European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 9, 1sbb the stars and stripes Paga 5 Young inventors find solutions to old problems Maitland Fla. Api a self cleaning Bathtub. Sail dyed red so hat people can know How much they use. Sunglasses with pockets. A life preserver Tor horses. These arc inventions by kids involved in a program called invent America which seeks to boost the level of creativity and innovation in this country. At Pommerich elementary school in this Orlando suburb fifth graders arc brainstorming their Way to new ideas to resolve problems sue i As locating a dog at night. The invent America class is Laughl by Gil Rowe one Day a week to each of five classes of gifted students in differed grades. We be just kind of forgotten to teach the children the old Ameri can ingenuity says Rowe 44. The program is privately financed by the . Patent Model found. Tion in Washington. Besides opening up the innovative process. Row says the pro Gram Chanco self esteem. The problem of finding a Dag at nigh was addressed by 11-year-old Seih Swanson who is developing a dog Collar with a Light attached. Witness says Mecham s order instantly struck him As a crime Phoenix aril. A arizona1 top police official testified at gov. Evan Mcchamp s impeachment trial monday that he realized almost immediately Mecham had committed a crime in or Dering Trie official to not cooperate in an investigation of an alleged death threat. I was in Shock Over what he was say ing taken Aback speechless said col. Ralph mislead director of the state department of Public safety. Mill cad quoted Mecham As angrily up the i telling him i Don t want you to help the Craft attorney general hang me. Don t Leil him anything. Militeau said he had phoned the Gover nor nov. 15 id discuss a report that Lee Welkins then a Mecham administration official had threatened to Send a former Mecham aide on a Long boat ride if she did to Slop testifying before a investigating Mecham Campaign finances. Watkins has denied threatening the aide Donna Carlson. And mislead has said he cooperated with the attorney Gen eral office. Molstead whose testimony is crucial to the obstruction of Justice charge against the governor blurted out his statement regarding a crime during Cross Mani Nalion by Becharn s attorney Fred Craft. Craft asked Why mils cad in his re port on the incident quoted the Gover nor s words but not mils cad s own part of the conversation. Because i m not committing a crime said mils cad. I m not obstructing Justice when did you conclude that the governor s words constituted a crime asked Craft. As pm hearing them and reflecting on them said mislead adding it look him about two seconds after hanging phone. Craf asked mils cad Why he did not write Down Bis conclusion that a crime had been committed. I did t think it was necessary said mils cad. Anyone with a Legal Back ground could read it and see this was an obstruction of an  Craft kept mits cad on Cross Exa Nina Tion for most of the Day and said he would continue quizzing him tuesday. Al one Point Craft asked if mislead was surprised that his staff did t Tell him the governor had assigned a member of his Cabinet Max Hawkins to investigate the death threat allegation no it did t Surprise me said Milstead. Max Hawkins is Noi a Law enforcement officer. He s not competent to investigate it. Let Watkins works for him and Max Hawkins would t be taken seriously anywhere on Earth that i know  Hawkins former head of the depart ment of administration was fired last week by acting gov Rose Molford who said he had publicly attacked govern ment officials. Mislead the trial s seventh witness took the stand at the Start of the second week of testimony. Mecham the firs . Governor to face an inc Schmail trial in Sii decades has not attended the proceedings. Mecham in testimony before a House impeachment committee in january acknowledged that he May have told mislead not to cooperate with the investigation. However Mecham contended he was not fully informed about these Riou Ness of the situation before his conversation with mils cad. Earlier in the Day. Attorney general Robert Corbin advised the Senate not to Grant immunity to Watkins who invoked fifth amendment Protection against self  Friday and re fused o testify Corbin confirmed that Walkins is the target of a grand jury investigation and said it would be inappropriate to immunise him from possible prosecution. Impeachment trial prosecutor William French said we would be against giving he likes of or. Walkins a Bath for All the sins he has committed the senators were unanimous in their rejection of immunity 3 of in Vitro quilts taken Home Zlebek and Raymond l Esperance with Danielle. Royal Oak Mich. Api Raymond and Mich Cle l Esper Nncy took three of i hair in Vitro quintuplets Home monday saying they were eager to begin family life with them. Raymond jr., Danielle and Erica and their parents Rode away from William Beaumont Hospital in a while limousine decorated with Silver balloons As a crowd of doctors nurses Hospital administrators and reporters watched. The babies born Jan. 11, were the first quintuplets bom in the United states alter being conceived through in Viltro fertilization which involves fertilizing ovum in the Laboratory and implanting the embryos in the womb. The other two babies Veronica and Alexandria who were placed on respirators at birth remained in the Hospi Tal. They Are of Floc respirators now and arc expected to be released in a few weeks or. Daniel Batton director of Newborn Medicine at Beaumont said. They still require special attention and Monitor ing Ballon said but we expect those problems will be resolved in the next couple of weeks and we Don t anticipate any problems looking ahead to the task of raising five to weirs l Esperance and his wife said they Are ready to take the infants to their new House in Clarkston and let them join their three other children As a family. We Are pleased and overjoyed to have three of our babies going Home the Macomb county sheriffs department corrections officer said. We can t wait to Nave the other two Home. Well just Siart getting Down to being a  the babies have gained about 3 pounds each in the eight weeks since their birth. Raymond Iofi Beaumont weighing 4 pounds 9 ounces Danielle weighed 6 pounds 6 ounces and Erica weighed 3 pounds 14 ounces Pamela Wells nursing director in the in Vitro fertilization program at Beaumont said. 9,800 added to nazi watch list Washington a the Justice department s nazi Hunting unit has identified 9,800 people As for Mer concentration Camp guards and is placing their names on the immigration watch list of individuals 10 debarred from the United slates. The office of special investigations compiled the names with the assistance of a sophisticated new com Puter database. Names of suspected criminals and nazi persecutors arc systematically checked against immigration re cords to determine if they arc in the United Stales the names of individuals not found to be in this Osi has listed thousands of such people few years. But the 9,800 now to be placed 01 list of the . Immigration and naturalist country arc included on the watch list to prevent them from entering in Fie past co on the  serv ice for serving As concentration and death Camp guards is probably the greatest number to be added at one time said the office s chief Cal Sher. The watch list includes people who Are prohibited from entering the United Stales under a Federal Law barring individuals who assist cd or otherwise participated in nazi sponsored persecution. 2nd Terc Effion of a fans made by coast guard Miami Al a haitian sailing vessel with 60 people aboard was intercepted monday about 300 Miles Southeast of Miami a coast guard spokesman said. The interception was made by the Cutter vigorous near crooked Island in the Bahamas Chain and was the second in three Days by the coast guard a spokesman for the service Luis dial said. On saturday a ship carrying 190 haitians without Legal entry papers was intercepted and its passengers were being sent Back in Fon a Prince. The 45 men 12 women and three children on the ship seized monday will be returned to Haiti by the vigorous piaz said. Coast guard vessels arc also searching for another ship reportedly in the area he said. Diaz said there had been a Lull in haitian interceptions in recent month and that the two seizures could signal renewed efforts to enter the United slates Ille Gally. Safis a time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 9, 1948 Finland formally accepted a soviet request for negotiations in Moscow on a soviet finnish Friendship and military pact. 30 years ago today. March 9, 1958 the veterans administration reported the discovery of research evidence that could Point the Way toward development of a vaccine for treatment of some types of  20 years ago foday. March 9, i96s Pope Paul i named Bishop Terence James Cooke a 47-year-old Liberal As Succes Sor to die late Cardinal Francis Spillman As roman Catholic archbishop of new York City. J 0 years ago today March 9, 1978 tax Foutin Dativa inc., a non profit research group reported that the average Ameri can household s share of the Federal tax Burden for nscall978was$5,l m