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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday May 31, 1992 Bengal babies trainers John minor it left it and Gregg Lee hold one ing protectively in the Middle is the cubs Mother Kali male and three female Bengal Tiger cubs that were born who is is nursing and caring for the four babies. It was at Marine world Africa Usa in Vallejo Calif. Watch her first litter. Klan gathering in Iowa ends in skirmishes with protesters Dubuque Iowa apr police using riot Shields escorted Kun flux klan supporters from a rally Friday As protesters chased and taunted them. Police arrested two protesters for disorderly conduct. At least 500 protesters came from across Iowa to Dubuque which has been plagued by racial strife in recent months. About 50 Kun flux klan members and supporters met inside police barriers in Washington Park. Protesters remained outside the barricades after the rally and police escorted the klan members out. Several Hundred demonstrators pursued them. Two White men skirmishes briefly but police broke it up without incident. Minutes later protesters chased a klan supporter throwing him Down once. He got up clutching a Rock holding the protesters at Bay. The protesters then began throwing rocks and pieces of Concrete at him. A travel Agency a storefront window was shattered. Police arrived within moments and escorted the klan supporter away. As speakers addressed klan supporters during the rally anti klan demonstrators shouted blew whistles and rattled coins to try to drown them out. At least one egg was thrown at klan members. A i came up Here because i want to stand right Here and look at these people to let them know that they Are not Welcome a said klan protester Catherine Moore of Iowa City. Anti klan groups lost a court bid to Block the rally earlier Friday. The rally was the second trip to Dubuque since november for Thom Robb an Arkansas Man who is National grand wizard of the knights of the Kun flux klan. A a lot of people done to want us Here but a lot of people do want us Here a Robb said. A they Are the bigots and the haters not  Dubuque with a population of 58,000, has in the past year been the site of More than 10 Cross burnings. The Cross burnings occurred after a plan was announced to attract More Black residents. Less than 2 percent of the City a population is Black. Truck kills 4 in funeral procession Ada okla. Apr a pickup truck crashed into a funeral procession on Friday killing four relatives of the Man who was to be buried including his widow l Ive other people were injured three critically. The pickup truck collided head on with a limousine carrying members of the late Delbert Prewitt a family. All of the people who were killed had been Riding in the limousine Oklahoma Highway patrol officials said. Killed were Prewitt a widow and her sister and Prewitt a brother and sister in Law patrol officials reported. The pickup trucks Driver Carl David Savage 17, of nearby Stratford was in critical condition at Valley View regional Hospital patrol officials said. There was no immediate word from authorities on whether Savage faced charges. The Driver of the limousine Vivian june Pickard 45, and a fifth passenger in the car were in critical condition patrol officials said. One passenger in the pickup truck was reported in serious condition and a second passenger was in stable condition patrol officials said. Delbert Prewitt who was 79, was buried later in the afternoon. Signs with bad translations removed Phoenix apr in this City Spanish speakers who done to declare plants fruits and vegetables when trying to Clear . Customs wind up dead. At least that s what a new bilingual sign said. Sky Harbor International Airport posted bilingual signs last week in preparation for two airlines flights to Mexico. But they were riddled with incorrect words misspellings mixed tenses and sexes. One sign warned travellers who Don t declare All plants fruits vegetables and meats a a Villadores seran  officials meant that violators would be fined but the sign really said Quot violators will be  worse a Yvio Ladores is used to refer to rapists in parts of Mexico said Eva Ramirez a Spanish language teaching associate at Arizona state University in Tempe. One sign omitted a tilde a the squiggly Mark Over an Quot no in Spanish a in the word a Aho a thus changing its meaning from a a year to  the sign dealt with the states drinking age of 21. The signs were gone Friday a Day after mayor Paul Johnson who had asked for the bilingual signs ordered them  quotation gets 2 students in trouble from wire reports Beaver Falls a. A two students at Blackhawk High school got in trouble for quoting Mark Twain Over the schools Public address system. Jessica Mccartney 17, and Heidi Schanck 18, served in school suspensions for Reading a quote a from Twain a first god created idiots. That was just practice. Then he created school  principal Edward Giannini said the two showed disrespect to the school Board by Reading the quote during morning announcements May 22. A Blackhawk teacher had approved the use of the Book a teachers1 Treasury of quotations As a source for daily quotes for the announcements but the teacher Dia not review the Twain quotation Giannini said the students spent most of their suspension in a conference room next to the Beaver Falls schools main office but they were allowed to attend classes that were reviewing subjects for their final exams. They also were allowed to take their final exams tuesday in the conference room he  arresting complaint Philadelphia a sometimes it does no to pay to complain. Ray Gainey 24, Learned that the hard Way when he complained to detectives thursday that two men had beaten him up in a drug Deal. Police took his statement and then recognized Gainey As the Man suspected in a Bank robbery 10 Days before. A Teller had picked out a Mug shot of Gainey. The Teller told police that the suspect had demanded All her Cash. When told she Only had $1, he grabbed that and ran she  Cloud nine for birthday Jenkinsburg a. A few dark Clouds did no to bother Jim Jones who celebrated his 60th birthday by parachuting 75 times. Jones started at 7 . Thursday and made his final Landing shortly after 8 30 . A a we be planned every step of this so that i spend As Little time As possible on the ground a said the Stone Mountain resident who made his jumps from 2,200 feet. Aiter Landing it took Jones 30 seconds to Sling off his Parachute and step into a fresh one before hopping onto another plane for the next jump. Jones a remodelling contractor had 259 sky dives before  Lions starving Sausalito Calif. More than 100 Young sea Lions have turned up starving or sick because a warm Ocean current known Asel Nino disrupted their food Supply. Al Nino is a warm inshore current that can have a devastating Impact on weather crops and fish and the warming has interrupted the Normal upwelling of Ocean currents that bring up food. Adult sea Lions can dive deeper to find food but the yearlings Are often unable to Cope said biologists at the Marine mammal Center in the san Francisco suburb of Sausalito. A most of these sea Lions Are swimming hundreds of Miles in search of nourishment a said biologist Lance  accepts Aid offer Bridgeport Conn. A the University of Bridgeport has closed a Deal to give control of the troubled school to a group linked with there. Sun Myung Moons unification Church officials said Friday. The professors world peace Academy will give the University $50.5 million in Cash and tuition revenues Over the next five years in Exchange for control of the Board of trustees. The peace Academy a new York based academic  of the unification Church receives 90 percent of its funding from the Church. Trustees of the 65-year-old private University approved the takeover april 25 after turning Down a similar offer last fall. The trustees faced a $22 million debt and shrinking enrolment a Down from a High of 9,100 in 1967 to about 2,300 now  
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