European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 20, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Quayle to keynote vow convention Las vegas a about 25,000 members of the veterans of foreign wars gather this weekend for their 90th annual convention and an Agenda that includes resolutions against desecrating the american Flag and a speech by vice president Dan Quayle. The Flag will be the convention s most emotional  vow spokesman Wade Laduc said Friday. The five Day convention which officially begins monday is expected to be the 2 million member organization s largest in recent memory Laduc said. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney vet Erans affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski and Gen. Colin l. Powell who was nominated last week to be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff also Are scheduled to speak to the convention. The vow also plans to Honor adm. William  jr., the retiring chair Man of the joint Chicks four Navy aviators who shot Down libyan Mig lighter jets Over the Medit cranian Jan. 4. And Singer Wayne Newton. A memorial service for fallen com rades is scheduled for the eve of the convention sunday Quayle is scheduled to address the gathering s opening session monday morning. That afternoon the veterans will begin considering about 500 resolutions cover ing a wide Range of issues. Twenty five resolutions arc expected on the Flag dese cration Issue alone Laduc said. The supreme court ruled june 21 that burning the Flag As a political protest is protected by the first amendment Gua Rantee of Freedom of speech. The decision prompted widespread protests on both sides of the Issue and president Bush proposed a constitutional amendment Banning desecration of the Flag. The vow supports the amendment. Larry Rivers the group s commander in chief and a Marine who served in Vietnam said Friday the nation s Veter ans arc not ready to concede that Flag burning is a free speech Issue. At a banquet monday night the vow will Honor Newton for entertaining troops around the world and Crowe for his contributions to the cause of nation Al Security Unity and world  Derwinski is scheduled to speak tues Day. The veterans affairs Secretary is expected to discuss such topics As health care for veterans. It will be Derwinski s second appear Ance before veterans Here in three weeks. On july 31. He appeared in Bush s place at the disabled american veterans convention. On tuesday night the vow will hold its annual Parade in front of Las vegas convention Center. The four Navy aviators involved in the libyan incident will be honoured wednesday. Navy representatives will accept the Honor on behalf of the aviators who have not been identified for Security reasons. Laduc said. The convention ends Friday with Wal Ler Hogan a korean War Veteran from Greenfield wis., assuming the Post of commander in chief. Woman gets prison time in 68 death of Lover Waukegan Iii. A a woman who disappeared after being accused of killing her Lover 21 years ago finally found by authorities in february was sentenced Friday to one to three years in prison for  s All Over now except for her to do her time assistant state s attorney Joe Collina said after Ber Nice Van Chise 63. Was sentenced by Lake county circuit judge Harry Hartel or. Van Chise will be eligible for parole in nine months the Lake county prosecutor s office said. Van Chise who lived quietly for years As wife and Mother Grutta Knickerbocker said she had mixed feel Ings about the guilty plea she entered last month in the Jan. 31.1968, shooting death of Eugene  did it for All my children in their new  she told reporters in this county scat nearly 25 Miles North of Chicago. I did t want them dragged through this  agreed to drop murder charges in Exchange for Van Hvisc s guilty  did t pursue murder charges because some of the evidence was old and some of the memories were beginning to fade Collina  1968. Douglas and Van Heise had been having an affair for about a year prosecutors said. Douglas a 48-year-old Glenview artist was shot when he told his Lover he was leaving her to return to his wife and children prosecutors  claimed that the shooting was an Accident and that she was handing the gun to Douglas when it discharged and he was  assistant state s attorney Michael Waller said Friday. Strangely he was shot in the Back of the  Douglas widow. Pat Douglas and her two Daugh tors were in court for the sentencing. There s no Way that anybody s going to make up for what Hap  she said. But i m very Happy it s been taken care  after Douglas death a judge rejected the filing of a murder charge on the basis of insufficient  grand jury later indicted Van Chise on murder charges but she had disappeared. The indictment was withdrawn in 1975.investigators took up the Case again after a in and of Van Hresc s daughter was overheard discussing the Case. Vuil Heise was re indicted in february after authorities located her in the Rural town of Elburn about 40 Miles West of Chicago. She and her Hus band of 20 years Conrad Knickerbocker had moved therein 1976 from the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale. Artist de Kooning declared mentally incompetent Mineola . A Willem do Kooning one of America s greatest living artists was declared mentally incompetent Friday by a judge who gave control of the Painter s estate including $150 million in Art to his daughter and attorney. I m very pleased with the decision said do Kooning s daughter. Lisa As she left the hearing before state supreme court Justice Robert Mcade. Lisa do Kooning a sculptor and sole heir to de Kooning s Fortune and family attorney John Eastman last february asked the court to declare the artist in competent to manage his property be cause of illness and his age. De Kooning 85, one of the Early Lead ers of the abstract expressionist move ment has continued to paint daily in his East Hampton studio despite suffering from alzheimer s disease. His daughter lives next door. His daughter 33, and Eastman filed the request two weeks after the death of Elaine do Kooning the artist s wife of 46 years who managed his household and assets. Eastman said As co conservators he and Lisa do Kooning will audit and inventory the artist s collection which May include up to 300 paintings covering his entire career. This is going to be a very big under taking said Eastman an associate of de Kooning for the past 20 years. This is the first time that a living artist As great As this has had such a volume of work  and he s still painting some peo ple say it is his greatest work the lawyer added. Time will  they also arc selecting a gallery to rep study warns one Quarter of Earth s species in danger resent do Kooning s works. The Art. Which is valued at Between $50 million and $150 million is stored in Ware houses and in do Kooning s studio. De Kooning with Only one exception has not sold any work since 1987 when his longtime dealer Xavier Fourcade. Died. His Pink lady sold at a 1988 rotheby s auction for $3.6 million. At the hearing Friday before Mcade de Kooning s court appointed guardian attorney Pierre Lundburg testified a visit last week with do Kooning convinced him the Painter was mentally incompetent. Lundburg rcc9mmended Lisa do Koon ing not be appointed sole conservator be cause of potential conflict of  she promised the court she would be More prudent in managing her father s affairs than she has with her own. I have to practice being less Gener Ous she testified in a quiet nervous voice in the packed courtroom in response to questions posed by Lundburg. Lisa de Kooning is the daughter of Joan Ward an artist who lived with do Kooning during a Brief separation from his wife in the 1950s. In 1985. Several newspaper stories re ported on Lisa do Kooning s possible involvement in a Federal drug investigation of the Hells Angels in which More than 100 members of the motorcycle gang in a dozen cities were arrested. The arrests followed a three year undercover investigation announced by Fri director William Webster. An affidavit said information gained through Telephone taps indicated Lisa do Kooning had a number of drug related conversations with Hells  Bers. She never was charged and has de Nied any drug related activity. When she was Young she Ted a free flowing life. She has put it behind her said her lawyer. John Silberman. Washington a one Quarter or More of All species of animals plants microbes and fungi will become extinct without measures to preserve them according to a National science foundation study released Friday. The study Calls for increased efforts in Basic research and education to preserve both individual species and Complete ecological systems. Unless the International Community can reverse the trend the report says the rate of extinction Over the next few years is Likely to Rise to at least 1,000 times the Normal background rate of extinction and will ultimately result in the loss of one Quarter or More of the species on Earth. The report says about 1.4 million Spe cies throughout the world have been identified and named but it estimates that the total number of species May Range from 5 million to 80 million. In the tropics and subtropics the study says there Are 400,000 identified species but the actual number of species in those regions May be at least 3 million and perhaps As High As 30 million. The report Calls for increased efforts to identify and classify the world s Ani Mals plants microbes and fungi and to understand the ecosystems in which they live. It also Calls for greater support by the Federal government of such scientific studies. The study also recommends greater efforts in education noting that teaching the Young about biology and the Environ ment is now As important to the nation Al interest As Early education in mathematics and other  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 20,1949 Neucom announced that provisions prohibiting . And Allied personnel from buying rationed items on the Economy and patronizing German establishments in the . Zone of Germany were still in effect. 30 years ago today. Aug. 20,1959 a British charter Airliner carrying a group of students Back to England from a Spanish vacation crashed North of Barcelona lulling All 33 persons aboard. 20 years ago today. Aug. 20, 1969 czechoslovakian police used tear Gas to break up a crowd of More than 10.000 protestors gathering in Wenceslas Square in Prague on the anniversary of the Warsaw pact invasion of their country. 10 years ago today. Aug 20 1979 the soviet news Agency Tass reported two cosmonauts had returned safely to Earth after spending 175 Days in space surpassing the previous night endurance record of 139 Days set by two other cosmonauts