European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 3, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 rings in the new year with death by the Washington Post Washington gunfire rang in the new year As the Washington area s string of killings continued from the final moments of 1993 into the Early hours of 1994. Michael d. Williams 37, became the District of Columbia s final homicide Vic Tim of 1993 when he was pronounced dead at 11 58 . Friday less than 20 minutes after police found him unconscious at a House in the Brightwood neighbourhood near the City s Northern Edge. Police said he had been shot sever Al times. A minute after Midnight saturday officials said police officers on routine patrol heard gunshots in a parking lot at the front of a Row of three Story apartments in the Washington Highlands neighbor Hood at the City s South end. Police said that when they arrived to investigate a Man pointed a gun at them and an offi cer fatally shot him. The Man has not yet . Homicides inched Down in 93 by the new York times new York even As Public outcry Over violent crime grew reported homicides in new York City declined slightly in 1993, continuing attend police officials said saturday. They attributed the drop to factors including the increase in police officers and efforts at Community policing., preliminary figures released by the police department show that 1,995 homicides were recorded last year 12 fewer than figures provided at the end of 1992. Police officials stressed that the Fig ures were preliminary and that some homicides Are Likely to be reclassified As they Are investigated. The initial police count of 2,007 homicides in 1992, for example was adjusted to 1,995 in the department s official count provided to the Federal Bureau of investigation. The Fri tally for new York City in 1991 was 2,154 homicides. Been identified. Several residents at the apartment Complex said gunfire was rampant around Midnight As people fired shots into the air to celebrate the new year. In All five people were killed and two seriously wounded in the Washington area in a four hour period after 10 . Friday. In addition to the two District shooting deaths a Gas station clerk was shot to death in Southern Fairfax county a. A woman was stabbed to death in a House in the Shaw neighbourhood of Washington a 29-year-old Man was fatally stabbed in the upper Brookeville neighbourhood of Montgomery county my. And two District men were shot and wounded while walking in Petworth. Th6 District ended the year with 467 homicides the third highest annual toll behind the record setting year of 1991, which ended with 489 killings. An annual homicide record was set in Montgomery county and Baltimore Dur ing 1993. With 354 slayings Baltimore topped its previous High of 335 killings set last year. During the first six months of 1993, Balti More s per capita homicide rate was so High that the Fri ranked it As the fifth deadliest municipality in the United states. New Orleans led the nation in per capita killings for the first half of the year followed by Washington St. Louis and Detroit. Montgomery county had a total of 30 homicides last year nine More than 1992 and one More than the 29 killings in 1991 that set the county s earlier record. Naftal Era starts at mexican . Border Brownsville Texas a Francisco Gamez was t celebrating Mexico s launch into a new Era of free Trade with its Northern neighbors sat urday As he waited to get his three crates of tomatoes across the expects big vegetable producers and trucking outfits to push Small vendors like himself out of Busi Ness As the North american free Trade agreement erases economic barriers Between Mexico Canada and the United states. I think they Are going to take the whole Market he said on the Day Naftal took effect. In the heated rhetoric of the free Trade debate Naftal foe Ross Perot warned of a giant sucking sound of . Jobs going to Mexico. Naftal supporters countered with predictions of a giant trucking sound the Roar of . Products being transported into Mexico s growing reality there was Only silence at the . Customs parking lot in Brownsville on new year s Day a National Holiday in All three countries. But the Day marked an immediate end to tariffs on about half of Ameri can exports to Mexico. Half of mexi can imports already entered the United states duty free before Naftal and the treaty steadily wipes out nearly All tariffs Over the next 15 years. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari s policy of opening Mexico s Long protected Economy already has fuelled rapid growth in Commerce across the Rio have seen a 10 to 15 percent increase Over the last five years and anticipate it will continue at about that Pace under Naftal said Ernest Tejenna chief inspector for the . Customs service at Gateway International Bridge which links Brownsville to Matamoros leaders do not anticipate a sudden jump in Cross Border activity in the first weeks of the treaty. I think it will Start picking up to Ward the end of 1994 and 1995," said Frank Parker president of Parker and co. Customs brokers in Brownsville. The Gateway International Bridge linking Brownsville Texas with mat Amoros Mexico was Calm saturday the Day Naftal took effect. Gamez who carries produce by Van to Small Brownsville markets a few times a week hauled one of Only a few commercial loads to Cross the Borde saturday Between Brownsville and Matamoros. His Load of Tom Tillos Small Green tomatoes used for Salsa was taxed at 3.3 cents per kilo or 2.2 pounds be cause . Tomato producers managed to win 10 years of Protection during the treaty s phase in period. Gamez who lives in Matamoros said his suppliers family farms and cooperatives from the Central mexican state of san Luis Potosi also Are worried about increased Competition with Naftal. There Are already bigger producers and they can operate More cheaply he said in Spanish. He s not the Only one who believes free Trade will Hurt people along the Border. I see nothing but Good out of Naftal for Texas and for the United states in the Long run but i Don t see anything really Good for the Border said Jim Giermanski director of the International Trade department a Texas am International University at Laredo. I infected firefighter May g i be Mouth to Mouth judge says by the Washington Post Washington the District of Columbia fire department must allow a firefighter to perform Mouth to Mouth resuscitation even though he is a Carriero the infectious disease hepatitis a a Federal judge has ruled. In an opinion that has enraged the District s top Public health officer . District judge Joyce hens Green ruled that under Federal disabilities Law the fire department discriminated against the33-year-old firefighter by forbidding him to perform that part of his Job. Green said in the opinion that the fire fighter identified in court Only As Rich Ard Roe does not pose any direct threat or significant risk of transmitting hepatitis b while on the Job. The judge noted there Are no reported cases in which the virus was conveyed through Mouth to Mouth Contact. But Washington Public health com missioner Mohammad n. Akhter called the order outrageous contending that it goes against the Robert r. Bass medical director of the . Emergency ambulance Bureau said we Are in a struggle Between the Public health and individual rights. You Start getting into a balancing act. How theoretical a risk is it hepatitis b is the fourth most common sexually transmitted disease after Gonor Rhea syphilis and aids. The virus causes flu like symptoms at first but can be fatal because it sometimes results in liver can cer or liver failure. One Hundred times More contagious than the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids hepatitis b infects 300,000 people and causes about 7,000 deaths annually in the United states according to the Federal centers for Dis ease control and prevention in Atlanta. The firefighter is among the 5 percent to 10 percent of adults with hepatitis b who become chronic carriers. Such carriers May not have symptoms but can give the virus to others. Loudon t have to break the ban Topay Force allege Check out a Steep scholarship from City colleges of Chicago City colleges of Chicago continues the annual scholarship training education enlightenment program Steep As a Means of perpetuating the memory of educational services officers who died while providing educational services to the United states military forces in Europe. Steep is design to Reward academic achievement. 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