European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday july 15, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 peace Convoy finally makes Mexico Laredo Texas up the Veter ans peace Convoy quietly drove 10 of 14 vehicles loaded with food and Medicine for Nicaragua across the Border into Mexico tuesday night with no opposition from . Customs inspectors a Convoy spokesman said wednesday. The vehicles crossed customs Check Points the night before the group s Law suit against a customs service ban on exporting the trucks went before . District judge George Kazen. The judge ordered attorneys in the Case to submit briefs by july 20 and said he will Rule later this month. Members of the Convoy have been try ing for a month to enter Mexico Over the objection of customs service official who say the group s vehicles could be used for military purposes by officials say the vehicles will be left in Nicaragua for use by humanitarian groups. The customs service impounded three trucks and police arrested eight Convoy members saturday when they tried to run a customs service blockade at the International Bridge Between Lare do and Nuevo Laredo Mexico. But Convoy spokesman Bob Livesey said 10 of the Convoy s 14 remaining vehicles some of them clearly marked crossed without incident tuesday night through customs service checkpoints. Livesey said the vehicles will begin the trip to Nicaragua after being cleared by mexican customs in Nuevo Laredo. He said the process May take a few Days because Convoy Drivers want to make sure they have the proper paperwork to continue the trip. There is one Bridge in Laredo where they have two automatic lanes and you just throw your Money in and go Sai Convoy member Harry Meserve. That s what we did. We just crossed under the same conditions As anybody Convoy officials were unsure Why the trucks were allowed to Cross without incident in the Wake of the Well publicize Battles Between the peace activists and the customs service. End of line a Host of Volkswagen Golf Auto mobiles part of the last products to Roll off the Assembly line in new Stan ton a. Sit outside the Plant shortly before it closed for Good on thursday. The Plant the Only Assembly Complex operated by vow in the United states opened with a great Deal of hoopla 10years ago but shut Down with much less fuss As workers bade Farewell Toone another and Pennsylvania officials stepped up efforts to to find a new ten ant for the building. The Plant had been the largest employer in West Moreland county hard hit by a fall Offin the state s steel Industry. Vow cited slumping sales and increased Small car Competition for the closure. A photo nuclear sub workers of new talks Groton Conn. A representatives of 10,200 striking Blue Collar workers and the electric boat shipyard maker of the Navy s nuclear submarines have agreed to meet Friday with a Feder Al mediator. Mediator Thomas Carroll contacted the company and the Metal trades Council on tuesday to ask representatives to attend a meeting in Norwich to discuss restarting negotiations. No talks have been held since the strike began july 1. Joe Messier president of the Metal trades Council said wednesday he would attend the meeting with an open mind adding i Hope some Goodwill come out of electric boat spokesman Neil Ruenzel also confirmed company officials would attend. The workers walked off the Job after rejecting the company s offer to pay them Lump sum bonuses Over the next three years instead of annual wage increases. Electric boat a division of general dynamics corp., is one of two shipyards making nuclear submarines for the Navy and the Only manufacturer of giant subs capable of carrying the Trident missile. Ruenzel said the company remained on construction schedule despite the walkout. More waste syringes hit . Beach new York not use syringes and other medical waste continued to Wash up on mid Landbeach on Staten Island As new York City officials announced that two vials found there earlier this week contained blood contaminated with the hepatitis b virus. Midland Beach remained close because of the debris and because of a sewage spill tuesday from a near by treatment Plant that also has closed All other municipal beaches on Staten Island and Brooklyn. The City expected test results thursday morning from water samples taken in the Vicinity of the port Richmond water pollution control Plant which was forced to divert More than 20 million Gal Lons of sewage into new York har Bor during a Power failure. If the tests show the Waters Carefree of dangerous Micro organisms some of the beaches could open thursday said or. Stephen c. Joseph commissioner of the City s health department. Midland will stay closed regard less of water Quality Joseph said due to debris with each High tide. Russian Roulette kills teen Ager in Illinois Peoria 111. A a couple who lost five children in an apartment fire 25 years ago is now mourning with the death of their 17-year-old son shot in what police said was a game of russian Roulette. We re trying to get through this and we re praying to the Good lord but it s pretty Tough said Bessie Milton whose son Edward died after being shot in the Eye. We lost five children in a fire in Chi Cago in 1963 and the lord blessed me with five More children mrs. Milton 46, said wednesday. Now i be lost my baby. Hopefully the Good lord will pull me through the teen Ager s shooting death sat urday is the latest tragedy to scar a family All too familiar with death. . And Bessie Milton were in the process of buying a House in 1963 when a boiler in their South Side apartment building exploded. The couple had left their five Small children in the care of a neighbor who lived upstairs from their basement apart ment. The Milton children four girls and a boy All died in the resulting Blaze. The Milton who have been married29 years rebuilt their family with four boys and a girl and moved to Peoria in 1974 where Milton works As a musician. They live in Public housing in Peoria. My oldest would have been 29 Yea sold now and my baby was 17," mrs. M in ton said. I had a nervous breakdown two years after the fire but i turned my life around. I Hope i can get through mrs. Milton is angry at the youth accused of shooting her 17-year-old. My son was outgoing he would do any thing for anyone she said. He worked at a restaurant owned disown car and was going to graduate from manual High school next year. He was Good student and he talked about going to College. He was even in the Roth. Hews a Good boy and was never any Trou David l. Gaines 17, was charged wit first degree murder and remained in jail on $100,000 Bond wednesday. Police say he shot Edward Milton in the right Eye Early saturday in a game of Russia Roulette that involved at least four youths. In russian Roulette a revolver s Cylinder is loaded with one Cartridge the Cyl Inder spun and the trigger pulled. Prosecutors said Gaines pointed the gun at the Heads of two other youths and pulled the trigger but the weapon did fire until it was Milton s turn
