European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday september 11,1988 Solidarity leaders hold conference Gdansk Poland a Lech Walesa key advisers and Solidarity activists proclaimed their Unity saturday As they met to plan for talks with authorities on the future of the banned Independent Union movement. The weekend conference one of the largest gatherings of polish opposition in years began without apparent police interference. Solidarity regional leaders and strike committee members met saturday. On sunday a larger gathering of intellectuals and cultural figures who advise Walesa will meet. At slake were final plans Tor a meeting with the government. On aug. 31, a news briefs thormities agreed to the meetings and Walesa chairman of Solidarity agreed to end a 19-Day wave of strikes across the country. Andrzej St Cimachowski a prominent roman Catholic intellectual acting As a mediator Between the government and opposition said he expected he meeting to Lake place in the Middle of the week. Diplomatic sources said they were told Friday that the meeting would be sept. The opposition conference was held at a Church near the Lenin shipyard where Solidarity was bom in 1980 and where Walesa works As an electrician. It had the atmosphere of a National Summit of Poland s Independent forces. Present on saturday were the 15 member National executive commission of Solidarity representatives of strike committees during the aug. 16-Sepl. 3 wave of strikes and members of the in Ler factory strike committees set up Dur ing the Job actions. Among the 40 or so participants were senior Solidarity advisers such As Jacek Kuron Adam Michnik and Zbigniew Romaszewski who monitors human rights abuses for the Union. Nearby in another Church leaders of the banned Independent students association met and drafted a statement in support of Solidarity. Solidarity which in 1980 became the East bloc s first Independent Trade federation is seeking to win Back the Legal status it lost following polish Leader Gen. Wojciech Jarusz Elsket dec 13, 1981, martial Law crackdown. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban and politburo member Alfred Miodo Wicz Leader of the officially sanctioned Trade Union Pozz last week reiterated the official stance that Solidarity cannot be legalized again a a Trade federation. But Urban also said officials Wen enter ing the talks with no preconditions. Opposition spokesmen said they insist on the legalization of the Union and they want the Issue settled before they will engage in talks on the Broad Range of other political and economic problems. Tutu is tragic misled,1 s. African official says Johannesburg South Africa a the Law and order minister described archbishop Desmond tulu on saturday As a tragic and misled person who is challenging the govern ment on the orders of revolutionaries also on saturday a newspaper reported that prominent afrikaner politicians and academics including the brother of a Cabinet minister will meet next month with soviet policymakers and Lack nationalist guerrilla leaders. Adriaan Vlok the Law and order minister said revolutionaries have decided that Tutu Leader of the anglican Church in Southern Africa should create incidents to Embarrass South Africa Dur ing the . Presidential Campaign and the current visit to the Region by Pope John Paul , who oversees the National police Force was reacting to Tutu s recent Defiance of an emergency regulation forbidding Calls for an election Boycott. Both crewmen bail out As Navy Al 4 Jet crashes Washington a a Navy f-i4 Tom cat Jet fighter crashed in the Northern arabian sea but both crewmen bailed out and were picked up by a helicopter the Navy said Friday. The fighter assigned to Squadron vf-111 at the Miramar Nas calif., was flying off the car Rier Carl Vinson when it was forced to ditch thursday night the Navy said. A Pentagon official who asked not to be named said the plane had suffered a mechanical  the Navy said the tomcat was ditched about 40 Miles from the Carrier and the Pilot and weapon s officer were picked up by & helicopter from the  Navy said the identities of the crewmen one of whom suffered minor injuries were not immediately  Carl Vinson recently began patrolling in the Northern arabian sea to support other Navy warships assigned to escort duties in the persian German Dies in Accident after army truck Jackknife Hammel buro West Germany a German woman died saturday following a mull vehicle traffic Accident on the autobahn that involved a . Army truck. One other German was injured seriously in the Early morning Accident that occurred on autobahn 7 near Ham Melburg about 15 Miles Northwest of Schweinfurt Usa eur officials said. No americans were injured. The truck assigned to the 32nd army air de sense come was participating in exercise certain Challenge part of me autumn forge exercises. The Chain reaction Accident began when the 2 a ton military truck which was pulling a trailer stalled on an incline on the autobahn. The truck rolled backward causing the trailer to Jackknife into the Center Lane. The car in which the German woman was a passenger struck the trailer and was hit by another  investigation is being conducted by Ger Man and . Authorities. Yonkers from Page 1 insurance policy to make up the difference in a loss of property value when a Home owner sold a Home. Phone lines at Yonkers City Hall were jammed last week with callers urging one of the Adamant Conn oilmen to change his Vole Wasicsko said. Uncollected garbage sits outside Many Homes children going to school have no crossing guards the three town libraries were to close saturday. The fines which began at s100 per Day doubling daily until hitting All million a Day Cap on Friday forced the state emergency financial control Board to impose a doomsday plan aimed at providing Public safety services while delaying bankruptcy. Sand who in 1985 ruled the City had practice segregation in housing and education for 40 years imposed the fines after the four councilman refuted to implement part of his plan. City schools were desegregated under a Sand approved plan and the City Council initially agreed to build 1,000 units of Low income housing in january. They reversed their decision on the housing at an aug.1, meeting prompting Sand to impose the fines that would double every Day. The . Supreme court upheld Sand s fines on Appeal but it placed the $ 1 million Cap on the amount. Survey from Page 1 racial bigotry in responses to the Survey statement some races of people Are More intelligent than  Twenty six percent of the respondents said the statement was definitely True or probably True while 24 percent circled inconclusive  based on the Survey responses eve said there s a sort of racism that major cultural accomplishments such As the egyptian pyramids or incan religious Struc Tures could t have been built by stupid indians it had to be White europeans or space  eve said 94 percent of those surveyed were while and 63 percent were male. Central to the study and most surprising to the researchers was that biology teachers seemed to misunderstand what science is Alt about eve said Given the statement scientists seek facts but sometimes the Best they can do is theories Only 5 percent correctly answered definitely  a theory is not an educated guess As Many Lay people believe he said. Science is a method of arriving at conclusions or theories using the facts As a basis he said. Eve and Dunn cited poor teacher training As a major reason for the pseudo scientific and superstitious beliefs. In Texas for example teachers Are allowed to instruct one class a Day outside their areas of certification. Only about 25 percent of teachers surveyed have degrees in biology. And too often the study found the science class was the teacher s secondary area of instruction or the teacher had Only science Educa Tion As a major. Respondents were Given statements and asked to agree or disagree. Their responses included dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time 33 percent of the respondents agreed or weren t sure. It is impossible for the living to communicate with the dead 27 percent disagreed. Some people can predict events by actual psychic Power not just by intuition 28 percent agreed. One cannot read other people s thoughts by psychic Powers 34 percent disagreed. About 30 percent of High school biology teachers indicated they believe in biblical creationism the belief that the universe and All its living things were created by a supreme being from nothing in seven Days about 10,000 years ago rather than evolution. There can be no question that we arc in a disastrous situation eve said. Evolution is Central to the understanding of  oldest Benedictine Monk Dies at 102 in Britain London a Rev. Silvester Mooney who headed Douai Abbey in England for 40 years and was believed to be the world s oldest Catholic Monk has died at age 102, the Abbey said. A spokesman said recent checks of records established Mooney to be probably the world s oldest Liv ing Catholic Monk and definitely the oldest Benedic Tine. He said Mooney recently underwent treatment for a Smalt growth but attributed his death basically Lovold age. Criticized German officer retires Bonn West Germany s4s a German air Force general who was criticized for allowing a parly to be held hours after the Ramstein air show tragedy has retired from the service a spokesman said saturday related photo Page 2. Maj. Gen. Klaus Wilhelm rimmed s retirement was agreed to by German president Richard von Weizsacker and defense minister Rupert Scholz said German air Force spokesman it. Col Marmot Laboch. Rimmed. Commander of the 3rd air div is 52. Normal retirement age is 60, Laboch said. Laboch said rimmed who accepted blame for Al lowing the party will receive full retirement benefits. Rimmed the first official to quit in the Wake of the disaster came under fire from German politicians for allowing a Little party to be held at no Venich a on aug. 28, within noun after three italian jets collided in midair at Ramstein s annual air show Laboch said. One plane crashed into a crowd of spectators lulling Many instantly and injuring hundreds on saturday the death toll from the catastrophe remained at 59, a Rheinland Pfalz spokesman said. Nor Mcnich a near Cologne is the borne of the German air Force s fighter bomber Wing 31 Boelcke which came under rimmed s command Laboch said