European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and sufi types wednesday february 24. 1988 wind Breaks windows in Chicago s Sears Tower Chicago Apt wind Gusling to More than so maps hurled debris into windows at the scars Tower Early monday damaging 90 panes and forcing police to dose streets around he world s tallest building authorities said. But police said there were no reports of injun rits from falling Glass. Initially building officials reported thai 19 windows were broken and Sis others were cracked on the East and Southeast sides or the 110-Story building Laid Ernie arms a spokes Man for Sears. Roebuck and co.,_ whose corporate Headquarters Are in the building. A Survey later in the morning by building engineers found that 90 windows were broken or cracked As the wind Gus cd to ski Mph tie said. Century old Windmill Burns in new York Park new York a a Century old Windmill once saved from demolition by donations burned monday night in a suspicious Blaze authorities said. The Structure erupted in a fireball and col lapsed fire officials said. The Blaze was definitely suspicious said . The 26-foot Windmill believed built Between i860 and 1870, was set for demolition when the private property it was on was Bough about a year ago. Said pal Juviler director of the Alley Pond environmental Center and chairwoman of the com Millee to save the Windmill. It was moved to a Park in Queens and was about to be restored she said she said thai nearly 140,000 had already been raised for the move and the restoration and thai the state had pledged $40,000 More for inc project. Christian to station target of sniper fire Mobile Ala. A police increased patrols monday at a fundamentalist Christian Tele vision station that has been hit by sporadic sniper fire twice in a week. No one was injured in the latest incident on sunday morning said a Mph to owner de bowlds. 23 fishermen rescued from ice Floe in Lake Charlotte Lap Twenty three ice fishermen were rescued after spending 90 min utes adrift on a chunk of ice in Lake Clamp Lam authorities said. An ice Floe broke up behind the fishermen monday afternoon making the piece increasingly smaller for the anglers. Winds pushed the fishermen about Ivi Miles before they were rescued by helicopters. Early social Security checks cause surplus in Treasury Washington api the Federal government posted a rare j16.09 billion surplus last month Pri Marily because social Security checks for january were mailed carry the Treasury department announced monday. The department said the january surplus was a see. Able improvement from a december deficit of 124.22 billion. The surplus it first since september occurred because social Security checks which normally go out on he third Day of the month were mailed out dec. 31 because of the new year s Holiday. The Early payment inflated government spending in december and lowered pending in january. For the first four months of the fiscal year which began ocl. I the monthly deficits have totalled s65.8i billion Down 0.7 percent from the same period in the 1987 fiscal year. For All of 1988, the Reagan administration is projecting that the budget deficit will fall to si46.74 Bil lion Down 2.5 percent from last year s deficit of j150-4 billion however the congressional budget office using less optimistic assumptions about economic growth this year projects a 1988 budget deficit of j1s7 bit lion substantially above the target of 1144 billion set in the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law. Last thursday president Reagan sent Congress his budget recommendations for i�b9 in which Fie asked for 11,1 trillion in Federal spending and forecast thai the deficit pcs year would drop to s119-5 billion. For the first four months of this fiscal year govern ment revenues have totalled j286.66 billion. 5.5 per cent higher than a year ago. Government spending totalled $352.46 billion an increase of 4.2 percent Over the same period a year ago. In january government Revenue totalled $81.79 Bil lion Down 4.3 percent from december. Government spending was almost half the december total drop Ping to s65.7i billion in january compared with 1109.74 billion the month before. As usual the largest spending categories in january were the military followed by social Security other programs in the department of health and human services and interest on the National debt. Military spending totalled si9.23 billion last month and 193.52 billion for the fiscal year so far. Up 6.5 percent from the same period a year ago. Counting on social Security As a portion of Post of lament of Norm in percent of Sun eyed respondents one Quarter of income 26% three quarters of Oneomo 10% Chicago try oui pm pc source Tocoi poll Nonorl income 22% one Hall Oll Como spending for social Security touted just 5652 Mil lion last month and 170.14 billion for inc past four months up 4.6 percent from a year ago. The Oiler programs in the department of health and human services including medicare and Midi Caid spent i 50.51 billion in january and s49.93 Bil lion so far this budget year a 1.1 percent increase Over 1987. Interest on the 12,2 trillion National debt totalled 114.67 billion last month and $75.77 billion so far this fiscal year an increase of 9.8 percent Over the same period last year. For the 1�88 fiscal year interest payments on the debt arc expected to total $210.06 billion accounting for 20 percent of total Federal spending. Judge delays Mecham s criminal trial Phoenix aril. A gov. Evan Mechum t criminal rial on charges of concealing a $350,000 Campaign loan was delayed by a judge monday until March 22, the delay from the original March 9 trial Date gives Bolh sides Lime to handle pretrial motions and an Swers said judge Michael Ryan of Maricopa county Superior court. Mecham also faces a May 17 recall election and a feb. 29 impeachment trial by the state Senate. He is charged with six counts of fraud penury and films false documents in connection with a $350,000 Campaign Luan made in october 1986 byte pc devel oper and attorney Barry Wolfson. Willard Mecham his brother s 1986 Campaign treasurer faces three Sim Ilar counts. The governor and brother did not answer reporters questions when they entered and left the courtroom. Assistant attorney general Michael Cudahy told Ryan thai he needed More Lime to reply to defense motions. Cudahy also complained that attorney for the Mccami had not yet made required Bretnal Dis closures including lists of witnesses and exhibits. Cudahy said the Meeham lawyers made More or less a grandstand play by saying in court monday that they were ready logo to trial when they had not mid inc disclosures. Parents polled on aids How schools Deal with it Emmaus is a at Lei isl a fifth of the nation s parents would refuse to Send their children to school if a class mate contracted aids according to a Survey by Louis Harris and associates. The poll conducted for children mag Azine also found More than half of the Parent would want to know he identity of Young aids victims in their Community and All but 6 percent believe schools should educate youngsters about the deadly disease. The pollsters surveyed 411 parents with children 3 to 18 years old Between oct. 23 and oct. 25. The Survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. According to the poll 21 percent of parents would keep Pineir children Home if i classmate contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome percent would allow their youngsters to continue attending classes and 12 percent were Uncertain or would need to weigh the circumstances to decide. Expert with the Federal centers for disease control insist aids is not transmitted through casual Contact but through sex contaminated blood products and tainted hypodermic Needles and infected pregnant women can give it to their fetus. But a few cases including a child in Pennsylvania s Rural Monroe county have no easily explained source for the virus which destroys the body s ability la fight infection. Scientifically you could not mate the statement that it would be impossible to Contact aids from casual Contact with a classmate said Lester Lave a professor of economics at Carnegie Mel Fon University in Pittsburgh and past president of the society of risk analysis. But it seems extremely unlikely. We lose kids every year in school bus Acci dents. We Haven t lost any kids from a casual Contact with aids he said. The Survey also found that 56 percent would want to know the identity of aids victims enrolled in school while 39 percent believe the information should remain confidential As req Iid by Federal Law. Parents believe the special nature of the disease requires extraordinary Steps on the pan of school districts. According to the Survey 94 percent of the parents say schools need to educate teachers and students about the disease even if no one in the District has contracted aids. "1 think that s a virtual mandate for Schoob to get information out for each in and student to understand said Michael r. Kagay vice president of the Harris organization. Currently. 17 hates require aids Edu cation in Public schools. Figures from various parts of the country differ. In the West 74 percent of the parents would allow their children to attend school Wilh an aids victim in the mid West the figure is 70 percent and in the East the percentage drops to 60 percent. Kagay believes the concentration of the disease in Large cities particularly on inc East coast accounts for the differ. Ence. Ubai you Are seeing Here it the near Ness of the threat Kagay said. So lie stronger the threat or the closer to borne the More reluctant parents May be to Send their Kidi to  official estimates of the number at children with aids vary from Joo of 500, according to the Magazine. But or. James Ole be of children hot pita la new Jersey in Newark believe up to 3,000 children now Cany inc virus in