European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday saturday. December 25/26, 1992 officer says colleagues fired without warning new York apr a Black undercover transit policeman shot by White colleagues who mistook him for a robber said wednesday that he recognized the officers and that they never shouted a warning. It was the first time that Derwin Pannell had publicly offered his version of the nov. 17 shooting. He appeared at a Hospital news conference in a wheelchair a Bullet still in his neck and his paralysed right Arm propped on the chairs armrest. Pannell 27, was shot As he and his partner Kenneth Donnelly were arresting a woman suspected of beating a subway fare. The transit authority said that the shooting was an Accident and that the three White officers believed a robbery was in Progress. Pannell was holding a gun on die woman while Donnelly who is White went through her purse. Pannell said he did not View the shooting As a a racial incident a but he accused the transit authority of failing to provide race sensitivity training that would have helped officers distinguish Between a criminal and an undercover officer. Pannell has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the City because the officers had not been properly trained. He also said he was new to undercover work and had not been advised to Wear a the color of the Day a a Marker to help other officers recognize undercover col parents steal gifts intended for kids from wire reports Chicago a parents helping at a school Christmas party wednesday stole most of the presents leaving none for More than 200 children the school s principal said. A some children went Home crying a said Marshall Taylor principal of Friedrick von Schiller elementary school. A it Here was wrapping paper All Over the floor a just As if somebody had said hey help yourself a a he said. Quot when the kids came they saw their parents hoarding the  the school is in the City a notorious Cabrini Green housing project. The 325 fifth through eighth graders had the Day off wednesday for Holiday break but went to the school for the morning gift Giveaway. The school had solicited the presents from local companies. One store replaced Many of the gifts wednesday night. The children were to get at least one present each a toy game clothes or other items Taylor said. The students had made wish lists of items under $40, before the pupils arrived about 30 parents at a meeting offered to help Taylor inventory the presents in the school s auditorium police sgt. James Hanson said. While the parents were arranging the bags of gifts by Grade and room number they started unwrapping them and taking what they wanted Taylor said. Some fifth and sixth graders got presents but More than 200 children left empty handed Taylor said. After hearing about the incident officials at Montgomery Ward is co. Contacted Taylor and told him that they would replace the presents. Ward employees a a like Santa selves a scattered through their Chicago department store checking off names from lists that had been supplied by the school Lor the grab bag. A spokesman said the company decided to replace the missing presents because Many of them had been donated by Montgomery Ward employees. Montgomery Ward had hoped to replace the missing presents at another special Assembly on thursday Christmas eve. But school already is out for the Holiday break. Officials said another Assembly would be held Jan. 4, the Day school reopens. Taylor said he thinks the parents stole the presents because they have few possessions. Quot and they re greedy a he said. A anything that a free they Are interested in. The parents have set a wonderful example for the kids of what not to  some parents discarded gifts in the Street Hanson Suid. He said he saw three pairs of pants a the Bottom halves of uniforms that had been donated for the children a in the schoolyard. There were reports of looters Selling presents for $3, to or and i Lanson said. Leagues. While Donnelly searched the woman a purse Pannell said he kept his gun out and stayed on the Lookout for a second fare beating suspect a Man who had fled Pannell said. He said he heard something behind him and turned toward the noise a thinking that the male perpetrator was Back and could possibly be  he said that no one yelled a police done to move a or a police freeze Quot a to my Relief i clearly observed Barbara Jesberger and John Napolitano. I recognized both of them As fellow officers even though they never identified themselves As such. A having failed to identify themselves As police officers i assumed that they too recognized me. A upon recognizing them i Felt Safe and holstered my .38. I then placed my empty hand Back Down my right  but the next thing he saw was the other officers pointing their guns at him. A i covered my vitals went into a fetal position and was shot a Pannell said. The officers unleashed 21 rounds. During the shooting Pannell said he heard Donnelly yell a a what Are you doing we re  no charges have been filed against any of the officers who shot  anybody bite Sidney Mobell a jeweler known for his Holiday creations shows off this years a a $100,000 Fly fishing reel that contains 32 diamonds 237 sapphires and 253 rubies. Mobell posing this week on pier 7 in san Francisco says hell throw in a solid Gold fishhook for free to a  woman takes off in unattended City bus Houston up a a Houston woman who grew impatient drove off in an unattended metro bus but the bus stalled within several blocks. Metro police said the woman drove the bus until it died in an intersection Early wednesday. She then attempted to get on another bus and seemed surprised when she was arrested for unauthorized use of the bus. Metro spokeswoman Carol Boudreaux said Drivers May leave their buses to take five minute Coffee Breaks. Authorities said the bus stalled in part because the unidentified woman did no to release the emergency  in Evers death freed with donated bail from wire reports Jackson miss. A a Man who faces his third trial in the 1963 slaying of civil rights Leader Medgar Evers was freed wednesday on bail. Byron de la Beckwith was released hours after judge l. Breland Hilburn or. Of Hinds county circuit court set $100,000 bail and ordered the Tennessee Man to stay in Mississippi until his trial. Defense attorneys had said Beckwith did no to have the Cash or property to Post Bond. But a Benefactor who did no to want to be identified came Forward after the hearing with $12,000 Cash required for Beckwith to be freed said defense attorney Merrida Coxwell. The hearing came a week after the state supreme court refused to consider Beckwith a arguments that he  be tried again. Beckwith an avowed White supremacist says that too much time has passed since his first two trials and that he was denied a speedy trial after his arrest and indictment in december 1990.catholics giving studied new York a roman catholics put less than 1 percent of their income into the sunday collection plate in 1991, with More than 60 percent of households giving an average of less than a Dollar a week a study found. The study of 330,000 Catholic households was the first comprehensive Survey of financial data provided by parishes As opposed to poll data surveying individual catholics researchers said. A people have resources to give if they can be reached a said Joseph Harris author of the study. A the Catholic Community is not being strapped at the present time in the amount they Are giving to the  with Many dioceses forced to close schools and churches for financial reasons the amount of donations has become a concern in the Church. Last month the National conference of Catholic Bishops approved a pastoral letter on stewardship that challenged catholics to commit More time and resources to the  built a better mouse Washington a the second animal Patent Ever issued has been awarded to Ohio University for a mouse Strain carrying a human Gene that makes it resistant to viral infection University officials said wednesday. The . Patent and trademark office has told the University it will receive a Patent tuesday for the virus resistant mouse said officials at the institution in Athens Ohio or. Thomas Wagner co Developer of the new mouse Strain said the patented animal was genetically altered so that it continuously produces a Low level of interferon a protein that the body uses to attack invading viruses. The Patent office issued the first mouse Patent to Harvard University in 1988 for a Laboratory mouse Strain engineered to grow malignant tutors. That animal the so called Harvard mouse is used for cancer studies. Wagner said the virus resistant mouse can be used in studies of the immune systems response to cancer. He said the new mouse Strain also will be healthier and less susceptible to disease than Ordinary Laboratory  Mary to remain Long Beach Calif a the Queen Mary will stay where it is the City Council has decided ending a year of uncertainty Over the famed luxury liners course. Council members voted 8-1 on tuesday to take Over the Money losing tourist attraction from the Independent Harbor department which wanted to sell the Queen Mary to a Hong Kong company for $20 million. The Walt Disney co. Dropped plans last december to build a theme Park then said in March that it would Stop operating the Queen Mary. The Harbor department is to give the City $6.5 million to repair the Queen Mary As Well As 85 acres near the ship where restaurants and other businesses take in about $840,000 a year