European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 7,1993 . The stars and stripes b Pago 7, g u n men. Of it least $7 million Rochester . A masked gunmen robbed an armoured ear depot of at least $7 million in the nations second such heist in 10 Days. Police questioned employees of the brinks inc. Depot parly wednesday Ana said workers would be Given lie Detector tests about what might have been an inside Job. A brinks employee who said he was abducted at gunpoint and released a few Miles away was hospitalized with Chest pains. No one else was Hurt in the Holdup tuesday night. The Fri believes $7 million or More was taken a source who asked not to be identified said wednesday. Earlier reports put the amount at $10 million. A Salt 1 can Tell you is we Are cooperating fully with the Fri and police in Rochester a said Marvin Moss a spokesman at the brinks Headquarters in Darien Conn. On dec. 27, $8.27 million was taken in a robbery at an armoured car company in new York City. No one has been arrested in that Case. The Holdup was Rochester s second armoured car company heist in 2v4 years. On june 26,1990, gunmen ambushed an armoured motor service of America inc. Truck when its Crew stopped to buy sandwiches. The robbers got away with $10.8 million. In tuesdays robbery several gunmen entered the depot a one Story Brick building on the Edge of the City and subdued an employee police sgt. Sherman Scott said. A Quot a Quot a. /. A /. The Rochester Democrat amp chronicle reported that at least one employee was tied up and others were forced to lie on the floor with bags Over their Heads. The Money was in a secured area but not in a Safe Scott said. No Money is stored at the depot but Cash arrives there As it is transferred Between Banks he said. The robbers appeared to have known there would be Money there tuesday night suggesting it May have been an inside Job he said. One employee retired police officer Tom of Connor was found at a restaurant about five Miles from the depot two hours after the Holdup. He told police he was taken there by the gunmen his head covered by a bag and left in the parking lot. In last months new York City heist robbers thwarted an elaborate Security system at the Hudson armoured car and courier service surprised an unarmed guard while he was watching to and took the Money from a vault the Fri said. No one was Hurt. One of the most famous armoured car depot robberies also involved brinks. In 1950, thieves struck brinks in Boston getting away with $1.2 million in Cash and $1.5 million in cheats and securities. The Case was cracked six years later when one of the Holdup men believing he Hadnot received a fair share of the loot informed on his partners haitian refugees found aboard a freighter Are taken to a . Coast guard station in Miami on tuesday coast guard detains 352 haitians when crammed ship reaches Miami Miami a t officials seized 352 haitian refugees from a freighter that arrived Here tuesday As advocates for refugees urged president elect Clinton to a Send this madness Quot of returning Asylum seekers without hearings. At the Federal Krone detention Center meanwhile 159 haitians began the sixth Day of a hunger strike tuesday they Are protesting the harshness of their treatment compared with that of cuban refugees. Cubans seeking Asylum usually Are released soon after their arrival in the United states but Many of the haitians at the Center have been detained for months. The haitians hunger strike began a week ago after the Quick release of 48 cubans who commandeered a cuban Airliner to Miami on dec. 29. Those cubans were released from Krome located about 25 Miles West of Miami within 48 hours. The coast guard meanwhile boarded the 75-foot haitian freighter at 7 . And detained the 352 haitians. The refugees were taken to a coast guard station in Miami where they were seen by doctors and fed said Simone Adair a coast guard Petty officer the haitians were packed a shoulder to shoulder Quot aboard the ship and had been at sea for about five Days said Toni Long another coast guard Petty officer. About a dozen of the haitians were treated at the coast guard station for seasickness. One Detainee who was suffering convulsions was taken to a Hospital Adair said. A bloody military coup in september 1991 ousted Jeari Bertrand Aristide Haiti a first freely elected president. About 40,000 haitians since have fled to the United states from the Caribbean nation but most were returned to their Homeland. Castro s brother targeted in drug trafficking probe / from wire reports Miami a top cuban officials including Fidel Castro a brother arc targets of a renewed . Drug trafficking investigation in Miami Federal officials have confirmed. A there have been a series of ongoing cuban investigations a said Tom Cash chief of the Miami office of the drug enforcement administration. A the record its Replete with names ranging from military officers to High government officials in Cuba. He said Castro a brother Raul who As minister of the revolutionary armed forces controls cubans a airports1 and Ocean traffic has been mentioned ,. Repeatedly. But direct knowledge of Fidel Castro a alleged involvement is difficult to find. And the drug Agency is not ready to take its Case to a Federal grand jury. Cash said. Cuban government spokesman Jose Ponce in Washington denied tuesday that the castros or other top officials were involved with drugs Sears settles privacy Case Madison wis. A scars Roebuck and co. Has settled out of court with a woman who sued the retailer for invasion of privacy when she discovered a reflecting panel above a dressing room allowed strangers to see her undress. The settlement was reached monday As a circuit court jury trial was to begin. The terms were not disclosed. Lenora Weber said she heard laughter and other noise outside the dressing room at a Madison scars store As she prepared to try on a dress March 9, 1991. Then she said she saw her reflection in a panel above her and bystanders outside the dressing room looking up at the same panel. Court records filed in Sears defense said the panel was originally installed to discourage employees from pilfering from Cash registers. The i panel was unintentionally left behind when. Checkout areas were moved and replaced with dressing rooms the accords said. Civil War site protected harpers ferry . Preservationists have spared part of a civil War Battlefield from future development. The civil War Trust is buying the 56-acre parcel where the Battle of school House Ridge took place in 1862. Confederate a fun. Stonewall Jackson a forces captured 12,500 Union soldiers there. The Trust last week gave the Jefferson Security Bank a $4,500 Down payment toward its $440,000 eur chasm of the property adjacent to harpers ferry National historical Park. Trust vice president Edgar Andrews Iii disclosed the Purchase monday. The land lies Between Union and Confederate positions and remains a remarkably As it did during the Battle a said Donald Campbell Park superintendent. A passengers sent flying Miami a a san Francisco bound jetliner hit heavy turbulence shortly after Takeoff tuesday sending passengers crashing into the ceiling of its Cabin. Ten passengers and five Crew members were injured said american airlines spokeswoman it Patricia san Pedro. A fire official said however that 30 people were injured. The discrepancy could not be immediately resolved. American airlines flight 1539 ran into trouble West of Florida a Lake Okeechobee and was forced to return to Miami International Airport. Said Anne Eldridge a spokeswoman for the Federal aviation administration. Mckinley toll sets record Anchorage Alaska a a record number of climbers tried to reach the Summit of mount Mckinley last year. And a record number a 11, All but one of them foreigners a died trying the National Park service reported. The 1,070 climbers who tackled Mckinley North americans tallest Peak at 20,320 feet were the most since rangers began keeping statistics in 1932, the Agency said monday. About half reached the top for the past five years an average of 986 climbers tried reaching Mckinley a Summit. Before 1970, Mckinley never had attracted 100 climbers in a season. Rescues Cost nearly $500,000 in 1992, officials said. The Park service and the military absorbed most of the Cost. J