European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 24, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Laconca urges business to help Bush on education Washington a so Many Chrysler corp. Assembly line workers could t read the words bad Hood fit on the Button they were supposed to push when icy detected an ill filling Hood that the com Pany had to replace the words with a graphic depiction. Chrysler chairman Lee a. Iacocca said wednesday. Laconca urging business to do All it can to help president Bush become the education president said he was get Ling More scared every Day Aboul inc decline of american education i thought it was bad but i be found out it s really really bad he told a luncheon meeting of the National association of manufacturers As for inc bad Hood fit Button which workers were supposed to push to Alert others to improperly aligned hoods As cars passed by on the Assembly line Iacocca said we had to replace that with graphics because inc Guys just could t handle those three monosyllables. If you Don l have people who arc smarter than the robots they work with the game is Over in Trade Competition Laconca said reminding his audience that Bush said he wanted to be remembered As the education  each one of us ought to do everything we can to help him get his wish Laconca said in urging Busi Ness executives to demand higher standards of educational achievement and to support measures aimed at elevating the professionalism and status of teachers. V. We used to write our training material at Chrys Ler at the ninth and uth Grade Reading  la coca said.,. Out we found we were out of sync because a lot of people in the plants and i mean a lot 1 Don t want to give you the numbers. It s frightening they were Only Reading at inc sixth Grade level so we had to translate everything Down. Sometimes even sith Grade in t  spends $117 million a year on training. 10 percent of it for elementary Reading writing and arithmetic. You and 1 arc spending More Money teaching remedial mathematics 16 our employees than All the Grade schools High schools and colleges in the country Are spending on mathematics instruction Laconca said. In Detroit Only 73 percent of enrolled High school students attend class on an average Day and of the City s school budget Only 3d percent goes to actual Basic education that s front line teaching. 1 inquired what the hell is the other 70? administration and support support for what Chrysler c9rp. Is the sole sponsor of a major pub Lic broadcasting service series called i Aming in America which begins monday night. The company put up nearly $4 million to make and promote the five part series which examines the failings of . Education and scattered efforts to Correct them. . Officials a vent soviets g. Washington a a Century after an agriculture department scout found in Mii Ralian but Etc Lila t saved. California s Citrus crop the government has announced an escalation of it Bug  program of biological warfare Ugains nature s pests. The us a said wednesday agreements had been reached to Send american scientists to China and the so yield Union this summer to search unexplored areas for natural enemies of destructive insects and weeds. We re raising the priority of making Bio control a vital part of american food and Fiher production said a. Dean a Lowron head of the department s Agri cultural research service. Taiwan born pathologist.  Ming will go to inner Mongolia in search of a fungus that can destroy the Leafy Spurge an aggressive Weed which drives grazing cattle and horses away from Range land at a Cost to ranchers that he estimated at $50 million. Al the same time five agriculture department scientists will go to the soviet Union to look for enemies of the russian wheat aphid a pest that appeared in Texas three years ago and has spread into 15stacs. Working with their soviet counterparts they also will try to find biological controls to use against Grasshoppers the Leafy Spurge the russian Thistle and. A Nui Berof other psis. Scientists said the problems that plague farms and Back Yards alike often arose be la s reeding time for this sevens polled lady Boettc imported to eat american Uphill. Cause crops brought into this country were frequently accompanied by pests but not by he pests natural enemies. The announcement was made at a Cere Mony marking the first big a Mclory a Century and Sis a months ago in biological controls Deputy agriculture Secretary Peter Myers talked about thai Victory. He said thai in 1888 California s Citrus Trees were covered by the Large White egg sacs of the Cottony Cushion scale threatening the stale s fledgling Citrus Industry the us a dispatched a scout Albert Koeble to Australia to look for a natural enemy of the pest he found one feeding on scale in a Garden in North Adelaide the stack and Orange Vidalia Beetle. Twell a Highl of inc beetles were released in California on nov. 30, 1888, and the problem was under control within a year. Since then hundreds of biological control agents have been introduced in Ameri can agriculture sparing the environment from tons of pesticides und a Viii Farmers Mitrion of dollars. To  occasion an exhibition was opened to show How predatory beetles aggressive parasites and deadly disease organisms Are used to keep Agri cultural pests in Check William Meller House who directs the division of Plant Industry in new Jersey s agriculture department said 40 percent of America s economically important in sects have been found abroad. He said Shade Trees across this country would be infested with the Gypsy Moth a Caterpillar that cats the.  More than 500.tree species if it wore not for nine parasites Anil two predators brought in from overseas. Now a virus Lias been developed bythe us a As a weapon against the Gypsy Moth 4myers said.  said  Farmers have had 10 Spray eggplant Fields As often 15 limes a season to control the Colorado Pouilot. By clue but a South american egg parasite is being introduced this summer and May solve the problem he said ways Are being sought to use the Para site to control the Beetle in potato and Imam Fields too i added noid avoids trial in taking hostages at Domino s Decatur f a Al j a Man named noid who believed he was the target of Domino s pizza s avoid the noid advertising was ruled Man tall incompetent wednesday to stand trial for holding to Domino s cup loves hostage. Kenneth Lamar a soil j2,-of Albany pm could be tried liter under an order entered it Superior court judge Curtis Tiliman for i he next 90da she ii to be evaluated h the state department of human re sources. The1 department will decide whether he s Likely to become competent Dekalb county Public defender Larry Schneider said. Police said noid apparently believed that inc Advertis ing Campaign which features a mischievous animated character called the noid was directed at him. He held two hostages ill gunpoint for nearly six hours Jan 30 at a Domino s Fiz a outlet in Chamblee cast of Altania and  Point fired four shots into the ceiling the hostages finally escaped when he turned his Back. During the standoff noid demanded $100,000, a sea Way car and a science fiction novel he also ordered and ate a pizza. Cham lec police chief Reed Miller said noid told up lice that he thinks Tom , owner of he Detroit based pizza Chain and the Detroit tiers baseball team comes into his apartment and looks  Man convicted of strangling wife on honeymoon of Angeles Al a Man has been found guilt of second degree Mur Der in the death of his Bride who was strangled and thrown overboard Dunn their honeymoon cruise. Scott Robin Roston a 36- ear old writer. Mood lacing Juron As the pc rain was announced m a crowded courtroom wednes Day he showed no reaction bul his Mother Sophia Roslon wept uncontrollably in the from ran Filic Spectator Section. Jurors in  District court who deliberated for three Days rejected Roston i de sense thai his wife was murdered b Isaac la agents in retaliation fora  wrote. The jury convicted Roston on the Only charge against him. The prosecution said Lii it was no premeditation involved in the killing so they could not charge him with . The prosecution charged that Karen Waltz Roston 26, was killed on feb. 13, 1983, after a series of arguments that culminated when her husband strangled her on the jog my track of the cruise ship on which icy were honeymooning. The Case came to Light a year ago when the cruise ship Stardancer resumed from a three Day if Coican cruise with reports thar. Mrs. Roston had gone overboard. Her Hus band reportedly said she had been swept off the ship by a Strong gust of wind. Koston later blamed israeli agents. Confronted with the disbelief of every one he confronted he changed his  said the prosecutor. Assistant . Altomer Kendra Mcnally he became tangled in the web of his own lies and he Sank like a Stone Roston s attorney David Keener said Roston was innocent and grieved More than anyone for the loss of his wife. He insisted thai israeli agents could be responsible and pointed to. Two israeli names on the Passen Ger hit  in Santa  the author of Nightmare in Israel a Pur ported expose of his arrest in Israel on Rob Bery charges and his subsequent confine ment in a menial Hospital. In Rob Usu testimony Mcnally produced one of the israelis a photographer from junk aim who said be and a colleague were vacation Irig aboard the ship after photographing the wedding of a Friend. He denied any connection to the israeli government or us killing