European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday december 10,1987 Poindexter retires after 29 years , military or intr Washington  my. John a j find Cal or. President Rongan s former National Security adviser and a key figure in the Iran Centra scandal retired from he Navy last week after 29 years of military service officials said wednesday Poindexter s retirement had originally been slated for oct. 1, but was delayed for two months for unspecified personal reasons. Cmdr Kendall Pease u Navy spokesman said the Admiral had left a Job at the Pentagon and retired effective dec.  poin Dexler following his resignation As the presi Dent s National Security adviser in november 1986, returned to the Navy and spent a year working As a special assistant for Long run a planning to he chief of naval operations adm. Carlisle . The 51-year-old Poindexter was granted permission to retire fast september by Navy Secretary James Webb. At the time a close Friend said he wan cd to leave the service with his head held High and before any Iran can try indictments were returned i  and Liis former Deputy Marine it. Col. Oliver North arc said to be key figures in the ongoing criminal investigation of the affair by an Independent prosecutor. North who was fired from his Post inc same Day poin Dexler resigned remains on Active duty in a staff Job at Marine corps Headquarters. During congressional hearings this summer Poindexter testified that he kept president Reagan in the dark about the diversion of iranian arms sales profits to  nicaraguan Contra. Guerrillas. He also said he do Poindexter so Royce a presidential document authorizing the iranian Amis sales As a weapons for to suites transaction fearing political embarrassment if it should become Public. Webb in authorizing poin Duxler s retirement refused to allow him to step Down with the rank of vice Admiral pending completion of Lac Iran Contra inc Miculion. According to Pentagon sources i  to retire with inc three Star rank of vice Admiral which he held while working at the White House rather than the Iwu so air rear Admiral s rank he was reduced to upon leaving that Post. I Oindexter made the request As a matter of Prin Ciple believing he. Was entitled to the extra Star in retirement because of his service in a three Star Job atthe while House one source said. According to Pease poin Duxler did in fact retire last week As a two Star rear Admiral. Webb has said he will review the situation after completion of the inde pendent investigation. According to inc Navy a two Star rear Admiral with29 years of service is eligible fora pension of$s2,764a year. A three Star vice Admiral with Hie same amount of service would receive a pension of 153.016 a year.  is a 1958 graduate of the . Naval Academy. Homes Are considered havens Survey finds new York a most College educated americans View their Homes More As a Haven from the ral race than a Symbol of worldly Success but believe their children will not be Able to afford such satisfying shelter a Survey released tuesday said. According to the Harris Survey con ducted for a Home furnishings retailer More than 50 percent of College educated americans say their Homes Are satisfying some or most of their needs. However nearly half of the respondents believe their children will not do belter. Among 1,200 College graduates 57 percent reported themselves cry satisfied and 35 percent somewhat satisfied with their present Homes. Eight percent said they Are Little or not at All satisfied. Sixty percent said their Homes Are bet Ter than those they grew up in 26 per cent said they were about the same and Only 12 percent said they were worse. Asked How they thought their Chil Dren s eventual housing would compare 43 percent said the children would do better and 45 percent said inc same or worse. The Rusl either had no children or no opinion. Given a list of needs a Home should meet 93 percent said it was important thai in provide a Haven or Sanctuary from the pressures of sic outside world. Only 47 percent thought in important that a Home be a sign of having made  also rating higher than Home As a Suc Cess Symbol were Home As an expression of taste interests and character As a proper place to raise children As giving a feeling of having roots and us being a Good place to entertain and to enjoy improving the poll showed. The poll was conducted by Telephone in August and september and had a mar Gin of error of plus or minus 3 percent the National Cross Sample of College educated people had a median age of 19 and median household income of 144,000 a year. Seventy two percent owned the Crown houses and 5 percent owned their apartments. The median a us of the residences was $105,000. The poll was commissioned by pier i imports inc. Senate pane approves labor Secretary nominee Washington a the Senate labor committee approved unanimously wednesday the nomination of Ann Dore Mclaughlin to be Secretary of labor succeeding William e. Brack Iii. The panel approved the 46-year-Otd Mclaughlin former Interior undersecretary with no debate and no dissenting Vries. She had appeared before the com Mittee for less than an hour on tuesday. The nomination goes to the Senate floor where in is expected to be consid ered before the Senate recesses for the Christmas Holiday tentatively set for the end of next week. There were no Tough questions for Mclaughlin at tuesday s hearing. Democrats and republicans on the committee praised her record of government service and indicated she will have no trouble being confirmed. Despic the Lack of opposition to her nomination she can expect some hard limes next year in her dealings with the committee. As Secretary she will be expected to deliver the Reagan administration position on such controversial issues As an increase in the minimum wage and parental leave. Mclang Blyn consultant s math worse than students test scores Washington a a National geographic society quiz that was supposed to dramatize american College students unfamiliarity with the landscape of the soviet Union also showed that some adults have problems with math. The society corrected the scores in reported for 1,353 of the 1,630 Colleg students who took its multiple Choice lest. Changing the grades improved the percentage who answered individual questions correctly by 8 to 15 Points. For instance 89 percent of the Stu dents knew thai chernobyl was the place where the nuclear Power Plant Accident occurred not 74 percent As the society initially reported. Fifty Sis percent not 46 percent knew the ural mountains separate the euro Pean and asian regions of the .s-r. Christopher l. Sailer a ullage Graphy professor on leave to serve As coordinator of the society s Geo graphic Alliance network called the mistake an extreme embarrassment fell by All All the people that had their hands in this  he blamed in on a consultant who did the math the mistake did not change College students Overall scare on the 12-qucs Tion multiple Choice test. They averaged 7.1 Correl on questions Hal required them to know Why the soviet Union s three main Rivers Are not considered Good for transportation too shallow which big cily is nearest to chernobyl Kievan what expansion efforts by Peter the great and Catherine the great had in common with the 1979 soviet inva Sion of Afghanistan a desire to get closer to warm water ports. The quiz was developed by a ninth Grade social studies teacher and Given to a total of 2.300 students whose teachers belong 10 Sal Ler s geographic Alliance network. Sailer said sixth graders averaged 3.97 answers Correct out of 12 ninth graders4.53 High Hool seniors6.01,and collegians 7.1. I be social studies teachers who Toi. The quiz them selves got 8.5 Park service will restrict grand Canyon flights Washington a the National Park service on wednesday unveiled plans to restrict tourist flights Over 44 percent of the grand Canyon in a move officials said would balance the interests of time pressed sightseers and Solitude seeking backpackers. The plan contained in recommendations to the Federal aviation administration Calli for the establishment of four night free areas in which planes would have to stay above 14,500 feel above sea level or about 7,000 to 8,500 feel above the Canyon rim. The service also told the Faa in ought to consider moving two High Altitude Jet routes to avoid the can Yon Ali other. Under a Taw passed in May the Faa has 90 Days to adopt the recommendations though it May change them for safety reasons. As required by the Law in recommendations Call for a Flat ban on All flights below the Canyon rim. Various studies have to be conducted in the next two years and reported on to Congress and these will include Csc sements of actual noise Levels on the ground and the use of quiet aircraft officials said. Tour flights have grown rapidly and various groups use different figures. The service estimated flights at 50,000 per year though some members of Congress this Spring used an estimate of 296,000 nights a year by some 40 companies in june 1986 a collision Over the Canyon killed 25  Horn assistant Secretary of the Interior for Ash and wildlife and Parks told u news conference in this Case we dealt with disparate mar groups the hundreds of thousands of flight seers and Hose thousands of Bact country users who Are seeking Solitude and quiet and thousands of others who just want to stand on the rim and have that in parallel View of the Canyon. In an egalitarian society it is nut govern Mcnol s Job to Tell one group yes and another group  Horn said. We think this is a Good Compromise for everybody concerned said William Penn Moll director of inc National Park service. The helicopter operators prob Abl Art not going to he very Happi about the plan handsome environmental groups Are going to feel we Haven i gone far