European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday february 12,1989 a visit from Mother Teresa Ronald Reagan is no longer in the White House but for her work among the poor of India and otherworld figures still seek him out. Mother Teresa Cen countries met with Reagan and his wife Nancy on Ter the roman Catholic missionary widely honoured Friday in the former president s los Angeles office. Police raid immigration office say fire sanitation Laws broken Houston not police officers and fire officials in Harlingen Texas raided the immigration and naturalization service office Friday evicting Federal workers and aliens alike and accusing the service of violating fire and sanitation Laws. Local officials said padlocks on chains were put on the doors of the building in which thousands of Cen trial americans have applied for political Asylum. Hundreds of immigrants and some service employees watched the police turn away people arriving at the building. Later the Harlingen City commission got a court order that temporarily prohibits the Federal Agency from using the office. It is a major processing Center for immigrants in this sector of the Border with mexi co. Resentment against aliens and the Federal govern ment has been building up for months among texans in the impoverished Rio Grande Valley. The social and economic problems caused by the increasing influx of Central americans have made Resi dents of the Rio Grande Valley feel they were paying the Price of policies set in Washington. Friday s clash came just As the ins was considering new policies on those seeking Asylum. We be had to have City Crews out there because of the filth and the mess said Mike Perez assistant City manager of Harlingen. So Many applicants defecate there and urinate on the streets. We have trash blowing All around. They spend the night out there. We be had to Send City Crews out every Day to pick up the trash As a result of the ins of their  Perez and other City officials interviewed by Tele phone Friday said immigration officials had been repeatedly warned Over the last several months about violations of sanitation and safety regulations. On tuesday the City in a letter demanded immedi ate action on violations such As blocked fire exits con Stant overcrowding and using portable sanitation facilities. Stateside More army contracts awarded after bidding Washington a the army said Friday it has again increased its Reliance on competitive bidding for procurement contracts. In a report to Congress on fiscal 1988 actions the army said $18.45 billion or 61.6 percent of its total $29.94 billion in procurement Money was awarded to contractors after competitive bidding. This was an increase from 58.8 percent in fiscal 1987and a jump Over the 41.2 percent awarded on a competitive basis in fiscal 1983, a year before the army began drive to limit the use of sole source contracts. More than 93 percent of the individual contract signed during fiscal 1988 were awarded after competitive bidding up from 88 percent in fiscal 1987 and 48percent in fiscal 1983, the army said. Scientists confirm theory of How pulsars created san Francisco a astronomers say they have documented the creation of an extremely dense spinning Star known As a Pulsar for the first time an insight that could change beliefs about How big stars explode. The discovery confirms a theory that pulsars recreated by the explosion of enormous stars called supernovas said Carl Pennypacker a research physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The Pulsar a highly dense Star known As a Neutron Star spins nearly 2,000 times per second Pennypacker said adding that its Speed is three times faster than anything researchers have observed before. It s really phenomenal he said describing the Pulsar As something that has the mass of the Sun squished Down to a 10-Kilometer  car destroyed As scrap fatality charges dropped Houston up a judge dismissed charge against a Man accused of killing two women by driving into a crowd because a key piece of evidence theman s car was destroyed for scrap Metal. The car a 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass was vital to the defense of Mario Silva Ramirez state District judge Jim Barr said. The vehicle destroyed in violation of a court order that it be preserved was sold for Salvage by a storage lot under contract with the Houston police department. Defense attorney Robert Rodriguez said he does no dispute the accusation that Ramirez was drunk but he said the Accident occurred because the car s accelerator  original accelerator Cable on the vehicle had been re placed with a non Standard Cable and was poorly rigged. Vintners from California France forming Alliance san Francisco Calif. A in another major european investment in California wine the interests of the fabled chateau Lafite Rothschild of Bordeaux France have formed an Alliance with the state s super Premium Chalone Vineyard. Chateau Lafite s Baron Eric de Rothschild and Dick Raff Board chairman of Chalone made the announcement. Chalone whose Best wines sell for $20 bottle and up is the Only publicly owned operating winery in the country. Crew member Dies in crash of air National guard f-4 fort Wayne ind. A a Mili tary aircraft crashed Friday night despite efforts of the weapons specialist to land the plane after the cockpit caught fir and the Pilot lost consciousness. One of the two member Crew was killed officials said. It was not immediately known which of the two on Board died an air nation Al guard spokeswoman said. The weapons specialist aboard the air National guard f-4 tried to land the air Craft but bailed out before it crashed on runway at the City Airport said supervisor Larry Schneider at Baer Field s control Tower. It. Kathleen Rzepka of the Indian air National guard said one Crew Mem Ber was killed and the other was hospitalized. Both men were taken to lutheran Hospital but a nursing supervisor there said no information would be release until the victims families were notified. Police Learned about the pilotless plane when the aircraft was six minutes away from Baer Field Bradley said. The weapons specialist piloted the plane to the runway but ejected before it landed. There was no fire at the scene of the crash and the fire in the cockpit had been extinguished Bradley said. School s computer dating puts heart into fund Raiser grand rapids Mich. A students trying to raise Money usually go in for bake sales or car washes but Tho seat a grand rapids High school have come up with a service that s a hit wit their classmates computer dating. As Valentine s Day approaches Stu dents have been lining up in the Halls of Ottawa Hills High school at lunch hour ready to pay $1 for the names of three potential dates whose answers to 20questions most closely match theirs. The first two Days we be had people Ping around the table throwing Money at us student Jason Woods said. Computer student Jim Ruder said he spent two or three months writing the software for the dating service then distributed questionnaires. We re not up to dating game Stan Dards yet Ruder said. We Haven t said it is the perfect Date or anything likethat.1 so far the students have raised about$200 to go toward computer Laboratory equipment Woods and Ruder have bigger idea for their computer program. They Hope to copyright it and Market it to other schools