European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 10, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 separating siamese twins Tofta War Alj re n in Bah Cri in Hud Billeh Twani ten Ingn Thold. Pilot Csc. Ant Benj Cimfl to Ifni. Ii u my a ctr tiny to pit he go in Tuitui pm wit car Opi Riplon Tui 70 Docty. Nunn it try Khz Tel a Mot siamese twins still sleeping after operation Baltimore up Patrick and Benjamin Binder the 7-month-old siamese twins who were surgically separated in a 22-hour operation were resting in in aesthetic sleep at the Johns Hopkins children s Center. The infants from Ulm. Germany were in Crit ical but stable condition at Johns Hopkins hos Pital tuesday night three Days after the backs of their Heads were separated by a 70-member medical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The conditions of the fair haired twins Are being monitored around the clock in the Rediat Ric intensive care unit said or. Mark Rogers. The wins arc still in an induced coma. This is a stale of prolonged aesthetic sleep that will last five to seven Days following surgery,1 Rog ers said. This has been done to control brain swelling and protect brain function following surgery Aid Rogers adding it will be several weeks be fore physicians can determine if the Binder infants suffered brain damage. The twins who were bom feb. 2, had Sepa rate brains but shared a major vein doctors said. Siamese twins joined at the head occur about once in every 2 million births. Pentagon procurement chief to quit in Wake of arms rift by Richard c. Gross up military writer Washington Richard Godwin will quit As the defense department s first procurement chief the loser in a bitter dispute within the Hierarchy Tor Cort Irol Over weapons buying Pentagon officials said tuesday. Godwin �5, old defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger last week that he will be leaving his Post As undersecretary of defense for acquisition a position to which he was appointed 11 months ago the officials said. He did not submit a format letter or resignation they said. The Post was created under a congressional reorganization following recommendations from a presiden tial Blue ribbon commission headed by industrialist David Packard that investigated Pentagon manage ment in the Wake of the spare parts buying scandals that erupted four years ago. Only Weinberger and Deputy defense Secretary William Howard Tan in outrank Godwin under the reorganization Godwin was a vice chairman of the be Chect corp., an International construction giant from which Wein Berger and Secretary of slate George Shultz also entered the administration. Congress which created Godwin s Post in efforts 10 eliminate waste from weapons purchases May balk at the undersecretary s resignation and demand explanations from Weinberger through three key directives Godwin sough to centralize the authority for weapons and spare parts buy ing within his own office taking that Power and responsibility away from the civilian secretaries of the military services and other senior officials in the bureaucracy. Tall who As Weinberger s Deputy is responsible for the daily management of he Pentagon walked at god win s directives and rewrote them the sources said. One directive would have eliminated tall from the weapons buying Chain of command so that Godwin would have reported directly to Weinberger they said. Godwin fired off a Noie to Weinberger with seven attachments complaining about the rewritten directives and threatened resignation unless la Pentagon chief supported him the sources said. He lost every Point he went to Bat on one source said of Godwin a possible successor to Godwin is his Deputy Rob Ert Cost cello a former executive director of purchasing Jit the general motors corp. Who was appointed Laic last year. Repent Blurb invades Playboy to to Tulsa okla. A Playboy Channel officials Are investigating an unauthorized message piped in by someone who beamed a message on the Cable to Sta Tion warning viewers to repent your sins a newspaper reported wednesday. Playboy Channel officials in los Angeles were unable to provide estimates on How Many viewers across the nation actually saw the message sunday night he Tulsa world reported. Channel officials first heard of the illegal transmission when notified tuesday by a subscriber in Texas the newspaper reported we received a couple of Calls asking what was going on Tulsa Cable spokesman Jim Back said Bui we did t know what it was either. From what we be heard someone got in on inc satellite dish or to use Playboy s term someone stepped on their trans Ponder. " Playboy viewers said a printed message appeared on their television screens for about 10 to 15 seconds that said repent your sins. Keep the Sabbath  the Channel s Security staff confirmed the illegal transmission Playboy spokesman Bill Farley said. Officials will have a statement on the incident later this week he said. The unauthorized Hacker is believed to be the Sec Ond person to break Inlo a pay Cable television service and transmit a message to viewers nationwide. On april 27, 1986, John r. Macdugall of Ocala Fla. Broke Inlo Home Box office s signal and replaced it with his message protesting the network s efforts to Cut off non paying viewers. Maedo Galt known As Captain Midnight was convicted of violating the Federal communications act and sentenced to one year of probation and fined $5,000. The maximum penalty for illegal transmission is one year in prison and a 110,000 Fine. Scientists bananas Over awol Monkey Denver up scientists set a trap with bananas to try to recapture an elusive research Monkey who hat spent a week swinging through he Trees along theban Jofa Southwest Denver River. The 17-Pound Brown japanese macaque was spotted tuesday in the Trees along the South plate River officials Laid a trap with bananas hoping the Mon key named no. 3, would find the fruit templing enough to risk capture. The Monkey has been part of a University of Colorado study for the past two years Al the Fon Logan mental health Center no. 3 escaped while being transported from one room in the facility to another last wednesday. He had wandered More than three Miles away from the Center by tuesday or. James Stevens associate Dean of research affairs at the University s medical school said inc Monkey is one of nine in a study funded by the National institutes of health. In the study the monkeys Are offered a Choice of water or alcohol mixed with water for two hours each afternoon. Stevens said no 3 never drinks enough to gel drunk. Students flunk 1 St National history literature test new York up . High school juniors failed to pass the first National history and literature test with most not knowing when the civil War was fought who Joseph Mccarthy was or what the novel "1984" is about a new report says. The authors of what our 17-year Olds know reported tuesday that 8,000 High school juniors tested in 1986 provided Correct answers to an average of 54,5 percent of 141 history questions and 5j,8 percent of 121 literature items. We Are deeply uneasy about what it portends for these boys and Girts for the society they will inhabit and for the Chil Dren they will  said the report s co authors Chester finn jr., assistant Secre tary of education and Diane Ravitch a Columbia University professor. Observers looking for the Bright Side might Elj Fisci thai the proverbial Glass is half full rather than half empty they wrote. Another Way to characterize these results however is in terms traditionally used by teachers a score of less than 60 is  students who watch a lot of television did worse on the lest. They did better if they attended prekindergarten or came from Homes that received newspapers or magazines or had it dictionary an encyclopedia or More than 25 books. Highlights from the history test 35 percent do not know that water Gate occurred after 1950, #70 percent did not know what he Magna Carlo is. One out of three cannot find France on a map two out of three do not know the civil War occurred Between 1850 and1900. More than half failed to identify Jonas Salk or sen. Joseph Mccarthy. Only 68 percent could correctly locale Christopher plur bus s discovery of the new world in the period before 1750. The students did Best on world War i and world War ii with an average score of 60.2 percent Correct Bui nearly half did nol know that world War i took place be tween 1900 and 1950, and Only seven in 10 identified Germany and Japan As Ameri Ca s major foes in world War ii. Highlights from the literature lest Only 20 percent could identify James Joyce Codor Dostoevski Joseph Conrad Henrik Ibsen Thomas Hardy or Geoffrey Chaucer a rate of Success less than random guessing would pro  65 percent do not know what "1984" or lord of the flies is about so percent were not familiar with . Salinger s Catcher in the  Aesop once known to virtually every elementary school child is familiar to fewer than two thirds of the Sam ple. Students did relatively Well on some literature questions. Highly eight percent could identify Manin Luther lung or s "1 have a dream speech and 82 percent knew the lord is my Shepherd from the 23rd psalm. Most also could identify Plain Aristotle Moses and Noah. Most also could identify stories and legends that Are found in comic books movies or on television such As Cin Derella and Robin Hood. The report said the youths tested were a representative sampling and noted that 78 percent of them were enrolled in a history course Al the Lime. The research by finn and Ravitch was funded by $370,000 from the National endowment for the humanities. The lest was developed and administered by the National assessment of educational Progress a Book by finn and Ravitch will be in the stores next week and the association will publish its official results oct. 25. Archie Lapointe the association s executive director said the finn Ravitch report contains material identical to that which will be in the association s publication