European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october a 1938 the stars and stripes Page 7 i a t,amjt4? sst%3 f t f scary moment Cam Apotheker of Dedham. Mass., clings to her Mother Sherri As she stares up at a Slimy creature from the film  the 16-foot alien Queen is on display in he Boston museum of science in the exhibit special effect the Sci ence of movie and television magic which runs through . 31. O Hare controllers rap Faa for inaction As errors increased by the Washington Post Washington air traffic con trollers at Chicago s o Hare International Airport claimed thursday in look three years and a near doubling of con troller mistakes to persuade the Federal aviation administration to slow the flow of jetliners into the country s bus Iest Airport. Everybody has been pretty much on Edge said Dave Shuler a controller in o Hare s radar room. The controllers feel it s just a mat Ter of Lime before they make an error. They be been working six Days a week. I be been Here since 1981 and it s been like that Ever since  jolted by four More errors Between last Friday and tuesday the Faa wednesday reduced the hourly arrival rate into o Hare from 96 to 80. That will temporarily relieve stress on the controllers but effectively Gua Rantee about 100 further night delays a Day for o Hare and nearby Midway Airport. In the past 12 months o Hare s con trollers have 30 times misdirected pairs of jets causing them to pass More closely together than is legally allowed. Occasionally pilots flying some of those jets have had to take evasive action to avoid Hilling another plane. The controller error rate at o Hare is four limes higher than that at Atlanta s Hartsfield International Airport the country s second busiest five times greater than at los Angeles and three limes greater than at Dallas fort Worth. The controllers say thai they have Loo few controllers handling an Ever in creasing number of Jet incurs flying in a Complex airspace that includes not Only o Hare and Midway but also a dozen satellite airports. O Hare has had the greatest difficulty recovering from the 1981 air traffic controllers strike in which president Reagan fired e 1,400 controllers for an illegal walkout. The radar room which is supposed to have 72 Journeyman controllers has 35. Traffic has increased More than 25 percent since 1981. Much of the o Hare problem stems from training difficulties. The Faa has been Able Over the Las seven years to slowly rebuild its numbers. But it takes from three to five years to fully train an apprentice controller much of it on the Job. In the radar room and the control lower at o Hare fully trained controllers arc Loo Busy directing jets to train apprentices they said. Lately members of the lightly nil Squadron of journeymen at o Hare said they have begun to feel As if they la never recover. Rowan officials aids victim sues Fla. Blood Bank in . Disagree on alleged offer Washington a syndicated columnist Carl t. Rowan says the District of Columbia mayor and other City officials tried to gel favourable newspaper columns Fay suggest ing weapons charges against Rowan could be  claimed thursday that mayor Marion Barry and other senior City officials had suggested they could influence the highly publicized weapons Case against him if he stopped denouncing corruption in City government. Barry dented the  or. Rowan made some extreme charges. However 1 am too disciplined emotionally and have too much dignity to get into a debate with or. Rowan Barry  wednesday the City announced in would not seek to retry Rowan who has called in his column for tougher gun control on charges of illegal Possession of a handgun and ammunition. A two Day trial on the charges last week ended Inah Ungury. During a poolside press conference at his Home where he had used the gun last june to wound a teen age intruder Rowan said he was pleased hat the City had decided not to try the so Gam. He claimed however thai the entire episode was a malicious political prosecution from Day  but Barry countered the fact of the matter is we have a very Strong gun control Law in Washington. If you possess an unregistered handgun As or. Rowan did u is a Case that should be discussed Between the corporation counsel judges and juries which is the Way this Case was handled. The columnist alleged thursday that Herbert o. Reid one of Flag s closest advisers had contacted Rowan soon Carl jr., after the shooting. My son reported to me immediately that Reid had told him that the mayor s Public posture on the gun Issue would improve if i would lower my voice about corruption in the City Rowan said. Reid flatly denied the charge thursday calling h n Bald faced lie.". Rowan frequently criticises the District government in his columns. Shalimar Fla. A an aids victim who claims she contracted the disease from a transfusion at an air Force Hospital has filed suit against the blood Bank used by the  slate circuit court suit for unspecified damages was tiled late tuesday by Kandra Crosby Sicuranza 18, against the Northwest Florida blood Center in Pensacola. She also filed an administrative complaint against the air Force. Sicuranza s Mother. Sheila Davis said she plans to ask Porsio million from inc air Force. No amount of Money is going to change the facts Davis said. My daughter is going to die. But this will do what in can. The suit alleges inc blood Center negligently allowed blood from an aids Carrier to be delivered to inc Hospital at nearby Eglin fab where she gave birth to a son in january 1987. She was a military dependent at the  the baby was delivered. Sicuranza received four units of whole blood that Hospital records indicated had been screened and declared Safe by the blood Center the suit alleges. Three months ago Sicuranza Learned that one of the donors who gave the blood she received had tested positive for the aids virus when he later tried to give blood. On her 18th birthday aug. 12, she was told she Loo had contracted the disease. Her son however is free of the  Roberts director of inc blood Center declined comment on Lite suit but said the facility docs not pay donors and complies with All local and Federal testing standards. Sicuranza s lawyer George Day said an administrative complaint has been filed with the air Force As a prelude to a suit against that service. That s what Federal Law says you have to do so that s what we did Day said. They have six months to answer which icy never do. What it really is. Is a six month delay that gives them time to sort them selves  Black leaves school Over slave Sale Tampa Fla. A a Black teen Ager who suffered racial slurs and found insults painted on her locker after she forced the cancellation of a class slave auction was attending a new school thursday Charrise Williams 17, transferred from Temple Heights Christian school where she found her locker defaced with the words support Kkt and other epithets. She began attending King High school on monday. I did t want to stay in a place i was t wanted said Williams a senior but added if i could do it All Over again i  the controversy started when she called for an end to Temple Heights annual slave auction a popular fund Raiser for seniors at the predominantly White school of 750 stud cams which is run by the first Baptist Church of Temple Heights. Students were supposed to Wear Clown costumes and be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The purchased slave would spend the next Day doing minor chores for the buyer. The auction which has been conducted for 15 years generally raises$l,000to 11,500. Williams one of three Blacks in the 4s-Mcmber senior class protested inc event saying it insulted Blacks by making slavery seem acceptable. Principal Randy Hurst agreed to cancel the auction sept. 20 after the National association for inc advancement of coloured people joined in Williams objection. The concept of slavery is distasteful offensive and embarrassing particularly to a race of people who were brutalized killed and treated As less than human be Ings said Helen Lacount who Heads an a act Legal committee. During and after inc controversy Williams found herself the target of racial epithets. School officials told her she was being too sensitive said her Mother Teresa Williams. But the scrawled insults on the locker were the final Straw the Mother said. Some of them the students were smiling like they were her friends bul it was a cold smile she said. She was alienated. She did t eat lunch with anybody. We did l want to leave her in there hoping thai things would get