European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. September 2. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 deaths of . Teen Newton spark riot from wire reports new York More than 5,000 demonstrators protesting the slaying of a Black teen Ager in the Bensonhurst Sec Tion of Brooklyn and the killing of for Mer Black Panther Leader Hucy Newton in Oakland. Calif., closed the Brooklyn Bridge on thursday. But they were thwarted by police when they tried to March on City Hall. As the marchers carrying twin coffins and chanting no Justice. No  were met at the Brooklyn end of the Bridge by a massive outpouring of police violence broke out. Bottles and Sticks were thrown at police. At least 23 offi cers were injured and at least five protes ters were arrested. Massive traffic jams were created by the demonstration and by a police order shutting Down subway stations at both ends of the Bridge to prevent protesters from crossing into Manhattan. The dramatic scene capped a Day of fast moving developments in the Bensonhurst Case including the arrest of the prime suspect in the killing of 16-year old Yusuf Hawkins a week ago. The suspect. Joseph Fama who had eluded police for eight Days turned him self in to authorities after hitchhiking 150 Miles upstate. My name is Joseph Fama. I m wanted by the new York City police department for murder police in Oneonta said he told desk officer . Taylor when he walked into police Headquarters at 2 19 . Thursday. They said he looked nervous dishevelled and with a two Day growth of  sgt. Joe Redmond said police identified Fama by exchanging photographs of him by facsimile machine and asking him questions about his background. Fama who looked nervous and very tired was wearing Gray and Blue dungarees sneakers a Lam o Shanter Cap a Gray sweatshirt and a to shirt that read 4&fc  " of. " a by ,. Police and demonstrators clash near the Brooklyn Bridge thursday during a protest that involved the carping of two coffin one for a slain Brooklyn Icen arc and the other for former Black Panther huty Newton killed in Oakland Calif. Little Man  he had $53 in his pocket. About five hours later four new York City police detectives and an assistant Brooklyn District attorney arrived and interviewed Fama. 18, for two hours. They said later they Learned Little new information. He was running like hell and scared to death and knew that we were breath ing on his heels said police commissioner Benjamin Ward after Fama was returned to the City. By turning himself in. Fama cooled the heat that police turned up in Benson Hurst during their intense Hunt for Fama. His face was splashed on the cover of newspapers and detectives circulated his picture on the streets. Rumours were ram Pant that the teen whose parents arc italian immigrants had fled to Italy or that Fama who has seen four relatives arrested on Federal drug charges was being protected by the mob. His straight Pale face in a photo taken in Oneonta is in Stark contrast to the sniggering buoyant Young Man in police photos carried by the detectives who sought him. He s been calling everyone up All night asking for advice and we be been telling him it s better to turn himself in than to get  Johnny Rivera a Friend of Fama said earlier. Rivera said he did not get a Call him self but said a Friend told him thursday night that Fama had called at about 1 . Asking for advice. During the Call Fama told the Friend he would give him self up Rivera said. Chemical arms stored in Utah to be destroyed at on site Plant Salt Lake City a too Csc army depot s aging stockpile of nerve and Mustard Gas 42 percent of the nation s chemical Arsenal will be destroyed on site in a new $138 million incineration Plant the Pentagon said thursday. In a report to Congress the office of the Secretary of the army said none of the chemical munitions at the Remote Western Utah desert installation would be moved elsewhere for destruction. While the decision did not address other Sites where chemical weaponry is stored it was considered a Victory for advocates of on site disposal at tootle 35 Miles Southwest of Salt Lake City and seven other . Bases. The army had considered disposing of the weapons at regional plants or one National site which would have required potentially risky transport by air rail truck and Barge. Cindy Vaughn spokeswoman for Aberdeen md., proving ground thu program manager for the army s chemical demilitarization Effort said similar announcements Are expected for the other Sites where chemical weapons Are stored once environmental studies Are completed. The army s decision followed recommendations contained in an environmental Impact statement re leased in july. The new Plant will employ a construction work Force of about 350, and once operational in december 1992, will have 400 employees. Vaughn said site specific Impact studies such As theone conducted at Tooele. Also arc planned for Aber Deen Anniston army depot Ala. Lexington Blue grass army depot by. Newport army ammunition Plant ind. Pine Bluff Arsenal Ark Pueblo depot activity colo., and Umatilla depot activity Ore. Further on site disposal decisions arc expected to be made Down the line As each study is finished she said. None of the studies has been completed. Colo phone users to get refunds Denver a an agreement Between us West communications and regulatory officials will give re funds of $46 million to Colorado Consumers this year and increase Telephone rates by More than $85 million beginning in 1992. The agreement was reached thursday by us West the stale office of consumer Council and the state Public utilities commission. The commission was toehold a hearing on the settlement Friday in Denver. The refund stems from a february 1989 commis Sion order requiring us West to return Money collected under federally mandated depreciation rates that later were overturned by the supreme court. Customers who paid Bills Between 1985 and 1989 will get a refund about equal to the local service por Tion of one month s Telephone Bill the company  refunds will appear As credits in future Bills. The company sought the Rale increase to upgrade equipment especially for Rural customers. The size of the rate increase for individual Consumers has t been set yet us West has proposed phasing in a hike of less than a Dollar a month on every phone Oil in the state. We re delighted with this settlement said Ron Binz director of the consumer counsel office i Means Telephone customers get the refund they re entitled to and the state s Rural customers get modern Tele phone  Jim Smith a vice president for us West communications said the agreement would allow the company to modernize equipment across the state. Faulty props blamed for Bridge failure by the Baltimore Sun Laurel my. Federal investigators be Lieve that the collapse of a Bridge Over the Balti More Washington Parkway thursday was caused by the failure of Timber and steel beam supports that temporarily propped up the Struc Ture while the Concrete deck was being poured. The overpass fell into the southbound lanes of the Parkway just before the Start of morning Rush hour injuring 14 people four from two car passing under the Bridge when it collapsed and 10 construction workers who had been on the Bridge itself. The failure was instantaneous said Gene Mccormick a Deputy administrator at the fed eral Highway administration who visited the site. There was Little  the Bridge which is owned and maintained by the National Park service is about 100 feet Long and 40 feet wide and 15 h feet High. Thursday night wreckage continued to Block the southbound lanes oath Parkway which will remain closed for at least the next two Days As investigators examine the rubble. Preliminary indications were that failure of supports known As false work a Type of Struc Tural scaffolding was responsible for the col lapse said Roy m. Crawford the Federal High Way administration Engineer whose office oversaw design of the Bridge. There was no hint before the collapse that there was any defect in the scaffolding which Crawford described As Good and