European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday August 21.1989 Jackson asks Blacks to vote fight drug abuse at reunion Cincinnati a the Rev. Jesse Jackson on saturday appealed to thousands of Blacks gathered at a family reunion to Register to Vole and to help fight drug abuse. Jackson who arrived Here after addressing a funeral mass for rep. Mickey Leland a Texas in Houston spoke to an estimated 125.000 people most of them Blacks from Illinois Indiana. Kentucky. Michigan and Ohio at Sawyer Point Park Center. Jackson encouraged everyone in the crowd to Regis Ter to vote adding that Blacks have died for the right to cast ballots. If you stand Here today unregistered to vote you re throwing a Rock at their tombstones said the former democratic presidential candidate. Me also made a Pica for those in the crowd to enlist in the War against drugs. Our families Are being destroyed by drugs he said. You cannot reconcile family with  a saturday morning Parade downtown preceded the afternoon gathering. The turnout for the gathering a More than double the 50.000 expected organizers said. The  one of five held across the country to emphasize Unity among Blacks offered advice on overcoming problems faced by Black families and at tempted to strengthen lies beyond the immediate family. What we have Here is a vast wealth of acquired knowledge from our ciders said Ben Jordan a 23 year old College student who heard Jackson s speech. We have people Here that can teach and it s a crime that anyone should miss  the reunion which was to conclude sunday is the fourth of five such events across the nation this sum Mer. Earlier reunions took place in Atlanta. Phila Delphia and los Angeles. The last is scheduled in Washington for next month. 4 in copter escape May face slew of state Federal charges Holdrege. Neb. A two Colorado prison inmates and their wives captured in a shootout after the women hijacked a helicopter for a dramatic break out will Likely face charges in two states and Federal courts officials said  into Friday s escape from the medium Security Arkansas Valley correctional facility near Ordway colo., said one of the women involved met her husband while working As a prison Volunteer and married him by  escapees Freddie Gonzales 21, and Ralph Brown 30. And their wives Patricia Gonzales 41, and Rebecca Brown 26, surrendered Friday evening after a nine minute gun Battle in this Small South Central Nebraska town 400 Miles from the  will be the talk of the town for a few Days but then things la gel Back to Normal said Ford Hubbard night manager of the Dale  could t believe it said Hubbard who watched the gunfight and capture from the roof of his six Story hotel. It was like watching a to movie. I know that other people were watching from their windows too. We Haven t had anything like this in town for  Colorado department of corrections chief Walter Kaut by said the foursome will Likely face Federal charges of air piracy Nebraska charges and then extradition proceedings for Likely charges in  of the four were being held in separate jails saturday. Brown underwent surgery fora Bullet wound to the Finger and was being held at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Authorities in Colorado said the women commandeered the helicopter after hiring it from helicopter airways inc. Of Denver. The Fri said the helicopter Pilot Tim Graves is not a suspect in the escape. After the escape the four abandoned the Bell 206 helicopter and transferred to a rented Van. Graves who was tied up and left in a shed managed to Cut himself free with a pocket knife and was found by  pulled out the guns after we were in the air for 10 minutes and they said you re going to land in that prison " Graves said later. Graves said his biggest fear was that he would be shot by prison guards. On Friday prison officials said the guards held their fire during the escape in part because of fear for the Pilot s safety. Kautzky said mrs. Gonzales worked As a Volunteer at the Arkansas Valley prison near Ordway and at the Fremont correctional facility in Canon City where she met her husband before he was moved to Ordway. She was also working on a degree from Regis College in Denver he  Colorado Law you can get married by proxy and that s apparently what they did he  did not know when they were married or what her duties As a Volunteer were. The Regis College switchboard operator said no one was available Over the weekend to confirm mrs. Gonzales enrolment. The inmate s father Fred Gonzales. Said his son got married three months  Gonzales was serving a four year sentence for robbery and would have been eligible for parole in sep tember 1991. Ralph Brown was sentenced for sexual As Sault theft and criminal impersonation in a bad Check charge his parole eligibility Date was october 1996.holdrcgc police officers and Phelps county sheriffs deputies fired on the foursome s Van during the Chase Patricia Gonzales. Married by proxy that covered roughly an eight Square Block area of the Nebraska town of 5,600. The four were to be arraigned monday but on sat urday. Phelps county attorney Glenn Clark said he was still pondering charges. The Federal and Colorado charges he said would come Only after we re through with them in Nebraska. He added that he was strongly considering filing attempted murder charges for shots fired at police sol. Tom rust who had bullets lodged in the air cleaner and the dashboard of his car. That one in the dashboard was Only inches from going All the Way through and it would have gone All the Way through  Clark  used his police car to ram the Van twice. The action is credited with slowing the vehicle moments before police chief Ken Jackson positioned near his pickup truck placed four shots through the Windshield of the suspects Van i think they were surprised to see me there said Jackson a Veteran of the Lancaster county sheriffs department in  s nine member Force recently received approval for the Purchase of two semiautomatic weapons. We definitely could have ended this a lot sooner with one of those Jackson said. But people criticized my background in Lincoln a City of 200,000, and said we d never need them in hold Csc. You know the old saying. Never say never he added with a Grin. Stateside pharmaceutical tycoon pleads innocent to bribery Cleveland a the president of the nation s largest pharmacy Chain has pleaded in Nocent to charges of bribing an Ohio pharmacy Hoard member and of Possession of criminal tools. Rite Aid corp. President Martin l. Grass. 35, entered the plea in Cuya hoga county common pleas court before judge Jose a. Villanueva. Grass is free on $100,000 Bond lie declined to comment on the Case after the hearing. His Shiremanstown a based company later released a three Page statement saying the indictment against grass and the company is  they grass and rite Aid have indicated that the charge of bribery is a vicious attempt to blemish the corporation and its president and have called the charge absurd the release said. Boston mayor targets n. Ireland discrimination Boston a mayor Raymond l. Flynn wants the City to take its pension Money an Trust funds away from companies that do Busi Ness in Northern Ireland and do not adhere to equal Job opportunities. Flyntz filed a Home Rule petition calling for the divestiture and signed an executive order requiring City contractors owned by companies doing business in Northern Ireland to subscribe to these called Macbride principles standards aimed at reducing Job discrimination against roman catholics in Northern Ireland. The Home Rule petition must be approved by the City Council and the state legislature to take effect. The executive order which affects con tracts Worth several million dollars docs not need City Council approval. Good deed ends in death for new Jersey Motorist Manchester township . A a Man who slopped to help a car crash victim was electrocuted when he Acci Dontly touched a live wire downed in the Accident authorities said. Dwain Hammond 44, had stopped to help Susan a. Tallman 82, of Whiting after her car crashed into and snapped a Utility pole police sgt. William Fleming said. When Hammond and two other passers by found the Driver s door was jammed Hammond tried to reach her through the passenger door and apparently brushed against a 7,200-Volt live wire said James Lowney a spokesman for Jer sey Central Power and Light co. Hammond was pronounced dead at a Hospi Tal. Tallman was hospitalized in critical but Sta ble condition. Lightning kills 2 men in Metal lounge chairs Batesville miss. A two men silting in Metal lounge chairs were struck and killed by lightning at the Sardis Lake dam officials said. Panola county medical examiner Clyde Cobb said efforts to revive the men. Killed were Jeffrey l. Russell 25, and James n. Mauncy jr., 29, both of Balesville. Sex Marine Lonetree seeks halt on sales of Book Alexandria a. A former Marine sgt. Clayton Lonc Trcic who was court Martiale in the sex for secrets scandal at the . Embassy in Moscow wants a Federal court to pull cop ies of a Book about his Case from stores and . The former embassy guard said in a complain filed in . District court that the Book the court martial of Clayton  is based nonconfidential information obtained by his defense team and jeopardizes his  Book was written by Lake Headley a Pri vate investigator who worked for Lon tree s de sense at his 1987 court martial. The Book is Al ready available in some  complaint also names publisher Henry Holt and co., inc., of new York and asks$100,000 in punitive damages