of gunfire Rice said. Byrne said Pasch told negotiators he was sorry two people Are scientists inactivate aids virus by splicing genes papers report new York a research teams from Harvard and the National cancer Institute say scientists have found a Way to inactivate the aids virus a breakthrough toward developing drugs or a vaccine to combat the fatal disease. Gene splicing techniques were used to Render the virus harmless by inactivating one of its genes in Laboratory experiments the new York times and the los Angeles times have reported. The research was reported by scientists of the National cancer Institute in the British journal of nature and by a team at Harvard University s Dana Farber cancer Institute in the biology journal cell. The two groups among the leaders in aids research worked independently of each other the times said. Minors circumvent abortion Laws requiring consent study says Boston a Laws requiring minors to get their parents consent for abortions have Little Impact because the Young women simply travel to other states to end their pregnancies a new study has found. Laws in effect in five states require the approval of parents before minors can get abortions and in six others parents must be notified of planned abortions. I suspect that most women of whatever age will find a Way to have an abortion As they have historically if that s their Choice said or. Virginia g. Cartoof of Boston University. I Don t think that these Laws for the most part will inhibit minor women from getting abortions if that s indeed what they want to decision to base lutheran group in Milwaukee draws protests Milwaukee a the decision to locate the Headquarters of a new 5.3 million member lutheran group in Milwaukee has sparked a rebellion by some Church leaders to the embarrassment of a local Bishop. Since the decision there s been considerable uproar said the Rev. Charles Austin spokesman for the lutheran Church in America. The feeling is that the Church ought to be located in a More cosmopolitan International a 70-member commission of the new evangelical lutheran Church in America voted feb. 17 to recommend Milwaukee As the site for its Headquarters. The new lutheran group will be formed in 1988 by the merger of the american lutheran Church now based in Minneapolis the lutheran Church in America based in new York and the association of evangelical lutheran churches based in St. Louis. The merger will not include the 2.7 million member lutheran Church Missouri Synod. New Orleans firefighters of 2-year contract Extension new Orleans a the City s 940 Union fire fighters have voted to accept a two year Extension on their current contract averting a strike. The contract was to expire if the City did t provide a 5 percent pay raise. The Extension waives the raise for one year said William Sanchez president of the new Orleans fire fighters association after votes were counted. Sanchez said the vote was 51 percent for accepting the tentative agreement announced by Sanchez and Mayo dutch Morial. School bus crashes into tree As Driver Dies 3 children Hurt Clinton Tenn. A a bus Driver apparently suffered a fatal heart attack while making his rounds and the bus crashed into a tree injuring three youngsters officials said. None of the children aboard the bus was seriously Hurt said Knox county school superintendent Earl Hoffmeister. Hoffmeister said bus Drivers must have two physicals each year and Lee Norman 67, had had one two weeks ago. No problems were indicated in that exam he said. You always worry about this but these buses Are pretty Strong he said. The state Highway patrol was investigating the Accident said sgt. Lester Jackson of the Tennessee department of safety. V
