European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages b the stars and stripes . Tuesday november 10,1992air Canada group wins Continental race new York a Continental air lines holdings inc. Said monday that it had chosen a $450 million buyout offer by air Canada and other investors to help it Complete its second bankruptcy reorganization in six years. Continental plans to submit a reorganization plan next week and emerge from bankruptcy court Protection in the Spring. Continental s Choice still requires approval by . Bankruptcy judge Helen a lick who had set monday As a deadline for the airline to state its preference. Federal regulators also must approve the Deal. Under the Deal Continental and air Canada would retaining their identities. But they would link operations at Newark International Airport in new Jersey and at Houston intercontinental Airport where air Canada has Takeoff and Landing rights it Isnit using said Don Ingham air Canada spokesman. Air Canada and two fort Worth investors James Coulter and David Bonder Man agreed to invest $450 million in Continental. In return air Canada and the Coulter Bonderman partnership each get a 27.5 percent equity stake. Air Canada and the Coulter Bonderman group called air partners done to plan any management changes at Continental and Don t plan to take Over operation of the airline air Canada and air partners said monday. Air Canada is led by Hollis Harris former chairman of Continental who left in August 1991 when Robert Ferguson Iii took Over at the Houston based airline. Continentals creditors would receive a 35.6 percent interest in the reorganized airline. Air Canada and the Coulter Bonderman group would each get six seats on the new 18-member Board Continental spokesman Art Kent said. Continental turned away an offer from Houston businessman Charles Hurwitz and Aero Mexico. The Hurwitz and Aero Mexico group had proposed a $450 million investment but the size and terms of the groups final offer could not immediately be determined. Of the major airlines to file for chapter 11 in recent years Continental was the last to reorganize successfully. In 1986, it finished a three year stay in bankruptcy . Councilman to run for mayor despite claims from wire reports los Angeles a los Angeles City councilman Nate Holden said sunday that he plans to run for mayor despite sexual harassment allegations. In a Telephone interview sunday night Holden said he will enter april a race to replace mayor Tom Bradley and become the City a second Black mayor. Bradley who is not seeking re election became los Angeles first Black mayor in 1973. Holden has served on the los Angeles City Council since 1987. However the candidate has recently been dogged by accusations of sexually harassing two women who once worked in his Council  leaves 2 dead Hawthorne Calif. A a car being chased by police after a robbery slowed into a car at an intersection killing two adults and a baby and critically injuring two other people. Police responded saturday night to a robbery report at an apartment. The robbery left a child slightly wounded by gunfire. Five suspects took off in a car. As police pursued the suspects ran a Stop sign and hit a car at a Busy intersection killing a 23-Ycar-old woman and a year old child an critically injuring two other occupants another child and a woman. One of the suspects also was killed in the crash. Four suspects shot at police and got away on foot but two were captured and booked for investigation of murder robbery and other charges. The other two a one believed wounded by police a were being sought sunday said police it. John a Carling our gang actor Dies Santa Monica Calif. John h. Davis who played Tough kid Jackie Davis in the our gang films of the 1920s, died tuesday of respiratory failure. He was 78. Davis pursued a medical career after our gang Ana never returned to acting. He graduated in 1942 from the University of Southern California school of Medicine in los Angeles and specialized in cardiology. At his death he was a retired associate professor at the University of California at los Angeles. Detroit officer denies seeing beating decries pack of lies Detroit apr a police supervisor who was one of seven officers suspended after a Motorist was beaten to death denies he was present during the attack. A a it a a pack of lies sgt. Freddie Douglas said in mondays Detroit free press. A a. Someone said i was there during the beating and i was  Wayne county prosecutor John of hair said he was seeking criminal warrants against seven officers and expected they would be issued monday. Authorities have refused to identify the officers but news reports identified Douglas As the ranking police official at the scene where malice Wayne Green 35, was beaten to death. Green was dragged from his car about 10 30 . Thursday by two police officers and beaten with flashlights As five other officers watched or took Pari. Police chief Stanley Knox said. Green died of head injuries in an emergency room. The officers were suspended without pay. Two emergency medical technicians told police that they saw four officers hit or kick Green the Detroit news reported monday. Lee Hardy and Scott Walsh said a plainclothes officer flagged them Down and they found Green half out of the car his face covered with blood. Soon the technicians told the newspaper other offi cars arrived and Green was dragged from the car while the beating continued. Hardy and Walsh said four White officers attacked Green who was Black. Knox said he could not say whether race was a Factor Green Knox in the attack. About 150 people Black and White rallied downtown sunday afternoon some carrying placards saying a jail the killer cops and a avenge Mance  Joann Watson executive director of the Detroit Branch of the National association for the advancement of coloured people said greens death is especially shocking because of Detroit a racial composition. The City of 1 million is about 75 percent Black has a Black mayor and police chief Ana 54 percent of the 3,870-member police Force is Black. Sex teen hero arrested on assault charge Detroit apr seven years ago Collin Boatright was a teen age hero for saving a child from a would be rapist twice his size. He had a visit with president Reagan and got $10,000 from Well wishers. I outright is 21 now and in an Ohio jail on charges of assault in connection with a shooting. His Mother says his troubles stemmed from his Youthful act of heroism and the resulting Cash and attention it brought. A that was the beginning of the end for him a Boatright smother sue Willis told the Detroit news in a Story published sunday. A big Guys would come up to him ask him if he thought be was so Tough maybe he could take them on. The others fought him for his Money. They even broke into our House looking for  Boatright a Saga began feb. 24,1985, when he was a 14-Ycar-old paperboy. He heard screams coming from a vacant Home and found a 6-foot-2,220-Pound Man and an 11-year-old girl. Boatright attacked the Man with a stick driving him from the Home. Police arrested the Man moments later. The next Day Boatright was a hero. Mayor Coleman Young gave him a key to the City. Reagan flew him to Washington for a visit. And the Cash came in. The youth bought his Mother two used cars and Squirrel led away $3,000 for College. But he never made it out of Middle school Boatright dropped out and went on to hold a succession of menial jobs. ,u8us�?T  t0 Akron Ohio where Emmanuel Mcmillan was shot in the Chest during an altercation. Last week Boatright accompanied by his parents turned himself in to authorities. A the almost seemed relieved a Akron police it. George Reuscher said. A like he was glad it was All  let tourists View . A from behind bars Boston apr Lee Ling no came to the United states with two dozen other malaysians to Sec the sights. Boston. New York. Atlantic City . Instead she saw the inside of a jail. Federal authorities detained her and her fellow travellers for 16 Days because their tour Leader Chee Sheong Choong was suspected of smuggling illegal aliens into the country. The government wanted to ensure the visitors would appear to testify. On thursday no and her companions a never charged with a crime a were sent Back Home to Malaysia on the Southeast tip of Asia and charges against Choong were dropped. But outrage Over their treatment grows. A these Are not wealthy people. They paid Over $2,000 to see America and now they re going Back Quot said George Cha a chinese Community Leader in Boston. A you done to treat guests that  Choong and the 24 tourists he led were detained As they arrived oct. 21 at Logan Airport. Choong was suspected of trying to smuggle two members of the group into the country to work illegally and was later charged based on statements that several tourists gave to immigration agents. But lawyers for two women held As key witnesses alleged that their clients eng Cheng and Goh Ying Phuah a were threatened by immigration agents with Long jail sentences if they did not give statements. The lawyers also say an immigration agent dragged one Man across a floor by his Collar. Members of the group were jailed More than a week before their first court appearance. Angry Over the delay . Magistrate judge Marianne Bowler Las week ordered that depositions of the tourists could Las no More than 90 minutes each. . Attorney a. John Pappalardo then dropped the charges saying it was unlikely the government Wouch get a conviction. The malaysian embassy filed a complaint with the state department saying embassy staff did not learn 0 the detentions until they were contacted by news medi oct. 30. The state department expressed regret. Pappalardo defended his offices handling of the Case and said the immigration and naturalization serv ice was within its rights to hold the group. The ins Sai it it was acting on orders from Pappalardo a office am denied its agents had been abusive