European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 4, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 985 arrested at Pigeon shooting Hunt special to the los Angeles times Hegins 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 crowd s 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 shoots the event. Organizers $5 a receipt of stolen prop v during Breaks Between the Pigeon re erty and a defiant Quot 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 was charged with felony assault. Evangelist Schuller recovering after emergency brain surgery Amsterdam Netherlands apr television evangelist Robert Schullerts condition improved significantly tuesday after emergency surgery for a cerebral Haemorrhage a spokesman said. Schuller on a Stopover in Amsterdam on his Way to Budapest Moscow and the Vatican was found unconscious in his hotel room by aides monday morning. The dutch reformed preacher was in a coma when he was rushed to Amsterdam a free University Hospital. A surgical team there re Schuller moved a Large blood clot from Between his brain and Skull during three hours of surgery. After meeting with the neurosurgeon who performed Tjie operation Schuller spokesman Michael Nason said a the prognosis is very Good. He indicates that or. Schuller is recovering  Nason said. Schuller 64, had regained consciousness and was speaking. A a he a asking questions of what happened a Nason said. A the does not  the spokesman said there were no signs of neurological impairment but added it was no it Early to say when Schuller would be Able to go Back to the United states or resume his ministry. Schullerts wife Arvella and their son Robert a pastor in san Juan Capistrano calif., joined the evangelist tuesday. Aides theorize that Schuller whose hour of Power television broadcast is seen internationally suffered the cerebral Haemorrhage As a result of bumping his head As he got into a car at his hotel after arriving sunday. The bleeding had stopped by the time senior neurosurgeon j. Wolbers located the clot Nason said. Schuller had planned to broadcast a taped message to the soviet people in Moscow then have an audience with Pope John Paul ii in Rome. Last year Schuller reached an agreement with state run soviet television for monthly broadcasts to the soviet people but the show was cancelled after just one broadcast in  aids epidemic Boston Cardinal completes trip to Vietnam 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  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. Bangkok Thailand up a Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston completed a visit to Vietnam on tuesday and called for normalization of relations Between Hanoi and Washington the official Vietnam news Agency reported. Law visited the Home of the late president to Chi Minh and met  Quang Dao the chairman of the National Assembly the Agency said. A Sdao welcomed the Cardinal s visit and reaffirmed Vietnam s consistent policy of respecting the Freedom of belief of the people a the Agency reported. A Cardinal Bernard Law thanked the vietnamese state for the warm hospitality and expressed the wish that the vietnamese people and Catholic Community would succeed in building a More Beautiful Vietnam. A the also expressed wishes for Early normalization of  relations a it said. I he United states has said normalizing relations depends tin reaching a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Cambodia invaded by Vietnam in 1978, and Progress in resolving the Fate of the 2,273 americans missing from the Vietnam War