European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday february 23, 1986 Honduras exercises mask . Buildup Gao says Washington a the general accounting office says the Reagan administration has used an almost continuous series of military exercises in i Honduras to skirt congressional intent and build Large facilities in that key Central american nation. The report by the congressional watchdog Agency was obtained by the associated press Friday from a congressional source who asked to remain Anonymous. It was requested by rep. William Alexander jr., p-ark., and is part of n dispute Between the Reagan administration and Alexander and other critics Over . Policy in Central America. In the  three years the Pentagon has built a wide variety of facilities including airstrips and storage facilities in Honduras As part of exercises that have involved up to 5,000 troops at a time. Honduras Borders Al Salvador where the Reagan administration is helping the government fight leftist rebels and Nicaragua where the administration is backing the Contra rebels against the leftist sandinista government. Administration and Pentagon officials have told con Gress the construction is Only related to the exercises and is not intended to leave behind any permanent military infrastructure. But they also told Congress recently that $45 million will be spent on new facilities there through fiscal 1990. Alexander and other critics say the exercises  Only a Way to get around congressional restrictions on . Mili tary activities in the Region. The Gao said the Pentagon has failed to conform to established procedures set by Congress to limit the . Construction. One of those restrictions was a requirement that the Pentagon report any facilities thai Cost More than $200,000 to build the Gao said the Pentagon had evaded that restriction by separating projects into components and treating each part As a separate unit. In determining what constitutes an inv Bidual project officials have failed to fallow established guidance that clearly interrelated construction activities be treated As part of the same military construction project the Gao said. A Pentagon spokesman said he would not have any immediate comment because he had not finished review ing the report. Fossil facts University of Texas Pale oncologist Wann Langston left and Paul Maccready president of car Overon ment examine some Pterodactyl fossils at a press conference in Las Angeles. Behind them is a radio controlled replica of the prehistoric Pterodactyl known As quetzal callus Northrop. It was used in the film on the Wing which will premiere at the Smithson m institution in june. Dropouts from Boston schools exceeded graduates in 1985 Boston a More Boston Public High school students quit school than were graduated last year offi Cial said. It is obviously the school system s single biggest prob Lem said John Nucci. President of a school committee. In 1985, 3,026 students dropped out and 2,978 were graduated the school department reported. The dropout rate Rose from 11 percent of the student body in 9x2 to 15 percent last year and school officials blamed the increase partly on economic pressures with youngsters As Young As 12 seeking papers to work at mini mum wage jobs in fast food restaurants. More families  being pushed under the poverty line said Yohel Camayd Freixas school department re search director. It puts pressure on poor kids to find  Richard Allen head of the school system s attendance division said the number of teen agers applying for work ing papers has doubled in two years. Our work Load has increased 1,000 percent Allen said. We be had 12-year-Olds ask for work  today show from s. America captured record to audience new York a  s today show attracted the largest audience Ever for a morning news and info rna Tion program when it was broadcast from South America figures from the . Nielsen co. Show. When today spent feb. 10-14 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Buenos Aires Argentina it recorded a 6.9 rating meaning an average of 5.9 million households watched a Given minute of the show s 10 hours. Abc s Good morning America which spent feb. 14 in que Bec was second with a 5.3 rating. The lbs morning news averaged a 3.3. A single ratings Point equals 859,000 Homes with television. The previous record was achieved by Good morning America in january 1982 5.6 million Homes. The today rating fell just Short of its own record rating of 7.1 in 1972, the week president Richard Nixon went to China. Abc had More viewers last week despite a slightly lower rating because the number of Homes with to has increased since 1972. Bald Eagle convalescing after vultures harassed it fort Lauderdale Fla. A a Bald Eagle that was driven to exhaustion by vultures is recuperating and will be set free far from harassing Birds the next time said a wildlife expert. The Eagle had been released into the wild after recovering from organic phosphate poisoning at the Miami Sci ence museum s wildlife veterinary Center said Bryan Malcy of the Center. Picked on by vultures the Bird travelled about 35 Miles from the Loxa Hatchic National wildlife Refuge before it tired and plummeted into a Lake. You could Sec where other Birds were harassing it said Frances Hoffr who lives in Broward county near where the Bird fell. All of a sudden it just dropped in the Hoffr said her granddaughter Jada Oliva 12, saw the Bird drop into a Lake took out a boat and guided the Bird ashore where it rested. They saved the Bird according to Malcy. The Eagle was picked up by the wildlife care Center in fort Lauderdale and was reclaimed by the Miami museum s Center. Quadriplegics Force feeding must continue judge rules los Angeles a a judge on Friday refused to halt the Force feeding of Elizabeth Bouvia the quadriplegic who lost a court Battle 2 a years ago to be allowed to starve herself to death. Bouvia filed suit last month seeking to Force officials at desert Hospital in Lancaster to remove nose to stomach feeding tubes and asking for $10 million in damages. Bouvia who also is afflicted with severe arthritis says she no longer wants to starve herself to death. She says she is willing to take liquid food although she cannot hold Down solids. Hos Pilai officials said she was losing weight and was in danger of dying. Superior court judge Warren a caring said that Bouvia still wants to die and he ruled that to be an insufficient reason to refuse medical treatment. She has voiced this desire to a member of the Hospital staff. She claims however she docs not wish to commit suicide. On the evidence this is but a semantic distinction the judge wrote in an 11 Page opinion. A caring rejected Bolivia s claim that her suit was motivated by a desire to protect her right to privacy which under a stale court of Appeal ruling a patient can exer Cise to refuse medical treatment. _ the Hospital s decision to begin Force feeding was a reasonable medical judgment properly exercised to keep Bouvia from a life threatening situation the judge said. Bolivia s attorney Richard Scott said he would Appeal. He told Bouvia by phone of the ruling and said she responded of my god. That does t make any  she s very disappointed. She feels it s extremely in just and i agree with her Scott said. It seems to be a favourable decision said los Angeles county counsel Daniel Mike sell. It looks like we won this  i