European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes. Sunday May 18, 1986.Princeton to sell Stock in South Africa linked firm Princeton. No. A Princeton University for Llic first time will sell in Stock in 3 company doing Busi Ness in South Africa a Schimil spokesman says after nearly 10 decades of Calls by in cushy and students for divest ment. The Board of indices executive committee voice Friday to sell the University s k.300 so rfcs of common so Csc in the Lorro corp a Cleveland based manufacturer of Industrial specially materials said spokesman Justin a Lurmon. The Slock  j295.0w. " of its total endowment of about $1,9 billion the school has about $306.5 million invested in �7 Compa Nies that to business in racially segregated South Afri Ca he said. Furro was singled out for divestment because Prince inn considers it has a poor tuck record on working toward racial Equality in its South african operations lie solid. Efforts to obtain comment from Furro corp. Were unsuccessful. A Security guard at the company who answered a Telephone Call saturday said no one would be available until monday. Divestment hits been in Issue at the elite Ivy league school since the late 1960s. Last year nearly 100 students and faculty members advocating total divestment or Slock in companies with South african operations were arrested during on on Campus demons Ralian. I think the Board is going to continue to look at All companies at which they have an  said another University spokesman George eager. We be been concerned with the matter for a very Long time and Demon stations Don t have anything to do with  the Board of trustees voted last month to allow the executive commit acc to vote for divestiture if representatives of Furro and another company inter Public group of companies did not make assurances they would increase their commitment to equal Opportunity in South Africa Larmon said. Representatives of inter Public a new Yort based hold ing company comprising a. Number of advertising agencies met with trustees recently and won a postponement on a divestment vote until the full Board meets in june har Mon said. But the executive committee in closed session Friday decided that Furro could nol guarantee improvement in in corporate behaviour in South Africa he said. The two companies were among 24 reviewed by a con Milce of faculty students and administrators for their performance in South Africa. The committee rcom mended immediate action on Furro and inter Public hat Mon said. Ferr Ohad a category of rating according to the Sulli Van principles a voluntary ode of conduct devised in the late 1970s for companies operating in South Africa to ensure racial Equality in the work place. Harmon termed. The category Iii rating unacceptable. Flying reptile makes smashing Public debut Andrews fab my. A the genl Pterodactyl a flying reptile died with the dinosaurs 65 million years Ajjon. It did t fare so Well saturday either trying to male n aim Check in a year of space failures. A one of a kind 44-Pound, radio controlled motorized fur covered replica with is fat Jong fierce flapping wings. 3 heart of Nickel cadmium batteries and a pric tag of $700,000 was making its Public debut. It was Lowed swiftly Down a flight line often used by percs ident Reagan Rose dramatically 600 feet into the morning sky ii flu Impi left to Solo did a couple of agonised turns and headed straight for the ground. A Blue Parachute popped out alas ton Nile. There was not even an  now we know Whit happened to the Dinosaur said an air farce civil once who did i slay around Long enough for his name to a into Boak suf great quotations. Like the failures of the space shuttle and the Titan and Delia rockets earlier in thu year the event took place in front of news cameras. They had been poised to record the modern Day gliding and soaring  Northrop  of a group of flying reptiles termed pterosaurs. The pterosaurs were distantly related to the dinosaurs and the group to which quetzalcoatl us belonged Are known As Pterodactyl. The fossilized Bones of Queliza Kallus were found in the big Bend National Park in West Texas in i972 for the first Public demonstration Here was a Success Ful dress rehearsal with a Dummy Pterodactyl earlier sat urday. Then the air Force decided the 100 or More photographers were too close and moved them Back 500 feet. And Only then did the reptile begin to move. Its free flight was to have lasted two or three minutes. It was about that Many seconds. From Roll out to crash Only 45 be Contos expired. A crowd expected to number up to three quarters of a million later in the Day was at Andrews Tor an air show to Mark armed services Day but probably could see Apo Hoit a motorized Model or a Pterodactyl scuds for a crash uniting after Brief flight at Andrews fab re. Little of Thudin Flop which was at least a half mile away. Paul Mccready who built the Gossamer Condor the first Cavier than air Craft to make a sustained con trolled Light solely by in Pilot s Muscles was commissioned by the smithsonian institution to recreate the  did its thing earlier this year successfully filling Mflwc Cready s instructions that the creature Fly realistically pro Pelling itself by Wing flapping that it be fully controllable in Normal flying conditions and hat it use an electric Power system that would allow a few minutes of powered flight. The reptile loaded with sensors and 13 Muscles connected to a computer is sophisticated by air plane Stan Dards crude by nature s standards he said before the flight. It s a temperamental overweight adolescent actor with draggy hair like he original the replica has no Tail but to get in into the air a drop off rudder had to be affixed. When he rudder and. The Tow line were let go the Pterodactyl did i Swan dive. The head which controls the Yaw scented to deflect in the right turn so it acted like a Speed Brake slowing it Down said Steve Fitch technical manager for the air and space museum. On the ground the replica looked like a headless Turkey the head was severed from the no Csc. Mccready and his Crew said they could put it together again and the smithsonian said in would have an honoured place in the museum. It was the 32nd flight for the strange creature which hat three cuts on each Wing. It had crashed before Only to Rise again. J except  no harm was done Otto sole focus was to make in suitable for the film said professor Wann Langston of the University of ten a who was he project s  adviser. Celebrities take to the podiums on graduation Day by the associated press comedian Bill Cosby wearing a White sweatsuit and jogging shoes under his commencement gown nearly brought the Bouse Down saturday during a speech to u University of South Carolina graduates mixing an offbeat interpretation of the traditional graduation message with his unique Brand of comedy America s no. 1 television comedian electrified almost 3,000 degree candidates and a packed Carolina coliseum crowd of More than 12,000. Their biggest cheers came when he opened his gown to reveal the sweatsuit had Carolina in red jesters across the front. Meanwhile at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa n.c., vice president George Bush old graduates that Freedom hinges on the participation of americans of every Faith in the politics process. Pop Star Paul Simon and jazz pianist Herbie Hancock received honorary degrees saturday from Berkley school of music in Boston and social activist Clara Mother Hale was honoured at Manhattan Ville College in Purchase . All across this great nation people Are graduating and hearing they Are going Forth Cosby said in his speech in Columbia. My concern is whether they know where Forth is. The Road Home is already paved. Forth is not Back Home. We love you and we Are proud of you and we Are not tired of you. But we could get tired of you. Forth could be next door to us but you pay the  taking a Good natured poke at dignitaries at the commencement Cosby told the graduates look at these old faces. These arc your leaders. But look what it s done to  Cosby who received an ovation As soon As he entered the coliseum where he also was u perform saturday night received an honorary doctorate of humane letters As did Alex Haley pulitzer prize winning author of roots University president James Holderman asked Cosby if he had any ideas for next year s commence ment speaker. Cosby broke into a Broad Grin before leaning Over and whispering in Halderman s ear Tom  Bush s Cousin Elizabeth Holden is the wife or War Ren Wilson president Reuben Mph Dan who is retiring after 15 years As president of the Liberal arts College and presbyterian Church affiliate which stresses Community service in addition to regular courses. We Are one nation under god Bush told the 99 graduates. Americans of every communion should actively participate in the political process. The Genius of diversity of non conformity of personal commitment i part of our  the pluralism of faiths ultimately unites us in Toler Ance Antl respect far one another he said. Bush expected to seek the presidency in 1988, also n t bus. Rep Bill Hindon . In Boston Simon told 400 graduating seniors at Berk Lee performance Center thai he had t been in a commencement gown since High school. Thank you for making me nervous again he said doctor of music line musicians have lobe isl we a Hale founder of Hale House a new York City Cen Ter for drug addicted mothers and their child in rc0r county executive Andrew o Rourke a Republican gubernatorial candidate who Gav the key note address called her heroism a Victory Tot the timeless deals of selflessness