European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes saturday september 16,1989 officer Pul Kramer wears his helmet and glasses and Zsa Zsa Cabor hatches the proceedings at her trial in Beverly Hills Calif. Gabor officer face off in court in re enactment of altercation Beverly Hills. Calif. Up1 Zsa Zsa Gabor and a Beverly Hills cop came face to fact in a court room re enactment of the slap heard around the world during a trial spiced with foul language and accusations of arrogance and impudence. Gabor is being tried on charges stemming from a routine traffic Stop of the Glamour Queen s Rolls Royce by a strapping motorcycle officer. After opening statements thursday the two re enacted the m afraid of the 5-foot, 5-Inch Gabor said As she approached 6-foot-l officer Paul Kramer who had been asked to put on the helmet and dark glasses he wore on the Day in question. Defense attorney William Graysen instructed Kra Mer to place Gabor s hand on his mustachioed face where she had allegedly slapped him. Afterwards she returned to the defense table with a sigh of Relief. Kramer the trial s first witness said Gabor tried to run him Down cursed him spat at him and slapped him All Over the minor traffic infraction of driving with expired License tags. Characterizing Gabor As a major problem Kra Mer a 13-year Veteran said it s ridiculous that this has gone to the extent that it Gabor 66, is charged with Battery on a police offi cer disobeying a police officer driving with an expired License and having an open flask of Bourbon in her car. Deputy District attorney Elden Fox painted an unflattering portrait of Gabor in his opening statement. This is a Case of arrogance impudence insolence disrespect and disregard Tor the Law by the defendant after a routine traffic Stop Fox said. Gabor threw up her hands in exasperation Over the characterization. At one Point Fox complained she was making faces at him and municipal judge Charles Rubin told her to Lone Down her expressions. When his turn came Grayson agreed with the prosecutor s assessment up to a Point. Yes this is a Case of arrogance and insolence but it s of officer Kramer and his overreaction excessive Force and abuse in arresting Gabor june 14, he said. Is. Gabor used reasonable Force in slapping the office which she had every right to do Graysen told the jury. Kramer admitted he used profanity but he said he did so Only after Gabor continued to struggle when he handcuffed convicted on the Battery charge Gabor could be sentenced to a year in jail and fined $2,000. The other charges All misdemeanours carry maximum six month jail terms and $1,000 fines. Kramer told the jury that Gabor swerved her car at him when he pulled her Over a second Lime. He said she had sped off while he was running a compute Check on her License and registration. Kramer said Gabor slapped him so he handcuffed her and set her Down on a Street curb. He said she screamed do you know who i am and kept Yelling at him cursing him and spitting at him. The prosecutor presented a blowup of Gabor s Driver s License showing that her birth Date and weight had been citation issued to Gabor said her birth Date was june 6 1923. The altered License gave the Date As feb. 6, 1928.outside court Gabor License had been Sto Len by a Man who ran into my Rolls on the freeway and when i got it Back it was changed. 1 kept it in Mclove compartment As a joke but when this big gorgeous scary hunk Kramer threatened me i just gave it to stateside soviet army chorus opens . Tour on High note new York up1 the red army has finally invaded North America glasnost slyly with its world famous chorus set for a tour of 31 cities after a near sellout new York engagement. Some at the opening tuesday at City Center had to Pinch themselves As the chorus opened its 2 hour program singing the Star spangled Banner with patriotic zest and in perfect English. To Many this signified a compel a melt Down of the decades Long cold War. The Alexandrov red army song and dance ensemble commonly known As the red army chorus is making its first visit to America. It was booked for its . Debut in 1939. At the time of inc first new York world s fair but the outbreak of world War ii prevented it. The chorus s Lour includes visits to Chicago Tucson Ariz. Scallie los Angeles Washington and Atlanta. Hispanic dropout rate skyrockets to 35.7% by the new York times Washington the High school dropout rate among inc nearly 4 million hispanic Slud cols in inc uni cd so alas Rose to 35.7 percent last year almost triple thai of of her while Slud cols and More than double that of Blacks according to a report by the depart Mcnol of findings Mark the first time the govern ment has conducted a detailed study of High school dropout stall slice and compiled and an Al Zed inc Dala by race age sex and location officials report mandated by Congress last year shows a slight decline in the Overall High school dropout rate in 1988. It also indican is that the rate at which Black Slud cols quil school has been declining Sec daily in the last two decades. In 1988, the dropout Rale for Blacks was 14.8 Pyrc Cal As opposed to 12.6 Pyrc Cal for Whites. Anheuser Busch must pay $925,000 pollution Fine Syracuse . A Anheuser Busch has been fined nearly $1 million for illegally discharging phosphorus contaminated Walcer Inlo the Seneca River officials Beer maker also Admill cd its employees reported false sampling data to the state depart ment of environmental conservation and kept dec inspectors from looking at hoses that Ille Gally bypassed critical portions of the waste water i raiment an agreement disclosed thursday the St. Louis based Brewer agreed to pay a $925,000 civil Fine for unlawful discharges Inlo the Seneca River from ils plan in ., new York Al Lorincy general Robert Abrams said. Walter a. Suhre jr., vice preside no and Gener Al counsel for Anheuser Busch said Ihrck employees were responsible for the pollution Viola Lions and Aclid Wilhour the consent or knowledge of the company. Two were fired and one was allowed to resign he said. Wu5 it Kiil Luvaul limit do bite deaths underestimated study says a. U Dob owners could prevent son by the new York times dog bites account for far More deaths in this country than is generally believed and pit bulls Are the most common at tackers according to a study by research ers at inc National centers for disease control. The researchers Whoso study was published in Friday s Issue of the journal of the american medical association Esti mate Hal 183 to 204 people were killed by dogs from 1979 through 1988. The Cost image is based on information from the National Center for health statistics a government body. The humane society of the United Stales the usual source of figures on dog bite fatalities has reported that Only 45 people were killed by dogs m the same 10-year period. But Arm Joly an expert on dog bites for the society said in an interview thursday that she does not i spic the new statistics. We weren t actively following the situation prior to 1986," she said and remade that Clear in our reports. But peo ple would use our figures and Overlook our the new study also found that dogs bite More than 2 million people each year. Half of them Are left scarred it said. We re trying to focus Public attention on this Greally underestimated Public Hazard said one of the researchers. Or. Richard w. Sattin chief of the unintentional injuries Section of the centers for disease control in Atlanta. The researchers found that purebred pit Bull terriers or mixed Breed pit bulls were responsible for 42 Pyrc Cal of deaths related to dog bites. German shepherds placed second on this list Al 15 percent followed by huskies malamutes Doberman pm sch ers Rotl wailers and Wolf hybrids. In 1979 Pil bulls accounted for 20 per cent of fall attacks by dogs. That figure had risen to 62 percent in 1988. Nobody knows the dog population of the United states or the exact break Down by Breed Sallin said. Bui he added we do nol believe that pit bulls represent anywhere near 42 per cent of dogs in the United states. There fore we believe thai the pit Bull excess in deaths is real and Satlin said most dog bites and deaths resulting from them could be prevented with tighter animal control Laws and More responsible dog owners. Dog owner some deaths the study said by realizing hat a Chain May not be sufficient restraint to ensure that a dog cannot is More than a Quarter of the deaths from dog attacks were caused by strays the researchers found. The majority of victims of fatal dog attacks were the very Young and the very old the researchers said. More than 70 percent of the incidents were among children younger than Luand most of those involved children under 5. Joly said dogs thai attack children Are often confused by their Small size and behaviour and perceive them As threaten ing animals not As humans. People Over 69 accounted for 10 per cent of the deaths
