European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes monday August 29,1988 child s death in car Indiana a. A police filed criminal charges Friday against a woman whose 3-month-old Babygirl died from being left in a closed car on a scorching july Day. Cindy Henry 23, a Secretary will be summoned by mail to a sept. 23 hearing on charges of in voluntary manslaughter reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child said Magis trate Richard Orendorff. Investigators said that with Theair temperature approaching 100 degrees on july 7, the temperature in the car probably reached 150 degrees. Jacqueline Lynn Henry died of dehydration and overheating. Former Rescue school Boss testifies at court Martia weekend gang fights kill 5 in la los Angeles up five people were killed and eight wounded in two Days of gang violence in the los Angeles area that included a gang attack on a crowded fast food restaurant and a Battle Between gangs from neighbouring cities officials said sunday. In the most violent attack gang members in a speeding car drove through an intersection at 10 15 . Saturday shouted gang slogans and sprayed passers by with gunfire it. Mike Melton said. Two people were killed and two others wounded in the shooting. The residential area near the port of los Angeles is known for its gang activity said it. Tim Murphy who added that the neighbourhood is called  it was not immediately known if the two people killed were gang members. The two people injured were taken to Long Beach area hospitals where they were listed in satisfactory condition Melton said. About an hour earlier Larry Williams 25, was killed in a gang shooting in South East los Angeles. Williams was not believed to be a gang member it. Doug Young said. Just after Midnight sunday a Man was killed in a gang shooting about two Miles away in an Industrial area Murphy said. Details were not immediately known. Police also were investigating the gang related shooting death saturday morning of Manuel Martinez 19, As he drove through a gang infested area in Compton with a Friend police it. . Bunton said. Before that attack gang members who crossed into rival turf in suburban Ingle Wood Friday night sparked a prolonged gun Battle that raged Over five blocks killing a boy and wounding two other people. Gang related drive by shootings also injured a Homeowner caught in the crossfire Friday night and wounded two other peo ple including a bystander hit by bullets fired into a crowd Early saturday at a Burbank fast food restaurant. In the san Fernando Valley shooting Early saturday gang members fired three shots into a crowd of 100 people while driving past a restaurant hitting an innocent bystander it. Don Brown said. An 18-year-old Man was shot in the  during the 12 40 . Attack and listed in fair conditional St. Joseph medical Center. We re Lucky no one else was hit brow said. Gang violence in los Angeles count this year has taken at least 200 lives through july according to police statistics. A record387ganasliTo in 1987. Pensacola Fla. A the for Mer Leader of Navy Rescue swimmer training testified saturday that he never permitted use of Force to make unwilling students get into the swimming Pool for drills. The testimony came in the court mar tial of it. Thomas a. Torchia charge with dereliction of duty for allegedly per mitting instructors to push a panic stricken recruit Back into a Pool at Pensacola naval air station and hold his head under water. The Sailor airman recruit Lee Mirecki 19, of Appleton wis., died in the incident March 2. "1 never authorized a person to replaced Back in the Pool said cmdr. Allan p. Nesbitt Iii Torchia s predecessor. That is something that would not occur and did not  but he also said that regulations at the time did allow instructors to pull tired students away from the Walls of the Pool. During a june investigative hearing a pathologist testified that Mirecki had a phobia about being pulled under  fear triggered heart failure followed by drowning although it was Uncertain which caused his death. One of Torchia s superiors and four instructors have received non judicial punishments ranging from a reprimand to reduction in rank. Another instructor faces court martial on charges of involuntary manslaughter Battery and conspiracy to commit Battery. The maximum penalty for Torchia on the dereliction of duty charge would be a reprimand and loss of two months pay and seniority for promotion. The prosecution contends use of phys ical Force in training is illegal but de sense lawyer Ferdinand Salomon argued in his opening statement that it is a Nec Essary part of the Rescue swimmer course. Salomon a retired Navy Captain told four officers sitting in judgment of Tor Chia that the Navy rescuers do not Pluck Little children out of the shallow end of the country club swimming Pool. The training had to be  Nesbitt was the first of 25 witnesses scheduled to testify during the trial. Questioned by Salomon he testified that it was not unusual for swimmers to go to the Aid of downed fliers at night i heavy seas and High winds. In an Effort to make the training realistic the school traditionally permitted instructors to pull students who we retired suffering from cramps or believed to be malingering away from the Wall of the Pool if they grabbed it for support Nesbitt  were training As if we were in the Middle of the Indian Ocean. That waste philosophy of the school Nesbitt said. There was nothing out there for you to grab a hold  in the Wake of Mirecki s death the Navy has prohibited instructors from touching students at  died during a since banned exercise called Sharks and daisies i which students would swim in a Circle and instructors would grab them at ran Dom pulling on their Heads the Way a Panick stricken drowning person might grab a rescuer. Public backs Quayle despite focus on military record Survey indicates Washington up mos americans taking part in a Survey re leased saturday said they do not have Aless favourable View of Republican vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle be cause of his National guard service Dur ing the Vietnam War. Despite heavy news coverage of suggestions that Quayle joined the guard 19years ago to avoid being drafted for com Bat in Vietnam 82 percent said their opinion of the militarily hawkish Indi Ana senator had not declined according to the p9ll by the Gallup organization for the times Mirror co. Fifteen percent acknowledged a less favourable opinion because of the guard controversy and 3 percent said they were not sure the Survey revealed. Although Quayle and vice presidential rival Lloyd Bentsen had positive rating sin the same Range 50 percent for Quayle and 58 percent for the Texas sen Ator the poll showed that 62 percent consider the 67-year-old democratic chairman of the Senate finance com Mittee qualified to be president while Only 41 percent think the 41-year-old Quayle is prepared for the top Job. Turning to the news accounts of Quayle s military past his link to a 1980 congressional sex scandal and his poor academic record 55 percent of those polled said Media coverage has been unfair. Only 39 percent deemed it fair. The Survey found 69 percent think the Quayle Story has received too much coverage although a scant 2 percent said it has received too Little attention and 26 percent said it has gotten the right amount of focus. With people thus generally critical of the coverage 56 percent nevertheless termed it important to learn details about the senator s past to judge whether he would be a Good vice president. Thirty eight percent said such details from Quayle s life Are not related to his professional ability. Finally the poll found that fewer peo ple have paid attention to the continuing controversy than to other major news stories this summer. Seventy one percent said they have paid close attention to the stories about Quayle but 88 percent said they have closely followed the summer drought 80 percent were familiar with details of the Downing of an Iran Airliner and 74 per cent read with interest the stories of hot weather and the atmosphere s Green House effect. The Gallup times Mirror Survey questioned 1,000 people last week and carried an error margin of 3 percentage Points. 5,000 dead in Burundi massacres As tribal wars Lead to army rampage Hirundo Burundi up heavily armed government troops patrolled the empty villages of Northern Burundi sunday where burned huts abandoned cattle and untended Fields were an eerie reminder of tribal massacres that left at least 5,000  the Hirundo Hospital about 80 Miles Northeast of the capital of Bujumbura 52 people most women and children were being treated for Machete and Bullet wounds. These Are the Lucky ones the ones a Hoot away said a member of the medical staff who asked not to be  authorities said More than 5,000 people died in two weeks of fighting be tween the Tutsi tribesmen also known As a Tutsi and Hutu tribesmen that started in mid August. But Independent sources say the Tutsi dominated army also killed thousands of huts and the actual death toll must be much  than 47,000 people most from the majority Hutu tube which has nonpolitical Power sought Refuge in neigh Boring Rwanda after the fighting  had Bullet and shrapnel wounds and accused the Burundi army of atrocities against unarmed civilian huts. Hardly any refugees answered a government Call to return to their villages i Northern Burundi. Large groups of Tutsi gathered for safety in the Tutsi towns of northeastern Burundi protected by anti terrorism chief is new Pakistan envoy los Angeles a president Reagan made a recess appointment Fri Day of Robert b. Oakley As ambassador to the islamic Republic of Pakistan the White House announced. Oakley is a career foreign service offi cer and has served As the state depart ment s anti terrorism chief. He takes the place of Arnold Raphel who was killed in a plane explosion last week with Paki Stani president Mohammad Ziaul Haq. Troops who have set up roadblocks throughout the Region. In the now deserted provinces of Ngozi and Hirundo once one of the most densely populated areas of the world an air of death and destruction hangs Over the Hills. There is no smoke from cooking fires abandoned cattle roam aimlessly and the Fields Are empty. Everyone seems to have a different version of How the fighting started. But Many say Hutu tribesmen attacked Tut Sis after some of their leaders were arrested by the army. The army the wreaked vengence on the huts. Most agree that the largest massacre against the Hulus were conducted by the government troops sent in to restore order. Although officials concede Only that there May have been some military excesses huts in both Rwanda and Burundi said the troops wiped out entire Hutu villages. Even Tutsi civilians said the army went on the  two tribes have been bitter ene Mies for centuries