European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday october 14,1988 anti crime plan would tag britons released on bail world today Brighton England a the Cabinet min ister in charge of Law and order suggested thursday thai crime could be reduced by putting electronic lags on people freed on bail and by widening a ban on drinking outdoors. Britain s crime rate dominated debate on the second Day of the conservative party s Annas a convention in the Southern coastal resort of convention has been marked by massive Security. When the governing party last met in Brighton in 1984, a bomb planted by the Irish Republic army killed five people and narrowly missed the prime nun government statistics in March indicated a 12 per cent increase in muggings and other violent crime in England and Wales Asl year and an 11 percent in crease in sexual offences. About 3.9 million crimes were reported to police in England and Wales in 1987, up 45,000 from 198fi.Home Secretary Douglas Hurd the Cabinet member in charge of Law and order said the government will attack crime with More police officers a possible wid ening of the Public drinking ban and an electronic tagging Hurd once again rejected capital punishment saying Don t let s get stuck just in this Groove. Capi Tal punishment can t a the answer to All crime or even to violent crime in _ capital punishment was abolished in Britain in 1969, hut an overwhelming majority of conservative delegates raised their hands in favor of its reinstate ment in an unofficial convention poll. Hurd said that if electronic lagging works it could be expanded to Monitor the movements of convicted offenders the apparatus is relatively simple Hurd explained. It looks like an electronic bicycle clip and it works. If this project proves successful then we shall Lake the idea Hattersley Deputy Leader of the socialist opposition labor party on tuesday condemned prime minister Margaret Thatcher s philosophy of individual self Reliance and her determination to reduce whal she Calls the dependency culture based on state Aid. The idea that the tories arc the parly of Law and order is clearly nonsense Halter sly said. The new tory philosophy openly undermine the Rule of Law i is openly the party of callous individual ism. Mrs. Thatcher s values and mrs Thatcher s exam ple lie at the heart of oar increasingly violent society. It is mrs. Thatcher who has encouraged the cult of selfishness he Teddy Taylor a leading Law and order activist on the right Wing of the conservative party called at a fringe meeting in Brighton on tuesday for a crusade on crime backed by stiffer penalties and nine years of conservative government peo ple Are entitled to say the time has come for decisive action he said. Dutch the pit Bull is on the Lam Haarlem Netherlands a dutch the quarantined pit Bull terrier has been sprung from behind bars adding yet another wrinkle to a dog cat dog soap opera thai Nas gripped this nation s pet lovers for a week. The Media circus around the Case pitied a prominent District court judge against a housewife claiming dutch acted justifiably when it bit a Small Lemer to death last june. The life and deals Issue of whether dutch should die for his crime had been overshadowed by judg Cornelia Terwee s tuesday ruling that dutch be taken from his owner and placed in a new Home. But before Hal could happen dutch was spirited away from his detention in an Amsterdam Kennel by someone Wield ing wire Cullers. Dutch has become a cause cell arc not because of h is victim but because of his own confinement and re Prieve from death. Dutch s owner 28-year-old Saskia Van poet run was interviewed tuesday on dutch television news As she sobbed outside the courthouse Over the confiscation order. He was just the cutest Little thing she said. I was sure i d get him publicity for dutch s Case began Early last week on the Pel lovers television program animal manners. Even the nation s newspaper of record inc authoritative arc Handeli Blad published an article on dutch s trial under the Tongue in Cheek headline judges chewing Over pit Bull Case Van poet Cren claimed she was t involved in the breakout but said she did receive an Anonymous Tele phone Call Laic tuesday assuring her dutch was Safe. The gentleman just said. Don t worry ill be All right with Dulc she said. The dutch animal Protection league estimates there Are 8,000 to 10,000 pit bulls in the Netherlands. Highly publicized attacks by the aggressive dogs have prompted repealed Law enforcement Call for mandatory gained nationwide prominence last july for dealing out an unusually Tough by dutch standards 20-year prison sentence to the confessed Lud Nap killer of grocery tycoon Gerrit Jan Heijn Saskia ran poet run holds a picture of her impounded pit Bull dutch who was broken out of a Tunnel wednesday. At least 13 people die As boat capsizes in India new Delhi India a a boat capsized a River in inc Northern slate of Punjab and at rail 13 people drowned. United news of India reported thursday. The Accident occurred in fro Zurc District late wednesday the news Agency said. The boat carry no 35 people overturned in a River Between Heil Lages of Hidar Pindi and Ca Suwala about 220 Miles Northwest of new Delhi the Agency said. The remaining passengers were rescued the Agency said. 1 killed 4 injured in crash of Light plane at Clark a Manila Philippines upi1 a civilian Light air plane crashed upon Landing Ai Clark a North of Manila thursday killing one person and injuring he other four on Board , air Force officials said. The injured were being treated at the 13th air Force medical Center at Clark said Bast spokes Man maj. Wayne Crisp Crist said the Domestic flight an air com Mand 500 operated by Pacific airways crashed while attempting to land shortly before 9 . At the South end of inc main runway of the sprawl ing base 50 mites North of the capital. He could not immediately say where the plane was coming from or the purpose of the flight but said non military planes normally land at Clark to carry civilian base personnel or ferry supplies to the base. 1,000-Pound Wii bomb defused off English coast Portsmouth England a Royal Navy explosives experts defused a 1,000-Pound world War ii bomb brought up by a Dredger operating off England s Southern coast the German bomb washed up on the Dredger Swansea Bay with nose Cone and primers still intact said chief Petty officer Paul Leader who x1commmandcd the four person disposal team. The bomb was Loo Large to move from the Dredger. Leader said so the Swansea Bay s Crew moved to the far end of he vessel while the disposal learn opened the canister and removed 200 pounds of Igli explosive. The bomb was rendered harmless in a con trolled Cip Lusion. Arabs jews pledge Aid in restoring Spanish City Toledo Spain a Arab ambassadors have agreed to help save this City which served for centuries As the meeting ground for moslem jewish and Christian cultures mayor Jose Man Uel Molina said. Molina said the ambassadors from Syria saudi Arabia Egypt Morocco Lebanon Mauri Tania the uni ice Arab emirates. Jordan Libya and the Arab league agreed to discuss their assistance next month in Madrid. The Toledo foundation seeks restoration of the medieval heart of the City 40 Miles Southwest of Madrid in time for 1992, when Toledo will be the site of a yearlong commemoration of Spain s a cultural past. Britain closing base nazis blasted in vain British fighters from Biggin hoi and other bases wore Down he Luftwaffe in daily Battles Over Southern eng land is crowds on the ground gathered outdoors in Bright sunnier Sunshine to gaze up at the Savage dogfights. On wednesday Roger Freeman a Junior undersecretary it the defense ministry said the Raf would soon dote Down the Biggin Hill base. The Raf stopped firing at Biggin to wine out British air defense ahead of Hill la 1959 and turned it into an officer a anticipated Deabone in Aston. And air Crew selection Center. Freeman London a a government Economy drive has succeeded where Hermann Goering and the might of the nazi air fora failed in world War n and Breed the Koyal air Force to Clos Down operations at its Biggin Hiu air base to font Hern England. Biggin Hill bore the Brunt of German att Acet during the Battle of Britain fro july to october 1940 when Goering Adolf Hitler s air chief tried but failed Dutte Seabor despite major losses hmm by of Utu said the Center was to More to the Raf College it Charmell in Eastern England As part of our continuing search for Economy and the Battle of Britain ended when the germans called off their attacks aimed at destroying of Yghi Hill the other air bases and other air defense installations and shelved their invasion plans. During tie three month Battle the briton backed by an efficient Early warning system based on the newly Dis covered principle of radar bad 700lighters against Germany s 2,800 plants. Saying tribute to the Battle if Britain pliers wartime Leader Stettn Churchill declared in 1wo, never la the Field of human conflict Rock owed by so Many to to Ai he air Battles raged Mohea. Ground own Laboured to repair fee data age inflicted m the bases of the Ger mans so hut the British Btu ten cd Hind again. Biggin hid pioneered new Coon Nic Allon Between aircraft and grow Cen trial and the Raf said Tea statin nay to be the forerunner of tar
