European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday october 24,1988 12,000 officers pay tribute to 2 slain . Policemen new York a twelve thousand Law officers stood at attention saturday outside a Church where funeral mass was held for two City policemen shot in separate incidents within hours of each other. Busloads of new York City police officers their Shields draped with Black mourning bands were joined outside the Church by colleagues from around the state and from Massachusetts new Jersey and Connecticut. They stood 10 deep filling More than six blocks of the Bay Ridge neighbourhood of Brooklyn. Hundreds of civilians also stood behind police barricades surround ing the Church. Christopher Hoban 26, an undercover officer from Bay Ridge was shot in the head and Chest tuesday night during a Manhattan drug raid. Michael Buczek 24, a highly decorated Street officer who lived in Suffern was killed less than three hours later while he and his partner pursued a suspect in Harlem. We will never turn this City Over to those demons of death who would take All our lives for a few coins of Gold police commissioner Benjamin Ward told the mourners. Department officials called in the largest police Fune ral in City history. It also was the first time in the department s history that a double funeral had been held for officers killed in separate incidents. There was silence when two hearses arrived Bro Ken by the slow beat of Drums from the police band. A Lone Bagpiper played amazing Grace while the Flag covered caskets were carried up the Church Steps. The mourners included mayor Edward i. Koch . Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan a new York . Attorney Rudolph Giuliani Manhattan Borough president David Dinkins Queens Borough president Claire Shulman and City Council president Andrew Stein at one Point during the funeral Koch held his head in his hands and appeared to be sobbing. The social contract even with criminals was Al ways that you did t kill cops Koch said later in a address to mourners. Now hey go out of their Way to kill cops role of abuse cited in runaways Storrs Conn. Up children who runaway often have suffered More abuse at Home than on the streets a University of Connecticut study said saturday. The study concluded that most runaway children arc physically or sexually abused at Home and suggested Many do not return Home because they find less abuse on the Sirc cts. Sixty seven percent of the male and female run away children interviewed at covenant House in Toronto said they were abused after running away while 86 percent said they had been abused at Home. The Rev Mark David Janus a Catholic priest and graduate assistant in psychology at the univer sity of Connecticut said runaway children arc not confined As they Are at Home and the perpetrator can be avoided. Nearly All the female runaways interviewed said they had. Been physically abused before leaving Home and nearly one in three children said they had been threatened with a weapon at least once while at Home. More than one in 10 children said they had been intentionally burned or hit hard enough at Home to require Hospital treatment and sexual abuse was common the study said. The study was commissioned by the Toronto shelter and done by Janus and Francis x. Archam Baull head of the University s educational psychology unit and doctoral student Lesley Walsh. Resca Chers who announced the results of the study did not disclose the number of children inter viewed. The study results showed that one in three run away children said they posed for photographs while having sex and nearly half said they had been offered Money for sex. Only 29 percent of the youths were living with both of their natural parents when they ran away the first Lime the study found. Janus who has worked with runaways in Boston said previous research has indicated children in single Parent families face a greater risk of abuse because of the greater pressures on those families. Computer Saboteur fined $ 11,800 fort Worth Texas a the first person convicted in the United Stales of using a virus to sabotage computer records has been ordered to pay is 1.800 in restitution to the company thai fired him. The felony conviction of Donald Gene Burleson 40, on Texas slate charges of harmful Access to a computer could pave the Way for similar prosecutions of people who use viruses or rogue computer programs that can destroy information before they re detected a prosecutor said. Burleson was convicted sept. 19 of the third de Gree felony. As far As i know it s the first Case of this Type in the nation said Tarrant county assistant District attorney Davis Mccown. Burleson had no comment at sentencing. His Law yer. Jack Beech said he would Appeal. Mccown said Al the trial last month that Burle son planted the virus to avenge his firing from spa an insurance company. Spa already has been awarded $12,000 by a jury in a civil suit against Burleson. Hodel proposes 2,000 of cuts new York a Interior Secretary Donald Model has recommended cutting 2,000 jobs in his 69,000-Cmptoyce department according to a report in the new York times sunday editions. An internal memorandum disclosed that Model pro poses the cuts to Start a year from now when a new admins ration will be in office. The plan is to turn Many of those jobs Over to Pri vate contractors according to the newspaper which said in obtained the memo from sources outside the government. More than 500 of the proposed cuts would be made in the National Park service the times said. The proposal Calls for a study of the feasibility of turning Over to the private sector such jobs As Orienta Tion services for Park visitors and Park maintenance. The proposal also suggests turning the map making function of the . Geological Survey Over to private Enterprise the times said. The memo was written by Richard Ventura the assistant Interior Secretary for policy budget and administration. A department spokesman Alan Levitt said a Sec Ond memorandum stressed that no employees would be forced to retire. The positions Are expected to be lost through nor Mal attrition he said. Kangaroo attacks Man Melbourne Australia a a Man required 30 stitches after being attacked by a Kangaroo at a popular camping area. Shaun Fizpatrick 36, said the Kangaroo pounced on him when he fed bread to about five of the marsupials at grampians National Park in Victoria. Stateside judge allows Yule scene at City Hall in Michigan Warren Mich. A a Holiday display that feature a nativity scene and hanukkah mcmoran May be displayed on the City Hall Lawn because it create no real danger of establishing a stale Church a Feder Al judge has ruled. The american civil liberties Union says it will a peal the Rul ing but will await the . Supreme court s decision on a similar Case involving the City of pills Burgh. The Acle contends thai he display contains religious symbols and violates the first amendment s separation of Church and stale. . District judge James Harvey ruled dial War Ren s Christmas display docs no endorse it particular religion. In december . District judge Lawrence zat Kolt denied a motion by the Acle to remove the display saying he found the display secular in nature. The display also incorporates the City s Vietnam memorial. Candy bars in 22 states recalled by frito Lay Dallas a frito Lay inc. Is voluntarily re Call ing 1,576 cases of its Peanut Suiter bars in 22 slates West of the Mississippi River after testing Dis covered the possibility of Salmonella contamination the company said saturday. The products have Date codes of "19 dec 88" and "26 dec 88" on the front of the package and May have reached store shelves in the past few Days a company statement said. Officials of the Federal food and drug admin Stra Tion have been notified the company said. The limited recall was described As a precaution and frito Lay said chances of anyone becoming ill from eating the bars is believed to be Remote. Sat Mon Ella Batena have been known to produce food Poison ing and similar intestinal illnesses. The Stales covered by the recall Are Arizona Arkan Sas California Colorado Idaho Iowa Kansas Louisi Ana Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada new Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Texas Utah Washington and Wyom ing Dpi suspect ordered to receive acupuncture Boulder Colo. A a judge has ordered a Man facing his fifth Drunken driving charge to undergo acupuncture in an attempt to overcome a drinking problem that his lawyer says has resisted conventional treatment. I m not sure if acupuncture works but it s obvious nothing else works with you Boulder county judge Thomas Reed told John Ball 31. Reed issued he order at the request of Public do fender Cary Lacklen who believes acupuncture can help fight substance abuse. Reed also ordered Ball to use antabuse a drug that reacts violently with alcohol in a person s body to ensure that he does no More drinking. Family offers $ 1 million for hit run Driver s name West Palm Beach Fla. A relative of a Man killed in a hit and run Accident Are offering As much Assi million to anyone with information Lead ing to the Driver s identity. But the family says that before it can pay off in first must win a s6 Milton lawsuit against lie Driver. His identity apparently is known Only to hims of and his lawyer who has won court permission to keep it Teartt because of lawyer client privilege. Thai lawsuit is pending in Palm Beach county Cir Cuit court while state and private investigator continue trying to track Down the Driver of the car. The suit was filed in february Over the March 1986 crash that killed Mark Baltes in Palm Beach. Attorney Barry Krischer says the Driver approached him for counsel the Day after the Accident and the attorney has steadfastly refused to publicly identify him
