European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday april 13,1990 stateside great Plains arid weather eased by Rainy March Washington apr a has eased drought problems across mild wet March the great Plains a government report said wednesday. A weekly weather and crop report by the Commerce and agriculture departments said last month was mild and wet across much of the United states. It was the 10th warmest and 35th wettest March on record. However the report said unusually dry conditions prevailed Over the Northeast Northwest and West last month. Statewide precipitation figures for january february and March showed wet conditions extended through Alabama Arkansas Iowa Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma and Texas. For Alabama Louisiana and Oklahoma it was the wettest first Quarter on record. But in contrast to the wetness of Southern and Central states the report said the West had unusually dry conditions through the normally Rainy season and that october through March ranks As the third driest such period on evacuates Homes halts expressway traffic Glendale wis. Apr floating booms Corral cd an Oil Slick on the Milwaukee River after billowing smoke from a warehouse fire forced authorities to halt expressway traffic evacuate Homes and close businesses. About $2 million was lost in the nine hour Blaze tuesday that consumed the Harrison Oil corp., a distributor of engine lubrication oils and pesticides said Norman Wichman the fire chief. The cause has yet to be determined. No one was seriously injured. Army base in Texas halts shooting of goats for training Washington apr the army is abandoning a Long held practice of shooting goats at a Texas base to train doctors in treating military trauma cases but a medical group that sought the moratorium says the wounding Are continuing at fort Bragg . The physicians committee for responsible Medicine said 800 to 1,000 goats a year were being shot in the legs at fort Sam Houston in san Antonio until the moratorium. The practice however continues at fort Bragg and As Many As 1,200 goats Are involved the organization said. Or. Neal d. Barnard a psychiatrist and president of the committee said he believes the army decided to use goats because a no one would care about an animal with an unpopular face not a cute and cuddly face. However the military was Barnard said the physicians group sought a moratorium in part after such army specialists As radiologists and psychiatrists who normally Don t treat trauma victims were being told to participate in the training at fort Sam Houston. A i was very angry for a couple of reasons a Barnard said wednesday. A the first is that its not a very Nice thing to be shooting these animals. Secondly its not even very Good training. If you really want to be Good at treating wounds there a no substitute for going into a clinical setting an emergency room or an operating room and that a the Way All competent trauma physicians Are Barnard said the wound of a Goat is far different from that of a human and that shooting a Goat in the leg a has no relation to an abdominal wound or a Chest wound or a head wound. The tissue feels different in the Goat a its got thick hairy Barnard said the army had been shooting goats to a Enias was nce 1958 th3t he earned of the Pat Davis chief of Public affairs for the army a a Academy of health sciences at fort Sam Houston said she could not confirm How Long the wounding had been taking place. The ban took effect about 90 Days ago. U Davis said the army did not use firearms to inflict the wounds. Instead she said it used a a firing mechanism to fire a a projectile a or Metal Pellet into a Goat s leg. The military had been using the pellets to simulate the a shocking Impact of firing at a human from a military weapon the spokeswoman said. Military weapons fire projectiles at a far higher Speed than a civilian handgun she said and the tissue damage is far worse. The military a weapons cause a a great Deal of destruction to the tissue a she said and if military physicians do not clean the wound correctly a the Guy will lose his limb and probably his but Barnard said there has never been a single study showing that using goats for this Type of training was effective. A they the military never bothered to look just spent Money year after year shooting these goats a a he said. Barnard also said the army a decision was Only temporary and that his organization would push for a permanent ban along with a ban at fort Bragg. A a they re calling it temporary. We Are saying enough is enough. Civilian physicians done to train this . Rally turns into riot Over Black teens slaying Teaneck . Apr youths overturned patrol cars smashed windows and looted stores in a violent protest Over the slaying of a Black teen Ager by a White police officer. At least five people were injured. About 1,000 people had rallied peacefully wednesday night demanding that a special prosecutor investigate the killing of 15-year-old Phillip panned. The boy was shot tuesday evening after he was questioned at a Park by two officers responding to a report of a teen Ager pulling a gun. Pannlll died of a gunshot wound that entered his Back the Bergen county medical examiner said. Police said Pannlll had a gun but his friends denied it and said the killing was racially motivated. Violence began wednesday night after a candlelight Vigil when about a dozen police officers in riot gear appeared at the Edge of the crowd to try to Force people to disperse. Police pushed the crowd into the police Headquarters parking lot and some women and children were trampled witnesses said. Some in the crowd retaliated by smashing windows and doors at the police station. They smashed the windows of three patrol cars and overturned a fourth. Gangs of youths ran up and Down Teaneck Road adjoining the station smashing shop windows and looting some stores including a video rental shop. Police wearing riot helmets milled around a liquor store with smashed windows to keep people from entering. Police said they arrested a 17-year-old youth. Two police officers and two other people a woman and a Man were treated for minor injuries and released from a Hospital a nurse said. A photographer from the Black Star photo Agency was attacked by a gang and was helped into an ambulance with a bloody nose. Most of the protesters had dispersed by about 11 . Teaneck police called in reinforcements from the state police and Law enforcement officers from Bergen county and at least five surrounding towns. Teaneck an affluent Community of 37,000, is not far from the George Washington Bridge linking Northern new Jersey and Manhattan. The town which has prided itself on its racial and ethnic diversity is 64 percent White and 24 percent Black. Acting Bergen county prosecutor John Holl said a 1 hear evidence on the teen agers shoot a there is a lot of confusion in this a a police officer inspects a patrol car damaged in the riot at Teaneck ., wednesday night. Grand jury i ing next wee k. Case Swers. He said. A there Are More questions than an George Powell executive director of the Bergen county a act told demonstrators before the violence broke out that his organization sought the suspension of Gary Spath the officer who shot Pannell and would ask gov. Jim Florio to assign a special prosecutor. The boys father also named Phillip pleaded with the crowd to avoid confrontation. A a there a no violence Here no violence a he told the crowd. Spath was treated and released from a Hospital after going into Shock following the shooting. Spath and the other officer at the scene Wayne Blanco were placed on sick leave pending an investigation Holl said. Earlier in the Day Holl told reporters that investigators had found a gun on the youths body. One of the officers was frisking Pannell when he said he Felt what he thought was a gun Holl said. At that Point Pannell bolted and the officers chased him according to the account Given by Blanco. Blanco said Spath fired one shot that missed. Spath Bren again after Pannell reached into his jacket pocket Blanco said. Friends of Pannell denied that he had a gun. One witness said Pannell was asking for mercy. A Phil was begging. He was Yelling a please Don t shoot a a said inn Rivers 18. A i was just with my playing basketball. He died just after the game police rallied behind Spath 29, who last Mont Cei Ved his fifth commendation from the Teaneck a iceman a benevolent association since joining t apartment in 1982. ,e a i can to begin to express to you what acc Nulf ? was is a said Frea Greene a retired police officer we the first Black to join the townships police a a what happened Here is a
