European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday May 24.1987 s it a Bird a plane Appl Wro no lit Cut. Inferno enthralling people with ii High dring Fin dive. Bill transom of Atlanta performs i thrilling stunt during t performance of the is. High dive team at six flags Over Georgia in amusement put in Atlanta. Trie act ii part of the Park s 20th birthday show. 43 University leaders of fund lobbying moratorium Washington a the presidents of 43 major . Research universities have agreed to a moratorium on lobbying Congress individually for special earmarked funds to build new scientific facilities a Campus coalition Laid Friday Tett Owen including Columbia University voted against the moratorium adopted by the association of american universities. Robert m. Rosenzweig president of the research University group said the outcome of the mail ballot 43-id with two abstentions was a very Strong vote on a very contentious  the majority committed their institutions not to make an end run around competitive peer review to seek Fader Al fund foe tabs and other science  they Alio agreed to urge Congress and the Reagan administration 1 create new competitive Grant programs to help pay for Brick and mortal on campuses which carry out  billion Worth of research for the  association is backing a Bill sponsored by rep. Robert a. Roe in j., to provide Matching Grants of up for j250 million a year for new science facilities. The action follows a recent report from a panel of College presidents chaired by Chancellor Donald n. Lang Enber Goethe University of Lui Noisat Chicago which said higher education was losing credibility on Capitol Hill because of the intensified special pleading. The Tatj is made up of 54 american and two Canad an universities including the Ivy league schools Stan Ford the Massachusetts Institute of technology univer sity of Chicago and others. One member Cornell turned Down a j10 million Gran last year because it was not obtained through peer review. Rosenzweig declined to identify which University presi dents voted against the moratorium. At least one of the seven or eight1 aau members that have obtained Spe Cial construction funds in the past voted for the moratorium he said. Columbia which Jot Iii million in 1983 in build a chemistry Laboratory voted against he moratorium be cause i t feared the action might be viewed As an affront to Congress a University official said. Iowa stale president cordon Eaton said he voted against the moratorium because he did not want to give up the University s efforts to win a $ 1s million agricultural Gran the Langenberg report said the scramble for pork barrel funds poses the threat of serious and lasting dam age to the nation research  the number of special University building Grants Mush roomed from s3 million in 1982 to s145 million last year. Last summer a bitter ruckus erupted on the floor of in Senate when nine universities were earmarked for $s5 million in construction funds from the Pentagon. The opposition was led by sea John Danforth r-mo., whose brother Heads one of the big research campuses Washington University in St Louis but most lawmakers voted for the appropriations. Some argued that peer review was rigged in favor of elite campuses. Russell Long. The Louisiana senator who has since re tired asked the question is How do you get to be one of the Peers the answer is. You do not you just stay where you Are. From what i know about them they have their Brand of politics just As we have ours. And they have their old boy network just a we  Calif to subsidize Selling of methanol los Angeles a California has agreed to subsidize an Flori by Arco to sell methanol a move that state officials said could Foster wider use of the cleaner burning Auto fuel. Arco said it will sell the fuel in at least 29 service stations in four Southern California counties by next year. Under the agreement the state Wili pay 30 percent of the Cost of refitting Arco service stations to sell methanol and it will also help he company Market the fuel said Energy commission chairman Charles r. Imbrecht methanol or Methyl alcohol is a High octane fuel used mostly in race cars and As an additive to gasoline. It cannot be substituted for gasoline except in specially modified autos such As 1,000 government vehicles in California. Slate officials say use of Mcl Handl has suffered from a Chicken and egg dilemma Oil companies have been reluctant to gear up to sell methanol when there Are few customers and automakers will not redesign engines until the Supply of like fuel increases. Arco is the first major Oil company to move into the methanol Market and the decision could be a turning Point in anti pollution efforts state officials said. Mctha no combustion produces far lower Levels of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons byproducts of Gaso line combustion that produce smog said Bill Sessa of the state air resources Board. Exhaust from a methanol fucked engine consists principally of in bumped methanol and formaldehyde a chemical preservative thai reacts in the atmosphere to form Ozone. Formaldehyde also is a suspected cancer causing agent. Methanol is processed from natural Gas or Coal which Are in abundant Supply and it Sells for about the same Price As gasoline. Stateside sex emperor Bokassa s son granted political Asylum Houston up a deposed african emperor s son was granted political Asylum by an immigration judge because the Man might be persecuted if he re turns Home an attorney said Friday. Theophile Mobo Ngui Bokassa the son or sex Emper or Jean Bedel Bokassa of Central african Republic and a former Cabinet member in his father s government was granted Asylum thursday by judge Robert Brown said attorney Walter Oji. Jean Bedel Bokassa was overthrown As Central Afri can Republic s emperor in 979. He has been on trial in hat country since december on 14 charges ranging from mass murder o procuring human bodies. Brown ruled that Bokassa s son had demonstrated Awell founded rear thai he would be persecuted if lie returns Home Oji said. . Exhibition will Start soviet tour during june Washington a More than 2 million soviet citizens will get a glimpse of he everyday lives of americans from a huge multimedia exhibition Hatwill tour nine soviet cities Over 18 months beginning in june the . Information Agency has announced. The exhibit information Usa will be the first american display in the soviet Union since 1979 and a resumption of the kind of cultural exchanges that began in 1919 with the exhibition thai served As the setting Tor the famous Kitchen debate Between then vice president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. The show will open in Moscow june 4 and travel to Kiev. Rostov a Donu Tbilisi Tashkent Irkutsk Leningrad Minsk and a City yet to be named. Ailing american Pilot freed from mexican jail Mcallen Texas up1 an american Pilot gained Early release front a mexican jail and was undergoing medical examinations Friday to determine what kind of treatment he should receive. Roger Vikre 49, was working for Adkins aviation when Arr Leci on smuggling charges by mexican Cui loss officials on april 30,1985. He came in last night. They chartered a air ambulance said a company spokeswoman on  got a 5 to year sentence after he was convicted of trying to smuggle automobile raring tires and television Seu into Mexico. He was granted Early release from a Hospital in Sao Luis Potosi Mexico about 300 Miles South of the Bonier because his mexican doctor diagnosed lung cancer Las september. Hotel workers Union told to translate meetings los Angeles a the Region s largest hotel workers Union must provide Spanish translations at jul meetings for hispanic members a Federal appeals court has ruled the 9th . Circuit court of Appeal upheld lower court order requiring translations saying Funda mental rights Are jeopardized when hispanic member cannot participate in Union policy discussions. The decision involved he 16,000-Rnerober hotel and restaurant employees Union local 11. About half the Union members Don t speak English. Attorneys for the asian Law caucus which filed briefs in support of the hold workers Union said the decision ii also Likely to provide new impetus to accommodate the languages of the growing number of asians in the work Force. $425,000 needed to ship voyager to Paris air show Mojave Calif. A voyager flew around the world last year but wont get As far As France this summer unless $425.000 can be raised to ship it to the Paris air show a spokesman says. The experimental aircraft made history last Decem Ber when Palau Dick Rulan and Jeana eager flew it round the world without slopping or refuelling. Project spokesman Peter Riva said it would be an absurd risk to a Pilot and the plane to Fly voyager to the june air show. Bui transporting the voyager which has a wingspan Over 110 feet would requite use of a giant c-5a Galaxy military transport Riva said he was not optimistic that the Money could be raised. The voyager remains on display at Mojave Airport and will eventually be housed at the National air and space museum in Washington