European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes news updates . Gang violence los Angeles up three people were killed and four others were wounded in weekend gang Vio Lence including a Man gunned Down in the parking lot or a restaurant near los Angeles International air port authorities said sunday. The dead also included a 17 year old boy killed Friday night in a car  car shootout Between rivals that embroiled two sheriffs dept Utica. Royal tour still on London up bucking Ham Palace said saturday the Prince and Princess of Wales will go ahead with an Oft tibial visit trip in november  Hong Kong  boost morale in the Colony despite Britain s loss of popularity for re fusing  give 3.2 million of its residents the right of abode. A Palace spokesman said the Royal couple would travel  Indonesia Enro Ute instead of Beijing because the original schedule taking in Chinakas considered inconceivable Fol lowing the crackdown on the pro democracy movement. Government officials said the trip  Hong Kong was viewed As a Means of restoring Confidence with Only eight years  go before the expiry of Britain s 100-year lease on Hong Kong and its reversion 10 chinese Rule in 1997. Deng health report Beijing a the chinese government gave new assurances saturday through a visiting chinese american that senior Leader Deng Xiaoping is in Good health despite persistent reports that he is seriously ill. Anna Chen null head of the Republican heritage groups Council said Deng s children As sure me he s in very Good health and still smoking and swimming and sometimes scolding  Chennault also said that during dinner with Beijing mayor Chen Xintong he said leaders erred in using troops against pro democracy protesters in june Chen said troops were used be cause police were not experienced in handling riots and probably they did have enough police Chennault said. More Ford problems Detroit up Ford motor co. Has said it will Idle about 2,500 hourly workers at its Chicago Assem Bly Plant for five working Days Start ing Friday because of slow sales of its 1989-Modcl Ford Taurus and Mer Cury Sable cars. The temporary closing Marks the second time this summer the nation s no 2 automaker has had  close its Chicago Plant for about a week because of slow dealer or Ders for the 1989  s changeover  the 1990 models at the Chicago Plant which builds about 5,000 cars a week has been delayed until sept. 11 because of a now solved Engi Neering problem associated with but not directly related  the installation of Driver s Side air bags in the Taurus and Sable. Ford s Atlanta Plant which also builds Taurus and Sable cars has also been idled this summer because of slow dealer orders. That Plant which employs about 2,150 workers has been idled for a total of 17 Days a company spokeswoman said. Ford has also been forced  Idle its subcompact escort car plants in Wayne mich., and Edison nj., As Well As its Light duty truck plants in Louisville ky., and min Neapolis is Paul. Black protesters taunted in neighbourhood of killing new York a angry Blacks arrests and convictions in the Case. Liciano but the gang shouting a Ornt Potino the can Lino Ripe la of Al Henrt c ,. ,.iur t., n. �, a Coli Theta stalked the Lack i before protesting the shooting deat of a Black teen Ager in a White neighbourhood were met by White youths chanting racist epithets saturday As police continued a citywide manhunt for the gunman. About 300 Black protesters marched through the Bensonhurst Section of Brooklyn and were confronted by Young Whites who chanted niggers go Home and held up watermelons. There were some scuffles but no injuries or arrests. Residents booed the marchers and chanted Central Park Central Park referring  the recent rape and beating of a White Jogger allegedly by a gang of Blacks and hispanics. The Blacks an swered with Howard Beach Howard Beach a reference  the december 1986 death of Michael Griffith 23, who was chased by White teen agers. This is about what we expected said Joseph Calzerano the police depart ment s chief of operations. The feelings arc running High teams of detectives meanwhile were responding  tips All Over the City in the Hunt for the gunman police spokesman sgt. De Burns said. On Friday the chief of police detectives Robert Colangelo said they wanted  question an 18-year-old Brooklyn Man. Colangelo also announced a $10,000 Reward for information leading  other arrest five other youths were arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court on saturday on charges stemming from wednesday night s fatal shooting of Yusuf Hawkins 16. The suspects Keith Mondillo 18steven Curreri 18 Pasquale Raucci 19 Charles Stressler 21 and James Patino 24 wore bulletproof vests As they left the police station Friday because of death threats against them. Attorneys for the five said their clients would Likely make bail sunday. Mondillo was identified by assistant District attorney Paul Burns As the instigator and the organizer of the gang and judge Eugene Schwartzwald ordered him held on $100,000 bail. The other four were held on $75,000 bail each. Hawkins and three friends were set upon by a gang of neighbourhood Whites carrying baseball bats two by fours and Golf clubs when they arrived in the mostly italian jewish Bensonhurst area  answer an advertisement for a used car. Police said the gang was angered by a local White teen Ager s dating of a Youn Black Man and they gathered with the intention of attacking the Black when he arrived for the Young woman s birthday party. Hawkins and his friends did know the Young woman 18-year-old Gina pc Liciano racial epithets Stalke Blacks one of them pulled a gun and killed Hawkins. Police on saturday arrested Cosmo camia 22, and charged him with threat ening Feliciano on two occasions a felony. Filiciano is a witness  the attack. Hawkins killing was reminiscent of the 1986 Case in Howard Beach a Sec Tion of Queens. In that death group of White teen agers chased three Blacks on of whom was hit by a car and killed. However Mondillo s lawyer Stephen Murphy who defended a youth in the Howard Beach Case said the Benson Hurst staying had nothing  do with Black and White. It was an argument be tween one group of Young men and an other  Murphy said his client had been threatened with violence by a neighbor Hood girl and wanted  protect himself. Attorneys for Curreri and Stressler said their clients were not at the scene of the shooting and never saw the victim. But Burns said Curreri was at the front of the group holding a Bat. All five were charged with assault riot aggravated harassment and Viola Tion of civil rights. Mondillo and Curreri were also charged with conspiracy men acing and possessing a weapon and Raucci and Stressler were charged with menacing and possessing a weapon baseball bats. Pope s visit  Beirut would support crusade against moslem Iran says Manama Bahrain up an Ira Nian newspaper warned the Pope sunday that he would be supporting a modern crusade against moslem if he accepted an invitation from lebanese Christian strongman Gen. Michel Aoun  visit Beirut. If Pope John Paul ii accepted an invitation  visit Lebanon he would be supporting a modern crusade led by Michel Aoun Iran s official Irna news Agency quoted the hard line daily islam Jom Huri or islamic Republic As saying. It seems. Hands Are at work  change the face of events in Lebanon and want  justify the crimes of the Phalanx its and Maronitis in new holds Jom Huri islam said. Reaction from the clergy owned and government supervised newspaper Fol Lowed reports in Rome last week that the Pope wants  visit Lebanon. Vatican officials declined  give any firm Date for the visit but Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the holy Sec was studying ways  carry out the Pope s wish. The Vatican officials ruled out the possibility however that the Pope would Only visit one Community in the strife torn nation. Iran s official Irna news Agency quoted Jom Huri islam As saying it would be disgraceful for the Vatican  support criminals like Aoun. If the Pope accepted the invitation and Shook Aoun s blood stained hands he would be confirming the crimes car ried out by his forces Irna quoted the daily As saying. The newspaper said a visit  Beirut by the Pope would be repulsive  All moslem and  what it described As the oppressed lebanese people an apparent reference  the country s lebanese shiite moslem population. The newspaper advised the Pope  ask France the United states and Israel  Stop their interference in Lebanon and permit the lebanese people  choose their future freely. It said the roman Catholic Leader should also try  gain the release of pro iranian lebanese shiite moslem religious Leader sheikh Abdul Karim Otid who was kidnapped from his South Leb anese Home by israeli commandos last month. New. German woman says Adamson saved her life during african attack London a the West German woman who survived an attack in Kenya by the robbers who killed British naturalist George Adamson was quoted sunday As saying there s no doubt George die for me. Inge Ledertheil 42, said he was a Man of great courage and without him i would not be Here today. I would be dead reported the mail on sunday a London weekly. It quoted  As saying she ran into the Bush and Lay on the ground be Hind a termite Hill for More than five hours covered in ants and flies 19 stay out of sight of the robbers until discovered by rangers. The newspaper said it interviewed Ledertheil last week in her apartment in Stuttgart  which she returned 24 hours after Adamson 83, was murdered on aug. 20 near his Home at the Kora lion Camp in Northeast Kenya it said she travelled  Nairobi the next Day with Adamson s body and a few hours later she flew Home. I could never go Back  Kora or Africa she was reported As saying. I will not even return for George s funeral next month  see him buried at the Camp. Too Many people will be there from All Over the world.". Adamson became internationally famous through the Book born free by his wife Joy relating their life in Kenya with animals and efforts  rear orphaned lion cubs and return them  the wild. Joy Adamson was murdered by a serv ant in 1980 at Kenya s Shaka game re serve. The mail on sunday said Leden Heil a clerk wrote  Adamson asking  visit him after Reading of his exploits in a Stuttgart newspaper. They became close friends and she visited the Camp two or three times a year returning Home Only . Raise enough Money  go Back. The report quoted her saying i loved him because he bad the most incredible  Adamson asked her  go with his Driver  an Airstrip  fetch supplies. Three men stopped their vehicle beating Ledertheil and the Driver after shooting out the tires. Adamson Beard the shots drove   and was shot As the woman and the Driver ran into the Bush