European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 27,1988 the stars and stripes pages . Will Stop conveying tankers in persian Gulf United nations Impi the White House monday said american warships will no longer form convoys to protect .-Flaggcd tankers in the per Sian Gulf but will instead use a zone sys tem to guard the  House spokesman Murlin Fitz water said the Gulf mates involved were consulted last week through military and diplomatic channels. Fit Wilder said president Reagan made the decision monday before he left washing ton to address inc . Central Assembly. He said it will take several Days to begin the new policy and the dates for its Slart probably will not be  reviewing the current cease fire in the persian Gulf which has been in effect since aug. 20. And consulting with allies and friends in the Region the president decided to modify our present method for providing Protection for .-Flaggcd shipping in the Gulf fit water said. The modification entails a change from a tight escort procedure to an accompany regime he added. In an accompany regime . Forces will be positioned such thai they can take appropriate action if ,-flagged ships arc directly threatened he said. In making these adjustments we would reiterate that Lite United Stales intends to maintain in the Gulf the forces required to protect .-Flaggcd shipping and our National objectives Filz water said. He said. This change in no Way alters our commitment to Freedom of navigation in inc  i water said there have been no at tacks on .-flagged shipping since inc aug. 20 cease fire in the Iran Iraq War. This is the first step in the change of our presence in the Gulf Fitzwater said. We will continue to review our pres ence in the Gulf and make changes As the threat  Fitzwater said Iso ships have been escorted through the Golf Waters since july 1987. As for any kind of new signals from Iran on normalizing relation with the United slates Fitz Walcer said we veal ways said we re willing to talk to authorized iranian officials but he said there have been no new signals from Iran and no word on the Fate of american hos tages being held in Lebanon by what has been described As pro iranian captors. Said n t alter tages Hel m b t s Marlin . 20, an consulting wit allies an navigation i Bee. Woman Bishop says Church getting in step with times Philadelphia Al the , Barbarac Elm Hibit. 7"5st and  said the it. Rev Graham icons Harris elected the first woman Bishop in the anglican i Kwh j-ra�3l Bishop of London communion s 450-year history said sunday her Clevah his per j  Bishops at is world anglican conference his sum a Tho Yea Clova lion is lne latest step in a movement to bring the Church into the main Slivny. Harris 58, a former Public relations executive was elected saturday to the position of Suffragan or assistant Bishop for the Eastern Massachusetts diocese of the Epis Copal Church. The diocese which includes Boston is the nation s largest in both geography and population. A fresh wind is blowing across this Church  she said in her first Sermon at Philadelphia s Church of the advocate since her election. Several elections earlier this year show the Church i changing said Harris who is Black. Two Black priests were elected Coa Julan by Hope. Who Are first in line to succeed heir Parsi i no Bishops without first serving As assistants. One of them the it Rev. Herbert Thompson jr., was installed in Cincinnati on saturday As the first Black Bishop of inc episcopal diocese of Southam Ohio. Harris told a congregation of to people that her election is of significance to the episcopal Church in inc United states and to the worldwide anglican communion the episcopal Church is one of 27 self governing Church bodies in 164 countries around inc world that make up the anglican communion about 70 million people belong with 2.5 million in the United states. The third ranking prelate in the Church of England said sunday he Wilf refuse to recognize Harris or any other woman Bishop. I have already stated publicly Hal i would notion with a be Able to be in communion wit woman so elected Barbara Harris delivers her first Sermon As a Bishop. An  Bishop of London Bishop summer approved a Resolution saying they would resp Cal and re main in Fellowship with churches that have women priest Sand Bishops even if they disagree with their principles. The conference also ordered archbishop of Canterbury Robert runic to establish a commission to Ward off an split in inc Church Over the Issue. The commission is scheduled to meet for the first time in november. Harris likened inc Church s actions to the Rev. Jesse Jackson s campaigns for the democratic presidential nomination in i1 84 and 1 j88. Like Jackson s Rainbow coalition an attempt to reach across color and sex lines the Church s move ment gives new Hope and new vision to hundreds of thousands who have Felt alienated and ignored by inc Church Harris said. The Church is attempting to include everyone in the mainstream of god s Justice Grace brotherhood and sisterhood she said in her Sermon. After services Harris read a statement saying she was deeply honoured to accept the position. She said she could not answer questions until a news conference tuesday in Boston the Rev. Paul Washington retired from the Church of the advocate said Harris election will allow other qualified women to move into Bishop positions. He said Black people will be More willing to listen to her views because we arc a people who have a certain amount of resp Cal for persons in authority and no they Wilt attach her views to a voice of authority a Schmo s Frue birthday discovered new Orleans a a music historian has Learned something jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong never knew about himself his birthday. New Orleans has Long celebrated july 4 As Satcho s birthday As Well As that of inc United states. But Tad Jones says he has proof thai inc jazzman not Only was t born on Independence Day 1900, but also is More than a year younger than he thought. Jones has a certificate from sacred heart of Jesus Church showing that Louis Armstrong was baptized there on aug. 25, 1901, three weeks after his birth on aug. 4. Music scholars have Long suspected that Armstrong s claim of a july 4, 1900, birth was simply a convenient fiction for the world s Best known jazz musician and one of America s Best known Citi Zens. Many poor ill educated Blacks bom around the turn of the Century did t know their birthdays. Scholars figured that Armstrong whose birthday apparently never was celebrated when he was a child simply borrowed the nation s birthday for his own. Officials at sacred heart of Jesus were aware of the baptismal record for Louis Armstrong but assumed it could not be the same person because the Date was sofar from the generally accepted one Jones said. But the parents names on the baptismal entry matched and also fit with a 1910 census record and an earlier biographical reference saying the child was christened at sacred heart Jones said. Minister sentenced to death for murder Nashville Tenn. A a jury on sunday sentenced to death a minister who Siote 130,000 in Church Money decapitated a Handyman and threw the body parts into a Lake in an attempt Tofake his own death and collect insurance Money. The jury returned the verdict against John David Terry after 13 hours of de Bate and a Brief Church service. Terry 44, was convicted thursday of decapitating James Chester Matheny 32, and setting fire to the Emmanuel Church of Christ oneness pentecostal june 15, 1937, to cover up the crime and fake his own death. Prosecutors said Terry bought a motorcycle look out a $150000 life insurance policy in april 1987, Gath ered false identification papers in the name of a boy who drowned in 1951and torched the building with math Eny s body inside to conceal the Iden Tity of he victim. In addition to cutting off m?.thcny s head a Tattoo on his Arm was sliced off to further conceal his identity. The body parts were thrown into Lake Barkley near Dover Tenn. Terry did not react when the verdict was read but his wife Brenda cried. Matheny s in wife Teresa also cried. Davidson county circuit court judge Walter Kurtz set an april 3 Date for the death by electrocution but the Case will be appealed automatically to the Tennes see supreme court. Tennessee has t executed a death Row inmate since nov. 7, i960. Sama Softie in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 27. 1948 the Western pow ers formally broke off the Berlin negotiations with the soviets and prepared an Appeal to the , Security Council to protest the soviet refusal to lift the Ber Lin blockade 30 years ago foe a sept. 27, 1958 the National Industrial conference Board reported that the average . Per capita income reached $2,027 in 1957, a 36 percent in crease Over the previous year. 20 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1968 Federal narcotics agents found 10 pounds of hashish and other illegal narcotics Worth some to million when they invaded a Church run by hippies in the East Village Section of new York cily. 10 years ago today. Sept. 27, l978 nicaraguan presi Dent Anastasio Somoza accepted an . Mediation role in Nicaragua s political crisis and invited a human rights Comis Sion to investigate charges of violations