European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. September 28, 1988 the stars and stripes pag8 3 prospectors think Oregon will offer Golden Harvest Vale Ore. Up a Large Gold discovery in Eastern Oregon is attracting droves of prospectors who have been staking out thousands of claims on Public lands in Malchur county. But so far the Gold Rush has t resulted in the opening of a single mine. Bureau of land management geologist Bill Holsheimer said monday. Holsheimer estimated the number of mining claims in Malchur county has gone up by nearly a third this year. I Don t know the exact numbers bul it s probably More than 3,000 claims this year he said. As of last january there were 10,700 total claims in he  the Prospect ing has been spurred on by Atlas corp s discovery of a Large Gold Deposit on Grassy Mountain about 25 Miles South of Vale. The size of the discovery is estimated at million ounces of Gold according to Holsheimer who has been conducting environmental studies of alias test drilling activity. However the Gold is found in very Low Grade Ore about two thirds of an ounce per ton according to the company. Holsheimer said Only companies willing to invest in targe scale mining operations will find the Gold profitable. He said alias has t made a firm decision to go ahead with a mine but it looks very  talc a Brawley s Story was a lie grand jury finds new York api a grand jury has decided that Tawana Brawley. Whose Case brought allegations of a racist coverup and gained nationwide attention fabricated her Story that she was gang raped by White men the new York times reported tuesday. The special stale grand jury found overwhelming evidence that the Black 16-year-old girl from Wappinger Falls. . Lied and helped create the condition in which she was found the newspaper said. The evidence was assembled Over seven months by a grand jury that was unable to obtain testimony from Brawley who was found nov. 28 smeared with faces dazed and with racial slurs written on her body. Her Story attracted National attention. Prominent people who spoke sympathetically of her plight included heavyweight boxing Champion Mike Tyson and actor Bill Cosby who put up a $25,000 Reward. Civil rights organizations cited the Case As an exam ple of racism and unfairness in the criminal Justice system. Brawley refused to cooperate with investigators and the grand jury. More than 100 witnesses and exhibits including confidential medical and police reports and secretly taped Telephone conversations were considered by the grand jury which was empanelled in Pought Cypsie on feb. 29, the times said. The newspaper said the grand jury was expected within weeks to Issue a final report saying that it has found no evidence of any abduction racial or sexual attack or any other crime against Brawley. Brawley has moved with her family to Virginia each a where she is at Landing High school. The family could not be reached for comment. Brawley s Mother Glenda defied a subpoena in june and was sentenced to 30 Days in jail but she avoided the sentence by taking Refuge in churches and finally leaving the slate. The grand jury also subpoenaed Brawley but has abandoned Hope of Ever hearing her Story from her and rescinded its vote to subpoena her the Poughkeeps in . Journal reported tuesday. Brawle a advisers the Rev. Al Sharpton and Law yen a Vernon Mason and Alton Maddos could not be reached for comment. The advisers have alleged Aco Crup by while officials who refuse to prosecute Whites for raping a Young Black. The times said the stand jury specifically will Clear Steven a. Pagonis a dutchess county assistant prosecutor As Well As other Law enforcement officials whom Brawley advisers have accused of participating in the alleged attack. The grand jury concluded that contrary to the teen Ager s claim that she was abducted nov. 24, she had chosen not to return Home and hid for the next four Days in a nearby apartment from which her family had recently been evicted the times said. It said she possibly with the help of an accomplice smeared herself with dog faces wrote racial slurs other body Tore and scorched her clothes and crawled into a garbage bag and pretended to be in a traumatized Daic the newspaper said. The grand jury speculated that she May have feared action against her by her Mother s Boyfriend because of her Lale nights out and that drugs and her relation ships with Shady characters May have played a role the times said. Huge Arsenal of weapons found in n. Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a Security forces found a huge Arsenal of terrorist weapons including a soviet made rocket launcher hidden in under ground bunkers near the Irish Border police said tuesday. The Royal Ulster constabulary said a number of people were arrested for questioning about the arms caches Dis covered on monday and tuesday around Strabane county Tyrone near Northern Ireland s Northwest Border with the Irish Republic. Security forces have found a huge Arsenal of terrorist weapons a police statement said. The haul included a soviet rocket launcher and two warheads More than 1,000 pounds of homemade explosives two soviet made assault rifles one shot gun a Large Quantity of ammunition and magazines detonators explosive fuses and propellant charges police said. The arms had been concealed in 40 gallon Drums that had been welded to Gether and buried in elaborately constructed underground hiding places on a Hillside police said. It is obvious that people within our Community were fully aware of the pres ence of these caches said a police spokesman commenting on condition he would not be identified. Where human life is being taken so frequently it is Long past time that those who arc aware of such activity should act More  the spokesman urged members of the Public to use a confidential Telephone number to report any information about terrorist activities or arms so that "4ivcs can be  last week sir John Harmon head of the Royal Ulster constabulary said the outlawed Irish Republican army has very considerable quantities of very pow Erful weaponry which they have not yet used including surface to air missile. Libya is believed to have supplied the weapons to the Ira for its fight to oust the British from protestant dominated Northern Ireland and unite the province under socialist Rule with the mainly roman Catholic Irish Republic this year a series of Ira attacks i Northern Ireland Mainland Britain and Continental Europe have killed 27 British soldiers while another 20 civilians have died in bungled Ira operations since november. Eleven Ira members have been killed this year. With Only 90 or so Days la Christmas the people at a chocolate Plant in Beeheim Jug Nhem South of serving up Santa Glaus Darmstadt it Busy pumping out Candy Santa clauses. Above i worker displays a Batch of treats. Allies denounce e. German action to foil escape bid Berlin a the three Allied Powers in West Berlin on monday protested the use of Force by communist East German Border guards to foil an escape attempt by two men at the Berlin Wall. Witnesses told police that Border troops fired a warning shot to Slop the men As they ran through fortifications at the Brandenburg Gate in an attempt to reach the West sunday night the two were arrested and led away. West Berlin police  action taken by the East German Border troops is a Clear violation of Basic human rights according to the protest note issued by the British military command. The note was also issued in the name of the United states and France the other two Allied Powers in Westerlin. The methods used to thwart free travel arc an of front against the values of civilized society the pro test note said. Ii demanded that the East German government halt such practices in the future the incident came two weeks alter several escape at tempts were hindered by warning shots or slopped at gun Point. More than 320 people have fled East Germany to West Berlin or West Germany this  Post world War ii treaties Berlin is an inter National City governed by the four nations which Defeated nazi Germany in 1945