European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 27, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7college gives reins to group linked to Moon Bridgeport Conn. A the University of Bridgeport a trustees agreed saturday to turn Over control of their financially ailing school to a group connected to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Exchange for $50 million. Under terms of the Deal the professors world peace Academy would take Over the Board of trustees. The new York based Academy receives 90 percent of its funding from the unification Church although it said fewer than 5 percent of its members belong to the Church. Trustees who had tentatively approved the Deal april 15, said it was the Only Way to keep the University open. A i believe that this is the right course of action a said trustees chairman Colin Gunn. A this will be a much better University than it Ever was. They want to make this University a first class  Gunn said the Academy has promised that the University would maintain its academic Freedom. He declined to say How it would do that. The Deal still needs the approval of the state attorney general the Connecticut commission on higher education a regional accreditation Agency and Banks that have loaned the school Money. The Board rejected a similar proposal last year after students and teachers protested. Hot air show spectators at the Eltoro air show take Refuge from acts at the Eltoro Marine corps air station in Cal saturdays 89-degree heat under a Navy a-6 intrude fornia. Temperatures soared across much of the or. Nearly half a million people watched perform West on saturday sending hundreds of thousands Mances by the Navy a Blue Angels and other Aerial to beaches. See More weather details on Page  in King trial gets definition of beating Simi Valley Calif. Up when the jury deliberating in the los Angeles police brutality trial asked saturday for a definition of the term a beating a the judge gave them an answer straight from the dictionary. Late Friday in the second Day of deliberations in the trial jurors sent a note to Superior court judge Stanley Weisberg asking him to clarify his instructions on the Law forbidding an officer from a unnecessarily assaulting or beating a person. The judge conferred by Telephone with the two prosecutors and four defense attorneys and they agreed on a dictionary definition a to hit or strike  the jury a question was addressed in a very Brief hearing saturday morning. The question went to a charge facing All four defendants a that they used excessive Force when they clubbed and kicked Motorist Rodney g. King while arresting him after a High Speed Chase through the Northern san Fernando Valley. The March 3, 1991, arrest was recorded on videotape by a bystander. The tape shown repeatedly on television news reports has been the Centrepiece of the prosecutions Case. In addition to excessive Force the four defendants a police sgt. Stacey c. Koon officers Theodore j. Briseno and Lau rence m. Powell and former officer Timothy e. Wind a Are charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Powell a and winds assault charges include allegations that they caused great bodily injury. In addition Powell and Koon Are charged with filing false police reports. And Koon the senior officer at the scene who directed the Baton blows is charged with being an accessory after the fact for his alleged failure to disclose the assault to supervisors. After the hearing on the definition Issue the panel returned to the jury room where a stenographer read Back 120 pages of testimony from emergency room nurses who treated Kings injuries. The jury had asked to rehear the testimony in which the nurses recalled hearing Powell taunt King with jokes about playing a a pretty Good game of  Powell was the of Ficci shown on the tape taking the most swings with his steel Baton pummelling Kings upper body even while the Motorist was Down on the pavement. The panel of six men and six women ended their deliberations about 5 30 . Saturday. They were taken by bus to an undisclosed hotel where they have been sequestered while they arc deciding the Case. They were scheduled to resume at 9 . Sunday. Former dodger arrested in drug sting los Angeles up sex los Angeles dodgers outfielder Derrel Thomas and former los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy Rickey Ross were arrested near los Angeles International Airport after allegedly buying 22 pounds of cocaine from undercover officers authorities said saturday. San Fernando police officers working with Federal drug enforcement administration agents seized the $140,000 in Cash and the 22 pounds of the drug used in the undercover operation following a four month investigation into allegations of cocaine trafficking said san Fernando police sgt. Michael Harvey. The investigation began in january when police received a tip that Thomas was trafficking in cocaine Harvey said. A we received information from a confidential source that they were in the Market to buy 10 Kilos of cocaine and we facilitated the Sale a Harvey said. A they approached the confidential informant and the confidential informant introduced them to the officers a he said. Undercover officers followed the men for nine hours Friday before they ended up in the parking lot of a Mcdonald a restaurant on Century Boulevard near la Cienega Boulevard about 10 15 ., he said. A the undercover officers then consummated the Deal and they were arrested a Harvey said. The $140,000 was found in a Cadillac rented by Ross he said. No weapons were seized. Thomas 41, and Ross 43, were booked at the san Fernando jail on suspicion of possessing cocaine for Sale trafficking in cocaine and criminal conspiracy. Bail was set at $1 million each. Thomas of Redondo Beach is the baseball coach at Dorsey High school in South Central los Angeles. Water pumping efforts boosted in Chicago Chicago apr the army corps of engineers is stepping up pumping in the City a flooded tunnels but officials say they May not be Able to get All the water out by the end of this week. Corps officials said saturday that they planned to add two pumping stations to a system that by Friday night was removing 9,500 Gallons of Chicago River water a minute from 50 Miles of tunnels. But corps it. Col. Randall Inouye said some pockets of water May remain by Friday when the corps had hoped to have the tunnels drained. About 160 million Gallons remained saturday. Water began flooding into the tunnels when part of a Wall gave Way april 13. The flood knocked out Power to the downtown Loop shut Down businesses and halted subways. All downtown buildings were dry Friday. Carson Pirie Scott and co., the last major downtown retailer still closed said it would reopen today. Transit officials said they planned to test subway lines today but did no to know when they might reopen  comes in first with Beethoven s fifth from wire reports Louisburg . A Sean Lomax Wasny to just whistling Dixie when he won the National whistling championship saturday. He was whistling symphony no. 5 by Beethoven. A i chose Beethoven because it is a powerful piece of music and people love it a the 32-year-old Man from Murrieta Calif., said after whistling the symphony a first movement. Tanguay Desgagne of Quebec finished second. Margot Solberg of new York was  Rock draws crowd Foxboro mass. A thousands of fans braved cold wet weather saturday to hear a lineup of Rock pop and Folk musicians mix their music with a message of environmental preservation. The Earth Day �?T92 sound action concert at Foxboro stadium featured More than a dozen performers old and new from the kinks to Midnight Oil. Earth Day was wednesday but observances were held throughout the week