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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday february 14,1989 strife Over Boston Blacks move fades i m just a neighbor like anyone else1 Boston a when the first two Lack families moved into the virtually All White housing projects of South bos ton last summer they were accompanied by police. After weeks of protests by neigh Borsand extensive news coverage City officials feared a replay of the 1970s riots Over the busing of Blacks to schools in the working class Section. Instead More than six months later the two families report Little enmity and much hospitality. I m just a neighbor like anyone else said Elizabeth can Scales 37, who lives in a three bedroom apartment with her20-year-old daughter Anjanette and grandson Jahsman 4. I Haven t experienced much animosity since i be been Here. I think South Boston s in a Healing process  the move for Elizabeth clinks Alesand the family of Bessie Payne 36, was made easier because the two have been friends since High school. Coincidentally they were both give eviction notices about the same time and applied for emergency housing with the Boston housing authority. My main focus at that time was notto become homeless not to go into a shelter said Clinkscales who works Asan assistant at a Day care Center and pays $225 a month for her apartment. To me that was just As frightening As moving to South  Payne tells a similar Story. I could t see myself in a shelter wit the children and i saw no reason to be when Bra had a three bedroom apart ment available Payne said. Until recently the projects in the pre dominantly Irish Catholic neighbourhood known As Southie were 98 percent Whit and 2 percent non Black minorities. But since the Clinksc Leses and Payne moved into Southie several other Black families have been placed in the projects. It was in the same neighbourhood separated from downtown by a Harbor Chan Nel where years of protests erupted after court ordered busing in 1974. Whites stoned buses of Black children shuttle from the Roxbury Section. After Federal authorities told Bosto officials to desegregate the projects last year mayor Raymond l. Flynn held meetings in South Boston to urge acceptance of the plan. Instead they booed Lynn a South Boston native and called him a traitor. When the Clinksc Leses and Payne moved in last july the City had devel oped a Long term safety plan for themis Case of trouble. For the first week the two families were told to Check in wit police when they left their apartments and when they returned. My image was that there was some prejudice Here but i m the Type of per son who realizes there s prejudice every where said Clinkscales. She and Payne said in recent inter views that Little has happened to make them feel like the targets of bigotry. When i moved in i expected a lot of turbulence said Payne 37, who is an administrator at a Church and shares he apartment with her son Kimani poles 14, and daughter Damizi poles 9. When it did t happen i was really grateful. I think the people Here Are will ing to accept change  the two said they give each other moral support with daily phone Calls. Yet the Only disturbing incident for Bot came when teen agers once yelled racial slurs outside their apartments. They said it occurred just once. Clinkscales daughter Anjanette said she and her Mother exchanged Christmas gifts with the Mahoney family next door and counts 18-year-old Kerry Mahoney As a  was surprised at How Nice they were said Kerry Mahoney who said she had never known a Black family until the Clinksc Leses moved in. Cocaine suspect a 1988 yearbook photo shows Frank Riley Wolsky an 18-year-old High school student in Gresham,ore., arrested in january on drug charges. Police say the senior attended classes regularly while run Ning a major cocaine business on the Side and spending thousands of dollars on cars clothes an jewelry. The Purchase of a $2,500 watch and a $13,000 Mustang helped Lead to Wolsky s arrest. Air ticket agent charged with computer scam new York a an airline ticket agent pileup 1.7 million Bonus air Miles via computer without leaving the ground then sold the credits for More than$20,000, according to a published report. Ralf Kwas Chni 28, was arrested sunday when he arrived for work at Kennedy International Airport and was charged with computer tampering and grand larceny authorities said. Kwas Chni a ticket agent for Lufthansa airlines used to work for american airlines the daily news reported monday. Police said he used his compute Access code to create 18 fake american airline advantage accounts racking up 1.7 million Bonus air Miles according to the newspaper. All 18 accounts five in Kwas Chni s name and 13under fake ones listed the same Post office Box according to the newspaper. Instead of exchanging the Bonus Miles for All the free travel Kwas Chni sold some of them for $22,500 to brokers who used the credits to get a couple of first class round trip tickets from new York to Australia two More Between London and Bermuda and one be tween new York and Paris the newspaper said. It is legitimate to sell personal Bonus Miles to Bro kers port authority detective Charles Schmidt said. Kwas Chni would create accounts under common last names the newspaper said. When a person with one of the names was aboard an american flight and did not have an advantage account the Passen Ger s name would be eliminated from the flight list and replaced with one from the fake accounts the newspaper said. As the plane was pulling away from the Gate this Guy was at the computer literally wiping out Passen Gers Schmidt said. La gang kills pregnant woman los Angeles up gang members opened fire with an assault Rifle and a Shotgun Early sunday killing a pregnant woman and her 8-month-old fetus and wounding two other people police said. In other gang violence one Man was killed in a drive by shooting and another died when his car was strafed by bullets fired from an assault Rifle. In the pregnant woman s slaying detectives Proba Bly will seek double murder charges against the gun men. The gang members apparently were aiming at someone nearby when they shot Andrea Garrett kill ing the pregnant 19-year-old woman and her unborn child in a Public housing project it. Sergio Robleto said. No motive has been established for the shooting but we believe it is a narcotics related incident in narcotics turf War involving gang members Robleto said. The area where this occurred is an area where there is a High degree of narcotics and gang  in an earlier drive by shooting outside another gang plagued housing project famous Mccord was killed. He was talking to his Girlfriend in a parking lot when two shots were fired from a passing car detective Rudy Lemos said. Mccord was shot in the head an died in a Hospital. Early sunday Armando Torres Montana 19, was struck by bullets fired from an assault Rifle while driving Home from a bar with a Friend police sgt. Dann Sneed said. Montana who was sitting in the passenger seat and his Friend ducked when the shots were fired shortly before 4 a.m., but Montana was hit. His Friend drove the wounded Man to his Home about two blocks away where he died. No suspects were in custody. Stateside freeway sheep crossing is a Aazaad news for Drivers Calabasas Calif. A exit ramps on the Ventura freeway were closed for 30 minutes Early sunday to allow As Many As 1,000 sheep to Cross police said. California Highway patrol officers diverted traffic from the Las Virgene Road ramps As the sheep were escorted Over a freeway Bridge Dis Patcher Gina Thomson said. It was the second such crossing this year. Such events Are not uncommon for sunday morning this time of year. Several flocks of sheep Graze the hillsides of Calabasas nearly 30 Miles Northwest of Down town los Angeles. Arson suspected after fire ravages historic District Haverhill mass. A investigator suspect arson in a fire that whipped through a historic shoe manufacturing District and destroyed six buildings. No one was seriously injured in saturday night s Blaze which caused an estimated $ 1 Mil lion in damage As it roared out of control forbore than two hours officials said sunday. Nothing s for certain yet but they do have reason to believe at this Point that it was of suspicious origin police sgt. Richard t. Smith said. One thing was the Speed with which it took  the fire apparently broke out around 10 30p.m. In the former Birney shoe co. Building erected in 1882. The buildings housed a tanning Salon a Pizz parlor offices shops and other Small businesses. . Officials probe fire at Mcfarlane s townhouse Washington a authorities Are investigating a fire at the townhouse of former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane that left an estimated $75,000 in damage. The fire broke out sunday afternoon at the Home of Mcfarlane and his wife Jonda in the City s Georgetown Section District of co Lumbia fire officials said. No one was injured in the Blaze which took 30 minutes to control. Mcfarlane who was White House National Security adviser during the Reagan administration pleaded guilty last year to four Mise Meanor counts of withholding information from Congress in the Iran Contra scandal  
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