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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Osborne scores big in Nebraska Lincoln neb. A the coach of he big red has outscored the state s political bigwig in a poll about the big Green. Most nebraskans questioned for the Lincoln Star newspaper said the governor is underpaid but should t make As much Money As Tom Osborne coach of the popular univer sity of Nebraska football team. Of 449 people questioned 70 per cent said the governor should make More than the current $40,000 year but Only 3 percent said the governor should be paid More than $80,000, while 37 percent said Osborne should be paid More than$80,000. Before responding those polled were told How much the governor and Osborne arc paid Osborne makes $83,600 a year. The legislature is considering raising the salary of the governor to $80,000 annually with gradual in creases Over a four year period. But gov. Bob Kerrey was t a big loser in research associates of Lin Coln s poll he s not running for re election. Sources say Pentagon plans extensive Honduras exercises by Norman Black a military writer Washington the unite states is about to launch a series of Large scale military exercises in Honduras including an engineering project to carve out a new Airstrip near the Nicara Gua Border. Pentagon sources said tuesday. The sources who agreed to discuss the matter Only if they were not named said the exercises will begin Sunn and be con ducted in stages Over several months. One exercise will involve the construction of a dirt Airstrip in Honduras Gra Cias a Dios province probably near the Village of Mocoron that will be capable of handling c-130 transports one source said. The strip will be in Eastern Honduras not far from the Caribbean coast and just North of the Coco River that forms the Boundary with Nicaragua the source Haiti. The United states has constructed several dirt airfields inside Honduras in recent years but Only one of them us Jam Astran in Central Honduras is so close to Nicaragua the sources added. A much larger deployment will Mark the resumption of the big Pine exercises that have been conducted Over the past three years the sources said. That . Schools to begin a year round schedule previously closed schools place portable classrooms on some campuses and alter integration ratios to allow More students to attend minority dominated schools. Following the vote scores of angry parents stalked out shouting recall  after 12 years of steady decline the population in the school District began soaring in 1981, and based on county birthrate statistics it shows no sign of leveling off soon. The school Board found itself scrambling to find classrooms for the new students Many of whom Are illegal immigrants. More than half of the District is hispanic. Most of the overcrowding problem is concentrated in the heavily hispanic Central and Southern portion of the District where 93 schools already operate year round. Under the year round plan students would not attend school All year. Thousands of them would be on some Type of staggered vacations at All times. Among the alternatives voted Down was a plan to stagger classes from 7 . To 5 . Los Angeles up faced with an expected increase of 82,000 students in the next five years and following months of bitter debate the nation s second largest school District has decided to hold classes year round to relieve overcrowding. The Board of education voted 5-2 Mon Day night to begin phasing in the year round schedule in the 1987-88 school year despite overwhelming Community opposition at months of Public hearings. We arc about to enter As Best As i can describe it a dark period for the District said Board member David Armor who opposed the scheduling plan. Board member Alan Gurshman said the plan was the Only acceptable solution. We re Down to it he said. We All know this to be a distasteful Choice but i see no other  enrolment in los Angeles hit the Satu ration Point this year at 579,000. In addition to choosing a year round Calendar the Board also voted to reopen some Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1946 the French Cabinet decided to close the French Spanish Frontier to All traffic and to renew pressure on the United states and great Britain to join France in a Complete break of relations with the government of Francisco Franco. 30 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1956 storm battered Europe dug out of a disastrous four week cold spell and estimated the economic loss at around $2 billion according to London press reports. 20 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1966 Nasa officials announced at Cape Kennedy fla., that the most powerful rocket Ever launched by the United states a Saturn in hurled an unmanned Apollo Moo ship Over a re entry course and the Craft was recovered after parachuting into the sea. 10 years ago today. Feb. 27, 1976 soviet officials have privately admitted that microwaves have been beamed at the . Embassy in Moscow but said the action was necessary to Jam Ameri can listening devices on the roof of the building. Exercise is to get under Way next month. Military units from the United states will enter Honduras us the Palmerola Airfield in the Central Region but will probably Branch out into other sections of the country for Field training and a Nevers according to the sources. One said the exercise will1 probably include jumps by paratroopers assigned to the 82nd airborne div at fort Bragg . Joint task Force Bravo the military unit that oversees . Military activities inside Honduras is based at Palmerola. The sources declined to say How Many  will be involved or How Large the . Presence might be at any one time. During previous exercises the United slates has brought units in and out of Honduras Over a period of months. The sources also declined comment on whether the Pentagon is planning any naval exercises to accompany the ground Maneu vers. The defense department announced last week that the battleship Iowa would be steaming off both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Central America this month but gave no Indica Tion How Long the warship would remain in the Vicinity. Robert Sims the Pentagon s chief spokesman confirmed tuesday that plans were being drawn up for additional exercises but said he could nut discuss them. I Don t have the full detail but i expect to have them later this week Sims said. I Don t have anything today. When we can gel everything together Well let you  asked then if the new exercises would resemble last year s big Pine  he replied you mean on a scale of 4.000 to 5,000 troops in groups of 400. 500, 600 at a Lime Over a lengthy period of time that s what you might look for the Reagan administration has been conducting military exercises of varying inside Honduras almost continuously Over the past four years As a warning to the leftist sandinista government of Nicaragua. The United Stales has also been supporting the Contra guerrillas who arc fighting the sandinista govern ment from bases along the Honduras Border. Most of the biggest . Exercises have been conducted in the Spring and summer most recently the big Pine Iii a Nevers that began in february 1985 and stretched through Early May. Those a Nevers also included construction of Din airstrips and the first Ever exercise involving tanks and armoured vehicles. They did t mean her up photo seven year old Galvani Stinson Waits behind a barred Fence for her sister to return from a shopping rip at a co Lumbia s.c., grocery store. Despite the stiff warning against loitering no body prosecuted Ibe Little girl  
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