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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 9, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 7 thousands of haitian american demonstrators protest in times Square in Manhattan on Friday. Haitian americans mass in . To protest refugees forced return new York a thousands of haitian americans demonstrated Friday to Honor the Island nations now deposed president and to protest the . Governments forced return of refugees who fled the coup that toppled him. The demonstration commemorated the first anniversary of president Jean Bertrand Aristides inauguration. A sept. 30 coup ousted Aristide and prompted a flood of haitian refugees to seek Asylum in the United states. The . Supreme court recently cleared the Way for the . Governments forced return of More than 10,000 haitian refugees detained at the . Naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Protesters gathered at times Square to Call Friday Indianapolis apr Boxer Mike Tyson testified saturday that he wanted to have sex in his limousine with an 18-year-old Beauty contestant and urged her to Wear something Loose. Under Cross examination the former world heavyweight Champion said he telephoned her hotel room to invite her to the Limo and discouraged her from wearing tight fitting clothing. Prosecutor Greg Garrison asked him Why and Tyson replied a because i had intentions of doing it in the  a you figured she was coming Down to have sex with you a Garrison asked. A yeah a said Tyson who said he presumed she was willing from an earlier conversation where he bluntly asked for sex. A if she was wearing something like tight jeans it a be difficult to take off a Tyson said. A gets  Tyson was Cross examined for about an hour before he stepped Down and other defense witnesses were called. Tyson 25, is being tried in Marion Superior court on charges of rape and criminal deviate conduct. If con Milwaukee apr relatives of Jeffrey l. Dahmer a victims were among More than two dozen demonstrators who crowded into a courthouse hallway saturday to protest the allocation of seats at the serial killers insanity trial. The demonstration did not disrupt the trial which resumed with psychiatrist or. Frederick Fosdal discussing his Jailhouse interviews with Dahmer and disputing earlier testimony that Dahmer was suicidal. A families get no respect a said protest organizer Carolyn Smith whose brother Eddie was one of 17 Young men and boys whom Dahmer told authorities he had killed and dismembered. He has pleaded guilty but insane to 15 of the killings. If judged sane at the time of the killings he could be sentenced to life in prison. If deemed insane he could be sent to a mental institution and could eventually petition for release. For the United states to step up efforts to reinstate Aristide Haiti a first freely elected president. They chanted a no Aristide no peace a the crowd then marched across Manhattan toward the United nations escorted by scores of police officers some in riot gear. They carried banners with such slogans As a Bush the Butcher Stop sucking Black Peoples blood a a haitian resistance movement and a total embargo yes foreign domination no a the protesters paused in Rockefeller Center to listen to speeches. A your struggle is our struggle. We will win a shouted the Rev. A1 Sharpton a Black activist. Sharpton was to travel to Haiti Over the weekend. Evicted he faces up to 60 years in prison. When Tyson took the stand for the first time Friday he testified Friday that his accuser had sex with him willingly and became angry when he refused to walk her to his hotel lobby. A i did no to violate her in any Way a Tyson said. Defense attorney Vincent Fuller has alleged that the woman filed charges in revenge for being treated As a one night stand and in Hopes of getting Rich from a lawsuit. On Friday Tyson contradicted the woman a account of what happened in his hotel room last july 19. She testified last week that Tyson stripped away her clothing and raped her ignoring her cries of pain and pleas to Stop. Tyson said he and the 18-year-old kissed and touched each other in his limousine on the Way to his hotel. In his room they sat on the bed and talked then began to kiss and touch Tyson said. The Boxer added that he made his intentions Clear when he met the woman at a rehearsal for the miss Black America pageant and asked her for a Date. Smith said she and her sister left the courtroom Friday and returned to find their seats had been Given to members of the Public. Seating at the trial has been a Point of Contention with families saying they need More than the 20 seats reserved for them. The protest lasted less than two hours and most of the family members later went Back into the courtroom. Fosdal disputed testimony by defense experts who said Dahmer was suicidal. Fosdal said that during his 17 hours of interviews with Dahmer Over five visits Dahmer told him that he had no intention of killing himself. A it would put me in the worst predicament. I would find myself in hell a Fosdal quoted Dahmer As saying. On Friday two men and the teen age brother of one of Dahmer a murder victims told of being drugged and assaulted by him. The teen Ager said he escaped from Dahmer a apartment after Dahmer tried to get him to pose for nude photographs. Usman corrects interpreter blows credibility in court from wire reports Liberty to. A a cuban immigrants courtroom credibility collapsed when he lapsed into English. Israel Trujillo 29, claimed he spoke Only Spanish and needed an interpreter at his trial for felony automobile tampering. But when the translator relayed answers incorrectly prosecutors said Trujillo shouted a i did no to say that a Trujillo was convicted and jurors recommended a six year prison sentence. The revelation did no to Surprise authorities. During the trial a Deputy testified he had spoken English with Trujillo Many times and had used him As an interpreter with other inmates. Trujillo was arrested after Kansas City police found him asleep in a stolen  faulty Detroit a health officials Are urging 7,718 women who received mammograms on machines that failed a new state test to Check with their doctors. The machines failed state standards late last year for detection of microscopic specks fibres and masses. The bulk of them arc in Wayne county and two neighbouring counties. A the concern is that if a machine can to show test objects Down to a certain size. Then it might not be Able to show Small breast cancer tutors in their earliest stages a said James Cam bum the Michigan department of Public health.1 killed in bus Accident Roseburg Ore. A a bus carrying a tree planting Crew plunged off a logging Road and Down a 300-foot embankment Friday killing one person and seriously injuring two others. The bus was taking 11 people to a . Bureau of land management reforestation site five Miles East of Myrtle Creek said blk spokesman Mel Ingroia. The Driver was pronounced dead at the scene the Douglas county sheriffs department said. One worker was in critical condition at a Eugene Hospital and another was in serious condition at a Rose Burg Hospital. Fog Road conditions and Speed May Tiave contributed to the Accident officials  Bill advances Lansing Mich. A legislation that would require women to wait 24 hours for an abortion Ana get detailed information a including photos of fetuses a has cleared the Michigan Senate. The measure passed 24-10, was an addition to a House passed Bill to Amend health care licensing and discipline procedures. The amendment now goes to the House floor. An earlier version has been stalled in the House for months. A we can get absolutely no action no debate no discussion no movement in the House a said Republican sen. Jack Welborn one of the senators who attached the anti abortion language. A let House members have that Opportunity for robust  criticizes to show Killeen Texas a mayor major Blair criticized a to crime program Friday for re enacting a gunman a rampage through a cafeteria that left 24 people dead in the worst mass shooting in . History. A a it a one of those things that should be left alone. Nobody in this country is proud of what happened a Blair said. Americans most wanted re enacted the oct. 16 massacre in its fourth anniversary program on Friday night. Fox broadcasting co. Officials defended the segment As a sensitive portrayal honouring survivors and acts of heroism. George Hennard 35, smashed his pickup into a crowded Lubye a cafeteria in Killeen and then armed with two semiautomatic guns stalked the restaurant fatally wounding 23 people before killing himself. Tyson says he expected sex in Limo families protest seating at Dahmer trial  
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