European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 7, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 students suspended in school lunch Battle Matewan. . A parents arc protest ing students in skipping school and at least tour bids Drivers have walked off i hair jobs at two schools Here. It s All Over up a. Matew Vin school officials suspended More than Iso students last week after they turned up their noses at the school lunch and walked to a private parking Loi to buy pizza Oil a delivery truck. School officials claim he students violated new rules prohibiting them from leaving the Campus. The policy was started his fall. Angry parents eight by one administrator s count set up a picket line in front of he adjacent schools demanding a meeting with Mingo county school superintendent Harry clinic. Demonstrators said four school bus Drivers decided 10 Honor the parents picket line. Brenda Ailiff a member of the Macwan Junior High s Parent advisory Council said some parents also kept their children Home to protect the Stu dents from the pressure cooker that this school has  about one fourth of Macwan High school s 276 slide nos failed to show for classes monday. Transportation director Bill Kirk said lie was Noi sure How Many Drivers crossed the picket line but said those who did not could be considered guilty of insubordination. We have a responsibility to get the students in and out of  Kirk said. Leslie Opauski Secretary of the Macwan Junior High Pac said he though students should be Able to buy their pizza from a designated Vendor. He snid the parents group is trying to lease pan of the Park ing lot to allow students to buy their lunch there parents claimed thai their children were told Ilia if they did not support the school cafeteria the free lunch program would be Cut Back. Gore takes Odd Man position in demo debate Miami the six democratic presidential candidates heatedly debated foreign policy issues monday with much of Fie pressure focusing on sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee and his Effort to break Awny from his rivals positions. Gore is id he differed with the other contenders on several issues including humanitarian Aid to the nicaraguan re Bels nuclear weapons policy and the per Sian Gulf he suggested that the other candidates had become tougher in tone on some issues since a debate last week end before anti War activists in Iowa. But the others contended Gore was exaggerating their differences. Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois look a gentle Stab Al Gore referring to what critics have suggested is an attempt by Core to Lake conservative positions that might have been occupied by sen Sam Nunn of Georgia had he chosen to run for president. After Gore said he thought he United slates should remove ill of sags from kuwaiti vessels in the Gulf Simon said i agree with my Friend Sam Nunn rather than Ai Gore thai it was a mistake to a Flag those  after the debate Simon said he had selected a change in Gore s position Over the past week. Simon added i have to live with myself and say what i believe and not be shifting to what 1 be 2 electrocuted when flagpole hits Power line Palatka Fla. A two men who tried to lift 3 downed flagpole after they saw the Ameri can Flag on the ground were electrocuted when the pole hit a Power line officials said. The flagpole was Down because an hour earlier a Man who was trying to remove it also touched the Power line and had been shocked so severely he needed hospitalization Putnam county sheriffs Cape. Chi fam Iller said William Byrd 47, was in satisfactory condition monday Al Putnam Community Hospital after the incident in front of the Mobile Home Dealership where he worked. After Byrd was taken from the scene in an ambulance James Wilms 19, and Sherbit Daniels jr., 31, who work Al a Marine Supply store across the Street noticed the downed pole and Friej to pick it up authorities said. Willis was pronounced dead on arrival it 1 ulnar Community Hospital and Daniels died at University Hospital in Jacksonville on sunday Miller said. Sen. Albert Gore or. Left with former gov. Bruce Babbitt on stage during the debate. I Csc might be politically  the demo Eralic candidates have a ten struggling to break Oul of the pack in the Early Campaign and Are seeking to dispel the notion that their positions on most issues do not differ. Al from executive director of the democratic leadership Council which sponsored the debate said he believed thai Gore is trying to Frame the debate and outline his differences with the  the democratic leadership Council is a group of conservative minded democrats whose original chairman was Gore. Gore former gov. Bruce Babbitt of Ari Zona and Richard Gephardt arc Mem Bers of the Council. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and gov. Michael s. Dukakis of Massachusetts also took part in the a cried debate. The firm conflict came on . Aid to me contras and Selling the pattern for the evening. Gore was at the Center of the conflict. When he asserted i hat Cuba and Nicaragua could not be trusted to abide by a peace agreement Jackson shot Hack do you think he sandinista ran Trust president Reagan Dukakis clashed with Gore Over the . Invasion of Grenada. Gore defended the move and Jackson and Dukakis criticized it. Every Massachusetts household getting aids Booklet from state Boston a the slate has mailed to every household in Massachusetts a Booklet describing How to avoid aids. Knowledge of How this disease is spread and not spread must be understood by every american gov. Michael s. Dukakis wrote in an accompanying letter. Printed in Spanish and English the department of Public health s aids learn and live contains an explanation of acquired immune deficiency syn drome and ways to avoid its spread i warns thai anyone can get aids and thai aids is fatal. About 500 people in Massachusetts have died of the disease and another 30,000 carry the virus according to slate statistics. Aids is caused by a virus that dam Ages the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to infections and can cer. It is spread most often through sex Ual con act Needles or syringes shared by drug abusers. Infected blood or blood products and from pregnant women to their offspring. The Besl Way to avoid the disease is to abstain from sex and never share Needles or syringes the Booklet advises. It also warns against using equipment fur ear piercing tattooing or acupuncture unless in has been sterilized or never used. The pamphlet explains that people can not get aids through casual Contact with an infected cram. Such As shaking hands. Sharing dishes or kissing. It says Mosquito s Don t cause aids and Thel donating bites t blood and receiving blood transfusions is Safe in the United states because blood for transfusions is regularly checked. Parents arc warned not to keep the facts about the disease from their Chil Dren whether you approve or not. Many teen agers do have sen and some May Experiment with drugs. Even if you think your children arc not at risk they will need advice because they May have friends who encourage them to expert  mailing of Llic Booklet comes during aids awareness week which began sunday. Postal service admits charge was mistake Washington a the . Postal service which last summer accused an engraver of slipping his Signa Ture into a stamp design has admitted the accusation was a mistake. The stamp. Postal service officials announced. Wum on cily engraved. Officials in August said they Hud found a scrawl like Mark on a l .s3 commemorative stamp that appeared to be the upside Down signature of swedish engraver Czeslaw Slania. But the postal service now says the scrawl actually was part of the design for the stamp which honoured world War i veterans the Washington Post reported. Postal officials said that following a complaint by Slania the engraving was checked against the original artwork a re creation of a \ a pastel drawing by army combat Artsil Harvey Dunn postal officials said the engraving faithfully followed the original artwork and that mama obviously did not add any unauthorised elements to inc in  the suspected alteration was discovered during a review of dyes used to print recent Stamps. The review was prompted after the discovery in August thai an engraver at the Bureau of engraving and printing added a Liny Star of David to a 186 $1 stamp honouring jew ish immigrant Bernard revel founder of pc Shiva University. The Star was concealed in revel s Beard and was discovered following an Anonymous Telephone lip. Millions of the Stamps already had been printed