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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 15, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday april 15, 1986 now if s rumbles they re found of the other end of fhe interstate Brookings . A first it was hippies then hippies then yuppies and now at least along the Back roads of America it s rum pies. In this neck of the Woods rum pies Rural upwardly Mobile professionals Are for real says Norman Gambill a Cul Tural historian at South Dakota state University. Spurred by the attention paid to yup pies the name pinned on Young Urban professionals Gambill decided to take a look at their Rural counterparts. He found some decided differences be tween the two groups. For example yuppies have Access to trendy Chic stores. Rum pies get their Chic Merchan Dise through Cata logs and mail. Yuppies own foreign cars with Secu Rity alarms. A rumple probably has an american car which he or she usually forgets to lock. Yuppies know several ethnic styles of cooking. Rum pies know at least one vegetarian but they eat red meat. Rum pies worry about whether something is made in the United states a Yuppie would t. Yuppies vacation in the country. Rum pies vacation in the City. They Cross each other s path on the interstate said Gambill. Meese says Fri agents taken off guard by vicious killers7 in Miami shoot out Miami a Fri agents could not have anticipated that two suspects they stopped would open fire killing two agents and wounding five others before the suspects were killed said . Attorney Gen eral Edwin Meese. It s just too bad that these two people were such vicious killers that they were Able to kill two very Good agents said Meese who flew to Miami sunday to visit three hospitalized Fri men. Surveillance situation this was simply a surveillance situation and the severity of the situation was not something that could be  Fri director William Webster visited the agents and said they were doing Fine. Their morale was High he said. Of course they re grieving for their team mates. I told them we re very proud of them for the lives they unquestionably  the condition of agents Gordon Mcneill 43, and John Hanlon 48, improved from serious but stable to Good sunday said Baptist Hospital spokeswoman Anne Streeter. Agent de Mireles who was wounded in mishaps on Rise of a hospitals paper reports fort Lauderdale Fla. Up some 200,000 patients have been injured or killed due to medical mishaps in veterans administration hospitals in the past two years a newspaper study said. Between 1983 and 1985, the rate of Inci dents such As Falls errors in prescribing drugs attempted suicides and unexpected deaths increased 26 percent the fort Lauderdale news Sun Sentinel report said. Of those 200,000 patients about half were Hurt in Falls the study published sunday said. About 1.5 percent were unexplained deaths suicides or attempted suicides. Preventable deaths and injuries Are re ported six to eight times More often in some a hospitals than others with injury rates highest in Small Rural a hospitals the investigation also said. The report said trends in injuries suggest the a has failed to unearth medical care deficiencies adequately or to assess its own injury reports Well. A officials would not be interviewed for the study saying no review has been done of the incident reports the newspaper Stu died. The officials said the reports Are unreliable because hospitals Are not consistent in reporting mishaps. The newspaper spent nine months com piling its study by investigating reports filed by the 172 a hospitals. Friday s bloody gun Battle but managed to shoot and kill both suspects As they were trying to flee was listed in fair condition at South Miami Hospital. Special agents Benjamin p. Grogan 53, and Gerald Dove 30, were killed in the shoot out that left the Fri with the most casualties in the Agency s 79-year history. Two other agents suffered minor injuries. I just told them How grateful we were for their actions Meese said after visiting with Mcneill and Hanlon. Excellent Job i do know that this was an excellent Job of locating two very dangerous Bank Rob  meanwhile sunday a congregation packed a Church struggling to understand How one of their own 34-year-old William Matix could be the dangerous Bank robber trapped and killed by Fri agents. We took him at face value. We thought William Matix was a Man who needed help. We did t know then How much he needed help said or. Emit Ray minister of Riverside Baptist Church in the unincorporated suburban Community of Kendall. Neither Matix nor 32-year-old Michael Platt his Best Friend had criminal records. Both were described by neighbors As hard working family men who lived seemingly quiet lives. But Matix and Platt were linked to at least a half dozen Bank and armoured car robberies in Dade county during the last year according to Law enforcement officials. Webster said investigations into the backgrounds of the two have not yet connected them to anyone else. Before we re through we re going to know everything about them from the time they were born to the time they  ruthless murderers he described them As ruthless murder ers and defended the Way the agents handled the situation. Asked about a Lack of Matching firepower Between his revolver armed agents and the Semi automatic weapon that caused most of the Fri s casualties Webster said his Agency had had no information that these Guys had such High powered weapons and he said that in robberies blamed on the two they used shotguns. Reagan May exceed limit on Salt ii Washington a president Reagan and his top advisers will meet at the White House on wednesday for a Pivotal session on whether to exceed the limits on nuclear missiles under the controversial 1979 Salt ii treaty with the soviet Union a . Official said monday. The official said most of the presidential advisers Are in favor of going past the Ceil ing when a new Trident nuclear submarine begins sea trials next month. Summoned to the White House session were Secretary of state George p. Shultz Secretary of defense Caspar w. Weinberg Ercia director William Casey and other key advisers. We re running out of time the official said. I think this is basically the  later White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan would consider the Salt ii treaty this week. But Speakes said he will not make any final decisions this  the Trident with 24 multiple warhead missiles would put the United states beyond the 2,504 limit on delivery vehicles established by the a ratified treaty unless other missiles Are dismantled. Only Shultz and Paul h. Nitze a senior arms control adviser have recommended that the . Total be kept under the ceiling by dismantling older launchers the official said. Weinberger Casey Kenneth l. Adelman director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency and adviser Edward Rowny All Are in favor of allowing the . Total to sur pass the Salt ii limit in response to alleged soviet violations of the Accord. Last summer faced with a similar decision Reagan ordered a Poseidon submarine broken up when a Trident went to sea. He said he chose to go the extra mile and continue . Observance of the a ratified treaty. But Reagan again charged the soviets with violations at a news conference last week. He has said repeatedly . Compliance would depend on the soviets also Hon Oring the Accord. A photo putting his Money where his heart is Pierre o Reilly a French businessman Vietnam veterans who Are trying to win of showing his affection for America who lives in Carlsbad calif., has donated the Freedom of pos still missing in but so far the ventures financed by him More than $30,000 to help a group of Southeast Asia. O Reilly says it s his Way have had Little Success  
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