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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday april 29,1990dropping in at the mall firefighters Spray foam on a Small plane and crashed at the Danbury fair mall plane struck a Small car and the car plane Pilot and the two Drivers escaped Friday after it ran off an Airport runway in Danbury Conn. As it came Down the overturned and hit a passing truck. The injury in the Accident. Mohawk reservation racked by bloody feud Over gambling St. Regis Indian reservation . Apr factional fighting Between Mohawk bands who disagree Over whether gambling should be allowed has sent hundreds of residents fleeing the reservation straddling the  Border. The St. Regis Mohawk reservation had the look of a War zone Friday. Burned cars lined the roads Many buildings had Bullet holes or broken windows and residents including children were armed with guns or baseball bats. Gov. Mario Cuomo so far has refused to Send new York state police or National guardsmen to restore order despite pleas from an Indian Leader and some outsiders. A we want this situation resolved a Cuomo said. A a we re working very hard to figure out How to do it. I think what we be done so far what the state police have done so far has been  residents of the reservation just South of the St. Lawrence River have been divided for months Over the presence of gambling casinos and Bingo Halls on the american Side. Gambling draws thousands of non Indian visitors. The . Government has declared the gambling Halls illegal but the mohawks done to recognize Federal or state jurisdiction on their reservation. In recent weeks the feud has exploded into violence with gambling opponents setting up armed blockades of roads leading to the reservation and sounds of gunfire being heard nightly. Philadelphia apr a paralysed woman stricken with an incurable disease died within an hour of being taken off a Respirator after she convinced a judge she wanted to be allowed to die. Albert Stussy said his 51-year-old wife Thelma was disconnected from a Respirator at 4 20 . Friday and died Between 5 05 and 5 10 . He and their teen age son and daughter were at her bedside at Neumann medical Center. A we made sure she knew we loved her a Stussy said Friday night. A she was sedated very Well with valium. They gave her a shot every 10 minutes and made sure she Wasny to in any  mrs. Stussy had suffered from Lou Gehrig a disease or Amy trophic lateral sclerosis for two years and was admitted to the Hospital in late december. The degenerative disease destroys the nervous system and paralyses its victims. Pro gambling mohawks Tore Down the blockades in a bloody Battle tuesday night. On thursday night four opponents of gambling were injured one seriously when they were beaten with baseball bats. Authorities said another person an observer invited by ant gambling forces was missing. Amid further violence about 400 evacuees were taken on barges Friday to Cornwall Ontario where they were housed overnight in an army transport Center. About 5,000 mohawks live in the Canadian sector of the reservation and authorities estimated that at least 2,000 will be evacuated. The reservations total population is about 14,000. Police said the reservation was quiet Friday night. But this weekend the casinos Are scheduled to reopen for the first time since the roadblocks were removed and authorities fear violence will flare again. The Canadian embassy in Washington has contacted the . State department thursday to underline concerns about the violence and the Lack of . Policing on the Reserve. A we made no specific suggestions but our government finds the situation alarming and we Are concerned that something needs to be done a said Patricia Low Bedard a spokeswoman for the Canadian department of external affairs. On thursday sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the select committee on Indian affairs wrote Cuomo expressing his concern about the a most grave situation at St. Regis. Mrs. Stussy was paralysed from the neck Down and had been in constant pain. She could not speak but communicated by blinking to answer a a yes and moving her head slightly from Side to Side to answer  in an emotional bedside hearing wednesday mrs. Stussy blinked once to Tell common pleas court judge Nicholas m. Do Alessandro that she wanted to be taken off the Respirator. In a two Page ruling the next Day the judge granted her wish giving the Hospital one week to comply. The Respirator was turned off by Hospital staff members not by her regular physician or. Leonard m. Popowich. A the had some emotional hang up a Stussy said. A i did no to realize it until  mrs. Stussy and her family had asked to have the Respirator removed but Hospital officials fearful of a lawsuit on criminal charges asked the judge to decide. Stateside Kohl to deliver address at Harvard commencement Cambridge Massachusetts up a West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will deliver the main address at Harvard University a 339th commencement on june 7, the University has announced. Kohl who has headed the West German government since 1982, has spearheaded the drive to unify East and West Germany following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and has been a Leader in forging the european economic Community of 1992. Harvard president Derek Bok said the Ivy league school was honoured by Kohls decision to address the University a alumni. A Chancellor Kohl has emerged As one of the worlds most influential political figures and has contributed significantly to redrafting the political and economic map of Europe a Bok  200-Pound Bell strikes a strange note Mankato Minn. Apr ask not for whom the Bell tolls but who stole it. Rita Reichel last saw the 200-Pound brass school Bell in her basement around Christmas. Now its gone and she has no idea who could have carted it up the Steep Stone Steps. A i know it would take at least two Strong men a said Reichel who recently discovered the Bell missing and reported it to police. Reichel 40, said her father gave her the Bell on her 16th birthday so she could someday build an old fashioned wishing Well like her grandmother had. A a it a so valuable just to me a she said. The Bell was estimated to be Worth about $ 1,500. Reichel remembers that even getting the Bell Down to the basement was an experience. A we used ropes. I just can to figure out How it would get out of that  bed extinguishes Blaze in Mobile Home Arlington Texas apr a water bed extinguished a fire and probably saved a Many a Home from burning Down fire officials said. An electrical Short in a Small oscillating fan started a fire in the bedroom of a Mobile Home owned by Ken Lloyd fire officials said. Lloyd and three other occupants were sleeping in another room when they were awakened by a smoke alarm and fled. The fire spread to the water bed causing it to rupture and douse the Blaze said it. Gary pipes Ottine Arlington fire department. He said the fire caused an estimated $5,000 damage. Woman taken off Respirator Dies  
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