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A 4- B-18 Friday, June 14, 1991 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER Young 'incorrigibles' get help in Oakland Panel confirms U.S. judge for N. California HARD MEMORIES OF COLD WAR .4 -Ji' i iM1 p.1"" '''M'iij'ui4wj i miij.ii uiuin jf i-i'hiil'jii) iy) 11 j) Perata was devised by a community psychologist who is convinced it helped turn around most of a group of 40 "hard heads." Dr. Craig Adams wants a chance to expand his efforts throughout East Oakland to help as many as 180 students identified by school and probation officials as "highly at risk." Perata will ask his colleagues next week to approve nearly $200,000 for the program. Adams, director of the East Oakland Community Health Clinic, said that "we try to establish a strong black male role model, something that many of these youngsters have never experienced before.

We work on changing their attitude and behavior by exposing them to huge doses of self-examination, male role-model authority, cultural history, community support and heightened personal and peer expectations. "It's got to be someone caught up in the system to teach them Program to grow with Perata's aid By Don Martinez OF THE EXAMINER STAFF OAKLAND A program intended to turn around "incorrigible" youngsters has won the support of a powerful Alameda County official who thinks it will help curb the growing homicide rate among black youngsters. Authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about the number of youngsters here meeting violent deaths and being arrested as murder suspects. "Youngsters would settle disputes with words or occasional fights, but now I think it is true that they have access to weapons and are using them more," said homicide Lt. Mike Sims.

Of Oakland's 63 homicides this year, four victims and four suspects have been under 18. The program now being embraced by county Supervisor Don By Brigid Schulte STATES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON The Senate on Friday confirmed the appointment of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong as a U.S. District judge for Northern California. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved her nomination without fanfare. Her approval by the full Senate was unanimous.

Armstrong, 44, has been a police officer, an Alameda County deputy I district attorney and has served on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety; Commission. She was appointed a Superior Court judge in 1989 and won election to the job last November. She is a member of the Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the State Court and has lobbied for the National Association of Women Judges and the National Council of Negro Women. "ft Jill refill iLtrJSr; 1 1 3 APHANSJOERQ KRAUSS Pieces of the Berlin Wall arc stored in Panhow, a smash the barrier, which once separated Germany, Berlin district, Thursday.

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The woman, Fatima Ramez Tafia, stayed silent for a moment after the judge read the sentence and then burst into tears. She had to be supported by police as she was taken out of court. She testified that her father-in-law fabricated the story that she had denounced her husband, Wal-id, as a member of the resistance after a marital dispute. The couple and their son had lived with his relatives. The Iraqis targeted military and police officers, especially those believed active in the resistance, for execution.

Tafia said she last saw her husband after a quarrel Sept 18, and Iraqi police told her the next day he was imprisoned. She said her husband was shot Sept 29. Friends of up to 40. On-sUe financing and delivery KUWAIT A young Lebanese mother was sentenced to death Thursday by the martial law court that convicted her of turning in her Kuwaiti husband to the Iraqi military, who executed him on their second wedding anniversary. It was the second death sentence handed down by the court June 15 16 10 am 7 pm 1201 Ortega 19th Avenue Coll (415) 543-1888 for a personal appointment.

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