European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 260 350 monday december 30,1991 d 8693 Stampede at Benefit kills 8rush to enter gym at rappers game ends in tragedy new York apr a Stampede to get into a sold out Charity basketball game Between teams led by rap musicians heavy d and puff daddy left eight people dead and at least 28 injured. A people started running. People were pushing Down other people. People on the Bottom were getting trampled. People jumped off the bleachers and crushed them a said Darrell Frederick who saw the Stampede from High in the College gymnasium bleachers. A it was like a plane crash without a plane a said by Collins one of the first emergency medical service workers at the scene. Collins said the gym floor was covered with people some lying and some sitting when he arrived. Police and Ems estimated the crowd at the City College gym in Harlem at Between 3,000 and 6,000 people. A Handbill advertised the game As featuring rap celebrities heavy a of heavy d and the Boyz Mike Bivins of bad members of run dec and puff daddy. It was unclear which ones were in attendance. The Handbill said portions of the proceeds were to be donated to the aids education outreach program. The deaths occurred before the game and caused it to be cancelled. Witnesses said Security guards were letting in ticket holders and Selling tickets at the doors when the crowd waiting for tickets got restless and smashed through one of the series of doors leading into the gym. Police capt. Daniel Carlin said downstairs doors leading into the gym were closed but people without see Benefit on Page 2 police and emergency medical service workers remove a body from the gym at City College in new York. Eight people died in a Stampede at the Gyro before the Start of a sold out rap celebrity basketball game. Yeltsin says Russia will revive its army Moscow a Boris n. Yeltsin promised sunday to revive a russian National army with at least 30,000 men possibly throwing s wrench into today s talks on a joint military for the new Commonwealth. Yeltsin also met with armenian president Levon Ter Petrosian in Moscow and promised that the Commonwealth of Independent states would discuss the War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan where fighting in a disputed territory reportedly has resulted in at least 25 deaths since Friday. Unrest also soldered elsewhere in the nibble of the old soviet Union. Several aides to besieged georgian president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia defected to the opposition and demanded he turn Over Power to the legislature or face More bloodshed in the caucasus mountains Republic. Yeltsin in his most specific statement yet on a separate russian defense Force. Told russian journalists on sunday that the vast federation will join other republics in creating separate armies under the umbrella of a unified military the Tass news Agency said. A Russia will also have its own National guard of about 30,000-40,000 men. We will revive the old russian traditions up to the level of the guardsmen and his uniform Quot Tass reported him As saying. He gave no other details. Russian officials in the past have been non committal about their plans to create a separate defense Force choosing instead to push for a unified military on the territory of the former soviet Union. However preliminary agreements reached in Moscow on Friday by the defense ministers indicated that ukrainian moldovan formerly moldavian and azerbaijani plans to form their own armies were still a major obstacle in the talks. The defense chiefs will meet formally Soo Russia on Page 2 we few a a a manse secret by Dick Cheney Commonwealth nations Balking on nuclear cutback Cheney says Washington apr defense Secretary Dick Cheney said the former republics of the soviet Union Are still producing and deploying nuclear weapons despite their commitment to reduce those arsenals. A a that a unacceptable behaviour in the Long term Quot he said. Cheney also said the republics have not accepted a . Offer to help dismantle some of their 27,000 nuclear missiles. A we have not received specific requests at this Point a he said saturday on in no a news maker program. A team of american experts led by undersecretary of state Reginald Bartholomew will leave this week for the four republics where the former superpowers nuclear Arsenal is deployed. Discussions will focus on How to dispose of some of the weapons in compliance with negotiated treaties and How to ensure they Are under Safe Central control. A one of the things in a concerned about is that we still see even at this late Date even with their Economy in a state of utter collapse. Efforts inside the former soviet Union to produce More nuclear weapons to de Sloy new ballistic missiles targeted against the United tates a Cheney said. A and its going to be difficult for the american people to feel a Good Deal of Confidence that things Nave truly changed Over there until we see an end to that kind of activity Quot he said. All four republics a Russia Ukraine Belarus formerly belorussian and Kazakhstan a have promised to see cutback on Page 2