European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 loss of insurance cripples Ohio City Parks pools playgrounds and Golf course ordered closed Youngstown Ohio a City officials have closed Youngstown s Public Parks pools playgrounds and Golf course until they can find affordable liability insurance coverage. I m not optimistic said City risk manager John Frankyn. The near future is pretty Bleak for obtaining liability insurance for  the Park and recreation commission took the action thursday. The City s last liability insurance policy for recreation areas expired last August. Commissioner Fred Saunders who introduced the motion to close the facilities said a Large lawsuit could bankrupt the City. I Don t think we have any Choice he said. Frankyn said City officials rejected the Only offer received for comprehensive liability insurance to cover All City operations As inadequate and too expensive. That coverage would have Cost $175,000 annually. Under the expired policy the City paid an annual Premium of si6,000 for the Park liability insurance. Frankyn said he is talking with a few insurance companies about a comprehensive policy while the City also seeks bids for liability insurance Tor the Parks alone. Meanwhile the City Council voted wednesday to declare Lake Milton off limits to the Public in an at tempt to limit liability while the drained Lake is close for repairs to a dam. The City docs not have liability insurance Tor the Lake 12 Miles West of Youngstown. Problems with liability insurance have also forced the closing of four Parks in suburban Austintown  Gottron assistant township clerk said trustees decided on monday to close the Parks because the township could not afford the increased costs of liability  said Only Stambaugh Golf course and Parks with Ball Fields Are in limited use at this time of year. He said Mounds of dirt would be dumped on ballot colds to prevent their use. Terrorist attacks against americans lethal incidents americans killed overseas 28 19 15 Fileff 10 16 1973 75 77 79 81 83 85 1973 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 22 2661 j16_ Chicago Tribune Chart source us. Department of slate foreign service at front of terror War says Reagan Washington a president Reagan in a message read at a remembrance ceremony for five americans killed while serving abroad said Friday that terrorism has made . Foreign service offi cers prime  these Are trying times for the service Reagan said. Officers Are being threat ened and occasionally assaulted on five continents. You have been made prime targets in the terrorists War against our  Reagan in Tokyo for the annual economic Summit sent the message to a ceremony in the state department lobby honouring four marines gunned Down in a cafe in Al Salvador in 1985. They were guards at the . Embassy. Also honoured was Virginia Warfield a foreign service officer killed in a car Accident in l 83 in new Delhi during a visit by Secretary of state George Shutlz. Their names were added to i48 others on plaques honouring foreign service officers killed on duty since 1780. Among those attending the ceremony were family members of the slain marines Bobby Joe Dickson of Tuscaloosa Ala. Thomas t. Handwork of Boardman Ohio Patrick r. Kwiatkowski of Wausau. Wis. . Statue would Honor women who served in Vietnam Minneapolis a she stands sad eyed and tired a Stethoscope around her neck and a helmet in her hands. To Diane Carlson Evans and other women who served in Vietnam she is a Symbol of something too Long forgotten by too Many americans. Many people Don t know there were women in Viet Nam said Evans. She Hopes soon to see that woman a 7-foot statue standing at the memorial in Washington . Evans 39, of River Falls wis., is one of the founders of the Vietnam women s memorial project a Volunteer group based in Minneapolis it has launched a nationwide drive to raise is million to erect a statue honouring women Vietnam veterans both military and civilian. She says the Monument would balance a statue of three male veterans overlooking the Vietnam veterans memorial a Wall of polished Black Granite. That Wall bears the names of More than 58,000 americans killed or missing in Southeast Asia. If you go to the Wall and see the three fighting men do you think of the women Evans asked. As a country we Don t do a Good Job of recording the contributions of women said Donna Marie Pulay 43, a Minneapolis attorney and former army nurse in Dietshe helped to organize the project in May 1984. Vietnam. Betsy Ross is one of the few women whose contributions As a Patriot have been recorded she said. The Wall bears the names of eight women. An Esti mated 10,000 served in Vietnam some 7,000 As military nurses and the rest As red Cross workers air traffic con trollers and Cia employees or in other capacities. The proposed statue is of a military nurse wearing combat fatigues and boots and carrying a helmet. She has a hem stat and cast scissors in her shirt pocket. To Evans an army nurse in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, the statue suggests strength and caring. All women who served in Vietnam were there for that reason. We were caring for the men who were there to see that As Many of them could get Back alive As possible she said. A lot of women look at her the statue and say i know her i know who she is. That s a woman who has been through a lot " the statue was created in 1983, when Evans at tended a Salute to Vietnam veterans and saw the work of Minneapolis sculptor Rodger Brodin known for his statues of soldiers. From Evans descriptions Brodin made the statue using a 22-year-old Ramsey county sheriffs dispatcher As a Model. The message i got from Diane was she was tired in Vietnam. Tired of the hours tired of the War tired of the climate Brodin said. This statue is  Brodin created a 33-Inch-Lall Wax Model from which four Bronze figures were made. The replicas arc sent around the country to raise funds for the project. Also Brodin is making 1,000 714-Inch miniatures that sell for $250 each with 10 percent going to the project. To be placed near the Vietnam memorial the Wom an s statue would need approval from the . Interior department the National Capitol planning commis Sion and the Fine arts commission in Washington Evans expects to win that approval. So far $60,000 has been raised for the project which has a target dedication Date of veterans Day 1987. Among groups supporting the project arc the Ameri can legion the veterans of foreign wars the Viet Nam veterans of America the american nurses association and the military order of the purple heart. The project s advisory Board includes retired Gen. William a Westmoreland who commanded . Troops in Vietnam former Virginia gov. Charles Robb and . Sen. Alan Cranston a Calif. The project is gaining momentum. I be Given up everything but my four kids and husband Evans said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago  4, 1946 one Man believed to be a prison guard was killed during a blazing gun Battle at Alcatraz Federal prison As convicts made a reckless bid for Freedon Accord ing to san Francisco press reports. 30 years ago  4,1956 the government made Public a Madison Square Garden office memo of 1949 in which Joe Louis was said to have feared loss of his heavyweight title an demanded $100,000 under the table to make a defense. 20 years ago  4,1966 the United slates Tore away the thin veil of official secrecy from us. Military operations along the cambodian Frontier by admitting for the first time that  had fired across the International Border. 10 years ago  4,1976 in new York Saul Bellow was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction Forto Book Humboldt s gift and the Broadway musical a chorus line was chosen As Bat play. Oregon plea bar gainers May have to buy ads to apologize Newport Ore. Up some Crimi nals who want to plea bargain in Lincoln county Are going to have to pay for news paper ads Complete with Mug shots to apologize for their misdeeds. The first two column apology under a new program started by the District attorney s office ran in last week s Newport news times newspaper. I Tom Kirby wish to apologize to the people of the City of Newport for All of the problems i have caused the and says. Know now what did was selfish and wrong. I also realize that i have caused a lot of hardships on people that were my friends and also my own  the new program is a response to the num Ber of convicted criminals walking the streets because of Oregon s severe Lack of jail space District attorney Ulys Stapleton said. Stapleton said one or two ads will run each month with the defendants to be selected i negotiations with defense lawyers. With most cases which come through Here the defendants want to do some sort of negotiation As part of the plea process he said. If they accept our offer in certain cases they will have to agree to the apology at their expense. We re looking at felonies primarily we re talking about people who would be going to the state Penitentiary if space was  the photos he said Are meant to bring embarrassment or fear to criminals making them less inclined to commit such acts in the future