European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars an d stripes thursday december 4,1986page 4 the and ,uo�iT.-. Official says Presser was informant _. ,-._, _. A= officials seek cause of cracks in Vietnam memorial Washington a two panels of the Vietnam veterans memorial were removed for inspection wednesday to determine Llic cause of hairline cracks Ihal have appeared Over the past two years. Samples of the memorial s Concrete retaining Wall and polished Black Granite panels will be examined microscopically said Jan Scruggs president of the Viet Nam veterans memorial  Are 24 cracks on 4 of the 140 panels that form the memorial. The Lin cracks varying in length from four to eight inches Are almost imperceptible tothe naked Eye. They were first noticed in october 1984.visitors to the memorial will be routed around the two panels 5 and 6west, until the inspection work at the site is completed later this week Scruggs said. The Cost of removing and studying the two panels is about $30,000 and Mil be paid by the fund the private organization that sponsored the memorial and raised some $7 million for its construction. The Long Wall bean the names of58,132 casualties of the Vietnam War. More than 5 million people have visited the memorial since it opened in 1982, according to the National Park service. Turkish scientists believe 1977 find is Noah s Ark Nashville Tenn. A a group of turkish researchers has decided a boat shaped formation found in 1977 on a Hill in Eastern Turkey is the re Mains of Noah s Ark. A turkish tourism official says. Ark Hunter Ron Wytali of Nashville returned from Turkey last week after talks win officials in that coun try Abnusi excavating inc find and said they had used his photograph in reaching Iligir decision. They called me and said they had decided that waste remain i of Noah s Ark partly based on my re search wait said a report by inc Al Lurk University researchers recommend that the area 14 Miles South of mount Ararat be turned into a National Park said turkish tourism Consul Kami Muren in new  department of ministry and tourism has been ready 1o make the area a National Park and de Clare thai As Noah s Ark has cd on the evidence presented by various researchers he said however a turkish geologist Yilmaz Guner. Said earlier this year the boat shaped formation could Bethe result of thousands of Yean of erosion. Another turkish geologist Sulyman Turku Al Hassid he thought that if the Ark existed it must lie near mount Judi 200 Miles Southwest of  officials Are reluctant to talk publicly about the report said mine under a turkish government Liaison and interpreter. Uncle said government officials would meet dec. 12 in the turkish capital of Ankara to decide what to do with the report. Sneler who works for the turkish ministry of the Interior said the government had agreed with Wyall about the find near the Turkey Iran  government exactly agrees with or. Wyatt in Elco said. Everything will be Clear after the meeting. California the highest study says the Lovesick Moose of Shrewsbury relaxes tuesday at Lam Carrara s farm in Vermont. Jenica Back ground right is the object of the Moose s attention. The Moose wandered into Carrara s pasture during when i m calling Moo App Talo the mating season and began nuking cow eyes at the Brwn Aad while Hereford. Although sceptics said their Romance was doomed from the Start the Moose has stayed at the Faira for 40 Days. N. Dakota lowest in teen age pregnancies new York. A North Dakota has the lowest teen age pregnancy rate in the nation while California has the High est according to a new study that found nearly ii percent of girls aged is to 19get pregnant. The study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute was released tuesday in family planning perspectives an Institute publication. Susheela Singh a senior research associate at the Institute found wide variations in teen age pregnancy rates in the to  study found even larger differences Between slates in the proportions of pregnant girls who decide to Nave an abortion. In North Dakota 75 girls per 1,000get pregnant while 140 per 1,000 do in California. Mississippi with a pregnancy rate of125 per 1,000, has the highest teen birth rate at 84 per 1,000 and one of the lowest abortion rates 22 per 1,000. California has a moderate birthrate,53 per 1,000. But the highest abortion rate in the nation 69 per 1,000. States with higher percentages of poo people or people living in Urban areas have significantly higher teen age preg Nancy and birth Rales according to the study a teen Ager s social environment is the most important single Factor in deter mining whether she becomes pregnant gives birth or has an abortion the study found. It also linked High Levels of religious fundamentalism with High birth rates and Low abortion ratios. It found Lowe pregnancy and birth rates and relatively High abortion ratios in what it said were politically More Liberal slates. Stales that spend most heavily on education have relatively High  abortion rates which the study said suggested that girls Are More highly motivated to avoid childbearing in states where the Quality of education i higher. The level of a state s welfare payments to Young mothers did not affect the birth rate the study found and Stales with comparatively High welfare payment also had High abortion Levels. Such welfare payments do not appear to be an incentive for child Quint among Black or White adolescent Singh wrote