European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 14, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Brawl Mars end of bikers s. Dakota rally Sturgis . A Long strings of motorcycles roared out of Western South Dakota on sunday As the we Klong 50th Black Hills motor classic came to a violence marred end. The event Drew an estimated 300,000 bikers to the area. Its mostly peaceful festive mood was dampened by a saturday night shooting and stabbing Brawl involving the outlaws and sons of silence motorcycle gangs. Three men were injured. It sure puts a Damper on people having a Good time said Matt Waller of Gillette wyo., who oper ated a food stand near the main Street bar where the fight occurred. The fight occurred saturday night at gunner lounge and Casino on main Street usually a hangout for Hells Angels during the event officials said. Two sons of silence members were hospitalized in stable but serious condition sunday with Stab wounds said Meade county sheriff Floyd Cleland. A member of the outlaws was treated for gunshot wounds and released. The stabbing victims will be charged with aggravated assault and the gunshot victim May also be charged Cleland said. By sunday morning the scene on main Street appeared to return to Normal. Bikers again Rode and walked the route around a huge Cluster of motorcycles parked Down the Center and along the length of the Street. The violence did t take anyone by Surprise. As i be said before the potential is there Cleland said. These people All drink booze take drugs an carry knives and with this amount of people you know there s going to be things happen. There s going to be Acci dents. There s going to be fights said Bill Kinast who works at a truck building company in Oshkosh wis. Marcy Myhre executive director of the Sturgis area chamber of Commerce s Black Hills motor classic Board noted that last year s rally Drew Only 60,000 people. The week went Well except for a few incidents of violence she said. We put a lot of Effort into it and it s too bad things like that have to some Sturgis residents have tried to Stop the rally but most seem to accept and even enjoy the crowds that invade the town of 7,000 one week each year. According to conservative estimates the bikers and other visitors spent at least $34 million in the town and surrounding Black Hills. By sunday the event had claimed 11 lives. Nine people died in traffic accidents one person was killed by Carbon monoxide poisoning in a tent and police shot and killed a knife wielding australian Man who charged the officers. Law officers issued 1,060 traffic tickets and 2,143 warnings and made 202 Drunken driving and 73 drug arrests. Officials reported 133 traffic accidents 78 involving injuries. Sturgis residents Ken and Barb Grosch who were on main Street before the riot saturday night recorded images of people and motorcycles with a video camera. It s Nice to Sec a Small Boring town come alive said mrs. Grosch. "1 think it s great but after a week or so i m ready to see them go main Street was the Center of activity with thou Sands of motorcycles parked in the Middle of the Street and at the curb and bikers sporting leather and tattoos As they gathered around their biker gangs weren t the Only ones who showed up for the week of races and other events. There Are Many motorcycle enthusiasts among the Well heeled the late Malcolm Forbes attended last year s rally. He i r&?8fcs$ Apa group of Vietnam veterans standing watch is reflected in he Black Granite surface of the Wall. Thousands making pilgrimage in quest of Healing at the Wall by David Lamb los Angeles times Washington the names. So Many names. Row after Row after Row of them from Gerald Aadland to David Zywicke enough names to fill a directory 763 pages thick. More names than there Are people in great Falls mont., so Many that it once took the better part of three Days to read them All at the Washington Ca thedral. Are these the people who died in All the wars asks a Young girl. No says her Mother. Just Vietnam with american troops once again headed Over seas taking up positions in the Middle East in the largest buildup since Vietnam a visit to the Vietnam memorial or the Wall As everyone Calls it is particularly poignant. The expanse of Blac Granite panels in Constitution gardens bears 58,175 names. It has surpassed mount Rushmore As the most visited National Monument. In a City of soaring White Marble commemorations of heroic deeds this two acre plot run by the National Park service has become the last fire base a place of pilgrimage that just by being there has helped to heal a nation s wounded spirit. By the thousands they come in the sunlight of summer Days and in the blackness of night daring to remember what they once tried to forget. A psychologist is with a group of veterans who suffer from Post traumatic stress syndrome. And Gilda Delsignore with a platoon of italian tourists. Seeing the Wall helps them understand America she says. The Mother of Cpl. William r. Stocks Eleanor Wimbish has been coming since the memorial was dedicated eight years ago. I guess the people running this War know what they re doing her son once wrote but i sure Don t understand. People Are getting killed and it just does t seem like any Progress is he too was gone. When Wimbish first found his name carved on the Wall she did not seethe faces of the dead As she had expected. What she saw in the reflection of the Granite was. Her own image and that of the Trees and grass beyond. It was As though the Wall were a living thing. I can t explain what it is she said. "1 Only know this Wall is important to me. To me it seems like Billy is the names Are arranged not alphabetically but in the order in which the men and women Tell so that each panel is a chapter of history. At the Vertex of the a shaped Wall 10 feet above the ground the names of the first casualties in 1959, and those of the last in 1975, come together a completed journey in a War that had no beginning and no real end. Only a first death and a last. The memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin Ayale student whose parents escaped from Nina in 1949. It was widely criticized at first. Black was negative color the critics said. Where was the american hag the names would become the memorial she answered. Jim Copeland drove from Philadelphia the other Day to gae quietly at 10 of those names for nearly two Hows. It was his third visit to the Wall and every one gets a Little easier he had placed 10 Small flags at the base of panel 33e, and on each had written the name of a fellow Marine killed when Delta company was decimated near hoi an one january Day 22 years ago. The flags Copeland left were collected that night by a Park Ranger and put in a storage room in the base of the Lincoln memorial. In a Jay or two they would make their Way to the warehouse in Green Belt md., where curator Duery Felton whose own wounds in 1967 almost qualified him for a place on the memorial oversees the collection of Memorabilia left at the base of the Wall. Bush s actions drawing High approval polls say new York a president Bush s handling of the Middle East crisis boosted his approval rating among americans to 75 percent the second highest total since he took office a newly released Newsweek poll shows. It also showed that 94 percent of americans support military retaliation if iraqi troops attack i a. Troops 79 per cent a i a. Strike if the iraqis kill . Civilians in Kuwait or Iraq and 61 percent Back a strike if the iraqis take . Hostages. Three out of four americans believe it is at least somewhat Likely that the . Forces in the Middle East will engage in combat with iraqi troops the poll said. A separate poll taken by the new York times found that about Hai of Ameri cans expect a bloodless ,.i to the confrontation but a third said they anticipated fighting. The rest said they did not know what would unfold. The Newsweek poll showed that 5x percent were opposed to a Covert assassination of iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein. Bush s rating was his second highest since Newsweek began gauging his approval Rale in May 1989. Last month his approval stood at 65 percent with 26 percent disapproval Only 15 percent Dis approved now the pull . I he Gallup or gum action Tondu cd a Telephone Survey of 770 adults on aug. 9-10. The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage Points. In the limes pull published sunday 66 percent approved of sending i rooms to saudi Arabia and 2 d percent disapproved. I he limes poll of 670 adults was taken by Telephone on thursday and to Day. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage Points
