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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 5, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday Way 5, 19bs the stars and stripes Pago 7 Ink. The Corbel to Nul Lilinoe an so year old landmark in downtown i Ortli ind Ore. Coming Down i new Eythl in a Cloud of Tut and e. It i scheduled to be replaced by Cyl another Ito print null. Of re placed in the basement of lie old build inn and Art Iff so dial hi1 Structure itself. Goode criticized for move incident grand jury fails to find criminal intent Philadelphia not a Phila Ciphia grand jury tuesday was sharply critical i Miry air w. Wilson Goode and members of his administration but cleared them of criminal liability fur the deaths and destruction resulting from the City s 1985 confrontation with the Radical group movf., eleven people including Lii i children were killed and 61 Homo Curt de in u fire on May i19k5, after police dropped a bomb on a West t  Row Huus occupied Zintl fool ilk d by move. By i 6-4 Volt the grand jury ruled that no evidence had been lord that anyone had acted with criminal intent recklessness or negligence tinder Pennsylvania Law. Vet we do not exonerate the men responsible Tor this  the panel said in ils 279-Page report. Rather than a vindication of those officials this re port should stand As a permanent record of thei r morally reprehensible  the grand jury called the confrontation an epic of governmental incompetence and said in was marked by Politi Cal cowardice in ils inception. Inexperience in its planning and. Ineptitude in its  the panel i Aid City officials abdicated their responsibility in the crisis and extols led an Ama ing leadership  it found thai one official fire com missioner \vi1liani c. Richmond made a terrible misjudgment by advising police that the rite started by the bomb could be controlled. And the panel severely criticised Goode saying he delegated too much deferred too Oflyn knew too Little and asked Loo few  after the report was issued. Good said at a news conference "11 has been my belief All along that i bad not done anything that was  1 res cd. For his reaction to lie report. Good said the report is the report. It reaches its conclusions. There is nothing can  tuesday s report did not close the Book on questions of criminality among those involved in in confrontation. \ Federal grand jury is looking into he matter for possible civil rights violations and is expected to Issue ils report in he local grand jury was guided in ils two year investigation by the office of i hit Delphia s Republican District attorney Ronald d. Castillo. The grand jury findings were challenged by William h. Riun 111, the chairman of a special commission a poin Letl by blood a to invest Ighile the confrontation. In March i9b6, after an inquiry thai included Public hearings that lasted eight months the commission railed the deaths of the five Al Wildre a unjust liable homicide and found that Good had been grossly negligent it also urged the convening of the grand jury that made its report tuesday. It seems to me there was More than sufficient evidence to indicate that there should have been indictments returned by this grand jury Brown said. In defending the grand jury s report Casville noted that the pain we suffer in the death of the children and the destruction of the neighbourhood would seem to Lead to the conclusion that crimes must have occurred on May 13." lint he and ecu that our society cannot condone prosecutions motivated solely by grief or  the grand jury concluded thai the drop Ping or the both. A Satchel charge de signed to destroy a fortified Bunker atop the House occupied by the move group. Was n legitimate exercise of police Power and that i i ill not in Ilsel Tause the deaths and inv property damage Kother the panel said the cause was a decision by Grigore j. Sambor then the police commissioner with Richmond s concurrence to let the ensuing fire bum so thai in would destroy the Bunker after the bomb failed to do so. Move began As a nonviolent Back to nature organization. Ils members refused to Send their children to school and ignored health and safety lasts. The grand jury found that by May 1985. Nove had evolved into an extremist group cult practice cd in tic an of Urban  a police officer was killed in a shootout with the group in iu78. The group subsequently moved to the House that in occupied in West Philadelphia and he grand jury found As had other investigators that members of the group were terrorizing the neighbourhood. Cher files $15 million suit against the enquirer 1.os not  up acl Russ Singer Cher filed a �15 million suit tuesday Ugains the National enquirer claiming the Tab old made her look like o racist by making up a Stury that she clashed with comedian Eddie Murphy backstage at the Academy awards. Cher took inc weekly tabloid newspaper headquartered in Florida to task Over an panicle on i age 16 of tuesday s editions headlined Eddie Murphy banned from  the Andic by Don Monte said Furphy was verbally attacked Back Mage by the show s producers. Samuel Goldwyn or. And Robert Wise far remarking onstage that Loo few Blacks receive Academy awards. The article said Cher then gave Murphy a verbal Tongue lashing. This is not a platform for your grievances the indignant Siar told him. How could you do this you put a Damper on the whole night Eddie snubbed her and stormed off. Fuming. Cher told backs agers i m outraged " the article said. Cher who won the Oscar that Nihl far Best actress in Moonstruck said in the Federal court lawsuit that the article was a Complete  she did not hear Murphy s remarks onstage and never spoke to him backstage she said. The particular rancor with which the offending remarks were attributed to her rises to the level of portraying Cher As a racial and anti Black and in truth Imd in fact the opposite is  the lawsuit said. National enquirer officials could not be reached fur comment. Cher seeks s15 million in punitive damages $10.000 for Hurt feelings annoyance and aggravation and $10,000 for violation of her right to privacy. Cher claims the enquirer used the names of Well known people such As herself and Murphy to claim an exclusive Anil gain in Edge Over ils competitors. She also says the damage was aggravated when gossip columnist i Smith mentioned the article in the new Yolk daily news calling it the scoop of the Showbiz  to comply with a settlement of a previous lawsuit Between Cher and the enquirer the tabloid read the article to f her s lawyer Over the phone before it was published to give her time to respond the suit said. Cher s attorney old the publication the article a As false and would cause friction Between Cher and Murphy but the enquirer published in anyway the suit said. The lawsuit said the tabloid is a gossip tabloid that piques the Public curios ii by printing highly sensational and bizarre articles and stories and passes off such stones to the Public As being truthful  when it uses stories by writers who arc not pan of its full Lime staff in purposely closes its eyes to the truth or falsity of the reports the suit said  
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