European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday Juno 30,19b6 Ala. Runoff Winner May face Challenge Birmingham Ala. Up the democratic party saturday confirmed attorney Genera Charles Graddick As the Winner of tuesday s gubernatorial primary Runoff but an aide to his oppo nent la. Gov. Bill Baxley said he May Challenge he results. The official Pany vote count gave Grin Dick 470,05 Voles to Bailey s 461,295 in the bitter Campaign to succeed four term gov. George Wallace who is retiring because of failing health was the closes race in history for Ike state s top office. Graddick would meet Republican Guy Hun i in the november general elec Tion but a Republican has not been elected governor of Alabama since re construction and Victory in tile demo cratic primary has been tantamount to election. In Ley could Challenge the results be cause republicans Vert allowed to Cross Pany lines in the Runoff and vote for Graddick a former gop party member who openly courted the Republican Voi cars. Bailey Campaign aide Tom Fletcher said. Fletcher said Haulcy will decide whether to file a Challenge next week As far As we re concerned Banocy i the party nominee Fletcher said. He s the actual nominee when you eliminate the illegal Republican vote although Baxley has nol officially contested the race a Huntsville couple Charles Kenneth Pike and Nellie Kent Pike filed a complaint with the demo Craitic party sit Ludsy charging that re publicans organized to influence the democratic Runoff. In their complaint the pikes quote Republican National  Jean Sullivan of Selma who said thai 26.000 republicans voted in the demo cratic Runoff and 21,000 voted in Grad Dick. The pikes also said a Madison county Republican official encouraged gop members to vote for Graddick who car tied the populous county in the Runoff after trailing Bank y in the primary three weeks earlier. Graddick and Republican parly officials have maintained that crossover Vot ing is not illegal because the state has no party registration. We re nol concerned about it said Graddick spokeswoman Janic Noble. Everything will be counted this elec Tion will be certified monday an Charlie Graddick Wil be he next Gover  a democratic party spokesman said subcommittee will be appointed to hear the pikes complaint. Bailey led Graddick in a crowded Pri Mary Field june 3 by 70,000 Voles and the Issue of crossover voting surfaced in the Runoff Campaign when Gradt Ticic began urging republicans to vote for him. The Issue was further clouded in the Campaign s final Days when in ruling on separate motions a Jackson county judge said republicans could nol Vole in the Runoff and a Mobile county judge said they could. Plunge in thefts Cut 85 crimes in households Washington one in every four Ameri can households was touched by a crime in 1985, but a Sharp drop in Persona heats kept the proportion of crime affected households at the lowest level in a dec Ade the Justice department reported sunday. The department s Bureau of Justice statistics said that some 600,000 fewer households were hit by crime last year than in i9s4. In 1985, nearly 22.2 million House holds experienced a crime compared to 22.h million the previous year. The total has been declining since 1982, v. Hen nearly 25 million households were affected. Households Wilh High incomes and those in Urban areas were More vulnerable to crime in 1985, As were Black households. Crime affected 26 percent of Black households 29 percent of households with incomes of More than $25,000 and 3d percent of Urban households. One in 13 households was burglarized in 1985 or had a member who was the victim of a rape robbery or assault committed by a stranger a category the government Agency labelled High concern  the Rase of High concern crimes stood at 10.5 per cent of All households in 1981, but declined steadily until 1984. It was unchanged last year. The Survey however is not a measure of the amount of crime occurring in the nation. A household is counted Only once no matter How Many limes it May be victimized by crime. A household is considered touched by crime if it had a burglary Auto theft or household i heft or if a House hold member was raped robbed assaulted or was a victim of personal theft. When the Survey was first taken in 1975, nearly a third of . Households were affected by crime each year. Thai figure fell to 25 percent in 19s5, 26 percent in 1984, 27.4 percent in 1983. 29.3 percent in 1982 and 30 percent in 1981 and 1980. Most of last year s decrease compared to i 984, was due to a 6 percent drop in the percentage of House holds where personal theft occurred an Overall decline of More than half a million. A number of factors including population trends contributed to the decline Alfred Blumstein a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh pa.,said in an interview. One significant Factor is a drop of nearly 2 million Over the past five years in the size of the 15 to 19 year old age group which is most responsible for prop erty crimes he said. All told More than a million fewer households had crime problem last year than in 1975, despite an in crease of 16 million new households. Even Hough the number of households affected by crime is still far too Large it is encouraging to see the downward trend Steven r. Schlesinger director of the Bureau of Justice statistics said in a statement. The evidence is that we Are making  earlier this year the Fri reported thai major crime reported to police Rose 4 percent last year compared to 1984. Total crime in Amanca which includes crimes Tataren t reported to authorises fell slightly in 1985 com pared to the previous year but the decline was not statistically significant said the Bureau o Justice statistics. The proportion of suburban households touched by crime declined by 25 percent from 1975 10 1985, and the drop for Rural households was 24 percent in that period. The proportion for Urban households on the other hand was Only 17 percent. Cambodian refugees reunite 4 years later in marriage chairman Koy of am hot mass and her husband Tiluy Tan of Australia after he ceremony Amherst maw. Up a cambodian woman exchanged wedding vows saturday with the cambodian Man she fell in love with but was separated from fou r years ago when she fled her War torn country. We arc gathered to celebrate the enduring Story of human love North congregational Church pastor Philip Hall told the couple. Chairman Koy 26, and Huy Tan 31, during the 15-Minuic ceremony. A is a special Story that moves each of us in different ways. Itis he story1 of the Tough strength of human commit ment. Their gift of love to each other was not Only a gift to them but a gift to us because we see in it Hope of the ways in which the human spirit can overcome hard ship and grow and deepen even in he midst of struggle and hardship Hall said during lie ceremony. Among the 75 Bucsis were friends of he couple fro the local cambodian Community and people who had sponsored members of he Community. Hall said. Also in attendance were teachers from am Hirsi regional High school from which Koy recently graduated Koy and Tan were bold from Balta bang province in Cambodia. In 1979, hey each escaped the Khmer Rouge to the thai Border and then Mei in a Refuge Ecamp in Thailand in 1980. In 19g2, Kay got Permis Sion logo to the United Stales for placement in Foster Home. Tan decided nol to leave when he was told his two Brothers and two Sisters would be placed separately. So he accompanied them to Adelaide. Australia. Koy visited Tan there last summer and they a Cre engaged. Tan arrived in the United states last monday forthe wedding. Following the ceremony the couple greeted guests in a receiving line outside the Church. A reception in i hair Honor was planned at the Home of key s Foster parents John and Sheila Hunter of nearby levered. 17 arrested 8 policemen Hurt during racial clashes in Chicago Chicago a thousands of Kun Siux Kjan sup porters shouting racial slurs clashed violently with anti racist groups saturday injuring at least eight police offi cers authorities said. Seventeen people were arrested. The International committee against racism and anal Black group called crusaders of Justice staged simultaneous demonstrations to counter a rally by the a Jcj Ai Marquette Park in a predominantly White neighbourhood on the City s Southwest Side. Police arrested 15 whiles and two Blacks in three Sepa rate clashes charging three of them with Battery said sgt Frank Connelly. The rest were to be charged Wilh disorderly conduct. As the hooded klansmen prepared to March toward the Park for their White Pride rally about 20 Blacks and Whites wielding baseball Bals attacked them authorities said. Six policemen were injured breaking up the conflict they said. None of the klansmen appeared to have been injured and authorities said they did Noi know if any of the at tackers were Hurt. As about t,0 .0 Whites gathered for the klan rally an integrated group of about 80 people congregated 500 fee away for a rally staged by the International committee against racism Saij police Al Tiger Dennis Mcnamara. White Klansman Jack Quinn urged klan supporters to Vole for while candidates his listeners suddenly charged away toward the anti racist group Mcnamara said. Fellow while patriots please come Back and let the Chicago police handle it Quinn pleaded bul the Crow kept running. Mounted police and 100 other officers headed off die whiles who then dispersed Only to confront Aboul 40 Black crusaders of Justice led by Bishop . Turner. We love you we love you the Black group shouted i response to the jeers of the while group which had grown to about 2,500 people. Police formed a Wall pushing the whiles to the Side walk and allowing the Blacks 10 March past. Turner said his group marched in the manner of mar tin Luther King who was driven from Marque lie Park by Stone throwing while protesters during an integration March in the 1960s. We want to serve notice that racism is alive Here today in Marque lie Park Turner said