European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday may5,1989 air passengers May face ban on electronic devices Washington a the . Government says it might prohibit airline passengers from taking aboard por table computers tape players hair dryers and other elec tronic devices As a Stopgap measure against terrorist bombings. The ban covering items carried by hand or in Luggage would prevent such items from being used to smuggle plastic explosives aboard planes until sophisticated bomb detection devices can be installed at High risk air ports around the world. Both transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner and his Deputy Secretary Elaine Chao raised the possibility in forums this week of a total ban on electronic devices. Chao said wednesday it could include everything from hair dryers and electric shavers to Lap top computers and portable tape players. A total ban is an option that Well have to consider she said adding that other alternatives also Are being discussed both in the United states and abroad. Relatives of some of the 270 people killed in the dec. 21 bombing of pan am flight 103 asked that radio Cas Sette players and similar devices be banned after officials concluded that plastic explosives concealed in such a unit blew up pan am flight 103 Over Scotland. Current a Ray units used for hand carried items cannot select plastic explosives and checked in Luggage usually is not scanned at All. The transportation department has ordered airlines Florida Mother sues Over her arrest for dancing at Home Palm Springs Fla. A a Palm Springs woman who pm had out of her Shower to dance 10 a video and was arrested after neighbors peering through her window filed a complaint has sued the police. Darla in Scott who was jailed and lost custody of her two girls to the state for two Days sued the Palm Springs Public safety department on tuesday for false arrest harassment and false imprisonment in the Jan uary 1988 incident. I was treated like a murderer like i was no Good. I was in my own House minding my own business said Scot a 31-year-old nurse s aide. She said she had asked her daughters to Call her out of the Shower if a music video of the song love Over Board by Gladys Knight and the pips appeared on the television. Neighbors peering through a window into her third floor apartment thought she was nude when she rushed into her living room to dance to the song and filed a child abuse report with the police. She told officers she was wearing a Brown Towel. She was arrested on three counts of lewd and lascivious behaviour in the presence of a child her two daughters and a 4- ear old girl looking through the window said West Palm Beach attorney w. Trent Sec Csc who is representing Scott on behalf of the american civil liberties Union. While she spent a night in the Palm Beach county stockade her daughters Ages 3 and 10 it the time spent about two Days in separate Foster Homes. The separation was prolonged because social work ers with the slate department of health and rehabilitative services could t find one of the girls after they placed her in a Home Steele said. The slate attorney s office dropped All the charges against Scoll in May 1988. Palm Springs Village attorney Donald Kohl declined to comment on the suit saying he had not seen it. To buy and install devices that can detect plastic bombs such As Thermal Neutron analysis units that have been tested by the Federal aviation administration on Choc cd in Luggage. Skinner said the first unit will be in stalled at John f. Kennedy International Airport in july and another one in Britain later in the year. But officials acknowledge it could take two years or More to set up the $1 million units in All High risk air  Bill passed by a congressional subcommittee on tuesday would have the government Grant airlines and airports $270 million to pay for the units. The administration insists that the airlines should pay. Adding the Cost to a Security fee collected with airline tickets. Skinner said president Bush who Mcl with a group of the right 103 relatives last month has been pressing him on the Issue of electronic devices. The Secretary said he also took it up with european transportation officials during his visits to five countries last  we re going to develop a program that s going to work on electronic devices it s got 10 work with other  Skinner said in a National press club speech. All governments agreed to work to develop a Standard program Skinner said. He noted that Many journalists regularly travel with portable computers and other de vices that might be affected if a ban were imposed. We have to come up with a solution to make sure that if these devices go on air planes they Are Safe and thai a bomb is not inadvertently planned in one of i Csc de vices Skinner said. A rat race olympic Star prudence encouraged by Couch and Trainer Jennifer Grinius of fort by Avoir a gets a Tail up on other competitors during a warm up on the rope climb one of the events in the rat  psychology lab students used learning and motivation techniques to train their rats to jump climb and race for the contest held wednesday at Norwich University in Northfield it. Rep. Pepper now treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore a rep. Claude Pepper the old est member of Congress has been admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a digestive disturbance a spokeswoman said thursday. Pepper. 88. Had been under treatment for the Dis order at Waller Reed medical Center since april 6. He checked into Johns Hopkins on tuesday said Elaine Freeman Hospital spokeswoman. After consulting with or. John h. Hendrix a gastrointestinal specialist on april 25, the Florida demo crat decided to place himself in the physician s care. Freeman said. Pepper has requested that no further information about his condition be released. Freeman said. Woman says opry Star beat her with a Bible Gallatin Tenn. A a woman says she was trying to end a romantic relationship with 77-year-old Bluegrass music Star Bill Monroe when he beat her with a Bible. Wanda Huff 51, of Birmingham ala., said she was trying to gel Monroe to swear on the Bible that he was nol seeing other women when he grabbed the Book and Hil her Wilh it at his farm near Gallatin. Huff who was not seriously Hurt in the incident monday filed assault charges the same Day against the grand Ole opry Star. A preliminary1 hearing is scheduled for May 10. Monroe was arrested tuesday and freed on $500 Bond. He did not return a Telephone message left wednesday by the asocial cd press Al his Nashville office. Monroe a Singer and mandolin player has played with his band the Bluegrass boys on the opry since 1939. Blue Moon of a unlucky is Monroe s Best known song. In february he won the first grammy award presented for Bluegrass music. 3 red Wolf puppies born raising population to 92 Glen Rose Texas a a red Wolf the second rarest mammal in the United Stales gave birth to three puppies wednesday at a wildlife Center. If the puppies survive they will be the first Texas bom red wolves since the mid-1970s, raising the total population to 92, said officials Al Fossil rim wildlife cell or. In 1973, after the passage of the endangered species act. The entire red Wolf population in Southeast Texas and Louisiana was captured to prevent its Coli action. The . Fish and wildlife service Cape Rcd about 40 red wolves and began a recovery program in Washington state. The wolves ranged from Texas East to the allanic coast and North to the Ohio Valley but they began disappearing because of their inability to adapt to changes in the land and predator control. Warhol Marilyn Monroe auctioned for $4 million new York a Andy Warhol s 1964 portrait of Marilyn Monroe tilled shot red Marilyn Drew $4 million Al auction a record for a work by the late artist. Shot red Marilyn a portrait of Monroe s face against a red background had been valued at $1.5 million to $2 million. The Selling Price for the 40-Inch Square painting was $4,070,000, said Gloria Harris a spokeswoman for Christie s. The previous record for a Warhol painting was set last year when anole or painting of Monroe sold for $3.9 million said Harris. Thai painting depicted Mon Roe s face 20 times and is called Marilyn Monroe Twenty times inspection finds cracks in one third of a-7 jets Washington a cracks have been found in the wings of More than one third of the air Force s a-7 attack jets since the problem was discovered last month the Pentagon said wednesday. The air Force has inspected 325 of  of 365 a-7d and k Model aircraft and found cracks in 116 aircraft said air Force spokeswoman maj. Donna Pas Tor. She said inspections of the remaining 40 were not completed. The Fleet was grounded in mid april after cracks in the trailing edges of the wings were discovered during routine maintenance by the air Force National guard at Tucson ariz., International Airport pastor said. The air Force logistics command has been doing sophisticated tests because Many of the cracks can t be seen by the Eye pastor said. They re very minute. The concern is if a crack cd Isle at la coff it has the potential of. Increasing and potentially causing Wing  a team from the air National guard s air logistics cell or Al Sacramento calif., will repair or modify aircraft found to have cracks while i Host found Lobi clean will be resumed to service said pastor. The single engine a-7 Corsair ii was originally de signed for the Navy. The one Seal a-7d Model of the aircraft was de signed for the air Force primarily for an air to surface attacks. The a-7k Model a two Seal version of the a-7d, has been used in combat and training