European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday. September 5,1989page 28 j the s Rio Fig looting Rock Virginia Beach a. Virginia Beach. A. A thousands of Young people Here for a labor Day weekend fraternity gathering went on a rampage Down the main thoroughfare of this resort City Early sunday firing shots and looting More than 100 stores. After a tense but uneventful Day in which store owners cleaned up gutted storefronts police turned out at mid eve Ning in riot gear and cleared the streets arresting dozens of Young people during a 35-Minutc sweep. Two men were wounded by gunshots in the earlier confrontation with police and at least two others were injured authorities said. City officials say some of the Esti mated 100,000 Young people who clogged the resort strip looted More than100 stores along Atlantic Avenue the City s main beachfront thoroughfare. Police said 160 people were arrested and brought into the station Between Fri Day evening and Early sunday evening and 395 others had been issued citations for various offences. Gov. Gerald l. Balics dispatched a military police detachment from the National guard and state police troopers to the area. At 8 . Sunday City officials closed the downtown Beach area to incoming traffic. Slate and local police patrolled the area on foot and by helicopter. Several people threw bottles at state troopers who began making arrests an onlookers taunted National guardsmen who marched through City streets armed with Batons and assault rifles. Shortly after 9 30 ., about 75 Vir Ginia Beach police officers formed a wedge and began moving South on Atlan tic Avenue which runs parallel to the oceanfront one Block away. The Virginia Beach officers were Fol Lowed by a state police armoured truck which announced Over a Public address system that the approximately 3so Young people in the Street represented an unlawful Assembly. Officers were pelted with bottles As they walked along the Street and made arrests. Several officers who went into an adjoining Motel parking lot to arrest someone were showered by bottles thrown from a Balcony above. By 10 05, Atlantic Avenue was empty except for several Hundred police offi cers. Dozens were arrested during the course of the 35-minute sweep. Less than an hour later. Mayor Mccra e. Oberndorf held a news conference. We will not tolerate lawlessness from anybody she said. Let the word go out that Virginia Beach will not stand by and watch As unruly individuals trash our  a witness said police had attempted to disperse groups of fraternity students most from predominantly Black colleges along the East coast who were showing off dance Steps on Atlantic Avenue. At one Point in the fracas police lobbed a smoke bomb into a crowd of people. It s been like we re being singled out because we Are Young and Black Sai Dcharles Stone 23, of new York City. They be been trying to regulate things that Don t need regulating said Paul Williams a 21-year-old Temple University student who said he watched the confrontation begin from his Motel Balcony. Last year everything was real Nice. There was no violence. But this year the place was jammed with Ponce and they were hassling people he said. Police closed off Atlantic Avenue through most of sunday. Angry Mer chants said they were losing business in what is generally the Best weekend of the year for resort merchants. Traditionally the labor Day weekend is the grand finale of the summer Brach going season. We just Hope we can make it through tonight said Bobbi Basnight of logo Lils a to shirt shop. Though her shop was not damaged Basnight did not plan to reopen this weekend. We tried to Welcome these people. We d been hearing rumours All week that something was going to happen she said. Denise Pinto and Maria Badino stood in the ruins of a clothing store. Of the 7,000 garments in the store Only about 100 were left. Panda cub Dies from i Washingtont he the cub bom to giant Panda Ling Ling died carry off Liaoning kilted by an infection it got from its Mother thu Laal zoo spokesman said. The spokesman Mike Morgan said the 3-ounce cub died at i . He said the infection it contracted from its Mother simply overwhelmed it and it  Ling Ling s four other cubs All died during or soon. After birth. Zoo officials removed the cub fron the infection was discovered  birth Fri Day. Panda experts at that Bra anaesthetized Ling Ling Friday afternoon Molve the tiny cub an injection in a risky Ceram most the cub s immune system but at an infection already was present. The procedure had never been tried on Endang giant pandas but was attempted in an Effort Toth a repeat of 1987, when the agog Ling if Nyji. Surviving cub died of an  Uller birth. Fat Munthe Intang mfr White cub about the size or Myhl was kept in an incubator in Alolf Floh Jalc Ling Ling Alt no trial self was up walking around a Morgan said saturday. Ling Ling 20, and Hsing Hsing 19, Are the Only giant pandas on permanent exhibit in the United states and the oldest living pair in Captivity outside of China. Giant pandas have been artificially bred successfully in zoos in Madrid Tokyo and Mexico a. U ing Ling and Hsing Hsing Are the Only Panda pair Breeding naturally Stevens said. Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing were gifts to the United states from China in 1972.animal experts have said Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing Are reaching the end of their reproductive years and Stevens said Ling Ling is the oldest known Panda to give birth to a live cub eng Ling s first cub died of prenatal pneumonia  birth on july 21, 1983. A second  in 1984. And in 19111, r  the smaller on dying at birth from.laclf8fcmfinand the second surviving four Days before  later was found to have been an infection. Crash from Page 1 Gorbachev pledges cooperation with injuries when the pieces of the plane showered on houses in a Havana suburb. Prensa Latina did not mention casualties on the ground. Both no Timex and Tass said All but two of the Passen Gers were italian or West German tourists. Tass said the four engine jetliner was on a return charter flight the Tass report monitored in London by the Brit ish broadcasting co., said All approaches to the Road leading to the Airport had been blocked off by traffic police. The report said first Aid vehicles and fire engines were seen racing to the Airport. Cuban president Fidel Castro and other senior officials went to the crash site soon after the crash at 7 . Prensa Latina said. The Spanish news Agency efe said there was a heavy downpour with Thunder and lightning at the time of the crash. Dpi soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev Oitim numb Ion aligned countries sunday urged negotiated  conflicts in a world without nuclear Wear he violence the official news Agency Tass said. See Zeltt i 4gflj age 8. We Are ready for cooperation with All. In building a world that would  weapons from foreign military tag pm confronting military blocs a world injun line use of armed or any other violence  relations would be ruled out Gotha a said in a letter to Janez Drnovsek  ninth non aligned Summit Confer the meeting of 103 nations was  in the yugoslav Caius do Bih Salt was expected to cover sum Pant Ned world economic  the Middle East. In edged that the soviet Union would be. Jle partner in the group s Campaign to protect e environment and help the poor Tass said. Is of people Are doomed to suffering and eke out  ambatis undeserving of Man he said. We Are convince wac be Gap Between the Rich and the poor can Only Beim Oneby joint North South and East West   urged support for it Tal nations to strengthen its role As a Universal insure most peace Confidence and International  troops news Brief is commemorate  London sap briton a Ppd War Sto Ries on sunday int to Chi Fri to forgive their former enemies  to return to the wartime values of Pil Cwg in and making do on the 50th  s entry it world War ii. Riffed Stop Hotos Page 9. At 11 15  50 stars to the minute after it was Jet aired the brits broadcasting corp. Reported prime minister Niue Cham  radio announcement Bat Brit Ain a f5eclared War on Germany. Her radio and television stations _ Oad cast Chamberlain s speech sunday alot we a speech by Adolf Hitler attempting to justify the War. From Page 1 because citizens doing their Job Are put at risk Sunu unsaid. President Barco has made it very Clear in his conversation with president Bush that the colombians with an 80,000-Man army do in fact want to address the problem themselves 1 Secretary of defense Dick Cheney said sunday on abcs this week with David  also downplayed the ask faced by american personnel As possible targets of the drug Cartel. I can t say with absolute certainty that there is no risk to our people in Colombia. We Are not sending our folks into  meanwhile looking at the drug problem in the United states key Republican and democratic leaders in Congress said they favored Tough new penalties on casual users of drugs. ."1 think the american Public is As i read it in a sort of punitive mood said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. We ought to be revoking Drivers licenses. I think we ought to go after students who get Federal benefits. We be got to go after people who live in housing  speaker Tom Foley d-wash., said he agreed with Dole. I think the user accountability idea is a Good one even for casual users. I think we ought to examine the possibility of taking away Driver s licenses seizing cars the kind of thing that would help to in Medellin two Small bombs exploded sunday night in front of the intercontinental hotel the nation Al police there  bombs were thrown by one of two men on a motorcycle the police told the associated press by Telephone. The bombs exploded in a Garden m front of the hotel and no one was injured a police spokesman . Ambassador Thomas Mcnamara at the Bogota military air base where the c-l30s landed said the planes arc in excellent condition and should serve the colombian armed forces for Many  Barco who has vowed not to Back Down from the cocaine grasses also on sunday took a helicopter flight Over the wreckage of the Bogota newspaper Al Espelta Dor which on saturday was bombed by drug Cartel terrorists. Eighty four people were injured in the blast. 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