European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday december 3, 1991 slumbering no More an Aleutian Island Volcano dormant for 13 years has come Back to life sending steaming lava Down its Snow covered ridges and a plume of Ash More than four Miles High. The Westdahl Volcano on Uniak Island in the Eastern aleutians erupted Friday and continued saturday. There were no reports of injuries or Ash Landing on any inhabited areas. The 5,000-foot Volcano is in a Remote part of Alaska 700 Miles Southwest of Anchorage. Dinkins sees historic parallel Between s. Africa Early . New York up a mayor David Dinkins reflecting on his recent trip to South Africa on sunday compared the country a struggle for a democratic Constitution to americans beginnings saying that outside pressure can shape a country s Fate. A in 1787, when our nation was struggling to form its Constitution Here a and i believe Jefferson Madison and Washington favored abolition of slavery a they lost the debate or compromised with principle a Dinkins said sunday on wac to. A born in 1789 was a Constitution. And the legacy of slavery we live with some of us to this very Day. A and if the world had said if great Britain and France and other countries had said we will not do business with you if you traffic in slavery it would have been Dinkins spoke the Day before Nelson Mandela Leader of the african National Congress was to arrive in new York City to speak before the United nations. The mayor said one reason he went to South Africa where he was Mandela a guest was that he wanted a to focus attention a on the democratic struggle of Blacks to have one Man one vote in its constitutional government. Dinkins was scheduled to Greet Mandela at Kennedy International Airport on monday morning. Mandela was to address the . General Assembly today. After several events in new York he is scheduled to head to Washington . Convict escapes from Superman Baltimore apr a convicted murderer serving a life sentence escaped from his cell by fleeing along prison rooftops before dropping to the ground using a rope made of cloth. He remained at Large sunday. Harold Dean 4 1, broke out through an 8-Inch by 14-Inch window at the downtown Maryland correctional adjustment Center on saturday afternoon said Gregory Shipley a state prisons spokesman. It was the first escape from Maryland Stop Security lockup nicknamed a sup Comax Quot which was designed for problem prisoners. Dean mane Vered through Rolls of razor Sharp barbed wire on the roof using blankets or a jacket to pad his Way. The breakout was discovered perhaps As Long As an hour after it happened when a guard noticed cloth fragments on the wire. The prisoner used a jury rigged rope made of cloth to lower himself 15 feet to the ground. A Trail of blood indicated he Cut himself on the wire despite the cloth padding. Dean was serving a life sentence plus 105 years for murder armed robbery and assault. He robbed a courier and wounded an armoured car guard in 1981, before killing a Tow truck Driver who chased the getaway car. He broke his foot in a failed escape attempt from the Maryland Penitentiary in 1985, and was one of the first inmates transferred to the downtown prison after it opened in 1989, Superman houses 280 of Maryland s most dangerous criminals who were sent there because of escape attempts or other disciplinary problems. 128 More haitians picked up at sea san Juan puerto Rico apr the . Coast guard said sunday that it had stopped three Small sailboats carrying 128 haitian refugees. The coast guard said it has rescued 5,194 haitian migrants on 85 vessels since oct. 29. The number of haitians trying to reach the United states in Small boats has sharply increased since the sept. 30 military coup that toppled president Jean Ber Trand Aristide. Aristide won his country s first democratic elections a year ago. The coast guard said the 128 haitians were taken into custody saturday. One coast guard Cutter located 105 people on a 35-foot sailing vessel late saturday while other cutters rescued 19 people aboard a 25-foot Sailboat and four others travelling on a 15-foot at Reagan Home turns out to be false from wire reports los Angeles a a false alarm brought firefighters to the Bel air Home of former president Reagan on sunday. But no fire was found. Four fire companies rolled to the sex presidents Home in the neighbourhood near Beverly Hills said fire department spokesman Michael Little. Little said he was Uncertain whether anyone was Home at the time of the afternoon 911 emergency Call. He said that operators generally can Tell the origin of 911 Calls but that the information was being withheld. A Telephone message left at Reagan a office was not returned. Reagan and his wife Nancy moved into the ranch style Home in january 1989 after he left office. Friends bought the House for them in 1986 at a Cost of $2.5 million. The single Story 6,500-Square-foot Home is 37 years old.2 girls 2 women slain new York a two girls and two women were found shot to death sunday in a Brooklyn apartment left littered with 9mm Shell casings. Police said a gunman or gunmen who remained at Large sunday shot All four victims several times a firing at least one Bullet into each persons Skull. Investigators said they think the attack occurred sometime sunday morning. The victims were identified As Nadia Williams 11 Damali Pournell 14 Sharon Robertson 24 and Pauline Henry 35. According to authorities Henry had been in new York for Only one week visiting from her native Jamaica. Police capt. Richard Ward said Pournell and Williams were cousins. Williams father whose name authorities did not release was Robertson a estranged Boyfriend. Ward said detectives sought to locate the Boyfriend sunday for questioning although they did not consider him a suspect. The Captain said the apartment had not been ransacked although the women a jewelry appeared to be missing. He said officers found no evidence of drug involvement or of forced entry. A they the victims very possibly knew their attackers a Ward changes mind Tallahassee Fla. The Florida supreme court has retreated from an opinion that said a death sentence could be overturned if a murder were committed during a Domestic dispute. Advocates for victims of Domestic violence charged that the courts original sept. 5 decision was typical of a tendency to treat Domestic crimes less seriously than others. The justices issued a revised opinion last week deleting All references to Domestic disputes in the reversal of Victor Klokocs death sentence for the 1988 murder of his 19-year-old daughter. Testimony indicated that Klokoc who pleaded guilty shot his daughter to spite his wife who had left him after years of abuse. The court originally agreed with Klokoc who argued that the death sentence was disproportionate because capital punishment was not ordered in previous slayings arising from Domestic disputes. In the revised opinion the justices cited As mitigating factors Klokocs mental disorders and family history of emotional disturbances. They recommended a life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years. Aids victim 10, Dies san Luis Obispo Calif. Ryan Thomas a boy with aids who won a Federal court Battle to stay in class after he was kicked out of kindergarten has died. He was 10. The boy was infected with the aids virus through a blood transfusion he received shortly after his premature birth. He gained National attention at age 4 when his parents won a 10-month Federal court Battle to ave him attend Santa Rosa Road elementary school in the Atascadero unified school District. After he was suspended for biting a student during a schoolyard scuffle his parents won another ruling allowing him to return to class
