European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 5 7 wounded As gunmen open fire at funeral the stars and stripes Linden . Apr three gunmen posing As Tower beaning mourners at a new York Gity gang member s funeral opened fire on about 100 people at a said saturday wounding seven people officials a full re end Jar Pep a were trampled in the panic that followed the gunfire around 2 30 . At Rosedale memorial Park in this City just South of Newark and were treated at hospitals for cuts and bruises. Police capt. Raymond Beckman said the funeral was for a vietnamese Man who was a member of a new York gang called bom to kill. About 100 people were attending the funeral when the gunmen fired then fled Beckman said. A was they walked by the casket with a bouquet of Flowers they dropped them and opened fire on the mourners a Beckman said. New York police said the funeral of Vinh Vuu 21, began in Chinatown in lower Manhattan. Vuu was shot four times in the Chest Early wednesday in a Dave by shooting m Chinatown said police sgt. Tina Mohrmann. A she said Vuu was a Leader of the Chinatown based vietnamese gang. A 20-year-old Man who was among those shot was flown by helicopter to University Hospital in Newark. He was taken to the operating room said nursing supervisor Dorothy Crews. The others wounds were not considered life threatening Hospital officials said. Beckman said five people were shot but Hospital officials said seven people were admitted for gunshot wounds. One woman and five men aged 17 to 21 were taken to Elizabeth general Hospital where they were in stable condition with gunshot wounds said nursing supervisor Bobbie Fairchild. V six people were taken to Rahway Hospital for injuries suffered when they were trampled and for Shock said Hospital spokeswoman Nancy Jackson. A 22-year-old Man was treated for a twisted ankle. Beckman said three weapons were used including sub machine Jun and a it Shotgun. A 9mm hand Quot j Quot Quot hat gun which Hada a by someone in the crowd firing Back at the shooters Beckman said at a Linden n a police examine the grave site where three gunmen opened fire at a funeral saturday. A an be news conference. Police were searching for three suspects saturday night said police it. Richard Gerbounka. Beckman agreed with new York police that the shooting May be related to Gangland strife Between the vietnamese gang and chinese gangs in Tower Manhattan. The gunmen were wearing sunglasses making it difficult for witnesses to say whether they were chinese vietnamese or caucasian Beckman said. The people attending the funeral were brought to the police station for questioning. Beckman said accounts differed on How the gunmen got away. Police earlier said investigation efforts were hindered because most of the mourners who were vietnamese spoke Little or no English but Beckman later said they spoke English and were cooperating. Published reports last year said the bom to kill gang has used terror tactics to break into Chinatown s underworld Power Structure. Authorities said then that the gang was responsible for robberies assaults and murders and heroin trafficking. Reports of child sexual abuse termed a hoax Kansas City to. Not a lurid reports of child sexual abuse drug trafficking pornography and political intrigue that held Omaha enthralled for nearly two years were a a carefully crafted hoax a a county grand jury in Nebraska has concluded. But two other inquiries Are continuing. And the Nebraska state senator who Heads one of them has raised questions about the grand jury a conclusions. The report last week said the reports involving allegations against some of Omaha a More prominent citizens were a scripted by a person or persons with considerable knowledge of the people and institutions of  the grand jury did not identify those suspected of engineering the hoax. But it did indict two witnesses who it said had Given perjured accounts in the tangled Case involving a failed credit Union formed to help the poor that was headed by a nationally prominent Republican. Charged with perjury were a Young Man and a Young woman who had said they were victims of abuse when they were teen agers. They were indicted after two other witnesses who had supported their accounts recanted. The two who were indicted Are now serving jail terms for unrelated offences. They were identified As Alisha Owen 21, and Paul a. Bonacci 22. State and Federal inquiries into some of the same matters Are continuing. The be bras to senator who Heads the states investigation Loran Schmit labelled the grand jury a report a a strange  a that is the kindest thing i can say about it a he said. An assistant . Attorney Thomas Talken who Heads the Federal inquiry said it would continue to examine some of the same matters studied by the county panel. The rumours about child sex abuse drug trafficking and other offences began to circulate in late 1988.this was shortly after the failure of the Franklin Community Federal credit Union. The Union was headed by Lawrence e. King jr., a former vice chairman of the National Black Republican Council an affiliate of the Republican party who has entertained generously at Republican National conventions. He has been indicted on charges of embezzling Money from the credit Union which closed in november 1988, but a Federal magistrate has ruled that he is not mentally competent to stand trial. Fiands Oft amp a jury awards $14.5 million to 14 Asbestos workers Quot  fhe rumours gained further attention last year after a former state senator John de Camp wrote a memorandum naming five prominent individuals As Quot Central figures Quot m the states investigation. The grand jury exonerated the five saying a we found no credible evidence of child sexual abuse interstate transport Taion of minors drug trafficking or participation in a pornography ring. Though it made no formal accusation the grand jury said it suspected that a state investigator examining the sexual allegations had been duped by a executive who had been dismissed by boys town the Home for troubled Young people in Omaha. It said the unemployed executive identified As Michael Casey might have a a fuelled the fire of Rumor and innuendo because of personal grudges. Dallas apr a july awarded $14.5 million to 14 Industrial workers who sued a Florida manufacturer Over their exposure to Asbestos. Most of the workers were employed at shipyards in Alabama where they worked with pipe insulation and Cement containing Asbestos said Russell Budd a Dallas attorney representing the plaintiffs. The jury found that celotes corp. Of Tampa fla., was liable for health problems suffered by workers who installed or worked around Asbestos products. The jurors found that workers suffered Asbestos related injuries that celotes failed to give warnings of known Asbestos dangers and that the Asbestos products were unreasonably dangerous. A it showed these people the workers had a progressive lung injury that scars the Interior of the lungs and ultimately requires oxygen therapy Quot Budd said. A Man who answered the phone at clot exp a Houston Plant saturday said no one would be available for comment until monday. The lawsuit was filed in 1988. The Case was tried in Dallas where some of the original 27 defendants were based. None of buddy a clients has died or been found to have cancer. 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