European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 51, no. 25 350 tuesday May 5,1992 d 8693 guardsmen slay Motorist trying to run them Down los Angeles apr National guardsmen shot and killed a Motorist who attempted to mow them Down shattering a weekend of relative Calm officials said. The first shooting by troops on riot patrol brought the death toll to 47. Three National guard troops killed an hispanic Man in a sports car who tried to crash a barricade West of downtown after curfew sunday night police and the military said. The guardsmen fired 14 times the military said in a statement. Mayor Tom Bradley had planned to lift the dusk to Dawn curfew monday. Late sunday spokesman Bill Chandler said the mayor would decide whether to stick with that decision after meeting with police and fire chiefs. Schools and businesses were to reopen monday and the City braced for its first Rush hour traffic jams since the riots a the nations deadliest civil unrest inset related Story on Page 4 75 years a erupted wednesday raging for three Days and nights. Thousands of marines and National guardsmen continued to patrol the streets. Otherwise Only sporadic violence had been reported sunday a three people were arrested after a police station was fired on. A gunmen shot at marines standing guard in Long Beach but the marines did not return fire. A a police car in South Central los Angeles was shot at. A marines in Walnut Park adjacent to South Central were fired on from an Auto but they did no to return the fire. Later two men who tried to run a Roadblock there were arrested. No one was Hurt. Clergy All Over the City spoke of the riot from the pulpit. A we have to forgive those who have been violent and see slay on Page 2strikes disrupt service at German airports Berlin apr strikes closed berlins Tegel Airport on monday and wreaked havoc with air traffic in Drissel Dorf and Munich As Public worker walkouts intensified in their second week. All three Are major International airports. The chaos was also disrupting flights in Hamburg another Busy International Airport. The Public service transport and traffic Union or t to said workers would walk off the jobs in Hamburg As Well. Union officials called a strike for today at Frankfurt International Airport the busiest airline Hub in Continental Europe. Public workers strikes were entering what Union leaders called their a hot phase a with More than 200,000 people off the Job. Garbage is piling up in the streets of Munich Frankfurt and other cities. Mail and telecommunications services have been disrupted. Dozens of cities have no subways or buses while service personnel in hospitals and rest Homes Nave walked off the Job. Hundreds of kindergartens Are closed. Yet Many germans have been taking things in stride. Over the weekend thousands of people crowded bicycle stores to snatch up two wheelers needed to get to work. There were no Public outcries for government officials and unions to get Back to the bargaining table. The unions Are demanding a 9.5 percent pay hike while government negotiators Are offering 4.7 see strikes on Page 2 airline passengers Jam Delss Elderts Airport which experienced heavy delays monday because of striking ground airlifts americans from Sierra Leone by Luke Britt staff writer Rhein main a Germany a americans evacuated sunday from Sierra Leone to Rhein main a expressed gratitude at being airlifted from the West african nation following a military takeover there april 29. A we were extremely concerned. There was no Airport service and the radio reports kept coming in and out a said Wilbur Mcelroy of South Bend ind., one of about 135 people flown into Rhein main on c-141 Star lifter jets late sunday. A the military did this Job very in All about 500 people have been evacuated from Sierra Leone according to officials with the . European come in Stuttgart. The command is coordinating the evacuation of americans and other for Eigners at the request of the . State department said Neucom spokesman col. Ron Maples. The state department ordered most of its embassy staff and All their dependents a a total of about 40 people a to leave Sierra Leone following the coup despite assurances from the military Junta that foreigners were in no danger from the new government. According to one of the first evacuees to land in see Airlift on Page 2
