European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday. February 28,1990 refugee dance in the Street it Sweetwater. Fl�., after the election of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in Nicaragua. Nicaraguan exiles in Florida City Hail Miracle of Ortega s defeat Sweetwater. Fla. A thousands of Nicara Guan exiles clogged the main Street of the Community nicknamed Little Managua to celebrate the upset defeat of their Homeland s sandinista regime pro claiming that miracles do but their jubilation was tempered by concern about to Victor Violta Barrios do Chamorro will Cope with daunting problems facing Nicaragua. Police estimated 8.000 nicaraguans and other his panics converged monday on Sweetwater. A town West of Miami that is Home to Southern Florida s largest nicaraguan Community after the defeat of president Daniel Onega in Nicaragua s National elections. We never dreamed of said an exultant Francis co Onega president of the nicaraguan american chamber of Commerce in dad county. We thought it was impossible. But Sec. Miracles do nicaraguan exiles Many of whom had not slept since voting began sunday morning jammed Busy Flagler Street. Some waved flags danced and Sang patriotic songs. Others Sal in cars and blared horns. The crowd swelled in the evening As the workday ended and police closed a five Block stretch to traffic. While Many exiles talked of returning to Nicaragua they said they want to Sec the new govern ment in action is on its Way said Inez do Gutirr re. A 31-year-old grocery store cashier who has been in the United slates for a year with her husband and Young daughter. But she said she will not return immediately. Well just wait a while and see How things go in Nicaragua politically and economically. The country is in rums. It s in great poverty Runato Salazar said he will not be ready to return until the sandinista the left Wing revolutionaries who took Power in 1979. Relinquish control of the military and Means total democracy not the government being in charge of one part and the opposition in control of the army he said. At a shelter for Central americans near the Border City of Brownsville Texas Edgar Toruno Raudales expressed the same reservations. What Good is it to have Violta in Power if the army controls the country he said. There could be a coup at any is what All the nicaraguans wanted the Victory of said Jose Alfredo Velasquez. But Rosaria Baldoceda a 23-year-old student from Managua was More sceptical. No matter who is selected we will have the same she said at the shelter in than 100,000 nicaraguans have settled in Southern Florida since the sandinista revolution and Sweel water mayor Jose a. Rivero said Many of them May have to return because they Lack permanent status in the United states. Adolfo Calero former director of the con tra rebels who fought the sandinista predicted that slowly the nicaraguan exiles will go Back to the country. I m going Back As soon As i get a passport from the country Calero said. I think the armed struggle is Over. The armed struggle was never an end in itself it was always a Means to Force the sandinista into a political contest which the people won headed by Vio Leta Munoz who joined in the Celebration said he Hopes the government also changes in his Homeland of Cuba which he left As a teen Ager. I know it s going to happen one of these Days said the 27-year-old. He said he wants to return to Cuba because i belong rent strike Leader accused of making off with funds new York a an accountant who led a rent strike at his East Side apartment building has disappeared along with jl.7 million from the strike fund authorities said. A warrant is out for the arrest of Steven Nel son Delit 45.Delit allegedly used Money from the account to pay his rent and gambling losses in Atlantic City. N.j., Manhattan District attorney Robert Morgenthau said monday. A pizza parlor he owns also May have been bought with the Money. Morgenthau said. Fellow tenants May each be liable for 27 months of rent since Delit allegedly made off with Money that was supposed to be held in escrow. The escrow account was never opened. The Money was deposited instead into an account Over which Delit had sole authority. The main thing Here is they put their Trust into this Guy. And no one was reviewing Morgenthau said. When people do this they should insist on a Bank escrow account and make the head of the tenants association show them the gang related shootings bring Down curtain on film Westminster Calif. A gang related shootings at two drive in Heaters prompted the Heaters operators to Stop showing a movie about a gang fighting kick Boxer. Police said As Many As 100 people and at least three gangs were involved in a Brawl during a showing of Angel town at the i Way 39 drive in in Westminster about 30 Miles South East of downtown los Angeles. One 18-year-old was hospitalized for a gunshot wound to his Chest. The same night at the South Bay 6 drive in Complex in los Angeles two reputed gang Mem Bers were wounded As they strolled to the snack bar during Angel town said los Angeles county sheriffs sgt. Kenneth brazils. A District manager for the drive ins said he cancelled the film for the rest of the weekend and local officials said they were worried about the possibility of retaliatory attacks. I d hate to Sec a gang War happen at a drive in theater said Westminster City councilman Frank Fry. There Are a lot of innocent people there and bullets do a lot of Panama Pilot sues . Over shot up air plane Miami up a panamanian Pilot has filed a $75,000 lawsuit against the . Government claiming . Soldiers destroyed his air plane when they invaded his country last december. Luis Alvarado a civilian who works in the canal zone filed his suit in . District court in Miami demanding restitution for damage to his Cessna. The suit says his plane was riddled with gunfire dec. 20 when . Troops aboard c-130 gunships opened fire on Pattilla Airport in Panama City. A spokeswoman in the . Attorney s office declined comment pending the completion of a w Ritton response by the government. Michael o Kane Alvarado s lawyer said several other planes at the Airport were damaged and sever Al other panamanian citizens Are seeking restitution for property destroyed by . Troops. Disturbing number of Blacks within penal system Washington a nearly one of every four Young Black males is be Hind bars or on probation or parole said a study released monday. The report by the sentencing project a non profit organization that promotes alternative punishments and sentencing re form Calls for changes in the criminal jus Tice system to make first Lime lawbreakers less Likely to become repeat offenders. These new findings should be disturbing to All said Marc Maucri. Assistant director of the sentencing project who wrote the report. We now risk the possibility of writing off an entire generation of Black men from leading productive based on data from the Justice department the report says that 609,690 Blacks aged 20 through 29 were under control of the criminal Justice system in prison in jail or on probation or parole in mid-1989. That figure rep resents 23 percent of the entire Black male population for that age group. It also exceeds the number of Black men of All Ages who were enrolled in College in 1986 roughly 436,000, the report said. For White men in the same age category 1,054.508, or 6.2 percent were incarcerated or on probation or parole. A total of 238,255 hispanic males or 10.4 per cent were in the criminal Justice system. Although fewer Young women than men were in the system there were racial disparities 164.249 Whites or i percent. 78,417 Blacks or 2.7 percent and 37,093 hispanics or 1.8 percent. Stu Smith a spokesman for the Justice department said the report s numbers were accurate hut declined further comment. Rep. John Conyers a Mich. Chair Man of the House government operations committee said he would ask the general accounting office a congressional investigatory Agency for a study to corroborate the sentencing project s findings. Congressional hearings arc needed As Well he said. These Are shocking disturbing num Bers Conyers said. In recent years he said the Federal and slate governments have emphasized a get Tough strategy building More prisons imposing longer sentences requiring Manda tory imprisonment and compelling the death penalty for certain crimes. The study suggests a new approach is needed he said. We will never build enough cells to House everyone who can be Brough into the prisons he said. Also there s no showing that increased incarceration has any deterrent effect the report blames social ills including High unemployment rates for the disproportionate number of Black men in the prison system
