European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 23, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 5 witness backs Goetz s Story of 81 attack new York not the defense began its Case thursday in the Uriol of bombard h. Golz Wilh a witness who saw Roctz being kicked and beaten out Side a lower Manhattan restaurant in january 1981. Golz who is charged with assault and the at tempted murder of four youths in a subway car has said that the 1981 incident directly Ted to his carrying the unlicensed gun Wilh which he snot the youths three years Lacr. The witness Charles Cozza a new York City Sani tation department enforcement officer told the jury in Slot supreme court in Manhattan thai he saw Goelz being chased and finally caught and knocked to the ground by three men Cozza said that when he ran up to help Golz two of the men fled the third Man was arrested Al the scene. Goelz s Lead defense lawyer Barry 1. Slotnick said that Cozza and another witness an orthopaedic sur Geon who treated Goelz a year later for a knee injury sustained in the incident had been called to corroborate Goetz a videotaped statements played to the jury earlier in the trial. In those statements Roctz talked or the frustration he Tell when the Man caught at the scene was no charged by the police with any felonies. It was shortly after the incident that Roctz applied unsuccessfully for a permit to carry a pistol. In another development in the trial. Acting Justice Stephen o. Crane denied a defense request to Call As Many Ai five crime victims to the witness stand to testily about How their perceptions and intuition were changed As a result of their being victimized. The witnesses according to Slotnick s partner Mark Meaky would support Goetz s assertion that having been beaten and robbed in the past had Given him unique sensitivity to the actions and words of the youths in the subway car. Roctz said in he taped statements that the body language of the youths led him to conclude thai he was seem the preface to a robbery. Just being bullish a Black Angus Bull tries to leap from pickup truck during a ride borne from the stockyards in Coffey Volle Kan. Janet Hurley held Dawn the fencing on the truck bed until her husband Tony the Driver reached a local Park thai has a pen the City ims fur animal used in its annual Rodeo. Poll finds Rich americans totally unremarkable new York a the Rich really Aren t so Dif Ferent from the rest of us a Survey concludes Assum ing of course that the rest of us arc Middle aged re publicans with $140,000 incomes and , upper affluent americans arc not by and Large whal Nave come to be represented in the Media As a group of underage overpaid and arrogant recent graduates of the nation s lop business and Law schools said the poll conducted by Louis Harris and associates and issued thursday by the Cigna corp. Take that yuppies. A typical Rich person is about 48, married and has grown children. The Harris group made random Telephone Calls to wealthy neighbourhoods around the country interview ing 500 people with a minimum household income of 100,000 or a net Worth of , excluding the value of their Horne. There were few surprises. Humphrey Taylor Harris president said he was struck by How totally unremarkable you Rich americans  in fact he said one of the most surprising things the pollsters found was How easy it was to dial up and interview a Rich person. The average income of the people surveyed was $1-12,000. Fifty five percent were men a majority of All those surveyed had working spouses. Eighty three percent were married and Only 3 percent were divorced and still single. Eighty five percent had Chil Dren who tended to be 18 or older lived in houses valued at Sicily five percent live $200,000 or More. Eighty two percent said they made their own for tunes while 6 percent inherited them. The Rich Are decidedly More Republican and some what More conservative than All american adults butt is noteworthy in i less than half Overall identify themselves a either the Survey said. Forty seven percent said they were republicans compared to 30 percent of the general population and 40 percent were conservative compared to 35 percent of the general population. Bush would use presidency to preach dangers of aids from press dispatcher vice president George Bush Saij thursday that the White House should be a bully pulpit to educate the world about the danger of aids. Speaking in new York City where aids ii a major health and social problem and against a backdrop of criticism that the Reagan administration has not provided enough Money for research on the disease. Bush called for More Federal Money for research and Edu cation inso the disease. He also said As he did last week Ai a Nassau county . Republican dinner that education would be his no. 1 priority As presiden i. The Reagan administration has been attacked by democrats and others for cutting Aid to education a White House spokesman said Friday that presi dam Reagan would probably look favourably on re Quiring mandatory aids tests for Mamac License applicants and immigrants to the United Stales. A Deliri Fiti Walcer said the Issue of mandatory testing for the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome is one that will be considered next week during a meet ing of Reagan s Domestic policy Council and that the panel s recommendations were to be sent to the presi  officials Are involved in a healed debate Over formulating an approach to aids. Sur Geon general c. Everett Koop for instance oppose mandatory testing education Secretary William Ben Nett advocates testing of Al engaged couples Immi Grants Hospital patients and  president in his first major Public address on the Issue Las month said aids has become americas Public health enemy no. 1." it has been estimated that by 2991, inc spreading aids epidemic in new York City alone will Cost More than ii billion a year in Hospital expenses up from $400 million last year. Commissioner David Axelrod of the state department of health  said new York state recorded a total of 11,008 aids eases 6,400 of whom had died As of March 31. About 90 percent of the cases have been inner York City. Within four years he predicted the stale will record 46,000 cases 41,000 of them in the City. New York cily has accounted for about one third of the aids cases in the United states. Sana Softie in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 23, 1947 president Harry Truman signed the $400 million Greece Turkey Aid Bill Truman s act established an american foreign policy of bolsteringi1. Oak countries against outside aggression As support for the United nations and a step toward peace. 30 years ago today. May 23, 1957 British prime minister Harold Macmillan said in London the West would be virtually certain to lose the next War if it banned the Hydro Gen bomb without first reaching a comprehensive Dis armament agreement with the soviet Union. 20 years ago today. May 23, 1967 the supremo court refused to delay a lower court order that would Force 99 Alabam school districts to desegregate by the fall of 1968. Ala Bama s 19 other school districts were under individual desegregation orders from Federal courts. 10 years ago today. ,. May 23, 1977 Gary Trudeau s doonesbury cartoon character Jovanic caucus graduated from the University of California Law school a1 Berkeley