European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday decembers 1987 Battle of the bulge it s an eternal diet Amherst. Mass. A Ivy league a Ludonis who apparently decided to have fun with a Survey of their Eul Lural ignorance have defined Boss Tweed As Bruce Springsteen s attire and the Battle of the bulge Sancte Malici. The random Telephone Survey of 50 a Ludonis Al Amherst College and 50 no Princeton University was based on questions posed in the Book cultural literacy what every american needs to know by . Lir cd. Students were asked by the daily he Amherst student to identify 10 terms such As Deus sex Machina and to Chi Minh to test their knowledge or culture. It was t serious. It was sort of a poke Al Prince ton Amherst student managing editor Maggie Bendicksen said tuesday. She said her newspaper polled students Early in november after Reading about a similar Survey in the Princeton newspaper. Despite a Good number of Tongue in Cheek an Swers from both schools she said Amherst students did belter Overall. I Don t think you can base the whole Princeton Campus on those 50 people surveyed countered daily princ Lonian managing editor Anne Tarbutton. I Don t know thai that s saying the whole Princeton Campus is of the respondents 26 from Amherst and is from Princeton correctly identified the Battle of the bulge As the last major German offensive during world War ii. Other definitions however ranged Tram a program in Congress to reduce the deficit to som american revolution Only 16 Amherst students and 14 Prince ionians identified Deus sex Machina As a dramatic plot de vice in which a deity intervenes in the lives of mor tals. One Amherst student suggested it was a new breakfast Cereal and another guessed it to be a album by the Rock group the police. Sixteen am Hyrsl students and 21 Prince ionians correctly identified Boss Tweed As the corrupt Newyork City politician who ruled tammany Hall in the 1860s. One Princeton stud Cal said Tweed was what Bruce the Boss Springsteen wears on Twenty eight students at Amherst and 26 Al Princeton Corri ally identified the late North Viet namese Leader to Chi minibus some respondents referred to him As the Viet Cong Guy and a few confused him with to Chi Minh City the capital City of former South Vietnam. The City used to be called Saigon. Forty six students at Amherst and 40 at Princeton correctly identified the term Baker s dozen As an other Way to say 13, forty students at Amherst and28 Al Prince inn were right in identifying roman numerals i a Al cd and Mas 1.5. 10,50, 100, 500 and 1,000. The Bard of Avon was correctly identified As Wil Liam Shakespeare by 28 students at Amherst and 33at Princeton. The solar plexus was correctly identified As the abdominal nerve Center by 38 at Amherst and 12 at Princeton. The biggest mystery to students Al both school was the Bay of Biscay off the Northwestern coast of Spain. Only 14 students from am Hyrsl and nine from Princeton knew that. Most thought it was of the coast of India girl admits sexual abuse1 lie that got principal fired Denver a a 12-year-old girl whose Story of sexual misconduct led to the resignation of her elementary school principal More than two years ago has admitted that the Story was fabricated. Our daughter has told us her Story was t True the Mother of the unidentified girl said in an interview in wednes Day s editions of the Denver Post. None of it the parents agreed to the interview in Hope of Clearing inc name of Joe Escobe do who resigned As principal of Bryant Webster elementary school in Northwest Denver in 1985, and of gelling him re instated. "1 am just heartsick about this trag Edy said the girl s Mother. She and her husband had known Escovedo for about a decade before their daughter brought her complaint. It has had such a devastating effect on his life. 1 truly want to be Justice done Escobedo 52. Whose 20-year career with the District was shattered by the allegations said he does want his Job Back. He is currently unemployed. I be gone through hell for three years Escobedo said in an interview from his current Home in Massachusetts. I want nothing More than for the District to acknowledge the injustice Clear my name and allow me to return to my the girl recanted Escobedo has written the District asking for reinstate ment and the school Board has discussed the was automatically sus Pended in March 1985, after the girl and two other children then under 10, mad complaints. The girl s complaint videotaped in the presence of a psychologist was consid ered the most credible of the three Chil Dren s stories. Bui investigators decided that even if he allegations were True they were not serious enough to warrant criminal charge and formal charges were never brought under an agreement negotiated with Board attorneys Escobedo was placed on leave at a salary of �46,000 for a Yea Rand later resigned. La Council endorses plan to ban realistic toy guns los Angeles a the Cit Council has Given preliminary approval to a ban on the Sale and manufacture of realistic looking toy guns in the nation s second largest City. Council members endorsed the pro posed ordinance by a unanimous vote tuesday. If approved on a second read ing next week and not vetoed by mayor Tom Bradley the proposal would be come Law 30 Days later just after the Christmas shopping season. Los Angeles would be the nation s first major City to take aim at such toys. Simi Lar ordinances have been adopted in Santa Monica and Burbank. Councilman Nate Holden author of the los Angeles proposal noted that people have been killed when police offi cers or others with weapons mistook the toys for the real thing. The j200 million toy gun Industry Al ready Lias begun responding. Toys r us inc., the nation s largest Loy retailer reported it has begun notifying manufacturers it will no longer carry toy guns that look like real ones said spokeswoman Angela Bourdon. She said the move came after a Man armed with a toy pistol commandeered a Knic to news broadcast aug. 19 and ordered consumer reporter David Horo Witz to read a Long rambling statement. Horowitz who thought the gun was real complied but the broadcast was taken of the air by studio technicians. Daisy manufacturing co., one of the nation s largest makers of Loy guns has begun applying Bright Orange markings to its toys to help differentiate them from the real thing said Robert Reid marketing vice president of the Arkan Sas based company. Daisy is supporting Federal legislation introduced by rep. Kiel Levins d-calif.,that would set guidelines on How toy guns would be marked. Violation of the proposed los Angele ordinance would be a Misdemeanour carrying a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $1,000 Fine. The ordinance defines a toy replica Ofa firearm As any device or object manufactured of plastic Wood Metal or another material that can reasonably be perceived As an actual included under the Law Are air rifles Pellet guns and by guns to addition to toys and replica guns. Non firing collectors replicas made to look like pre-20th Century weapons would not be banned. Off Hoo future Home away from Home an ill Starlion provided by the nation Al aeronautical and spice administration shows a cutaway View of portion Al the space station that the United tales ill develop with Canada Europe and Japan. Mcdonnell Douglas Boeing general electric and rocket Dyne Hare been chosen by Nasa la design and develop the first plus of the project go with aids virus pleads guilty to sex charges san Antonio Texas a an army sergeant pleaded guilty wednesday to sex charges in military court after admitting he had sex with two women sol Diers i Hout telling them he carried the aids virus. Sol Richard Sarge and 28, had been accused on seven charges but pleaded guilty to one count of Sodo my two counts of adultery and two counts of disobey ing a command from a Superior. Government prosecutors dropped the remaining counts. Sargeant a former medics instructor at the facade my of health sciences at fort Sam Houston could face a maximum 17-year prison sentence a Dis Honora ble discharge total forfeiture of benefits and a demo Tion to the fewest Grade of private. A military jury was scheduled to decide ski Eam i sentence later wednesday. During questioning by u. Cot. Stephen Saynisch the military Tudic Sargeant said he did not inform hit sexual partners that he carried the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome and failed to use a condom. Sargeant had been ordered either to inform Hii sex Ual partners of his condition or u Wear a the hearing he was not asked Why he failed to do so and did not offer an explanation. Last week the . Court of military Ini Cly postponed the court martial of pfc. Adrian a Morns an administrative clerk Al fort he Achuck ariz., while it reviewed a motion to suppress the so Dick s aids test results
