European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 18. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 More environmental stories urged scientists Appeal to news executives Cox no is Enlace wash1nc1ton scientists saturday appealed to newspaper and television officials for increased cover age of such issues Aso one depletion climate change deforestation. A Ixia pollution and population growth. At the same time they warned that global Environ mental changes May soon begin to happen so fast society will be Nabu to react to them. In a Day Long Exchange of views with news executives the scientists said if environmental problems Are allowed to go they could Lead to wars Over scarce resources food riots the collapse of Earth s Ozone layer crop losses and other catastrophes. Unless there is a major shift in the rate at which policy is developed and changed i think it s rather Likely that we re not going to make it said Thomas e. Lovejoy assistant Secretary of the smithsonian institution. The problems can get so big that they arc almost beyond our capacity to Cope. I think that what happens in the next 10 years in terms of policy changes is what is going to spell very clearly whether we make it or not Lovejoy added. Sen. Timothy Wirth. D-colo., who organized the conference said the world needs sweeping political action to adapt to problems that the Public is apparently not seriously concerned about. He said he hit on the idea of the conference after accompanying Benjamin Bradyce. Executive editor of the Washington Post to Brazil to show him the degree of deforestation going on in the Amazon rain Forest. That trip increased the interest of the Washington Post in environmental Wirth said. He came Back from that trip convinced and the i Ost hired Sev eral new people to write about these however Bradlee. Who attended the conference sat urday did not appear totally convinced expressing scepticism about some scientific conclusions on which environmental warnings Are based. His scepticism brought a Sharp response from or. Susan Solomon a Colorado chemist whose research helped convince other scientists that chlorofluorocarbons arc responsible for the annual Ozone holes Over Antarctica. You think we be got something to hide she said. I Don t have anything to hide. If my science is wrong i la be willing to admit it. You should assume that most of us Are extremely naive and we just want to bring out the truth and we re not lying to Louisville gunman s victim pallbearer s carry the casket of Rich Ard Barker one of the victims of a disgruntled sex printing Plant employee to his Brave saturday in Ville by. Barker was one of seven workers killed at the Standard Gra Vure Pron line corp. Thursday by Joseph Wesbecker who killed himself after his ak-47 shooting spree. I m glad Bradyce replied quietly. Lester Brown president of world watch Institute a Washington research Center concerned with natural resource issues said Large stockpiles of Grain reserves enabled the world to get through last year s summer droughts but another year like that could Lead to food riots. John Holdren. Professor of Energy and resources at the University of California Berkeley said that Cli mate change could soon pose a greater threat of War in the world than the Competition Between the soviet Union and the United Stales. The bigger and growing threat of armed conflict originates in the Southern hemisphere where religious and racial hatreds territorial disputes the frustrations of poverty and oppression and the delusions of dicta tors vie for pre Eminence As causes of he said. However even after the warnings some editors at the conference remained sceptical. I Don t think it will be easy to sell this to the Public without some visible catastrophe said Joseph Mcguff. Editor of the Kansas City Star. 4,000 latinos sworn in As . Citizens by the Iris Angeles times los Angeles More than 4.000 latinos including an 85-year-old mexi can native who has lived in the unite states since 1923, became . Citizens in East los Angeles saturday in a Cere Mony that set a record for the largest number of people from a single ethnic group to be sworn in at once. I kept saying i would become a Citi zen but always tomorrow said Jose Gomez who came to America 66 years ago. Now i finally did. That makes this a special planned to coincide with mexican Independence Day the swearing in ceremony included immigrants from 19 countries including 2,546 mexican nationals and hundreds More from Al Salvador Cuba and Guatemala ins official said. The emotions of the Day carried Over to ins officials. Ben Davidian the newly in stalled ins Western regional commissioner presiding Over his first swearing in ceremony said he Felt like a kid in his excite ment. Criticized destroyer launched Bath Maine a As the Navy s new $1.2 Bil lion destroyer Arleigh Burke was launched saturday congressmen and other officials took turns firing re turn salvos at a congressman who cabled the ship s construction a procurement irresponsible attitudes like that Hurt but. Don t take them Loo seriously rep. Joseph e. Brennan d Mainc told a crowd estimated at More than 10.000 people who attended the launching at Bath Iron Burke is named for an 87-year-old retired Admi ral and world War ii hero who arrived at the launch ing in a 1930 Packard. Burke s wife Roberta broke a bottle of Champagne Over the Bow sending the 8,500 Lon guided missile destroyer sliding toward the Kenne Bec of the ship the first of a class which will also be known As Arleigh Burke considered the most technologically advanced surface combat vessel has prompted complaints of Cost overruns by rep. John Dingell , chairman of the House Energy and com Merce subcommittee on oversight and investigations told the Navy that the program is 18 months behind schedule and that the dog 51 destroyer is Only 38 percent Complete. The acquisition of the dog 51 has turned into a procurement Nightmare his letter said. Bath Iron works rejected Dingell s assertions based on a draft report from Congress general accounting office which is conducting an inquiry into the pro s numbers Are wrong Bis facts arc wrong and his so called news in nearly two years said Brennan. That number of errors is not Good even for congressional e. Haggett. Chairman and chief executive officer of Bath Iron works said thursday the dog 51 is "47 to 51 percent Complete a higher level than we launched our previous prototype ship is ready in every respect to be launched said . John r. Mckirnan who declared saturday Arleigh Burke Day in Maine said. I Don t care what Dingell says. This is a great Day for Bath Iron works and a great Day for the state of Maine and a great Day for the United Stales of guided missile destroyer is designed with a steel superstructure instead of one that is part Al Minuni and More prone to splintering and fire damage. It will be equipped with sophisticated Aegis computers and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Navy Secretary ii. Lawrence Garrelt Iii said the ship represents the very future of surface the ship is scheduled to be delivered in february1991. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. Is 1949 at least 192 people most of them americans were killed when the moronic. A .185 foot luxury liner that travelled the great lakes exploded burned and Sank it its pier in Toronto. 30 years ago today. Sept. 18. 1959 after meeting with president Eisenhower in Washington soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev went by train to new York to begin a . Tour with his wife and an official soviet party. 20 years ago today. Sept. 18, 1969 president Nixon said he would ask Congress for a 10 percent increase in social Security payments effective april 1, because of the rising Cost of living. 10 years ago today. Sept 18, 1979 the Price of Gold jumped to $353 an ounce in Europe spurred by fears that inflation would get worse and Oil prices would go higher breaking the $350 Barrier for the first time
