European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 23, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 puerto Rico honors dead american a of Utuado puerto Rico a hundreds of puerto Picans paid their last respects saturday to maj. Fernando Ribas Dominicci a . Air Force Pilot killed in the 1986 raid on Libya. Ribas Dominicci s remains arrived in his puerto rican Hometown Friday after they were handed Over by Libya to a Vatican intermediary in Rome Jan. 13. Hundreds of men women and children filed bythe closed coffin of Ribas Dominicci in the Jorge Gonzalez sports stadium. Among the visitors were several members of the puerto rican legislature mayors family friends and residents of Utuado a Small town located in the Coo mountains of Central puerto Rico. Utuado mayor Jesus Lugo Montalvo said he would ask the municipal Council to approve an order changing the name of san Jose Avenue to Fernando Ribas Dominicci Avenue. Ribas Dominicci was to be buried sunday in Utu do s san Andres cemetery. Several Al 1 if fighters the Type of plane he flew were expected to Fly Over the cemetery during the burial ceremony. The puerto rican government declared three Days of National mourning beginning Friday in Honor of the Pilot. Libya initially had identified the body As that of the other Pilot killed in the raid capt. Paul Lorunce 31, of san Francisco. Both men were in the same f-11 if fighter plane assigned to the 48th tac fighter Wing at Raf Lakenheath that was lost during . Raid on Tripoli and Benghazi. An estimated 40 libyans were killed in the raid. The body was returned during a period of International debate Over a libyan Plant the United states says is intended to produce chemical weapons an nine Days after . Fighters shot Down two libyan jets Over the Mediterranean. Somber funeral reminds Miami of week s rioting by news Aymami the life of Allen Blanchard was remembered saturday As being filled with love and compassion for Mankind. Blanchard 24, was one of two me who died in the incident that sparked disturbances in Black neighbourhoods Here. Delivering a Eulogy at St. Mary s Ca thedral the Rev. Gerard la Cerra said Allen was one of those Young men who was Able to let love Shine through them. He had the ability to find humor in the negative things of life. His sense of humor and laughter was  150 people friends relatives sympathizer and journalists attended the mass of resurrection for Blanchard at the Spanish style Cathedral in North West Miami. Blanchard 24, died tuesday of head injuries he sustained when he was thrown from a motorcycle after a Miami police officer shot the Driver and the vehicle collided with an approaching  incident triggered three Days of Vio Lence in Miami s Black  prevailed in the neighbourhoods saturday. Elsewhere parties and hoopla for sunday s super bowl dominated and police worked on tight Security arrange ments at Joe Robbie stadium. Blanchard s Mother Edith Eddy sobbed intermittently throughout the service. She stood close to his Silver col ored casket covered by a White cloth. As the eight pallbearers carried Blan Chard s casket Down the aisle the Mother began to Wail her cries seeming to grow louder with each step. Allen Allen she screamed As the procession stepped outside. I love  shortly after the service the Rev. Al a casket with the body of Allen Blanchard is carried into St. Mary s Cathedral in Miami. His family follows in the background. A Sharpton and lawyer c. Vernon Mason who earlier had walked through Over town where the rioting began answered critics who had denounced their arrival As outsider meddling. Sharpton said he was not Here to Star trouble because trouble is already Here and has been  he suggested that sunday super bowl should have been cancelled in memory of the two dead Black men. Sharpton and Mason were forced toehold their press conference in a Small vacant lot across the Street from the Community Center where they had planned to give it because the Center was closed i anticipation of an unrelated cultural performance saturday night. Only a handful of supporters showed up and a shouting match broke out be tween them and several persons who objected to the new yorkers presence. Sales tax increase to finance san Antonio stadium san Antonio a a proposal to increase the Bexar county sales tax from 7.5 percent to 8 percent Over the next five years to finance a $ 174 million domed stadium won an easy Victory in a referendum saturday. The countywide vote for the dome was 93,091, or 53percent, for to 82,612, or 47 percent against and culminated an 18-month Battle involving City officials businessmen and grass roots groups Over the proposal. I think we were outspent and out advertised. We were just outperformed said a leading opponent of the project . Stubbs president of the homeowners taxpayers association. We re going to go from Here no cry baby speeches Stubbs said. We Are disappointed but we will fight another  about 31 percent of the county s 566,000 registered voters turned out for the election warm sunny weather. There Are 1.2 million people in the county. San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros who leaves of fice in May after eight years As mayor and six As a City councilman led the pro dome factions that said the65,000-seat stadium would help the City increase its $1.5 billion tourism Industry by luring bigger conventions and attracting new hotels. The possibility of using the stadium to attract professional sport team was discussed but that was overshadowed by talk of boosting convention an tourist business. Today is an affirmation by the people of Bexar county of the vision of the future that they want for this area and that is the real Victory of what occurred today Cisneros told about 500 supporters at a hotel ballroom saturday night. The Rev. Rosendo Urrabazo a of chairman of the grass roots organization communities organized for Public service was among the leading opponents of the tax increase. Cisneros Urrabazo and others debated the Issue attorn meetings and on television. Urrabazo and other opp9nents said the private Sec Tor should take Over financing of the stadium and said any tax increase should be used for educational pro Grams and Basic services. This stadium is not a vision for the future. It s Astep backward Urrabazo said. Sex klan Leader tops Field to qualify for Runoff new Orleans a former Kun flux klan Leader David Duke led a Field of seven candidates saturday to Advance to a Runoff election for a Louisiana state House seat representing a mostly White suburban District. Duke 38, former Imperial wizard of the knights of the Kun flux klan had 3,995 votes or 33 percent. He ran As a Republican but under Louisiana s open primary system All candidates run on the same ballot regardless of party. The klan is far behind me but the Effort for equal rights for everybody is ahead of me Duke said saturday night. I think when i win this race you a find candidates across the state and across the country beginning to walkabout the issues i m raising said Duke whose Campaign platform included such racial issues As welfare Reform to reduce Black births. I think this is the begin Ning of a change in this  Duke will meet fellow Republican John Treen in the feb. 18 Runoff. Treen,62, brother of Louisiana s first Republican governor since reconstruction Casein second with 2,277 votes or 19 per cent. David Treen served four years a governor beginning in 1980. In Louisiana the top two vote getters go into a Runoff election if no one wins a majority. Delton Charles a Republican member of the Jefferson Parish school Board was third with 2,011 votes or 17 percent. Treen and Charles both Drew endorse ments from High profile politicians. Four other candidates split the remainder of the vote. They were demo crat Budd glister 1,150, or 10 percent Republican Roger Villefeu 1,142, or 9 percent Republican Ron Courtade 791,or 7 percent and Democrat Bobby Savoie 697, or 6 percent. The special election was to fill a sea vacated by Charles Cusimano who be came a state judge