European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The Rolls Royce experience stripes Magazine d foreign Utility vehicle Tariff soars in Page 5 d Randy Barnett s car Corner Page 13 d 49ers Rice expected to play sports Page 17 Trade deficit jumps in nov. Washington a the . Trade deficit wid ened dramatically to $12.5 billion in november the largest imbalance in five months the government re ported wednesday. The Commerce department said the Gap betwee what the United states imports and what it Sells Over seas was 21.9 percent higher than the october deficit of $10.3 billion. The sharply higher deficit was blamed on a big jump i imports which shot up to $39.7 billion $ 1.6 billion above the october level. Exports which have been booming this year declined by $639 million to $27.2 billion. The november deficit was the largest since a $13.2billion imbalance in june. In the past a Sharp worsening of the nation s Trad performance has sent Shock Waves through financial markets. Analysts said however that the new report May not have As dramatic an Impact because it had been widely forecast. Even with the november deterioration the Trade deficit for the first 11 months of 1988 was running at an annual rate of $137.3 billion almost 20 percent below the All time record imbalance of $170.3 billion set in 1987. This big improvement in Trade has been largely re see deficit on Back Page rioting rages anew in Miami Miami a rioters set fires and looted stores Early wednesday As 700 police officers poured into two Black neighbourhoods arresting hundreds in an attempt to halt two Days of racial violence in which three people have died. The violence eased toward Dawn enabling Policeto reduce their presence. The riots which began monday night in the Overtown Section after a Black motorcyclist was shot to death by a police officer there spread tothe Liberty City neighbourhood tuesday. The violence which broke out As Miami made final preparations for sunday s super bowl forced the cancellation of a National basketball Asso see Miami on Back Page the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. No. 274 thursday january 19, 1989 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a killer s past probed As students return wounded children receive attention following a gunman s attack at Cleveland elementary in Stockton Calif. Stockton Calif. A stunned elementary school students returned to classes wednesday one Day after a Young drifter with a Rifle opened fire on schoolyard jammed with laughing children killing five and wounding 29 pupils and a teacher before commit Ting suicide. Patrick Edward Purdy wearing a military flak jacket and earplugs shot a fatal Bullet in his head after firing up to 110 rounds from a soviet designed ak-47 As Sault Rifle at hundreds of youngsters during recess at Cleveland elementary school on tuesday. The five slain were children of refugees from Southeast Asia. Related stories photos on Page 3. Purdy who had a Long criminal record attended the school from kindergarten through third Grade from 1969 to 1973, school officials said wednesday. There was no apparent motive for the shootings. Children returning to the Campus wednesday were greeted by bouquets atop the school sign on the front Lawn and five red roses at its base. Across the Street a3-foot-by-9-foot paper sign read racists Are ugly let s Stop there was no indication that racism was involved in the attack however. Purdy 26, who most recently listed his grandmother address in Lodi Calif., As Home began his assault shortly a a before noon when he parked his station Wagon behind the school. The car burst into flames in a fire possibly set As a diversion Deputy police chief Lucian Neely the 5-foot-ll, 140-Pound killer entered the Campus through a Hole in a Fence with his Bayonet equipped semiautomatic Rifle and two handguns and walked to several portable classrooms about 250 Yard from the a shaped main building. He opened fire from the West Side of the portable buildings then moved tothe East Side and continued spraying the screaming children before turning his 9mm handgun on capt. Dennis Perry said the gunman wore a flak jacket jeans and a shirt bearing the words death to the great Satin an apparent reference to satan and a phrase used by iranian fundamentalists to refer tothe United states. The Fri was trying to determine if Purdy had a military background. During a search of Purdy s Motel room police roundabout 100 plastic toy soldiers tanks and jeeps spread across the floor in formations Perry said. Obviously he had a military hang up of som kind Perry said. He was just standing there with a gun making wide sweeps recalled Lori Mackey who teaches deaf Stu dents in one of the portable classrooms at the school see students on Back Page
