European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday May 24, 1992 military enlistment station in . To be abandoned by the los Angeles times los Angeles a a military enlistment Center that burned Down during the City a recent rioting will not be rebuilt in southwestern los Angeles partly because department of defense officials consider the area too dangerous. The decision comes despite pleas from president Bush and other government officials who have encouraged business leaders to rebuild and invest in riot ravaged areas. The relocation of the military enlistment processing station and an adjacent recruiting Center eventually could mean the loss of about 500 jobs to the neighbourhood. And Community leaders said the relocation sends out the wrong signal to business owners and investors who Are considering whether to rebuild in the area. A a this is the height of hypocrisy a said state sen. Diane Watson a los Angeles Democrat. A president Bush comes out Here and says the solution to Urban problems is jobs and Enterprise zones not government Aid. So what happens. The one Federal Agency that hires a lot of Young Black men a the military a pulls out As soon As they  the enlistment station is the Headquarters for screening and induction of All military recruits in nine California counties. The 30,000-Squarc-foot station which stood for seven years on South la Brea Avenue near Jefferson Boulevard burned to the ground on the first night of the riots last month. The private owners of the building who Are fully insured offered to build a temporary facility within a few weeks and rebuild the Structure within eight months. But the offer was rejected by the general services administration which handles real estate transactions for the Federal government according to Allan Davidov a partner of the company that owns the property. A your main concern is that we have a Safe environment and Safe workplace and its pretty evident that a not a Safe environment a said Suzanne Fournier Public affairs officer for the military enlistment processing come at fort Sheridan Iii. A we have to have a Safe environment not just for our employees but also for our  . Rep. Maxine Waters a los Angeles said she was incredulous that the military which is supposed to protect residents considers the area too dangerous. A this is the military that fights in Iraq and places like that. Yet they consider South Central . Too dangerous a she said. A i can to believe in a hearing  adjacent to the enlistment station which employs about 80 people is an undamaged two Story Brick building that houses the Southern California recruiting Headquarters for the air Force army Navy and marines. But Davidov said he was told by general service administration officials that the military will not renew its lease when it expires in three years. Two cousins of Rodney King s arrested during . Rioting los Angeles apr two teen age cousins of Rodney g. King were arrested during the los Angeles riots after police surprised looters at a suburban store a newspaper reported Friday. Police said they came upon seven to 10 looters All carrying merchandise from a discount department store in Northridge on the evening of april 30. They stopped a car that sped out of the parking lot and found a television set inside the los Angeles l Imes reported. Four Young women including Kings cousins were in the vehicle according to a police report cited by the newspaper. Briget a. Barnes 19, was charged with Misdemeanour curfew violation and her 17-year-old sister whose name Wasny to disclosed because of her age was booked for investigation of burglary the report said. The teen agers told police that the to set was put in their car by a Man they did no to know. Jishin Jalcs 21, a Friend arrested with the Sisters said they saw looters at the store and stopped. At that Point police arrived and people began a dropping and discarding their merchandise As they were running East across the parking lot to escape from us a according to the police report. Kings aunt Angela King said the Barnes family is a on his in Laws Side a they re not blood. I am sick of people saying they Are Rodney a blood relatives. People Are always popping up out of the Woodwork. We have enough disgrace in our family with what the police did that we done to need  the april 29 acquittal of four White men in the police beating of King a Black Motorist who was stopped after a High Speed Chase touched off three Days of deadly rioting in los Angeles. Proposal would Block Gay rights Laws Denver apr coloradans Are choosing sides Over a ballot initiative that would ban civil rights protections designed for homosexuals. University of Colorado football coach Bill Mccart nay who Calls homosexuality a an abomination of almighty god a and former . Sen. Bill Armstrong have sided with the group backing the initiative. The oppositions honorary chairman is gov. Roy Romer no says he will not a allow Colorado to become a place where prejudice has a  Colorado for family values a group formed to Stop Gay activists before they trample on your freedoms a received word from Secretary of state Natalie Meyer last week that its initiative will appear on the states november ballot As amendment 2. The group gathered 16,000 More signatures than needed to place the measure on the ballot. L he equal Protection Campaign which opposes the initiative Calls the measure an attempt at a legalized  the measure would prohibit the state from passing any civil rights Laws protecting Gays lesbians or bisexuals. If approved amendment 2 would void Laws in Denver Boulder and Aspen that ban Bias against Gays in housing employment health and welfare services. Kevin Tebedo founder of Colorado for family values said the initiative sprang from the groups successful Campaign against a Gay rights measure in Colorado Springs last year. Homosexuals already Are protected under the . Constitution and do not need a special rights that would give them an advantage Over others Tebedo said. A primarily the reason we re doing this is that homosexuals in our nation Are not an oppressed class a he said. A homosexuality does not meet any of the civil rights  Armstrong a Republican senator in 1978-90, wrote in a fund raising letter for the initiative that further civil rights protections would a Force you and me to give our Armstrong states Legal Blessing to aberrant homosexual behaviour and  he also blamed the aids epidemic on the a self created miseries of pleasure addicted Gays and said taxpayers  have to shoulder the costs of treatment through higher insurance costs. The initiatives opponents argue that housing and employment protections for Gays lesbians and bisexuals Are not written into the Constitution and that the measure would legalize prejudice. A those who would legislate discrimination do not represent the family values i was raised with or the family values of the majority of people of Denver or of this state a said Denver mayor Wellington  worker giving $800,000 to Alma mater from wire reports Shreveport la. A a postal worker was Able to stash away $800,000, and he plans to give it to his Alma mater. Melvin f. Mccann 76, put a Little aside each payday during 20 years in the marines and 23 years As a clerk at the main Post office in Shreveport where he still works. A you will be surprised once you Start saving a he said. A once you get a Little in an account it will All add up Over the  Mccann had to borrow $15 to get married in 1939 to Robbie Sanderson. He graduated the following year from Louisiana tech University at Ruston. The couple had no children and Mccanns wife died in March. Mccann decided to turn his nest egg Over to the school to create the Mcmann endowment scholarship because a i had a hard time getting through school. I had to work the whole time i was  a a if i had had an endowment i would have had a lot of time that i could have been studying rather than having to work a he  request denied Washington a presidential assailant John w. Hinckley or. Has lost a bid for permission to Register to vote in the District of Columbia. Superior court judge Rufus King ruled Friday that Hinckley May not establish that he is a Legal resident of the District because he is involuntarily confined to a mental Hospital. Hinckley was found innocent by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting of then president Ronald Reagan. He has been confined to St. Elizabeth a Hospital in Washington since the 1982 verdict and he did not attend fridays hearing. King upheld a . Board of elections decision on Hinckley saying he found no precedent for allowing a person who is involuntarily confined to declare his residency in that  killed at party Alum Creek . Two High school students were killed at a Keg party Friday after an argument Over who would pay for the Beer. About 200 students from George Washington High school in Charleston were gathered at a picnic area for an annual a senior skip Day party when the shooting occurred said state police trooper . Seacrist. Students traditionally skip school for the party. A they had kegs there and started arguing because some had put Money in and some Hadnot. Guns were drawn and shooting started a Seacrist said. He identified the dead As David Means 18, and Lydell Brooks 16. Both were students at George Washington. No other injuries were reported he said. Two people were being questioned late Friday but no one had been arrested Seacrist said. Four other people were being sought. Most of the students scattered after the shootings leaving empty Beer cups liquor bottles and sunglasses in the  inscription denied Minneapolis the department of Veteran affairs says the phrase a Gay and proud May not be inscribed on the Gravestone of a world War ii Veteran buried at fort Snelling National cemetery. Department spokesman Bill Jayne said the policy does no to discriminate against homosexuals. A quite the ladies Man a a commonly requested inscription also is rejected Jayne said. A the National cemetery system does not authorize any additional inscriptions containing references that visitors could construe As controversial a he said. William Truesdell who died in 1990 at age 67, requested the inscription. He donated his body for research and his cremated remains weren to buried until March