European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday March 29,1987 . Court ruling blocks Alabama textbook ban Atlanta up a Federal appeals court Friday blocked a lower court ruling thai ordered Alabama schools to remove a Lex i Hooks deemed a Viola i Ion of the Constitution because they promoted secular humanism. The stay issued by the Iii . Circuit court of appeals at the request of the Alabama state Hoard of education allows the state to continue using the disputed Les books for the final seven weeks of the school year. The court also granted a motion to expedite the school Board s Appeal of the March 4 court order ban Ning the 44 textbooks on social studies history and Home economics. . District judge w. Brevard hand has ruled that the disputed textbooks promote secular humanism that secular humanism is a religion and thai the books therefore violate the constitutional doctrine of separa Tion of Church timid state. I land s decision Vasa Victor for a Grump of parents Man of them fundamentalist christians who had filed suit against use or the textbooks. Despite winning the slay the Alabama Hool Board still has a problem because at the end of this school year in is planning to order textbooks for the next six years but docs Noi want to do so until it has a final court ruling. Board attorney Jim Ippolito said there was serious concern about those new textbooks and if they would be in violation. That possibility still  hand had Given the state the option of using the texts in classrooms if offensive passages were eliminated and a supplement focusing on the role of religion in history was substituted. The state refused 10 do mat. Hand raid he ruled As he did because the state school Board insisted on using books that Advance a godless  a photo conductor Mstislav Host Opovich accepts a bouquet of roses from actress Kathleen Turner at the end of a gala Celebration of his 60th birthday. Sharing the stage Are Nancy Reagan and actor Gregory Peck upper right the stars came out in Washington to cheer Rostropovich s birthday Washington a with first lady Nancy Reagan wielding the Baton an overflow Kennedy Cen Ter audience Sang Happy birthday 10 soviet bom conductor a Glistav Rostropovich. Who celebrated his 60th birthday As the guest of Honor Al a Star studded musical tribute Friday night. Hailed As a supreme artist and an irresistibly lovable human being the cello virtuoso and music director of the National symphony orchestra sat in the presidential bos of the Kennedy Center concert Hall. Sitting with him were Reagan and Rostropovich s sister Veronika Tomashevsky. Who flew Here from Moscow for the occasion. The three hour concert featured such friends and musical luminaries As violinists Isaac Stem and Yah adj menu Hin composer conductor Leonard Bernstein Lluisi Jean Pierre Rampal. Cellist you a and conductor mass Shostakovich. After Char performances Zeugan led a scary eyed Slava to the stage for 3 standing ovation. Then Reagan mounted the podium and led the National symphony in playing Happy  a Iress Kathleen Turner presented the speechless Mae Stro with a bouquet of Pink rows a new variety developed in his Honor and named the Slava  Rostropovich blew kisses to the audience and kissed each of the evening s soloists who paraded single-fill1 onto the stage. Orchestra Benefactor David Lloyd Krweger announced a previously unpublicized gift by Rostropovich 10 establish an endowment for the National symphony. Kreeger said Rosler Opovich s six Fig ure contribution has grown to several million dollars and will help pay off the orchestra s chronic deficit. Benefit guests who paid up to s 1,000 per Seal for Rostro Povich s birthday gala attended a Post concert reception ii alluring Champagne and u a cd Neil Rake in the shape of a cello. A dinner followed Al the French embassy. Pro Bdrm Heagan at his wife s urging interceded wich soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the he Juvik Summit last october to allow Rostropovich s sister a retired violin it with the Moscow philharmonic orchestra to leave the soviet Union for her brother s6nthbinhday. The sister had not been permitted to of Cave the soviet Union since Rostropovich was cd blvd in 1974 after protest ing a Lack of artistic Freedom in his Homeland. He was stripped of his sonet Iii in slip in March 1979, the year afle rhe joined the National symphony As music director. Stateside Man accused of having fake dutch railway passes Beaverton. Oregon a a is year old Man has been arrested and accused of possessing about 5,000 counterfeit dutch railway passes fill a ecu arrested Chris Wopaul Boom As he Mitred his car in hns Portland sub Urb said Theodore Gardner special agent in charge of the Portland Fri office. Karsseboom was accused in a complaint filed in . District court of counterfeit ing obligations of a foreign government fraud by wire and mail fraud the Fri said. Gardner said the Railroad passes were found in Karsseboom s car. A legitimate dutch railway pass May have a value of More than $4, the Fri said. Rock slab Falls from roof killing Pennsylvania Miner Barnesboro a. A a 29-year-old Coal Miner died Early Friday after a slab of Rock fell from inc roof of an underground Shaft crushing him a company official said. Joseph l. Noel of Nicktown apparently died instantly when he was struck by the 20-by-2vj foot Stab in the no. 2 South mine of Greenwich collieries said Henry Hancck a manager for Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal co. None of the seven other minors in the imme Diate area was injured or trapped by the 3 25 . Rock fall Hancck said. The mine closed for an investigation affecting about Iso miners he said. Federal and state mine safety officials were joined in the investigation by company and United mine workers Union officials. Green wich collieries is in Cambria county in South Central Pennsylvania about fi5 Miles East North East of Pittsburgh. Girl in stable condition after attack by pet Bear Morley Mich. A a 7-year-old girl was hospitalized in stable condition Oder a neighbor s 400-Pound pet Black Bear Bil her authorities said. Amanda Barnes was attacked near her Aetna township Home. The Little girl got off the bus. And the neigh Bor s Pear had got out said Mecosta county sheriffs sgt. Richard Rau. She walked by it and started to run then it reached out and grabbed  she was in Mecosta county general Hospital in big rapids where she was being treated for several severe bites on the buttocks. Deputies said her Stepbrother 16-year-old Wayne Hughes freed her by reaching into the Mouth of the Bear grabbing it by the lips and pulling it away. The 4-year-old animal named wooly was shot to death after in was captured by county officials and its owner Ron Monroe deputies said. Rau said the animal was quite Friendly in the  Ford to give management $ 1 67 million in bonuses Detroit a Ford motor co., which earlier this month split some of its Industry Lead ing profits with its rank Ami file employees has said it is handing out $167 million in executive bonuses. Ford s i9s6 profits Rase 31 percent Over the previous year to 13.3 billion surpassing those of sales Leader general motors corp., which earned $2.9 billion. The executive bonuses were announced in Ford s annual report mailed by the no. 2 . Automaker to its 262,000 shareholders. The number of executives who will gel the bonuses won t be released until later this month when Ford mails the proxy statement for its an Nual shareholders meeting scheduled for May 1 4, said Ford spot fam in Tom fool