European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                E sex mayor Miami a once again an ethnic Miami neighbourhood erupted pent up frustrations sparked by a single incident. This time though it was in a Community Seldom heard from. \ Quot this is singular for the puerto rican Community but not singular for Miami a said puerto rican born Maurice Ferre who was its mayor for 12 years. A it seems to be a pattern now for behaviour in the poor disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Miami Black haitian puerto rican a he. Said. Ferre referred to a rampage monday night in the City a largely puerto rican Community of Wynwood after the acquittal of six police officers accused of fatally beating puerto rican drug dealer Leonardo Mercado. As with members of other ethnic groups after earlier disturbances some puerto Picans on tuesday talked of neglect by Miami a dominant cuban Ameri can population. Puerto rican flags were waved during the disturbance and there were shouts of Quot Viva puerto Rico a from members of an ethnic group that has previously had a Low profile in Miami. A we want the people to know that we exist. We be got puerto Picans in this City too a said Clemente Montalvo who said he a lived All his life in Wynwood. Quot its not just because of the Mercado trial. Cubans get everything we get nothing. When the cubans jump they get what they want a Ferre and other Community leaders said the reasons behind the outbreak were Complex. They said Many of the looters were Youthful opportunists and Many. Weren to puerto rican or from Wynwood. Ferre was mayor in 1980 during Miami a worst riots which followed the a thursday december 6, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 fed Miami riot owner Patrick Gerritts Center stands in front of his destroyed construction company. Quintal of White police officers in the beating death of Black insurance Salesman Arthur Mcduffie the rioting claimed 18 lives and caused More than $100 million in damage. A Black rioting broke out three other times in the 1980s, most recently the january 1989 riots following the deaths of two Blacks after a police shooting. Last july Miami riot police moved in after four Days of violent haitian protests at a shop owned by a cuban american accused of mistreating a haitian in his store l the rioting monday stunned police City officials and Many in the Wynwood Community where Mercado had once lived. Ferre said such disturbances Are waiting to happen in Urban areas where pc pie feel helpless economically and politically. A. Quot somebody pushes somebody in a store. There s a perception of . Its an explosion Quot said pc arc who comes from one of puerto Rico a most influential political families and led Miami until 1985, he was ousted then by the City s first cuban born mayor Xavier Suarez. Wynwood was one of the first Large hispanic neighbourhoods in Florida m the Post world War ii Era populated mainly by puerto rican migrant workers. There Are now. An estimated 55,000 puerto Picans in the Miami metropolitan area compared with More than 600,000 cubans and More than 100,000 people each in the nicaraguan and haitian communities. Wynwood has become More diverse in recent years though the puerto rican influence is obvious with Roberto Clemente Park named for the late puerto rican bom baseball Star and several stores with the name Quot Borinquen a the Island term for puerto Picans drugs and poverty have increased longtime residents said Quot its changed quite a lot to the negative Side Quot said David Bonilla who moved there in 1955 and is the puerto rican born Miami City police chaplain. Bonilla said the outbreak involved Many outsiders and Wasny to a True Refici Tion of Wynwood. But he said some puerto Picans were using the attention to seek help for their deteriorating Community. Some of these people want to let somebody know that we need help in the Community a Bonilla said. Quot they say a hey while the cameras Are Here everybody a Here Quot a tests Burbank Calif. Apr a Lockheed corp. Prototype of the advanced tactical fighter successfully fired a sidewinder missile in flight the first such launch in the High stakes at Competition  _ i. _ the launch at China Lake naval weapons station last week had Quot Zero effects in the two critical areas whether the body weapons Bay or launcher would be scorched and whether the handling of the plane would be affected Lockheed aeronautical systems co. Spokesman Richard Stadler said Quot our people were ecstatic a or As ecstatic As engineers get Quot Stadler said  team led by Lockheed and one by Northrop corp. Are in a Winner take All Competition for the $63 billion contract for the at the replacement for the air forces f-15 Eagle and the first , do fighter to carry missiles entirely inside its fuselage. / a while production Hasni to yet been approved the Pentagon has said it Hopes to buy the first of 75q planes for the air Force in 1996. The Navy also has indicated it May want about 500 similar planes. , the yf-22, is a stubby winged. Tactics lighter twin tailed aircraft much More compact than the Northrop version the yf-23, which has a Cigar like fuselage and a wingspan that looks like a Kite. Both planes have smooth contours for evading radar and Are built of advanced composite materials. A at a news conference Sherman n. Muslin lock heeds at program chief refused to make direct com. Prisons with Northrop a plane. But he said he was in. Courage by test flights in which the Lockheed sat perforated up to predictions made to the government after computer Ana wind Tunnel tests. Muslin said the missile firing last week culminated four years of development ,. Quot after the initial design phase extensive wind Tunnel tests were conducted to develop the weapon Carriage and launch system tested Here a he said. A a the Success of this test confirms that the analysis tools we re using Are. Very accurate a v Tom Rooney at program manager for Northrop corp., said he was Quot totally satisfied Quot with flight tests on its version of the plane whistle Blower firm reach Accord a Richland Wash apr a an Engineer who complained she was harassed after raising safety concerns about draining nuclear waste storage tanks reached agreement tuesday with her employer the company said a a. A a. A Inez Austin agreed to withdraw a complaint she filed with the . Department of labor and also agreed not to participate in any Legal action against Westinghouse Hanford co. Arising from the Case Westinghouse is the main government contractor at the 560-Square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation in South Central Washington Hanford for decades produced plutonium for nuclear weapons but now is largely focusing on cleaning up years of contamination at the staustin told reporters recently that she had been harassed by her supervisors after warning last summer that r pumping radioactive liquids from two nuclear waste storage tanks could cause the contents to explode. A general accounting office report issued later said too Little was known about the explosive  the tanks and plans to pump them were cancelled under tuesdays agreement the company admitted no wrongdoing. Austin who has worked at the company since 1979, remains a Westinghouse employee the company pursued the agreement to encourage whistle blowers to come Forward said Westinghouse Hanford president Roger Nichols under terms of the agreement _ a a v a a letter of reprimand will be removed from Austin s file. T her latest performance appraisal will be upgraded. A she will be offered a Choice of new Transfer assign a ments within the company. A she also will get a pay increase and overtime receive one month leg paid time off and her $5,000 in Legal fees will be paid by the  supporter says he Evoh to be intimidated. New York a 1�?o Arab american Leader , Mehdi said tuesday he wont be silenced by a warning that he son a nit Jiff aimed at avenging the assassination  Meir Kahane. A the list was part of a note mailed to a new York television reporter by members of Kanahe s anti Arab Kach party t threatening 10 supporters of palestinian rights said chief of detectives Joseph Borrelli. The note bearing a new York postmark was mailed nov. 14, and contained the thinly veiled warning that Quot things will go Boom in the night a Borrelli said. A the note first appeared in new York new Day Quot in a not aware of any other letters of communications from Kahane supporters of this Type a said Borrelli. Mehdi and attorney Rita Hauser who has  with Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat Are among those on the list news Day said. The two said tuesday that police warned them about it two weeks ago Mehdi Secretary general of the National Council on islamic affairs and president of the Ameri can Arab relations committee said he a had private Protection Quot for some  he said that in 1974 opponents burned his office and broke his Back. A a new Day said the list also included Louis Farrakhan head of the nation of islam rabbi Arthur Hertzberg a Dartmouth College professor University of Chicago history professor Rashid Khalid new York times columnist Anthony Lewis Clovis Maksoud former . Ambassador from the Arab league Columbia University professor Edward said and two Withers whose identities could not be  was shot nov 5 while attending a zionist meeting in a Midtown hotel. Police have charged  employee Al Sayyid nos air with the killing