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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 5, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday january 5, 1993haitians claim . Gives cubans preferred treatment from wire reports Miami a a haitians being held in a . Immigration detention Camp refused to eat for the fourth Day sunday to protest what they charge is preferential treatment Given to cuban refugees. Quot we want our Freedom Tike the cubans a the haitians said in a letter released sunday. The hunger strike was prompted by the ionization on television talk shows and in the press of two cuban pilots who in recent Days brought about 50 cuban defectors to the United states. All of the cubans were released almost immediately by immigration and naturalization service officials. One of the pilots former cuban air Force maj. Orestes Lorenzo Perez has appeared on the tonight show with Jay Leno and Larry King live am Friday he served As grand marshal of a Parade at Disney world in Orlando. Lorenzo who defected nearly two years ago flew a Small plane Back to Cuba on dec. 19 to whisk his family off a Beac Side  on Alert for scam Milwaukee store guards have been told to watch for shoplifters who May be using a set of printed instructions that Tell Crooks How to behind stolen goods. Police obtained a copy of the instructions last week from a customer of a do it yourself copy shop who found it and turned it Over said detective Russ a comic of the Milwaukee police department. Quot in be never seen anything written Down like this before. Its like a script Denomie said. Denomie said the instructions appear to be written by someone who recruits drug addicts to take Dvan Lage of the Post Holiday refund Rush when guards Are Busy. Copies Are being posted in shopping malls for guards to read and stores have been advised to be aware Denomie said. The instructions recommend collecting Cash not checks for stolen items or for articles picked up elsewhere in the store without being purchased and instruct the refunded to take the Cash to a Van that will be waiting outside presumably to buy drugs Denomie said. .. Milk called Safe Canastota. A the apparent poisoning deaths of 130 valuable milking cows at one of the states largest Dairy farms was under investigation sunday while a state agriculture official stressed that new York milk was Safe. Quot there a not a concern about the milk said Gerald Moore a spokesman for the state department of agriculture who said officials on the scene cleared milk produced by other cows on the farm for shipment. The cows died after a thursday feeding. The 800-head Herd belongs to Michael Bargabos Eagle Rock farm in Canastota about 175 Miles Northwest of new York City. It is one of the largest daily farms in the state and a Well regarded in the agricultural Community Moore said. The farm recently was placed under bankruptcy court Protection said state police inspector William Mcfort boaters rough on sea grass Tampa Fla. A inept boaters kill More Florida sea grass by blowing through shallow Waters than does pollution a study says. The state department of natural resources says its study is the first to assess the damage done by boaters blowing through shallow Waters. It claims the problem exists virtually everywhere and appears to be getting worse in some areas especially the Florida keys. Quot a from an air plane its like a bad joke a said Curtis Kruer a consulting biologist who was hired by the department to conduct Aerial surveys of the Lush grass Meadows of the keys. A the problem is even worse than it was just two or three years  besides the Florida keys parts of Tampa Bay rank among the state s most heavily scarred areas said Frank Sargent of the department s Marine research Laboratory in St. Petersburg  Beds Are critically important to the health of Florida s Marine ecosystems. But dredging and filling of shorelines have already killed 81 percent of the sea grass in Tampa Bay and caused similar declines statewide. Black tourist set afire by White kidnappers Tampa Fla. Up a a Black tourist from new York who went out to buy a newspaper was kidnapped by White men soaked with gasoline and set on fire police said  Wilson 31, May have been attacked because of his race said his Girlfriend Joan by Cit of Valrico. But Hillsborough county sheriffs investigators Are treating the incident As a robbery until they get More information said detective sgt. Al Luis. Wilson was in critical condition sunday at Tampa general Hospital with second and third degree Burns on his Back and Chest. He was scheduled for surgery today. Wilson told investigators that he was abducted at a shopping Center robbed and set in fire. Wilson had been visiting Benoit since wednesday from new York where he works for a Stock Exchange. She said he left her Home about 8 30 . Friday to buy a newspaper. Benoit a clerk in the Hillsborough county sheriffs office said she a paced quite a bit when Wilson did not return for an hour then two hours. Around 11 a.mi., sheriffs officials notified her that Wilson had been attacked. Wilson said he bought his paper at the shopping Center and returned to his car. Two men walked up to the car pulled out handguns and got into the Back seat Benoit told the Tampa trib Rune. A a a a a Athey forced Wilson to drive to a wooded area while a third Man followed them in a White Ford Van according to sheriff s reports. There the men took Wilson s Money doused him with gasoline and set him on fire before driving away in the Van. A. A. Benoit said he told her that the men poured the gasoline from a milk Jug they pulled from the an then used a cigarette lighter to set him on fire. A they kept calling him a Nigger a Benoit said. A they kept saying a we got one and we be got another one to a a. A a a a. A Benoit said neither she nor Wilson knew what the reference meant nor did they know the attackers.4 she. Said Wilson had Little Money at the time of the robbery. Wilson ran to a nearby Home where residents turned a Hose on him. A thank god for those people a Benoit said. A the did t even know where he was. Luis said Wilson said nothing about racial remarks in initial interviews with detectives. Sedation and treat men hampered further questioning he said. A my first impression is that it was a robbery a Luis said. A if there were any racial overtones to it. I think that a  former. Judge seeks delay by the new York times new York a sol Wachtler former chief judge of the new York state court of appeals has requested a new delay in court proceedings stemming from his november arrest on harassment and extortion charges. A Federal prosecutor had endorsed the request to delay a hearing scheduled for wednesday until feb. 5, and Federal magistrate Stanley r. Chester is Likely to approve the motion said Charles a. Stillman Wachtler s attorney. A i would fall Down in Shock if he did no to approve this a Stillman said. In the request Wachtler argues that he needs More time for a medical testing and  the request made thursday is the latest sign that Stillman May be preparing to argue that Wachtler was. Suffering from mental problems last year when he is accused of beginning to mail threatening letters and make menacing Telephone Calls to his former Lover Joy a. Silverman of Manhattan. Wachtler who is confined to his Home in Manhasset Long Island was arrested nov. 7 on charges of conspire Wachtler Acy to commit extortion and threatening to Kidnap Silverman s 14-year-old daughter. He resigned As chief judge nov. 10. It is the second time Wachtler has asked to delay court. Proceedings on medical grounds. In november the magistrate approved a similar request rescheduling a nov. 27 hearing for Jan. 6. Still Ryan declined to discuss the nature of the tests Wachtler is said to be undergoing. Silverman a prominent Republican fund Raiser is friends with Fri director William s. Sessions. After she complained to sessions that she was receiving threatening phone Calls in september about 80 Fri agents participated in the investigation. 18 years of uncertainty May end family Hopes body solves child s disappearance Tampa Fla up a a family is hoping a pair of Cowboy boots found in a septic tank with the skeletal remains of a child will solve the nearly 19-year-Oid Dis. Appearance of 3-Ycar-old Matthew aired. Virginia aired said the last time she saw her son he was scooting out the door in his Cowboy boots Jan. 17,1974. Other members of i just feel so much anger. Why did anyone want to do this to us a Cynthia Thompson missing boys sister the family said that if the remains Are Identie fied As Matthews it will bring to a close years of trying to Undeland what happened. A i just have More peace now the wondering is Over a the searching for that face in the crowd a Virginia aired 53, told the Tampa Tribune in a Telephone interview from her daughters Home in Connecticut. A from the time he was missing i looked for a Little Blond headed  but there will be no peace for Matthews father Vernon aired. A a in a rather think that he was still alive a said Abed 61. For Matthews sister Cynthia Thompson the discovery is too much to imagine. A a a it goes Over and Over in my mind my brother lying in a septic tank a she said. A i just feel so much anger. Why did anyone want to do this to us a Hillsborough county sheriffs officials Are awaiting the medical examiners positive identification of. The Skull and other Bones found thursday by a teen Ager cleaning out a septic tank across the Street from the Home in which the Al reds used to live neighbors said the original owners of the Home died years ago. The boots have convinced Virginia aired that the remains Are those of her son. Although it has been Ai. Most 19 years since Matthew disappeared family members recall the afternoon vividly. The family had just finished dinner and Matthew wanted to get out of his High chair so he could join his siblings outside in front of the House. Virginia aired said she let him scramble out of the chair and the boy darted out the door. When Matthew came outside his sister told him to play in the Back Yard a 1 was the last time i saw him a Thompson said. A i just wish i had watched him better he was my baby  More than 400 sheriffs deputies and neighbors turned out to search for the boy  
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