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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 27, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7looking out for no. 3 a Bob Mccurry executive vice president for Toyota stands in front of a 1991 Toyota Model that company executives Hope will eventually put them ahead of chips scr. Toyota executives said they Hope to surpass Chrysler As the no. 3 automaker in the United states within the next five years. Company officials said they will need to build another factory in order to accomplish that goal but gave no indication where that Plant will  tourists find generosity new York apr two Canadian tourists beaten by a gang that mistakenly thought they were mugging an elderly woman received help from neighbourhood merchants including $100 in Cash Auto repairs and a free lunch. Merchants in Bensonhurst the predominantly White Brooklyn neighbourhood where Black teen Ager Yusef Hawkins was killed by a mob in August 1989, took up a collection for the tourists tuesday. A with All the bad with the Hawkins killing last year in a glad something Good came out of the neighbourhood instead of something negative a said Vinny Pine Llo who owns an Auto repair shop. Eric Plourde 19, and Patrick Chartrand 20, both of Quebec were beaten with baseball bats and pipes monday afternoon while assisting an elderly woman who fell police detective Joseph Mcconville said. A apparently these gang kids thought these two Guys were mugging the old lady a Mcconville said. The group numbered Between 10 and 12 members he said. The canadians were treated at a local Hospital for bruises after the beating and released spokesman Daniel Armstrong said. Gang members also smashed the tourists car Windshield and two other windows police said. No arrests have been made in the Case. Authorities were searching for the youths and the woman who left the scene before police arrived. Tourists have suffered notable crimes in new York this summer with a Utah tourist stabbed to death while protecting his Mother during a Manhattan subway mugging and a soviet visitor slain by thieves who snatched his wife a purse. After learning that Plourde and Chartrand Only had $25 Between them merchants a got up $100 in maybe 90 seconds a Pinello said. A a in a sorry we did no to give them  while the Money was being collected a customer at the Auto store bought the Young men sandwiches. By late tuesday the cards smashed windows were fixed at no charge. A they were so appreciative when we handed them the Money they looked like they were going to cry a said Fred Alvaro owner of a Home improvement  woes outlined before House panel Washington apr the chairman of a congressional panel overseeing the 1990 census says release of official state population figures May have to be delayed because too Many people went uncounted. Rep. Thomas Sawyer a Ohio chairman of the House Post office subcommittee on the census said the census Bureau is re checking disputed figures and has assured him that several million people will be added to the preliminary . Total population count of 245,837,681. A i am increasingly concerned however that these programs Are not designed to find the significant numbers of people who May have been overlooked during the primary counting phases a Sawyer said tuesday at a nearing by his subcommittee. The lawmaker plans to introduce a Bill that would delay release of official state population counts until the Commerce Secretary has adjusted the figures based on the recheck or determined that no adjustment is necessary. That decision must be made by july 15, 1991. State population counts were to be released by april 1 so that state governments would have time to redistrict before the 1991 state election season. The final count also will Lead to congressional redistricting although timing is less critical for that since the congressional elections will not be held that year. Testimony before Sawyers committee emphasized problems the census Bureau is having counting individuals in a society featuring ethnic diversity extensive travel habits diverse living arrangements and huge geographic areas. Rep. John Dingell d-mich., said for example that in Monroe mich., census workers apparently listed vacancies for houses whose inhabitants were simply out of town. A Michigan has a Long Winter and Many permanent residents Are away from Home during the Early Spring a Dingel said. According to census reports 389 Monroe houses and apartments Are vacant although City officials say there Are Only 41 units without residents Dingell said. Rep. Frank Mcclosky d-ind., said census workers missed 7,000 students in dormitories on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University. Rep. Arthur Ravenel jr., r-s.c., who represents Charleston county said Hurricane Hugo caused Many of his constituents to be displaced and uncounted. A prior to the Hurricane the City of Charleston had an estimated vacancy rate of 7 percent a said Ravenel. A in april of 1990, after the storm it was reported to be 11.6 percent according to the census a he said. Rep. Mike Espy d-miss., whose District is the third poorest in the country said the census Bureau did no to seem to understand the complications of counting a predominantly poor minority Rural District where Many citizens Lack the Basic education needed to fill out forms. Barbara Everitt Bryant director of the census Bureau said the Post census review was finding clusters of missed housing units and group quarters S.C. As  Carrier Heads for Home port Norfolk a. Up the Navy a newest nuclear powered aircraft Carrier the $3 billion Abraham Lincoln is headed for a Long Shakedown cruise and its new Home port of Alameda Calif. About 4,500 sailors and some 500 families will be leaving Norfolk naval station for the West coast. The 95,000-ton, 1,092-foot Carrier will travel for about two months sailing around Cape Horn on the tip of South America to its new Pacific base. It is the Navy a fifth Nimitz class Carrier. The vessel was built at Newport news shipbuilding. Crime lab results fail to link suspects to Florida murders Gainesville Fla. A crime Laboratory results Given to police investigating five student slayings failed to link any of several suspects to the killings a newspaper reported. It remained unclear whether the test results received last week cleared any suspects or if they failed to support existing suspicions the Gainesville Sun said in its wednesday editions. Police last week increased night patrols in the area where the College students were slain. The newspaper quoted unidentified Law enforcement sources As saying the beefed up patrols were ordered after an investigative task Force received the results of tests and after the apparent failure of intense searches of Woods frequented by Edward Lewis Humphrey. The 18-year-old University of Florida freshman has been mentioned most often As a suspect though police say they have eight suspects in the Case. Investigators have taken pubic hair and blood samples from Humphrey and Stephen Michael Bates 30, the Only other suspect whose name has been made Public. Both Are jailed on unrelated charges. Neither has been charged in the Gainesville murders. Tests were under Way on semen blood and a single pubic hair found at one or More of the murder scenes and on a knife found in a milk Jug at Humphreys Home in India Antic. Humphreys Public defender , Russo told the Sun he new nothing about the test results. Task Force members refused to comment on lab tests or on what the findings might mean about Humphreys viability As a suspect the newspaper said. The nude mutilated bodies of Sonja Larson 18, and Christina Powell 17, were found aug. 26 in their apartment near the University of Florida Campus. The next Day the decapitated body of 18-Ycar-old Christa Hoyt was found in her apartment nearby. On aug. 28, the bodies of Manuel Taboada and Tracy Paulics both 23, were found in an apartment they shared. All were students at either the University of Florida or Santa be Community College. Humphrey was being held on $1 million Bond in the Brevard county jail in Sharpes. He has been charged with the aug. 30 beating of his 79-Ycar-old grandmother. Police have searched the Woods near his Gainesville apartment and have executed search warrants on his residences and car. Bates 30, who was being held in Polk county is charged with a burglary in which he awoke a woman and her daughter and threatened them with a knife  
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