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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. November 10, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 College has 94,000 extra cookbooks to Burn Chicopee mass. A a Small women s col lege launched a Cookbook project a year ago with Hopes of bringing in ii million but is stuck wilh94,000 copies of the Book and a $400,000 Bill from the printers. The Cookbook compiled by officials of our lad of the elms College in the Connecticut River City of Chicopee included More than 400 recipes Man contributed by local and state politicians. The roman Catholic school had planned to useche Money raised for student financial Aid and to bring some attention to the 750-Studcnt College founded Iii 1928 by the Sisters of St. Joseph. College officials ordered 100,000 copies  since last fall they have sold Only 6,000 copies at $10 a copy. Sister Mary Dooley College president was attend ing Board meetings of the association for Independent colleges and universities and could not breached for comment tuesday. Sister Mary Lou Law director of Public relations said no other col lege officials would have any comment on the Cook Book. Earlier sister Dooley told new England monthly Magazine that we probably did make a mistake in  she then provided the Magazine Wilh the Tele phone number at the College at which orders could be placed. They re very attractive she said of the cookbooks. Thomas a Murphy jr., chairman of the Board of trustees who earlier had said a special committee has been established to examine All possibilities including going outside Lite slate and country to Market the Book declined further comment tues Day. The Chicopee attorney said thai he and other trus tees have been instructed by their lawyer not to com ment on the affair. It is a very very sensitive Issue for the College he said adding that lawyers for the College and the Printer were attempting to resolve the matter of the Bill and 1 would hate to say anything that would thwart those efforts Earl Alpert an  the Printer Michael j. 0 Mallcy a former trustee of the College said that his client look the Job on credit and is now looking for his $400,000, me has received nothing of Conse Quence from the College on inc Bill Alpert said. Alpert said College officials initially wanted to order More copies and o Malley talked them Down to 100,000." Burger says prison furloughs not fairly treated Washington a former chief Justice Warren Burger defended prison furloughs but wailed to speak Outon the Issue until just hours before the election of fellow Republican George Bush who had campaigned for months against a furlough program in his oppo nent s borne state. Burger in a statement released to the Apon tuesday contended thai the furlough Issue had become very much garbled during inc president id Campaign. The Campaign left a general impression thai furloughs Are bad the former chief Justice who now chairs the com Mission on the Bicentennial of the United states Constitution said in a Tele phone interview. He said he does believe thai either Bush or Defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis actually opposes prison furloughs. Unfortunately the Issue of corrections is never Likely to become adequately treated in any political Campaign Burger wrote. Mis statement was issued late tuesday afternoon just hours before polls closed on he East coast. I Don t want to get into anything relating to the Campaign itself said Burger who was appointed chief Justice in 1969 by then president Nixon and retired in 1986 to head the Bicentennial commission. Burger declined to say whether he approved of Bush s Campaign tactic of attack ing Massachusetts prison furlough program and repeatedly citing the escape offer laughed inmate Willie Morton who later raped a woman and attacked her Fiance. However the former chief Justice said before this Campaign Ever started then was some Public confusion about the idea of furloughs and now there May be  Burger s statement said the system of prison furloughs is useful and should be  the Issue raised in the Campaign was not whether furloughs Are basically a Good idea and a useful tool in the Field of corrections but whether it was adminis lured properly he said. In the interview. Burger said there really was t any debate on corrections Here during the Campaign. There waste single episode that was referred  i Don t think either of these men Bush or Dukakis would disagree that prison furlough programs Are a Good idea he said. In he statement Burger wrote any prison furlough system must be administered with great care when it is applied to persons found guilty of serious crimes of violence or when it is sought to be applied to a serious repeal  Burger said the United slates should move away from prison warehouses and instead build factories with fences i which inmates learn a marketable skill so they can Cam a living after their release. So Long As we continue to casually allow so Many prisons to be simply warehouses we can anticipate hat Many of the inmates will be worse when they leave than when they entered he said. In scandinavian prisons everybody works and everybody gels paid said Burger who was part of a team that studied prisons in those countries about five years ago. A Veather satellite soars higher into retirement Washington a goes-4, a weather satellite launched eight years ago was sent into a High retirement orbit tuesday taking the Craft out of the Busy space Highway used by most working communications and weather satellites. Lou Barbieri chief of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration s satellite operations Cen Ter said goes-4 had reached the end of its useful life and was pit into a higher orbit to get it out of the Way. Goes-4 had spent its working life at 22,300 Miles above the Earth the busiest Altitude for satellites. At this height satellites Lake 24 hours to orbit the Earth and appear to be stationary at one Point above the Globe. Over a three week period Noaa satellite control lers commanded the goes-4 to make six rocket firings that slowly raised the Craft s orbit by 62 Miles. Barbieri said the increased Altitude will add one minute per Day 10 the satellite s orbit period and cause in to slowly Drift Westward goes-4, which Cost $45 million and was expected to last Only two to five years was launched in septem Ber 1980. It initially was stationed Over the Pacific Ocean and used infrared and visible Light instruments to capture images of weather patterns and storm formations Over the Western United slates. Noaa said the satellite warned of the approach of a  struck Hawaii in november 1982 and caused an estimated $350 million in damage. In 1984, goes-4 was loaned in the european space Agency to serve As a weather data relay station. Barbie i said the Craft was moved to a Point Over the Wester Atlantic to help the europeans recover from a satellite failure. Barbieri said a malfunction of a primary imaging system and depletion of on Board fuel forced Noaa to retire goes-4, he said the Agency sent two earlier satellites to even higher orbits but goes-4 Only had enough fuel to Edge up another 62 Miles. Retirement of goes-4 leaves Noaa with six work ing satellites but two of these goes-2 and goes-3, Are used Only As communication relays Barbieri said. Firms avoid Plant Sites near Blacks study says Berkeley.  a Japa Nese automakers have located their . Plants in areas with few Blacks but they Are not alone in the practice according to a new study. Industrial development specialists in state governments report that the Yare often asked by american firms in a variety of industries to eliminate from consideration Plant Sites in counties with 30 percent or More Black population said the study Tobe published in the next Issue of the University v of California Berkeley California management  18-month study by University of Michigan professors Robert e. Cole and Donald r. Deskins or. Used1987 and 1988 Industry employment figures. Their calculations Are based on the distance deemed by the .census Bureau As a reasonable com mute to 29 Miles. If you look at most of these new Plant ventures they All seem to be Between 20 and 30 Miles away from Ablack Cluster Deskins said in an interview published in tuesday s Sanfrancisco examiner. Japanese companies he said seem to be working just within the letter but not the spin of the  the study found that the highest percentages of Black employees were at traditional big three aul plants those that have neither been renovated nor rebuilt since 1980 Andare in the greatest danger of closing. New general motors plants have hired a work Force that is 25,4 percent Black drawing from a population near the new plants that is 16.6 percent Mack the study said. Ford and Chrysler have not built . Plants since 1980. So bus s up Porf fran no say killing animals wrong Harrisburg Paap National boy scout officials concede the Slaughter of chickens and rabbits during a Wilder Ness survival weekend should not have happened but say the organization will not ban the practice. The disclosure that scouts were shown How to kill chickens and rabbits and the Butcher them for eating raised the ire of animal rights activists who wanted the scouts to prohibit such training. The killing techniques were demonstrated during a camping trip held sept. 30through oct 2 in Perry county. Afterwards five to 10 scouts tried in themselves beat ing the animals on the head with Sticks slitting their throats and hanging the car casses upside Down to Drain. We agree Wilh you completely that the incident involving the rabbits and chickens should not have happened,1 National boy Seoul spokesman Frank Hubb. Wrote last week to Edward j. Blotter jr., of the Pitts Burgh office of the humane society for 78 years As a part of our training. We have demonstrated the sixth Point of the scout Law a scout is kind. He do snot Hurt or kill harmless things without reason and we hear about it when there Are isolated violations Hubb wrote. A John Giba who did not attend the amp but is scoutmaster for one of the troops involved said the killings were done properly and without  George Cave president of trans species unlimited a statewide animal rights group said the killings were unnecessary cruel and not Good training for Youn boys we object to desensitizing children to the killing of animals for no Good Pur pose he   a a Hebb said in a Telephone interview monday that the boy scouts will no change current policy or discipline the scout Leaden who led the exercises. We do not endorse what they did Buti Don t think that there s going to be any action because i think that what they Didat the time was perfectly legitimate with in our policies he said  
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