European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april. 1989 the stars and stripes Bush sends Congress education package Washington Nytz president Bush presented a $44l million education package to con grows wednesday de signed to promote and Reward academic excellence. These education initiatives Don t constitute a cure All a Quick fix for what Ever ails our education system Bush said in a ceremony in the Rose Garden before the Bill was sent to Capitol Hill. Money is Light and we wish that More funds were  Bush s proposal would provide Cash rewards to outstanding teachers schools and science and mathematics students create  focusing on Foster ing innovative curriculum rather than desegregation help states to develop flexible certification systems to broaden the Pool of leaching Talent and provide special Aid to Urban school districts with severe drug problems and to historically Lack colleges. Most of these initiatives were fore shadowed in Bush s 198s Campaign and announced in the budget plan he sent Congress in february. The Bill quickly came under Sharp criticism from leading democrats and. Spokesmen for teachers associations who portrayed it As a Shell game that would Eta Little to improve education. The president is attempting to strip programs Long supported by Congress to pay for new initiatives of questionable value said rep. Augustus f. Hawkins a Calif. Chairman of the House Educa Tion and labor committee. Ill the Bill s chief Senlac sponsor Nancy Kassebaum r-kan., called its prospects very Good. It s a package one could hardly be against she said. Education Secretary Lauro f. Cava of said m a White House briefing that Money for the package would not be Cut from other education programs. But he acknowledged that he did not know what programs would be Cut in other areas to pay for the. New initiatives. Bush said in his budget plan this year that  1137 billion Worth of Domestic programs would be Frozen at the same level As this year without Al lowing for inflation or population growth. Measures to provide compensatory education for  students Aid to needy College students and assist Ance to handicapped pupils could be included. Last week. Bush asked Congress to Cut millions of dollars from existing appropriations for education this fiscal year to pay for other programs. The National education association and the american federation of teach ers both announced that they found the Bush proposals disappointing. In a report released tuesday the Nea the nation s largest teachers Union called for j10 billion in new Federal spending for poor and handicapped Stu dents  proposals for funding and individual programs arc both too Small and misdirected said Albert Shankar presi Dent of the teachers federation. Croak the Ravens nevermore i they Dine on tortoises san Bernardino. Calif. A Federal officials plan to shoot and Poison up to 1,500 Ravens in the Mojave desert in an Effort to save the desert Tortoise a favorite meal of the Preda tory Birds v. Animal damage control officers with the . Department of agriculture will kill Ravens by injecting hard boiled eggs with Poison and placing the eggs on elevated platforms where the Ravens will find and eat them. The Ravens arc killing Young tortoises by the thousands and contributing to an alarming decline of Tortoise populations in the desert said biologists with the . Bureau of land management the Agency that developed the Raven control program. Bureau of land management officials obtained a permit this week from the . Fish and wildlife service to kill the Birds the san Bernardino Sun reported. V the Birds arc protected by  Bir treaty act. The permit represents he largest sanctioned killing of Ravens in inc Western states said Tom Riley of the fish and wildlife service. National Audubon society. Officials oppose the program and local Audubon officials called it shortsighted and excessive .,.i m a Little annoyed at this said Bob me Kocman president of he san Bernardino Valley. Audubon society. In general the bum is not doing its Job throughout the desert on a variety of Levels. Ii bothers me that they Are now having to go to these extremes to eliminate or reduce a  in two studies blk biologists attributed 88 per cent of Tortoise deaths to Ravens. But critics remain sceptical that Ravens can cause so much damage. Polaroid edging into new Market with its one size fits All film new York. A Polaroid corp. Exposed its first conventional film to reporters wednesday Billing it As a one size fits All product that would work for More than 90 percent of the pictures Amateur photographers snap. Under pressure until recently from a $3.2 billion takeover bid by investor Roy e. Disney. Polaroid said it is hoping to improve financial results by grabbing As much As 5. Percent of the $7 billion conventional him Market. Polaroid founder Edwin h. Land created instant photography in the late 1940s, but the medium has had Little or no growth in recent years while conventional film sales have grown 5 to 10 percent a year. Land considered More visionary than a business Man has Long opposed getting Polaroid into conventional lint wednesday inc company said in was extending not abandoning the instant film business. Polaroid is hoping ils name recognition and no decisions sales Pilch will give it a piece of the Busi Ness dominated by Eastman Kodak co. And Fuji photo film co. Ltd.,.". Polaroid is stressing that on film which was to go on Sale thursday relieves Consumers of having to choose a particular film Speed when they buy. Competitors claim on film is nothing special that their own films have wide latitudes in exposure Ihal allow them to be used under Many circumstances. And they said Quality is bound to suffer if a film is used in the wrong situations All Fuji s color negative print films have wide exposure latitude said Paul Khuda general manager of the photographic products division of Fuji photo film Usa inc. I Don t believe there would be any great technological difference in exposure latitude said  Baum publisher and editorial director of modern a Model holds Polaroid s latest introduction oni film. Photography Magazine. He added he tried samples of on film about a month ago and liked it. On film is not much of a Gamble for Polaroid. Rather than build huge new film factories it is buying the him from 3m, which is making it according to Polaroid specifications. Prosecutor of thin Blue line7 defendant fired Dallas a the assistant Dis trict1 attorney who led the fight to keep the thin Blue line defendant ran Dall Dale Adams behind bars was fired wednesday. Winfield Scott was dismissed for vie lating policies  District attorney John Vance said. Scott was the third prosecutor involved in the Case to leave he office this week. Scott did not return repealed Calls from the associated press of her officials at the office declined comment Over Scott s objections Adams was released from prison March 22, a few weeks after a state court overturned his conviction for the 1976 slaying of a dal Las policeman. Adams had spent More than 12 years in prison. The Case was examined in error mor Ris 1988 documentary. The thin Blue  which questioned evidence in the Case. Adams was ordered released after the Texas court of criminal appeals said evidence had been suppressed and at least i to witnesses lied on the stand. Scott who served As an assistant Dis. Trial attorney in Dallas for 21 years participated in Lac original prosecution of Adams in fighting Adams release Scott said stale District court judge Larry Baraka and eight of the nine appellate judges were biased in Adams a vac. He asked that Baraka be removed from the Case Scot s arguments held up Adams re lease for one. Night before another slate judge ruled in Adams favor. The Day after Adams release Vance said evidence 10 retry him was lacking and the murder charge wits dropped. Vance said he d investigate Scott s be Havior of a personnel matter. In his remarks wednesday night Vance said he had nothing but Admira Tion and respect for Scott. "1 found we had a conflict regarding current office policies that simply could not be re solved any other Way Vance said. Earlier this week John Creuzot and Leslie Mcfarland resigned. Bolh had been with the office about sin years and. Worked on the Adams Case. Neither would specify their reasons for resigning but said they planned to go into private or acidic. California Gas prices Rise sharply after Oil spill los Angeles not gasoline prices in califor Nia have risen sharply since the Oil spill in Alaska s Prince William sound with increases at the pump ranging from As Little As 2 cents to More Thun 20 cents a gallon. The increases reported by service station operators and Industry associations came at least partly in response to fears Hal restrictions on Oil Tanker ship ments to the West coast will Lead . A group of Consumers in Orange county brought suit against Exxon corp., the owner of the Tanker thai spilled More than 10 Mill Ion Gallons of Oil off the coast of Alaska asking the company to repay motorists for the incr cased costs  Carol Currie of the Western slates Petroleum association pointed out however Hal prices were already climbing before the March 24 spill. Even though he coast guard lifted same restrictions on Tanker traffic there were indications that retail Price rises would continue including the fact that refineries have already raised the prices of their products by As much As 15 cents a gallon for unleaded gasoline