European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Kin of Vietnam mias critical of government los Angeles up family and friends of servicemen taken prisoner or reported missing during the Vietnam War said sunday they arc frustrated with the Federal government s Lack of response to their plight. I m resentful. And my frustrations Are running High said retired air Force col. Leo thorsness who was a prisoner of War in North Vietnam for seven years until 1973. If our Media can pay so much attention and our government can put so much Effort into freeing a Man imprisoned for 15 Days he said referring to the jail ing of news correspondent Nicholas Danil olt by the soviets. Why Don t they put As much Effort into free ing men imprisoned for 15 years and thorsness joined about 300 family members and friends of military personnel missing in Vietnam and Laos since the 1960s and 1970s, who gathered in Griffith Park to renew their Call to Washington to bring their men Home several wives daughters sons and parents marched a 3-Milc March for Freedom around the Park carry ing signs and claiming they had evidence that Many 1 own and mias Are still alive. Family members representing 50 of an estimated 249 California men missing in Vietnam travelled from As far away As Sacramento Lor the demonstration. Although an estimated 2,400 . Servicemen nationwide were never accounted for when the War was ended in 1973, the state department contends there is not enough information available to prove any Are still alive in Vietnam and Laos. The Issue of the missing soldiers has brewed for years and has inspired such movies As rambo first blood part ii which envisioned a daring attempt to Hwi ii i jul Sivu it us jew Lui Ilij ainu a Iii Jiuu Ima Jimj i Tiitu Munif a i i Usu 11-1 a. I Bloo tonal pc higher farm prices Are the key to fixing problems says senator Omaha neb. A higher prices 1 not out and we re coming Back stronger for agricultural products not increased exports will solve the country s farm problems Iowa sen. Tom Harkin Lold Farmers from at least five states sunday at a trac Orcade and rally. If we Export everything and get Noth ing for it what Good docs it do us said Harkin a Democrat criticizing the 1985 farm Bill which seeks to restore . Dominance in International agricultural markets by cutting prices. About 170 tractors farm trucks and pickup trucks surrounded the mall after tractor ads front Tekamah Wahoo and Plattsmouth in Nebraska and Oakland Iowa converged on Omaha about noon. About 1,000 people attended including Farmers from Kansas South Dakota Ana California rally coordinators and police said. Called the Midwest National tractor Cade and farm policy Reform rally the event was organized by farm and labor groups. Harkin said the administration was wrong to think that lower commodity prices would mean increased exports. Exports were Down because of the administration s fiscal policy that created the Strong Dollar he said. We re Here to Send a message to Washington we May be Down but we re Fei to comr and i of do $27 24 21 18 15 12 9 6 3 1�9 Ester Ducai Soura Deral Aid Farmers it sly credit corp. Price tonne support in billions Lars per fiscal year p576 78 to 82 84 be1 nate0 Tribune Chart us department 01 agn Tuitui not out and we r than Ever Harkin said. Calling the farm Bill so misdirected it s impossible to Fine tune Harkin said he plans to reintroduce the save the family farm act in Congress this week. His proposal is a Supply management and Market certificate program based on bushels not acres in production thai will bring parity to Farmers he criticized Secretary of agriculture Richard Lyng for sending out 1.5 million ballots in a wheat referendum when the 1982 census showed Only 435,000 wheat Farmers and then claim ing Only 20 percent of the Farmers responded to the Survey. About 54 percent of the Farmers who voted last month in the non binding referendum ordered by Congress said they favored Tough acreage controls. Harkin also challenged president Rea Gan s claims that America is an Opportunity society. This in t the Opportunity society it s the opportunistic society the society where the Rich get Richer and the Power Flugel More powerful he said. The policy of big business is Low prices for Farmers Tow wages for labor and High profits for the big corporations Harkin said. Town wants Jackson promises kept Rescue . Prisoner in Southeast Asia. Two Sisters Shelby and Deborah Robertson whose father s plane was shot Down 20 years ago this week said they recently heard from a reliable source in Vietnam who reported seeing their father s military identification lag the daughters who sponsored sunday s March and rally said they believed the sighting of the lag is a sign their father. Air Force col. John Robertson is still alive. We know he is alive or was alive then when the lag was seen said Deborah Robertson who was i years old when her father disappeared in 1966. We never received any remains. If he was killed we were never Lold by the the rally was one of several events kicking off National pow-m1a recognition week through Friday. Rowdy Rock fans Hurt 3 policemen in la. Melee los Angeles a a bottle throwing Melee by Rowdy fans leaving a weekend Rock concert at the Hollywood palladium injured three policemen and resulted in the arrest of five people authorities said. The incident the third fracas at the palladium this summer began As an Esti mated 4,000 people mostly teen agers were leaving the auditorium at the end of a concert saturday night by the a monks sol. , Thompson said. There s no Way to control it he said. They just come out of the concert and refuse to about 200 youths gathered in front of the palladium began tossing bottles at the 25 policemen sent there for crowd control Thompson said. Traffic on Sunset Boulevard came to a standstill As police moved in to quell the disturbance and plate Glass windows on some nearby businesses were shattered. Three officers were treated at the scene for minor cuts Thompson said and five youths were arrested and booked for investigation of assault and Public drunkenness. On july 13, five people were arrested when rocks and bottles Wen buried at police efter a concert by a band called the cramps. On sept. I. Three people were injured m a Brawl inside the auditorium. Belle Glade. Fla. Up Resi dents of this poor aids stricken Community said sunday they think the Rev. Jesse Jackson was using them for publicity when he promised them help last year. The former presidential candidate came through Belle Glade on a South Florida tour and denounced the trag Edies of the farm Community. He prom ised interracial Aid and Cross economic efforts to rid the town of its title As the aids capital of the United states. He came Here in a big fancy car Tell ing me about How bad my life is but showing me How Good he a living at the same time said Mechanic Arsenio Greene 33. He came Here because of the aids thing. Unless we have another big news problem he won t be none of what he said convinced me then or now said Beulah Morgan 66. If you re going to do something do ill Don t Tell me about despite extensive studies on the prob Lem no one knows Why the Community of 20,000 people on Lake Okeechobee has such a High incidence of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. There were 4s confirmed cases As of last May. Jackson came to Belle Glade about 60 Miles West of Palm Beach in the summer of 1985 during a wave of publicity about its problems. He toured the slums from the Back of a limousine and promised a Rainbow coalition of All races would join to ease their plight. My presence is designed to help illuminate interest in the situation he said then. We intend today to walk amongst the people. To pull people together across lines of race and religion Ait re Gion and the Rev. Charles Bellamy a West Palm Beach minister who was working in Belle Glade during Jackson s visit said the people in Belle Glade Are looking for instant Saviours and someone like Jackson fits he Frank Watkins Jackson s press Secre tary said Jackson was not available for comment on the Belle Glade residents complaints. He said Jackson was in St. Louis and not expected Back in his Washington office until tuesday. Topless doughnut shop files for bankruptcy West Palm Beach Fla a a doughnut shop owner fighting a court order that put blouses Back on the store s topless waitresses has filed for Protection under Federal bankruptcy Law. Jerry Gallagher owner of Dandy doughboy donuts said he fell into debt because he has had to fight eviction efforts by his landlord at a suburban shop Ping Center. Dandy doughboy donuts where wait resses now must Wear Light and Flimsy blouses when serving up pastries and Rolls filed Friday for reorganization under the . Bankruptcy code the filing postponed an eviction trial scheduled to begin in Palm Beach county court and will delay pending litigation in slate courts. The shop s landlord Forest Hill associates has been trying to evict the dough nut shop since it started featuring topless waitresses earlier this year. The shop was operating As a private adults Only club with a 25-Ccnt yearly membership fee. A Palm Beach judge last month or dered the doughnut servers to cover up but agreed to allow Flimsy see through blouses. The shop s attorney. Ken Whitman said Friday that he intended to file a discrimination suit in Federal court this week to allow the waitresses to go topless again. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1946 Montreal royals Jackie Robinson was named International league individual baiting Champion for 1446 with a .349 average. The 27 year old infielder is expected to be the first Black Man since 1900 to play major league baseball. 30 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1956 the egyptian embassy in Washington said it has been in formed thai the Suez canal company offered bribes to canst pilots and technicians to induce them to quit their jobs. 20 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1966 bringing Home a bundle of seven space records the gemini 11 astronauts Rode to a Safe Landing in the Atlantic to end it three Day Mission according to officials at Cape Kennedy. 10 years ago today. Sept. 16. 1976 More than a score of earthquakes rocked the Friuli Region of northeastern Italy flattening buildings and causing the deaths of at least five people in the area where nearly 1,000 people died in another quake four months ago
