European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday August 5, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7, but issues differ by Christina d. Mungan the associated press Berkeley Calif. A in 1969, student Leader Dan Siegel stood on the Steps of the University of califor Niass Sproul Plaza and spoke three words that launched 5,000 demonstrators a take the last weeks demonstrations at what has become Peoples Park were no less volatile but the causes have changed from free speech and the Vietnam War to volleyball and the plight of the homeless. Siegel displays the ambivalence of Many protesters from a generation ago toward the violence in the current protest. He was not there this time. A i had other things to do a said Siegel now an attorney for Oakland unified school District. A i am not so much upset about the building of volleyball courts at Peoples Park As to think that people should commit acts of violence to prevent them from being put in. The whole thing seems out of in 1969, after free speech and anti War protesters spontaneously took pick axes and plants to a University lot the demonstrators clashed for 10 Days with police and ultimately National guardsmen sent by then gov. Ronald Reagan. A Young bystander died and hundreds of demonstrators were hit by Buckshot before the University backed off. Officials have allowed the half Block off Telegraph Avenue to evolve into what has recently become a Cross Between the speakers Corner in London and an open air homeless shelter. The latest clashes erupted Over a City contract to lease the Center of the Park from the University for $1 and install lighting toilets and volleyball and basketball courts. \ merchants and City officials said the filthy Park repelled visitors and attracted crime. Street people said however that the construction was Only a Way of evicting them from a place that has become their Home. A the need Here is not for More volleyball but for More food and clothing to get Back into mainstream society a said Kenneth Beard who is homeless. After the first Bulldozer moved in about 600 protesters wednesday night stormed City streets smashing dozens of windows in stores and in the student Union building on the Berkeley Campus. A a flying bottle broke a police officers jaw and a protester fired three rounds from a handgun thursday police use clubs to Clear a Street next to Peoples Park in Berkeley Calif., after protesters ref Tisco to move saturday. Night. Adrian Clark a visitor from England was slashed in the face at a thursday night protest during which some Young people built a Bonfire with clothing donated to the homeless. Friday nights protest ended with police firing at about 100 protesters marching around the Park and a nearby shopping area refusing to heed police warnings to disperse. The protest continued saturday. Authorities said at least 77 people have been arrested since wednesday. Siegel said people Are exaggerating the glories of the past. Telegraph Avenue was As a a scruffy in 1969 As it is today he said. A the demonstrators in 1969 included Many More peaceful protesters but no fewer throwing stones than on wednesday and those Stone throwers in �?T69 were homeless people a a like the people who were so upset wednesday night a he said. A i done to think there was a big 1 once a Token of Peoples right to control their lives in the face of authority Peoples Park has now become a narrower but equally valid Symbol for society a failure to provide for the homeless and helpless Siegel said. But Kent Randolph whose record store carries a locally famous mural commemorating the seizure of the Park in 1969, said volleyball courts were Fine with him. A that Park has been a very depressing place for a Long time and As a Symbol to me its lost All meaning a he sought to avoid arrest police files say Sarasota Fla. A the actor who plays pee wee Herman tried to avoid arrest on indecent exposure charges by offering to perform a children a Benefit for the local sheriffs office a police report says. Paul Reubens attorney made the same offer to the Sarasota Herald trib Tine if the newspaper agreed not to publish a Story on the arrest the newspapers editor said. A we would never consider such an offer a said Diane Mcfarlin the newspapers executive editor. The attorney Dan Dannheisser has said he plans to withdraw from the Case. Reubens 38, was in town visiting his parents when he was arrested july 26 for exposing himself at an adult theater. He has denied wrongdoing and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday. Miami attorney Richard Gerstein a former Dade county state attorney said that he now is representing Reubens. Detectives did not recognize Reubens whose Long hair made him different in appearance from his pee wee television character said officials with the Sarasota county sheriffs office. Detective William Walters who was working undercover in the theater watched As Reubens masturbated the report said. It said that after detectives took him outside Reubens told them a this is embarrassing. Can i show you some id a while a detective looked at his License Reubens said a a in a Pec wee Herman a the report said. A the subject then suggested that maybe he could do a Charity Benefit for the sheriffs office or something to take care of this a the report said. They did not charge Reubens with attempted bribery said sheriffs spokesman capt. Terry Lewis. A it was just a Misdemeanour a Lewis said. A the deputies did not feel at that time that they had enough probable after his arrest lbs dropped reruns of Pec weeks playhouse Reubens children a television show. His agent Richard Grant said a support rally was held saturday night at the Roxy theater in san Francisco. Indians want peyote use kept Lega Rosalynn Carter helps launch Effort to immunize children Atlanta apr former first lady Rosalynn Carter has helped launch a nationwide Campaign to immunize All children against measles and other illnesses by the age of 2. Carter and Betty bumpers the wife of sen. Dale bumpers d-ark., opened their a every child by two Campaign Friday and will begin a National tour next month. Next Spring they will focus on immunizing children along the poverty stricken Mississippi Delta. More than 27,600 cases of measles were reported in the nation last year and 89 people died in what health officials said was the largest outbreak in 20 years. A it is a shameful fact that children in this country suffer from a disease that is so easy to prevent a Carter said Friday. The women will lobby for greater reimbursement for immunizations and less expensive shots bumpers said. The two teamed up on the same Issue in the 1970s and again during former president Carters term. Winnebago neb. Apr native american Church leaders voted unanimously saturday to fight to keep peyote use a Legal part of religious ceremonies. A even though we Are different tribes and we have different traditions and practices i believe every one of us Here goes Back to the peyote religion a said Lolita Spencer service officer for the native american Church of Navajo land. About 30 Church leaders representing a Quarter of a million members met at the Winnebago reservation about 70 Miles Northwest of Omaha to discuss How to keep peyote use Legal. The peyote Cactus contains the illegal drug Mescal which produces hallucinations that indians often interpret As spiritual revelations. The . Supreme court last year ruled in an Ore on Case that members of the native american Church ave no constitutional right to take peyote during religious ceremonies. The High court said states have the right to ban peyote use. Currently More than 20 states allow peyote use in religious ceremonies under a Federal Law that made it a controlled substance but allowed an Indian exemption. The supreme court ruling upheld the denial of unemployment benefits to two drug Counselor fired for using peyote in an american Indian religious ceremony. Leaders of four regional groups of the native american Church unanimously passed a Resolution pledging to protect peyote use. A it is a Way of life that a what it is a said Reuben Snake a Winnebago Indian who founded the native american religious Freedom project. Snake said he will deliver the peyote Resolution to the . Commission on human rights and the world Council of churches. A when i use this Medicine i think about god and his creation a Snake said. A through that i receive enlightenment. I understand myself As a human being and my place in
