European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 17, 1990 the stars and stripes \ age 3keeping an Eye on the laundry a Young panamanian boy walks near out clothes to dry. The wire surrounds a Brook a near Panama City. The Refu soccer stadium in the capital City were barbed wire on which refugees had set refugee Camp erected recently at Al gees who had been camped at Balboa relocated on saturday. Bostonian give graphic reports of police searches Boston a Young Blacks an hispanic were searched by police in sweeps of i hair working class neighbor hoods before Charles and Carol Stuart were shot More than so people said in graphic accounts published sunday. Fifteen of those surveyed by the bos Ion Globe said they were strip searched by police officers without being arrested a practice residents of the Mission Hill Section say was widespread after the oct. 23 Stuart shootings. The Young people told the newspaper that the searches occurred in a variety of situations throughout working class sections of the Mattapan Roxbury and Dorchester neighbourhoods. Johnny Saldana 16. Of Roxbury said that before police searched him in front of a High school in Early november they asked the names of his family members and whether he had Ever been convicted of a crime. They stripped me Saldana said. They pulled off my jacket. They made me Lake off my pants. They checked my pants. It was awful like i was a criminal which i m not. I m a b student. I should be treated As an  Raymond Bowder 14, also of Rox Bury said he was walking from his aunt s House with two friends in late october when a police Cruiser screeched to a halt in front of them. They were searching us. And one of my friends said what Are you doing " Bowder said. They said shut up and pull your pants Down i said what they made me pull my underwear Down too he continued. There were like four to six people  Charles Ogle rec a professor at har Vard Law school said such searches clearly violated the . Constitution. I Haven t heard any Case where it sounds like police have followed the let Ter or the spirit of the Law Oil Clicc said. They seem to think that the Mere presence of a person on the Street or Mere fear is justification for stopping searching removing clothing taking items from  police commissioner Francis Roache said he would personally oversee the investigation of any complaints arising from the searches. There arc going to be occasions when officers can t go Back to textbooks when making stops Roache said. I d like to use these cases to get Back on track if we re off track. If even one per son had their trousers lowered and there was no reason for suspicion that would really concern  questions about the legality of police searches were first raised last summer but have become More prevalent amid allegations that police violated privacy rights during their dragnet in Mission Hill after the Stuart shootings. Stuart told authorities that a Black gunman forced his Way into the White couple s car As they left a Hospital birth ing class then robbed and shot  s wife died and he was seriously wounded. Stuart committed suicide on Jan. 4. And a Black Man who police sources had called a prime suspect in the shootings was cleared. Ogle True said searches As part of police sweeps were illegal unless police had a detailed description of a suspect an frisked Only the person whom they reasonably suspected of committing the crime. You have to enforce the Law in Rox Bury the same Way you would in Brook line an upper income suburb Ogle rec said. British school bans head scarves for moslem girls Lon Fjon a a girls school in Central England has forbidden two moslem teen agers from wearing religious head scarves to class their father said Mon Day. The ruling comes three months after a similar dispute sparked a bitter political debate in France. Or. Abdur Rab Alvi said his daughters Fatima 16. And Aisha 14, have been sent Home from Altrincham grammar school for girls every school Day since dec.14. Anthony Lee. A spokesman for the local education authority said uniform regulations at the school located 138 Miles Northwest of London forbid head scarves because they could be a safely Hazard. In certain teaching situations in science laboratories and in the gymnasium the Long flowing scarves would be a  Lee said. The school refused to comment monday on the Dis Pute. Islamic Law requires girls past puberty to cover their Heads in the presence of men who arc not close rela Tives. Three men Leach at the school of 727 pupils and there is a male caretaker. Lee said 18 other moslem girls at the school have not asked to Wear scarves. Alvi said his daughters have been wearing scarves outside school for 18 months and the school has repeatedly turned Down their requests to Wear them in classrooms. Last month the Manchester Council of mosques said the girls should conform to islamic Law so on dec. 14 they began wearing the scarves at school and were sent Home he said. They continued wearing the scarves when the new school term began Jan. 3 and have been sent Home every Day since then he said. I am very much upset about their education but religion comes first Alvi said. If something is not allowed it s not allowed. You can t make concessions on  if we thought it was dangerous we would consider it very seriously said a spokesman for the mosque Council Ahmad a Slier. We fail to Sec the logic of their argument. How can a head Scarf properly secured by hairpins and tied at the Back cause a a Cash and safety Hazard just Down the Road at the University of Manches Ter there arc Many moslem girls wearing head scarves and working in the labs without any  Bashir and Alvi said they were willing to let the girls remove the scarves in classes where no men were pre sent. In october three moslem girls in Cecil North of Paris were banned from school because they refused to remove their scarves. France s state school system bans All out Wani signs of religion. The dispute sparked Public demonstrations and be came a National political Issue. France s highest administrative authority the Council of state ruled i november that moslem girls could Wear scarves to school As Long As it caused no disruption. There Are no Laws forbidding religion in Britain s state schools and the department of education said uniform regulations were decided by local school boards and teachers. Altrincham s governing body will consider the Issue tuesday