European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page6. The stars and stripes tuesday april 25, 19b9 1 he Rac h under Way a the Jura lifts off a j Palm Springs m left is the destiny and on the right to he Banihani. 2 entries others still i Palm Springs Calif. Up1 two of the four multicoloured helium balloons that lifted off shortly after Dawn sunday in the Gordon Bennett balloon distance race dropped out before Nightfall Organ optimistic As of late sunday night Only the Rosie o Grady the Ihrcke Lime winning balloon piloted by retired . Air Force col. Joe Kittinger with co Pilot Sherry Reed and the Jura piloted by Karl sponge of Switzerland with co Pilot Ronald Schuler were still in Hie air race officials said. Both balloons were about 300 Miles from the starting Point. The Rosio o Grady reported at 6  was flouting at about 12,000 feet near Page Ariz. An american airlines Pilot made the last report on Jura saying that it was also at 12,000 feet Over the grand Canyon and headed for Lake Powell near Page. They re fairly dose and Al about the same Alti tude said race spokeswoman Clara Dif Clicc. They could have   the. Destiny Pilot Don Davis an architect and co Pilot and balloon owner Ron Martin reported thut they landed Al 12 30 . Only about 60 Miles from Palm Springs. The destiny was never consid ered a serious entrant the Benchana was piloted by 19bi Winner rocky1 Aoki founder of the Benchana of Tokyo restaurant Chain and co Pilot George  reported it came Down at 5 45 . Near Flagstaff am less than 300 Miles from Palm Springs. Harm s radioed. Report did not say Why the Benchana had landed. Meteorologists said High level winds blowing cast were Strong enough  the balloons perhaps As far As. Kansas Colorado or elsewhere in the mid West. Killinger and Reed won last year s race covering 353.4 Miles before Landing on an Island in the sea of Ortiz off Baja California Mexico Aoki a former olympic arcs Lucr for his native Japan set the distance record when he. Covered 1,348 Miles in 1981 and landed in North Dakota. The race which was delayed a Day by Gusty ground winds got under Way Early sunday As the pilots attempted to travel As far As possible from the starting Point before being forced to land. Named for new York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett the race was inaugurated in 1906, becoming an annual prestige even for balloon its until it was discontinued during world War ii. It was revived in 1979. The winning pilots who must cat sleep and Nav Gaie in the Wicker baskets that hang beneath the big colourful Gas bags receive a trophy. Stateside nude painting of Adam allowed Back in City Hall Newport Beach Calif. A bureaucrats who pulled a nude painting or Adam from the City halt two weeks ago have returned the artwork to the gallery. The reversal followed a threat from an Acle lawyer representing the artist. Painter Rosa Williamson said she thought Justice had been done after her full frontal rendition of Adam was re turned. " fee that City Hall gallery is a Public forum and i have a right to Freedom of express Ion Williamson said cily officials apparently thought so too at Lens after they received a letter from lawyer re. By cd Jurado threatening to go to court. Adam was one of several of Williamson s nudes moved from a temporary show because of complaints. One prankster attached a Fig Leaf to Adam and another male nude was decorated Wilh a rubber nose. Flood temporarily disables reactor s Cooling pumps St. Francisville la. Thousands of Gallons of water flooded a control room at the River Bend nuclear Power Plant knocking out pumps that help Cool the reactor a nuclear regulatory commission spokesman said. The Plant had been shut Down for about three weeks for refuelling and maintenance when the Accident occurred shortly after Midnight wednesday said Bill Benedetto spokesman for the Plant s owner. Gulf stale utilities. The reactor Core s temper lure never exceeded 95 degrees there were no injuries and the pumps were working again within 10 minutes of the Accident Benedetto said military shuttle flights delayed by space Agency Cape canaveral Fla. A two Mili tary space shuttle flights planned Nusl summer will be delayed one for at least three months because work on the shuttle Columbia is taking longer than expected. Nasa said the schedule had become Loo tight to support both missions and still preserve in october launch for the High priority Galileo flight to Jupiter. A discovery launch that had been scheduled for aug. 10 will be delayed until at least novem Ber. The Columbia which had a july i launch target will be launched in Early August the spare Agency said both missions arc to deploy classified defense department payloads. University probing Case of 11-year-old Grad Santa Cruz. Calif. A University officiate arc investigating allegations that an 11- ear old boy who be came the Youngen person to graduate from College was allowed to Lake a Stag Gering course Load that one authority called  in some of his classes the univer sity of California at Sama Cruz Adra Gondi Mello was struggling to just pass according to a report published sunday. The boy received a degree in computational mathematics last year. Dragon s advisers should have been concerned by the pressures on him his often mediocre work and the High num Ber of waivers and Grade changes he received said us Santa Cruz vice chancellors Srbui Gruhn the College advising system apparently let him Down she said in Sun Day s editions of the Santa Cruz senti Nel which obtained copies of dragon s transcripts evaluations and other University documents. After viewing the documents last week Gruhn called the boy s course Load unconscionable us Santa Cruz Chancellor Robert Stevens said Friday that his office will investigate the handling of the boy s academic career dragon made National headlines and became an entry in the guinness Book of wot 1j records when he Grade Saied last june. His father Aguslin do Mcullo de. Fended his son s academic record. Any negative evaluations of his son s work were written by people who were prejudiced against the boy said do Mcullo. The father had drawn up plans for raising a boy Genius including ". Age 16 even before dragon was conceived. It was the University  that placed All the pressure on his son in take so Many classes. That was be cause the family could not get the kind of financial Aid to support two cars of study instead of oat he said. According to University rec Orik cited by the paper dragon took a double Load of classes and often used petitions and waivers to win exceptions from us usual  and while dragon did Well in some mathematics and computer classes he struggled in others. His performance in one astronomy course was the poorest of anyone s in the class and was far below the pass fail cutoff the instructor wrote in in evaluation. The source of this stress was Proba Bly the fact that according to what he told me he was taking six courses this Quarter wrote the professor Merle Walker. If it is True i question Why the relevant authorities within the University permitted him to do  the usual Load at the Santa Cruz Campus which issues pass or fail grades is three courses per Quarter. Cir Uhn said it was a serious Mallei for any student to take even four. Dragon on three occasions also did not Complete his course work by the end of the term and petitioned to have the grades changed to pass after completing makeup work