European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday August 6,1994 democrats choose Chicago City shrugs off stigma of 68 clashes to land convention by Edward Walsh Washington Post Chicago after a 28-year absence a National political convention will return to this City when the democrats Convene Here during the last week of a gust 1996. The convention contract was signed by democratic National committee chair Man David Wilhelm and Chicago mayor Richard Daley a Democrat at a ceremony in the City thursday. The event ended the City s Long period of rejection that grew out of the 1968 democratic nation Al convention which was marred by Vio Lent clashes Between Chicago police and Vietnam War protesters. Several factors helped Chicago win out Over its rivals san Antonio new Orleans and new York. Its High bid of $32.1 million. Its ample Supply of hotel rooms and other amenities. And its dominance of a Region that will be critical to president Clinton s re election Campaign. Chicago is in the heart of the nation in its location and in its values Wilhelm said. It is the capital of the Midwest and at the Center of the heartland states states that we must win again in 1996 if we Are to be successful in sending our president Back to the White  the gop will choose its site in Jan uary and is considering new Orleans san Antonio and san Diego. New York s re publican mayor Rudolph Giuliani is also making a Strong Case for his City. Thursday s outdoor ceremony took place on Chicago s Navy pier which juts into Lake Michigan and provides a stun Ning View of the City s Skyline. In the Cen democratic National committee chairman David Wilhelm left leaves a news Confer ence in Chicago with the City s mayor Richard Daley after they announced that Chi Cago will be the site of the 1996 democratic National convention. Ter of that View is Grant Park a Long stretch of Lake front Green  the epicentre of the 1968 Battles. Daley s father the late Richard j. Daley was mayor at the time and the event which critics called a police riot has Long been associated with his Iron listed Rule As one of the country s last big City political bosses/4jut the younger Daley who normally bristles at questions about 1968, raised the Issue himself at thursday s ceremony people say we re trying to erase that chapter in our history he said. We practice the 3 r s on your next vacation Cost and on the italian Adriatic s mini Beach a different getaway for 3 or 5 overnights with breakfast or 1/2 board.1994 s Surpris Beach hit with something for everyone now through Columbus Day weekend a different getaway Rimini with its Long wide stretch of Fine White Stancl provides the perfect setting for a vacation with shallow and Calm surf. 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Candidates told to downplay ties to Clinton new York a president Clin ton s pollster has advised democratic candidates seeking re election to run on the strength of their own accomplishments Rathe than on their ties to the president or the party the new York times reported Friday. _ democrats make gains in this race running on their accomplishments and their Agenda to help people at Home Stanley Greenberg wrote in a memorandum the times reported. There is no reason to highlight these As Clinton or democratic proposals. Vot ers want to know that you Are fighting to get things done for them not that you Are advancing some National Agenda the newspaper quotes Greenberg As writing. The memo which the times said was distributed to a few democratic leaders and White House officials a North ago is consistent with presentations Green Berg recently has made to democratic gatherings. A a Meeyung of state democratic chairmen in late june for example " Kreienberg said that crime was the no. I concern of voters but that democrats also needed to pass health care Reform this year to Stem losses in congressional races. J he urged the state chairmen to advise democratic candidates to stress the local Impact of policies adopted by Congress in the past 18 months including lower unemployment and plans for health care re form. But Greenberg a doing so did not mean they had to openly embrace Clin ton. R Man faces penalty in killing of rat from the associated press Hillside no Frank Balun could be looking at six months in jail. And a $2$0 Fine for killing a rat that was eating his Tomato plants. Balun caught the rat in a Squirrel trap in his Garden last week and called the associated humane societies to remove it. But the rat poked its head out and tried to escape he said,1 so he whacked it with a Broom  to find the rat dead a humane society agent cited Balun 69, for killing the animal. Balun must appear in court aug. 24. The Only Issue Here is the Way he killed the rat said Lee Bernstein who runs the humane group s Newark office. It s not the animal. It could have been a  he said the rat should have been ? killed by injection or released into the wild. Angelo Bonano administrator for the City Board of health said the charges Are preposterous. If anything he said the humane society should be giving him a medal for what he  Pup deaths draw Fine Salt Lake City Delta air lines has been ordered to pay fines totalling $140,000 for the suffocation of 32 puppies on a flight four year Sago. The penalty was levied by the department of agriculture for violation of the animal welfare act in june 1990 when Delta transported 108 dogs and cats in 58 kennels from St. Louis to Salt Lake City. The Boeing 747 cargo compartment apparently did t have enough oxygen to keep the animals healthy when the flight was delayed More than two hours because of weather. 2 firms penalized Tucson Ariz. A Copper mining company and a contractor were fined $2.2 million thursday for safety violations the government said led to a Accident that killed four miners. _ the fines $1.5 million against magma Copper co. Of Tucson and $700,000 against Dyna Tec mining corp. Of Salt Lake City were announced in Washington by labor Secretary Robert Reich. In the Accident last Augi 10, four men at a magma mine in Superior 60 Miles East of Phoenix were using explosives to Clear a blockage in a Chute used to move Ore. The Chute collapsed and the men were buried under the rocks. Slayer cleared Doylestown a. District attorney Alan Rubenstein refused to prosecute Frank Lucisano in the slaying of a Man he caught in his shed in Tullytown near Philadelphia. Howard Reid 29, was shot in the leg sunday and died at a Hospital after doctors were unable to Stop the bleeding. After declaring the shooting justifiable homicide Ruber Stein said if you want to deter burglars an occasional shooting May have a wonderful effect. " if homeowners shot a few More burglars it might act As a deterrent to the next Guy thinking about breaking in somewhere police said Lucisano 41, fired when Reid lunged at him during a scuffle. Reid a convicted burglar was not " armed Rubenstein said