European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 24, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13accused . Police win plea delay by Seth Mydans the new York times los Angeles a four police officers accused of assault in the videotaped beating of a Black Motorist won a delay Friday until this week to enter their pleas in court. Meanwhile new disclosures continued to feed Public anger Over the incident. In grand jury testimony quoted Friday morning by the los Angeles daily news witnesses at a Hospital where the beaten Man Rodney g. King was treated said that police officers taunted him boasting that they had a played a Little hardball and a hit quite a few Home runs while beating him. A nurse Carol Diane Edwards was quoted As telling the grand jury that an officer said to King a we played a Little hardball tonight and you  charged in the beating of King on March 3 Are sgt. Stacey c. Koon and officers Laurence m. Powell Timothy e. Wind and Theodore j. Briseno. All Are free on bail. A a a a a a a a a a. A a a. The officers said nothing during their Brief court appearance Friday. After allowing their lawyers extra time to study transcripts from grand jury hearings. Superior court judge Gaty Klausner urged Speed saying a i want to get this thing assigned out so we can get this thing running at a proper  the prosecutor assistant District attorney Terry White said a i think they think they need More information than they need to enter a  the police Pursuit of King s White Hyundai began on the foothill freeway on the Northern outskirts of los Angeles and proceeded on City streets. The California Highway patrol on Friday made pub lie a tape recording of radio communications from officers who initially pursued Kings car. Like an earlier recording released by the los Angeles police department it made no reference to King s Speed on the freeway before he turned onto City streets. A. A. A a. A a a a. A a a a Highway patrol spokesman sgt. Mike Brey earlier said that King had been travelling at up to 115 Miles per hour a Speed King and a passenger Bryant Allen disputed. The tape released Friday indicates that King was pursued for about three Miles before leaving the freeway. A a. A v. A As the Pursuit continued on City streets the tape includes a report by officers that he was driving As fast As 65 Mph on streets where the Speed limit is 45. The police department tape included a reference to a Speed of 55 Man on streets where the limit was 40. Both sets of tapes include references to the presence of Black men in the car. Transcripts of conversations among members of the police department released earlier include remarks that Mavor Tom Bradley among others has called racist. V a a a a a a a. The Highway patrol tapes include no such remarks. King a 25-year-old unemployed construction worker remained hospitalized Friday after an operation on a fractured Eye socket lie suffered multiple Skull fractures and a broken ankle among other injuries. Or Alvin Reiter a plastic surgeon who operated on him said thursday a there s a Good possibility that hell have permanent numbness permanent paralysis and problems with chewing and opening up his Mouth without  poor maintenance cited in Detroit collision probe just a Little tyke Akili a baby Black Rhinoceros born March 7, Peers from beneath her Mother at the Brookfield Iii zoo. The 70-Pound Akili and her Mother Brooks will be on exhibit inside the zoos pachyderm House. Akili is the seventh Black Rhino born at the zoo. Detroit a inadequately trained aircraft mechanics had serviced an escape Hatch that failed to open on a dc-9 jetliner that collided on a runway with another Northwest airlines plane a supervisor said Friday. Eight of the 44 people aboard the dc-9 died of smoke inhalation after it collided with a Boeing 727 at fog shrouded Detroit metropolitan Airport on dec. 3. All 153 people aboard the 727 escaped serious injury. A the doors handle broke when someone apparently tried to open the dc-9�?Ts escape Hatch preventing several passengers and Crew from escaping the burning  a. A a a. -. A you have to pull it straight up a Northwest maintenance Foreman Frank Valentz said of the escape Hatch handle at a National transportation safety Board hearing. A if you pull it out or off Center it will  Valentz testifying on the fifth Day of a hearing on the collision said the mechanics who had worked on the Northwest dc-9 did not have formal training on the maintenance of dc-9s or of air plane Tail Cones. The escape  was in the dc-9 s Tail Cone. He also said nine of the ii mechanics who serviced the dc-9 were new on the Job. Charles Lewis a Northwest inspector testified Friday that the escape Hatch initially failed a test but passed his inspection on nov. 19. In addition an investigation by the National aviation safety inspection program did no to find major maintenance Vii lations said Joe Wall a Federal aviation administration flight inspector. Robert Stacho a dc-9 specialist for the Faa said the escape hatches on 3 h of the nations 400 dc-9�?Ts were inspected after the collision and minor problems were found on 40 of them. The Pittsburgh bound dc-9 was taxiing for Takeoff when it strayed onto the wrong runway. The 727, bound for Memphis tenn., was speeding toward take of when its Wing ripped into the dc-9, spilling fuel and igniting a fire on the smaller  radio director latest Yuppie defector Cox news service Miami a a programming director for cubans state radio strode into the offices of the anti Castro radio Marti on Friday to prepare a news bulletin for authorities Back Home he Isnit coming Back. A in Cuba we have no Liberty a said Romel Iglesias Gonzalez 48, in an interview shortly after he announced that he and his wife Aurura were seeking political Asylum. A we decided that if the Only Way to get Freedom is to leave Cuba that a what we would  Iglesias is the latest of a wave of privileged deserters that Are known in Havana As a Yuppie  his desertion came on the heels of the daring escape to key West on wednesday by Orestes Froilan Lorenzo Perez a 38-year-old major in the cuban air Force. Iglesias said he came to Miami with his wife on March 12 for what was supposed to be a 20-Day visit with his brother in Laws family at Miami Beach. Secretly he and his wife had been planning to defect for years and this was their Chance he  morning he walked into the offices of a virulently anti Castro Miami radio station la cuban Sima and announced his decision. Radio Marti interviewed him hours later and he has been invited to visit its Washington offices next week. Iglesias said the economic crisis in Cuba has recently sparked Small Public outbursts against the government. During year end festivities people in several Small towns painted Graffiti saying Quot Down with Fidel a a Down with communism a and Quot we be had enough of hunger Quot he said a people Are very depressed in Cuba a Iglesias said. Quot they Are beginning to react in  runs Gay couple announcements by the new York times Minneapolis a the Star Tribune of Minneapolis has broken ground for major metropolitan newspapers by publishing two announcements of lesbian a Domestic partnerships on what had traditionally been its wedding and engagement Page. Smaller newspapers on the West coast including the Herald of Everett wash., near Seattle and the Marin Independent journal near san Francisco recently adopted similar policies and have received severe criticism from read ers and religious groups. So far the. Change by the Star Tribune has not prompted that kind of Public outcry. A a in announcing the newspaper s new policy last week. Star Tribune spokeswoman Bette Fenton said it was a a natural response to a new Minneapolis ordinance allowing homosexual partners to Register their relationships with the City. Stephanie Grey a Star Tribune advertising employee and her companion. Wendi storhoff were among the first two couples both lesbian making announce ments on the renamed a a Celebration Page formerly called  Grey said she worried that the announcement would bring harassment but she added Quot for us to not Tak c Jan Opportunity Given us would have gone against what we be been fighting for for  the newspaper changed its policy after Grey asked its advertising committee whether another lesbian couple could announce their relationship on the a weddings Quot Page. Two Days later she said a memorandum was issued to company employees explaining the policy change which Grants recognition to not Only homosexual couples but also heterosexuals who want to announce partnerships outside of marriage.  a Ann Degroot. Executive a director of the Gay and lesbian Community action Council said that her organization had been preparing to ask the Star Tribune to make the policy change but that the newspaper had acted first. Quot for something As mainstream As the Minneapolis paper to say a yeah this should be recognized a is really a Nice acknowledgement a she said