European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and Stripe splashy skiing the Trail is a Little Wetter than usual Warren it during the annual Pond but downhill skier Frank Minosa of skimming contest. Minosa made a Westport mass., keeps his balance splash with judges who gave him per saturday As he plows across a Chilly feet 10s. Unfortunately most Contes Pond at the sugar Bush ski area in Tants just left an icy impression. Vii Eric in Iii up 070 in . During 1989, Fri director reports \1/ a Chimp Tow / am _ Thom ui4c a Ali Nail Lurnel Washington apr there was a 5 percent Rise in violent crime in the United states , while so called serious property crimes such As burglary and theft were up Only 2 percent according to figures released sunday by Fri director William s. Sessions. Overall the 3 percent increase in serious crimes from 1988 to 1989 was the same As the previous year and compares with a 2 percent Rise in 1987, a 6 percent jump in 1986 and a 5 percent Rise in 1985, the Fri said. Cities with populations Over 50,000 a places where approximately 80.9 million people live a showed a 3 percent increase m serious crimes. Suburban and Rural areas As Well As cities outside metropolitan areas a places where some 132.2 million people live a had a slightly smaller 2 percent increase. The numbers reflect reports to police of incidents of murder forcible rape robbery aggravated assault burglary larceny then motor vehicle theft and arson. Among violent crimes robbery increased 7 percent murder was up 4 percent incidents of aggravated assault climbed 5 percent and forcible rape Rose 1 percent. In the property crime category motor vehicle thefts jumped 9 percent and instances of larceny or theft were up 2 percent. But burglary and arson both declined 2 percent. The statistics for the Overall number of violent crimes followed no particular pattern in regard to the size of communities where they occurred. Violent crime increased 5 percent a the National average a in cities with fewer than 10,000 people and in those with 50,000 to 99,999 people. It Rose 6 percent in relatively Small cities of 10,000 to 24,999 people and in the largest cities with 1 million or More residents. The largest increase in violent crime �?7 percent a was found in cities of 100,000 to 499.999 people. The smallest increase �?3 percent a was found in Rural areas and in the second largest category of cities those with 500,000 to 999,999 people. Suburban areas and cities of 25,000 to 49.999 both saw increases of 4 percent in the number of violent crimes. Cities of 10,000 to 49,999 saw a whop Ping 12 percent increase in the number of murders reported last year. But slightly larger cities of 50,000 to 99,999 had a 5 percent decline in murders. For larger cities murders were up 8 percent in those with populations of i 00,000 to 249,999,2 percent in cities of 250,000 to 499,999, and 7 percent in cities of 500,000 and More. The number of murders decreased 3 percent in Rural areas and in towns with fewer than 10,000 residents and fell 2 percent in suburban areas. Searchers discover 2 More bodies in the rubble of Miami Beach hotel Miami Beach a. Apr searchers using dogs and heavy equipment found two More bodies Ana looked for others sunday in the charred Hulk of the Fontana hotel. The death toll from the furious fast moving fire that swept through the 39-year-old, 102-room hotel Friday Rose to six with the two discoveries which officials said apparently lowered to eight the number of missing tenants. More than a score of searchers representing Federal state City and county agencies began their sunday search at the top and along the sides of blackened rubble left As the fire gutted the building. A your main concern now is to get the bodies out but safely so that we done to risk the teams Quot said Miami Beach police detective Jim Hyde spokesman for the search Effort. The fifth body unidentifiable even As to gender was found before noon when a Small Bulldozer pushed aside some debris Hyde said. The sixth was found at Midas Lemoon in the rear of the building. Hyde said the body was that of a woman but searchers  Tell what room or even what floor it came from because that Section of the building caved in during the fire. Or. Joseph Davis chief medical examiner for Dade county said the fourth body to be discovered spotted saturday remained in the building sunday. He said searchers  immediately get to it because of dangerous debris including a Bathtub a weakened Wall and what had been a rooftop tank dangling above it. Davis said All bodies still in the hotel will eventually be found. He said even Ash and cinders would be sifted through Metal screens for Small pieces of physical evidence such As Teeth Bones dental work and even Metal buttons anything that might lend a clue As to a victims identity. A but its going to take time a he said estimating that it might be Days before the search is finished. Hyde said that until it is finished the search would end at Sunset each Day with guards posted around the building for the night. A we need natural Daylight for this Type of search Quot he said. Names of 14 residents who had not been seen since the fire were provided by surviving tenants. Hotel records were burned in the fire. The Fontana was a seasonal or year round Home for about 100 people including Many elderly retirees. Residents groped Down dark Smoky hallways or jumped out of their  of a amp is will hike taxes Washington apr a tax increase will be needed at some Point to pay for escalating losses among a third of the nations savings and loan institutions comptroller general Charles a. Bowsher said sunday. Bowsher last week raised the estimated Price tag for the governments a amp a bailout from $257 billion to $325 billion with a warning that it could Rise to $501 billion. A this is one of the great financial disasters that we be Ever had in this country and its going to have to be added onto All the other problems we have in the Federal budget a he said on Abc to s a meet the  Bowsher blamed the Bush administrations desire to meet Deti Cit reduction targets without a tax increase for underestimating the size of the a amp a problem. Judge bars seizure of Mapplethorpe a photos. /t<1_. Ltkaif4nlan pvt bit Cincinnati apr a Federal judge barred police sunday from confiscating photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe that led to an obscenity indictment against an arts Center and its director. . District judge Carl Rubin also ordered county and City authorities not to interfere with the exhibition of the Fate artists works while the obscenity charges Are tried in state court. The contemporary arts Center hailed the protective order which will let the 175-photo exhibit proceed unchanged until a jury can decide whether seven sexually explicit photos Are obscene. A we got everything we wanted out of this hearing a arts Center lawyer h. Louis Sirkin said. The exhibit opened saturday morning and attracted thousands of viewers including nine grand jury Mem Bers. It was closed for an hour in the afternoon when the arts Center and its director Dennis Barrie were indicted on the state obscenity charges. Patrons were told to leave the Center while police videotaped the display under a search warrant. The exhibit then reopened. Hamilton county prosecutor Arthur Ney or. Asked the Center saturday to voluntarily remove seven photographs that grand jurors found objectionable but Center officials refused. Ney made a veiled threat of More action if the photographs remained in place this week and he did not Rule out confiscation. The seven photos include two of children either naked or partially naked and others depicting homoerotic acts. Last june the Corcoran gallery of Art in washing ton cancelled the exhibit. The prompted Congress to limit fund for sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., declared the photographs obscene a a a v a the Cincinnati exhibit reopened at no nne a Ujiie hour Early attracting a crowd that eventually around the  the arts Center is not admitting people under has posted a warning sign at the door. A. The University of Pennsylvania a of j 988, temporary Art organized the exhibit in the a Anco it Drew crowds in Philadelphia in december in Chicago at the time of the new York City Arm death from aids in March 1989. He was 42 the exhibit has also been shown in Boston a Ford Conn. And Berkeley Calif