European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes thursday. July 23.1987 Bennett says u.s., Europe share Many school concerns Washington a Secretary of education William j. Bennett said tuesday that concern about preserving the economic Prosperity of the Weil is Lead ing european and american school reformers Down the same paths. Bennett said he was struck during his 13-Day swing through four nations Britain Germany Austria and Italy Al to Many issues they have in common including concerns about a Core curriculum moral Edu cation parental involvement and wider Choice. The conservative education chief who has often got a cold shoulder from Congress for his ideas to shake up Public schools and Force them to compete More with in vat education said a the International conversation about education our notions arc taken very  his experiences included a Long discussion with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher talk with his counterparts in England and Italy and a v it to Hie Berlin Wall. Bennett also exhorted Western intellectuals in a speech at amerika Haus in West Berlin not to shy away from proclaiming the moral superiority of democracy Over totalitarian governments and he met briefly with Pope John Paul ii Al the Vatican. Bennett said Thatcher whose education policies were a key Issue in her recent election to a third term was extremely interested in what we arc  especially with a recent department of education guide to ghetto schools that have become academic showplace Kenneth Baker he British education Secretary expressed interest in visiting some of the schools in new York s Harlem and Chicago profiled in Bennett s Booklet. Schools that work educating disa Dvan la cd  Bennett said Baker also solicited his advice on Shap ing a planned Core curriculum for British schools. Bennett said the italian education minister. Franc Falcucci told him thai she is trying 10 devise a Core curriculum for the first two years of High school and that like Bennett she has had Rocky relations with teacher unions. Peel away the differences attributable to each country s particular language and traditions and there was a great Deal of commonality among the issues that we arc talking about questions of common study National identity moral education greater parental involvement Choice Bennett said. All of the countries Are saying How do we keep our a duct he said. Education is part of the answer to  education Secretary William j. Binnett Eastern two thirds of nation continues to Fry by he associated press a heat wave broiled the Eastern two thirds of the nation again wednesday after causing record demands for poor in the East and Midwest sending City workers Home in the nation s capital and being linked to Al least one death. Temperatures across Ohio already were around 80 degrees by 9 . Wednesday and humidity ranged from 72 percent at Cincinnati to a wilting 82 percent Al Cleveland. It s been a Long hot summer and we still have August to go said Cincinnati meteorologist Tony Sands. National weather service forecasters around inc nation Predi Ltd More High temperatures in the 90s thursday and through the weekend. Chicago mayor Harold Washington ordered a review of the City s heat Emer gency plan tuesday when the High of 94 marked the 12lh Day Over 90 degrees this month. He urged special precautions for the elderly the chronically ill and infants. Police detectives and office workers in Washington . S seventh District were sent Home tuesday after air conditioning broke Down in 100-Degrcc Heaton the hottest Day of the summer so far in the Northeast Ohio City of Niles trash pickups were scheduled to begin a Midnight instead of 5 . Because of the heal. Michael l. Eno 32, died monday probably of heal exhaustion Afler he was found in a Lincoln neb., Park with a body temperature of 108.9 degrees police said. Temperatures ranged from the upper 80s in the Eastern part of the stale to 100 in the West on tuesday thunderstorms in the Chesapeake re Gion of Delaware brought Only Tempo Rary Relief tuesday from the uncomfortable humidity and 100-degree temperatures that were expected to stay through the weekend. The Mercury Rose to 103 degrees i Baltimore Short of the 104-Dcerec record for july 21 set in 1930. In Wilmington del., the temperature Rose to 98 degrees. Dover afr posted a High of 100. Demand for electricity soared As Resi dents sheltered. A record High 11.2 million kilowatts were consumed in one hour tuesday by Virginia Power s 1.6 million customers Utility spokesman William n. Curry said. A Peak use of about i million kilowatts by Potomac electric Power co s 600,000 customers in Washington and Maryland suburbs surpassed the pre Vious record 4.8 million kilowatts which was set  Power co s 129,000 customers recorded a Peak demand of611,000 kilowatts tuesday afternoon eclipsing the previous record of 599,000kilowatts established the Day before a company spokesman said. The american electric Power system consisting of eight Power companies i Ohio West Virginia Tennessee Virginia Kentucky Indiana and Michigan said its customers set an All time summer Peak demand of 15,347 million kilowatts Between 3 and a p.m., exceeding the pre Vious High of 15.324 million recorded monday. Blast levelled Brooklyn buildings worker probe the or la of three buildings if Deli shed by an explosion sunday in Brooklyn . Polke us wednesday no Man tic lims or inc mail and fire an expected u be found. The explosion took the lives if four people and 11 a injured. Twelve  and 12 police officer to Bun in Deal ing with the tire thai if a Elkurd to Hue ban Touchi d Oil by ule Lilly i lord pro Pant Unki. Operational error by traffic controller investigated by Faa Louisville by. A the Federal aviation administration is investigating an operational error by an air traffic controller that caused two air planes to come within 1,500 fed of each other on intersecting runways Al Louisville Standiford Field. Faa spokesman Roger Myers said Hie incident occurred tuesday on the Airport s two main run Wayt. A Delta air lines flight to Cincinnati had started to i South for a Takeoff on one runway when a Evergreen International airlines cargo plane touched Down Tor a Landing from the East on the other run Way. The Delta 727 crossed the pith of the Evergreen plane at a distance of 1,500 feet. No one was injured. Men said both inc Takeoff and the Landing had been cleared by Faa controllers in the lower. The Agency did not a Latify the incident at a near mus but As an operational error by the controller he said. Delia should t have Rcv a cleared for Takeoff. The Landing should have been completed before the Takeoff began men said. Obviously the controller made an error Delta was t a fault. Neither was  the Faa does nol know Why the error occurred he did and the Agency s  will Lake in to eight week. Delta has come under Faa scrutiny because of a string of incidents involving Pilot error or mechanical failure during inc past two months. Delta officials have defended the airline s safety record and a the incidents arc unrelated