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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 18, 1991

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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. April 18. 1991 the stars and stripes needy program targets children social Security plan proposed for youngsters from wire reports Washington a standing in the Shadow of his brother sen Edward Kennedy a mass used a commemoration of president Kennedy s peace and Dinar mum ont speech tuesday to Call for a a social Security Quot system for the nation s children. Kennedy matched his brother s 1963 Call Lor a the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation Quot with his own a the right of All children to grow up healthy Happy and free irom  a hungry american children cannot eat foreign policy and sick american infants cannot be healed by capital gains tax cuts for the wealthy Quot Kennedy told a packed gymnasium. The senator was invited to speak for the 28th Anni a Vars any of his brother a commencement speech at american University. The late president has become a Symbol for the school and a week in april is customarily set aside to remember his legacy of working to make a difference. This year students removed a Metal plaque on a Cement slab that displayed a passage from the 1963 speech a they thought it looked like a sewer Cap a and mounted it on a 7-foot-High Marble Monument. In sen. Kennedy s first Public appearance since the incident involving the alleged rape in Florida he told american University students that America s children deserve More than they re getting. A a his voice broke As he talked about the a still extremely moving photographs of his brother smiling As he watched his son and daughter play hide and seek around his desk in the Oval office. A i know that More than anything my brother wanted every child in America and in All the world to feel that sense of family and fulfilment of Pride and potential Quot he said. A a a Quot a. A a a a. A a Kennedy proposed six Steps he said would be cheaper than bearing the costs of crime illness and other problems that will ensue if they re not undertaken health care for expectant mothers and newborns Universal childhood immunization a guaranteed level of nutrition improved child care Early childhood education and untangling the bureaucratic web that keeps needy parents from children a services. A the Cost is real but not beyond our reach a $10 sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., Speaks to students on the anniversary of his late brother a 1963 speech. Billion a he said. A the Federal share would be approximately half that a $5 billion or six Days Cost of running the department of  american University students had asked Kennedy to speak at the dedication of a Monument honouring a fkr a 1963 speech. 1 hat was before the faster weekend Inci Dent at Palm Bench. 1 la., Ami allegations that the Sena lot s Nephew raped a woman at the Kennedy estate i Palm each. A handful of students protested outside the Macri can University gymnasium where Kennedy spoke meanwhile m Palm each police said tuesday that they still want to know Why detectives were unable to talk to the Kennedy soon alter the alleged assault. Also tuesday. Nhuc in a identified the alleged victim by name and showed her photograph on the a in by nightly  the new York Quot l Imes subsequently published the woman s name in its wednesday editions. Detectives made a a number of visits Quot to the estate including one soon after they first received the rape report about 2 . On match 39, police spokesman Crain Cinkel said. V each time they Weie told members of the Kennedy family weren t there. I he alleged victim is a 29-Yeai-old Jupiter woman who claimed she was taped by sen. Kennedy a Nephew William Kennedy Smith. A Geog town University medical student Smith 30, denied Quot he assaulted the woman. No Haiges have been filed. A spokesman for sen. Kennedy said tuesday that he Hadnot known police Weie trying to talk to cum that weekend. William Barty a retired i i agent and former bodyguard Tor the late Robert f. Kennedy said he met police twice on the Day after the alleged assault lie said he did t know the whereabouts of Smith or the senator when police asked it they could speak to them. Palm each detectives went to the Washington area the following week to interview family members and obtain blood and hair samples from Smith who refused to be interviewed. Jack Freese a state attorney s spokesman would not comment tuesday on whether the difficulty in interviewing the Kennedy was considered an obstruction of Justice. A police chief Joseph 1  i tuesday confirmed there were new witnesses in the ease but  say How they came to police attention lie said investigators were trying to avoid extensive comment on the Case. Hut he promised to eventually make All details Public. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago april 18,1981 a Jaycees organizations in the Fredericksburg and Stafford va., areas were censured by their National Headquarters for reportedly holding Quot social events Quot that featured pornographic films strip tease dancers and gambling 20 year Sago april 18, 1971 a East Germany refused to open the Berlin Wall for Holiday family reunions at Pentecost unless the West Berlin City government agreed to hold talks on the Overall Berlin situation. Similar arrangements had not been made in the previous four years. 30 year Sago april 18,1961 a rebels invaded Cuba by sea and air seeking to overthrow prime minister Fidel Castro a regime. Castro accused the United states of backing the attack. 40 years ago april 18, 1951 a the British submarine affray with a Crew of 75, disappeared while on Maneu vers in the English Channel. An All Day sea and air search found no Trace of the ship. Chiefs urge Federal government to act on police brutality problem new York apr a dozen police chiefs outraged by the videotaped beating of a Motorist in los Angeles urged the Federal government tuesday to act against police brutality. A. A the police brutality pictured in the los Angeles situation has outraged us All a said the City a police commissioner Lee p. Brown Reading from a position paper released by the group. The March 3 videotape showed White los Angeles police officers beating Black Motorist Rodney King. Four officers were indicted As a result of the beating. A few weeks after the videotape was shown on National television five White new York City police officers were indicted in february on charges of fatally beating a hispanic car theft suspect. 1 he Heads of police departments from Atlanta san Diego Newark it St. Petersburg fla., Tulsa okla., Chicago Dallas Boston Baltimore Portland ore., and Bridgeport conn., joined Brown and City transit police chief William Bratton for a Daylong Summit on police brutality. Quot. A los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates who has defied criticism and Calls for his resignation in the Wake of the King beating was not invited. A we All agreed that this meeting today was on the broader issues and not on a specific a a individual Quot Brown said. A i lie los angeles1 Community will handle its own problem. Quot the chiefs urged the. Department of Justice to provide funds to develop a National system to gather data on the use of police Force similar to the nationwide crime reporting system. A in los Angeles meanwhile a Black Cap Tain assumed command tuesday of patrol officers of the division involved in the King beating. Capt. Paul Jefferson a 22-year Veteran of the Force was picked to replace a White Captain  police officials said was a Confidence restoring move. A Over lift Bellevue Wash. Apr a woman unhappy with the facial surgery performed by her plastic surgeon shot and killed the doctor and then herself police said tuesday. A Beryl Challis 60, was found wounded monday night by her husband at their Bellevue Home and later died of a gunshot wound to the head. While police were investigating the death officers received a Call that or. Selwyn. Cohen 41, had been shot at his Bellevue office. His body was discovered after he failed to arrive for an appointment. Police said Challis and Cohen were shot with .38-caliber bullets. Challis purchased a .38-caliber handgun a month ago said police. Ballistics tests on the weapon Are scheduled. Police it. Steve Bourgette said a note was found in Challis room taking responsibility for Cohen a death. He said she was a extremely upset at the failure of her latest  Cohen performed a Facelift and eve tuck for Challis a year ago. She Hail an appointment with Cohen at 5 30 . Monday and left the office after that about the same Lime the office staff left police said. Cohen failed to show up for a 7 . Appointment and authorities arrived about 11 . Medics by Rock in and found his body in the office lobby. He was shot at least once police said. Challis had been seeing the doctor for treatment of pain believed related to her surgery  
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