European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 3, 1986 m ing to shake free a Humpback whale partially entangled in a fishing net off the coast of Gloucester mass., splashes its tall in a mighty Effort to shake off ropes impeding its Progress. Fishermen who had wrapped a net around the whale s body but could t capture it put out an Alert for the huge mammal which could be in danger of starving. Chicago s roman Catholic women urge Church to eliminate sexism Chicago a roman Catholic women Are urging Church leaders to confront sexism and patriarchy and affirm women is equals according to an archdiocese report requested by u 5. Bishops drafting a pastoral letter on women. The More than 5,000 Chicago area women whose views make up the report reached no consensus on the sensitive Issue of women in the Priesthood but agreed they Don t want to be valued simply because they Wash the altar linens Well archdiocese spokeswoman sister Joy Clough said thursday. The report was compiled at the request of a Bishops committee which asked All . Dioceses to question women for its pastoral letter on women in the Church and society Clough said. About one third of the Chicago respondents Are very angry and would identify the Church As the chief oppressor of women she said adding an equal number reported they had never Felt oppression in the  the report also cited Calls for re examination of teach Ings regarding sin and attitudes toward the body sex and sexual pleasures and greater balance in the Church s Posi Tion on abortion birth control and divorce. Respondents agreed they want to be accepted As per sons appreciated for their contributions and permitted to expand their sphere of influence for the Good of the ," it said. The 500-Page document also said women s opportunities for vocational commitment should be expanded and clarified and it called for continuing opportunities for Dia Logue Between women and the  where anger was expressed that expression was grounded in the sense of concern and Hope the report said. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago referred to the re port in Friday s column of the Chicago Catholic newspaper. We must strive to eliminate sexism from the Church and society he said. We need to bring More women into the mainstream of the Church s life and  the report failed to change Bernardin s opposition to women priests and he believes attention should be shifted from that Issue to bringing women More into leadership roles in the Church such As administrative posts at the diocesan level Clough said. While being faithful to the Church s teaching Ber Nardin wrote we must also be sensitive to the experience feelings and positions of those who have difficulty with the Church s position or find it inadequate to their situation. Needless to say this dilemma causes tension which must not prevent Progress in other significant human family and leadership areas the Chicago report compiled by the archdiocesan women s steering committee was based on questions from the Bishops committee which were Given to the 5,200 women in the archdiocese last fall As Well As formal Testi Mony from women s organizations Clough said. A copy of the report has been sent to Bishop Joseph Imesch of Joliet chairman of the . Bishops committee she said. Completion of the pastoral letter is not expected for at least two years. Stateside once again a Honda drop urges buying of . Products Milwaukee up with a few Nicks of a lever Dob Bubba Troulman released the while Honda car from his Crane and sent it hurtling onto five japanese made motorcycles. It was the High Point of Troutman s second annual Honda drop to urge americans to buy Domestic products. Minutes earlier he had dropped the cycles one by one at a parking lot to the cheers of a crowd of about 2,000. A Man dressed As Uncle Sam strode out of a while Cadillac limousine and gave out american flags to the crowd. Then he danced a Jig on the roof of the Honda and kicked in its Windshield. Americans should Lake Stock in America said Trout Man manager of Bubba s bar on the City s Northwest ride. Trout an experienced Crane operator said imported goods have caused Many local manufacturing plants to lose business and Lay off workers. Longest running musical to close after 10,864 performances new York a the Fant Sticks the world s longest running musical will close june 8 after 10,864 performances its producer lore Noto has said. I Felt the show had to close eventually and there s no easy Way to do it. Rut we arc going out proud and Happy said the 62-year-old Noto who added that he wanted to go on to other things. There must be something else i can  the off Broadway musical which opened May 3, 1960, Cost si6,500 to produce at the 153-scat Sullivan Street playhouse. Since then the show has paid its backers an 8,242 percent return on their investment. As of Jan. I 1986, there have been 8,913 productions of the musical in the United states alone including Amateur productions and 472 productions in 67 foreign countries. Infant mortality rates in . Declined Over last 20 years Atlanta a infant mortality rates in the United states have fallen in the past two decades but Black infants still die at twice the rate of Whites according to a new Federal government study. The mortality rate for Black infants under age i is 18.4 deaths per 1,000 live births nearly twice the 9.3 rate among White babies according to a National centers for disease control study of Singleton infants not multiple births in the 50 states District of Columbia and puerto Rico in 1980. Black infants continue to suffer. Mortal Ity rates approximately twice As High As those for White infants the cd said. Astronomer ufos expert Dies at 75 in Phoenix Hospital Phoenix Ariz. A j. Allen Hynick a leading authority on unidentified flying objects and former director of the air Force s project Blue Book that investigated ufos has died at age 75, Hynick a professor of astronomy who died at Scottsdale memorial Hospital directed project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969. He eventually became disenchanted with the air Force s approach to the study contending the service was not conducting a scientific Experiment. The air Force concluded there was no evidence of extraterrestrial Craft. In a 1974 interview Hynick said he stayed with the program so he would have Access to the air Force data and to avoid being marked a ufos  he founded the Center for ufos studies in Evanston iii., in 1973, and moved to Scottsdale a year ago bringing the Center with him. Hynick coined the phrase close encounters of the third kind in his 1972 Book the ufos  the phrase meaning experiences in which alien beings were encountered became the title of the 1977 Steven Spiel Berg movie. Acc studies proposal for wireless computer system Washington a users of per Sonal computers and desk top terminals could communicate via radio eliminating the wires that must now Hook one terminal to another or to a Central processing unit under a proposal put out for comment thursday by a Federal Agency. Such a plan would allow immediate relocation of a computer terminal within an office without an expensive re wiring process. The system was proposed to the Federal communications commission by Motorola inc. It would permit shared use of a Section of the radio frequencies now set aside for signals from weather satellites and certain government radio communications. Users of wireless computer terminals would have to turn their systems off and reconnect them to wires if they caused interference to primary government radio or meteorological users. However since the computer signals would be transmitted at one tenth of one Watt a very Low level acc engineers Esti mated the signal could carry a usable trans Mission about 500 feet. Individual transmitters on the same fre Quency would have to be about 2,000 feet from each other to avoid interference according to the acc s acting chief scientist Thomas Stanley. Since the data would be transmitted Over the air it could be intercepted by someone with the proper equipment. However the computer information could be coded so others could t understand it. Commissioner Mimi Weyforth Dawson said the wireless computer technology holds a very exciting  the commission estimated it costs a Busi Ness si.000 to $1,500 to move a computer terminal from one spot to another in an office if it is necessary to reroute wires and cables