European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 17, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bay area begins Fleet week Salute peace Navy prof Esters mar opening Day san Francisco up the aircraft Carrier Ranger led a us ship Battle group under he Golden Gate Bridge saturday to kick off the City s reel week Salute la the Navy despite a controversy Over whether to allow the battleship Missouri to be Home ported there with sailors dressed in while lining the decks of he ships thousands of spectators on Shore cheered and waved As the imposing Ranger emerged from a fog Bank and sailed past the reviewing stands As fire Bali sprayed a Welcome. Dozens of anti nuclear protesters launched a Parade of their own the so called peace Navy with a Blue and White flotilla of 22 boats and 12 inflatable kayaks. Six blocks away about 100 sit Down activist pro testing . Policy in Central America were arrested Tor blocking the main Gate at the Presidio army base. They were among about 1,500 demonstrators who staged a two mile March to the base. Those arrested for trespassing and impeding traffic were released after being cited. Members of the group Greenpeace meantime circulated leaflets among crowds lining the Shore of san Francisco Bay. The leaflets read no matter How you look at it having nuclear weapons in our Bay is no cause for  Navy policy is to neither confirm nor deny whether any ships carry nuclear weaponry. The Navy and coast guard maintained a safety zone of 400 Yards ahead of the first ship 200 Yards after the last ship and 200 Yards on either flank. Members of the peace Navy were warned they would be arrested if they violated the zones. No arrests were reported but Erica Rosenthal of Greenpeace said the coast guard seized four of their inflatable dinghies and held them until the Navy ships had passed and tied up safely. They did t give us any explanation or any thing she said adding that the group planned to file a formal complaint on monday. The Day s activities also included a show by he Blue Angels precision flying learn tin air Parade of 75 antique aircraft and a Parachute drop into aquatic Park. San Francisco is embroiled in a controversy Over whether to allow the Home porting of the historic Missouri at san Francisco s Hunters Point but a truce was called for beet week the Issue will be decided on the nov. 8 ballot. Mayor Art Agnos and his chief Missouri Adver sary rear adm. Robert Toney Boih refrained from dredging up the Issue during Brief noontime re Marks. Agnos promised the 1988 Fleet week the 69lh to be held since 1919, would be bigger and better than Ever  politicians arc not the Only ones who conduct polls Toney said. We conduct a few polls in the Navy. To our sailors this port is the most fair of this is not an Issue of patriotism Agnos said later of the Missouri imbroglio. This is of budgetary interest for the local  Ainos is opposed to the Missouri recommissioned in 1986, on economic grounds. The Navy wants the City to put up s2 million for dredging and provide continuing services. The labor and business communities Are solidly behind the Navy plan and say the battleship on whose decks i he japanese surrendered in 1945 to end world War ii would bring Prosperity to the City s depressed waterfront the Missouri meanwhile remained in Lone each Calif. Lack of child care hurts Economy group says Boston Cap the Lack of child care in businesses costs the Economy about s3 billion a year jeopardizing economic growth As More women arc needed to enter the workforce the head of a National child care coalition said saturday declining birth and labor Force growth Rales mean thai two thirds of new jobs will have to be filled by women Between now and 995, said Barbara Crisman executive director of the child care action committee in Washington. It s fairly Clear that the Lack of child care is an impediment to entering the workforce said Crisman Here for a Confer. Ence of the Massachusetts association of Day care agencies. Crisman s organization issued a report late last month calling on the Federal and slate governments to play a greater role in working with businesses to increase child care efforts such As capital Grams to employers for child care programs and Paren Tal leaves Only 7 percent of american House holds now fit the Beaver Cleaver family s Mold of a bread winning father and an at Home Mother the report said. As female labor Force participation Rales continue to climb the demand for child care will grow  the number of companies providing some form of child care has increased from 110 to 3,500 in the past decade according to the study but that still accounts for just six in every 10,000 businesses. The s3 billion figure cited by the reports based on child care related work absences Reisman said it does not include estimates of lower productivity because of parents worries Over a child lateness work Force departures or Shorter workdays if we col Jnue to ignore the growing demand for child care we risk limiting the expansion of the labor Force and jeopardizing economic growth the 90-Page report said. We endanger millions of Young Chil Dren the future labor Force for whom Quality care during their first five years jays the foundation for lifetime learning it said. Children families employers and the nation s Economy All suffer from the Lack of affordable Quality child  the report was based on research commissioned from nine economists and policy analysts and the results of a National child care conference sponsored by the child care action Campaign in March. Working mothers in percent of All . Mothers Wilh children in age group who Are participating in the labor once 60% 20 19bd 81 82 83 84 85 86 67 children under six with mothers in the labor Force is. Mothers Al Home 1977 17.1 million children in percent of Tola working mothers 1987 19.8 million children in Parcen of total working mothers Chicago Tribuz graphic source Bureau Al labor said sics Abc unveils proposal for better to system new York a Abc on sat urday unveiled its proposal for a new High Quality television system that the network said could bring enhanced sound and picture Quality into Ameri can Homes within three years. Abc presented its proposal for production standards for High definition television to the society of motion pictures and Tele vision engineers at the group s convention saturday in Newyork. It will not make obsolete the exist ing 160 million to sets americans now own said Abc spokesman Joe Rutledge. High definition to produces clearer brighter images on a wider to screen with High Quality sounds. De Mand for High definition television is expected o grow substantially in the next few years As picture tubes become larger and screens wider. The advancement ii also seen As a technology to put new life in the Amer ican electronics Industry . The Federal communications com Mission last month set preliminary guidelines to allow research to proceed toward establishing an american High Sands of time definition system. Under the acc guidelines a . System must be Able to be received on existing to sets so current equipment would not become obsolete. But to receive improved picture Quality View ers would have to buy a new to set. The acc s action Rutledge said re moved a lot of the regulatory hoops and a expected to facilitate approval of abcs proposed standards. Although technological developments and congressional and Regula tory approval Are yet to be completed the television Industry is hopeful that it can be achieved within three years Rutledge said. About 20 advanced to systems Are under development and competing to be designated As the . Standard. The society of motion pictures an television engineers sets National standards in television production and motion pictures the standards announced by a behave been endorsed by the Abc to network As Well As several television makers including Zenith and North american Philips Abc said. Rule Edge said Abc had invested some $ so million in the technology. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 17, 1948 the president of the organization of the european economic cooperation presented a plan to . Officials Tor spending he j5 billion donated by America for the european recovery program. 30 years ago today. Oct. 17, 1938 an air Force troop Carrier plane crash landed on a Busy Longisland superhighway hitting three automobiles and killing one Motorist. 20 years ago today. Oct. 17, 1968 Czechoslovakia signed an agreement Wilh the soviet Union legalizing the stationing of soviet forces on czechoslovakian territory for an indefinite period of time. 10 years ago today. Oct. 17, 1978 the sacred College of cardinals elected polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla As its 264th pontiff making him the first non italian Pope in 4ss Yean Wojtyla said he would reign under the name of John Paul ii