European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes monday May 21,1990 600 demonstrators March in Bensonhurst by nov Voday new York a Keith mond Cllon a parents appealed to their Bensonhurst neighbors for Calm saturday As More than 600 demonstrators marched through the predominantly White neighbourhood to protest mond Cllon a acquittal on murder charges. Mond Cllon a parents cautioned a crowd of several Hundred supporters assembled outside their second floor apartment above a dental clinic on 68th Street to disperse. The crowd brandished a Watermelon with a slogan attacking the Rev. Al Sharpton a Black activist. A please if you care put the Watermelon Down a said Susan Mondillo speaking from the widow. A get away from my property a added Michael Mondillo whose son Keith has been jailed on Rikert a Island since the convictions on lesser charges including riot discrimination and menacing. A put the Watermelon Down and Pray for my son and the  at about the same time Amir Hawkins i 5, prepared to Board one of a Fleet of buses outside the slave theatre in Bedford Stuyvesant to Lead the March to Bensonhurst in response to fridays verdict which cleared Mondello of the most serious charges in connection with the murder of Amir a brother Yusuf. A they should have All been charged with murder a Amir said As a predominantly Black group of activists and supporters gathered for the late aft Moon March. A we arc going to keep marching until they Are All charged and convicted of  Amir and Sharpton said saturdays March was inspired by televised scenes that showed Bensonhurst residents rejoicing at the Mondello verdict. Tension was High in both Bedford Stuyvesant and Bensonhurst after Friday s acquittal of Mondello and thursdays conviction of Joseph Fama in connection with Yususf murder. On saturday some Bensonhurst residents answered the marchers chants of a Yusuf Yusufz with one of the their own a Ufama  other Whites chanted a Joey Fama for  at the same time there were several appeals for conciliation at the March. One White onlooker held aloft a sign Reading a a let Scall a  hundreds of riot helmeted police offi a Bensonhurst onlookers jeer a protest March led saturday by Black activist the Rev. Al Sharpton following the acquittal of a Bensonhurst Man in a racial attack Case. Cers surrounded the marchers to keep them apart from the residents As police have done during All of the protest marches in the neighbourhood since Yusuf was shot to death aug. 23. Sharpton the target of insults the entire 10 blocks of the March was struck by a water filled paper cup thrown from a White in the crowd. He kept marching. A this shows that a Large amount of Blacks Are willing to take the insults for America until it can Wake up a Sharpton said. A a boy was killed Here. We will continue to March until there is  soviet police get to Snoop on . Officers l act i ii a. Boston apr Moscow police Are preparing to Snoop on american Law enforcers from new York to c Ali Lorma front squad rooms to Back Yard barbecues. Thirteen of the Moscow men in Blue Are in the United states for a we Klong visit which was billed As the first official bilateral Law enforcement Exchange with the soviets. They Are basically interested in everything we have to show them said Cynthia Dickstein president of the organization for America soviet exchanges a private non profit Agency that arranged the visit. A the programs set up for them arc pretty inclusive drugs canine units All the equipment ballistics courtrooms jails crime  a the 13 soviet officers arc men Between the Ages of 27 and 45 who hold executive positions in what amounts to the Moscow Bureau of the soviet National police Force. They include the colonel in charge of Moscow a criminal investigation unit officers who police the Black Market and a Captain in the traffic department. The soviet officers who will stay in the Homes of local police will visit police departments in Albany Amsterdam and Rochester in upstate new york1 new London Conn. Deland Fla. And Larkspur Calif. This fall 13 . Officers will make a similar visit to the soviet Union. Soviet officials last year said their country had the fastest growing crime rate in the world but still trailed far behind the United states in Overall crimes. In the first eight months of 1989, More than 1.5 million crimes were reported in the soviet Union a 33.2 percent jump Over the same period the year before soviet officials said. Still soviet officials said there Are Only 5.9 murders per 100,000 soviets compared with 8.9 per 100,000 in America. The visits Are expected to Combine socializing with a demonstration of local police work. Volusia county sheriffs sgt. Bob Matusick in Deland Fla., plans to treat col. . To Blyashov to a backyard cookout and swings through Disney world and Kennedy space Center. He also plans to take his guests to visit the state crime lab in Orlando and the Blue lightning strike Force in Miami. Matusick who led american Law enforcement officers on a two week trip to the soviet Union last month said to Blyashov and his colleagues will Likely be amazed by . Law enforcement technology. While in Moscow he Felt As if he had a stepped Back in time to the 1950s,�?� Matusick said. A there Are no computers in common  stereotypes probably will be broken on both sides Dickstein said. She said . Police who visited the soviet Union found common ground with police officers there. Both sides grouse about Low pay inadequate benefits Low prestige in the Community she said. The Benefit of the exchanges she said is that they give people the Chance to see for themselves what they Only imagined. Ambush protest to express opposition to various Bush administration policies protesters draw and lie in Chalk outlines of a a dead bodies outside memorial stadium in Austin Texas where Bush gave the commencement speech saturday to University of Texas graduates. Done to drink that wine grandma a think How it can Hurt the kids Culver City Calif. Apr first Grade readers of Little red Riding Hood have More to fear than the big bad Wolf say school officials. Its the wine she has in her Basket. An award winning adaptation of the classic Grimm a fairy tale has been pulled from the youngsters recommended supplemental Reading list because the heroine has wine in the Basket of goodies she brings her ailing grandmother. A it gives the younger ones the wrong impression about alcohol. If they should refrain Why give them a Story saying its of a said Vera Jashni assistant superintendent for instruction. A i done to think the Basket of wine is a Good concept for kindergarten or first Grade a said school Board member Robert Knopf. He said he would rather have seen a a Nice thing like cookies and cakes or a picnic Basket with food in  Jashni who ordered the ban said it was the final paragraph of the Story that scaled her decision _ the part after the woodsman kills the big bad Wolf. The grandmother drank some of the wine and. After a while the grandmother Felt quite Strong and healthy and began to clean up the mess that the Wolf had left in the  the version of the Story written by Trina Schart Hyman won a Caldicott Honor award for Chi Drens literature. Houghton Mifflin co., a Boston based textbook publisher distributed it As part of a 10-Book pack age and California education authorities placed i on the states recommended supplemental Readin list for 5-and 6-year-Olds. Knopf said it is the Only Book the Culver Cit school Board has pulled. Houghton Mifflin spokesman Sandy Caswell sail the ban is incomprehensible. A the fact that its an award winning Book am one we Felt was a Good retelling of the Story led u to select it As part of the Reading series a he said Caswell added that the company had receive it complaints about the Book from three other schoo districts All of them in California. Gina Grawe a teacher at Linwood Howe Elemen tary school organized a Daylong protest last weel Over the ban. I �?�.tican1irs  support by wearing pictures o Little red on their shoulders. A is this the beginning of Book Banning one per son should not have that much control to make thai decision Grawe said. A a in a sure someone could find something objectionable in any Book a there drinking in Tom