European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday november 28,1993 at a glance Sandra Allen and Stephen Greene stand tall in the eyes of the Guin Ness Book of records. The pair helped launch a new edition of the Book in London. Between them is Michele Ambler who set a record for making a Hospital bed 14seconds. See Story on Page 15. Captive envoy hopeful kidnapped . Diplomat Haynes Mahoney says he is being Well treated by his captors and reportedly expects to be freed soon. Page 4 living with violence for a woman who carried a Bullet along with a fetus violent crime is still part of everyday life. Pages collision recalled a sky diver who crashed into an air plane said he tried at the last Sec Ond to steer Clear of the Craft but his attempt failed sending the plane into a nose dive that killed four peo ple. Page 8 unrest continues the persistent unrest threatens to hold up Israel s withdrawal from the occupied territories As israeli sol Diers shot to death a Young guerrilla Leader and palestinians marched de manding revenge. Pag10 Stock buying season investors shopping around for stocks As the year comes to a close should keep in mind the tendency of the Market s lowly issues to outperform corporate heavyweights this time of year experts say. -pag2t Index Abby Ann Landers. 15 classifieds 22-25 commentary 13 faces a places 15 Horoscope 24 letters 12 Money matters 18,21 Mutual 19-21 sports 26-32 weather 14 Pilot from Page 1 cold War ended but none has As severe Pilot surplus As the air Force. The Gao credited the air Force for cutting its production of new pilots by half but asserted that the volume was still excessive and that assigning hundreds of them to no flying jobs was wasteful. The air Force not Only loses the Benefito its investment in Pilot training and Pilot bonuses but it must also pay the Cost of re fresher training the Agency said. The Cost of such training was estimated at between$64,500 to $74,400 a person. Recently air Force officials predicted that a High rate of attrition along with at tempts to manage the Pilot glut would Lead to a Pilot shortage beginning in 1905.so they stopped delaying admissions to flight school last month with the intention of producing 500 to 525 pilots each year. The Gao faulted the air Force for Tak ing this action saying the Impact of looming Clinton administration cuts on Pilot needs has not been evaluated fully. As for a Possi ble shortage fewer experienced pilots Are being hired away by the economically strained airline Industry and the current Supply of desk bound pilots could be tapped to meet a military threat should the need arise the Gao said. In its audit the Gao urged the air Force to save Money by cutting Back More sharply than Ever on admissions to entry level Pilot training. In this Way the Agency reasoned the air Force could avoid the costly practice of depositing Young fliers into a f Pilot Bank where they must Coo their heels for nearly three years As desk jockeys or maintenance officers. Maj. Don Cohick who manages train ing flying assignments and the banked Pilot program for the air Force military personnel Center expressed Confidence that All the new pilots who have been diverted to support jobs would be Back Inai planes by october 1996. The size of the Pilot Bank containing Only those who were unable to get a cock pit Job after leaving flight school peaked last june and now has 830 pilots Cohick said from his office at Randolph fab Texas. Right now our Pilot production has dropped and flight assignments Are open ing up Cohick said. In september there were enough flight assignments for flight school graduates that we ves topped increasing the size of the rappers from Page 1 critics of rap Are asking again what hence if any the music and its artists have on the larger years these rappers have been preaching drug culture and violence said Curtis r. Tucker jr., a California assemblyman whose District embraces Many Lack areas of los Angeles. But now see related Story on Page 8 they Are openly living that lifestyle an that will have a devastating effect on our Young people who emulate the Way these rappers dress talk and perhaps the most prominent of those arrested is 22-year-old tupac shakur who was indicted thursday for participating in a sexual attack on a woman in a Manhattan , a californian whose acting in i what started out As a Means of informing the world about life in the inner City has now been prostituted by a new school of thought that itis All right to kill and rape and abuse drugs Curtis r. Tucker jr., California assemblyman juice and poetic Justice won critical Praise was charged Only last month in the shooting of two off duty police officers i Atlanta. Some of shakur s Best known lyrics on his 1991 2pacalypsc now album discuss gang members shooting police. Also facing criminal charges is the fast rising rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg whose debut album Doggy style went on Sals Las week and ranks among the fastest Selling recordings in recent memory. The 22-year-old California performer whose real name is Calvin Broadus was indicted ear Lier this month in los Angeles Superior court for murder. Police say that Broa dus bodyguard did the actual shooting and that the rapper drove the car the were Riding in. Flavor flav of the group Public enemy was arrested this month in the Bronx n.y., and charged with attempted murder after police were told that he had shot at a neighbor during an argument. Flav whose real name is William Drayton led officers to his apartment where they found loaded .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun with one round missing police rap which Many of its aficionados see As validating the turbulent an deadly streets of an America denied is the latest manifestation of hip hop which first washed Over the country in the mid 70s. Like most of mainstream hip Hopt Market is Suburbia. What started out As a Means of in forming the world about life in the inner City has now been prostituted by a new school of thought that it is All right to kill and rape and abuse drugs said Tucker who is encouraging radio stations District not to play the most violent forms of , Broadus and Drayton who have All proclaimed their innocence declined to be interviewed. Sociologists and others who follow rap music disagree on the possible motivations behind the violent self destructive behaviour of some artists. Some believe that rap pers somehow enhance their standing among fans by acting out the criminality they advocate in great part hip hop s pervasive popu Larity stems from its rebellious nature set to a beat you can dance to. The main thing that comes through in rap is anger regardless of the lyrics said Todd Gitlin professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. No matter what your background Young peo ple across America have something to be angry about and rap allows them to express that anger. It s the beat the lyrics the percussion the Boom Boom get out of my Kevin. Powell who writes about rap music for vibe Magazine and describes himself As a Young Man who grew up inthe ghetto said that while he believes rap is a legitimate Art form the hard Core Sid of the genre has gone too far. He faults the music Industry for not exercising som degree of control. This new wave of rap music has influenced Black children in a bad Way Powell said. It s made us think that being hard is the sole definition of being Black in the 1990s."supporters of gangster rap say the genre is attacked because society does no consider it a real Art form and because it rapper tupac shakur appears to m at Lanta court recently on charges of Hoot ing two off duty police officers. Is dominated by Blacks. You can t penalize an artist for being thug in his private life said Michelle Santosuosso assistant program director for Kkt pm an Urban radio station in los Angeles. Many in the rap world see the recent troubles of some rappers As reflecting the problems of poor Young Black and hispanic men even though they Are successful rap pers they still face Many of the same conditions prejudices and problems that other people of color face said rap impresario Russell Simmons chief executive of Rush communications. Art is the time and place in which you Are from. A couple of Guys came along rapping about frustrating conditions i their Community and they had Commer Cial Success. It s just a trend and it will pass and something new will come Premier from Page 1 for another government perhaps one More amenable to the army. We Hope that the International Community will understand that the application of article 148 the temporary inca pact atom constitutional clause is a haitian solution Dejoie said. He hoped world nations will react favourably to i when and if it the army Friday accused Aristide officials of considering armed struggle to re gain Power. Later Aristide told the voice of America s Creole language serv ice that there were no plans for armed struggle Only discussions on the topic. Mahal s foreign minister said military backers would fail if they were planning to halt the return of democracy and Aris tide permanently. The rights Haiti s traditionally Downtrodden masses gained with the election of Aris tide in 1991 Are not something that you Caput in the Freezer and forget about for eign minister Charlotte were High cannot e Rase it in our history. Were High spoke by phone from Washington where she is lobbying . And . Officials for More sanctions. The United nations already has ruled out fuel and weapons deliveries to Haiti until the military yields control
