European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. August 21, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Settles Indian land dispute tribe gets 400 acres on Martha s Vineyard Washington a a longstanding Indian land claims dispute ended wednesday As president Reagan signed a settlement giving the tribe More than 400 acres of undeveloped land on the Massachusetts Island of Martha s Vine Yard. Bui members of the wampanoag tribe whose ancestors have inhabited the area now known As Gay head for centuries remain bitterly divided Over the agreement. The majority say it is a prag Matic solution for modern limes but vocal dissident faction Call it a sellout of Indian tradition. Under inc new Law the state and fed eral government each will pay 12.25 Mil lion to buy 180 acres from private land owners in the town of Cay head and the town will contribute 238 acres of publicly owned land. In return the wampanoag will drop i hair rights to future land claims in the 3.40g-acre town. The president s action ends a Legal Dis Pute thai started in 1974 when the inc filed suit against the town charging that Massachusetts officials improperly granted a town charter to Gay head in 1870. The suit claimed the move violated a 1790 Federal statute that said All Indian land transfers had to be ratified by Congress. In 1983, negotiators representing the town state Abc and private property owners who had sales impeded because the suit clouded title to the lands reached a settlement. Rut the pact needed congressional approval and the Reagan administration had signalled in would veto the measure because the wampanoag did not have Federal tribal status. The Interior depart ment granted the tribe Federal recognition earlier this year removing that stumbling Block. The measure won final passage in Congress this summer. The lands which arc undeveloped in clude wetlands Woods pastures an Cranberry bogs. Beachfront property was excluded so All townspeople could use it. The tribe plans to build Low income housing for wampanoag on part of the land and leave the rest undeveloped. Dissident tribe members criticized the settlement saying it does not give the wampanoag enough land and that i gives away Indian rights to Hunt and fish. Under the settlement tribe members must get traditional Hunting and fishing permits for inc land. The tribe also mus pay axes to the state and adhere to local zoning rules. Michael Jackson named in paternity suit Chicago a a woman who Calls herself Bil lie Jean has filed a $150 million paternity lawsuit against Singer Michael Jackson saying he has admitted fathering her three children but refuses to pay child support. The claims Are ridiculous and preposterous Jack son s publicist. Lee Sellers said wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in Cook county circuit court by Lavon Powlis 39, who Calls Jean Jack son and says Jackson once proposed to her. Highie Jean is the title of a hit song by Jackson about a Young Man denying paternity. In the song theman tells a third party thai despite the title character s claim the kid is not my Dave Schneidman. A spokesman for the Illinois department of children and family services which has custody of the children said wednesday night that Jackson is not the tint celebrity Powlis has named Ashe father of the children. Powlis has it least twice named other notable people As the children s father but had never filed a paternity lawsuit he said. She is famous for claiming that various famous people Are the father of her children Schnidman Saia if this lady does t know who the father is we Don Schnidman said the Agency took custody of the children after the Mother left two of them alone at a Black Muslim mosque in Chicago. The children reliving with relatives in new York cily he said. Powlis who describes herself As an unemployed Legal Secretary living in Northwest suburban Hanover Park alleges in her lawsuit that she and the Singer had sexual Contact on two occasions on May 5, 197j, and july 4, 1981. The lawsuit says Jackson admitted that he had intimate relations with the plaintiff and has acknowledged that he is the father of her 5-year-old twins a girl and a boy and her 11-year-old son. Defendant is Well Able to pay plaintiffs expenses in connection with the pregnancies but upon demands duly made by plaintiff defendant has vexatious by re fused and failed to pay any expense due plaintiff under the Illinois parentage act 1984," the lawsuit contends. In a Telephone interview wednesday Powlis said the children were conceived in a Blue Rolls Royce parked in front of the Singer s suburban los Angeles Home. She said she Mcl Jackson in 1975, when she was living in new York after writing him letters and Tell ing him i had always been in love with him. And i wanted to meet he invited me out to la Powlis said. Michael asked me to marry him september 13,1985.1 said yes since then Powlis said family feuds have delayed the wedding and Jackson has refused to pay child support she said she wailed to Hie inc lawsuit because Michael and i were going to get married and Lake care of in Michael Jackson Man with toy gun confronts to reporter Horowitz Dir id Horowitz Burbank Calif. A a Man held what appeared to be a gun on Knic consumer reporter David Horowitz during a live newscast wednesday and demanded that he read a rambling statement about the Cia and creatures from outer space. Horowitz was unharmed and the intruder who identified himself As the son of a former station employee was arrested. The gun turned out to be a realistic toy Model officials said. While viewers watched Aboul 45 p.m., Horowitz maintained a Calm Demeanour As the Man brandished the weapon. Folks we have someone on the Sci who s stand ing Here and would like me to read this copy which was just handed to me Horowitz said. Then he asked the intruder do you want 10 Tell me your name the Man was tentatively identified by police As Gary Lollman of Tallahassee Fla. During the Inci Dent Horowitz calmly repeated his name and asked him Gary. And where arc you from the Man handed Horowitz inc statement. The broadcast went off the air immediately and a Mes Sage was displayed asking viewers to stand by. According to Knic news Anchor Kelly Lang news director Tom Capra said go dead. Pull inc Horowitz a Veteran broadcaster who has a Syndi Caird program called fight Back Wanh David Horo Witz complied with the demand of the Man who station personnel identified As the son of Max Stol Iman a former pharmaceutical reporter. But the Sla lion was off the air when the statement was read. The elder Lollman later confirmed that the in Truder was his son. I do have a sick son he said in a statement. He has been hospitalized a number of limes. I m thank Ful he was t after Horowitz read the Man s statement if Man Lold him thank you very much David. 1 could t Hurt anyone with this by he then Laid the gun on the counter. After the incident Horowitz recounted for viewers Whai had occurred. He said he was preparing to de liver his report when a Man he had noticed in the studio came up behind him. He said i be got a gun at your Back and i m going to kill you unless you read this statement Horowitz said. When the station went Back on inc air anchors John Beard and Kirlie Wilde also related what happened. Wilde said the Man got into inc studio by saying he was a son of a former employee. That is How he got by our Security people Here by telling us he wanted to come and Waich the program so he was allowed in the studio and was not searched she said. He was sitting Here quietly for the entire hour came up. By the Way we should Tell you right away David Horowitz is Fine the gun was not real it was a begun of some kind Wilde said. The gentleman has been taken away by Burbank police. We re a Little Slinky. But i think we can continue Wilde said the statement was Aboul outer space creatures and the Cia and All kinds of nonsensical
