European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7boston�?Ts a Waif hard reminder of Street War Boston apr the kids go to Chez Vous to roller skate and gossip to share sodas and stories. And for a Safe Haven from the gunfire of the streets. Now they also come to weep at a the Wall a a Stark memorial inscribed with the names of 65 teen agers who have died in recent years on Bostons streets. Quot they come Over and see the names of friends and relatives a said Dorcas Dunham who with her husband runs the inner City roller skating rink. A a they re starting to Sec the reality and they re crying they re seeing death in a Black and White list that grows longer every Day a a list that includes the names of gang members gunned Down by their rivals and innocent kids caught in the crossfire. The War has claimed 28 lives in Boston already this year. If the Pace continues the Wall will soon be filled. No one wants to Start another. The memorial hangs in a Comer at the 50-year-old rink in the City a Dorchester Section. Its housed behind a reinforced door and around the Comer from one of the City a busiest police precincts. The teen age skaters Are All frisked for weapons and agree to play by the rules no gum no smoking no fighting no profanity. The Rev. Bruce Wall a minister and youth Counselor tacked the names of four More victims to the list saturday. When the kids came in saturday night they looked 8 feel up and noticed the additions. A they come in and go for their skates and Start looking for their friends a said Wall who is also a juvenile court clerk magistrate. A then they Stop and stare. And Quot faces go with these names. A a it a like you can almost see the kids remembering them their classmates and friends a said John Dunham who with his wife keeps tabs on As Many As 350 teen agers on a Busy night at the Rin k. A they re overwhelmed and then they seem like broken with despair a said Dunham. They re tired of seeing friends faces on the evening news and hearing a that another one bit the dust a he said. Dunham said he sees it in the Way the kids shoulders slump As they read the words scrawled across the memorial a dedicated to those youth who died before their sometimes he stands Back a few feet and just watches the emotions and tears Wash Over those Young faces. Quot some of them done to even come to skate anymore. They just come to look at the Wall a Dunham said. I hey re learning about respecting life. And that there Are no second Audrey Moore knows there Are no second chances. Skating rink owner John Dunham sits below a the Wall which contains a list of teen age victims in Street violence her 11-year-old sister Tiffany is on the list. Tiffany was shot Down by a stray Bullet one summer Day two years ago As she sat on a Mailbox in her neighbourhood. A i talk to the gang members and try to gel through a she said. A i know none of them want to see one of their own on the Wall. Maybe this will make them Stop and Dunham said he thinks the message is getting through. He watches the kids leave the rink at night cutting a wide path around the groups that hang outside looking for trouble after closing. Fat study weighs heavily on women he has seen fights erupt inside the rink and has seen them Cut Short when a kid stands up and Points toward the Wall. A they say a done to you All see that look at All our friends a dead a and then things get real quiet Quot he said. A a we re planting a seed of Hope that a what its All about activists said. The memorial is about dealing with death and staking a claim to life. Its one piece of a bigger Effort to turn things around in these tired communities where people sleep on their floors to stay out of the line of fire at night. Chicago apr Young adults face inc largest risk of becoming fat and Black women Are especially vulnerable a t0 a decade Iong study of nearly 10,000 people from age 24 to 74. Women of both races were twice As Likely As men to gain a lot of weight and women from 25 to 44 years who began a sly us r a vet eight gained the most weight of All subjects researchers found. Among both sexes those Ages 25 to 34 gain my St skely t0 have a major weight Dali Wun y was ,e4 by epidemiologist Sim. R1? of the nutrition Divi at the . Centers for disease control in Atlanta. Although women tend to live longer than men they also tend to suffer More illnesses which can affect activity and eating Levels Williamson said. Williamson noted that while women May be More Likely to gain weight than men previous research has found that men face a greater risk of developing weight related problems. Women tend to carry excess weight in the buttocks and hips while menus extra poundage usually is concentrated in the stomach area nearer the heart and other vital organs. Among women 25 to 34-years-old, Blacks were 40 percent More Likely than Whites to gain a lot of weight Williamson a study found. For women from 35 to 44, Blacks were 80 percent More Likely to face a major weight gain. Women Ages 25 to 44 years who began the study overweight gained the most weight of All subjects. Among All women Ages 25 to 44 who were overweight at the Start 14.2 percent experienced a major weight gain compared with 5.6 percent among men. Among women of that age group who were of Normal weight when the monitoring began 6.2 percent gained a lot of weight compared with 2.9 percent among men. Holocaust museum gets nazi artefacts a i kept i a a it. _ Noton a _ East Ger Icci inn f m Day donated a major col us Jmc nazi Era artefacts and Doc built her he i Caust museum being of hs0�?T is a museum official warned incident 6 increase in anti semitic in East and West Germany. Herder pc Man ambassador Gerhard related to of rect about 500 objects million in j Germany a Slaughter of 6 a i he Hon?.?tur, world a ii say of us to Leif Wou a remind a fall Neva or happen again a kid of Clems my tits in cd de medical instr Sachsenhause expense its at the , Camp jul Gogue Durino air a Berlin syn pm Eromon i Oil 5ery a Kristall Nachti b Omot 1938, and German v-2 rocket parts produced in underground tunnels where More than 10,000 slave labourers died. Miles Lerman the museums chief negotiator for holocaust artefacts congratulated East germans for the courage to a face up to the past and acknowledge the crimes committed by the generation that preceded he said the world was jubilant Over changes sweeping the Eastern bloc. A jubilant a he said a but also concerned with the increasing outbreaks of anti semitic acts with signs of More prevalently expressed wishes to turn the Page and implement a historic Lerman said incidents of anti jewish Graffiti desecration of tombstones and incendiary remarks by Neo nazis in East and West Germany Are Quot highly he said the Small but vocal resurgence of anti semitic sentiment though denounced by both German governments threatens to undermine the democratic society the countries seek. One of the prize acquisitions donated tuesday by East Germany is an ism Hollerith machine for sorting and tabulating punch cards. A mechanical forerunner of the modern computer the machine was used during German censuses in the 1930s to target jews gypsies and others for deportation to nazi death Camps. The $147 million Complex will be the largest holocaust museum in the world surpassing the had Vas Hemn National holocaust Center in strike still at impasse Charleston. . Apr gov. Gaston Caperton held lengthy talks with Union leaders tuesday with no Progress apparent in West Virginia a first teachers strike. Public schools remained closed in 25 out of 55 counties. Neither Side would divulge specifics about the talks which began monday in Caperton a conference room at the Capitol. They negotiated four hours tuesday before breaking for lunch resumed in the afternoon and were to continue into the evening hours. More than 85 percent of the states 22,000 Public school teachers went on strike last week in a dispute Over wages and benefits. Teachers stayed out this week despite a warning from the governor that they could be fired for striking in violation of stale Law. Pickets spread to 46 of the states 55 counties and the department of education said besides the 25 counties which were closed schools were open in 19 others and mixed in 11. 150,000 Public the strike idled of the states school students. Nearly 328,000
