European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 11, 1985 ., Japan Panama plan study of new Panama canal United nations up Panama the United s pcs and Japan ii sign an agreement to begin a feasibility Mudy fur the construction of .1 new Panama canal that wiil  modern supertanker1, according to . Sources they  the agreement will be signed sept. 25 or 26 by panamanian president Nicolas Ardito Barletta Secre tary of stale George Soult and japanese foreign min ister Shintaro Abe. The three officials will be in new York to address the 40th session of the . General Assembly. The sources said the three governments arc working out details of the agreement to Start the study which is expected Locksl about $20 million. They said the new canal to run parallel to the present waterway built 70 years ago. Would Cost $20 billion and would be wider and deeper without the locks that make the present passage Long and cumbersome. Judge orders probationers to work on battleship Texas Houston Texas up a judge has sentenced peo ple convicted of non violent crimes to spend part of their probation helping restore the rusting battleship Texas. State District judge Ted Poe said the probationers will be required to work 20 hours a month on the vessel and the adjacent Park until the battleship is in Good shape. He said the project is in Observance of the Texas sesquicentennial next year. La is important thai we restore this Symbol of Texas Freedom Poe said. It is Only fitting that those who have benefited from our Freedom pay their debt by restoring this landmark. We should Honor our heritage by keeping this ship in a state of Good repair and remember that texans fought and died to give us  former Boston editor to get University of Arizona award Tucson Ariz. A Thomas Winship former Edi Tor of the Boston Globe will receive the University of Arizona s 31st John Peter Zenger award at the Arizona newspapers association convention next month it has been announced. Winship. 65, now president of the Center for foreign journalists in Revlon a. Was chosen Tor the Honor by 300 publishers and editors across the country from a list of nominees compiled by former winners of the award. Philip Mangelsdorf head of the a journalism depart ment said the award is Given to individuals who have been outstanding in the fight for the people s right to  Texas congressman defends use of rent free apartment fort Worth Texas up Jim Wright the democratic Leader of the  House lives rent free in an apartment in his Home District but he says the arrange ment does not violate congressional ethics standards the fort Worth Star Telegram reported. When they return to Texas. Wright and his wife live in a two Story apartment where they pay no monthly rent the paper said. They do pay maintenance and Utility fees. Wright could not be reached for comment sunday but the newspaper quoted him saying the arrangement does not violate ethics standards. It is not a gift he said. The apartment is owned by the family of a Developer who. Along with Wright owns a diversified company. Wright s wife is a company vice president. Cabbage Patch Art artist Andy Warhol looks Little bewildered u he poses with two cabbage Patch dolls and an array of paintings in new York City. Warhol was commissioned by Atlanta based Schlaifer Nance and co. To do the paintings the firm is responsible for the exclusive worldwide licensing of cabbage Patch dolls. New Jersey Law mandates $ 18,500 a ear for be Alfiers Trenton . A gov. Thomas can has signed legislation guaranteeing new Jersey teachers $18.500 a year a salary that the National education association says is the nation s highest state mandated mini mum pay for teachers. The Bill endorsed by the Assembly last week and passed monday 32-3 by the Senate would raise average starting salaries by $3,500 a year and give raises retroactive to sept. 1 to 14,000 teachers who now make less than the minimum. Kean said the measure would get the Best and the brightest to teach our  new Jersey education association spokeswoman Kathy Gallaher said the Bill says to teachers that the state society and the Public at Large recognize that the profession s pay has to go  no one Ever expects to be Rich As a teacher but they do expect to have a liable income she said. Howard Carroll of Nea s office in Washington d.c., said that although other states set minimum pay Levels for teachers he knew of no state that matched or exceeded new Jersey s new level. California in 1983 passed legislation to raise the mini mum pay there to $18,000 Over three years he said. New Jersey teachers last year were the 12th highest paid in the nation earning an average paycheck of $25,125. Alaska teachers were highest paid at $39.751, while Mississippi had the lowest average salary at $15,971, according to the Nea. This is the right track Carroll said. It s the right Road to fulfil the Public s demand to attract and Mantai Quality  the new Law replaces an earlier requirement that new Jersey teachers be paid at least $4,700 annually said Gallaher. There Are 94,000 teachers in the state. The new Jersey school boards association issued a statement monday warning that the Bill would unleash i Ripple effect among experienced teachers. Teachers with five or 10 years of experience will not be Content to earn the same As beginning teachers the association said. Fri using improved blood analysis technique Chicago up the Fri is using a new technique that can separate the inno cent from the guilty with a single drop of blood an Fri chemist said monday. The technique called is electric focus ing is a marked improvement Over the blood analyses used by the Agency s forensic scientists for the past 15 years said Bruce Budowle a research chemist at the Fri Academy at Quantico a. We can make five to 10 analyses on a single drop of blood and find at least three genetically determined markers that absolve the innocent and Point to the guilty. Budowle said in a paper delivered at the american chemical society s 190th nation Al meeting in Chicago. The three markers Are variations of enzymes and other proteins found in human blood. Is electric focusing a modification of a Laboratory process called electrophoresis in which electric Fields arc used to Sepa rate substances allows scientists to concen trate the substances and identify them More efficiently than other methods Budow Esaid. Each of the markers is somewhat uncommon so they can be used singularly or to Gether to help pinpoint a suspect. Because of the multiplying effect each Marker dramatically Narrows the held of suspects he said adding that Only one in 600 people has All three markers. No one is Likely to be convicted by blood evidence alone Budowle acknowledged. But he said that when a jury is told that the suspect has All three markers and Only one in 600 people has them All and he was at the scene of the crime your Case against him is  Budowle said he is working on isolating three More markers two of which May be used in cases As Early asm it year. The new technique has already been proven More effective in the Field according to special agon James Kearney. We be been Able to increase our capabilities about 20 percent Over old blood anal Ysis method he said. Kearney the chief of serology at the Vir Mia Academy Aid the main advantage of be Ules 23 s Mallur Samp be used and the Resolution Power is greater than with old methods. The new process also is up to 10 time faster which is valuable since the Fri us blood analysis in about 75 percent of it cases Kearney said. Although serological evidence is admissible in court the technique is primarily used to exclude suspects he said. Generally a person is not charged if his blood marked do not match crime evidence. Kearney said he does not know How much the two new markers will increase the Power of the tests but he said it is unlikely that a blood test will Ever be developed to positively identify a guilty party. Seldom do you have a blood stain that will give Yon that much information he said