European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 25. 19b7 the stars and stripes Page peace corps to double in size by 1992 Cambridge mass. A the peace corps has announced a drive in double us Volunteer Force to 10,000 by 1992, in pan by arranging with universities to allow medical Antl denial students to Complete their studies in the corps. We have to gel America re incl rested in the peace corps director Lorel Miller Rupec said Friday. We re losing our International Edge. In the interdependent 80s, America needs the peace corps More than it Ever  the Exchange programs will begin with dental Stu dents at Harvard University and graduate students at Boston University s school or Public health she said. Similar arrangements eventually will be reached at other colleges and universities around inc country peace corps spokesman David Scolton said. These types of exchanges Are inc most positive Way to make peace Rupec said he said thai denial and medical care arc sorely needed in developing countries but that professionals with such skills Are not always Able to devote the usual two years to the peace corps Harvard dental students will serve about is months As part of their training while by students will take a year of course word at the University and then serve a two year Lour with the corps to earn their Mailer s degrees. This is the peace corps first real venture into variable length service for our volunteers Rupec will. The pea corps will pursue other similar Short term service programs to build up its use of to Zibili to creativity new ideas Rupec said. The recruiting drive Stem from a congressional mandate to serve More countries she said. After years of shrinking budgets. Congress added an unexpected so million la the corps si38.6 million budget this year. In order to meet that congressional  she said we must recruit americans from All walks of life 10 help we cannot do it alone. We want to engage the Heads minds and talents Oral  the peace corps is Active in 63 nations but has a waiting list of several countries that want its services. Ruppe said. The peace corps was formed in 1961 by president Kennedy. Its first director was Sargent Shriver. Rupec has been director since i�8i. Pittsburgh crash creates unappealing conditions Pittsburgh a a tractor trailer hauling 40,000 pounds of bananas crashed and exploded at the Entrance of a pair of tunnels Friday backing up morning Rush hour traffic for Miles. The Only thing you can smell in the area is smoke damage and Green bananas said Dick Skrinjar a spokesman for the Pennsylvania department of transportation. If there s any humor in it it s Hal there Are bananas All Over the Highway. Slippery conditions no one was seriously injured in the 12 20 . Accident which knocked out Power in the fort Pitt tunnels. The tunnels were closed until about 9 p.m.,  outbound lanes were re opened. The iwo inbound lanes were re opened about a half hour later Skrinjar said. The cleanup was expected to continue of Eric weekend. Truck Driver Roger Burnett 25, of Richton miss was in route of a pins Burgh grocery warehouse when the brakes of his Rig failed As he headed to Ward the half Aniie Long Tunnel and the City s downtown state police said. The tractor trailer struck two ears and a pickup truck As it careened Down Green tree Hill police said. Burnett swerved to avoid entering the tunnels and crashed into a garage the transportation department uses to store vehicles and Monitor Tunnel conditions. The Drivers of one of the cars and the pickup truck were treated for minor injuries at a nearby Hospital police said. Two transportation department employees on duty spoiled the tractor trailer heading their Way and jumped aside just in time Skrinjar said. They helped Burnett crawl out of the wreckage and led him to safely shortly before inc truck s fuel tanks exploded. Rights leaders meeting to counter supremacists Coeur d Alene Idaho a civil rights leaders from across the coun try gathered Here Friday in what one colled a response to White supremacist efforts to turn the Northwest into a Whites Only Sanctuary. We re Here because somehow we know that to be tolerant in the face of prejudice. Is to somehow be a part of it the Rev. William Wassmuth said in opening remarks to the three Day convention of Jhc Northwest coalition against malicious harassment. Atlanta cily councilman Hosea Wil Liams and Bethine Church wife of the late sen. Frank Church of Idaho were the scheduled keynote speakers. Wassmuth said the gathering which Drew Iso people for its opening session was in direct response to a july 1986 meet ing of inc aryan nations while supremacist group which declared Idaho Washington Oregon Montana and Wyoming As u potential Whites Only Sanctuary where minorities would not be Welcome. Plain clothes county sheriffs deputies were providing Security at the Conven Tion taking place at a hotel in this Lake Side resort about 10 Miles from inc aryan nations Headquarters. Wassmuth whose Home in Couer d a line was the target of a bomb attack by White supremacists lost year said the meeting was an attempt to spell out specific direct ions for the Northwest coalition. He is president of the Kootenai county human relations task Force. Sculptures in the sky giant hoi air balloons in a Telnet form float Over the desert near Phoenix a one of the stops on a 40-cily Lour of the United Stales the balloons. Called dream lab top and kit Are the work of artist Andre Heller urn Are a gift from the City of Vienna aus Tria to the United slates. Market crash had Little Impact on College funds b Patricia Mccormack up senior editor last week s Stock Market gyrations rocked some hoards in the 1100 billion coffers of College endow ment and pension funds bul there is Little Chance next year s tuition will be pumped up solely to offset losses interviews with officials reveal Wall Street s worst loss in history monday appeared to deflate higher education s $63 billion pension funds by $5 billion slashing its Stock holdings to 28 billion. Bui we re Safe sound and solvent Claire Shea Han assistant vice president for Public information at the pension fund known As Tiaa Crew said late last week after the Stock Markel had rebounded. The College endowments and Tiaa Crew pension funds follow a general Ruie of not putting All their eggs in one Basket. They spread the risk by planting invest ments among stocks Bonds Cash real estate and other appreciating or income producing holdings. Tiaa Clef stands for teachers insurance and annuity association and College. Retirement equities fund. Some  million College and private High school teachers participate. The fund s 160,000 Relt rets got fatter checks in each of the last five years because of the Bull Market. In Palo Alto. Calif Robert for clan. Stanford University s vice president of Public affairs said the school s  billion endowment suffered a 1200 Mil lion paper loss monday. Mike Patrick executive vice Chancellor for Assel management at the University of Texas said the per manent University fund of s3.8 billion lost about s300 million monday but Mosi of Hal was recovered in the Bond Market on tuesday. In St. Louis James r. Buchholz vice Chancellor of finance and administration at Washington University said one half of the income from inc school s 11.2 billion endowment is reinvested every year As a hedge against inflation and Stock Market flotations. Just 300 of the nation s 3,200 colleges and universities have significant endowments and Only 31 of those account for 50 percent of the j40 billion endow ment Hoard. The lop ten is of june 1986 were Harvard j3.4 billion the University of Texas s3 billion Princeton j 1.9 billion Yale $-7 billion Stanford si.3 billion Columbia $1.3 billion Texas am  billion Massachusetts Institute of technology $971 million Washington University. J95s million univ Rosity of Chicago $802 million