European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday december 30,1989 Pauley bids Farewell As today co Host new York a holding Back tears with her precautionary Klee nex Jane Pauley said Farewell Friday morning after 13 years As co Host of abcs today program. She said "1989 is a year nobody is Likely to forget for reasons other than a cast change of a television program but added that next year promises to be pretty interesting too and i m anxious to get on with she promised to keep up friendships with each of her colleagues on the show Bryant Gumbel Gene Shalit Wil lard Scott and her replacement Debo Rah Norville As they said their Good byes at the conclusion of the last program of the year. Recalling the late Frank Mcgee. A former today regular Pauley said Frank never said goodbye but at least 1,000 times he said Don t go far " much of the final half hour of the two hour show was taken up with High lights of Pauley s past including clips of her changing hairstyles since 1976, and the comments of a anthropologist on the deeper meanings of her coiffure. Tom Brokaw co Host for the first five years of Pauley s run said in a film clip that she was the Young woman you d like to have As your Weatherman Willard Scott summed her up As a class a statistician said she d logged 3,000 shows con ducted 12,000 interviews asked 88,000 questions and travelled 200,000 Miles during 70 trips for the program. I look like Alice in wonderland a maturer and More assured Pauley said after seeing a clip of her first appear Ance on oct. 11,1976. On that Day she told viewers that one and a half years ago i was a second string news Reader in Pauley became co Host of the top rated network morning program when she was 25, stepping into the shoes of the Trail blazing Barbara Walters. She has said her decision to leave today grew out of her feeling that Abc news president Michael Gartner and Abc sports president Dick Eicr sol who also was overseer of today were not thinking about her future. Ebersol said bringing in Norville and other changes were done to position the show for the 90s." co hosts Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel. Together for last time on today Minnesota won t reopen probe into boys fatal shooting by cop St. Paul. Minn. A the state s attorney Gen eral refused thursday to reopen an investigation into the fatal shootings of two 13-year-old hmong boys by a police me to go Forward with a new my estimation would raise serious ethical questions Hubert h. Humphrey Iii said after meeting for about two hours with a coalition representing Minnesota s minority communities. A Dakota county grand jury on dec. 8 refused to indict Kenneth Murphy an incr Grove height police officer for the fatal shootings nov. 15 of a see Lorand thai Yang. The boys of vietnamese descent were from St. Paul. The boys were shot in the Back As they fled from a stolen car. The officer told authorities he believed Yang was pointing a gun at him. Police found no weapon but they believe Murphy mistook a screwdriver found near the boys bodies for a pistol. The attorney general s office investigated the shoot ing at the request of Dakota county authorities and presented the Case to a Dakota county grand jury which on dec. 8 declined to indict Murphy. Humphrey defended the state s investigation thurs Day and said the Case could not be reopened unless significant new evidence were disclosed. Although Humphrey refused to reopen the Case Mem Bers of the coalition said they were satisfied with his planto appoint a task fore to look into their other concerns. We had what 1 would consider a very Good meet ing said Steve Zachary of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. John Huyen. President of the vietnamese american association said the coalition s main concern is to prevent future incidents. About 350 people attended a Vigil for the dead boys in the Capitol Rotunda while Humphrey met first with the boys families and then with the coalition representatives. Among the coalition s other requests were annual training for All Law enforcement officers and attorneys representing Law enforcement agencies concerning the use of deadly Force and concerning the cultural diversity in their communities. A code of conduct for Law enforcement officers with special emphasis concerning the use of deadly Force. Creation of a panel with Powers of a grand jury to review allegations of police misconduct and violations of the proposed code of conduct. What we need to do is turn the tragedy of these circumstances int9 the Opportunity to realize that we must confront racism and discrimination Humphrey said. We must use this As an Opportunity to look Osvard the future As to How we can prevent that in Yusuf my Chi president 9f the Urban coalition of Minneapolis and an organizer of the Vigil said the minority communities were United in protesting the deaths. This is not just a Southeast asian my Chi said. It affects All communities of Man paid student to kill him with car Fremont Calif. A a Man paid a College student to kill him by running him Down with an Auto Mobile police said thursday. Graham Glickfeld who was killed Over the week end had made similar requests before but it was not Clear Why he wanted to die said police spokesman Dennis Satariano. But this was obviously a Man with some emotional problems he said. The Driver Michael k. Docs hot 27, a student at san Jose state University was arraigned wednesday on murder charges and held without bail. It was murder for hire said sgt. Mike Eads. Police would not say How much Money was involved Only that it was not a lot. And would not give details of the earlier offers by the victim. The two men attended a Christmas party separately Friday night police said. Police responding to a Call around Midnight found Glickfeld a 31-year-old supermarket worker seriously injured n the empty parking lot of a Community Center. He died a Short time later at a Hospi Tal. The arrangement Between the two men probably took place within a couple hours said Eads. After the car hit Glickfeld docs hot called police to let us know what s going on Eads said. We had some idea it was an intentional act from the begin Doeschot admitted running Over Glickfeld the sergeant said. Detective Ken Bingaman said the men were acquaintances from a theater class at a Community col lege. Stateside fire kills 2 girls trapped in Home by window Gates new York a two girls tried desperately to get through a heavy window Gale to escape a fire but flames collapsed the ceiling of their apartment and killed them fire department officials said. Sisters Delia Lilly Montanz. 14. And Diana Mon Tanycz. 8. Were found under the debris with tools from a tool Box near their bodies said fire department spokesman Efrain chief said they could have gotten out one two three had it not been for the illegal window Gates another spokesman John Mulligan said. The fire began on the second floor of the Brooklyn building in which they lived spread through a Row of five attached three Story building and drove some two dozen families into 11-degree cold. The fire was blamed on an overloaded electrical outlet on the floor below the children Mulligan said. Former aids fund official Dies of the disease at 47 san Francisco a Hank Cook former president of the san Francisco aids emergency fund has died of complications from the disease. He was 47. Cook president of the fund in 1987-88, died at a Homce for aids victims. He helped raise More than $1.5 million for the fund which pays Bills provides food and gives support to aids patients who have run out of was a contract administrator for the . Department of housing and Urban development and a specialist in housing for the elderly. Cook was a Mem bar of the conference on housing for the aged. Goose with feet trapped in ice gets cold shoulder Gastonia. . A a Canadian Goose caught off guard by a fast freeze was trapped by its feet in ice on a Pond and it looks As if there s Little Hope of a Quick Goose attended by its mournfully honking mate caught the Eye of Wayne Wilson As he walked around a Pond at Crowders Mountain state Park. The Goose webbed feet were stuck in about four inches of ice. But his report brought Little action wednesday from wildlife officials who preferred to let nature take its course As temperatures Rise at the Pond 30 Miles West of Charlotte. Wayne Smith head of the Gaston county animal control department said Goose Rescue is out of his jurisdiction. They re used to this kind of weather he said of the Birds. They can take care of themselves. Just throw some bread out to
