European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday june 21,1988attacks on women stun Minneapolis 2 daytime murders series of assaults Minneapolis a the daytime murders of two women in parking ramps and a series of other attacks have brought fear and anger to this City which prides ii Clfon its Small town values and Ion crime rate. We re being infected by America s values police chief Tony Bogia said. In response Many women Are enrolling in self defense classes businesses Are beefing up Security and sales of Mace and whistles have been brisk. We talk about our Quality of life. We Siy we re above this these things Don t happen Here. They happen in Chicago or la or new York said cily councilwoman Barbara Carlson. And All of sudden murders like this occur tend you Tali a they can happen. They arc Hap pening what do we do Carrie Coonrod. A 19-year-old Slu Donl on her Way to a Job interview was Slabbed to death May 17 in a downtown parking garage. A suspect who was re leased from a Nebraska prison in March after serving time for a sex offence was arrested three hours later sixteen Days later. Mary Catherine Foley 34, a manager Al Honeywell inc., was strangled in the company s parking ramp. No arrests have been made. Other events have heightened the ten Sion a 44-year-old drifter Billy Glaze. Was indicted tuesday on first degree murder charges in the 1986-1987 deaths and sexual mutilation of three women. On june 3, a Man assaulted a 26 year old woman in an isolated part of the Skyway pedestrian system linking Down town businesses. The Man fled after the woman screamed alerting passers by. An attorney was abducted from her downtown office the evening of May 22 and repeatedly raped in a 13-hour or Deal. A building Security guard has been charged in the assault. Gov. Rudy Purpich has scheduled a meeting wednesday with representatives of twin cities businesses and govern ment to determine what help the state can give. In the last couple of weeks. 48 self de sense workshops have been scheduled and More Are pending said Lucy Gerald director of Community crime prevention for the City. Normally about 12 workshops Are provided a year. I think it s fear Gerald explained. Some businesses arc buying employees Mace or providing escorts to cars. The Law firm of Robins pc Lac Larson and Kaplan bought about 200 aerosol cans of Mace for employees said Man aging partner Tom Kay scr. Within i i hours the cans were gone Kay scr said. Abbott Northwestern Hospital bought about 4.500 shriek alarms pressure cd canisters that Emit 8 piercing whistle for employees said spokeswoman Megan o Hora. A radio station announced plans i give away  police whistles. A store that Sells Mace a chemical irritant used to disable an attacker had sold out its Supply and was awaiting a new shipment. We have orders for Over 1,000 in the last two Days and normally we would sell a Gross 144 said Diane Rusinko a Salesman Al uniforms unlimited the last few Days the majority of our time has been spent answering the phone and filling orders. I be never seen any thing like it Ever Rusinko said. In this City of 360,000 people there have been 27 killings this year compared with 23 at the same Lime in 1987. When there were a record 48 slayings for the year. Deputy police chief Bob Lulu said. Bouza called the parking ramp killings isolated aberration Al  and said re ports of other violent crimes actually declined this year. Susan Hans cad who works Al a downtown Law firm said she feels min Neapolis is safer than tier Hometown of clime ago. Notwithstanding what just happened 1 led of Here said Hansl sad whose Law firm ordered Mace and organized a self defense class. I think in More angry than i am afraid right now cabbie makes fair catch in rescuing couple from fire new Yolk up catching the nuut who jumped from the third floor of � burning building was easy compared with catching the Man s Girlfriend Iho jumped head first and the rescuer said that in any event he d do in All Over again. Cub or her Bent Winston 27, who is 6-foot-3 and 275 pounds was dropping i passenger off in Brook Lyn about 7 . When he noticed Humes Licking Horn Athree Story building next door. A woman appeared at a top floor window and the cabbie ordered her to jump. The woman did head first Winston said. The lady really rave me a scare when she came like Ihal All 1 was Ihl Nkang Aboul was saving this lady s life Winston recalled. When 1 grabbed her i held her Light la prevent her from hitting the pave ment he suld he caught the woman. Identified As Yvette Eirv with one  on hut head and one  on her legs. It was unbelievable it s � matter of god giving me the strength to hold Hal lady up Winston said. Elt by s Boyfriend Victor Camales followed but he made the 20 to 25-foot jump feet first making it much easier far Winston toc Alch him. I grabbed him with one  on his head and one on his legs. He was t As difficult the rescuer said. Neither the couple nor Winston was injured officials said. The fire started in a stairwell and quickly raced up to the lop Flaury trapping Canales and Eleby fire department spokesman Efrain Parry Lii said. After the Rescue cd Niles and Eleby came up to me and thanked me for saving their lives said Winston. "1 Felt Eood about the whole think. 1 would do ii again in minute. If had t caught her and held her she would have smashed her head on the  what they did is very risky but in this Case it worked said a lire battalion chief. Peter else Mann. Winston chalked up us heroics to his she say ing there were other bystanders at the scene but they were too Small and Loo weak la mate the catches. Upset by pal s swimming Accident cub scout drowns in Camp Lake new York a a 9-year-old cub Seoul who drowned in a scout Camp Lake had been upset by the sight of a Friend s unconscious body being pulled from the water another camper said. The Friend later died. He was saying. I was supposed logo Down to the Bottom with him " boy scout Raymond Golting said of Joel Nieves he was hyperventilating. He was really  police could not say How Joel ended up in the water. He had been reported missing after Friend Luis Ruiz a Accident saturday in the Borough of state n Island and was the subject of a search by More than i do police officers and so volunteers. Police divers recovered Joel s body from Ohrbach Lake on sunday morning said police sgt. Diane Kubler. Luis died sunday night in the podiatric intensive care unit of so Alan Island Hospital said Allan Sci Denbaum assistant director of nursing. Both boys lived in the Borough of Brooklyn where they belonged to cub scout pack 74. A scout Leader said he had ordered the 18 scouts on the ruling not to swim or fish in the Lake at Camp Pouch. It was their first trip so i did t know who swims and who can to said assistant scoutmaster Felix Gomez Gomez said another assistant scoutmaster allowed Luis and Al least one other boy to go into the water while some of the Oiher boys were hiking. He said that when Luis went under six other scouts formed a human Chain and rescued him after he had been submerged for 10 to 15 minutes. Joel was seen on Shore after the Rescue. Scout Lead ers realized he was missing three hours later. Police speculated at the time that the boy May have been frightened by Luis Accident and Hal he ran off. He was not found in an initial search of the Lake. Joel s father Saul Nieves said his son a to urls Grade student had been scheduled to receive a school trophy monday. Stateside homosexuals Parade through Oklahoma City Oklahoma City a the state s firs Homo sexual Pride March was held sunday in Oklahoma City without any incidents despite rumours thai the Kun flux klan might at Cpl to disrupt the event. Here in Oklahoma because in is the buckle of the Bible Belt Hie Gay rights movement has been be slow " said Parade chairman Andy soul Ham. We re hoping that with this first March people s thinking will Start to move  Parade organizers said nearly 400 lesbians and homosexual men from Oklahoma and nearby Stales participated. Among Hose Laid i part was jell Chi executive director of the National Gay and lesbian task Force who flew Back from an aids conference in Stockholm Sweden. Japanese feel americans will be amazed by fad Vacaville Calif up americans this sum Mer will gel their first Chance to Sample a fad that has taken the japanese by storm in recent years finding in Airway out of giant mazes. The Wood or wild and original object with zoom is scheduled to open in August on interstate so Between san Francisco and Sacramento. It is similar to Many of Japan s 110 giant mazes the most popular of which Drew 760,000 visitors last year. It s a test of logic and instinct said Bob Lowry of Sun creative system Usa. The company thai exported the concept. It s an absolute rage in Japan. They re just going wild Over the  Japan s first giant Maze the Kyoto Dago grand Maze opened two years ago. Mazes arc now scattered around the country. Schools and companies arrange Maze Field trips and there Are Maze meets Maze clubs and annual tournaments. Forecast Cloudy brows and scattered complaints Chicago a not everyone is joining the Ris ing chorus of complaints about the drought baking Farmland and stranding River barges say to weather forecasters who declare they re prepared to Lake the. Heal for any kind of weather no matter what you do you can t win said Andy Avalos of was to in Chicago who added that some people Are enjoying the sunny weather and 90-Deercc temperatures accompanying the dry spell. Avalos was among about 200 forecasters who con verged on a downtown hotel for the american meteorological society s 18th conference on broadcast meteorology. Forecasters May sometimes have trouble predicting the weather but they know they can expect scattered complaints under any conditions