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DETROIT FREE PRESSMONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1988 1 3A 3 are killed, dozens hurt by Israelis- j. .4 i tv- Fistfight in jail hurts Wershe Sr. WERSHE, from Page 3A The fight apparently broke out around noon in a room where prisoners eat. The inmate was being questioned Sunday. Despite Wershe's recent statement that he and his son had been federal drug informants, Mouradian said the fight did not appear to be related to that.

She said the fight could be characterized as a personal dispute that arose suddenly. Other prisoners were in the room at the time but apparently did not try to stop the fight. Those who saw the fight were being questioned Sunday. The other inmate involved in the fight, whom officials would not identify, was placed in a more secure disciplinary ward, Mouradian said. Wershe probably would be moved ISRAEL, from Page 1A Egypt during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Forty-eight deaths at the hands of the army have been reported to the UN since the disturbances began. An army spokesman denied the youth was beaten by soldiers. The disturbances Sunday began after Jewish settlers launched an overnight vandalism attack on Arab-owned cars in Hebron. Other attacks by Jewish vigilante groups were rumored to have occurred around the West Bank. "This is the worst day I have ever seen," said Abdeen, at Mukassad Hospital, where 31 Palestinians were treated Sunday for gunshot wounds, beating injuries and tear gas poisoning.

In addition, 32 Palestinians were hospitalized in Gaza City with beating injuries, hospital officials said. Jewish settlers in the West Bank, apparently angered by stonings and firebombings of Israeli vehicles, drove into Hebron overnight and smashed windows of Arab-owned cars, an army spokesman said. News of the vandalism sparked rumors of other vigilante action Sunday, including a report denied by the army that Jewish settlers had entered two Arab villages near Bethlehem driv Stadium poll results Ir 1 II k' '4i il don surprise 3 1 1 Reuter Sunday following the funeral in Beit Richard Wershe Sr. t. to a different jail ward, Mouradian said, possibly the jail's infirmary.

Wershe convicted last month of possessing more than 17 pounds of cocaine, has been turned over to the. Michigan Department of Corrections and is no longer in the county said. Free Press Staff Writer Kenneth Cockreljr. contributed to this report Managhan's chief aide on stadium sues, said Sunday that the stadium needs extensive steel and concrete replacement. Preliminary estimates in dicate a renovation would cost $45 million to $100 million, he said.

The Tigers have not made public any data detailing those costs. Young and others who favor a new stadium say it makes more sense to start from scratch. Estimates a new stadium would cost at least $200 million. The stadium's physical needs were evident as early as 1970, when the Tigers planned to build a new stadium but opposition foiled the McDevitt said. Repairs done since then have been largely cosmetic.

He said he was not surprised by the poll. "Mr. Monaghan has expressed the same feelings," he said. "I think what we've said is that we're working with the city to determine if remodeling is feasible." But Monaghan also has said won't pay the city more rent than he does now about $1.8 million a year, from a 90-cent surcharge on every ticket. "We have been paying the lion's share of the expenses for the stadium," he said.

The Free Press poll, based on a telephone survey Friday of 300 adults in the tri-county area, found that 65 percent of those questioned preferred to renovate Tiger Stadium, while 24 percent wanted a new stadium. The results of the survey by Market Opinion Research may vary by 5.8 percent from what would have been obtained if all adults in the three counties had been polled. Sparky Stadium, from Page 3A could play if renovation work occurred during the baseball season. Anderson said he doesn't expect the people who will decide the stadium's fate to ask his opinion. Harwell, the Tigers' longtime radio broadcaster, said he was "gratified by the result of the poll." "We'd miss the tradition and the history," he said from Lakeland, Fla.

"I think the playing conditions are ideal, too. The business side seems to be the bugaboo. A lot of people want modern things you can't have in a park like that." Critics say city officials and club owners are more interested in generating profits from elaborate concession stands, private executive boxes, a possible hotel and city-owned parking structures than they are in doing what fans want. Trammell, the Tigers' All-Star shortstop who was home in San Diego on Sunday, said, "We'd all love to stay in Tiger Stadium." But he said he recognizes that might not be possible. "If Tiger Stadium has to come down, then I would vote for grass (playing surface) and no dome," he said, though he said he'd consider a retractable dome if the stadium had grass instead of artificial turf.

Brookens, the Tigers' free agent third baseman, noted that he had heard complaints from visiting teams about their locker room condition. But he added: "I certainly would like to see them preserve Tiger Stadium. It's more interesting because of the history the fact that the Kalines and people from that era and earlier played here." John McDevitt, Tigers owner Tom Ummar for three Palestinians who gas and bullets, officers said. "These hospitals are completely inadequate for the treatment of this kind of trauma. People are stitching wounds without gloves and without anesthesia," said H.

Jack Geiger, a professor at the City University of New York medical center who is in Israel with the Boston-based Physicians For Human Rights. UPI contributed to this report. Burns died last month of a heart attack before he could be sentenced. The 1980 killing of Michigan's Shannon Davis was also featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" last year, but the case remains unsolved. The FBI and state police are still searching for David Davis, who had left Michigan for the Caribbean by the time he was charged in 1981 with murdering his wife on her farm near Hillsdale, to collect $330,000 from life insurance policies.

Since January 1987, about 20 cases have been dramatized. Three, including the two in Michigan, have been solved based on information provided by viewers. Is "Unsolved Mysteries" art imitating life, or entertainment staging the news? A hybrid of both, said NBC vice-president Kick Ludwin, a former Channel 7 producer in Detroit. The show is what Ludwin terms "reality TV." "To have viewers watching the show call authorities, and have two people arrested in a different part of the country, underlines the power of television," he said. ing bulldozers to uproot trees and fences.

The worst unrest occurred in Beit Ummar, 12 miles south of Jerusalem, where dozens of villagers, encouraged by instructions read over a mosque's loudspeakers, blocked the Hebron-Jerusalem road, state-run Israel Radio and the army reported. After rubber bullets and tear gas failed to disperse the crowd, the soldiers used live ammunition to force back the Palestinians, killing three, the radio and army said. A Palestinian, interviewed in his Mukassad Hospital bed where he was Fugitives face charges in slaying FUGITIVES, from Page 1A whom Strickland calls his wife left Waterford Township to make a new start. "We wanted to make a better life," Strickland said Sunday. "I say they're thinking wrong," he said.

"I'm not the type of person and Missy's not the type of person to do something like that," he said. Strickland said he didn't know what day the gas station was robbed and DeBoer killed. When a reporter offered to tell him the date, he said he didn't want to know. Strickland said he and Munday were getting ready to turn themselves in to police when two Moses Lake officers arrived at a house where the couple was visiting friends. "They were hunting for us," he said.

"Why run? You got to turn yourselves in. That's common sense." Munday is being held without bond at the Grant County Youth Home. Their son, Jamie, who is about one year old, is at a baby-sitter's house. Strickland said he and Munday ran away from their home in rural Maryland and moved to Virginia before coming to Michigan. He said, "I got a little boy If me and Melissa get back together, we hope to have a little girl." After seeing the television broadcast, Strickland said he and Munday thought about driving back to Michigan to turn themselves in.

Strickland said they got as far as a motel about 30 miles away and made a few phone calls to friends who advised them to turn themselves in to the Moses Lake authorities. "We don't have any money," he said. "We didn't know what to do. I was scared." A Palestinian youth is dragged away were killed by Israeli troops. recovering from a bullet wound in the shoulder, said residents blocked the village entrance after rumors spread that Jewish settlers were planning an invasion.

At 9 a.m. several carloads of settlers arrived, and "they started to shoot the people from 500 meters away," said the man, who identified himself only as Khaled because he feared reprisals. Melissa Munday He and Munday drove back to Moses Lake and were preparing to leave their child with some friends when police arrived. "I don't have no problems with the police," Strickland said. Strickland said Munday had quit her job at the Waterford Township gas station before DeBoer was killed.

Police said Strickland and Munday drove from Waterford Township to Seattle, and stayed in Seattle for a short period of time before settling in Moses Lake sometime in early June. Munday was a maid at a Moses Lake motel and Strickland worked as a mechanic. The manager of the local mart store, where Strickland worked, is one of about 25 people who called police after seeing Strickland and Munday on television. themselves. That way they're responsible for it." "I'm a senior that's been robbed five times, my insurance and taxes are going up and I can't sell my house because it's in Detroit." "There's one on my street.

I wish I had nerve enough to burn it down." No, 13 Percent "Although I sympathize and understand their motive, what they did is against the law." "What if one of our heroic firemen had gotten hurt in that little display?" "I think if we're going to burn crack houses we ought to burn bars." "There could have been damage to neighboring homes." 1 I 'h i-c-: hi 1 s. i I 1 Jerry Strickland ,,,,.1.11.1.1... II. i I 4f Iowa the think more To To Khaled said the army had promised to protect the villagers from the settlers, but "instead the soldiers started to attack." The army denied settlers were present and said violence began after dozens of Palestinians thronged to the entrance of Beit Ummar throwing stones and chanting. The army chased the Palestinians away from the main road, firing tear TV show is 2 for 3 in Michigan BY DEBORAH KAPLAN Free Press Staff Writer They almost always get their man or woman at least in Michigan.

After their show helped to find fugitives wanted for two Michigan murders, the producers of NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries" are beginning to feel like the electronic arm of the law. "We feel like we're law enforcement's last resort," said Terry Muerer, who with John Cosgrove produces the true-to-life show broadcast four or five times a year. "This country is so big, and their system isn't always the best in communicating state to state." she said. The producers' latest coup: The couple wanted in a May 1987 murder and armed robbery in Waterford Township was arrested Saturday in Moses Lake, after several neighbors watching a reenactment of the killing on "Unsolved Mysteries" Friday night phoned police. Jerry Strickland, 26, and Melissa Munday, 17, told police they had watched the show, and were expecting them.

The couple is charged with murder, armed robbery and fraud in the May 11, 1987, slaying of Elmer DeBoer, a courier who was picking up cash from a gas station in Waterford Township where Munday worked. The show's dramatization last May of a 1970 murder in Washtenaw County led to the arrest last year of John Burns in his isolated mountaintop hideaway in Altoona, Pa. Neighbors tipped off Altoona police. Burns disappeared after killing his estranged girlfriend, Eleanor Farver, with two blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun. Found guilty of second-degree murder by a Washtenaw County jury in early December, the 79-year-old Soundoff is a non-scientific, reader-opinion feature.

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