European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 5, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7kent state holds 70 memorial Vigil Kent Ohio up a Kent state University students held a Vigil saturday where four of their counterparts from another Era were shot dead exactly 21 years earlier by Ohio National guardsmen during an anti Vietnam War protest. The events of May 4, 1970, permanently scarred the Campus. But the College South of Cleveland Hasni to tried to cover up its past rather it has taken an Active role in Rei numbering the Day and the Era. On the 20th anniversary last year of the shooting that left tour dead and nine wounded a memorial was dedicated. And on saturday a 12-hour Vigil was held at the spots where the four mortally wounded students fell to the ground. On april 30, 1970, when president Nixon announced the United states had invaded Cambodia campuses nationwide erupted in protest. That night students rioted in the town breaking windows in stores and pelting police officers and sheriffs deputies with rocks and bottles. The following Day Kent mayor Leroy Satrom declared a curfew ordered All bars closed and asked gov. James Rhodes to Send the Ohio National guard to help police and sheriffs deputies keep order. A a. A a. A a a a a. A a. A. A. A at 12 24 . On May 4, several guardsmen opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators firing More than 60 shots. A a a. A. A a a v a a a a a a a a numerous investigations never conclusively established Why they fired. Some witnesses said a lieutenant either gave a verbal order or made a gesture that was misinterpreted. Others said one guardsman fired followed by the Volley a split second later by the res perhaps in reaction to rumours sweeping the Campus that some students had weapons no weapons were Ever a. Und. All Lour of those killed a Allison Krause 19 Jeffrey Miller 20 Sandra Chevier 20 and William Schroeder 19 a and most of the rest of those wounded were in or near a parking lot Between 100 and 130 Yards from the  rewiring Job May Salvage tests space Center Houston a the astronauts aboard space shuttle discovery succeeded saturday in rerouting data from three scientific instruments raising Hopes that a series of military experiments can be salvaged after m hours of splicing wires and rearranging cables the Crew managed to get information from the instruments to the ground. It was a last ditch Effort to save the experiments which were put on hold after two recorders that were supposed to store the information failed. Crew members some in goggles started saturday mornings procedures by turning off the instruments and the computer Monitor in the flight deck that is used to control them to eliminate any risks while splicing wires. The next step involved removing a panel from the Monitor and disconnecting a Cable in an attempt to bypass the two recorders. The recorders quit working shortly after the discovery blasted off with a Crew of seven last sunday. Several experiments were scrapped because of the trouble. The three instruments affected by the recorders failure Are part of a five instrument defense department payload. Two other instruments on the payload have been unaffected by the recorder trouble. Now that the new wiring is working and the data is being relayed to the ground the astronauts should be Able to proceed with experiments that could eventually help Verity whether nuclear test treaties afe being observed. Astrophysicist de Fenimore who has spent 13 years putting together the scientific studies had said lie was keeping his fingers crossed. Denim orc a experiments Are for the Energy department which wants celestial a Ray readings to differentiate Between natural and nuclear sources of a rays. The information could help verify whether nuclear test treaties Are being observed. Discovery a eight Day military Mission is scheduled to end monday with a Landing at Edwards fab Calif. Three firefighters Are silhouetted by the flames of the warehouse Blaze in Madison  destroys . Surplus food Madison wis. Apr a fire in a storage Complex destroyed thousands of tons of government surplus butter cheese and other food and forced the evacuation of 3,000 people authorities said saturday. Residents were evacuated from their Homes within a half mile radius of the fire starting just before Midnight after the Blaze threatened a third building that contained explosive chemicals said fire department spokesman Tom  Olshanski said that the Blaze caused Only some minor exterior and Interior damage to the building before the spread was stopped. Most people were allowed to return to their monies about 5 . A a we feel confident about the fire being under control but it is still still blazing a fire spokesman Arthur Dinkins said late saturday morning. The fire at the Central storage and warehouse co. Broke out Friday afternoon. Firefighters hauled truckloads of Sand to contain melted butter and lard that mixed with water from fire hoses As it streamed from the buildings. The 500,000-Square-foot Complex of four buildings holding More than 50 million pounds of food is on the East Side of this state capital. Two of the buildings burned and one warehouse worker and three firefighters suffered minor injuries. The third building that firefighters earlier worried might become engulfed contained hazardous chemicals but acid a a a real Detonator a had been removed Olshanksy  we got the most volatile chemicals out of the third building a said Kent Kruger supervisor of the Dane county 911  cause of the fire was not immediately known nor was there an estimate of the potential loss being there novelist Kosinski commits suicide by the los Angeles times new York a Jerzy Kosinski the polish born novelist and world War ii holocaust survivor who won acclaim with such Best Sellers As a the painted Birds and a being there a killed himself Friday apparently in despondency Over failing health. His body was discovered by his wife Katherine von Fraunhofer Kosinski at about 9 30 . In the bathroom of their Midtown Manhattan apartment police said. Kosinski who was 57, was found naked in a tub half full of water with a plastic bag on his head. A suicide note was left in the office of his apartment located in a Swank Section of West 5�?~j the Street near Carnegie Hall but authorities refused to divulge the contents. V in a statement issued through a publicist the writers widow said that he had been in deteriorating health As the result of a serious heart condition. A the had become depressed by his growing inability to work and by his fear of being a Burden to me and his friends a she added. She told police that she had last seen him alive at 9 . Thursday authorities said adding that the couple slept in separate bedrooms. Born in Lodz in 1933, Kosinski was 6 years old and the Only child of cultured Well to do jewish parents when the nazi overran Poland in 1939. Kosinski a parents sent him away into the Remote Countryside in a desperate Effort to save his life. But he was abandoned by the Friend to whom his parents had entrusted him and like Many other children who were Simi Lahy abandoned during that period become a wanderer. He led a nightmarish existence forced to beg for food and shelter among often unsympathetic and brutal peasants in Rural Eastern Europe. He arrived in the United states Quot in 1957 As a penniless immigrant who borrowed Money to  living As a trucker. In 1965, the same year in which he became a naturalized . Citizen he published the highly acclaimed novel a the painted Bird a which was based on his experiences As a child during world War ii and is considered a classic of holocaust literature. It won the Best foreign Book award in France that year. A being there was published in 1971 and in 1980 was made into a movie starring Peter Sellers Shirley Maclaine and Melvyn Douglas