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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 31, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 French songwriter Charles Aznavour right joins a throng of entertainment stars in a rendition of for you Armenia a song he composed to help raise funds for victims of a killer earthquake in the soviet Republic. Show bus Ness stars Combine talents in Benefit for armenian quake victims los Angeles up a Host of entertainment personalities joined voices sunday to record for you Armenia along written by French Singer Charles Aznavour to raise Money for the victims of the devastating earthquake in that so Viet Republic. Liza Minnelli Rita Coolidge Case Kasem Ben Vereen Shari Belafonte Dionne Warwick and cast members of the television series "l.a. Law were among the 75 entertainers who took part in the session at Paramount studios which was also filmed for a planned television Spe Cial said Joel Cohen executive producer of the project dubbed Friend to  Aznavour said the Hollywood entertainment Community responded enthusiastically to the project. This Opportunity to help the victims of one of the most devastating natural disasters in this Century cannot be ignored and we intend to make a differ ence he said. My involvement is because the Earth quake is something that s pretty close to Home Belafonte said. I would like to think that if something like that happened to me someone would reach out to  Aznavour who is of armenian de scent contacted Cohen about the project after completing a similar one in France. Aznavour s original song for you Armenia with music by George Garya Rentz was translated into english1 with help from songwriters Paul Williams and Gerry Goffin. All sales proceeds will go to the arme Nian Relief society to Aid victims of the . 7 earthquake that killed an Esti mated 25,000 people. Michael Mahdesian spokesman forthe Relief society said his organization has sent More than 40 tons of supplies tothe earthquake s victims and predicted that the entertainers Effort will have great emotional Impact on the survivors. Michael Masser who has worked with Diana Ross and Whitney Houston served As producer for the recording an Peter Bogdanovich directed the filming of the one hour television special which will also be packaged for release on video. Radio personality Kasem called the project a reflection of the times. What we Are reflecting is the mind set of All people today Kasem said. Believe that peace is breaking out All Over the world and that people Are interested in  5 slayings boost . Past record by the Washington pos Washington january became the deadliest month on record in the nation s capital sunday with the fatal shootings of five persons in a 24-Hourperiod that started late saturday night. The killings brought the homicide total Here this month to 49, five More than the previous monthly record. At the present Pace District of Columbia homicides would exceed 600 for the year. The District last year recorded 372 homicides surpassing Detroit As having the highest murder rate in the  of the victims of the wave of Vio Lence was a 15-year-old, shot Early Sun Day. In the latest of the incidents a Man and a woman were killed sunday night apparently by Shotgun blasts inside a recently renovated townhouse near the Northern Edge of Capitol  the double homicide the victims were found on the ground floor of Thero House in Northeast Washington. Police were called to the bloody scene aftera passer by reported hearing shots about 8 45  woman who had been shot in the upper Chest was found in a  Man who had been shot in the face was found face Down in a front room of what was described As an expensively furnished  victim was immediately Iden  helicopter was used in an apparently unsuccessful search for a weapon used in the killings.. Police officials declined to com ment sunday on the latest homicide re Cord. Police chief Maurice t. Turnerjr. And assistant chief Isaac Fulwood or. Were expected to unveil a proposal for dealing with the escalating violence at a news conference this week according Toa department spokesman. In an interview Friday Fulwood said the City s raging drug Trade continues Tobe responsible for most of the gunplay. It s just alarming to me that we can have so Many people who Don t have any respect for human life he  s not that the police department is not trying. We re making arrests by the  Bufo experts tempers flare Over lights in sky Gulf Breeze Fla. Up ufos experts Are debating in what one participant called a shouting match the authenticity of photographs of an eerie cylindrical object glowing in the night sky Over the Florida Panhandle town of Gulf Breeze. More than 135 residents in the past 18 month shave reported seeing a strange Craft hovering in skies Over the town the Tampa Tribune reported sunday. One resident asked to be identified Only ased has produced photographs showing a cylindrical Craft ringed with lights and what May be windows. The pictures have sparked a Battle Between to ouzo investigating groups. The Mutual ufos net work a 20-year-old group of scientists and Layman researchers believes de s pictures Are real. The Cen Ter for ufos studies a non profit group founded by the late astronomer j. Allen Hynek does not. The network cites a 90-Page study by Navy physicist Bruce Maccabee who says de could not have fabricated such convincing photographs. A professional magician would have a difficult time doing this he said. The Center relies on its researchers and on Robert Nathan of Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory. He said the photos show glaring inconsistencies typical of double exposures. Mark Rodeghier of the Center for ufos studies said the Case has deteriorated into a shouting match Between the two groups and that the net work s endorsement of the pictures biased Macca Bee s study. Except those intimately connected with the net work 90 percent of serious ufos researchers think Gulf Breeze is a hoax Rodeghier said. But residents of the town of 6,000 think they know what they saw. I was exhilarated said Brenda Pollak a Cit Council member who claimed to see a Large lighted Craft twice in one night last Spring Over Pensacola Bay. I can Tell you now for every one person who has reported seeing the Craft there Are 10 who talk about it but Don t want anyone to  too fast Granny police could t beat the Stork Forestville my. Up the Maryland state police stopped a soon to be grandmother for driving almost twice the Speed limit on the capital Beltway but they could t Stop Little Kenneth Richard Gray Iii from finding his Way into the world in the front seat of her car. Angela Maria Lee went into labor just after 1 . Thursday while she was watching television with her Mother at a Maryland apartment just outside the nation s capital. They got. Into the car but did t make it to the Hospital in time. Mom was driving like crazy with one  using the other  to help me get my pants off because i could feel the baby s head starting to drop Lee said. She kept saying hold on hold on and then we see this police car in the rear View  then within a very tense 38 minutes she was cradling her healthy 7-Pound baby boy in her arms on the shoulder of the Beltway. It s just so amazing that he was healthy and that nothing was wrong with him arid that we did of for having him in the car Lee said. State trooper Avon Stevens later said he had noticed a Gray Mercury Cougar clipping along the Beltway at a Cool 100 Mph stopped the car and was planning to hit the Driver with a $505 Fine. The Beltway Speed limit is 55 Mph. Instead he gave the grandmother Joan Delores Lee some blankets and rubber gloves and soon after Kenneth made his debut. Trooper Stevens never wrote that speeding ticket  
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