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German convicts apprehended after extended chase
HEISTERBERG, Germany — The two fugitives said they just wanted to get somewhere warm — like Spain, or France.
The Associated Press
They gave it their best effort: a bank robbery using policemen as shields, seven hostages, five getaway cars, and a more than 800-mile chase through six German states.
The case was a test for German television, which agreed after a similar drama in August 1988 not to interview kidnappers in the act.
But less than two days later, both were in police custody.
The country's two main television networks and most major newspapers observed the agreement this time even after the outlaws commanded a car from a television cameraman.
Cable TV and tabloid newspaper reporters did, however, take advantage of the cameraman's car phone to conduct interviews as the fugitives sped along the autobahn, pursued by police.
Gerhard Polak, 35, a convicted Swiss extortionist, was found yesterday afternoon hiding in underbrush.
Convicted murderer Raymond Albert, 32, surrendered to police in the same area several hours later after he drew their attention by shooting in the air.
The outlaws escaped from Hamburg's Fuhlsbuettel prison on Oct. 10 by sawing through their cell bars, using an electric cable to lower themselves down to the courtyard, then climbing over the wall with a handmade ladder.
Albert had been sentenced to life in prison for strangling a tavern owner and cutting off the man's head.
THE NEWS in brief
Just blocks from the Castro district, the very center of San Francisco's gay community, Victor Rohana was pinned to a wall with a four-wheel drive vehicle and shot in the chest, apparently because he was holding hands with his boyfriend.
SAN FRANCISCO
Man shot while walking with his companion
Civil rights advocates said the shooting, which left Rohana seriously wounded, was an example of the growing ferocity of attacks on homosexuals.
Police developed a composite sketch of the suspects, young men in their late teens or early 20s, and Mayor Frank Jordan offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.
On Sunday, 24-year-old Rohana and Steven Damron were walking to their car after dining in a neighborhood restaurant. Just after 10 p.m., two men in a white four-wheel drive drove by and velled at them. Damron said.
Rohana said something to the men before turning to catch up with his friend, Damron said. The driver backed up about 100 feet to block their path, jumped the curb onto the sidewalk and pinched Rohana against a wall.
Damron said the passenger stuck a pistol out a window and shot Rohana, who was in satisfactory condition yesterday.
KUWAIT
Air exercise shows all power
Air exercise shows allied power
U. S. warplanes dropped 55,000 pounds of bombs on burned-out Iraqi tanks and other desert targets yesterday in exercises designed to show allied resolve to protect Kuwait.
Two B-52s and a pair of B-1 bombers led more than 100 warplanes in the biggest allied air force exercise in several years. American A-10 Thunderbolt tank-killing jets and British and French combat planes also took part.
Kuwait's defense minister, Sheik Ahmed al-Humoud al-Sabah, applauded as the B-52s dropped 500-pound bombs on simulated targets in Kuwait's northern desert, including burned-out Iraqi tanks left from the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict.
Allied warplanes also buzzed northern Kuwait and the "no-fly zone" over southern Iraq, below the 32nd parallel. No incidents were reported despite Iraqi protests that the exercises were provocative and illegal.
The air exclusion zone in southern Iraq was imposed in August 1992 to help protect Shiite Muslim rebels from the forces of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
WASHINGTON
Man refuses mental evaluation
The man accused of shooting at the White House refused to go on with a cursory prelimental evaluation yesterday after his attorney began filing motions trying to stop it.
Prosecutors suggested that the evaluation would be completed this morning and that it would be available for the scheduled preliminary hearing later today.
Leigh Kenny, the public defender for Francisco Martin Duran, filed an emergency motion to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson asking to delay the exam until after the preliminary hearing. After Robinson denied the motion, Kenny immediately appealed to Chief Judge John Garrett Penn of the U.S. District Court, who also denied it.
At the hearing before Penn, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Faciolci said that a psychiatrist had started to examine Duran but that the 26-year-old defendant refused to go on
`WEST POINT, New York Academy looks to avoid scandal
Moving swiftly to avoid comparisons to the Tallhook scandal, the U.S. Military Academy is investigating five football players who accused of groping 15 female cadets during a pep rally.
Eighteen women in all told investigators they were brushed across the breasts as they and other cadets ran past a cordon of West Point players during the Oct. 20 "spirit run," held two days before the team played The Citadel.
Three of those women said they believed the touching was accidental.
The players' punishment could include a three-month suspension from the team, more than 90 hours of marching punishment, demerits and 90 days' restriction to post.
West Point commanders and the academy's top-ranking female cadet, Deputy Brigade Commander Stephanie Arnold, said the inquiry bears no comparison to the Navy's Tailhook scandal. In that incident, dozens of women were molested by drunken aviators who formed a gantlet in a hotel hallway during a 1991 convention in Las Vegas.
PENSACOLA, Florida
Death penalty foes gain support
The head of the National Organization for Women spoke out against the death penalty yesterday, but would not say if she would go to court to spare the life of a man accused of killing an abortion doctor.
NOW President Patricia Ireland was holding a news conference outside the courthouse where Paul Hill is on trial when a Hill supporter asked her to testify against the former minister's execution.
Hill could face the electric chair if convicted of the July 29 shotgun slayings of Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard outside the Ladies Center in Pensacola.
"Will you take the stand for Paul in arguing against the death penalty?" asked Vincent F. Heuser Jr., an attorney and Hill supporter from Louisville, Ky.
"We have a strong national position in NOW against the death penalty including the application ... to Paul Hill," Ireland said.
MEXICO CITY
I twelve American tourists killed in helicopter
Police duty Sgt. Juan Bautist Huitzii said the helicopter crashed into the sea about three miles from the airport with two crew members and 12 passengers on board.
MEXICO CITY — A helicopter with 14 people on board, mostly American tourists, crashed yesterday afternoon in the Caribbean off the island of Cozumel.
"The passengers were all foreign tourists, Americans," he said.
Rescue crews retrieved 11 bodies "in a relatively short time," he said. "Three from those on board are still missing."
Neither Huitilz nor an airport officer had details on the identities of those on board. The officer, who refused to give his name, said the U.S. Consul in Cozumel, Brian Wilson, was gathering information.
Cozumel; an island off the Yucatán Peninsula, is about 60 miles from Cancun. Both the island and the peninsula are favorite spots for foreign tourists.
Huitzil said the helicopter was rented by Pegaso, a travel agency in Cancun, the capital of Quintana Roo. It was returning from a day-long excursion to the Maya Indian ruins of Chichen Itza, on the mainland.
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