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Show NationWorld Sunday, Augus! 23. 1991 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah A: Racial violence: Some wonder why Dinkins makes visit to racial-tor- n Brooklyn NEW YORK (AP) Scmuely Stern and Calvin Coleman stood on opposite sides of Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, separated by 500 police officers, and won- dered why their neighborhood had exploded into violence. "I've seen too much blood in the last few days," said Stern, a Hasidic rabbinical student "From what I see, the black people in our community are suffering as much as the Jewish people. These are their streets, too." "I don't think anything's going to be resolved with a riot," echoed Coleman, 18, a college student who is black. "We have to find some other solution." Their calming voices were lost in a cauldron of hatred last week as blacks battled Jews and police in Crown Heights, a section of Brooklyn with a population of about 300,000. It was once mostly Jewish but is now 80 percent v. AP Laserphoto 'Charlie' want a cracker? from his with a cracker Newberg, Ore., shares Douglas Van Vossayt, an Iranian source says hostage swap possible home Iran (AP) freeing the remaining held Obeid's release has said that Iranian An TEHRAN, source Saturday Lebanese kidnappers could free American hostage Terry Anderson or British church envoy Terry Waite if Israel released a jailed Shiite Muslim cleric. Israel responded it was willing to free Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, but only in a broader swap that includes the Western hostages and seven Israeli servicemen missing in Lebanon. : In Beirut, the office of the highest Shiite Muslim leader in Lebanon said that reports quoting him as saying seven missing Israelis were dead were not accurate. The office of Mohammed Mehdi Shamseddine, the ranking official on the Shiite Supreme Council, said he did not know which of the seven were alive or 'dead, but urged details to be jmade public so the hostage issue jcould be resolved. ; Hopes of hostages believed captive by groups have been raised by intensified talks and the release earlier this month of American hostage Edward Tracy and British journalist John McCarthy. Iran's president, Hashemi on Saturday accused the United States of failing to pressure Israel to make a swap that would include the Western hostages. Israel and its militia ally in pro-Irani- an dos from his in south Lebanon in 1989. been the prime demand of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lebanese kidnappers consider Anderson and Waite to be prize hostages. Israeli Raf-sanja- south Lebanon hold 300400 prisoners whose release is sought by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backe- d Lebanese group believed to be responsible- The Iranian source, close to the negotiations, said the kidnappers would be ready to exchange either Anderson or Waite for Obeid, a Hezbollah spiritual leader abducted by Israeli comman Defense Ministry spokesman Dan Naveh, responding to the Iranian source, said: "All I can say is that Israel is ready to release Lebanese prisoners, including Obeid, in a deal that would include the release of Western hostages and the Israeli MI As and POWs." Israel has said it is willing to make a gesture that could include freeing detainees once it gets solid information on its missing in Lebanon. "In the first stage we want information, but the bottom line is the release of the Israeli soldiers," Naveh said. Sharon: U.S. backing off peace promises ; JERUSALEM - (AP) Housing Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday the United States has backed off assurances Israel sees as the basis for its participation at the proposed Middle East peace conference. : His remarks followed comments by U.S. officials that Secretary of State James A. Baker III would return to Jerusalem in to resume a reThe daily mission. gional peace newspaper Maariv reported Friday that Baker would present Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir With a letter outlining the U.S. er position ; on the proposed Arab-Israe- li peace talks. Sharon, who has repeatedly voiced his opposition to the conference, said Israel had agreed to attend the talks on the condition it received a memoU.S.-back- ed randum of understanding from Ihe United States, outlining past and present agreements with Is-- Repentant thief returns $500 : FOREST CITY, N.C. (AP) - rael. Included in those agreements was a recent U.S. assurance that Israel would not have to accept Palestinians from east Jerusalem and from the Palestine Liberation Organization in any negotiating delegation. "I know from foreign sources that the United States has already given a negative reply and doesn't intend to sign a memorandum of agreement on past agreements and on a list of issues," said Sharon. "This is definitely in conflict with the Israeli government position," Sharon added. "We agreed to go to this very dangerous international conference, one of the conditions being that if the Palestinian delegation, during the negotiations, an- nounced it represented the PLO, then Israel and the United States would leave the talks," Sharon said. "I heard from whom I consider very trustworthy foreign sources, that today the U.S. position is different," Sharon added, saying Shamir had been informed of this change but the Cabinet still had not received such information. "First of all, the United States would not leave in such an instance nor does it see the Palestinian delegation annoucing it represents the PLO as enough reason for Israel to abandon talks," he said the sources told him. Israel sees the PLO as a terrorist organization and fears an Arab representative from east Jerusalem would cast doubt on its sovereignty over the entire city. Palestinians see the PLO as their representative and east Jerusalem as the capital of their would-b- e state. Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Middle East war. hundred & YOURS ) 0EA5LBTO5EE f money order attached. Postmarked Tacoma, Wash., the message was brief and to the jwint: "Dear Sirs: On a night in early 1984 or late 1983, the Forest City Cinema was robbed of approximately $500. I was involved in "this robbery and I am trying to Iput my life in order now. I hope :you will accept this money order ior $500 along with my sincere iapologies." Police Chief Tom McDevitt ;said the robbery occurred in this jtown in western North Carolina ;on Nov. 11, 1983. Someone apparently hid in the theater until it was locked up for the night. ' Receipt of the missing money 'reopens the case, he said. ' "It's mighty nice that they sent !the money back," McDevitt said. '."But if they really want to get '.even, they owe them $11.54 SCHOOL SALE lenses from our clear or visi-tiUltra Collection, get a spare pair FREE! a pair of B & L As lor full details and get a FREE nt OPTI-FRE- Mayor David Dinkins walked through Crown tended to the driver while the boy lay dying. Police say city ambulance crews treated the ultra-Orthodo- x private Jewish ambulance boy. Protesters that ar tice! test leaders. The latest racial hot spot flared just days after tensions calmed in Canarsie, another section of Brooklyn where more than a dozen racial attacks occurred in July and this month. In Crown Heights, Stern and Coleman watched Thursday during a lull in the rioting as 2,000 police officers kept the peace. Stern stood with the Hasidics, Coleman with the blacks. Each was dismayed. "We've always gotten along," protesters, punished," marched and chanted , Heroin seized - U.S. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Customs agents found 40 pounds of heroin in the luggage of two sisters arriving on a flight from Sweden. Authorities said it was a record heroin seizure at Newark Peace!" ultra-Orthod- Now you can save money on child care," but vve think it won't be the only reason Because at your you choose Kinder-CareKinder-Caryou'll find a neighborhood secure, nurturing environment. With KimferHSIs e qualified, local teachers. leaming-through-plaprograms. Call today to arrange your visit. Enroll your -child now and you'll receive $75 International Airport. Judy Merle Corbin, 42, of Atlanta, and Sandra Sue Corbin, 41, of Kansas City, Mo., were ordered held without bail Friday on a charge of unlawful importation of heroin, Customs spokesman Neil Pitagno said. Authorities said they found the drugs Thursday, hidden in a d suitcasefalse-side- No Stern said. "Sometimes I sweep the front of their house, sometimes they sweep the front of our house." The riots started Monday after the third car in a motorcade carrying Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, spiritual leader of the Lubavitcher Jewish sect, careered onto a sidewalk, killing a black child. Blacks said a private Hasidic ambulance treated the Jewish men first while the black child was left pinned underneath the car. "No justice, no peace." The Rev. 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Many mob, 153 people were arrested and 99 police officers and 25 civilians were injured. On Saturday, Dinkins walked the streets, talking with residents and hugging children hours before a protest march he had failed to stop. Off Glasses 50 repentant thief returned $500 he said he stole from a movie theater in 1983, but authorities aren't ready to forgive him. Monday's mail at Cinema IV contained a letter with a $500 ; bottle-throwin- YORK of people took to the streets of a racially torn Brooklyn neighborhood Saturday demanding the arrest of a Hasidic Jew who drove a car that struck and killed a black youth, touching off three days of violence. Heights black. During last week's violence, a Jewish student from Australia was stabbed to death, allegedly by a black teen-age- r, Mayor David Dinkins had to be spirited away from a pet llama "Charlie" during the Oregon State Fair in Salem. NEW undreds Please Save Our Mom! We need your help! 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