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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 19, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. August 19,1966 tapped Energy newly 300 tap dancers Jam 34th Slot in Manhattan sunday in an an Nul ritual staged by Macy s depart meat Start. The Erent is designed to keep new York City s record for the largest tap dancing group. A match and professional Dan ctn of All age were taught a simple dance step and then set Loose to tap Amy on to Street which was closed for tic event lightning ends but fires still rage by United pits International fir officials monday declared the lightning danger Over for now but the said it will Stilt be a Long Campaign before they can contain More than 77,000 acres of wildfire Stilt raging i seven Western Stales mostly in Oregon. Of he weather cooperated then. We Reno new starts and everything went Well it s possible containment could be achieved Boise inter Agency Cente spokesman Dave Damron said from lire fighting Headquarters in Idaho. But that s highly  some 18,000 firefighters and support personnel were on the fire lines in the West where 700,000 acres neatly 11,000 Square mites of Forest and Brush have been charred by 5,625 fires since aug. 2, when the first of a series of Light Ning storms began. The Boise inter Agency fire Cente said 59,300 acres were burning in Ore gon for six other slates the Center issued the following Bica Down of burning acre age Idaho 13,500. Nevada 2,500, Utah 1.000. Colorado Jio Wyoming 750, end Washington 100. Improving weather conditions and an end to the latest lightning storms prompted some fire official to talk about possible containment of the major blazes this wet. Damron disagreed. I Don t know How anybody in their right mind could say the ires would be contained this week he said. Many of the fires arc in such rugged territory it will be almost impossible today when they la be suppressed he said. Fire officials removed their red Flag watch sunday night for High winds High probability of fire starts and erratic lire behaviour. Weather officials said no More Light Ning storms were in sight and Clouds cooler temperatures and maybe even some rain were Cipy cd to bring re Lief to the firc  Region. Som i pwt inn � gon. Lie use an inside Stock tip sure Many people say new York up a majority of based on the inside information 37 per Nonnita survived Aid Thev would me an cent said Star that the tin Mitch to not Ople Survey Sai y us a inside tip if it meant making a fast Buck in the Stock Market a Harris poll re leased sunday revealed. Suppose you got a tip from a Friendl hat the company he or she works for was going to be purchased for a lot More than the current Stock Price began one of the questions asked 1,2411 people in a Survey on insider trading published in business week Magazine. If you had some spare Cash would you buy Stock in that company or not fifty three percent said they would buy 42 percent said they would not buy and 5 percent were not sure. Of those who said they would not buy base Cen Fea lip migh prove profitable was their reason for not making the Purchase. The same percentage said such a buy would be wrong but Only 17 percent said the fact such an act is illegal was Why they would not buy based on an inside tip. Walt Street has been i with a rash of scandals recently involving attempts by some traders to make hundreds of thou Sands of dollars based on information about pending purchases or mergers. Such actions violate securities and Exchange commission regulations. The Survey conducted the week of aug. 4, has a margin of error of 3 percentage Points. . Probes Mexico Dea worker s death in crash Washington up the United states is investigating the death of a Secretary at the drug enforcement administration office in Guadalajara Mexico who died in a weekend car crash officials said monday. The death of Susan Hofier 32, an american Secretary in the same office where Dea agent Victor Cortez worked before being abducted and tortured last week by Jalisco state police occurred saturday night a Dea spokesman said. . Authorities already investigating the Cortez incident will examine whether there was any foul play involved in he Coler s death a Justice department official said. But a sea spokesman said the investigators at this Point had no reason to suspect the car crash was anything More than an Accident Hoefler handled contracts for the of fice for such things As purchases and outside work done for the Agency the spokesman said. She was in route to the Airport to pick up another Dea Secretary returning from vacation when she apparently lost control of her car and ran into a Utility pole and was killed instantly. Word of the Secretary s death came As the Reagan administration delivered a stiff letter of protest to mexican officials monday about Cortez s treatment. A top Dea official also said monday that Cortez s abduction was ordered by the same people who killed Enrique Camarina Salazar in february 1985. The people who kidnapped Camarina were officials from the same police Agency Jalisco that detained Cortez said Phil Loots the Bead of the Dea in Dallas. Dea officials said Cortez s abduction was Likely related to his role in the recent seizure by mexican Federal authorities of a too pounds of cocaine from one of the area s leading traffickers Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo. The eight policemen involved were trying to ferret out Dea enforcement activities Dea administrator John Lawn said. Meanwhile a mexican real estate agent who can place others at the scene of Ca narc a s torture murder is expected to testify this week before a grand jury in Washington investigating the death sources told United press International. In Exchange for his testimony Jorge Gomez Espana one of several mexi cans linked to Camarena s death being tried in the United Stales on various charges pleaded guilty in san Diego 10 reduced charges of bribing a Dea agent the sources said. . Official believe Gomez Espana has laundered Money for mexican drug lords the sources said. Man who killed teen beaten to death by crowd Val verde Calif. A angry onlookers beat a Man to death with Fence posts after he killed s teen Ager with a Shotgun blast to the face and fired at a crowd wounding three people authorities said. Cerardo Valb 17, of Val verde was shot and killed Early sunday As he at tempted to break up a fight Between two youths outside a party said los Angele county sheriffs Deputy Chris Robbins. David Mala 20, of a Corroa grabbed a 12-gauge Shotgun from his car when he jaw vails intervene and shot once blast ing Valle in the face Robbins said. He then turned and fired two to three shots at the crowd of 30 to 60 people Robbins said. The remaining portion of the crowd chanted Mola jumped him and started beating him with Fence posts Robbins said. They beat him o death in the Street Mola died of massive head injuries said sgt. Irene Mcreynolds. The three people wounded were in fair condition sunday night at Henry May Newhall memorial Hospital said Nurs ing supervisor Susan Whittock. It was unknown How Many people participated in the beating or what Trig gered the initial fight said detectives in this Community of 1,200 residents 45 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. The mob dispersed before deputies arrived. No one has been arrested but a lot of people were interviewed Mcreynolds said sunday night. Investigators were trying to determine if the fight or shootings were related to the party Robbins said Twa Airliner turns Back Tel Aviv Israel  
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