European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday april 16,1990 news briefs gunman kills 2 at Hospital after his fathers death san Diego apr a gunman shot four people killing two in a rampage saturday night of a through the emergency room of a Hospital where his father died earlier in the Day officials said. Police said they arrested the gunman within an hour after the shootings at Mission Bay memorial Hospital. Quot he walked into the emergency room a police spokesman Dave Cohen said. A the approached a a Ide a the nurses station pulled out a handgun and started police believed the marauder was a 46-year-old Man whose father died at the Hospital Early saturday morning after suffering an aneurysm Cohen said. The father a was taken into surgery and the aneurysm was repaired but he went into cardiac arrest on the table and they were unable to revive him Quot Cohen said. Police identified the gunman As Bradford Warren Powers or. Police said that an emergency room physician a nurse an emergency medical technician and a patients relative were among the , de Maiziere set first German Summit meeting Bonn up a West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl plans to Confer this month with East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere on the planned German economic monetary and social Union the West German newspaper Welt am sonntag said sunday. It said the first German Summit meeting would Lake place As soon As Kohl returns from his easter vacation april 23. Kohl and de Maiziere who took office thursday As East Germany a first non communist prime minister have discussed by phone several times their plans for the meeting the newspaper said. It said at their meeting they will discuss the first Steps to be taken toward the economic social and monetary Union which is a key step toward unification. Both men said their target Date for the Union is july ignores soviet deadline despite threat to Block supplies Moscow apr lithuanian leaders said sunday night they would not meet a Kremlin deadline on rescinding Laws promoting Independence despite a threat to Cut off crucial supplies to the Baltic Republic. Lithuanian Deputy prime minister Romualdas Ozo Las went on lithuanian television As the 48-hour deadline by soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev expired. Vozolas said that the Baltic republics president and prime minister would Convene a meeting monday on Moscow a ultimatum. Natural Gas a products Lithuania buys Only from mos. Cow. Lithuania a Republic of 3.8 million people declared its Independence from the soviet Union on March la and has been engaged in a War of wills with the Kim Lin since. A pravda political columnist commented sunday that Lithuania should not be a concern of the Una states. Vozolas also said that the neighbouring Republic of Estonia would appoint an ambassador to Lithuania on monday and his nation would reciprocate according to aids Palubinskas of the lithuanian parliaments information office. _ _ a there is actually no lithuanian problem for the u.s.a.,�?� wrote Tomas Kolesnichenko in the commit nist party newspaper. A a it a purely an internal Rob pm of the soviet Quot Gorbachev sent a letter Friday to the republics leaders demanding that they rescind Independence oriented actions that he termed a anti constitutional a including Laws on cancelling conscription into the soviet army and seizing communist party property. He threatened to Cut off from Lithuania products the soviet Union Sells abroad for hard currency if the republics leaders failed to act by sunday. Gorbachev did not specify the materials but they include Oil and on saturday president Bush sought More detailed information on Moscow a threat of economic retail Tion against Lithuania. Senate democrats condemned Gorbachev for taking a precisely the wrong approach Quot to the crisis. Lithuanian officials acknowledged that an economic blockade of materials such As Oil and Gas could cause mass layoffs in the Republic of 3.8 million people Bui said they Hope sympathetic soviet republics would Noi Cut off crucial supplies. Lines at Gas stations in Vilnius were a Little longer than usual on sunday As people reacted to the threat easter from Page 1 what normally would be the quietest Day of the year at the holy see. In Lithuania president vytautas Landsbergis and of the his wife sat in the front Row of the jammed Cathedral in Vilnius listening As lithuanian Cardinal Vincentas a Katkevicius advised lithuanians to stay Calm yet remain firm in their resolve for Independence. In Israel the roman Catholic patriarch called in his easter address for Equality among Peoples but tension simmered nearby Over a jewish settlement in the City a Christian Quarter. A individuals and Peoples Are equal in All rights. A people must not oppress another people nor must a people be dominated by another people a patriarch ind reds of pilgrims and Michel Sabbah told hundreds to ousts at the Church of holy sepulchre the traditional site of Christ s crucifixion and burial. A few Hundred Yards away paramilitary Border police guarded a building in the Christian Section of Jerusalem a walled old City that was occupied Iasi wednesday by a group of about 150 jewish seminar students trying to establish a settlement there. The occupation sparked riots last week by Christian arabs meanwhile the new settlement continued to ignite protests in the occupied territories Arab reports said. Abri 250 palestinian christians staged a March sunday from four churches in the West Bank town of Nablus to Proesl the settlement palestinian journalists said. In Lebanon police said troops of renegade Gen Michel Aoun and lebanese forces militiamen Christian warlord Samir Geagea clashed intermittently drowning out Church Bells ringing in neighbouring districts. Many people were too frightened to venture out for easter mass said a police spokesman speaking on condition of from Page 1 have to have designer Type clothes. It seems to have a calming in Chicago As in Many of the nations largest school districts dress codes Are the prerogative of individual schools. In Baltimore uniforms Are recommended although not mandatory for elementary school students and a dress code is suggested for secondary schools. Educators say uniforms now Are the Norm at 74 of the City a 118 elementary schools. School officials can to recall any crimes Over clothing since the policy was instituted last fall and Baltimore police say the problem virtually has disappeared. A it still happens but not with any frequency a said police spokesman Dennis Hill. Next fall High schools in Detroit will have the option of adopting a dress code. The new policy by Detroit a Board of education was prompted in part by the december shooting of a student Over his $135 Goose Down jacket. Detroit police say crimes Over clothing Are on the decline. A a it a not like the old Days 10 years ago a said sgt. Christopher Buck. For the american civil liberties Union in Illinois. A a it a important for children to have an appreciation of their own individuality As Well As the constitutional values that protect that individuality a she said. A orthodoxy in apparel is not something a school Board should be involved requiring uniforms might also pose a financial hurdle for the poor Whicher said. But some families Are applauding the trend. A parents seem to really like the idea a said she Erlich a spokesman for the los Angeles unified school District the nations second largest Public school system. A it certainly cuts Down the amount of arguing in the morning Over what the kids should Wear to and some parents Are instituting their own dress codes when the schools Are not. A i have two daughters one a senior in High school said Charles Hill who Heads Security for 40 Chicago schools. A we done to entertain the thought of a Starlet jacket. A we want our kids to have everything he said a but we done to want our kids to have something endangers their Law enforcement officials Welcome the move Ward dress codes a any Way that a kid can avoid the problem seen ii rational to me a said Vincent of the gang crime up a parents would be a Little Kinder to their kids it Tatj deprived them of the things they beg for.dress from Page 1 barred from wearing to shirts and sweaters printed with gang emblems. Dallas in new Yorkus Bedford Stuyvesant neighbourhood a High school principal earlier this year barred students no Dallas Independent school District schools require uniforms but Board members in March discussed introducing a Pilot uniform program at one of the districts 180 schools. From wearing removable Gold Caps on their Teeth saying that the faddish Caps were robberies waiting to happen. But the new policies have not been cheered in All quarters. In March High school students in Palmdale calif., enraged by a new anti gang dress code boycotted classes and pelted a sheriffs patrol car with rocks. And there is some support for student resistance to the dress code trend. Laws allowing schools to require uniforms Are a a Way of trying to see that All students look alike act alike and think alike a said Jane Whicher an attorney the Board is also considering broadening the dress code that has been in effect since the Early 1970s. Basically students Are on their own As Long As their clothing Isnit hazardous or disruptive. Detroit los Angeles in los Angeles where dress codes Are handled on school by school basis some have barred Stuie from wearing colors associated with certain Gan amp spokesman Shel Erlich said. A Small number of elementary schools have Mijiu voluntary school uniform policies because parents they wanted their kids not to be. Put Down dec they were not As affluent As other kids Erlich a in. Miami forty two of about 170 elementary schools m Dade county Public school system which in Cluj Miami have gone to uniforms in the Page a l a the idea being to encourage kids not to by so amp up in fashion a spokesman Andy Gohan three elementary schools ask students to a dress uniformly in White shirts and solid color skirts or pants. All schools Are working on new guidelines for student attire which Are to be sent to the Board later this month. Some schools already have updated their dress codes including Mumford High which says it is work _ in 41. A _ _ a a ing to avoid a a materialistic society which ascribes higher status to monetary symbols than to intellectual High school students Are subject to a Mir code that requires they a look neat with not sandals he said. New York ,. A there is no dress code period a said of a k5thi spokesman for new Yorkus school system. But s11 wish to introduce uniforms May do so if parents Ted and agree to the plan. Students at a handful tary and Junior High schools now Wear uniforms. Some High schools have taken 0ser5arnossomcsiu Banning Gold jewelry or the removable Gold Cap dents were wearing on their Teeth
