European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A a if 4 a emf stars and stripes thu Siklay my it. Huh riot torn . Area quiet under curfew Washington a boarded up store fronts and darkened desolate streets replaced Ritvo nights of violence Ami looting that racked predominantly hispanic neighbourhoods in the Mittons capital. Riot equipped police enforced a dusk to Dawn curfew tuesday night driving out crowds and answering hurled rocks bottles and insults with us arrests and a 1 Rols that occupied the usually Busy Dis tract. Political leaders meanwhile grappled with Community complaints that the violence grew from Long sumling frustrations Over joblessness police harassment and other problems in the hispanic Community Quot people Are not going out on the Street but they arc still asking for solutions to the problems Quot Saul Solorzano said outside his Home. ,. Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon said she would decide Quot Day by Day Quot whether the 7 p.m.-5 . Curfew would be repeated. A what the City needed was a Cooling off period Quot she said. She ordered the streets cleared after businesses were ransacked and police were pelted with rocks and bottles. Rampaging youths had left a Trail of debris and fire through the neighbouring mount pleasant and Adams Morgan areas two Miles from the while House. Streets normally filled with people were virtually empty tuesday night and the windows of fashionable nightspots were boarded Over. Only the police reporters and residents who wore police issued armbands and patrolled the area its Coli in observer walked mount pleasant Street where the shooting of it Momm Man during in at rum sunday night sparked the unrest the police chief Isaac Fulwood jr., sent some 1,000 officers into the area including All of the departments 10k Spanish speaking police. But Dix Oti who imposed the curfew after the greatest disturbances monday night said the massive show of police Force was needed Quot to allow us to restore order. To not give Way to our Sowri worst  Quot we can to surrender. We can to let a few people who wish to take advantage of other problems in our Community set the tone and Tenor of Washington d.c.,&Quot she said at a news conference. In All 38 people were arrested Many charged with curfew violations that carry maximum fines of $300 and 10 Days in a i. A. Police who reported 13 officers injured monday night had none Hurt tues Day but said $700,000 Worth of police equipment was damaged in the chaos. The initial rampage followed the gunshot wounding of a hispanic Man by i Rookie police officer. Police said the Man Drew a knife As the policewoman attempted to arrest him and several others after they challenged her warning about drinking in Public. Some residents disputed the police account saying the suspect Daniel Gomez bad already been handcuffed when he was shot. Gomez was listed in critical condition tuesday and charged with assaulting a Washington b.c., mayor Sharon Pratt Iron discusses the City a unrest at a new conference tuesday at left police chief Isaac fun Iwaki or police officer. The tear Gas that bathed the neighbor hoods sunday and monday night Wax used Only once on the third night As police chased youths in the troubled area. Several Hundred youths  intersections in the Early evening As co nun Unity leaders and Spanish speaking police officers pleaded with them to disperse. Some shredded Spanish language copies of the curfew notice tossing them in the air like confetti. The crowds thinned substantially but some stayed defiantly beyond the deadline. Quot a this is our Street we can be on the Street As Long As we want Quot yelled one youth As 40 helmeted police formed a nearby skirmish line nightsticks drawn. At least one patrol car was struck by a a bottle police fired tear Gas to scatter one group and their Gas masks on marched Forward in a tight line and took control of the Street. An hour into the curfew families were leaning out the windows of apartment buildings and weary police began removing their  sat on a curb let out a sigh and said Quot its  "1 think they made a statement last night and we Hope that this will be the end of it a said police it , Williams who commanded the Central strike Force. Businesses hoped to open again after closing for the night but some saw a much longer recovery. A we re Here for 30 some years we do nothing wrong and they Burn everything Quot said a woman who surveyed the twisted rubble of her family a dry cleaning business. Quot they loot. Why what happened Quot sheriff Helmsley lock horns Over dying renter san Francisco up1 the sheriffs department has no intention of evicting a terminally ill cancer patient despite what a spokesman said tuesday Are orders to do so from her landlords representing the Hal Pixley corp. In new York City. Quot this woman ainu to getting evicted that s the Bottom line Quot said sheriffs department spokesman Ray Towbis after a series of personal appeals that he said ended with Manhattan tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley themselves demanding the eviction within a two weeks. Claude Scovill the resident manager of Park Merced apartments where Deborah Worum is $5,q i behind in her rent denied getting his orders from the Helmsley. However he affirmed that he set a two week deadline Lor the woman to leave or he evicted. Worland. 42, is undergoing treatment Lor inoperable spy Al cancer. Since leaving her City Job because of the illness her sole income has been social Security disability payments. She had been scheduled Lor eviction wednesday. Towbis said that after examining the Case he appealed to Scovill to let Worland stay until alternative housing could he found. Although the manager refused according to Towbis an attorney for the apartment Complex later offered a one week delay. But Ivhon the woman was hospitalized tuesday for at least a three Day stay Towbis said he appealed to Scovill again Quot on humanitarian grounds Quot according to Towbis when the manager returned the Call Quot he said he had talked old Mosley to the owners in new York and they were Adamant in stating a we will give her no More than two weeks Quot Towbis quoted the manager As telling him Quot her time has run out. The Helmsley Are aware of the situation. This is the Way they want  Scovill would Only confirm that he talked a to my Boss directly and gave him my suggestion Quot that the eviction be stayed no More than two weeks. Quot there s no doubt she a behind in her rent and owes them the Money a the angry Towbis said Quot but this is peanuts to a corporation like that. I can to believe they a be this hard hearted a although the sheriffs department is required to carry out court ordered. Evictions Towbis said this one would Only happen Quot Over my dead  Harry and Leona Helmsley who preside Over a $5 billion hotel and real estate Empire made National headlines when they were charged in april 1988 with skimming $500,1 011 in income taxes by disguising millions of dollars in renovations and furnishings at the couple s 28-room mansion in Greenwich conn., As expenses for their companies. In february of this year a new York state appeals court threw out All 188 counts of tax  testifies for doctor who refused Gulf duty fort Leonard Wood to. Up a former . Attorney general Ramsey Clark testified tuesday on behalf of an army Reserve doctor who faces a possible court martial for refusing to report for duty in the persian Gulf War. Clark attorney general under president Lyndon Johnson in the i fills and now a human rights activist testified at a preliminary military hearing for or. Yolanda Huet Vaughm of Kansas City Kan. Duet Vaughn claimed conscientious objector status after refusing to report for duty in the Gulf War. Clark testified he had spent eight Days in Iraq during the War videotaping the effects of Allied bombing attacks against the Eon try. Defense attorneys played the videotape during the hearing. An investigative officer it col. Miles Franklin must decide whether to recommend a court martial in the ease said Bradley Rose Public information of Liccar at fort Leonard Wood lie said col. Thomas Auer the commander of the Gen. Leonard Wood army Community Hospital then would decide what action should be taken. Auer could decide to dismiss the charges or to order a Genera court mar tial  in  Rose said. Bluet Vaughn could be sentenced to tip to five years in prison if court mar baled and found guilty. She also could be stripped of her License to practice Medicine. Huet Vaughn was at fort Leonard Wood with the 5503rd station Hospital when she was assigned to the 410th evacuation Hospital at tort Riley Kan., which was ordered to report to the Middle East in december. The doctor refused to report for duty and the army listed her As a deserter Jan. I she surrendered i military police feb. 2. The doctor was charged formally with desertion March 6. Since her surrender she has been restricted to the install Avion at tort Leonard Wood Rose said. Huet Vaughn contends she had a right to refuse to report for duty in a War that she says violated International Law. She also said she is being singled out unfairly for prosecution because she spoke out publicly about her opposition to the War. Quot i think perhaps it s being handled differently because i was very outspoken about the problems that i saw with this War and about the violations of International Law Quot Huet Vaughm said