European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday May 11,1987 Center dedicated to Black general Tuskegee Ala. A0 president Reagan dedicated a space science an health Center to the memory of Ameri Ca s first Black four Star general sunday and spoke glowingly of what the coun try is gaining by having opened doors that were Long  speaking after dedication ceremonies for the Gen. Daniel Chappie James Center for aerospace science and health education he told Aboul 400 graduating seniors at Tuskegee University that his administration won t be satisfied until every Ameri can who wants a Jab has a Job and is earning a decent living while House officials said the speech was a makeup for the president. He had planned to speak at founders Day at Tuskegee in 1981, but vice president Georae Bush filled in for the president after Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt on March 30. Tuskegee one of the leading historically Black universities in the country was founded As a one room shanty on a Cotton Plantation in 1881, with the aim of providing vocational training to newly freed slaves. It has grown to an institution with 155 buildings on a4,500-acre Campus and a student body of about 3,300. Is file Pawlo Gen Daniel Chappie James James graduated from Tuskegee in 1942, and spent nearly 35 years in the air Force As a lieutenant in world War 11, he and several other Blacks were placed under House arrest for disobeying an order to leave an All White officers club at Freeman Field in Seymour ind. Charges against him were dropped. President Ford made him a four Sta general in 1975. He retired in 1978 after a head Aii ack and died later that year. He is buried in Arlington nation Al cemetery. There have now been two Black four Star generals James in the air Force and Rel Rcd Gen. Roscoe Robinsonjr. In the army and Reagan has nominated a third air Force l. Gen. Ber Nard p. Randolph. The nomination is awaiting confirmation by the Senate. As Reagan boarded air Force one at Andrews fab md., for the flight to Alabama the air Force demonstration learn the thunderbird made a passover the aircraft in Salute. The team had come to the base near Washington for an air show on saturday., in his address to the graduates he76-year-old president recalled the Era of his teens As the Days when most people trying of earn a meager living Shui their eyes to the injustices suffered by minority  later he said the civil rights move ment earned the respect and gratitude of Al Good and Decca americans even some who May Al first have had reservations a nut what was  ironically today America often in l aware of what it is gaining by hav ing opened doors that were Long  he said. Our citizens May know of the three Black astronauts now in line for up coming shuttle missions. Yet Bow widely known is it that a Large portion of Nasa s workforce is Black including 422 engineers and scientists certainly problems in the Black Community cannot be covered up or ignored yet rather than dwelling almost exclusive Lyon the negative let s mate certain our chif Dren Sec stories of Black successes and triumphs the . He said Black employ men has in creased by 1.8 million since 1980. Today More Black americans Are working than Ever before and a higher percentage of the Black work Force is employed than at any Lime in this decade he said. Since the economic recovery began about one in seven of All new jobs being created has gone to Black americans. I care deeply about inc unemployed Reagan said to is not some thing i or anyone in the administration takes lightly. And i can assure you we won t be satisfied till every american who wants a Job has a Job and is earning a decent  cons Ruff on halted for endangered Birds san Francisco a concern about two endangered species of Birds has led a Federal appeals court to Haft construction on a freeway link and flood control project first planned 20 years ago. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals decision re versed a lower court ruling and stopped the project planned for the san Diego suburb of Chula Vista. The court ordered Federal officials to resume discussions about How to protect the California least Tern and Light footed Clapper rail. The project includes a link Between interstate 5 and805, a freeway interchange widening of 1-5 and n flood control Channel in the flood Plain of the Sweetwater Asphalt desert is transformed new York