European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday february 20,1989 . Police chief to redeploy 427 officers by the Washington Post Washington the police chief of the nation s capital Maurice t. Turn or jr., plans to announce a crime Emer gency on tuesday that would allow him to bypass Union rules and immediately redeploy hundreds of officers to fight the City s crisis of violence and drug abuse Washington officials say. An official said the redeployment would involve 427 officers but other de tails were not available. The crime emergency applies Only to the redeployment of officers and does not give police officials additional pow ers said the District of Columbia s corporation counsel Frederick d. Cooke or. The provision for a crime emergency is included in the police department s contract with the fraternal order of police. If crime has reached such proportions that it constitutes an emergency the declaration allows the chief to Rede ploy police officers without giving them the 28-Day notice ordinarily required. If there is a Public safety concern that the police feel they need to address. The management of the police depart ment can change schedules Cooke said. According to officials the following changes will be made or considered a total of 174 sworn police officers who now perform administrative tasks will be placed on Street duty one Day a week and deployed in targeted areas. Police recruits in the City s training Academy will be placed on Street duty for two Days a week after they have had 10 weeks of training. Training will be extended from 22 weeks to 30 weeks. There Are currently 150 recruits at the police Academy who have More than 10 weeks of training new department policy will Man Date that 80 percent of patrol cars be manned by one officer limiting the flexibility commanders now have to assign one or two officers to the cars. The possibility of stationing a police officer in every Junior High school will be studied. Currently an officer is stationed Only in High schools. The Fleet of police vehicles will be increased by 70 cars. About 173 administrative positions held by officers will be converted to civil Ian positions. Mayor Marion Barry and other officials would not say How much the changes would Cost How they would be paid for or exactly when they will take effect. Services suspended of Church where dissidents were evicted Bridgeport Conn. A a predominantly polish Catholic Church was closed indefinitely sat urday hours after the City s Bishop summoned police to evict dissident parishioners who had occupied the Church for a week. A spokesman said Bishop Edward m. Egan had no other Choice but to suspend services at St. Michael the archangel Church. On Friday afternoon about 100 dissidents shouted Down roman Catholic diocesan officials who came to the Church to convey Egan s offer to meet with them if they would leave peacefully. Monsignor Nicholas v. Grieco said they were begin Ning to get unruly. It became impossible to Nave services conducted there in a Way that would be  about 200 dissident parishioners occupying the Church in shifts staged a we Klong sit in to protest the Transfer announced in december of a popular priest brought from Poland three years ago. Regular Church functions have continued during the protest. They had vowed to maintain their Vigil until Church officials agreed to return the polish priest the Rev. Roman Palaszewski to the Parish and remove the Church s current pastor the Rev. John Bambol. But the standoff ended abruptly Early saturday when police arrived and ordered 80 dissidents present to leave. Two people were arrested on trespassing charges the rest left voluntarily. The dissidents Many of them recent polish Immi Grants accuse Bambol of engineering Palaszewski s re Moval because he was too Active in the polish Community. Some say they Are upset by Bambol s Effort to open the Church which is in a largely hispanic Section of Bridgeport to ethnic groups other than poles. The dissident leaders issued two statements. In the first a letter to Pope John Paul ii they appealed for his intervention and denounced Egan accusing him of destroying the  the protest leaders said they do not know what form their struggle will take now. Palaszewski s five year contract was terminated in december after three years by joint agreement of franciscan officials in Baltimore and Poland. Uranium release estimate raised Cincinnati a the government has in creased by one third its estimate of How much Radia Tion an uranium processing Plant has released into the environment Over the last 38 years. The . Department of Energy said 88,000 More pounds of uranium and 16,100 More pounds of thorium a uranium substitute had been released than previously estimated since the 1951 opening of the feed materials production Center in Fernald. A firm estimate of emissions from the Plant is needed from its owner the Energy department before the Start of a health study by the . Centers for disease control. The government now estimates 297,000 pounds of uranium and 17,590 pounds of thorium were released. The Fernald Plant has been the subject of intense scrutiny by Congress and the press because of contamination problems and allegations that its radioactive and chemical discharges May have harmed people who live and work nearby. The Plant processes uranium for the . Nuclear weapons program. Environmentalists said they doubt the department Ever will know How much pollution escaped from Fer Bald 18 Miles Northeast of Cincinnati. This makes 175 metric tons but that s just one More step along a Long Long Road said Arjun Makhi Jani an environmental consultant for Fernald area residents in a lawsuit against the Plant. The Energy department quietly made the new Esti mates Public in a news release last week the Cincinnati enquirer reported saturday. A preliminary Plant emission estimate was presented in a congressional hearing last october. It raises a real concern said Len Weiss staff director of the Senate committee on governmental affairs which is led by sen. John Glenn a Ohio. Every time they look at things the numbers go up  Robert Walker spokesman for Westinghouse mate rials co. Of Ohio which operates the Fernald Plant for the department acknowledged the significance of the revised estimate. There s no question it  chunk Walker said. But of my god in  appropriate reaction from our Point of View. We re trying to uncover every Possi ble emission from this Plant Over the 37 years it s been Here and this is one More that s been tracked  sen. Wilson to seek California governorship Sacramento Calif. A . Sen. Pete Wil 1978 and briefly launched a second try in 1981 said Hen who won re election to his second  Vear term Hist Wai my the ofcoii.,. In Kra it by l Miyoi Sam Neson six Yea term jus three months ago announced sat urday his candidacy for the re publican nomination for governor in 1990. In remarks prepared for an address to the California Republican party s annual convention Wilson ended More than a month of speculation about his plans. He was widely viewed As his party s front runner for governor. In a statewide poll taken shortly Wilson after Republican gov. George Deukmejian announced last month that he will retire after his current term Wilson easily topped six prospective candidates. Wilson 55, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in welcomes the Challenge of a 1990 bid. He said he has been far More than Content in the Senate. So this was not an easy decision not one Tobe made lightly. A moderate on environmental and social issues Anda conservative on fiscal issues Wilson in his Conven Tion address outlined in Broad terms a platform of Job and Trade development environmental Protection an new efforts to ease Highway congestion. A few hours before Wilson s announcement los an Geles police chief Daryl Gates the Only gop candidate to form an exploratory committee to seek the nomination for governor rejected a Public plea from the state party chairman Bob Naylor to withdraw and support Wilson the leading contenders for the democratic Nomi nation for governor Are attorney general John Van de Kamp and former san Francisco mayor Dianne Femster. J stateside Knoxville firm to design theme Park in Spain Knoxville Tenn. A a company located Here has been hired to designed a $100 million theme Park planned for Marbella on the Southern coast of Spain. The 120-acre Park is part of a 17,000-acre resort under development by Daylong Island Espanola . The design contract is the first in Europe for Bullock Smith whose president Charles Smith was vice president for site development at the1982 Knoxville world s fair. Smith said the Park in Spain is supposed to be finished by 1992, in time for the world s fair in Seville and the summer olympics in Barcelona. Bechtel National inc. Is responsible for project management. Six flags corp. Of Dallas will operate the theme Park. Profit sharing payments to average $2,800 at Ford Detroit not Ford motor co. Has said that its 1988 profits would generate $460 million in profit sharing payments or More than $2,800 per employee the second highest since the pay ments began six years ago. The record of $3,700 per employee was set in 1987, when earnings peaked at Ford s . Auto motive operations from which the payments recalculated. Although the latest operating profits were Down $249 million from the 1987 level gains overseas helped to produce a record net income of $5.3 billion. Ford s labor contract with the United Auto Mobile workers first incorporated profit sharing in 1983, when payments averaged $400 per employee. Since then the company said it has distributed More than $2 billion in this manner. All hourly employees with at least one year s service receive profit sharing As do salaried employees not eligible for bonuses. Profit sharing payments of general motors corp., announced earlier will average $254 per employee while those of Chrysler corp. Will average $720. Public broadcasting Board elects texan As chairman Washington a Ken Towery an Austin Texas businessman and weekly newspaper publisher was elected chairman of the corporation for Public broadcasting at a special Board meeting on saturday. Towery the Board s longest serving member since november 1981 was named to succeed Howard Guam until at least sept. 11, when regular elections Are scheduled at cab s annual meeting. Out s two year term starting with a similar interim appointment in 1977, expires March 2. Towery publishes three Texas weeklies the Floyd county hesperian in Floydada and the Belton journal and the Lockney Beacon. He won a pulitzer prize in 1955 while reporting for the Uihero daily record on corruption in the Texas veterans land program. Towery also is a partner in Blythe Nelson new ton & Towery a business and political consulting urm and was press Secretary and administrative assistant to John Tower the defense Secretary Des Ignate when Tower served in the Senate. Guam is a broadcasting consultant in san Anto Nio Texas