European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 7,1989 Pentagon to keep on base schools local opposition kills Transfer plan by Norman Black a military writer Washington the defense department bowing to opposition in eight states and puerto Rico has dropped plans to Transfer to local jurisdiction the last of its on base schools for children of military parents. The decision leaves intact the responsibility for financing and operating 18 schools inside bases. The schools the last of a system that once included about 100, serve about 36,000 children. The schools Are located at bases in Ala Bama Georgia Kentucky Louisiana new York North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and puerto Rico. Congress and the Reagan administration have been trying to Transfer jurisdiction Over the schools since 1986. The Pentagon spends about $ 138 million a year operating them and administration officials wanted to save much of that Money by shifting the schools from the Pentagon. When jurisdiction is transferred for such schools known As Section 6 schools after a Section of the 1950 Law that set them up the local District must take Over the Cost of operating them. The District does become eligible for Small amounts of Aid for educating the children of service members in Public schools. On Friday military officials said they had sent notices to congressional leaders dec. 30 stating it is not feasible to end these arrangements at this  discussions have identified Broad based opposition to transferring education Al responsibility to local school districts the Pentagon statement continued. While the specific circumstances for each location vary the Dod has concluded that the Strong opposition of the local communities that would have to absorb the Section 6 students the grave con Cerns of the military parents that transfers would Compromise the Quality of their Chil Dren s education and the substantial eco nomic logistical and personnel problems associated with transfers prevent the Ami Cable Transfer at this  it said savings would have been at Best minimal and that if the govern ment were to Force local authorities to accept the unwanted Transfer of its Stu dents the military s harmonious relations with its Host communities. Could be  the schools had their genesis Back in the 1800s when schools were constructed at Frontier forts out West. Later after world War ii a number were established at bases located in Rural areas where there was no Public system to provide an education. Also some of the facilities were built because local districts fought the 1954 desegregation of Public schools and the defense department wanted to maintain racially integrated schools. In the 1960s, the number of Section 6 schools dwindled As development near bases made it feasible for local school districts to operate and As integration took hold in nearby schools. The number of on base schools dropped to 18 in 1973. The Pentagon statement said the department would be willing to explore the possibility of future Section 6 transfers if a specific state is  the 18 remaining schools Are at fort Mcclellan fort Rucker and Maxwell fab in Alabama fort Benning fort Stewart and Robins fab in Georgia fort Camp Bell and fort Knox in Kentucky England fab in Louisiana the . Military facade my at West Point . Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina fort Jackson Laurel Bay Marine base and Myrtle Beach fab in South Carolina Dahlgren naval surface weapons Center and the Quantico Marine base in Virginia and the Antilles schools in puerto Rico. All wrapped up in his work a paratrooper from the 82nd airborne div fort Mccoy in Wisconsin. More than 600 82nd airborne Bragg n.c., is All tangled up in his Parachute after troops Are involved in Winter exercises this month at making a practice jump in a snowy Field at fort the Wisconsin army base. Nasa discounts risks from Galileo Washington a Nasa said Friday that the risk of a nuclear Accident will be Only sight when it launches an interplanetary satellite containing a plutonium Power Plant this year from the space shuttle Atlantis. In an environmental Impact statement required by Law the space Agency said health and environmental consequences of the most probable of accidents on the mis Sion a one-in-10 million Chance would be Small. The electric Generator holding nearly 50 pounds of plutonium oxide will be aboard the Galileo spacecraft scheduled for launch from the space shuttle in october for a two year study of the planet Jupiter. According to one estimate if that amount of plutonium were released into the atmosphere it would have about 10 times the radioactivity of the soviet spy satellite that crashed into Canada in 1978. The statement Calls for Public comment Over the succeeding 45 Days before a final statement is issued. The final approval must come from the president or from the office of science and technology policy. A nuclear Generator has not been carried aboard a space shuttle before although the devices have been used on space probes and manned flights to the Moon. They Are built to withstand fire and explosions. Abdominal transplants disappointing Pittsburgh a the Swift deterioration of the nation s fifth recipient of an abdominal transplant involving multiple organs shows that replacing the digestive system is still in its infancy experts said Friday. The deaths of the first four patients and the decline of 3-year-old Rolandra Dodge Are very disappoint ing said or. James w. Williams director of trans Plantation at Rush presbyterian St. Luke s medical enter in Chicago. Every Organ that s been transplanted has had its Early problems. There Are hurdles that you have to go Over and along the Way you have to learn from every thing that s been done in order for things to Progress agreed or. Tony d Alessandro a transplant fellow atthe University of Wisconsin. Rolandra who is from Fruitland n.m., was in very critical condition Friday at children s Hospital of Pitts Burgh. She was attached to a Respirator and her parents Brandon and Cyndi Dodge were at her bedside. Rolandra better known As oily received a new liver pancreas stomach Small intestine and part of a Large intestine nov. 29. Her  was placed Back on the transplant waiting list wednesday night. All five transplanted organs Are being rejected by the girl s immune system. Because the procedure has been performed so few times doctors Are not sure Why the transplant is failing. The girl was born with intractable secretory Diar Rhea a disorder that prevented her intestines from absorbing food and liquids. Or. Thomas e. Stand of the University of Pittsburgh described Rolly s chances of survival As slim. Starzl pioneered liver transplants and performed the nation s first multiple abdominal Organ transplant in 1983. That first patient a 6-year-old girl lived Only a few hours. The nation s latest such patient Calvin Oliveira 14 months of Deerfield Beach fla., was doing Well Fri Day despite a seizure earlier in the week and a bout of pneumonia d Alessandro said. The boy received a Small intestine and liver dec. 31 at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and clinics in Madison. I m also not sure society is going to View giving them All to a single person is the Best thing to do. I Don t. I think if you can spread the organs to More people that is what should be done. The ethical Prin Ciple should be to save the most lives said Arthur Caplan director of the Center for biomedical ethics atthe University of Minnesota Williams has performed such operations on two children. One died three Days after surgery. The other survived 3 a months. He is seeking a third transplant candidate with Short gut syndrome a potentially fatal intestinal deformity and whose liver is failing As a result of intravenous feedings. Those were the problems experienced by the world s longest survivor of a Multi Organ abdominal transplant Tabatha Foster 3 /2, of Madisonville by Tabatha died last May six months after receiving five organs at children s Hospital