European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 elections 87 in local elections in South Carolina it. \ i m f Virgl Niland Wyoming in pm 1.  j. 1 _ _ a. Al a _  employ Vlf Oltre i Iti irl to for and their family members residing vim i i i us my ii i ill i v overseas May Register and apply for bal t. Washington voting assistance officials have relented details on up com in n South Carolina Virginia an. Ern ment be Raisin Oversea y Register and apply for bal lots for i Csc electrons by mailing Federal postcard applications. South Carolina South Carolina holds its municipal elections on several Days so voters should Contact i hair county Board of voter registration for exact Dales. Registered voters ballot request must be received at the voter s county Board of voice registration four Days before the election unregistered voters postcards must be received 30 Days before he election. The voter can request primary Runoff general or special election ballots by circling All permitted by state Law on the postcard. Persons who vote under the overseas citizens voting rights act May not vote in these elections. Virginia Virginia will hold its City and town general elections May 5. Voters must Register by april 4 and apply for Absentee ballots by april 30. On june 9, a primary will be held for the Gener Al Assembly county constitutional officers and country governing bodies and City clerks of court followed by a general elec Tion nov. 3. Registration deadlines Are May 9 for the primary and oct. 3 for the general election. Oct. 29 is the last Day to request a general election ballot voters should Send a separate Post card Tor each election and note party affiliation primary ballots. , citizens who vote under the pro visions of the overseas citizens voting rights act May not vote in this election. Wyoming Wyoming will hold town elections May 5, and non charter town elections will be May-12. Elections for Board members and trustees at Tome Community colleges and schools win be held in August. Persons can Send one postcard to request an Absentee ballot and temporary registration whih is valid for All 1987 elections. Voters should write May municipal election and August Board of trustees elections on the postcard application. Absentee ballots must be mailed at least 3s Days before the election. Citizens registered to vote under the overseas citizens voting rights act May vote in Wyoming. Information on South Carolina Vir Ginia and Wyoming elections is available from unit voting assistance officers or Counselor at any . Embassy or consulate or by writing director Federal voting assistance program department of defense room ib457, Pentagon Washington . 20301, Salvage workers recover Zeebrugge Belgium a Sal Vage work to recover the remaining Vic Tims of last week s passenger ferry disaster continued sunday after the 56lh body was brought to Shore officials said the body was brought to Zeebrugge port from the capsized ship by Salvage workers late saturday and lowered the estimate of victims trapped in the Hull of the Herald of free Enterprise to at least 78, said Juergen Goller spokesman for the ferry company Townsend Thoreson the company maintained that the estimated number of dead in the March 6 disaster stood at 134 despite assertions from belgian transport minister her Man de Croo thai the number might be ashighas94. De Croo s spokesman. Henrik Van Der Auwerda said sunday Only 47 bodies had been positively identified and that 147 people were still unaccounted for including nine bodies that had not been identified. We Wilt have to wait until the ship is righted to have the exact figures said Van Der Auwerda sunday. Townsend Tho resin got its estimates from the local authorities in charge of the Rescue opera Tion while do Croo s information is based on police record. De Croo s re Marks prompted fears that Many More than 134 May have died in one of Europe s biggest maritime disasters of Modem limes. Townsend Thoreson said 409 people survived the Accident de Croo said police had talked to Only 349 survivors. The dutch Salvage firm Smit Tak is trying to right the partly submerged ves sello recover the remaining bodies. It Hopes to succeed by the end of the month weather permitting. On sunday Smit Tak continued driving steel girders each 30 Yards Long and weighing 22 tons into the seabed to an Chor two barges with powerful cranes which will be used to pull the vessel upright. In All Smit Tak Hopes to drive 16 girders into the seabed by next week Endt Salvage workers also continued Weld ing some of the 32 steel loops to the promenade deck of the 7,951 Ion ship to facilitate attaching steel cables which will help pull up the vessel. The weather has been Calm throughput the Salvage operation but there were fears that winds will pick up in the com ing Days. There arc reports thai the weather will deteriorate hampering the Salvage workers said Goller town std Thoresen has sold that the recovery of the victims still trapped in the Hull of the vessel is the first priority of the Salvage workers. Some 70 barrels holding chemicals arc still missing but water readings showed there was no pol Lution around the vessel. Gaiter said. Do Croo has said there might be More victims still in the wreck because during the confusion following the disaster some people might have registered twice a survivors. He said others might have sneaked on Board and not shown up on the passenger list. The Herald of free Enterprise Cap sized in less than a minute at 7 28 . On March 6 just outside the port of Zee Brugge. The cause of the disaster is still under investigation. Britain says it protested israeli forging of passports allegedly for hitmen9 London up Britain said Sun Day it protested to Israel the use of forged British passport in reaction to a report the Mossad intelligence Agency planned to Supply the bogus documents to its agents. The sunday times reported eight Blank British passports were discovered by Chance tast summer in a German Tele phone Booth along with envelopes link ing them to an israeli embassy. The papers were turned Over to a Brit ish Diplomat. He sent the passports to London for analysis and they were found to be High Quality israeli forgeries the newspaper said. The sunday times said they were to be used for Mossad undercover hit men following a practice last con ducted in 1979, when authorities discovered a woman who killed a palestinian guerrilla in a Mossad operation had trav eled under a British passport. A foreign office spokesman would not confirm the sunday times report but said a British minister Timothy Revlon had issued a Strong protest last fall to Israel Over forged passports. " can confirm in october last year or. Runton protested in Strong terms to the israeli ambassador at the misuse by the israeli authorities of forged British passports and sought an Assurance from the israeli government that such unacceptable behaviour would not be allowed to happen again the spokesman said. The israeli government subsequently expressed regret and informed us that Steps had been taken by the relevant authorities to avoid recurrences. On the basis of these assurances the British government regarded the incidents As  the protest Over the forged British passports came about the same time As the disappearance from London of israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Sanunu who had revealed to a British newspaper that Israel reportedly was secretly Stock piling nuclear weapons. He subsequently resurfaced in israeli where he was put on trial for treason Britain had sought and received Assur ances that no British Law was broken. It was later disclosed he had been lured out of Britain by a woman apparently work ing with Mossad. In the past israeli intelligence under Coyer agents have travelled using false British passports while conducting mis Sions. In the mostly recently known Case in 1979, an israeli woman using a false Brit ish passport detonated a bomb in Beirut killing an Hassan Salameh the suspected Mastermind of the Munich Mas Sacre of n israeli athletes at the 1972 olympics it was also established another member of the Mossad hit team also travelled with a British passport. Study cites peer pressure As Factor in Black students failure to Excel Washington a a major Rea son Black students lag behind other racial groups in school achievement is that they re afraid their friends will deride them for acting White a study concludes. So Black students intentionally limit their academic Success or try to downplay their achievements in response to peer pressure according to the study by a professor at the University of the District of Columbia. Anthropologist of Nithia Fordham Drew her conclusions from interviews with 33 Stu dents from a 99 percent Black . High school Over a one year period. The school was not identified and Only students first names were used. Shelvy an Honor role student whose grades have been declining told Fordham she was not putting Forth full Effort because she did t want to be labelled a  so what most Braini acs do Shelvy said they Sil Back and they know an answer and they won t answer  Sidney a football player who earned As and is earlier in his schooling earned Only mediocre icons on standardized tests be cause Bis friends started calling him or. Advanced placement when he considered taking advanced courses. Many male students who do get Good grades try to hide their performance from their Peers because they Are afraid they la be accused of being homosexual Fordham said. Obtaining marketable skills has Little a peal to Many Low income students who Sec the pattern of past generations of Black adults holding Low level jobs after attending inferior schools the study said. This problem arose partly because White americans traditionally refused to acknowledge that Black americans Are capable of intellectual achievement and portly because Black americans began to doubt their own intellectual ability began to define academic Success As while people s a Ergative and began to discourage their peer. From acting White " Fordham said. , school superintendent Floritta me Kenzie said the City is working to improve the self image of Black students to counter the problem. As we seek to improve achievement of Urban Blacks there s Only so much you can do with More teachers and books and so on Mckenzie told the Washington Post. We re going to Hove to Deal with the value Structure with youngsters who Don t Sec the Reward  Mckenzie said past generations of Blacks often found themselves unable to find jobs that took advantage of their intelligence. The superintendent said she planned la step up efforts to remove he stigma of Aca Demic Success by building stronger self images for Black students especially boys this society docs not seem to Reward the Black male site said. Fordham s study was published in the Urban review an academic journal. Hood ornaments fashion craze for teen agers Jacksonville Fla. Up the Good news for teens is that there is a new fashion craze Hood ornaments from Cadillac and Mercedes benzes. The bad news for luxury car owners is that the youngsters Are snatching their new High Dollar fad off cars and wearing them As neck laces or lied to their shoelaces. Jim Williams principal of i Hautt High school was so worried that his Hood ornament would end up dangling from someone s neck or flopping on their shoes that he decided to remove it himself. They re taking the emblems drilling holes in them and wearing hem around their necks or lied to their shoes Williams said sat urday