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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 20, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 20, 198b the stars and stripes Paga 9 . Guards added offer fights occur of two theafers Philadelphia a two healers bolstered Security after two youths were shot and hundreds More were involved in fights during the weekend premiere of a rap music movie. The first shooting occurred after the manage ment of one theater am Midtown announced that the 9 30 showing Friday night of tougher than leather featuring the rap group run , was cancelled and asked Hose with tickets tubs to line up for refunds. Fights broke out in the lobby and the auditorium As groups of teen agers from different neighbourhoods taunted each other and hurled Popcorn and soda across the scats witnesses and police said. Minutes later with about 200 people still in the darkened auditorium shots rang out officials said. Film goers rushed out of the theater. The wounded youth Wayne Brown collapsed a half Block away with a gunshot in his  was released from Thomas Jcj Turson University Hospital on  the second incident at the Eric 3 of the Campus theater near Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania two youths began arguing during the movie about k40 p.m.,usher Charles Hancock said. One Guy yells 1 got a gun everybody started Rushing for the doors Hancock  broke out and before the Melee ended a 19-year-old Man walking by the theater was shot in the hip. Orville Walls was in Good Condi Tion sunday night at the Hospital of the univer sity of Pennsylvania. Police declined to link the shooting with the Vio Lence inside the theater. Walls said sunday that the Angle of the shot indicated the gunman was on the sidewalk and not inside the theater doors. Detective Alfred Bilstein said no further Inci dents were reported saturday or sunday. The am Midtown cancelled two saturday matinees but reopened saturday night with the movie playing on both screens. Six police offi cers stood guard. We Don t feel it is the movie that caused the problems said Midtown general manager Jim Francisco. The movie in t that violent we thin the major problem was that we did t have enough scats to accommodate All the potential customers police  that they Are showing in both Heaters they have alleviated much of the problems Bilstein said. No one is waiting outside  at the other theater. Manager Dean Lind said he would use seven Security guards instead of two and 10 Ushers instead of  m going to talk with our District manager and try to get this movie out of Here Lind said we re very upset because the theater is geared mainly toward College  featuring run . In other cities in recent years have attracted youth gangs an resulted in violence and relatively Large numbers of drug and theft arrests. Sweep against gangs leads to 900 arrests in la area los Angeles a police swarmed through gang infested territories and arrested nearly 900 peo ple half of them gang members but Street violence aged with at least two dead and eight wounded authorities  400 officers arrested More than 360 people saturday night and Early sunday police said. Officer brought in at least 510 people Friday night. Part of the purpose is the message to the Gan members the message to the Community that we re Here police i. Fred Nixon said sunday. We can show it s statistically significant  More than 200 people have died in gang related killings in los Angeles county this year. Such homicides in the f j l los Angeles c August wit August alone according to figures released last week. The crackle of gunfire is a weekend ritual in the Graffiti pocked neighbourhoods staked out by Street thugs. The sweeps have been conducted periodically since april. This weekend s Effort was concentrated in South Central los Angeles and the san Fernando Valley. More than half those arrested Are suspected gang Mem Bers police said. The Chan pcs ranged from felony drug crimes to misdemeanours. Police also wrote hundreds of traffic citations and confiscated 66 cars eight guns plus cocaine marijuana and j1,400 in Cash sol. Larry Mazur said. The violence continued sunday when two suspected gang members were stabbed and critically wounded during a fight in Pomona police said. Four males were arrested for investigation of at tempted murder in the Brawl said sol. Ron Mcdon Ald. Less than an hour after the sweeps ended in the san Fernando Valley a 22-year-old Man was killed and one was wounded in a drive by shooting in suburban Sun Valley police said. The motive was t known but investigators said it was gang related. It appears at this time they were totally innocent a detective. Mike Coffey said of the victims. The car drove by and for some reason fired shots at  just before that attack two gang members and a bystander were hit by shots fired from a passing car near the los Angeles memorial coliseum. Hospital officials refused to release the victims conditions. An attack saturday night in the South Central area killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded a 17-year-old, said it. Dave Hepburn. Investigators said the killing May have resulted from a drug Deal gone bad. In another gang related shooting a 17-year-old Long Beach youth Riding his bicycle in South Central Losangeles was wounded sunday evening by gunfire from a passing car. He was in stable condition said sol. Paul Hast. Earlier in the weekend two reputed gang members were booked for investigation of attempted murder i suburban burbs my after opening fire on a crowd at a hamburger stand Friday night Burbank police sol. Rick Madrid said. Officers who were watching the stand because of two other drive by shootings in the area during the past two weeks saw several people Limp away after the at tack it nobody reported an injury to authorities Madrid said. Lawmaker s wife shouts at activist Garden Grove Calif. A a town meeting erupted into a shouting match when the wife of rep. Bob Doman screamed shut up fag at a homosexual activist. Then in a Public apology she revealed to her husband that her brother is dying of  Dornan shouted the epithet at Jeff Latour Neau during a heated Exchange sunday Between the homosexual activist and her husband a conservative  and about 30 other chanting protesters were then escorted from the auditorium by police Andaman s request but Letoureau was allowed to re turn and pose the last question of the session. He demanded an apology. I m very sorry i did that said mrs. Dornan he voice breaking. You were All Yelling at my husband whom i  apologize but it will not rid the anger in my heart. My brother is dying. I want you to under stand there s great anger and pain inside of  she later told reporters that one of her four brother Sis a homosexual and is dying of aids. The Congress Man said he knew his brother in Law is a homosexual but not that be had acquired immune deficiency syn drome to Tell you the truth i did t know until this min Ute said the Orange county congressman who the asked his wife Why did t you Tell me i did t want to Hurt you she said she had yelled shut up fag at Letournlau during an argument he and democratic opponent Jerry Yudelson were having with Doman Over the Congress Man s Vole to give foreign Aid to the bolivian govern  accepted mrs. Doman s apology. Letournlau had earlier organized a rally of a Homo sexual rights group to protest Dorian s stand on homosexual i sucs Dornan is seeking a third term. About 25 people participated in the rally. Sam group wore to shirts Reading queer and present Dan Ger and demonstrators in Black shrouds carried Amock coffin and read names of those who had died of  the session Letournlau said Dornan had denounced the term Gay on the House floor and re fused to Back legislation to bar discrimination based on sexual  confirmed he opposed the legislation but said he has been on the cutting Edge of Kaiui aids legislation contributed part of his $12,400 pay raise to help aids hospices and helped publicize the Issue of aids. Doman said his bean goes out to homosexuals but i am not going to let them wreck every town Hall  9 accused of attacking concertgoers m1neola . A nine youths who descended on their victims in a frenzy like Sharks were charged in a series of robberies and attacks Dur ing a rap concert sept. 10 that left one person dead and 12 injured police said. Police arrested the suspects aged 16 to 22. At their Homes in Brooklyn s Bedford Stuyvesant Section late Friday and Early saturday the police said. Police were led to the suspects after they bragged about the attacks which took place at the Nassau coliseum on Long Island said detective sgt. John Nolan head of the Nassau county homicide division. At the Long Island concert the youths walked i clusters making squealing noises to distract their Vic Tims and snatched their jewelry Nolan said. If the victim resisted Nolan said the youths would surround him envelop him beat Stab and slash him with razor Blades before he knew what had  they were in a frenzy like Sharks feeding Nola said. Julio Fuentes 19, was stabbed to death after chasing youths who ripped a Gold Chain and a four Inch Gold from Bis Girlfriend s neck police said. Five other concertgoers were subbed three were slashed with razors and four were punched kicked or clubbed police  of those arrested were charged with murder and jailed without bail. Other charges included larceny not and conspiracy. Soviet Booster rocket shoots 3 Cosmos satellites into space Moscow up the soviet Union has sent aloft three satellites from one Booster rocket the offi Cial soviet news Agency Tass  Laid he three Cosmos series satellites will be used to test a space navigation system for locating soviet merchant and fishing ships. Cosmos-1970, Cosmos-1971 and Cosmos-1972 we relaunched atop a Proton Booster rocket and the satellites on Board systems were operating normally Tass said  
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