European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday August 15,1988 peaceful Outing former soviet cosmonaut Georgi Grechko holds a loaf of bread Given to him As a Friendship gesture while standing on a Mississippi River levee in Baton Rouge la. Patsy Prewitt of Greenville miss., and Morris Gottlieb of Bethany conn., hold the soviet and american flags during the meeting. Stateside environmental groups denounce administration s Energy policy Washington a three environmental groups assailed the Reagan administration s Energy policy As an environmental tragedy saturday an called for a new strategy keyed to greater efficiency renewable resources and enhanced production from existing Domestic Oil Fields. They accused Interior Secretary Donald Hodel of crying Wolf Over supposed Energy shortages in order to press for Large scale Oil and Gas development of alaskan wilderness and environmentally sensitive areas off the shores of California and new England. Future generations of americans May lose priceless National environmental resources said the report which was prepared by the Sierra club and endorsed by two other groups friends of the Earth and the National Audubon society. It said the United states could Lead the world i boosting Energy efficiency and developing renewable Energy sources such As solar Power. The alternative offered by the Reagan administration is not just an environmental tragedy but an Energy disaster the groups said. Brooks b. Yeager a lobbyist for the Sierra club an author of the report told a press briefing the administration has opposed obstructed and undermined virtually every congressional attempt to encourage greater Energy efficiency or the development of renewable this presidential election year and the coming change to a new administration offers us a great Opportunity to refocus our sights on achievable National Energy goals which will significantly improve our Overall Energy Security he said. Yeager praised democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis interest in Energy efficiency alter natives and his opposition to Oil and Gas development in the Arctic National wildlife Refuge and off North Ern California. He said Republican candidate George Bush has not fundamentally offered a new vision of Energy Republican platform and vice president Bush s statements seem to indicate business As the report called Hodel s Energy planning record disastrous saying he has used the Prospect of impending Energy shortages to promote massive Energy development schemes throughout his career. An Interior department spokesman David Prosperi commented about the Sierra club report from All appearances it s nothing More than a lot of hot air. It s ironic that these individuals who accuse Secre tary Hodel of crying Wolf Are the same ones who screamed that Oil prices would go through the ceiling when president Reagan deregulated the Price of Oil. And they were the same doomsayers who predicted the demise of the Caribou Herd in Alaska s Prudhoe Bay because of Energy activity when in fact the Caribou Herd has tripled in Yeager said the 3.2-billion-barrel Reservoir of Oil said to underlie the Arctic coastal Plain is dwarfed bythe billions of barrels of Oil remaining in already exploited Domestic Oil we need to encourage infill drilling and enhance recovery techniques so that we can develop this re source he said. And raising new car and Light truck average efficiency standards from the current 26 Miles per gallon to 40mpg would save More than 30 billion barrels of Oil Yeager said. The potential for american development of both passive and Active solar Energy has hardly begun to be tapped he added. Other countries including Japan Are making a More serious Effort to develop this tech 150 protest police actions in . New York up about 150 people marched through Manhattan s East Village saturday singing we shall overcome to protest police conduct during a bloody Melee last weekend when officers tried to enforce a Park curfew. The mood of Tompkins Square Park this weekend however was a Sharp contrast As about 1,000 people gathered peacefully in the growing dusk for a concert featuring local heavy Metal groups. Last sunday police efforts to enforce the 1 sparked a riot in which mounted and foot police charged a crowd of people swinging nightsticks and beating people to the ground. The Melee left More than 50 people injured and led to the filing of 91 for Mal complaints of police brutality. On saturday police took a Low key approach with very few uniformed officers in the Park. A few patrolled the Edge of the Park but no incidents were reported. Saturday s marchers organized by several Community groups and the new York civil liberties Union walked slowly through East Village streets with their linked hands held High. They Sang we shall before disbanding in the Park s band Shell some of the protesters chanted die Yuppie scum referring to the upscale residents whose appearance in the neigh boyhood has angered Many longtime inhabitants an heightened neighbourhood tensions. Alaskan indians buy Back 112-year-old peace treaty Anchorage Alaska a villagers from Klukan have paid an Art dealer in new Mexico a undisclosed sum for what is believed to be a 112-year old peace treaty Between the St keen and Chikat Indi ans. The treaty signed in 1876, ended 12 years of blood shed Between the documents were signed perhaps in blood at fort Wrangell by chief shakes of the St keen indians and chief Segua Sha of the Chil Kat indians. The treaty wound up in the collection of Santa ,n.m., Art dealer David Kramer. Villagers from Kluk wan bought the document from him last week. Klukan where descendants of the Chil Kats still live is located in the Chikat Bald Eagle Reserve about 22 Miles North of Haines. It is the oldest tlingit settlement in Southeastern Alaska. The Chikat and St keen tribal groups were part of the tlingit nation. Remains of Patron Saint of lost articles stolen Kennebunkport Maine the franciscan monastery in Kennebunkport Maine is relying once again on St. Anthony the Saint of lost articles. The 10 priests and 10 seminarians at the Roma Catholic monastery Are praying for the Safe return of a Glass and Bronze Case containing some of St. Anthony s remains which were stolen from the base of statue of the Saint in the monastery Chapel july 30. The Case was stolen once before and was returned anonymously. Submariners Don t plunge to Depths of despair often Atlanta up submariners in the . Navy despite their stressful environment have significantly lower hospitalization rates for mental disorders than surface ship personnel psychologists reported sat urday. The researchers at a meeting of the american psychological association also said that submariners have lower hospitalization rates for alcohol drug abuse and personality disorders than members of Navy surface vessels. Submarine duty does not appear to adversely affect the mental health of . Naval personnel said Ralph Burr and Lawrence Palinkas of the . Naval health research Center san Diego. Burr and Palinkas studied the records of 68,475white male enlisted submarine personnel and 77,541 White male enlisted surface ship personnel who serve during 1974-79. They reported that the rate of mental disorder hospitalizations among submarine personnel was 58 percent of the rate for surface ship members. The Navy psychologists said that tighter psychological and medical screening procedures and higher Levels of education among submarine personnel May account for the differences. Boy drowns at swim class with 5 lifeguards nearby Sioux City Iowa a a 6-year-old boy taking part in a swimming class drowned in a City Pool where five lifeguards were on duty officials said. We simply Don t know what happened said pub Lic works director Mike Dooley who added that the guards and other City employees were traumatized by the drowning Friday. Christopher a. Martin son of Allan and Mary mar tin of Sioux City was found floating face Down i about six feet of water at Lewis Pool where he and about 40 other children were taking a swimming Les son. A lifeguard tried to revive the Hoy Bat he was pronounced dead at Marion health Center an hour later. Dooley said interviews were being conducted to see How the Accident happened. The children had been taking their final lesson of the course. For everyone from the guards at the Pool to those who sell swim passes it has been a most traumatic experience Dooley said. The five guards All certified by the red Cross for lifeguard duty were All taken off the Job and offered counselling he said. Two instructor aides were also inthe Pool area at the time
