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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday january 29, 1991major expected in Bush speech Washington apr under the grave Shadow of a War half a world away and a soured Economy at Home president Bush will try to reassure americans of a brighter future in his state of the Union speech tuesday night. A his press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush will announce a nothing major or costly in the Way of Domestic proposals Given the Clampdown on spending for virtually everything except the War Effort. The annual state of the Union address comes As the nation is consumed with the persian Gulf War and worried about the nearly 500,000 americans the president has sent to fight. A when everyone is thinking about the War you can to talk about the Domestic Agenda and expect anyone to listen a said Stephen Hess a scholar at the Brookings institution who specializes in the presidency. In that vein Bush intends to spend about half the speech talking about the War with a positive spin on prospects for its conclusion officials say. But he also will devote considerable time to the do news Roundup 4 die in a. Copter crash Sones a. Up a a helicopter ambulance crashed in a Remote mountainous area of northeastern Pennsylvania killing the Pilot a flight nurse and two medical aides authorities said. The crash occurred saturday night in state game lands about 120 Miles Northwest of Philadelphia and 45 mile West of Scranton said Carolyn Corbett a spokeswoman for Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre. A. Corbett said the helicopter had dropped off a patient at the Geisinger medical Center in Danville about 7 30 . And was returning to its base in Sayre when it lost radio Contact with ground communications. A signal was picked up from the crash site at 0 34 ., Corbett said. Rescue teams were unable to locate the crash site until 2 . Sunday. The four victims were identified As Pilot Jack Goodwin 35, of Sayre flight nurse Debbie Noll 32, of a owe go . Flight paramedic Mark Haussler 26, also of Sayre and emergency medical technician de Soper 36. Of Leraysville a. Jackson to help push Chicago up Jesse Jackson plans to return to Chicago this week to help his old Power base. Operation push out of a financial Hole push officials said. Push facing a deficit of undetermined proportions last week Laid off All 14 of its paid staff. Most have agreed to stay on the Job As volunteers. The organization w As one of the first major civil rights groups to spin off from the Southern Christian leadership conference after the assassination of  Luther ring or. In 1%s. Jackson. Its founder catapulted to National prominence and two presidential campaigns As Lead of push. Jackson recently won election As a non voting representative for Washington. D.c., in the Senate and now lives in the nation s capital. Push executive director Rev. Throne Crider f said the organization s financial problems Are the result of a slow Dow n in contributions. Ape proof Walls shown to be at least Man proof Pittsburgh apr ape proof Walls at the Pittsburgh zoo made monkeys out of five Rock climbers. The Walls 14 to 16 feet tall Are designed to keep wandering gorillas from escaping the zoo s new primate exhibit. A not having any gorillas to spare for a test the zoo unleashed Etc ran human climbers on the new Security saturday. The test team was led by ban Jirak. A you can use your teen hate and ised the climbers. George Hall 41, managed to get both feet 12 inches off the ground for 10 seconds but he did t make any Progress on the w All. Neither did the other climbers. The Security Walls Are made to resemble Granite. Sandstone and mud Banks. Gorillas will have a Chance to test them before the is 1 million tropical Forest Complex opens april 20. Mystic Agenda that critics say he has neglected. Bush a speech a plays the groundwork for coming Back to those issues once the Gulf crisis recedes a and will talk in general terms about his plans to push for education Energy civil rights and anti crime initiatives said Ope administration official. V White House budget director Richard Darman said sunday that the presidents next proposed budget will include a spending increase of just 2.6 percent but a a we la still be. Able to do things like invest $76 billion in research and development and $87 billion in  sources familiar with the speech preparations said there will be no a laundry list of initiatives. Instead Bush will keep to a thematic approach they said. A a he a going to be appropriately positive confident about the Middle East and about the Economy a said one source who spoke on Condit Ion of anonymity. A you want the audience having heard what the president had to say to come away from that with the Clear sense that the Man in charge is on top of not Only the circumstance in the persian Gulf but also the Domestic circumstances a said another official. Haiti violence quelled 10 die port a Prince Haiti apr rumours of a plot to free the jailed Leader of a Jan. 6 coup attempt provoked Street violence sunday. A at least 10 people died and 14 were wounded before it was quelled according to Independent radio reports. The dead included four reputed agents of the ousted Duvalier family dictatorship lynched by a mob and six protesters shot by soldiers the reports said. Government and military officials denied there had been an attempt to free coup Leader Roger Lafontant. It reported that he and 15 alleged conspirators remained under heavy guard at the National Penitentiary. Radio reports said the disturbances began before Daybreak As slum dwellers erected barricades of flaming tires and debris in Many sections of port a Prince. In suburban Carrefour soldiers opened fire on an unruly crowd killing at least six protesters radio Haiti inter said. It reported 14 wounded. Witnesses said a police station was burned in Carrefour and that the army opened fire on the crowd. In a separate incident radio Metropole reported that a mob lynched four men reputedly linked to the 29-year Francois a papa Doc and son Jean Claude a baby Doc Duvalier dictatorships which ended in 19s6. It said the victims bodies were burned. By mid morning general Calm was. Restored after the army High command and port a Prince mayor Evans Paul announced in separate broadcasts on state radio that rumours to free Lafontant were unfounded Bush aides working on the speech took into account the National preoccupation with both the Gulf War and the deteriorating Domestic Economy. A there is a Public yearning for reassurance about these big issues said one source. A you try to address them in positive and reassuring ways substantively without getting into minutia a a the president is expected to stress that the United states will win the War against Iraq that it is Only a matter of time. ,. And his emphasis on the economic recession will be similarly reassuring underscoring his insistence that the downturn will be Short lived and the nation can return to booming economic growth one source said. The president also plans to mention some proposals for pulling the nation out of recession including Bank in Reform sources said. The president was expected to use the state of the Union address to presage some budget proposals he will make in Early february. Modest increases were anticipated in such areas As scientific research and development education clean air Parks and the drug War. A an unidentified haitian shot during Street violence in p6rt-au-Prince, is wheeled into a Hospital Lafontant former head of the hated Tonton Lacoute militia and 15 others seized the National Palace three weeks ago and held president Ertha Pascal Trouillot hostage in an attempt to overthrow the interim civilian government. Loyalist soldiers stormed the Palace foiling the coup after a 10-hour standoff. Rumours of a plot to free Lafontant and his henchmen and of another attempt by Duvalier its to seize Power have increased during the past several weeks. New Mexico police arrest of 7 people in Colorado Santa be  up a a one Day search for a Man suspected of shooting and killing his Girlfriend a baby two police officers and three other people ended late sunday w Ith his arrest authorities  Mexico state police said the suspect Ricky Abeyta. 28. Wanted for the saturday murders at a Home in Chimayo. A Small Village about 30 Miles Northwest of Santa be. Was taken into custody sunday night. A the seven people were shot and killed As the result of a Domestic dispute Between Abeyta and his Girlfriend. A state police dispatcher said. The victims were a state police officer a Rio Arriba county sheriffs Deputy their usic cos Girlfriend her teen age daughter the daughter s Boyfriend a 6-Mojith old child and another relate. Abeyta tied alter the shootings and a manhunt involving More than.50 officers was conducted in the rugged Foothills of the Sangre de Cri to mountains until his Chimayo 7 slain a a o Santa be new Mexico Mexico Texas s4s arrest late sunday the dispatcher said. A abet tax a Girlfriend identified As Ignacita sandoval36 had won a restraining order against him and was moving her belongings to a rented Van outside the House when the shooting began police said. A the two Law enforcement officers went to the House to serve the restraining order on Abeyta and were unaware of the shootings the dispatcher said. The officers were identified As Jerry Martinez 35, who had been a Deputy with the Rio Arriba sheriffs department for seven years and senior patrolman Glen Huber 35, who had been a state policeman for _ seven years. Martinez was the first to arrive on the scene and was found shot to death next to his patrol car. Police said. Huber was shot once in the head As he sat behind the wheel of his patrol car. Also killed were Sandoval a daughter Maryellen Sandoval 19 her Boyfriend Taeario Gonzales 19 their instant son Justin Gonzales and Cheryl Rendon -5, w to was identified by police Only As a relative. The Only survivor was Sandoval a 13-Vear-old son. Eloy. He was shot twice but survived and was being treated at the University of new Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. A  
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