European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 3,1991aids activists March near Bush Home Kennebunkport Maine a fifteen Hundred demonstrators staged a symbolic a die in on the Road near president Bush a vacation Home to protest what one called his Quot murderous deliberative negligence on aids. Scores of local police state troopers and secret service agents clamped a tight Security net Over this resort town during the protest on sunday. The demonstrators blowing whistles and carrying banners were turned Back at a police barricade on Ocean Avenue a half mile from Bush a Seaside com Pound. The Street was sealed off by about 40 state troopers most wearing Black Winter gloves or surgical gloves that Drew taunts from the demonstrators. The March was sponsored by act up the aids coalition to unleash Power known for its disruptive tactics and occasional use of civil disobedience. Sundays demonstration was peaceful and police said there were no arrests. After lying on the ground in symbolic representation of the 114,0 10 americans who have died from aids the demonstrators marched out of town. About 1,500 aids activists March through Dock Square in downtown Kennebunkport Maine on sunday. Nunn confident soviet arms present no pressing danger by the Washington Post Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn d-ga., said sunday he has been assured that soviet nuclear weapons remain under Central government control and believes there is no Quot immediate kind of pressing danger to the United states. Quot i think the Odds Are overwhelmingly against anything happening that would put the United states at risk said Nunn on cd so a face the nation from Moscow where he has been meeting with top defense officials of the soviet Union and its russian Republic. A but you want to make the Odds insurmountable when you have the stakes that we have with nuclear Nunn said the Assurance came from the a defense minister Quot an apparent reference to newly appointed soviet defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov with whom Nunn met sunday morning. Nunn s comments were in Tine with assurances by president Bush last week that control had been maintained Over soviet nuclear weapons most of which Are located in Russia although two other republics a the Ukraine and Kazakhstan a Are believed to have 1,000 warheads each within their though there May be no immediate danger Washington and Moscow should begin discussing new nuclear safeguards including the possibility of an agreement to scrap tactical nuclear weapons Nunn said. �?o1 think we have to re examine whether those ground based Short Range tactical nuclear weapons really have a purpose on either Side now or whether they May be More a danger to each of us than they Are stabilizing a he said. Robert s. Strauss . Ambassador to the soviet Union said he too has been reassured that soviet nuclear weapons Are under control and indicated he regarded Nunns assessment As significant. A gosh knows he knows a lot More about this than i do Quot Strauss said on abcs this week with David Brinkley. 35 inmates injured in jail riot Santa Clarita Calif. A More than 90 inmates rioted Early sunday at a los Angeles county jail after a face off Between hispanic and Black prisoners. Thirty five inmates were injured. The hour Long Melee stemmed from an earlier argument Over use of a Telephone sheriff s Deputy Rich Erickson said. Hispanic and Black inmates confronted each other in a dormitory in the maximum Security area of Pitchess Honor Rancho about 30 Miles Northeast of los Angeles Erickson said. All 92 prisoners in the dorm some with homemade knives joined in the riot he said. The 35 injured prisoners were taken to three hospitals for treatment of concussions Stab wounds and cuts. All were in Good condition. The fight stemmed from an incident saturday when a hispanic inmate and a Black inmate argued Over use of a Telephone Erickson said. The telephones Are used by inmates on a first come first served basis. A that argument evolved into a fight hours later and the inmates paired off with their respective races a Erickson said. A superpowers use new phone line Washington a the United states and soviet Union for the first time last weekend began utilizing soviet satellites to carry Telephone conversations Between the two countries. The first Call along the 24 new circuits contracted by american Telephone and Telegraph co. On the soviet inter sputnik satellite system was placed shortly after 7 . Edt saturday at amp to officials said sunday. Approval for the 24 at amp to circuits and 24 other circuits contracted by id telecommunications services co. Of los Angeles with into sputnik was granted by the Federal communications commission on aug. 21, the same Day that a three Day coup against soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed. Quot this just gives us More capacity to Complete the High volume of Calls Between the two countries a said Herb Linncon an at amp to spokesman. At amp to now has a total of 91 satellite circuits with the soviet Union including 67 on Intelsat satellites. But each of those circuits is capable of handling Only one two Way Telephone conversation at a time. The company says it could use 2,300 circuits to handle the 5,000 phone Calls an hour that americans and soviets try to place to each other under Normal in Midway engine halts flight in Chicago from wire reports Chicago a Midway airlines flight 931 from Chicago to Phoenix was grounded sunday night when a fire erupted in the left engine As the plane taxied to a runway for Takeoff. Officials said the Pilot called out Midway Airport emergency fire and Rescue units which extinguished the flames in the left engine of the md-82 aircraft and evacuated the passengers. The 49 passengers and five Crew members left the plane via a s body found Ledger Mont. A the body of a second Crew member was found sunday in the wreckage of two Burlington Northern freight trains that crashed head on Friday. Searchers aided by dogs continued the search through piles of wreckage for another crewman still missing company spokesman Gus Melonas said. Nine locomotives and 31 freight cars derailed in the collision near this tiny North Central Montana farming town. Four Crew members were hospitalized in great Falls and another was flown to a Burn Center in Salt Lake City. The first body was found saturday. None of the Crew members names were released Bucky is really a porker East Point a. A Bucky an overweight pet african pygmy pig is nothing but a farm animal after All. Last week the East Point City Council decided the 70-Pound pig though an unusual pet did not violate a City ordinance against keeping farm animals. But thursday mayor Bruce Bannister said he vetoed the councils decision and told Buckys owner Martha Moore the pig must go. A we acted a Little too Quick a Bannister said. A when she came before us she said it was a miniature pig a Little tiny Bannister and Council members later discovered that Bucky actually was a porker weighing in at More than 70 pounds far above the typical african pygmy pig weight of Between 20 and 50 pounds. Moore concedes Bucky is overweight but nowhere near the size of grown farm raised hogs which can reach 800 pounds. She plans to make another Appeal for Bucky at today a Council meeting. A a a
