European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 4,1968 aide to Chicago mayor apologizes for remarks Chicago a mayor Eugene Sawyer has accepted an apology from Art aide accused of making slurs against jews and christians but the mayor later said the apology might not be sufficient. In this administration with this mayor we will nol tolerate any individual who has views of this Type Sawyer said monday night at a reception Given by a jewish group. We Are reviewing the situation and we Wilt have something to say about it in inc near future Sawyer added. His remarks came at the end of � Day of demands that he fire the aide Steve Cockly. For remarks in four lectures before the Chicago based nation of islam be tween August i9s5 and november 987. In inc lectures taped and later sold Al the nation s Bookstore. Cockly who is Black variously contended hit jews Are conspiring to gain world control and that the Crucifix is a Symbol of while supremacy. I humbly Apo logic to Chicago residents of All races and religious groups who were offended by remarks made prior to my ascension to the mayor $ office Cockly 35, said monday in a signed apology. At inc time of the lectures Cockly win an aide to then Alderman Sawyer who became mayor after the december death of mayor Harold Washington. I have since working in he mayor s office respected All those i have had the privilege to serve Laid cokely who makes $39,000 a year. Sawyer said monday night that cokely apology might not be he made thai comment Al a downtown reception for 300 people celebrating the 4dth anniversary of the slate of Israel. Sawyer had answered questions about cokely earlier in the Day by saying "1 Don l think it s necessary to fire him. He s got a wife Pmj family. He needs the income so i be asked him to tone Down his a Telephone Call to Cockly Al his City Hall office monday was nol returned. Atlanta Bank to be first to offer /8m-Sears Home services system Atlanta Dpi citizens and Southern nation Al Bank of Atlanta said monday it will be the first Bank in the nation to join an electronic Home services sys tem developed by International business machines corp. And scars Roebuck and co. The ism scars venture called Prodigy will Cost Consumers about $15 a month. Ii will allow customers with personal computers to pay Bills order groceries and other merchandise obtain free Stock quotes and read news sports and weather reports. The service will be available in the Atlanta area by september according to Doug Freeman senior vice president fat product development Tor Cas. Freeman said studies conducted Boul six months ago showed thai there Are about 500,000 Home com Puter systems in the Atlanta area and another 500,000 in business offices. We think the number of personal computers in Atlanta is near the critical mass needed for a service like this to succeed Freeman said. Of her at copts at electronic Home service businesses in Atlanta including Home banking have flopped he said. Full tin Federal savings and loan the Only Atlanta financial institution to offer Home banking by personal computer recently dropped it after signing up less than 400 customers Over two years. But Bryan Elk. A spokesman for Prodigy in White Plains n. Y., said the is system costs less and offers a broader Range of services than other programs. A customer will pay $9.95 a month to join Prodigy. Freeman said is plans to charge an additional j4.95 per month for Home banking. Customers will be Able to pay Bills make balance inquiries Transfer funds obtain statements and Check current interest rates. The 14.95 u in addition to Normal service charges the customer will receive a disc he can use either on a Home or office computer to do Hank transactions or use any of the other services Prodigy has to offer Elk said. Why they change reasons other than moving that consume change bunks in percent Al those swayed t a serac Etnan Prodigy plans to give away the necessary computer software which will work in ism and compatible machines. Eventually Prodigy will make the system Avail Able to customers with Apple and compatible machines Elk said. The system also will require a Modem a device that allows computer information to travel through Tele phone Linn. C&5 said it plans to offer to people who sign up for Home banking a Hayes 1200 Modem Al what it said will be a special Price. Freeman did the Price has Cyl to be set. Freeman said he expects he system to be marketed Starling in september. Besides Atlanta the Prodigy system will be sold in san Francisco and in Hartford Conn. Stateside woman faces accusation of attack with Bayonet Peoria Iii. A a woman accused of tubing a Man in the head with a 12-Inch-Long Bayonet after he dropped a Beer an in her Yard has been charged with aggravated Battery authorities said. Okre Johnson was charged in Peoria county circuit court on monday did county sheriff sol. Daniel Saslfeld. Bond was set Al j 15,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled May Tor 27. The 51-year-old Peoria woman b accused of attacking Steven c. Johnson 37. In a parking lot saturday after he refund to pick up the empty Beer can Basfield said. When officers arrived Johnson was titling on her porch with the Bayonet according to a police report. Johnson was treated for cuts on the Back of his head forehead and Chin. Basfield said he did not believe the two John sons Are related. Beatification planned for Calif Mission founder san Francisco up1 father Junipero Serra a franciscan priest who helped Fauna the California missions in the 18th Century will be beatified by Pope John Paul ii at the Vatican in september a Church spokesman said. The Rev. Noel Francis Moholy of san fran Cisco said monday he we advised of the beatification by the Rev. Juan Folguera head of the franciscan order in a Telephone Colt from Spain. Beatification is the first step toward sainthood in the roman Catholic Church. The Monterey diocese in which Serra is buried also was advised of the beatification. Bishop Thaddeus Shubsda said. Shubsda did he would Lead a contingent of about 20 California Bishops to the Vatican for the ceremony. . Death penalty Bill faces another Cuomo veto Albany , Al t the stale Assembly approved legislation monday to restore the death penalty in new York state and sent it to gov. Mario Cuomo s desk where it faces a cer Tain veto. It is the 12th straight year the legislature has approved a death penalty Bill. Six limes from 1977-82 the measures were vetoed by former gov. Hugh Carey and five limes since then by fellow Democrat Cuomo. As in years past the demo Craigie Contr aued Assembly failed monday to come up will the 100 votes needed in inc 150-Mcmber House to override Cuomo s impending veto. The Vole monday was 92-53. The Assembly s chief death a Mcnalty advocate. Democrat Vincent Graber said it is important that the legislature address this Issue each and every year until someday somehow we re Able to get to that needed 100 votes. We re Only some five or sin votes Short. Our Day will come for Man charged in Guantanamo crash that killed 6 Norfolk a. A a jamaican citizen employed at Guantanamo n8 in Cuba was charged with manslaughter after inc car he was driving smash Dino a Navy Van killing six people and injuring four others authorities said monday. The Navy filed six charges of vehicular manslaughter against Carlton ban Ner who is under guard at fac base hos Pital in Guantanamo said it. Russ Grcar a spokesman at Atlantic Heel Headquarters in Norfolk. Six people were killed in the fiery wreck saturday night including the Driver of the Van and five sailors from the Norfolk based amphibious assault ship Inchon which is conducting refresher training in the Caribbean. Three other sailors from the Inchon were seriously injured. Greer identified the five sailors killed As Seaman recruit Michael w. Bauman of cloves . Storekeeper Seaman Brent d. Jervey of Gainesville a Boatswain s mate . John f. Piper of Monongahela a. Seaman Jeffrey a Rais of Cincinnati and Petty officer . Frederick w. Vilmar of Saginaw Mich the Van Driver was identified Asmi Chael Chambers also a jamaican nation Al who worked at the base Supply department As an accounting clerk and had been a civilian employee of the Navy since 1983, Grcar said. Three injured sailors were evacuated sunday 10 the Brooke army bum Center in san Antonio Texas. A spokeswoman for the renter who would not give her name said they were in critical Condi Tion. They were identified As aircraft store keeper Seaman recruit Dame Eric l. Co Field. 30, of Harrisburg a. Ship s serv iceman Prentice a Johnson 21, of Indianapolis and fireman Darren Ste Venson 30, of Chester a. Earlier Navy reports Aid the sailors were in serious condition bul Greer said that the initial assessment was nol from doctors at the bum Center. Banner was listed in stable condition at the base Hospital said it. Or nor. Aaron Long another Atlantic Fleet spokesman in Norfolk. The car was speeding on the base s main Road when the wreck occurred base spokesman it. Bob Hind said Sun Day. All those killed were in the Van Ai it was ravaged by fire. Hines said. About 7,000 people including Mili tary personnel and civilian workers live on the base at the Southeastern tip of Cuba. The facility which is enclosed and surrounded by a mine Field is the Only american base in a communist country and serves As the main training site for the Atlantic flee
