European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday september 14,1989 americans found to be worst spellers Newark. . A americans arc inc worst spellers in inc English speaking world according to a Gallup spelling quiz. Australians who did not go beyond Grade school were better spellers on average than american adults the re sults released tuesday showed. The Best spellers arc in Australia Fol Lowed by Canada the United kingdom and the United states. Americans mis spelled on average More than six of the 10 words on the test. The Gallup qui was first Given .14years ago in the United states and can Ada. The same words which include Magazine Sandwich kerosene calamity Penitentiary picnicking deceive accelerator cauliflower and parallel were on a test Given earlier this year i both countries As Well As in Australia and the United kingdom. Only one in 20 adults in All four countries could spell All 10 words correctly. Among the other findings of the 10 words. Americans had the most trouble with Penitentiary. Women were better spellers than men. Except in the United kingdom where the sexes had equal ability. In the United states the bestsellers tended to be those 34 to 44 years of  test was paid for by Franklin computer corp., a manufacturer of electronic reference products. In a Survey of knowledge of Geog Raphy completed last summer for National geographic the United states fared poorly compared with the six other industrialized nations surveyed Japan France West Germany the United kingdom Sweden and Italy. Slightly More than half the Ameri cans tested could identify England on a map of Europe and one in seven failed to identify the United states on a world map. Stateside landslide creates Lake in Oregon National Forest Grants pass. Ore. A a landslide that sent 25.1 00 cubic Yards of Rock tumbling into a Gorge has caused the formation of a Lake in the Sisk you National Forest. I he unnamed Lake apparently was formed last year and was discovered three weeks ago by . Forest Semcer surveyors. It s pretty impressive said Galice Ranger District hydrologist Patricia Carroll who estimates the Lake May be 40 to 50 feel deep and 2.000 feet Long when slut Creek is High. 1 he Lake is a mile downstream from Silver Falls and about 25 Miles West of Grants pass. It is believed 19 be too  and shallow to provide prime fish habitat. Bui Carroll and other experts think it could become a Fine recreation area. Nearby Falls Rich vegetation and the dramatic sheer Rock and Cliff formations make for striking scenery. Leader at Bay of pigs found apparent suicide Miami a a cuban exile who led 1,500 men in the 1961 Bay of pigs invasion then spent 28 years deeply depressed Over the defeat was found dead after an apparent suicide Jose Alfredo Perez san roman. 58, was found dead sunday morning in his Mobile Home where he lived alone. Police were analysing the handwriting on a Sui cide note and awaiting autopsy results monday before they would announce the cause Mclroy Dade police spokesman George Reyes said. San roman led the 1,500-Membcr brigade of cuban exiles in the abortive .-backed assault on their is land Homeland in april 1961, they were Defeated by troops Loyal to the communist government of Fidel Castro who had seized Power in 1959 after dictator Tulgencio Batista fled amid guerrilla fighting. San roman s brother Roberto Perez said the Bay of pigs defeat and the failure to liberate Cuba haunted his brother. Neighbors keep youths at Bay to Aid deaf woman Dermott Ark. A neighbors who saw four youths enter an 80-year-old deaf woman s Home cornered them with a Shotgun baseball bats hoes and rakes until police arrived authorities said. The neighbors decided to act because Katie Bell s Home had been broken into five times in 1 i months police chief Jerry Melton said monday. They said they weren t getting away this time Mellon said. A detention hearing for the four boys was to be held tuesday. Neighbors surrounded the House after seeing four boys enter it saturday evening Melton said some of the teen agers were prodded from hiding places beneath Beds inside the House when neighbors poked them with hoc handles the police chief said. Three boys Ages 14, 15 and 16, were taken to a detention Center in Texarkana and a 13-year-old was held Al a counselling Center in do Roll Melton said. The youths had entered the Home several times and took Money after spotting Bell in her Yard police said. Bill will allow Indian remains to be moved to their native soil Washington a the skeletal remains of thousands of american indians will be buried in their native soil under an agreement announced tuesday Byich smithsonian institution members of Congress and Indian  a process has started that will allow the ancestors of native americans to Al last find their final Sling  said sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii. Chairman of the Senate select committee on India affairs. It s a Day Hal will be celebrated by Indian leaders throughout Indian . Ben night horse Campbell. D-colo., an Ameri can Indian who was instrumental in achieving the Compromise said the provisions will be included in a House Bill establishing a National museum of Llie american Indian in Washington. Under this agreement the smithsonian is going to inventory the human remains and funerary objects which arc i Host  Are placed in gravest Csmith Indian people when they Are  Campbell said Al a news  remains that can be identified either specifically or by the name of tribe the smithsonian will notify the individuals in inc tribe and the tribe will be Able to have them returned to  the agreement represents a change of thinking Bihe administration of the smithsonian which previously had said the Bones were necessary for  Insl Lulion Secretary Robert Adams said. I should make Clear there s a deep sense of loss on Shepart of Many scientists at the  he said. But Adams said he was persuaded by years of listen ing to anguished indians and Reading about the Matroci lies committed again indians during this country s Western expansion. That becomes a weight that one ultimately cannot  he  Illario head of the National Congress of american indians said inc smithsonian is setting precedent that is bound to influence museums All Over the country. The remains of an estimated 600.000 indians Are in . Museums. There is no doubt about it the smithsonian is King of the Hill when it comes to setting policy she said. The smithsonian has a collection of the Bones of approximately 18,000 indians eskimos and aleuts most of which were unearthed during archaeological excavations construction or erosion. About 4,000 remains came fro the army medical museum and were transferred to the smithsonian at the turn of the Century. Many of those remains were gathered through grave robbing. Indian groups have sought the a claim of the remains for several years on religious grounds. But Adams had said the smithsonian would Velum Only i Host that could be identified As stolen from Graves or traced to living descendants. In the last 18 months Only the remains of 18 blackfeet were returned according to Adams. Inouye and Campbell Are sponsoring Bills to slab Lish a National museum of the american Indian i Washington. The museum would be created when the collection of the museum of the american Indian inner York City is transferred to the smithsonian. The shift can l Lake place without Ingi Lalion to provide funds and give the smithsonian the authority to build it. The smithsonian said last week thai in would keep a museum at the current Silc in upper Manhattan i addition to building a Washington museum. The new York museum s collection is inc world s largest collection of Indian artefacts. Unlucky Breaks Richard a Ishman of i of angles Calif says he Rork blah recovering from his firs diving has to broken ices because he forgot to open a jump. A Ishman survived the 4,000-Foo speedy fall backup Parachute. He s in a Hospital at american last cock with a malfunctioning Parachute