European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 7, 1992 activist Jesse Jackson gives a thumbs up during a Jacksonville March protesting judge John Santora a comments. Florida judge s biased remarks trigger demand for his ouster Jacksonville Fla a a White judges remarks in court and in print about Blacks women and jews is provoking a Public outcry that he is racist sexist and anti semitic and should be removed from the Bench. But after 30 years As a Jurist chief circuit judge John san Lora says he is sorry if he Hurt anyone a feelings. And that is All. The tug of War Over Santora who turned 69 monday is tearing apart the three county Northeast Florida circuit he Heads. Cries for his ouster sound outside the Duval county courthouse in houses of worship and the usually sedate offices of the Jacksonville area chamber of Commerce. Jesse Jackson appeared twice in one week to rally forces against the judge. With the business Community a efforts under Way to bring a National football league franchise Here Black leaders Are threatening to Contact the nil and urge the City be denied an expansion team if Santora does no to quit. Meanwhile the . Perkins bar association a group of Black lawyers filed a complaint Friday seeking Santora a removal by the state judicial qualifications commission which reviews judicial conduct. Santora a six year term expires next january and he has previously said he would not seek re election. Some judges and the mayor urge forgiveness in Light of Santora a apology. Those sensitive to Bias say he is a bellwether of feelings in the society at Large. The Rev. Tom Diamond pastor of Abyssinia missionary Baptist Church warned a gathering of 2,000 people saturday a Santora is not the Issue. He a just an alarm clock. I done to want Santora to resign. The longer he rings the madder 1 Miami apr cuban defectors who fled their Homeland in a soviet made helicopter were greeted by cheering relatives As they were freed from a detention Center. All but one of the 34 who defected Friday were released from Krome detention Center the next Day after requesting political Asylum the Miami Herald reported sunday. One was detained because relatives be contacted. A Krome supervisor who identified himself Only As it. Blakly say sunday if the final defector had been freed. Dozens of cheering relatives surrounded the 33 when they were released. A this is wonderful Quot said Maria de la Caridad Carra Zana who concocted the escape plan with her husband German Pompa Gonzalez a 27-year-old cuban air Force helicopter Pilot. Quot the Only thing is that my Mother and father Are in Cuba. 1 want us All to be together to be the Public apparently got its first inkling of the judges views from reports of his testimony in december in a lawsuit seeking More minority judges. Santora said Jacksonville had enough Black judges a three out of 40 judges in his Purview a but More jewish judges were needed to work on Christmas and other holidays. He later said his comment about jewish judges was in jest. Then the Florida times Union on dec. 22 published an interview with Santora in which he said he personally opposes interracial marriage referred to women As girls and said Black youngsters in private school behave better than those in Public classrooms a they done to molest teachers they done to he also told the paper Quot girls arc wearing pantyhose and miniskirts that would make a Guy my age Chase them Down the hallway. The Blacks Are playing with those White girls with the White girls the outcry was immediate. People demonstrated and took to podiums calling for Santora a removal or resignation. The spokesman for the local chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people called Santora a remarks inflammatory a Black folks Are not heathens a Fred Matthews said. Quot done to make us look like Cavemen saying Black kids Are raping White teachers. That Isnit san Lora has refused to talk directly to reporters but he read his apology thursday in mayor de austins office. "1 would never purposely say anything to Hurt any group of people a Santora said. Quot those remarks did Hurt some of our citizens and Tor that 1 am truly just Days before the escape Pompa had received a medal for his distinguished career As a Pilot during two years duty in Angola. A nobody suspected anything a he said. Pompa said he had been planning the flight for three months and Miami relatives knew about it. The group had to abort two previous attempts he said. On Friday Pompa flying a soviet Mi-8 helicopter used to ferry tourists around the Island nation picked up his wife and 32 other relatives and friends in a pasture in Paradero Cuba and headed to Florida. Quot we were flying barely two Yards above the water and there was always the danger that Castro a radar would detect us and Force us Down Quot Pompa told the new York times in a Story published monday. Quot nevertheless 1 fell a tremendous sense of equilibrium and Calm. 1 knew that one Way or another it would soon be it ended three hours after it started with a Safe Landing at Tamami Airport in South Miami. Teresa returning to her old feisty self from wire reports la Jolla Calif. A Mother Teresa seems to be a getting Back to her old feisty self As she recovers from pneumonia one of her doctors said sunday. The 81-year-old roman Catholic nun who has devoted her life to helping the worlds poor remained in fair condition at Scripps clinic and research foundation. A a it a hard to say How Long Shell be in the Hospital but i would guess about a week. We hopefully will get her out of the intensive care unit in a couple of Days a said or. Paul Teirstein. The Nobel peace prize laureate talked about getting Back to her missionaries of Charity Home in Tijuana Mexico where she fell ill dec. 26. Quot i look at that As a Good sign that she a getting Back to her old feisty self now a Teirstein said. The tiny nun known As the a Saint of the gutters gave up a comfortable life As a Convent teacher in 1948 to care for the poor in Calcutta India. In 1965, Pope Paul i granted her missionaries of Charity official Church recognition and it now has 3,000 nuns in 87 is charged Warsaw . A a policeman who lectured Young people on the dangers of talking to strangers has been charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy authorities said. Christopher m. Ferrara was suspended from the Warsaw Force following his arrest Friday. The boy told investigators Ferrara fondled him while he was staying at Ferrara a Home said state police investigator Jim Cackett. Warsaw is Between Rochester and Buffalo. Ferrara 25, was a Volunteer youth Counselor in a program sponsored by the Wyoming county sheriffs department. Ferrara visited area schools to counsel students on issues ranging from bicycle safety to talking with strangers. Police chief William Blythe said Ferrara had been with the department for about four years. Ferrara worked several months for two police departments in Florida Blythe Pray for Economy new York a or. Norman Vincent Peale still preaching the a Power of positive thinking a urged the country sunday to Pray its Way out of the recession. Peale told the faithful at Manhattan a Marble collegiate Church that Job counselling for the unemployed was a a a timely task. But the 93-year-old evangelist said they should never forget the Power of prayer. A Spray that the one remaining superpower might infiltrate the world Economy with the Power of the timeless the abundance of god a said Peale author of the Power of positive thinking Long a Best ends in style Huntington Beach Calif. A Man who shot at police officers then holed up in his apartment for four hours sunday ended the standoff by surrendering in the nude. A the walked out unannounced wearing nothing but a baseball Cap a it. De Mcerlain said. A the was holding a White Towel above his Kent l. Maynard 40, was booked for investigation of attempted murder of a police officer and for shooting at an inhabited dwelling. He was being held on 5250,000 bail. Officers went to the apartment before Dawn after a Man believed to be Maynard called police to report a kidnapping Mcerlain said. As they approached the building the gunman fired several rounds from a Shotgun and pistol at the officers who returned fire Mcerlain said. Maynard surrendered at mid morning Mcerlain said. Police discovered he had been alone in the apartment. Cubans freed after fleeing in copter
