European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. April 17,1988 International heroin ring smashed . Announces Washington a Federal investigators said Friday they have broken up a chinese Herom a Raytick ing ring culminating in the arrest of 11 people in Hong Kong and nine in the United Stales As Well As the seizure of 1j7 pounds of heroin Worth Over Loo Mil lion. \ five of those arrested in new York were charged Wilh conspiring to Supply 1,000 m-l6 military rifles to undercover Federal agents and to provide false documents so the rifles could be shipped to Libya. The breakup of inc asian ring was the culmination of o two year investigation called operation Bamboo dragon thai was launched when Federal agents Learned that a restaurant owner in the Chinatown Section of Washington was buying stolen firearms and distributing cocaine. The Fri the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and fire arms. Inc drug enforcement administration and the . Customs service conducted the investigation and Law enforcement officials announced the arrests at a news conference in Washington. Drug importing asian criminal gangs Are moving in to fill the void left by the successful prosecution of sicilian mafia members in the United states Fri director William sessions said in a statement. This gang was unable of pulling enormous fire Power into the hands of terrorists and drug smug Glen customs commissioner William von Raab said in a statement. Federal officials said the ring had sup plied 600 handguns mostly to chinese gangs. The Fri and at inserted undercover operatives into the ring including o chinese speaking agent who portrayed himself As a drug dealer. The cantonese speaking Federal agent Frederick you. Met with gang members in Washington and Hong Kong to negotiate the Purchase of heroin from Asia. The heroin came from Burma and China and was transported to san Francisco and new York City s Chinatown. It also was distributed to Newark no. Alexandria a. And Washington. . Members of the ring were Selling hundreds of stolen or illegally obtained handguns machine guns and rides on the streets of new York usually to chinese gangs. Many of the firearms were obtained with fraudulent identification documents from gun shop in fort Worth Dallas and Houston the officials said. The chinese gangs were buying ar-1j Semi automatic rides the civilian version of the army s m-16 Rifle and converting them into fully automatic m its. Customs and at undercover agents bought 10 weapons from the five people charged in new York and or dered 1,000 More m-16s that were to be delivered to Libya. Such shipments would have violated the arms Export control act which sets up Federal licensing proce dures for the Sale of weapons to foreign countries. Study charges textbook fiasco hinders . Education system Washington a most textbooks Are lifeless and Boring because state regulations Force publishers to cram elementary and secondary books with test oriented trivia pedagogical faddish and inconsistent social messages an education group charged Friday. The Council for Basic education said Stales should Stop issuing lengthy lists of what textbooks must cover and publishers should have textbooks written by gifted writers instead of committees. In a study called a conspiracy of Good intentions America s textbook fiasco the non profit Council snit the textbook selection system is perfectly de signed to produce textbooks that confuse mislead and profoundly bore  authors and editors do not willingly chop and Flat ten sentences nor do they thoughtlessly mangle Story lines it said. The source of me writing problem is not in the publishing House but in the Public Agency legislators educational policymakers and administrative regulators have unintentionally drained the life out of children s  it cited one Book that rendered the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise this Way Rabbit said 1 can run. 1 can run fast. You can t run fast Turtle said. Look Rabbit. Sec the Park. You and i will run. Well run to the Park Rabbit said 1 want to Stop. I la Stop Here. I can run but Turtle can to " i can get to the Park fast Turtle said i can t run fast. But i will not Stop. Rabbit can t see me. I la get to the Park " in another instance noted in a recent article in at lactic monthly Magazine a passage from Hans Chris Tian Anderson s the emperor s new clothes was reduced from the original " magnificent excellent prodigious went from Mouth to Mouth and everyone was exceedingly pleased to this " How marvelous they echoed the Emper or. How Beautiful " the Council said the entire Market is hostage to the textbook adoption method that 22 Stales use to decide what books their Public schools can buy. Most South pm and Western states including Texas and califor Nia have such adoption policies. States chum out undisciplined lists of particulars that publishers must include in lie textbooks. Since publisher must sell in u Many jurisdictions As possible la order to turn a profit their books must incorporate this melange of Tysl Onen cd trivia pedagogical faddish and inconsistent social messages uie study said. The author Harriet Tyson bums twin said re Amabili textbook prose that flits from fact to fact statement to statement and topic o topic without giving the Reader the context that would make sense of the factual information the study said. Mother wants teacher fired for alleged run or kiss order san d1mas, Calif. A a gym teacher demanded her students either run a Lap around a school track or kiss her fool according to an angry Mother who wants an apology and the instructor fired. Sherry Schluter said her son was one of Only three students in the class who chose to jog during the physical education class april 8. The Only time my son should have to kiss some one s fool it when his life is being threatened Schluter said during a Bonita unified school District Board meeting in this City about 23 Miles East of los Angeles. A complaint filed by Schluter contends that Kathy Stewart an instructor at Lone Hill intermediate school in san Dimajo gave her seventh Grade Clatt inc ultimatum run or kiss. I d like to see her apologize to the students and parents and be terminated Schluter added at the wednesday night meeting. Neither Stewart nor Adalphus a Carter principal of the sixth through eighth Grade school returned phone Calls Friday seeking comment. Carter s Secretary said they would have no comment. District officials Are investigating said interim superintendent Mitchell Gilbert. Schluter told the Board that other parents told her Stewart ordered students in a gym class Tut year to kiss her hand if they sought permission to use the re room. Some of the kids took it As a joke. Some were humiliated and some were afraid it would affect their grades Schluter said. Last year it was her hand. This year it was her foot. Who knows what it will be next said Schluter i hut band David. Stateside former teacher convicted of assaults on children Newark . A a former pre school teacher was convicted Friday of sexually assault ing 19 children and endangering the welfare of a 30th child at a now defunct Day care Center Margaret Kelly Michaels 26, of Pittsburgh was found guilty of 11 counts and acquitted on parents of inc youngsters cried As did Michaels while the jury read its verdict concluding 10-month trial and 13 Days of deliberations. Superior judge William f. Harth revoked is Michaels $35,000 bail and ordered her jailed pending sentencing May 26. Michaels could be sentenced to More than 1,000 years in prison and fined More than s3 million food Banks in California get illegally imported fish Washington a some 78,000 pounds of illegally imported fish is being donated to food Banks in California the National Marine fisheries service reported Friday. The Frozen Salmon was seized last year after being imported from Japan and then re labelled As a product of the United Stales the Agency Sard. After inspecting the Salmon and Clearing it for human consumption the Agency decided to do Nate it for use in shelters Day care centers soup kitchens and senior centers. About 26,000 pounds of Salmon will so to the los Angeles regional food Bank and 52,000 pounds will be divided by the san Francisco and Santa Clara county food Banks. " the Salmon was seized at cold storage plants in Oakland Riverside and Watsonville. About 200,000 pounds of fish confiscated in Bellingham wash., was sold earlier under a court order officials said. Tests show Mummy died of a brain abscess Memphis Tenn. A an ancient Mummy found in a pawnshop is Likely a body of a Man who died Al the age of 35 and would have Hod a longer and More comfortable life in the age of antibiotics University scientist say Memphis stale University paid a Detroit pawnbroker $40,000 for the 2,300-year-old Mummy two years ago and asked inc University of Tennessee in Memphis to run a Battery of tests. The medical school had set up a Mummy team in 1985 to conduct similar tests on a ancient head acquired by Memphis stale s Institute of egyptian Art and archaeology the team tested tissue and hair Tamplis and took hundreds of a rays and announced that the egyptian apparently died of a brain Abi Ceu caused by an ear infection. Mail order firms agree to pay $300,000 penalty Washington a the head of iwo mail order firms has agreed to pay a $300,000civil penalty to Settle charges that he violated Federal rules the Federal Trade commission announced Friday. The payment kitted charges against Philip Goutell president of Frankel Bush inc. And conceptual trends inc. Of new York Ute Etc said. The Trade commission had charged that Goutell s companies and others misrepresented products they offered for Sale failed to deliver merchandise on time failed to notify Cornu non of their right to cancel delayed orders and failed to cancel orders or make refunds to consumer. Under terms of the settlement the companies also agreed not to make misleading claims about products offered for Sale including Coo Knirr Kitchen products binoculars kerosene lamps and pills claimed to remedy impotence. Seven other firms and three individuals also were named in the original Etc suit. The others settled the charges against them fait August