European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 unofficial publication a the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 47, no. 149 sunday september 11, 1988 no inn 8693 a Fine forces Yonkers to of desegregation Yonkers . A the Yonkers City coun cil reversed itself and approved a court ordered hous ing desegregation plan Early saturday caving in Salines hit $1 million a Day hundreds of workers raped layoffs and Public opinion shifted against the  s-to-2 vote came about 1 30 a,m., following a Day of meetings and discussions As pressure grew to resolve the crisis with hard liners in a raucous Yon kers City Hall condemning the politicians who no support the plan. As the final Roll Call proceeded and two of the four recalcitrant councilmen. Peter Chema and Nicholas Longo changed their Voles a crowd of about 100 Inich gallery at City Hall broke into loud cheers. It s time to put behind the fines the fight and the turmoil said Chema before switching his vote. But others in the audience were infuriated by the reversal. One woman yelled you Little Snake at Chema while another Man screeched at mayor Nicho Las Wasicsko you sold us out. Nicky we 11 re Mem ber1." the mayor also voted for the  City of 194,000. Just North of new York City has incurred $1.6 million in fines. Von Ken faced a Simillion Fine Friday and was to begin laying off hundreds of City workers saturday. The fines had started at si00 and doubled each Day reaching $819,200 thursday ,638,300.. District judge Leonard Sand who ordered an end to segregated housing in Yonkers three years ago superstitions haunt classes Survey reveals Arlington. Texts a a High percent age of High school biology teachers profess per by Ioas beliefs and about one in four thinks some races in inherently More intelligent than others according to a , about 19 percent of the teachers believe Dinosaur and humans lived at the same time according to the National Survey by two Unher Alty of Texas at Arlington researchers the Dallas morning news reported saturday the Survey will be released this . Raymond eve associate professor of sociology at Uta and or. Dana Darin assistant pro Fessor of sociology mailed questionnaires to biology teachers to try to determine Why Many Colleg students held Send scientific beliefs a finding of 1987  two researchers sent 12-p�ge, 88-Ilem questions Alt to about 400 teachers selected a random from list of 20,004 provided Bythena tonal science teachers association. They received 100 responses the Survey had 5 percent age Point margin of  remits when compared with an International study of High school in Dent biology knowledge How we re doing Tonte Hiag very very very wrong in biology education Dun said. A study this year by the International association Lor the evaluation of educational achieve ment fwd us students scoring no higher than eighth among 13 countries in toe sciences and Hutu Polocy the Texas researchers found what eve called see Survey an Back Page will determine if the City must pay Friday s  s our understanding hat if we pass this tonight we will not have to pay Friday s Fine City attorney Paul Pickelle said before the Vole. Wasiesky said he received a message from Newyork Secretary of stale Gail senator head of the state financial control Board saying the layoffs set for sat urday had been rescinded by the state emergency financial control  Chema and Longo prefaced saturday s Roll Call Vole with Long speeches saying they had reached agreements with the plaintiffs to make changes in the ordinance but also realized the judge would not agree to those changes unless the councilmen changed Pineir  the past we have thought of those tines some what in the abstract Longo said. It was the Cit being fined and the City being affected. The abstract has now become a  City has been in contempt of court for the coun cil s refusal to carry out the housing desegregation order it approved earlier this year. Among the modifications made in the housing de Cree under the agreement with the plaintiffs was a commitment to build 100 stand alone units instead of the 200 previously approved with the rest to be part of other housing  said they also will consider a Home owners see Yonkers on Back Page final preparations German children gather around As is. Soldiers from Btry a 3rd in 3sth Field arty go through a maintenance Check on an mho a2 howitzer Fri Day near scowl Bosch Hall. The artillerymen were going through final preparations before the open ing of exercise certain Challenge scheduled monday. Pope starts tour of nations neighbouring South Africa Harare Zimbabwe a Pope John Paul i arrived in Harare saturday on the firs leg of a Pilgrim age to live Black ruled nations bordering racially Trou bled South Africa. Before leaving Rome on the 10-Day journey the pontiff said he Hopes he can help solve some of White led South Africa s problem on a future trip  fourth journey to Africa and his 39th abroad will be to Botswana Lesotho Mozambique Swaziland and Zimbabwe All countries fewer than 20 years old that vehemently oppose South Africa but depend on i for economic survival. In an unusual statement Friday the Vatican emphasized that the Pope was not snubbing South Africa and hoped to visit the country in the future. It said the Pope schedule on this trip made a Stop there impossible. The statement appeared directed at reports Hal the Pope had ruled out a visit to South Africa where a White minority rules 26 million  nearly 10 years at the Helm of the roman Catholic Church John Paul has denounced apartheid South Africa s racial separation system. South african roman Catholic Bishops who have worked closely with anglicans were waiting for the Pope Al his first Slop in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare. They Are attending n conference of regional Bish Ops  a meeting with Zimbabwe Percsi in Robert Mugabe the Pope planned to address the i  speech one of 42 drafted during a summer Vaca Tion in the mountains was expected to set the tone forthe 12.400-mile trip. Florence weakens to tropical storm new Orleans a Hurricane Florence lashed the Gulf coast with 80-Mph winds and sheets of rain forcing thousands of people to head Inland for safety but the Hurricane quickly weakened to a Tropi Cal depression. One death was linked to the storm an Alabama Man who drowned Friday As he tried to secure a boat against the rising winds. The Eye of the Hurricane about 30 Miles wide passed 30 Miles East of new Orleans around 3 a.m., then headed across Lake Pontchartrain slightly West of the predicted path Over the City of Slidell. Two Boon later the highest sustained winds were clocked at 60 rope and Florence was downgraded to a tropical  were widespread Power failures including one in metropolitan new Orleans where about 30,000people lost electricity. Power was knocked out to 7,000 people in Plaquemine Parish. There were no reports of major damage. Louisiana gov. Buddy to cmdr was to return sat urday after cutting Short a trip to Taiwan a Day Early. Louisiana it gov. Paul Hardy and Mississippi a gov. Brad Dye whose Boss. Ray Mabus travelled with Rocker declared emergencies in pans of their slate Sand put their National guards on Alert. Alabama gov. Guy Hunt declared a statewide Emer gency Friday. In Florida and Louisiana military planes went flown Inland or moved into hangars. The Lexington a training aircraft Carrier based at Pensacola Nas Stout to inc safety of open sea