European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuned in airline passenger states his Case by Patt Morrison los Angeles times los Angeles a what is this the Twilight zone a lawyer on an air plane is watching the in flight movie about a lawyer who gets caught in an ominous Legal web and he finds himself caught in an ominous Legal web because he a watching the movie about. You get the Drift. The movie aboard the United airlines flight Early Friday morning was a presumed innocent a with Harrison Ford accused of murder. The passenger was tax attorney Steve Sun 34, who got the cuffs slapped on him Fot Petty theft a using his own earphones to listen to the soundtrack of the movie without paying the $4 Headphone rental. A the Airport police told me this is the stupidest arrest they had to make a Sun said. A actually they used More colourful language than and Alan b. Wayne a local United official said a a it a always interesting that these people Are in the Small hours of Friday morning aboard a not too crowded flight Sun was flying Home to los Angeles from his grandfathers funeral. For $4, the flight attendant said that passengers could rent headphones to listen to a presumed Sun had his own headphones. He happened to find these in an Airport trash can years ago but you can buy them in stores he says and he a used them often before no problem. Just As things Start to come undone on film for Fords character a flight attendant tapped Sun on the shoulder. He could not use those headphones without paying she said. Now Sun was admittedly a Little Cranky from a redeye flight that originated in Washington d.c., that was already an hour late. If the $4 was really to rent a Headset he already had his own right a i know what you can and can to do on an air plane. I know you can to cause a scene or you re in big trouble. I thought if you have your own Headset Why do you have to pay to get their Headset and seeing As they re showing you the picture on the screen anyway As he recounts the Sotto Voce Exchange the flight attendant said that Sun should either Stop listening or pay the $4. He said no. She relayed the captains message a if you done to Stop watching the movie have to Call Security when you a i said of a Sun said. A i definitely would not have started an he kept watching the movie and a i said to pass the message on to the Captain that in a a lawyer and if anything happened on the ground i would file a just after Midnight a we got off the plane and there was the Airport police. I actually went up to them and said a i did it in a the a they said that they would have to take him to the station for theft. A i said theft of what they said the sound of the movie. I kind of laughed and said a you re a a i probably made it into a scene it have been made into but the Cir a seemed like an Airport police capt. John Bangs said that his officers carried out the captains a private person arrest. They handcuffed Sun and took him to the Pacific division of the los Angeles police department. After three hours he was let go without being booked and the Case was referred to the City attorney. Sun said later that As he sat handcuffed to a Bench he had a few unsettling visions dancing in his head a like the grounds for disciplinary proceedings in the state bar a but As for the film. A a it a riveting a Wayne said. A a it a Worth the $4. Double a the movie was Fine a Sun said. A i thought the Book was Reagan praises breakthrough of Berlin Wall Fulton to. Up a former president Reagan paid a visit to the site of Winston Churchill a famed a Iron curtain speech on the first anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to dedicate a Monument sculpted from the Wall by Churchill a granddaughter. Under sunny skies Friday Reagan spoke about the changes in Europe since Churchill a 1946 speech focusing on the fall of communism and its most famous Symbol the Berlin Wall. A today we rejoice in the demise of the Berlin Wall that was permanently breached just one year ago a Reagan told a crowd of about 5,000 people Many of them students at Westminster College. The College was the site of Churchill so sinews of peace address in which he coined the phrase a Iron curtain to describe the emerging communist bloc. Churchill a granddaughter artist Edwina Sandys used eight Concrete sections of the Berlin Wall to make up the 11-foot-by-32-foot Monument called Sandys went to East Germany shortly after the Wall was opened and persuaded the government to donate the Wall sections for the sculpture. Flanked by the u.s., German and British flags and with a statue of Churchill looking out Over the crowd Reagan praised the British statesman a vision. A out of one Many a speech was born a new Western resolve a Reagan said a not warlike not Bellicose not expansionist a but firm and principled in resisting those who would devour territory and put the soul itself into the former president praised the work of soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in helping to break Down the barriers Between East and West. A last month Germany itself was reunited in the Shadow of the Brandenburg Gate and under the democratic umbrella of nato a Reagan said. Reagan reminded the crowd he had gone to Berlin in june 1987 and called on Gorbachev to a tear Down this a was he listening whether he was or not neither he nor the rulers of Eastern Europe could ignore the much louder chants of demonstrators in the streets of Leipzig and Dresden and dozens of other German cities a he said. Prior to his address Reagan was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of Laws by the College. Before Reagan spoke Sandys told the crowd the Story of How she conceived and created the sculpture. A a year ago like everyone else in the world i was glued i Etyc. A a television screen watching the Berlin Wall former president Reagan addresses crowd at Westminster College in Fulton to. Glued to the a the 1 fall a she said. A i thought it be wonderful to make a sculpture out of the Berlin Wall and it be wonderful to bring it to Sandys Cut the figures of a Man and woman in eight Concrete sections of the Wall representing the breakthrough of recruited to sell . Daily news new York apr the poor and the homeless sold the new York daily news on Street Corners Friday As the newspaper tried to overcome circulation problems caused of the 2-week-old strike against it. Earlier daily news spokeswoman Lisa Robinson refused to say How Many homeless or unemployed were recruited to sell the paper but said the pro Grain gives them a Chance to earn Money and provides readers a better Chance to get the paper. _ Mary Brosnahan a representative of the coalition for the homeless said a it is unconscionable to be using the poorest of the poor As the news using management replacement workers and working Union members has published each Day during the strike but circulation has dropped. A the news said wednesday that 600,000 papers were being printed each Day with two thirds of those finding their Way to buyers. Pre strike circulation was about 1.09 million copies daily making the daily news the nations largest metropolitan daily. It was unclear what effect the poor and homeless had on the newspapers distribution but it was clearly a big boost to the Wallet of men such As Eddy Nadreau 28. Nadreau a resident of the Atlantic menus shelter in Brooklyn stood in front of grand Central terminal and sold about 150 newspapers in four hours. He said he would get paid about $74 on Friday. He said the daily news had called the shelter offering $6 an hour and a percentage of sales and word spread. A i need food on my table a he said estimating that More than 50 men from his shelter began Selling the daily news. Wayne Malone 30, of Englewood n.j., was also Selling newspapers. A i done to even know what the strike is about to be honest a said Malone who is unemployed. Three men were trying to sell the daily news across the Street from radio City music Hall in Midtown. They said that on Friday morning one of them was attacked by a group of about 15 people including five women who scattered about 50 newspapers. A they grabbed me a said Clive Vernon 23. A one Guy tried to swing at me and missed. They wont be Back. They know we re swinging Back violence associated with the labor dispute continued with a Melee at the port authority bus terminal and the chairman of the state Assembly a labor committee said he will conduct hearings on allegations of violence against strikers. Fridays Brawl resulted in several arrests including those of two striking workers and five daily news Security guards. All were charged with among other things inciting a riot. Through thursday evening new York City police reported 129 strike related incidents and 63 arrests. Assemblyman Frank Barbaro who Heads the labor committee announced his probe of violence at a news conference where several striking news workers and a new York times Driver spoke about being assaulted or intimidated by a goons Ana thugs from the paper. Barbaro did not mention threats against vendors or the damage to trucks and other daily news property. Some incidents have included a number of reports of threats against newspaper vendors
