European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. September 21, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 new byte size computers Apple unveiled ils new portable macintosh computer left wednesday. List ing for about $7,000, the portable handles All current macintosh programs. And it comes equipped with a built i track Ball for moving the cursor. The new portable has a 10-Inch cd Monitor screen. And for those who have even smaller tastes the Sun Francisco based poet computer company has begun marketing the Pozel pc right pocket size computer that is fully ism compatible. The portable packing a Lotof Power in a Small space reportedly can run for up to 100 hours on two a Alka line batteries. Teen kidnapper confined for fess offer pleading guilty.  _. _ t _ .,.ii unu.s4 Nutoni Trion instr n Runci hit and arc vent it from Ever Hai Mckee by. A a teen who held 11 students hostage pleaded guilty tuesday to kidnapping and  charges and was placed in state custody for psycho logical tests and his classmates expressed compassion instead of anger. Nobody seems mad at him said James Issacs a senior at Jackson county High school where the 10-hour standoff monday ended peacefully. Dustin Pierce 17, pleaded guilt tuesday to 13 counts of Wanton Condan germ Cut and 13 counts of kidnapping tuesday said Ladonna Williams a state police dispatcher in Richmond. The two additional charges involve teacher who was released at the Start of the incident and another student who was held overnight police said Pierce took 11 hostages Athis High school in a desperate Pica to Sec his Distant father. State police detective Bob Stephens said the incident was a plot directly from rage Stephen King s thriller novel. The Book found in Pierce s room Athis grandparent s House centers on a teen Ager who is enraged with his fatherland takes hostages at a school. Pierce who was armed with two Pis Tols and a Shotgun released the hostages sporadically then surrendered. Authorities arranged for his father to come to Kentucky from his Florida Home but the boy gave up before his father arrived. Interviews with Pierce s classmates and others in this town of 1,000, about 65 Miles Southeast of Lexington do Pic cd a Well behaved quiet teen Ager straight a student. It s just a mystery the Way it happened said Bruce Eccl by a Jackson county Deputy sheriff. Eccl by said offi cers never had any problem with Pierce. He s a real Good boy he added. Eight Counselor were brought to the High school to help students Deal with the aftermath of the hostage taking. Pierce blew out a classroom window with a Shotgun blast shortly after taking Over his world civilization class. Neither Pierce nor any other hostage was injured. Everybody is feeling sorry for him and what he s going through said Shane Harrison 17. He said he Hope Pierce would receive help to see what caused an Preven Hap pening  Betty Bond principal at the 500-Stu-Dent school said students voiced their concern for Pierce rather than  re already wanting to know if we have heard from Pierce today Howe s doing can we Send him a card a letter a video anything to let him know that we still care about him that he is still our Friend said  expected students to show some compassion for the youth but said shews surprised for it to be As Strong As it  was placed in the custody of the state Cabinet for human resources for psychological tests. He was taken to a treatment Center in Louisville after pleading guilty tuesday. Anti gang scout slain in drive by shooting a. Orion a Irti a Smith los Anicles Nucich boyhood. S3los Angeles a a sheriffs explorer scout who touted the anti gang message was shot Down half Block from his Home in a drive by shooting a victim of the raging violence he fought to  arrests had been made by tuesday afternoon in the slaying of Anthony Jerome Gardner 19, who was shot to death at 1 15 . On monday by several gang members driving a Cadillac said a sheriff s Deputy cons  was hit several limes in the Chest and died at Robert f. Kennedy memorial  s seen the streets. He knows what s out there. He knew what the risks were said Deputy Dann Bullock an adviser for the explorer scout program at the sheriff s station in Carson where Gardner worked As a , a minister s son who aspired to a career with the sheriffs department had received death Wun inc in Nii a Yipu umm. Usu  from gang members neighbors said. He diligently warned children and residents to stay indoors when Street thugs were on the prowl. Bullock stressed that scouts Are not told to take stance against Street hoodlums because of the danger. We really warn them against telling anyone of their eve being an explorer Bullock said. Anthony did this on his own. He donated a lot of his time helping deputies. He was  patrol  Gardner who planned to enter the sheriffs facade my on nov. 17, conducted his own patrols in his crime Ridde sout s Angele neighbourhood said Deputy Bill  Muldrow 12, said Gardner had warned neigh boyhood kids just Days before about possible gang retaliation because of his warnings. He said watch put some gang bangers were trying to kill him Muldrow  University High school student who graduated with a 3.7 Grade Point average Gardner became a explorer scout in 1986. After completing the youth citizenship training program he worked As a Volunteer at the Carson station. Gardner also was an Active member of the Independent Baptist Church where his father the Rev. Don Ald Gardner preached. Nixon s birthday declared Holiday in his Hometown Yorba Linda Calif a the birthday of former president Nixon is now an official Day of rest for Munici pal workers in the City of his birth. The City Council voted unanimously tuesday night to make Nix on s birthday Jan. 9, a Holiday for about 100 employees in the City 30 Miles from los  in not Here to judge history we re Here to recognize it said mayor Henry w. Wedaa. Nixon who was born in a Yorba Linda farmhouse in 1913, said he s pleased with the Honor Wedaa  proposal to make the Date a Holiday was met warmly Wedaa said despite Nixon s 1974 resignation inthe watergate scandal. Many of us have Felt it was time for a Holiday for president Nixon and the time has come Wedaa  Richard m. Nixon presidential Library already is under construction Here. Fifteen years have elapsed since president Nixon s resignation and history has shown the importance of his presidency particularly with re Spect to his brilliance in foreign policy the Holiday Resolution said. Assistant City manager Bruce  said the Holiday will Cost the City about $ 100,000 a year. Sharks hamper search for Earhart plane debris Suva Fiji a Sharks circling deserted Pacific Island Are hampering efforts to find traces of american heroine Amelia Earhart s plane that crashed in 1937, the Leader of the . Expedition said wednesday. Richard Gillespic head of a Wilming ton del., group devoted to searching for old planes said divers were reluctant Tenter the Lagoon at uninhabited Nikuma Roro Island because of the danger from Sharks. The 16-Mcmber expedition of the International group for historic aircraft recovery arrived tuesday at the Remote Island in the Phoenix group of the Kiri Bati Chain to begin a three week search for the remains of the Pilot who vanished Over the South Pacific during an attempt to be the first to Fly around the world. Gillespie speaking at his base Camp i Fiji some 1.000 Miles to the West said Waters off Niku Mayorq also known a Gardner arc infested with Sharks. The group includes naval historians archaeologists divers and sonar experts who Are mapping the Island on a Grid system much As underwater divers do to Survey for shipwrecks in Hopes offending Earhart s Lockheed Elc Clra plane the team spent two years trying to figure out where Earhart went Down an concluded she probably crashed and later died of thirst on Nikuma Roro some 500 Miles South of her intended Stopover destination of Howland Island