European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7man cleared in Crown Heights death activists denounce ruling Dinkins Calls for Calm from wire reports new York a a Brooklyn grand jury thursday found no grounds for pressing criminal charges against the hasidic Driver of the car that killed a Black child in Crown Heights sparking Days of rioting. The grand jury which had considered charges of third degree assault and criminally negligent homicide in the death of 7-year-old Gavin Cato cleared Yosef Lifshi 22, after he testified to his version of events the night of aug. 19. Fearing new violence mayor David Dinkins and Brooklyn s District attorney appealed for Calm. But Black activists denounced the decision. A i Appeal to All residents of our great City to accept the grand jury a conclusion a Brooklyn District attorney Charles Hynes said at a news conference. Police on thursday reported a a a sufficient number of officers in the area to maintain order and said there had been no new incidents. In recent weeks scores of officers have been dispatched to Crown Heights streets. The crash also injured Cato s Cousin and touched off a number of violent protests Over the alleged preferential treatment afforded jews Over Blacks in the neighbourhood. Scores were injured and arrested in four nights of rioting. In the hours after the Accident a rabbinical student from Australia was stabbed to death in what police called a revenge attack. A 16-year-old Black youth has been charged in the slaying. In a move to dispel tensions Hynes also said he would take the unusual step of releasing the minutes to the grand jury decision with key references that would identify witnesses and other details deleted. In addition he agreed to debate his handling of the Case on a Black radio talk show later in september. Hynes also said it was unusual for traffic deaths to result in criminal charges. Of 202 fatal accidents in Brooklyn last year Only 11 resulted in charges prosecutors said. Dinkins in his Appeal said Quot there is no better Way to Honor the Sweet memory of this child and of or. Martin Luther King than by following the example of peace they set. An Eye for an Eye leaves everybody the grand jury decision was denounced by activists including the Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Colin Moore who repeated allegations that Hynes was prejudiced in favor of the jewish Community and called for gov. Mario Cuomo to select a special prosecutor. The activists said they planned to March today in front of Hyness summer Home in Breezy Point n.y., an area they described As a an apartheid Lifshus attorney Barry Slotnick said that his client a told the grand jury about a tragic Accident that occurred. Without going into the facts of what he said he just came Here feeling the necessity to explain to the grand jury All the facts about the the Accident occurred aug. 19 when the station Wagon Lifshi was driving went out of control and mounted a s wife explains need for sex partners Miami up a the wife of a Broward county sheriffs Deputy charged with prostitution said in a television interview released thursday that she needed sex seven or eight times a Day because of her nymphomania. Kathy willets 33, told the tabloid style to program a current affair that she believed she always had a stronger sex drive than most other women. A looking Back now at my sexual drive when i was younger i think it was definitely stronger than most girls my age a she said according to a text of the interview released by the shows producers. A my sexual addiction is extremely High always has been. It s progressed in the last couple of years to be something that has affected my life totally a my career. A i need to have sex seven eight times a Day. Its my number one priority in life willets has been charged with prostitution for allegedly providing sexual favors to men for $150 each. She insists she a not a prostitute just a sex addict. Her husband Deputy Jeffrey willets 41, has been charged with living off the proceeds of prostitution a felony. He has been suspended from the Broward county sheriffs department without pay pending the outcome of the trial. In an earlier text of the interview willets made reference to the anti depressant drug prozac and its effects on her nymphomania. The shows producers later said the text was inaccurate and released different quotes. In the revised text willets said she threatened to leave her husband if she could not fulfil her sexual needs with other men. A i told him my husband that if i have these men and be sexually satisfied that i would leave him that i would divorce him a she said according to the text. A i realized that i was getting More sexually Active and my desires were increasing and that my husband could not satisfy me and i needed to have sex quite fre Kathy willets and her husband Jeffrey willets right Confer with their attorney Ellis Rubin during a hearing. Quentlyn and i needed to be with other men in order to fulfil that Jeffrey willets said he sometimes observed his wife and Learned to enjoy the experience. A i found i became a co dependent with this sexual addiction that the More frequently i was there for whatever reason she Felt i needed to be there. I found myself enjoying it watching my wife make love to other men a he said. A i wanted to be there More often just to meanwhile attorneys for some of Kathy willets male clients Are asking a West Palm Beach appeals court to Block a ruling releasing a Black Hook kept by the couple that contained the names of the men who visited her at her Tamarac Home. On wednesday Broward county circuit judge John Frusciante ruled the alleged client list should he made asserts it s winning drug War Washington apr for the second year in a Row the Bush administration says its winning the drug War. And for the second straight year congressional democrats say it Isnit doing enough for those who need the most help. A it is working a Bob Martinez the National drug policy coordinator said in a luncheon speech thursday. No it Isnit said sen. Joseph Biden chairman of the Senate judiciary committee. A the a drug War is still being waged like another Vietnam a limited War fought on the cheap lacking in Clear and meaningful objectives grinding toward stalemate mounting in human tragedy a the Delaware Democrat said in a statement issued before Martinez even finished his lunch and started talking. Last year when William Bennett held the Job Martinez now has and said about the same things Biden gave him a cake and said the administration was doing a pretty Good Job. But he added that there was More to be done and the Urban poor needed help. This time Biden Stone has changed. A the administrations claims of Success today Are based on false goals which yield false claims of a Victory in the drug War a Biden said. Rep. Charles Rangel the new York Democrat who is chairman of a special House committee on the drug crisis accused the White House of looking to save the Middle class from drugs while ignoring those More in need of help. A in our inner cities our prisons and jails and among the homeless the jobless and those mired in poverty without opportunities and Hope there has been no easing of the drug crisis a Rangel said. He said there was a Rich irony that House majority Leader Richard Gephardt d-mo., and Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine who have accused Bush of ignoring Domestic needs Quot Are now silent on How to address the drug problem. Martinez criticized Congress for failing to fully finance several of Bush s anti drug proposals and for failing to move on an administration Bill calling for random drug testing of mass transit and other workers. A we can smell Victory but As in some More recent wars Congress is wavering just when our forces Are arrayed and vie tory is within our grasp a he said. Offering no statistics Martinez said that although the percentage of violent crimes that Are drug related is abating violent crime Overall is not. A when this crusade began Many of us assumed that crime would drop As drug use declined a Martinez said in a speech to the National press club. Martinez a remarks were timed for the second anniversary of president Bush a National drug control strategy. When he took office in january 1989, Bush pledged an Effort to end the a a Scourge of drug abuse and related crimes. Martinez said the number of americans using cocaine has dropped by 45 percent since 1988. Overall americans spent $ billion less on illegal drugs last year than they did in 1988, he said. But a report issued thursday by the joint economic committee said illegal drugs costs to society Are High. Those costs a which include such things As medical treatment lost productivity on the Job and increased spending on police a Range from $60.4 billion to $124.9 billion
