European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday january 5, 1989 2 hostages gunman killed during shoot out with police Loveland Colo. A a prison parolee demanding a plane to Libya grabbed about 20 hostages in a restaurant and killed one before he was fatally shot by police officials said wednesday. Police accidentally killed an other hostage during the incident. Wayne Strozzi of Larimer county also wounded two officers before he died of gunshot wounds to the head and Abdomen at Mckee medical Center late tues Day authorities said. Strozzi recently paroled from the state prison in Canon City first assaulted his Girlfriend at her apartment in Loveland 50 Miles North of Denver and then went to his nearby House where police followed him and chased him on foot to the rive House restaurant on . Highway 34, said police sgt. Ray Miller. At the restaurant Strozzi held about 20 of the patrons and staff at gunpoint for about an hour demanding a plane to Libya Miller said. Strozzi. In his Early 30s. Was apparently angered that his Girlfriend had begun dating another Man while he was in prison police said. He had served 2 /2 years on cocaine charges. Sally Mills a waitress at the restaurant and Fenton Crookshank a customer were killed said Larimer county District attorney Stu Vanmeveren. Mills in her 40s, was shot by Strozzi As snipers fired on the gunman Vanmeveren said. She died later at the Hospital. Crookshank. 31. Was killed at the scene by a Loveland police officer when he Dove through a restau rant window in an attempt to flee he said. Vanmeveren refused to name the officer who shot Crookshank. Another woman hostage was treated and released for lacerations on her foot caused by shattered Glass authorities said. Police officer Joe Berdin and Larimer county sheriffs Deputy j. Hirokawa were being treated at the Hospital for gunshot wounds to the arms said Carol Matheis Kraft assistant Hospital administrator. Ber Din was in Good condition and Hirokawa was treated and released. The trouble began at 6 45 . When police in this City of 30,000 people responded to a disturbance at the Home of Strozzi s Girlfriend Miller said. Steve and Belva Bethel carry their three children to Freedom. After fleeing to his House Strozzi was chased to the restaurant where he took the hostages and readied a getaway car. As he walked outside holding his Semi automatic pistol to the head of diner Belva Bethel he spotted officer Berdin in the parking lot and shot him in the shoulder. Strozzi then pulled the woman Back into the restau rant at gunpoint and started making demands. One of the hostages was Bethel s husband Steve Bethel a 32-year-old Reserve officer with the Loveland police department who said he cooperated and tried not to intimidate the gunman. I could t Tell if he was drunk but he was on some kind of drug i know that Steve Bethel said. Miller said police backed off to keep Strozzi from killing More people. They backed off Miller said. They did t want to go in there and Start a shooting  at 9 05 ., while police were conducting the hour Long negotiations by megaphone Strozzi shot the wait Ress in the Chest and thighs Miller said. Swat team snipers from both departments then opened fire shooting Strozzi at least three times in the head and Abdomen. He died in surgery two hours later. Strozzi had released about half a dozen hostages before shooting Mills. Among those allowed to leave were Bethel her husband three Small children and a elderly Man police said. Stateside b Nai b Rith awards Shultz prize for anti terrorism new York a the anti defamation league of b Nai b Rith will Honor Secretary of state George p. Shultz with its Klinghoffer award for combating terrorism. Shultz will receive the award in june. The award is Given by the league s Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer memorial foundation started after Leon Klinghoffer was shot to death by palestinian terrorists who seized the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985. In a statement Friday the couple s children Lisa and Lisa Klinghoffer cited Shultz s courageous decision to deny Palestine liberation Organiza Tion Leader Yasser Arafat a visa to address the . General Assembly in new York. Blaze goes ape at Park engulfs statue of Gorilla Virginia Beach a. A a fire Visi ble a mile away consumed a 40-foot-tall Gorilla statue at the Entrance to the wild water rapids water Park tuesday authorities said. It burned and blacked his face hands and hair fire department capt. Michael Brown said. I be said House fire Structure fire and car fire but this Call was a new one fully involved  Brown said the cause of the fire which Enve loped the statue from the ape s toes to at least 10 feet above its head was under investigation. It was like a 50-foot Guy totally engulfed in flame Brown said. He estimated the 4,200-Pound steel Styro foam and fibreglass statue was Worth $ 10,000. Boat blast fire destroy 50 yachts on Texas Lake Clear Lake shores Texas a workers plucked pieces of boats from Clear Lake where an explosion and a Chain reaction fire destroyed at least 50 yachts in the Harbor. The explosion was aboard a pleasure boat moored at the watergate yachting Center. The sub sequent Blaze was brought under control about two hours later after spreading to dozens of boats. Watergate Harbor master Tony Buchanon said bystanders first tried to push the boat away from the pier but the wind brought it Back. Between 50 and 60 boats were destroyed said Buchanon and chief Frank Janoch of the Kemah fire department. Buchanon estimated damage at Between $2 million and $4 million. Teen critical after eating cyanide tainted Yogurt Trenton no. A brevets to critical condition Early we hip hav Cash a Anft to re i j Breyer Gurt is being withdrawn from stores in new Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware after cyanide was found in a Container of Yogurt that made a teen Ager critically ill tuesday authorities said. Investigators in Camden county however called the incident an isolated Case of tampering because tests on More than 100 similar Yogurt containers found no sign of cyanide which can be fatal in Small doses. Tests by the . Food and drug administration in Philadelphia confirmed the pres ence of cyanide in the Breyer Yogurt con Tainer late tuesday. Thomas Lee 17, of Haddonfield was in critical y wednesday said Florence Rowe a nursing super Var at West Jersey health system s Eastern division in Voorhees. There were no other reported ill Nesses. The cyanide was found in an 8-ounce Container of Breyer Black Cherry Yogurt with the code Date feb. 9,1989. Officials say the Yogurt was purchased Jan. 1 at an Acme supermarket in Westmont in Southern new Jersey. Acme markets inc., in cooperation with Kraft has voluntarily issued a recall of All flavors of Breyer Yogurt from All 166 Acme stores in the Delaware Valley said Walt Rubel spokesman for Acme in Malvern a. Kraft inc. Dairy group based in Phila Delphia owns Breyer Yogurt. The Dela Ware Valley generally is considered Southern new Jersey Southeastern Pennsylvania an Delaware. Acme also has removed All other Yogurt from five of its Camden county stores the state health department said. George Kerns a spokesman for the Cam Den county prosecutor s office said the cyanide appeared to have been on the top of the Yogurt and not stirred in. He said tests of 130 other samples of Yogurt removed from the Acme stores found no contamination. Kraft said the office is cooperating with the food and drug administration and local Law enforcement and Public health authorities in the investigation. The company said Breyer Yogurt pack Ages have a tamper evident Seal. Kerns said Lee s Mother had purchased a Batch of Yogurt from the store and two other containers had been eaten without any Side effects. Lee became ill while eating the Yogurt on his Way to school with friends. He had eaten about a third of the con Tainer when he began vomiting blood Kern said. The worst known Case of cyanide Tam Pering in the country occurred in 1982, when seven people in the Chicago area died after consuming tainted tylenol. A. A Vaj Baumm uti Nicu Lyie Noi Case of a or drowned while training not Over yet Pensacola. Fla. Map the Nelv Ailor Cut to eolo  a a  _ i. I Pensacola Fla. A the Only Sailor sent to Sac Ola naval air station after several instructors the Brig Tor the drowning of a recruit during Rescue pushed him Back in the water when he panicked and swimmer Tramine has Jvn rpm pm hut a path re c climbed out shouting that he wanted to quit the voluntary training. The Job of a Rescue swimmer is to jump out of helicopters to Aid downed fliers. Combe was accused of repeatedly forcing Mirecki Shead under water. Other students said they were ordered to face away from Mirecki and sing the Star spangled Banner while he was in the water with Combe. Training Bee released by neither his Case nor the debate Over the Navy s practices is Over. A court martial in september convicted Petty offi cer 3rd class Michael Combe 28, of negligent Homi cide and conspiracy to commit Battery in the death of airman recruit Lee Mirecki 19. Combe s 90-Day sentence would have been up . 21, and he was released about two weeks Early for Good behaviour said cmdr. Dennis Hessler a spokesman for the Pensacola based naval education and training come. He also was reduced in rank one Grade. Mirecki drowned March 2 in a training Pool at pen Combe of Tempe ariz., is on leave but has been attached to the Pensacola base s facilities maintenance department pending further action on his Case Hessler said. It is unlikely he will return to the Rescue swimmer school he said. To martians verdict will not be final until i by vice adm. John s. Disher chief of naval education and training. Disher who could approve or reject the decision has yet to receive a transcript of the Case and Hessler said it would be at least a month More before the Admiral decides. At that Point Combe can Appeal to the judge advocate general s office in Washington . His lawyers have said they intend to Appeal if the Admiral upholds the decision. Once the Admiral s review is Complete Combe s com uld recommend to the naval military Washington that the Sailor receive an one reason allowed for an ado a � w%7vrit a ulv thu 1w1 till a Niht v Large is conviction of a felony which would include negligent homicide Hessler said