European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse College fest turns into violent riot by the los Angeles times san Luis Obispo Calif. A an annual Spring festival at California polytechnic University ignited a violent Melee in the City streets Friday night and Early saturday. More than 1,000 revellers vandalized cars Homes and businesses before police used tear Gas and High pressure water hoses to disperse them. The crowd hurled bricks rocks and Beer bottles at police As reinforcements dressed in full riot gear were called in. Twelve police officers were injured a including one who suffered a broken and another who lost a tooth when he was hit in the face with a bottle. Thirty people about half of them Cal poly students were booked at san Luis Obispo county jail. Authorities said the violence included at least three separate outbursts and did not end until about 2 . Saturday. Witnesses said roaming vandals caused widespread damage in a residential area on the North Side of the City with Young people smashing car windows tearing Down Street signs climbing on roofs and urinating in Public. In one Case a crowd chanting a free Beer free Beer a smashed the windows of a liquor store and began tossing Beer bottles into the store while frightened employees pitched full Champagne bottles Back out the broken windows to keep the unruly crowd at Bay. Police did not respond to that scene for at least 30 minutes. They acknowledged they were Busy trying to quell another rampage a few blocks away. A it was incredibly chaotic a said Heather Wicka who watched the scene from her front porch. A there were masses of people lined up. They were standing on cars they were standing in the Street. They were climbing Telephone poles Street signs until they knocked All the Street signs Down. It was like a shark feeding frenzy just animal monday april 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 a City and state police subdue a Ritter in the California College town of san Luis Obispo. Bombing of Gay bar protested new York up _ hundreds of Gay activists marched in Greenwich Village saturday night protesting the bombing of a crowded bar frequented by homosexuals that left three men slightly injured. The bomb filled with firecrackers exploded shortly after Midnight in the Back room of Uncle Charlie s downtown bar police said. Mayor David Dinkins deplored the a senseless attack Quot and the Gay and lesbian Alliance against defamation called it a an act of terror directed against the entire Gay but police said there was no evidence the blast was a Bias attack. Quot there weren t any notes left no threats no indication it was a Bias incident Quot said sgt. Norris 1 Sollomon. About 300 protesters led by a group carrying a Banner which said Quot Bash Back Quot marched from Uncle Charlies to the sixth precinct station House on West 10th Street. Along the Way they were joined by at least 200 people sgt. Mary Wrensen said. She said there were no arrests or reports of disturbances. Police set up barricades at the sixth precinct to prevent demonstrators from coming close to the station House. The protesters then marched to a Gay and lesbian Community Center on West 13th Street. Allan Klein a member of the aids coalition to unleash Power said the protesters went to the precinct House to let authorities know Quot we Are watching and want police to investigate All cases of anti lesbian and anti Gay reportedly shows Waldheim a nazi ties new York apr a letter recommending Kurt Waldheim for a College scholarship shows he was a nazi supporter while a student in Vienna the . Justice department and world jewish Congress said saturday. A spokesman for the austrian president and former United nations Secretary general denied the allegation. The May 18, 1938, letter describes Waldheim As having been a a convinced nazi for years a the Congress said in a statement. The letter to the austrian chamber of Commerce was written on Waldheim a behalf by the head of Vienna a consular Academy a diplomatic College where he was studying. The Academy director also wrote that Waldheim had submitted proof that he had four aryan grandparents. Waldheim got the scholarship to continue his studies for the year the world jewish Congress said. An american graduate student in Vienna Richard Mitten found the document in archives at the consular Academy and provided it to the world jewish Congress which gave it to the Justice department. A it shows the big lie As to Waldheim a claim that he was not a nazi supporters while a student in Vienna said Neal Sher chief War crimes prosecutor at the Justice department. Austrian embassy spokesman Ulf Pacher said schoolmates contradicted the letter saying Waldheim was stridently anti nazi while at the Academy. Other than the letter a there is no evidence to support the theory that Waldheim was a nazi at the Academy Pacher told the times. The embassy provided two affidavits from schoolmates the times reported. George Weidenfeld who published Waldheim a memoirs in Britain said Waldheim a voiced definitely anti racist views and had Many jewish friends at the Susanne Lederer a dutch woman who attended the Academy also said Waldheim clearly opposed the nazis though he a kept silent in Waldheim has been trying to persuade the Justice department to remove his name from a list of people who Are banned from entering the United states because of their activities in world War ii. In 1986, the Justice department found evidence that Waldheim had persecuted jews greeks and yugoslavs after he joined the German army. A Waldheim who has been shown to lie about his years during the War and after the War has now been shown to lie about his years before the War a said Elan Steinberg executive director of the world jewish prompts Seabrook Plant shutdown again Seabrook . Apr Seabrook nuclear Power Plant officials ordered its reactor shut Down saturday for four to six weeks of modifications. The shutdown shortly before the Long delayed Plant was to produce its first commercial electricity was ordered after discovery of a potential defect. Seabrook officials decided saturday morning that electrical feedback from the new England Power Grid could cause a Section of the plants Turbine to vibrate beyond specifications Plant spokesman David Scanzoni said. A a it a a delay but that a the purpose of the test a Scanzoni said. A a we la take All the time that a he said Plant engineers have yet to determine what modifications Are needed on the Turbine a 200-foot-Long Shaft that drives an electrical Generator. The problem did no to involve the reactor. The reactor has operated at up to 10 percent of full Power since being granted a commercial License by the nuclear regulatory commission on March 1. It was at 6 percent Power before the shutdown Scanzoni said. Plant officials had hoped the reactor would begin commercial operation by Early this week and reach 100 percent Power within two to three months. Scanzoni said Seabrook now wont be Able to Start commercial operation before late May. Saturdays shutdown was the third for the reactor since the current phase of testing began March 20. The reactor was shut Down March 22 for adjustments and again a week later because of questionable readings from sensors on the Turbine Scanzoni said. The $6.5 billion 1,150-Mcgawatt reactor initially planned to operate commercially in 1979 at a fraction of the Cost Wasny to completed until 1986 because of repeated regulatory delays and Cost overruns. Concerns about evacuation planning for crowded Beach communities less than two Miles from the Plant held up the commercial License until this year. The delays forced Lead Seabrook owner Public service company of new Hampshire to seek bankruptcy Protection in 1988. The Plant also has been the site of anti nuclear demonstrations that have resulted in More than 3,000 arrests since 1976
