The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 6, 1980-Page 9 Racial flareuip occurs in Key West KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - A racial flareup that left seven people injured on this casual resort island simmered down in the pre-dawn hours yesterday and local leaders said it was "nothing likea riot." "When you look at the harmony this island has had for years, you know it's nothing to worry about," said Tony Tarracino, proprietor of Capt. Tony's Saloon and a leading social observer in this city of 35,000. "This isn't Liberty City." MIAMI'S LIBERTY City area was the focal point of rioting in May that left 18 people dead and more disturbances last month, while Tampa, on Florida's Gulf Coast, and Orlando, in Central Florida, have been disrupted by subsequent racial problems. Five people received hospital treatment after four hours of sporadic disturbances that began here late yesterday. The trouble began when a black man was assaulted by three whites in a downtown bar. Blacks grew angry when the whites weren't arrested. After a hastily called meeting of civic leaders. police began divertirg traffic from the city's two bar- lined main streets. Extra officers were called out, but only one person was arrested, Audrey Thompson of Key West. POLICE CHARGED her with aggravated battery after Kenneth Lopez, 30, of Tampa, was struck in the head by a rock. Only one incident of gunfire was reported. Police said a group of black males attacked William Perkins with a piece of wood as he stepped out of his home. Perkins ran into the house for a revolver, then fired a shot at the fleeing youths, police said. No one was hit by the shot, and Perkins was treated and released for superficial wounds. POLICE DETECTIVE Capt. Raymond Casamayor said, "It wasn't an organized thing. It was because of what happened earlier at the bar." The extra police officers started going home at 4 a.m. "Things just calmed themselves down," Casamayor said. Riots disrupt placid refugee center FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. (AP) - Two Cubans were critically'injured and about a dozen military police suf- fered minor injuries yesterday when more than 300 refugees stormed barricades and threw rocks and bottles in an "out-of-control riot," a refugee center spokesman said. One of the Cubans was hurt when he allegedly crashed an Army jeep, of- ficials said. They did not know how the second Cuban was hurt, but said both AP Photo were in critical condition at the Her- shey Medical Center. throw an BY 9 P.M., Army troops had gotten ssing the all of the Cubans back to their normal Brown of living areas, officials said. The riot, which erupted at 5 p.m., was the third, and biggest, of the day. Art Brill of the federal Cuban-Haitian task force said about 200 National Guardsmen joined the 900 U.S. Army personnel already stationed at the en- ter, which houses about 6,000 refugees. AUTOMATIC RIFLES were passed e s out to the troops, but cmp officials sid L they did not know immediately if the rifles were loaded. The Cubans who leaped the rope and ling, and the wooden barricades came from the s not legally single-male area, and numbered bet- in on the day ween 300 and 500, officials said. Earlier in the day, smaller groups of used" in the refugees in the camp's family area nan who suf- staged two rock-throwing melees after ile left alone federal guards took three Cubans into aunton State custody in two separate incidents. "And "staff AFTER THE third riot broke out, nd emergen- Brill said, "We don't know what the also were problem is. It could be the heat of the moment. We don't know the reason but r-old woman it is out of control." Metropolitan Brill said security officials will try to t, the report weed out the troublemakers today and ence was isolate them from the rest of the camp. e did not in- Earlier, Rep. Allen Ertel (R-Pa.), onths, and said White House officials had told him t. that 500 more Army personnel will be teeth, appar- sent to the center by Thursday as rtem, were backups to the 900 now there. r her disap- Ertel, whose district includes Fort n of a male Indiantown Gap, has been severely n is still critical of security at the center. He came to the center for a briefing. Iunny side down A man who identified himself as Jose Calderon of Greeley, Colo. is held back by two men while attempting to egg at independent presidential candidate John Anderson. The incident occurred while Anderson was addre National Governors' Conference in Denver yesterday. Governors Robert Ray of Iowa (left) and Edmund B California are looking on. Mass. Senate uncovers deat s in ealth faciiti BOSTON (AP) - An investigation of public mental facilities in Massachusetts disclosed more than 20 "unexplained" deaths, widespread violations of law and major deficiencies in patient care, a state Senate panel reported yesterday. The list of dead over the past three years included a patient found tied to a tree and burned to death, another found dead after being tied face down on a bed in an unventilated room and a woman who disappeared without a trace except for seven teeth found in the possession of another patient. FORTY "UNEXPECTED" deaths were listed in the preliminary report of the Special Committee to Investigate Seclusion, Restraint and Deaths in State Supported Facilities. Many were suicides or apparently resulted from natural causes. But Sen. Jack Backman, committee chairman, told reporters more than 20 deaths were "unexplained" and that none were "appropriately in- vestigated" by the Mental Health Department or other state agencies. Backman did not give a specific num- ber of unexplained deaths. He said the department has no cen- tral registry for deaths, and the list was compiled from reports by friends of the patients, family, undertakers, hospital workers and department staffers. FOUR CASES, including three con- firmed deaths and one disappearance, were reported in detail in the study. released yesterday. Patients' names were not included. In the case of a 30-year-old man who died at the Solomon Mental Health Cen- ter in Lowell on Aug. 24, 1979: "For the four hours prior to his death, the patient had been tied by his hands and feet face down in an unventilated room. During this period he probably was not checked every 15 minutes as required by DMH regulations. THE CAUSE of death was listed as fluid in the lungs and swel report said the patient wa committed to the institutio of his death. "Drugs had been overs case of a 22-year-old wom focated last September Wh in a chair restraint at T Hospital, the report said. monitoring of the patient a cy medical treatment inadequate." _ In the case of a 36-yeas who disappeared from A State Hospital last Augus said, "possible evid destroyed; the state polic vestigate for two m necessary records were los "Seven of the woman'sI ently extracted post-mo found three months afte pearance in the possessio patient ... The womai missing."