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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 7, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 7 Apfl to Frank Zappa he a lived to create  innovator Frank Zappa Dies of cancer los Angeles apr Frank Zappa whose compositions stretched the boundaries of Rock jazz and classical music and tested the limits of free speech has died of prostate cancer. He was 52. A a a Zappa died saturday evening and was buried sunday at a private ceremony in los Angeles said family Friend Jim Nagle. A composer Frank Zappa left for his final tour just before 6 . Saturday the family said in a statement released sunday night. Zappa s wife Gail and four children a Moon unit 26 Dwe Ezil 24 Ahmet 19 and diva 14 a were with him when he died at his los an Geles Home. Zappa s Long illness rarely stopped him from composing recording and performing or trying to defend lyrics against  was a musician As a composer he was absolutely driven relentlessly driven. The Man lived to create Art Quot said journalist and longtime Friend rip Rense. A if he loved anything better than Art it was his life it was his  Zappa made his name in the late 1960s when he Lea his band the mothers of invention in what he called a sonic  with the band or As a Solo artist he released about 50 Al bums including Freak out hot rats and Sheik yer Bouti. Zappa released yellow shark in 1992, but his illness forced him to Cut Short a related tour. Be fore his death he completed another album civilization Phaze 111, which is scheduled for release in the Spring Nagle said. Zappa also won a grammy in 1988 for his album jazz from hell for Best Rock instrumental performance. Zappa beat out his son Dwe Ezil also a performer for the Honor. Francis Vincent Zappa jr., son of sicilian immigrants was born in Baltimore on dec. 21, 1940.he began playing Drums at age 12, taught himself How to compose at 14 Ana then switched to guitar. He scored the film run Home slow in 1964, then set up Small recording studio in Cucamonga Calif. Denver apr saddened and frustrated by increasing youth violence that is splintering their communities hundreds cast aside their religious differences sunday to Pray for an end to the bloodshed. About 1,200 people gathered in the Colorado convention Center to listen to about 35 Christian jewish Buddhist native american and Muslim leaders. About 35 Young people joined the clergy in calling for peace. A this problem is not isolated a it is spread All Over the City we come from every quadrant of town to Al our Faith Quot the Rev. Jesse Boyd of Shorter ame we Pray More effect firm Church said before the event tally if we Pray  the theme of the gathering was dear peace can be achieved Only through Unity and by taking responsibility. A. A your children Are afraid to go to sleep afraid to go to the playground Quot said Dorothy Nelson of the Church of women United. A we need to Start raising our children the Way we Are supposed to and Stop blaming everybody else.�?�. The event was organized after a summer of youth violence so severe it forced the state legislature to Convene a special session to pass Laws aimed at solving the problem. One of the Laws passed during the session makes it illegal for anyone under 18 to possess a handgun except for Hunting instruction and target practice. Anyone arrested under the Law is to be jailed without Bond for at least five Days. A a in a very encouraged Quot mayor Wellington Webb said after the meeting. A if we can do it in the religious Community then hopefully we can do it with other issues in communities across the  Webb plans to meet with president Clinton next week to discuss Urban youth violence. Jared Peters the son of the Rev. James Peters said his thoughts a and those of Many friends a Are dominated by fear. A a in a too Young to think about dying Quot he said. A i hate to go out in such a violent world. In a Only 16.1 want to get to be 18 and 21 and 25 is that too much to ask Quot Remi Medina a 21-year-old member of a Church group in Commerce City near Denver said the Day of prayer was productive. A i think 1 feel there could be change in the world because of what we re doing today a she said. A because i believe prayer is the most powerful thing we can do. And if we can get everybody to Pray together then i think we can make a  roommates among los Angeles apr two roommates from Harvard University Are among this years Rhodes scholarship winners and a record number of women have won the prestigious academic Honor officials announced sunday. A ooh my god of my god we won a screamed the answering machine message of Matthew b. Boyle of Shaker Heights a a a. A Johnston of Amherst mass. It hts Ohio and Roommate Alexander they will join 30 other americans headed to Oxford University in England. Seventeen winners Are women. It was the first time since women became eligible in 1976 that More than half the scholarships went to women. Last year 16 of the 32 winners were women. Boyle 21, is a social studies and philosophy major. He is on the editorial boards of the Harvard Lampoon and Harvard advocate and directs the Folk music department at the University radio station. Johnston 21, is a social studies major who is writing his honors thesis on a Massachusetts Law that makes All communities responsible for building or subsidizing some housing. He also has volunteered to build affordable housing with habitat for humanity. The roommates were among five winners from Harvard. Rutgers University in new Jersey had its first two winners Ever and 25 other universities had one each. Rhodes scholarships were established at the turn of the Century by the estate of Cecil j. Rhodes a British philanthropist and colonist. Winners receive scholarships to Oxford for a year. Israeli spy May have Cost lives billions of dollars report says Washington apr one document that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard passed to the israelis May have led to the deaths of informants and rendered As useless information that Cost billions of dollars to gather time Magazine said. The time report in its edition dated for next monday came As the Clinton administration considered a request from Israel to Grant clemency to the former . Navy intelligence analyst now serving a life sentence. The document which is thought to have unintentional by landed in soviet hands was a huge National Security Agency compendium of frequencies used by foreign military and intelligence services it said. 3 . Officials assume that countries knew their frequencies had been discovered and used them to spread misinformation. Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin has asked president Clinton to Grant clemency to Pollard who has admitted passing massive amounts of . Military and defense intelligence information to Israel in 1984 and 1985. Pollard is asking Clinton to commute his life term and release him from prison. Clinton has said he will not make a decision until he receives advice from the Justice department. The . Attorney s office that prosecuted the Pollard Case has told attorney general Janet Reno that it opposes clemency Gen. Schuyler 50s shape chief of staff Dies by the new York times Gen. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler who was a senior officer in the military Arm of nato and new Vork states first commissioner of general services died saturday at his Home in san Antonio. He was 92. The cause was cancer his family said. Schuyler was appointed by president Eisenhower in 1953 to be chief of staff of the supreme Headquarters Allied pow ers Europe the military Arm of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Until 1959, he two distinguished serving in that Ca received his first o service medals. After leaving the army in 1959, he was chosen by new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller to organize and head the first office of general services the state s Purchase and Supply operation. A Schuyler retired in 1971 to care for his ailing wife Wyona Coykendall who died in 1981. A native of Arlington ., Schuyler graduated from the . Military Academy at West Point n.y., in june 1922. From there he served in a succession of posts first As an artillery officer in the Philippines then in Panama and at several . Military installations including West Point where he taught mathematics. Later he was commissioned As a Brig Adier general and commanded the antiaircraft training Center at Camp Davis , the general is survived by his widow Helen a daughter Shirley Saxby of Pine Hurst , a son Philip . Schuyler of bound Brook  Two stepdaughters Betty Honnen Wear of Glenwood Springs colo., and Jesse Honnen Mccarty of Melbourne Fla. Eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren  
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