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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 22, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 40,000 chinese students in . Protest by the associated press thousands of chinese College students staged protests from san Francisco to new York saturday in support of the pro democracy uprising in their Homeland chanting slogans and carrying banners Reading Freedom or  there arc 40,000 students from the people s Republic of China studying in the United states. We arc All supporting the students in China. They arc heroes Lewis , a business student at the University of California in Berkeley said during a rally in san Francisco that included a meeting with chinese consular officials. Demonstrations also were held in los Angeles Chi Cago St. Paul minn., Washington and new York. No arrests were reported. The protests followed the declaration of martial Law for sections of Beijing on saturday by chinese Premier i Peng in response to huge demonstrations there consid ered the largest Challenge to the nation s communist Rule since its founding in 1949. But hundreds of thousands of people continued to swarm through the streets of China s capital in Defiance of martial Law and in support of the students who have led the uprising. One of the largest demonstrations took place in Washington where about 3,500 students marched on the chinese embassy shouting Down with martial Law and Freedom now in spite of final examinations Pingon at Many schools students came from Cornell Princeton Harvard Yale Brandeis. Duke new York and Johns Hopkins universities and the universities of Virginia California Pennsyl Vania and Pittsburgh plus several schools in the washing ton area. We want to show our support for other people who Are fighting for our for Tom and to show our own govern ment that its position is wrong said Qiao Chun Ming of Shanghai a student at Pitt. More than 3,000 students rallied near the chinese consulate in Chicago chanting Down with i Peng up with Freedom they placed a sign Reading Beijing we hear you. Do you hear us at the feet of a statue of Abraham Lincoln in downtown Grant Park. Among the demonstrators was citing Huang 26, who drove with about 20 others from the University of Toledo in Ohio. It was an emergency Call she said. I told my Boss i could t stay at work any longer because my country is in emergency  a it at pc a chinese students from several . A Walt Kis demonstrate Niar the chinese embassy in Washington on saturday. Others flocked to the Chicago demonstration from Pur due Marquette Illinois stale and Michigan state universities and the universities of notre Dame Minnesota Iowa Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Indiana and Louis Ville. In san Francisco about 1,000 demonstrators Many wearing White headbands held a rally at the chinese consulate then marched to Chinatown. They waved signs in chinese and English carrying such messages As a billion people one press and Freedom or  one placard compared senior Leader Deng Xiaoping to Adolf Hitler. A handful of  was allowed into the Consul ate to meet with officials. Some of the demands arc Justi fied said Shosha Wong a political and press officer at the consulate. Asked which demands he replied carry on the  in los Angeles Between 500 and 700 students Marche from Chinatown to the chinese consulate amid honking and chants. Marchers came from Arizona state univer sity the University of Southern California and University of California campuses in san Diego and Santa Barbara. About 200 people gathered in new York s Chinatown then marched through the neighbourhood their ranks swelling by another 100. Onlookers shouted and clapped from fire escapes and Drivers honked their horns. The students collected $5,000 to buy fax machines computers and paper to help communicate with students in China said la Dong 34, a Hunter College graduate. In St. Paul about 30 chinese americans rallied at the stale Capitol chanting among other slogans Long live  burning1 ends quiet run at site of 1964 murders Philadelphia miss. A Mississippi burning has closed after a quiet five Day run in the town portrayed in the movie about the deaths of three civil rights workers 15 years ago. The film had been scheduled to open May 24 at the Ellis theatre several months after its National premiere. I found out it was the last week of schools and graduation so i moved it up to May 10-14, said Shelly Striger whose family has owned Philadelphia s Only theater for More than 35 years. Steiger said Friday the five Day run was the Way i play All my  he said he never considered extending the Lime be cause it would not pay off in a town of about 7,000 people. Attendance was belter than average Sliger said although he could not provide Ohio Man shoots self after killing 4 children the movie was indicative of the  Mississippi burning is a fictionalized account of the Federal investigation into the murders of James Chancy an Drew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba county. Their bodies were found in an earthen dam near Phila Delphia six weeks after their deaths on june 21, 1964.the Orion pictures release was praised by critics and won an Academy award for Best cinematography. The movie was harshly criticized by people involved in the civil rights movement particularly Blacks who said it gave the Fri too much credit. Sliger said he observed Little reaction from Philadelphia audiences. Columbus Ohio a a Man described As a paranoid drug user sen this common Law wife to buy cigarettes then shot and killed four children and himself in their Home saturday morning police said. Police tactical unit officers found the body of John Andrew Dubbin 31, and those of the children ranging in age from i to 7, in the living room of a garage that had been converted into a House in a working class neighbourhood. The children were identified As Eliza Beth Ann Dubbin 2, and Albert Michael Dubbin i daughter and son of Dubbin and his common Law wife Elizabeth a Hannah and Heather Lynn Mahannah 7, and Christina Marie Mahannah 4,Mahannah s daughters by another Man police said. Each of the children appeared to have been shot once with a to gauge Shotgun said capt. Tony Lanata head of the homicide squad. The children were dressed in their bed clothing a homicide detective said. Swat officers tossed tear Gas into the House and entered it after repeated at tempts to communicate with the occupants failed said swat team com Mander it. Richard Morgan. Mahannah called police from outside the House after she returned from shop Ping and found Dubbin and the children locked in the House police said. The wife stated that her husband was very paranoid. And that he had fired his Shotgun in the House about 5 a.m., thinking the swat was coming to get him Morgan said. He said Mahannah also described her husband As a user of cocaine and other drugs. Dubbin had been convicted for resist ing arrest burglary and criminal Damag ing Morgan said. Figures. Most came to see it out of curios Tyl think hcs Aid. Steiger suggested that Many who wanted to see the film had done so in Meridian 40 Miles to the Southeast where the movie opened Jan. 27 and ran for eight weeks. Monty Royal manager per a Cine main Meridian said the movie was the year s biggest moneymaker for his theater in the City where Federal trials of those accused in the civil rights murders were held. Most people were very understanding of the fact that Hollywood made a movie that was entertaining Royal said. Generally everybody that i saw said it was one of the better movies that they had seen and they did think the atmosphere that was played in Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. May 22, 1949 after flying out of Shanghai on the last american plane to reach the City . Vice Consul John Stuttman reported that communist forces had encircled the City. 30 years ago foday. May 22, 1959 speaking at a convention of longshoremen in Brownsville Texas. James r. I Loffa. President of the teamsters Union denied he was threatening to Call a nationwide strike if Congress passed several proposed labor Laws. 20 years ago foday. May 22, 1969 a National guard helicopter sprayed tear Gas on hundreds of demonstrators on the University of California Campus at Berkeley in an attempt to break up an illegal rally. 10 years ago foday. May 22, 1979 rep. James Weaver d-ore., chairman of a House inquiry into the three mile Island nuclear Accident said such an Accident could occur at any Lime at other nuclear plants  
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