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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n fed cuts discount rate to 61/2 percent Page 5 q leadership stops failure in its tracks pages 8-9 d bullets mavs Bucks nuggets win in Aba playoffs Page 21 the vol. 45, no. 3 and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces sunday april 20, 1986 ,5c  Ond sunday d 8693 a demonstrations continue against attack on Libya by the associated press anti american demonstrators clashed with police in London saturday at the end of a sit Down protest by 10,000 people out Side the . Embassy As protesters across Europe denounced the . Bombing raids on Libya. More than 10,000 people poured into Rome s streets to denounce the .-Li Byan conflict and about 20,000 people ral lied in five major German cities. See re lated stories photo on pages 2,7 and 28. Demonstrations have drawn tens of thou Sands of people worldwide since the predawn . Air strikes last tuesday on Libya. Presi Dent Reagan said the attack was staged in retaliation for col. Moa mar khad Afy s sup port of International terrorism. We simply wish to Register massive pub Lic disgust at the bombing of Libya said monsignor Bruce Kent vice chairman of the Campaign for nuclear disarmament which organized the London protest. It s no Way to solve the world s problems by state  Britain Canada and Israel have been the Only governments to voice approval of the attack. Police estimated Grosvenor Square was see protests on Page 28 2 libyans seized outside . Club Ankara Turkey a turkish police said saturday they were holding four libyans after two of them were prevented from carrying an explosives filled bag into a . Officers club in Ankara. In Istanbul a bomb was defused saturday outside a Bank with american ties the Interior min ister said. The minister Yildirim Akbulut told re porters the bomb found saturday in Istanbul was at the Entrance of the Koc Ameri can Bank a partnership Between american express co. And Turkey s Koc holding. He said police did not know who had placed the bomb. Akbulut said one of the libyans detained Friday in the apparent attempt to bomb the military club in Ankara is a schoolteacher and the other is a student. He said the suspects were being interrogated to learn if they had accomplices. He refused to give further details saying this would jeopardize the police investigation. . Embassy spokesman David Arnett confirmed reports that . Officials were contacting american citizens in Turkey advising them to stay at Home if possible because of the possibility of bombings. Arnett said a general worldwide threat exists for americans because of the tensions with Libya and Friday s incident shows the threat must be taken seriously. He said turkish or . Officials have no specific information on any other terrorist attempt being planned. The officers club where the two explosives carrying libyans were arrested is in the wealthy Grazios Mannasa residential area of Ankara turkish police chief Saffet Arikan Bezduk said. Police said the bag also held six Gre Nades which were defused. Bezduk declined to identify the four libyans. The two other libyans were taken into custody after preliminary questioning of the first two arrested suspects. The libyan Mission in Ankara put out a press release saying foreign Powers hos see libyans on Page 28 flaming debris from Titan explosion a Titan rocket showers debris Over Van Denberg fab calif., As it explodes seconds after liftoff Friday. No injuries have been reported but a spy satellite is feared lost. Photo was taken by an Oil worker on an offshore Rig. Hundreds reported injured As twister hits Texas town by United press International a Tornado Cut a mile Long path through the West Texas town of Sweetwater sat urday and local officials said about 300 people were injured. The twister levelled houses and knocked Down Telephone and Power lines. Sweetwater officials asked nearby coun ties to Send doctors and ambulances and put hospitals on Alert. They Are begging for doctors and nurses said Janet free an emergency medical technician in Mitchell county West of Sweetwater. All the Contact they be got is through the radio. They Are saying Send everybody we have sent our fire department Bull dozers All ambulance doctors and nurses and they Are still begging for help. They have said they have approximately 300  the Tornado Cut the path of destruction through the downtown area along Alabama Street about 7 30 . Cost hitting a trailer Park Homes and businesses free said. There Are houses Down. They Are taking victims to the Hospital. I Don t know How Many said Karen counts a dispatcher in nearby Fisher county. The Tornado levelled several Homes and heavily damaged a Mobile Home Park said Don King with Knox radio in Sweetwater. Is Toledo Ohio a when science teacher Dave Bourland told his students the nation was switching to metric time with 100-minute hours and 10-Day weeks he thought they would learn a lesson in How to question statements As right or wrong. To his Chagrin none of them challenged him and the school even got Calls from parents asking when metric time would begin. They Don t think Bourland said Fri Day of his ninth Grade science students at Libby High school. That s the biggest thing educators Are fighting  Bourland said he staged the hoax in an attempt to teach students How to use the scientific method of proving a statement wrong or right. If i say one thing you should be Able to prove to me that i m wrong just As i have to prove to you that i am right he said. Under metric time Days would have 10 hours of Daylight minutes would have 100 seconds and the year would be reduced to 10 months he told the class. The numbers on a clock would be re placed by 10s, he said and july and a gust would be dropped from the Calendar. No one asked where that time would go he said. No one actually sat Down with a pen cil and tried to figure it out Bourland said. No one came up with the fact that it would not have worked. They said that some questions had crossed their mind but they did t ask the questions. And i would t have had an  he brought the one week spoof to an end wednesday. They were very positive. They liked it he said. They definitely Learned a great Deal from this. My philosophy is that education As a whole is simply Dull and Boring and 1 try to make my class exciting for my students it s exciting when they learn some thing Bourland said  
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