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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. September 3.1989teen pleads innocent in racial Case new York a a teen Ager alleged to have shot dead a Black South in a unite neighbourhood pleaded innocent to a murder charge Friday and was ordered held without bail. Joseph Fama 18, was placed in protective custody at his lawyer s request after a hearing in Brooklyn criminal court. Correction department spokesman Tom anti non said. In other developments Friday a second suspect in the racially charged Case indicated he was ready to cooperate with a grand jury probe and tensions erupted into violence outside a courtroom. Prosecutors said Fama was a Leader of the gang of Whites who chased four Black teen agers with baseball bats Golf clubs and at least one gun on the night of aug. 23. One of the Blacks 16-year-old Yusuf Haw Kins was shot in the Chest and died. The murder of Hawkins has touched off a series of protests and marches against racism some of them met by counter protests by residents of the mostly ital Ian american neighbourhood of Bensonhurst where the killing occurred. Fama fled after she shooting and remained a fugitive until Early thursday when he surrendered to police inuit at unc Onta. He was returned to the City and witnesses identified him in a lineup assistant District attorney Paul bums said. Hours after his return an estimated 7,500 protesters clashed with police during a Day of outrage March staged through Brooklyn against racism. Twenty three officers were injured in the Brawl. I m sure some of them came there because they had All Good intentions but others clearly came with bricks and bottles Bent on violence new York Hawkins Fama mayor Edward 1. Koch said. In court. Fama s attorney David a. Depetris entered an innocent plea for his client and challenged Burns on what the lineups produced. A number of individuals who viewed or. Fama did not identify him in any Way shape or form the lawyer said. Fama said nothing during the arraignment. He is charged with two counts of second degree murder assault criminal Possession of a weapon menacing riot and aggravated harassment. Brooklyn District attorney Elizabeth Holtzman said later that her office and the police were looking for Cooling the car Domingo Tan sprays a mixture of Ethyl alcohol water and fragrance into his car at Springfield va., on Friday demonstrating his invention to Cool the Interior of a vehicle on a hot Day. Within 30 seconds the car s temperature plunged from a sizzling 122 degrees fahrenheit to a bearable 80 degrees. Others who Many have participated in the attack. Also on Friday another suspect 19-Ycar-old Joseph Serrano appeared before criminal court judge sey Mour Gerschwer and indicated he wanted to cooperate with the grand jury investigating the shooting. His Law yer. Joseph Dicandia. Would not elaborate and said hews leaving the Case. Serrano who has not been indicted remains free on$75,000 bail. In addition to Serrano five Oiler Bensonhurst youths have been arrested in the attack. Two of them Keith Mondillo 19, and Pasquale Raucci 18 have been indicted on murder charges. At their arraignment in a jammed courtroom at Brooklyn state supreme court both pleaded innocent and Justice John j. Delury refused prosecutors re quest that bail be revoked allowing Mondillo to re main free on $100,000 bail and Raucci on $75,000. The ruling shocked and outraged Hawkins family and their supporters. Of my god said the victim s father Freddy Stewart. A tense confrontation followed a few moments later when the Rev. Al Sharpton an adviser to the Hawkins family shouted threats at Mondillo s lawyer Stephen Murphy and called Mondillo a murderer. A few minutes later outside the courthouse Sharpton supporter attacked a a new to camera Crew that refused to Stop filming Hawkins family. I was kicked in the Arm punched and pushed said Barbara Lloyd a technician. Lloyd and cameraman Nick Jutchenko who also said he was punched said they would file a complaint against the attacker. Stateside Baker Shevardnadze to meet in National Park Washington a Secretary of state Jamesa. Baker Iii and soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze will meet sept. 22-23 at a Lodge in the grand Teton National Park outside Jackson Wyo the stale department said Friday. The meeting is designed to Lay the groundwork for Summit encounter Between president Bush and soviet president Mikhail a Gorbachev. State department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said topics will include arms control human rights an regional conflicts. Baker and Shevardnadze agreed in Paris in late july to hold the Summit preparatory discussions in Wyom ing where Baker has a ranch. At the july meeting. Baker had shown Shevardnadze pictures of the area. Assuming the talks arc successful the Summit meet ing will be scheduled but it is unclear whether the Summit will be possible before the end of the year. Vow janitor beats off Lars with stale Brea burgle Orlando Fla. A a janitor at a veterans of foreign wars Post who came upon two burglars made sure the thieves did t get away with much Money by giving them a lot of bread. "1 had two bags of stale bread for the ducks 1 feed every morning and a Box of Entenmann s Sticky buns. 1 started hitting them with those said Dean Mitchell. The two burglars were Busy defending themselves from the onslaught of baked goods before they took off he said. I m 70 years old and it would have been a chore catching up with them. They lit out Mitchell said. Fraternity group launches anti hazing Campaign Washington a an organization rep resenting fraternities at 900 College campuses through out the United states and Canada announced Friday that it is launching a Campaign to eliminate hazing which Over the past decade has led to 40 student deaths and hundreds of serious injuries. Hazing has no place in the fraternity experience. It is a dangerous form of intimidation that makes a mockery of fraternal love and we re dedicated to eradicating it in the fraternity system said Jonathan Brant executive director of the National inner Fraterno to conference. Brant said his group defines hazing As any action or situation intended to produce mental or physical harassment embarrassment or ridicule. We arc today launching an anti hazing Campaign that declares in unequivocal terms fraternities out right condemnation of All forms of hazing he told news conference. The National  conference based i Indianapolis represents 59 major fraternities with 5,155 chapters and More than 400,000 student Mem Bers in the United states and Canada. Brant said that the conference had adopted an anti hazing Resolution More than 30 years ago and that most fraternities have had rules against hazing for the past two decades. However he said we arc painfully aware that in the past 10 years More than 40 students have died and hundreds have been seriously injured by student organizations in what have been referred to As hazing Rel Ald incidents " Brant said the anti hazing Campaign will involve distribution of printed materials on campuses organizing discussion groups at fraternity chapters and pub Lishing articles in alumni magazines. Also appearing at the news conference was Eileen Stevens of Sayville n.y., whose son. Chuck Stenzel died As a result of a 1978 hazing incident at Alfred University in upstate new York. Afterwards she formed a group called Chuck committee to halt useless College killings. Stevens said that she docs not favor abolishing fraternities and that she had decided to work with them rather than against them in dealing with the hazing problem. Fraternity pledging evolved in the late 19th Century and was meant to be a rite of passage for recruits before inc in initiation As full members  
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