European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday october 13,1988 Navy scientist Furns sewage info diamonds Washington a the an Cicil alchemists who struggled to con Vert base metals Inlo Golo have been outdone. A Modem Day Navy chemists changing so War Gas into diamonds. Or. James e. Bullet and his colleagues Al the naval research laboratories in Washington Are not Likely to be going into the jewelry business. But they have mind a Way to produce some tiny Industrial Type Diamond crystals using one of the most widely available raw materials the methane from so War Gas. Other chemists working at the laboratories have grown Diamond crystals using an oxygen acetylene Torch Butler said. "1 Don t think Well be Able to grow gym Stone size and Quality diamonds in the near future Butler cautioned. But he said the tiny diamonds made in his process using chemical Vapours to de posit crystals on a surface could have a variety of Industrial application from abrasives to protective coatings computer insulator materials and a Host of other uses. What Butler and the other Navy scientists arc doing is developing methods of getting Carbon to form Diamond crystals. Their process requires heating chemical Vapours at Normal air pressure or less and then getting Carbon from the vapor to crystallize on a surface at temperatures of about 1,440 degrees fahrenheit. Current Industrial processes for making diamonds require much higher heat and pressure. Graphite the soft Black material used in Pencil leads is the normally stable form of Carbon Al room tempera Ture Butler explained but by heating Carbon containing gases like sewer Gas or acetylene scientists can make the harder form of car Bon grow on a surface. And if enough crystals form they Combine into a thin Diamond film Butler added. Researchers in other countries have performed some similar experiments Butler said adding that such sources of Carbon us Vodka also have been used. Why use sewer Gas sewer Gas was just a Case of having a convenient inexpensive source of methane Butler said who uses Gas from Washington s Blue Plains waste water treatment Plant adjacent to the research Laboratory. Methane a combi nation of Carbon and Hydrogen 11 primary constituent of sewer a it is generally bum cd As waste. It will be years before he Diamond making system could be developed on an Industrial scale he said but when that happens plenty of raw material will be available. Investigation of Job Bias claims badly mishandled Gao reports Washington a the equal employment Opportunity commission did not fully investigate unto 82 percent of Job discrimination claims Over a three Rno Tith period last year the general accounting office reported tuesday. Rep. Augustus Hawkins d-calif., who ordered the Gao study As chairman of the House education and labor committee said i find it outrageous that there arc people across the country who May have a legitimate Job discrimination claim denied because the Leoc mishandled the Case did t enforce the Law or was More concerned with reducing paper work than with protecting claimants civil rights. The Gao an investigative Arm of Congress said the stated policy of the Leoc since 1983 has been to fully investigate charges of violations of Federal slate and local anti employment discrimination Laws. However the task has proved difficult because More than 100,000 employment discrimination charges Are filed annually the Agency said. Gao reviewed investigations of cases closed be tween january through March 1987 in which no evidence of discrimination was found. The Gao said 41 to 82 percent of the charges closed by the six Leoc District offices and 40 to 87 percent of charges closed by five state agencies were not fully investigated. The stale agencies reviewed were in Georgia Michi Gan new Yort Northern California and Tennessee. The report said Leoc chairman Clarence Thomas and four of the five state agencies reviewed generally disagreed with the Gao s findings. Among the criticisms included the criteria Gao used in reviewing the investigations How Gao applied the criteria and How Gao selected the Sam Ples to review. Age discrimination Requd employment Opportunity converts skin c charges lawsuits cd Cyga to in however Hawkins said the results showed another giant step backward in the fight against Job discrimination. The Leoc s failure to fully investigate Job discrimination claims is further evidence of the Agency s at tack on civil rights protections said Hawkins. The Agency is showing a total disregard for the Law and for the individuals they must serve. These investigative breakdowns give a tragic human perspective to the Reagan Bush administration civil rights failures he said. From the first Day in office their policy was to undermine and eliminate civil rights protections for women and minorities. Today this Gao report shows just How damaging this policy has  lbs rewrites peanuts to special script offer indians complain of term Savage Minneapolis a lbs television has deleted references to american indians As Savages from a thanksgiving related peanuts cartoon because an Indian parents group Here complained a network offi Cial said. Carol Allieri vice president of program practices for the lbs broadcast group in Hollywood said the pro Ducer s Solcs on the script to the Mayflower voyagers indicate that the word Savages has been dropped throughout. The peanuts special is scheduled to air oct. 21 As part of an animated historical ministries called this is America Charlie  Allieri said the change was made because of complaints raised by the concerned american Indian parents group of Minneapolis and the lbs affiliate in Minneapolis Waco to. She said no other affiliates had complained. The network distributed scripts of the cartoon and teaching instructions to affiliate stations which distributed them to participating schools said Joanne Brokaw Livesey director of educational and Community services for lbs in new York. Because the script referred to indians As Savages in at least two places and included historical inaccuracies that gave negative portrayals of indians Waco to shortened the script and revised the teaching instructions said Tom cousins a consultant for the Sta Tion. He said the material being Given to 52,000 students at about Iso schools in Minnesota was changed to Foster cultural  we re going to go with the revised one to remove anything that would be insensitive to the native americans cousins said. It was corresponding with myths rather than  he said the cartoon wrongly portrays indians As giving War whoops and unfairly portrays the Indian. Squanto who befriended the pilgrims As a grateful slave who Learned English after being kidnapped by an englishman who took him away to Europe. The War whoops Are a myth of the old time Cowboy movies cousins said. In the finished program Squanto says i served a wonderful Man who also bad me learn English. Ana that Man finally gave me my Freedom to said Back Here to my  stateside death of Crew member halts work on Lange film Baltimore a production on Jessica Lan go s new film men Don t leave was halted after a Crew member was electrocuted when a Metal pole he was carrying touched overhead Power lines authorities said. Police questioned Lance about the Accident tuesday night that claimed the life of Patrick Dungan 15, of Baltimore officials said. Dungan apparently was preparing the set for a rain scene and was unaware of the Power lines authorities said. A doctor unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate Dungan who was pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital of cardiac arrest. Witnesses said Sparks flew and nearby grass caught fire from Contact with the electrical wires. The Man was part of a Paramount pictures Crew that has been shooting on location for several weeks officials said. He was a member of the theatrical studio mechanics Union. Ford recalls vans trucks to Correct wiring problem Dearborn Mich. A Ford motor co. Re called about 167,000 minivans and trucks tuesday because of possible problems la wiring under front seals and in rear window Glass. One of the two recalls involves about 103,000 1986 Aerostat Bronco ii and Ranger super cab vehicles. The company said some wiring under front seat May become pinched or worn cause a Short circuit and ignite scat cushions. Dealers will install a new fuse and the wiring will be moved at no charge to owners. In the other recall Ford said some optional sliding rear windows May be defective in about 64,000 1988 Model f-150, f2so and f-350 trucks. Ford said the gloss May not have been tempered properly and could break into pieces larger than Al Lowed by Federal Law. Defective windows would be replaced at no charge to the owner. Reagan thanks students for beautiful1 Bird quilt Washington a president Reagan made a Telephone Call tuesday to a school in Hendersonville Tenn. To thank students who sent him a quilt depict ing the slate Birds in the 50 slates a White House spokesman said. Mark Weinberg said Reagan initially talked to Donna Lilla. A Wacher who supervised the project by fifth Grade children in connection with their study of american history and the Constitution. Weinberg said that a portion of the president s conversation was piped into the Wessington place elementary school and that Reagan complimented the youths on the wonderful Beautiful quilt. He said the president told the pupils that head mired their artistry and Handiwork and told them he would have the quilt displayed at the Ronald Reagan presidential Library