European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. June 17. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 11sports-related riots on Rise experts say Chicago apr this National basketball association championship City swept up the Glass and debris monday from a night of violence a Post game explosion that psychologists and officials say is becoming All too common. A when you celebrate something in America you. Break a window and grab something. When people have an excuse to loot they loot a an exasperated mayor Richard m. Daley said at a news conference. Revelry turned riotous sunday night and Early monday after the Chicago bulls beat the Portland Trail blazers 9793 at Chicago stadium to Clinch their second consecutive Aba title. Thousands of people poured into the streets from Chicago nightclubs. Some of the revellers flattened and flipped two unoccupied taxis. More than 1,000 people were arrested. Some psychologists say violent celebrations after sports events Are becoming More common. A once the Cap is off the bottle it All comes out. It triggers other emotions completely unrelated to what you began celebrating and the Reservoir has to be drained said or. Thomas Tutko professor of psychology at san Jose state University san Jose Calif. Two store employees trying to hide in their store in Chicago s South Side were seriously burned after looters set fire to the store authorities said. Two police officers were shot but not seriously wounded and More than 90 other officers suffered minor injuries police said. Shops were looted and windows were shattered along a stretch of ritzy downtown stores known As the magnificent mile. On the lower income West and South sides stores were burglarized vandalized and set afire. Fourteen fires were set but police did not have solid figures on How Many stores were damaged. Psychologists were not surprised that Chicago a which remained quiet in the Wake of the Rodney g. King police brutality verdict while cities including los Angeles Atlanta and Las vegas suffered rioting a erupted after a basketball championship. A you would think you a get it in both instances. But i think people were a lot More aware of the game than with the verdict. You could t help knowing in Chicago that the bulls were playing for their second title a said or. Dan Landers Tor mar president of the american psychological association s division of exercise and sport psychology. In Detroit seven people died and widespread looting erupted in the 1990 celebrations after the pistons took their second Aba title in a Row. A n 1984, 100,000 poured into the streets after the Detroit i igers won the world series one person died. After the bulls won their first Aba championship Over the lakers in los Angeles More than 100 people were arrested during celebrations in Chicago. Two teen agers were injured though not seriously and stores were looted at scattered Sites. Psychologists said sports celebrations turn violent the same Way As riots sparked by other causes people set a different Standard of acceptable behaviour during the event and use the anonymity a mob presents. A Walter a Victory like that people deserve a Celebration. But people set the boundaries at different places and Only after it gets really out of control do people think this is wrong. By then it s too late Quot said  and Mike Singer Michael Jackson left dances with Chicago bulls basketball Star Michael Jordan during Liming in May of the eight minute video Jam. Jackson will soon begin the european leg of his a dangerous Quot tour. He has chartered a russian an-124 Jet one of the world s largest cargo carriers to carry his set and equipment to London. In London the cargo will be transferred to 65 trucks. Candidate punts bid following football Flap Gainesville Fla. A police chief Wayland Clifton never thought football would sack his political career. He withdrew from the Alachua county sheriffs race three weeks ago after questions arose Over whether he Playa for the University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul a a bears Bryant. A we have no record of his Ever being a student or an athlete Here a said Keith Ayers a school spokesman. A a we re pretty sure if head been a student Here wed have several types of records on  Clifton 50, said he cannot understand Why he does no to exist in University of Alabama archives. He said he played football under the name Buster Clifton in several games and attended classes in 1961, but Only for a couple of months because he injured his knee and returned Home to Kosciusko miss. A a in a still flabbergasted that there Are no enrolment records. For the Brief Peri p to of i played in a not at All sum Risco there Are no football records a Clifton said. A there has to be somebody out there that remembers old Buster  since the controversy erupted Clifton said he has received More than 400 talc hons Calls 40 letters and seven dozen Owers in support. Clifton had planned to retire As chief in july but he now intends to stay on. Police chief is a hired rather than an elected Job in Gainesville. A the local Media indicated it was time to step out. They said that id lost significant credibility and  be elected a a Clifton said. One of his opponents in the sheriffs race former Florida department of Law enforcement agent Steve Oelrich said the Issue Wasny to Cliftons football exploits. A it is about honesty believability and being upfront a he said. Clifton has been police chief for 7vi years. Previously he was chief Deputy sheriff. Penguins role in Batman film ruffles animal friends feathers los Angeles a an animal rights group announced plans monday to protest the movie Batman returns saying penguins in the film should have been left in Antarctica. Danny Devito stars in the $80 million sequel As the Penguin who is assisted in his evil deeds by an army of real penguins puppets actors in Bird suits and computer generated animals. People for the ethical treatment of animals said it objected to the animals being forced into an unusual environment and fitted with weapons and gadgets. A it must be very frightening for pen Guins who Are used to wide open space and diving freely into ice water to be strapped into missile gear a said Dar Mathews the groups director of Specia projects. But the group also said it does no to be Lieve any of the three dozen Birds were mistreated during filming. A Warner Bros news release says the penguins headgear consists of a very lightweight plastic which the real animals quickly became used  studio publicist Vivian Boyer did t immediately return a Telephone Call monday seeking  getting Richer poor getting poorer study shows Santa Monica Calif. Up a 25-year study released tuesday supports the theory that the economic Gap Between the haves and have not is widening with the Rich getting Richer the poor getting poorer and both groups growing in number while the Middle class shrinks. The Rand report the trend in Equality among families individuals and workers in the United states a Twenty five year perspective studied trends in . Wages and family income from 1963 to 1989. A in the last two decades income inequality has been increasing both among families and individuals and among workers a. Aid Rand economist Lynn Karoly who conducted the study. Karoly said the Rise in inequality was a real and represents a significant break with historical  the study focused on How income distribution has changed Over time where the changes have occurred among various income Levels and How these changes have differed for various types of families and workers. According to Karoly the Middle class became smaller during the 1980s As the ranks of both lower and upper income families expanded. During the same period Only men in the top Quarter of the distribution experienced real wage gains. Although the income Gap widened dramatically Between Rich and poor in the 1980s, the trend first emerged in the mid-1970s. The Gap was apparent while comparing men and women minorities and Whites or groups with varying Levels of education and experience the study found. According to the report the decline in the economic status of poor families dates to the 1970s, As does the Rise in wage inequality among men. The relative gains of the Rich were primarily a product of the Boom years of the 1980s. But the economic gains of the 1980s failed to narrow the Gap Between lower and upper income families and Between Low wage and High wage workers. A a rising tide is supposed to float All boats but it appears that this time some of them capsized a Karoly sail