European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday december 5, 1987 . Foreign Aid Mission pulling out of Panama Washington a the United slates is com plying As As possible with a panamanian decision to Cupel the u.3. Foreign Aid Mission the slate department said Friday. Department spokesman Charles Redman said the panamanian order will affect 48 american employees of the Agency for International development which administers he Aid program and 68 dependents. He said there was no precise timetable for the Depar Ture of the americans. Under questioning Redman declined to character ize the panamanian decision and said no retaliation is planned against panamanian diplomats in washing ton. Panama asked the Aid Mission to leave the country in response to the . Suspension of economic and military assistance to that country earlier this year. Department press officer Sondra Mccarty said wednesday that Alp had planned an s8 million assist Ance program to private organizations in Panama in 1988, but this operation now cannot be carried out. Direct . Aid to the panamanian government had been suspended earlier this year after . Map Phoi picture too perfect a picture May be Worth thousand words but to Chrisl Obei Aaron it s Worth charge at manufacturing a controlled substance. Aaron is shown to Bis own snapshot in front of marijuana plants do he property. The drug store where Aaron took the film to be processed turned the photos Over to police. Bassy buildings were damaged in anti american demonstrations. Mccarty said All Aid personnel will leave Panama except for those needed to close out the program. She did not have a figure on the number of americans affected by the decision. Panamanian president Eric Arturo Delvalle said last week that reactionary sectors of the United Stales Are engaged in political and economic aggression against his country. This was an apparent reference to the 19-0 vote two weeks ago by the Senate foreign relations committee to make the . Ban on Aid to Panama permanent unless sweeping reforms Are made and civilian Rule restored. Sen. Alan Cranston a Calif. Said at the time that the vote was a Clear message to the venal corrupt panamanian defense forces against the abuse of the panamanian the defense forces Are widely perceived As the dominant element in panamanian political life and the Reagan administration has dropped Panama fro the list of latin american countries it regards As democratic. Aids education on Rise in . Washington a seventeen Stales and the District of Columbia now require some instruction about the deadly aids Sims according to a National association of state boards of education Survey. The number of slates that mandate instruction about acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Public schools has tripled in the past sin months the association said thursday. In an earlier Survey of state boards of education Las june Only five Stales Georgia Kansas Oklahoma Pennsylvania and Rhode Island required any aids education. Now they have been joined by Alabama. Delaware Hawaii Illinois Iowa Maryland Nevada new Mexico new York North Carolina Ohio Vir Ginia and the District of Columbia. Twenty one Stales have developed teaching Materi als or curricular guidelines for aids education. Phyllis l. Bla Unstan the group s executive director told a news conference most stale mandates Call for instruction for seventh to 12th but she said aids education project directors often recommend that communities Start educating Young sleds sooner in grades four to six before they Start engaging in risky sex or drug practices. Aids education often is added to existing sex Edu cation courses but very few slates have Given their departments of education extra Money to carry out the mandate. Blaunstein said mandates without funding and comprehensive plans for teacher training materials and Community education Are not meaningful. Aids instruction does not always spell Oul clearly and frankly what Young people of All Ages need to know to protect themselves she said. Teaching about abstinence from sex and drug use is essential. And we must be equally Frank about other methods of prevention. This is no time to mince Academy upgrade proposed Washington a Trie nation s service Aca demies must do a better Job producing competent offi cers who understand both strategy and their military oaths House members investigating the Quality of Academy training said. At a news conference thursday members of the House armed services committee on military Educa Tion said they will spend a year examining All facets of officer training to see How the academies can improve. They re not adequate in a lot of Arras in our feeling said rep. Jack Davis of Illinois the ranking Republic anon the Brianel. We have to make sure we have competent Field officers who know More than pushing a Button. Saying that High ranking Academy graduates violated a ban on . Military Aid to nicaraguan rebels by taking pan in the Iran con Ira Amis Deal other panel members said the investigation also must look at ethics. The military has a responsibility to conduct itself consistent with Laws passed by the United slates con Gress even the ones they Don t like said rep. Joseph e. Brennand Maine. A few people do not necessarily represent the whole education program he said. But i was appalled that people thai have reached those ranks. Seemed at least in my opinion to a disregard for the the panel s chairman rep. Ike Skelton. D-mo., said a recent visit to a War College made him appreciate Brennan s concern. "1 was surprised and shocked by the Lack of under standing of the. Constitution of the United who raise their hands to become an officer or to become a member of our armed forces swear to uphold the provisions of the Constitution he s isl common sense to have a full and deep under standing of that oath Skelton said. Stateside a perfect Holiday gift just an everyday girl Ventura Calif. A while most people arc Oul shopping Tor Christmas presents. Randy a scr is in the Market for a male. The 36-year-old oilfield worker who carries a wife wanted sign on his red thunderbird wherever he goes Sal in his car in a k. Man parking lot but did t get any offers apart Tram afew Telephone numbers. I want someone to spend my life with said a scr a Chunky 6-Footcr. I m just looking Forando m or Vert or an somebody average just an everyday girl and Oul where everybody else is. I m not a nerve Mythin. I m not really Happy by his sign begins wife walled. Or like to a cities it goes on in say he in t particular about marital status or children and s looking Tor someone 20 to 30 years old a scr. Whose work As an Oil Driller has Lakin him All Over the world says his wife would have to be witling to travel and to have a Man who works Long hours at a hard cold dirty Job. Maine s sex gov. Haskell Dies in Home fire at 84 danger Maine former Coy. Rob Ert n. Has Kilt who served just 5vj Days in Jan uary 1959. Died thursday in a fire at his was 84. Haskell a Republican served Between the administrations of democrats Edmund a music and Clinton a. Clauson. Muskie had resigned on Jan 2, 1959, to be sworn in As a . Senator. As president of Testate Senate Haiku la assumed me governorship until Clausen s inauguration. Haskell served one term in the stale House from 1945 to 1947 and six full terms in the Senate where he was majority Leader twice an president twice. To 1958 he was elected to a seventh term but following his Brief ascension to the governorship he left state government to become president of Eia Ngor Hydro electric co. He retired in 1976 but continued to serve As Board chairman. Critter roaming hallways was not the teacher s pet ma1tland, Fla. A student and teachers at Maitland Middle school watched aghast As a 4 w fool Long Black Lizard with yellow stripes scurried by their classrooms. When a student reported the Loose reptile one disbelieving teacher said Slop your foolishness and get Back to according to principal Howard few minutes later the teacher found out the student was right Fleming Nile Monitor Lizard which resembles a Small Alligator was apparently somebody s pet officials said. The reptile was pursued by about 20 police officers firefighters game officials and school employees who first trapped it with a Tennis net against a Fence in the struggle the Lizard broke free and streaked across the parking lot. As the volunteers pursued the Lizard rammed into another Fence and 1hc game control officers used a pole with a rope noose to Snag it. 28 Railroad cars derail chemical leak clears town Charleston Tenn. A Twenty eight Railroad cars overturned near Here and a leak of a chemical from a derailed Tanker prompted the evacuation of the town s 750 residents authorities said thursday. No injuries were derailment occurred late wednesday near this Southeastern Tennessee town said officer Bob Hyden of the Bradley county sheriffs de initially feared poisonous chlorine was leaking from the Tanker but determined about four hours later that the material was Ace tic anhydride a combustible corrosive that s potent i ally leak was about an Inch in diameter but ii has been said . Darden of the Tennessee emergency management Agency. Crews worked through the night to dissipate the gaseous material
