European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 23,1988 the stars and stripes Page farm workers Chavez ends 36-Day fast by the los Angeles times Delano Calif. Cesar Chavez Haggard and unable to stand without assistance ended his 36-Day water Only fast to protest the use of agricultural pesticides by accept ing a piece of bread sunday from Ethel Kennedy. The event was witnessed by More than 7,000 farm labourers who converged at a United farm workers Union compound Here to celebrate an outdoor mass of thanksgiving held beneath a White tent. Ethel Kennedy the widow of Robert f. Kennedy and her children Kerry 27, Christopher 25, and Rory 20, received a standing ovation when they entered the tent with clenched fists held High. Chavez began the fast july 17 to seek an end to the use of pesticides which he said endanger farm work ers Consumers and the environment. He also sought to gain support for the Ufa s four year Boycott of Cali fornia table grapes and its efforts to win labor con tracts with growers. During the mass Chavez shared communion with his 96-year-old Mother Juana Chavez and his wife Helen who fanned her husband with a Manila folder and provided him with sips of water from a plastic Tumbler. At one Point Chavez handed a Small Cross fashioned from twigs to former presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The tendering of the Cross symbolized the Start of Jackson s own three Day fast to share the  today i pass on the fast for life to hundreds of concerned men and women throughout North americ and the world who have offered to share the suffer ing Chavez said in a statement read to the mostly latino audience by his son Fernando 39. They will help carry the Burden by continuing the fast in front of their local supermarkets. The fast will go on in hundreds of Distant places Chavez added and it will multiply among thousand Sand then millions of caring people until every poisoned grape is off the supermarket  throughout the mass Chavez squinted in pain an clutched his stomach. He wiped his brow with a White handkerchief As he sat in a rocking chair placed before an altar decorated with bouquets of Flowers. After the mass Chavez was taken by car to an undisclosed location where he was to receive Light miso Broth a special Rice mixture to restore his  has refused to take any medication. Chavez who has already lost More than 33/2pounds, from his original weight of 174, suffered from intense stomach cramps dehydration and nausea according to his physician or. Marian Moses. With aides supporting him Ceasar Chavez takes communion from father Ken Irrgang. Watching at right is the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Chavez later accepted bread from Ethel Kennedy ending a 36-Day fast to protest the use of pesticides. We expect that it will be at least a week to 10 Days before he is on solid food Moses said and a much longer time before he is Back to his state of health before he began the  not eating for 36 Days Chavez eclipsed his 25 Day fast of 1968 in support of Ufa members to main Tain their commitment to the principles of non Vio Lence. That fast ended when Chavez shared bread with sen. Robert f.  Day is coming soon when grapes will no longer be washed with the tears sweat and blood of worker sin the Field said Kerry Kennedy. No comte uvas Don t buy grapes later Jackson along with a group of actors that included Martin Sheen and Robert Blake invite others to join them by fasting for three Days. Chavez an ardent admirer of the legendary Mohan Das Gandhi who often fasted to protest conditions in India under British Rule called his fast a fervent prayer that together we will confront and resist the Scourge of poisons that threatens our people and our land and our  officials have attributed an unusually High number of birth defects and cancer deaths among Chil Dren in the nearby Community of Mcfarland in Cen trial California to the extensive use of pesticides Over the  and Federal health investigators studying the problem however have been unable to determine the cause of the  growers store owners and state health officials insist that pesticides Are strictly regulated and pose no cause for concern. Beyond that they argue that the same pesticides Are used on a variety of commonly eaten fruits and vegetables that have not been targeted by the Boycott. Gang of Youthful criminals captured on film Clearwater Fla. A Luck ran out for a Busy gang of Little burglars when three of the youngsters toyed with a Polaroid camera and left photo graphs of themselves at a crime scene police said. They were Good pictures said Dennis Henegar owner of Douglas manufacturing a Clearwater awning screen and window company that was burglarized. Henegar said his son found the photographs after he opened the shop for business on aug. 11. He noticed the window was open saw that the Cash Box was empty and found the three pictures. There the were grinning from ear to ear he said. Besides $20 or $30, the camera also was stolen. Henegar in an interview in the Tampa Tribune said he believes the boys left the pictures which take a few minutes to develop because they mistakenly thought the film was bad. When they first come out there s nothing there he said of the instant snapshots. I can just see them throwing the pictures Down and saying these Are no Good " the photos were turned Over to police and one officer recognized one of the boys said police it. Jack  the first boy was arrested aug. 12, detectives have connected seven children aged 7 to 14 with 23 burglaries in southwestern Clearwater he said. Most were charged with burglary and some were charged with armed burglary for carrying knives or screwdrivers. They were released into the custody of their parents. Police believe the boys stole As Muchas $4,500 Worth of Cash jewelry food and firearms during a nearly two month spree he added. No adults Are believed to have helped them. They be either Given it away thrown it away or it s possible some one has been buying some of it Dowl ing said. The children generally worked inseams with one or two of them forcing open windows at unoccupied Homes or businesses police said while other kept watch from their bicycles. Soviet rocket Falls out of orbit crashes in Canada Washington a a soviet rocket crashed in northeastern Canada sunday morning after lighting up the sky from new Mexico to Michigan As it fell out of orbit a defense department spokesman said. No injuries or damage were reported. The Craft which plummeted to Earth about 1 a.m.,was launched by the soviets on aug. 18 to carry a Gori Zont communications satellite into orbit said maj. Alex Mondragon spokesman for the North american aerospace defense come and the  come speaking from Peterson fab near Colo Rado Springs Colo. He said the rocket was probably an sl12, one of the soviets Workhorse models. It s not unusual for a rocket body not to stay in orbit he said. There s nothing to keep it  the Craft was tracked by officials at the . Space surveillance Center at Cheyenne Mountain in Colora do where about 7,200 space vehicles Are constantly being surveilled. An average of one space vehicle re enters the Earth s atmosphere each Day he said. Mondragon said the rocket had no connection whatsoever to the Cosmos 1900, an out of control nuclear powered soviet spy satellite that has been fall ing out of orbit for several months. Cosmos 1900, launched last dec. 12, is now expected to reenter the Earth s atmosphere in late sep tember or Early october Mondragon said. Mondragon and Pentagon spokesman maj. Mike Stepp provided no further details about the rocket s condition when it reached the Earth or the precise location where it came Down. Mondragon said it usually takes about 24 hours to pinpoint where downed satellites plummet to Earth. The spokesmen said the descending rocket was Visi ble to residents of new Mexico Colorado Nebraska and Michigan. I do understand it was pretty spectacular Stepp said. He said the reentry of the Craft which he referred to As a non nuclear soviet rocket body had been expected by . Officials. It was predicted it would come Down it came Down As predicted and it came Down where it was predicted he said. Mondragon said officials do not try to recover parts of such rocket bodies because 95 percent of them usually Burn up upon reentry. That spectacular Light show that they provide folks with is the rocket body burning up he said. Two other Federal agencies questioned earlier Sun Day about reports that a soviet satellite had crashed in the great lakes area said they had no direct evidence of such an event. It. Jay Butler a coast guard spokesman said his Agency had heard that members of the Public had re ported seeing something crash in the area of the great lakes. But he said the coast guard had not recovered debris or even searched for any