European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 4, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 985 arrested at Pigeon shooting Hunt special to the los Angeles times h Egins a. A eighty five people were arrested monday As an estimated 500 animal rights activists protested a Pigeon shooting contest that is a 58-year-old labor Day tradition in this Small Pennsylvania Mountain town 50 Miles Northeast of Harrisburg. The protesters who flocked in from around the country have helped to make civil disobedience a regular feature of this end of summer rite. Since 1986, animal Protection groups have tried to Stop the Daylong event. They object not Only to the killing of about 5,000 pigeons but also to the use of local children As a strap boys a who retrieve dead pigeons and break the necks of the injured ones. Two years ago activists were dealt their biggest blow when the state legislature voted overwhelmingly not to ban such shoots. An Appeal to democratic gov. Robert p. Casey to Stop the Hegins shoot made last year by the Pennsylvania based animal rights mobilization also failed. Forty five other states ban such live animal shoots. This year the new York based group fund for animals offered to offset the costs of holding a labor Day shoot of Clay pigeons instead. Besides the protesters who picketed just outside the events Entrance about 11,000 spectators crowded into the Community Park at a Cost of $5 each ostensibly to picnic and watch 250 contestants with single and double barrel shotguns shoot the pigeons which were released from boxes 30 feet away. But the crowds biggest cheers came whenever state troopers on foot and on horseback ran Down protesters who were bolting across the Fields picking up injured Birds and releasing others held in the traps. The few self proclaimed a Pigeon liberators who eluded troopers carried injured Birds to one of several stations set a Pennsylvania state trooper restrains a protester trying to release pigeons from traps. The trooper is aided by a strap boys. Up to treat them or to perform Euthana leases protesters chanted a big guns Sia through injection depending on the Small minds a and spectators chanted extent of the Birds injuries. Those pro a save a Pigeon shoot a protester a testers posed As contestants or broke most of those arrested were charged through a plastic mesh Fence bordering with theft a each Pigeon Cost the shoot s the event. Organizers $5 a receipt of stolen prop during Breaks Between the Pigeon re erty and a a defiant trespassing the Fine or bail for which was set at $343 total. But those who released pigeons from traps faced tougher theft and trespassing charges and a bail set at $5,000. One protester who leaped on top of a 12-year-old a strap boy Quot was charged with felony assault. Evangelist Schuller recovering from brain surgery after injury fighting aids epidemic Elizabeth Taylor clenches her fist to make a Point tuesday during a Tokyo news conference. Taylor co chairwoman of the International program of the american foundation for aids research called for continued International cooperation to end the aids epidemic. On monday the actress received a $1 million donation from a japanese artist for aids research. Hiro Yamagata presented Taylor with the Check and a portrait of the actress. The portrait will be made into silk screen prints to be sold worldwide for Taylor a fund raising Campaign. By the los Angeles times the Rev. Robert h. Schuller internationally known preacher and founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove calif., was Alert and stable monday after emergency brain surgery in the Netherlands. Schuller underwent a successful three hour operation in Amsterdam his Stopover in route to the soviet Union where he hoped to reinstate his Christian television program. Doctors said the surgery was needed to repair an injury caused when Schuller bumped his head while entering a car. Surgeons removed a blood clot with no complications and anticipate no brain damage according to the pastor s aide Michael Nason. Church spokesmen said Schuller 64, was on his Way to Moscow with Nason and a son in Law Paul David Dunn at the invitation of soviet broadcasting officials. A program featuring Schuller sermons was taken off the air in the soviet Union last Spring. After he struck his head sunday Schuller complained of headaches and dizziness. He dined and spent the evening alone in his hotel. He then failed to appear for an appointment Mon the Rev. Robert h. Schuller Day. Nason and Dunn with the help of hotel Security entered his room about 9 . And found Schuller Semi conscious on the floor Between the bed and the Balcony. I be later slipped into a coma Nason said. The surgery was performed at free University Hospital in Amsterdam. Schullerts travel plans which included an audience wednesday in Rome with Pope John Paul ii Are Uncertain pending further medical evaluation aides said. Crystal Cathedral co pastor Bruce Larson said president Bush had called the . Embassy in Amsterdam and asked that a everything be done for the internationally known pastor and Host of the syndicated television program a hour of  hundreds of members of his congregation began a a prayer Chain Quot spreading the news of Schullerts surgery. Schuller who began preaching on a snack stand to a drive in congregation has risen to become pastor of the Crystal Cathedral part of the reformed Church of America and a National television ministry Worth an estimated $75 million