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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, May 23, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes Friday May 23.1686 that was t any pineapple buried in her potato Patch Lincoln neb. A Jackie Ria was just Oil hoeing her Plato Patch Bui she kept Cool head when flip  up Jiye hand grenade with the pin uni Shine. Immediately she did the right thing said Jerry Mcginn head of the fire prevention Bureau s bomb Dispo Sal a Fuad. She knew she Hud n problem. She Mude sure no one we Oderud into her potato Patch while she called 911 and As cd the bomb squid to respond Sulho Rikkii cordoned off a 150-Fooi around the. Potato Patch As Mcginn and Tyro other bomb disposal cuperus spent tour hours Tinner by trading the grenade apparently of world Wir it Vintage into a bomb . It will be turned Uver to an  explosives ordnance cd Jarl from url Riliey kan., he Itaipu. Although i he pin was missing dirt packed lightly around the Urc Niide apparently kept inc trigger from being released and Selling Ulf the device Mcginn said. U was very unstable Anil had been in he ground for n very Long time he said. Leu journalism student named Best collegiate reporter in . San i Francisco a Roeii Branson u Louisi Ana stale University journalism student was selected As he nation s Best collegiate reporter by the William ran Dolph Hyrsl foundation. Branson a senior from new Orleans topped seven other students in lie two Day annual Competition. He received 12,000 and  Dollian said Jay Perkins head of the leu journalism department. Winners of earlier monthly competitions Are assembled in san Francisco where they Are Given a series or assign ments that include reporting on a sports event and a news conference involving a Well known Public figure they Ore judged on articles written under deadline pressure As Well As on a profile of the Public figure based on an interview atheist vows to sue City because of its corporate Seal Zion,111, a City officials have decided to keep the Community s corporate Seal which includes a Cross a Dove a Crown and a scepter despite an atheist s repeated objections Robert i Sherman director of the american atheists of Illinois has said Zion s Seal violates the . Constitution s doctrine separating Church and stale. Me was was not allowed to address the Council tuesday night. Afterwards he Lold reporters we will sue the cily of   mayor Howard p. Everline. However said this Seal docs nothing but represent the heritage of this  before the meeting begun nine members of the Kun flux klan were arrested on disorderly conduct charges. Each posted a 11,000 Bond and was released 5 cubans rescued off Florida after 5 Days on homemade raft Miami a five cubans adrift for five Days on a homemade raft of inner lubes were rescued at sea wednesday by a passing tugboat named Liberty about 40 Miles from key West the us. Coast guard reported. They had no food or Waler on the tip said spokeswoman Bramla Toledo. They were suffering from exposure but they re in fairly Good condition.". The Liberty picked up the men shortly after 7 a.m., and the group later was put aboard a coast guard Cutler and Laken to key West where they were being interviewed by immigration and naturalization service officials. Key West a 90 Miles from communist governed Cuba. Bonner celebrates Sakharov s birthday Slena Bonner wife Olson tet flu tent Andre Sakai rot blows Oul the candles of a cake in Honor of sakha revs 65th birthday. The birthday party was sponsored by the House foreign affairs comm Alec on Capitol Hill wednesday. Bower has been in the United slates to receive medical int tent and she win soon rejoin her husband who h in exile in la Soltel City of Corky. Vietnamese girl s essay contest prize May Cost family its welfare benefits l Cap an i i year old vietnamese girl the family receives $546 a month in financial assistant Honolulu to year old vietnamese girl who wrote an essay that called America a place that lends a hand to those in need won a trip to the statue of Liberty rededication but the $9,000 car she also won could Cost her fatherless family its welfare benefits. Hue Cao a sixth grader won first prize in a contest sponsored by the Aloha Liberty foundation. The prizes arc a trip to new York City for the july fourth festivities and a 1987 Nissan Syntra be. America is a place thai lends a hand to those in need the americans care for All people from homeless to help less people she wrote in her essay about the statue of Liberty and Freedom. A Little More than an hour after Cao was presented with the prizes on tuesday her family was called by a welfare worker who bad seen her picture in the Honolulu advertiser. If Cao s Mother accept the new car the family will lose All its welfare benefits the welfare worker told the family. Lien a a widow who fled Vietnam with her family in a Small fishing boat in 1979, is supporting Cao and two sons thar 16, and quarts 14. Four other children Ages is to 24, Are supporting themselves the family receives $546 a month in financial assistance j $352 in food Stamps and medicaid health coverage. Under Federal regulations families cannot receive welfare benefits if they have More than $1,500 in resources according to state welfare administrator Shi s Nakashimo who said a $9,000 car would be counted As a resource. Cao s trip is not in jeopardy because it cannot be converted to Cash Nakashima said. It s strictly the regulation thai applies to everyone not Only in Hawaii but across the coun try. V the family s welfare Benefit Are Safe for now because a has not signed papers accepting the car. She planned to do so in july when Cao returned from new York said Paulc Etc Moore Cao s teacher at Waipahu elementary school. Aloha Liberty foundation president Reg scow cake Ald he plans to ask president Reagan for a waiver to allow Cao s family to keep the car without losing its benefits. If Reagan can t solve the problem explore other avenues. Here s a girl who s discovered that anything ii possible in America and we at the foundation will not do anything to dispel that notion he said. Pupils return to school where they were held hostage Cokeville Wyo. A Burn scarred pupils re turned wednesday to the elementary school where they were held hostage last week by a Man and woman armed Wuh a gasoline bomb and a teacher soot in the siege tried to ease their trauma by showing them his wounds. I feel sort of scared but not that much cause i know for sure it won t happen again said a fifth grader who returned with her Eliis Smales for a two hour school Day that officials hoped would Case the students Back into a daily routine it Cokeville elementary school. I just remember the room turned Black then Orange then smote filled the air said the girl whose face was Pink and puffy from the second degree Burns she received when the bomb held by Doris Young accidentally detected Friday. Mrs Young was killed in the blast and her husband David shot himself. The couple had demanded 1300 million in return Tor he release of the 150 hostages at the school in this Smalt ranching Community located in southwestern Wyoming five Miles from the Idaho Border. One boy wore a Bright Orange to shirt emblazoned with the message "1 survived the  also returning to the school was John Miller 30, a music teacher who was shot in the shoulder by Young while trying to flee. Miller went from classroom to classroom to show the students his wound something psychologists hoped would help students overcome their fears since the teacher was the most seriously injured in the incident. Town officials also were Busy collecting donations that were streaming in from around the nation to help pay the medical Bills of 78 pupils burned by the blast one $200 donation came from a 91-Ycar-old St. Petersburg Fla. Man who had read about the siege. Police still were awaiting the results of ballistics tests to help them in heir investigation of the siege. Although police say there still is no evidence that the Youngs were linked to any right Wing Radical groups there was a reference in a diary owned by mrs. Young that mentioned plans of forming a new world with some oath pupils during their return to the school pupils pasting by the classroom where they were held captive reacted differently. Some walked into the first Grade classroom and stared at the blackened trails covered with Greasy soot. Some wrote help with their fingers on the Walls while Othera just pointed to where they stood during the hostage ordeal Jeremiah Moore whose seventh birthday was celebrated in the first Grade classroom Friday was colouring a picture of a birthday cake wednesday. The boy s face was covered with Pink and Brown patches of skin where he had been burned by the explosion and Bis  were wrapped in White Gauze up to his elbows  
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