European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 c the stars and stripes monday August 26, 1991brotherhood plea issued by Dinkins new York up mayor David Dinkins appealed sunday for brotherhood at the memorial service for a Black child whose traffic related death sparked several Days of racial violence in a new York City neighbourhood. A we must open up channels of communication not Only to our own children but also to our neighbors the hasidic Community of Crown Heights a Dinkins implored an audience at the first Baptist Church of Crown Heights during a morning service for the dead boy. Gavin Cato 7, was crushed to death aug 19 when a car driven by a hasidic Lew jumped a curb after it went through a red Light and was struck by a second car. The boy s Cousin Angela Cato also 7, was critically injured in the Accident. The ultraconservative jewish Section of Brooklyn became a target for Black mobs after rumours spread that a private jewish ambulance whisked away the Driver of the car Yosef Lifshi 22, without helping the Young victims. Yankel Rosenbaum a hasidic Seminary student from Australia was stabbed to death later that night in what police termed a random revenge attack. A violence is never the answer Quot Dinkins said in his 45-minute address. Quot if we set Loose the fury of violence not Only do we Dishonour the legacy of Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum we Dishonour what is arguably the most precious legacy we have that of or. Martin Luther King police reported a night of Calm in the racially charged neighbourhood and hasidic jews said they would press demands on government officials for increased Security in their neighbourhood. Hundreds of protesters escorted by police March in the Crown Heights Section of Brooklyn on saturday. Dinkins set a meeting with rebbe Menachem Schneerson the spiritual Leader of the hasidic Lubavitcher movement headquartered in Crown Heights to attempt to allay the concerns of the jewish Community there. A saturday protest led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyer Alton Maddox Drew hundreds of marchers who were flanked by 2,000 police officers in riot helmets. There were four arrests of Black protesters immediately following the March. Aides to Dinkins said they would meet privately with Sharpton who has demanded the arrest of the Driver. Sharpton and Maddox said late saturday that they would perform a citizens arrest on the Driver claiming the move a will have the effect of lowering the Community a temperature about a double Standard of a Public Wake was scheduled for Gavin Cato on sunday night at the St. Anthony Baptist Church. Dinkins said he would attend the boys funeral at the Church today.5-year study to Analyse health care needs Washington up the government said sunday that it plans to undertake a huge five year Survey of 12,000 beneficiaries of the medicare program to assess the types of health services they use and need. A this information will better prepare us to plan health care services Analyse health care policy issues and estimate the Cost of future Federal health care legislation Quot said Louis Sullivan Secretary of health and human services. The Federal governments medicare costs have More than tripled in 10 years a from $33.9 billion in 1980 to $105.7 billion in 1990. Sullivan has been studying the Issue of reforming the nations health care system but has said he is not ready to announce any plan. Budget director Richard Dar Man has said a proposal May not be unveiled until the fall of 1992, just before the election. The five year $33 million Survey of about 12,000 medicare beneficiaries in 38 states Washington d.c., and puerto Rico is the first such undertaking in More than a decade. Those who agree to participate will be interviewed three times a year at four month intervals Over at least three years. They will be asked about their health status their use of medicare insurance and sources of payment for their medical needs. The government stressed that the information will be confidential and that medicare benefits will not be affected by a persons responses. Medicare provides health insurance for about 34 million people 65 and older As Well As about 3 million disabled Ameri cans and about 150,000 renal disease patients. Medicare part a Hospital insurance provided to All beneficiaries includes inpatient Hospital services skilled nursing faculty care Home health care and hospice care for the terminally ill. Medicare part b medical insurance is available to those paying a monthly Premium. The insurance helps pay for some physician and outpatient Hospital services. It does not pay for routine physical examinations except for Pap smears and mammography is. 150 inmates taken from prison where cubans hold hostages Talladega Ala. Apr authorities on sunday moved 150 inmates out of a Federal prison where a group of cubans took 10 people hostage on the eve of being deported. Roger f. Scott Warden at Talladega Federal correctional institution refused to say whether the inmates were taken from buildings adjacent to the 200-prisoner Leigh Security unit controlled by the cubans. An end to the ordeal that began wednesday was nowhere in sight he said. He and another prison spokesman declined to give details about negotiations with the cubans who came to the United states in the 1980 Maricl boat lift. Quot we plan to continue communicating with the cuban detainees. In Hope of reaching a peaceful Resolution Quot said prison spokesman de Crosley. The besieged unit holds 121 cubans and 18 non cuban inmates in addition to the hostages. Scott said the prison workers taken hostage were unharmed based on face to face meetings with six of them and reports on the four others by their captors. Transferring 150 inmates from the prison a move that reduced the general population to 651will make it easier to manage the prison Scott said. The prison has operated Al a higher Security level since the takeover began. Non rebelling prisoners have been allowed out of their cells Only for showers. Quot the inmates have been extremely cooperative Quot Scott said. Scott refused to give any information about conditions under which the hostages Are being held. Three women Are among the captives. Prison officials continued to keep reporters and the Public away from the unit about 40 Miles East of Birmingham in the rolling Pine covered Hills of Central Alabama. Only the top of the inmate controlled building is visible from a Hill outside the prison grounds. Thirty two of the cubans were scheduled for deportation to their Island Homeland the Day after the uprising began and their fight against a return to Cuba is apparently Central to the crisis. Prison officials have not said what prompted the takeover. But Bureau of prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said the deportations Quot May be part of the negotiating the cubans were among 125,000 who came to the United states in an exodus from the port town of Mari Al Cuba in 1980. They were imprisoned and ordered deported for committing crimes in the United states including murder robbery and sex and drug offences. More than 30 of the 121 cubans at Talladega participated in anti deportation riots in 1987 at Federal prisons in Atlanta and Oakdale la. Since then the Talladega prison has been the final stopping Point for cuban inmates bound for Cuba on deportation mayor finally calling it quits at 91 Mccall Idaho apr this towns 91-year-old mayor says he a grown tired after a political career spanning eight decades and will step Down in january. Residents of this Central Idaho resort Community of 2,000 said mayor John Allen who will be 92 in november is the nations oldest mayor. A a in a too old to enjoy it. Id like to stay at Home for a while Quot said Allen a former California congressman and Eisenhower administration official. Quot the City is in Good shape and it is time for someone else to take Allen was elected mayor four years ago. Allen won his first political race at 23 a a 1922 election to the school Board in Oakland Calif. He spent years in the . House of representatives in the 1940s and 50s a the last Republican congressman to represent Oakland and Berkeley. After losing the seat in 1958, he served As undersecretary of Commerce for transportation in the Eisenhower administration
