European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 21,1989 victim Hopes thief will get lust desserts Berkeley Calif. A a burglar who made off with Lindsay so arc s purse got a lot More than her Wallet. The thief took a notebook with 18 years of irreplaceable dessert recipes collected by the acclaimed pastry chef. The burglar slipped into the Chez Panisse chefs Home Early Friday grabbed the purse and led. I fed a Little numb Sheri said tuesday. I Velosta things that i Don t even remember. But i have to assume it s gone and go on from  the notebook contained recipes for ice creams sorbets brooches and the secrets of the restaurant s Green Walnut liqueur. She is offering a Reward for the recipes and said no questions would be asked. She did t say How much the Reward would be. Many of the recipes were to have been published in so arc s second Book on desserts. Her 1985 Chez Panisse desserts Cookbook was a Best seller for random House. Panel to Issue subpoena ordering Pierce to testify Washington a a House subcommittee wednesday voted unanimously to subpoena former housing Secretary Samuel r. Pierce or. To testify about alleged mismanagement at his department. Picicc s lawyers criticized the panel As taking vindictive and punitive  republicans joined democrats in voting to subpoena Pierce who did not appear As requested last Friday to testify about reports of fraud influence peddling and mismanagement at the department of housing and Urban development. "1 think the subcommittee had no option said rep. Tom Lantos d-Calif., chairman of the employ ment and housing subcommittee. The subcommittee had an agreement with or. Pierce. That agreement was broken unilaterally by or.  Picicc s attorney Paul l. Perito said before the meet ing that the former Secretary who appeared voluntarily before the panel in May was willing to testify but needed another two weeks time for preparation. We believe the subcommittee s vindictive and punitive actions in denying or. Pierce adequate time to obtain and review pertinent documents and in in sisting on use of subpoenas arc taken in retaliation against or. Picicc s exer Cise of his constitutional right Pierce lawyers said in a letter to Lantos. We arc deeply saddened that this subcommittee appears to pm Brace Speed Over truth the lawyers wrote. But Lantos and other members of the employ ment and housing sub committee of the House government operation committee accused Pierce of trying to unduly Pierce delay his  than coming Forth an Clearing the record. He is toying with the subcommittee in order to evade or avoid his responsibility said rep. Ted Weiss  committee voted to approve three separate subpoenas the first calling for Pierce to appear  dates were set Lor oct. 27 and nov. 3. In each Case the panel said the Date could be changed at the discretion of Lantos. Law punishing truants parents called threat to Blacks Boycotts Jackson miss. A a new state Law punishes parents whose children skip school and Black parents arc being warned it could be used to Force an end to the classroom Boycotts they use to air grievances. The Law intended to Cut truancy makes parents of truants under age 17 subject to a maximum of one year in jail and $1,000 Fine. During the last few years classroom Boycotts have been used to put pressure on school officials to address Blacks grievances. Boycotting is the Only effective tool that a minority of any class or group of people have to sustain their rightful place in  said Robert Phillips a for Mer school Board member in Lowndes county in Northeast Mississippi who is leading a Boycott by a parents group. Phillips whose granddaughter is among about 385pupils boycotting the new Motley elementary school said parents Aren t worried about the truancy Law. It must be some scare tactics of the school Board 1 imagine Phillips said tuesday. The jail s not going to hold All of us anyway. We re going As a package and not As  Tom Saterfiel Deputy state superintendent of Educa Tion said Mississippi officials Are warning parents ofic consequences if they Don t enrol their children within 15 Days after the Start of the school year or permit their child to accumulate More than 10 unexcused absences during the year. If the truant officers Sec that we have some kids absent More Days than the Law allows then they Peti Tion inc judge and the judge would decide whether to take action against the parents Saterfiel said. He noted that state officials arc most concerned about 15 and 16-year-Olds who arc legally required to attend school for the first time this year under the state s amended 1982 education Reform act. Mississippi traditionally has had one of the highest dropout rates in the nation. Last year 32.5 percent or about one third of the Mississippi students who had completed eighth Grade failed to get a diploma. However that s Down from a 40 percent dropout Rale in 1980. During a meeting last week of the Black parents angry with the Lowndes county school Board the use of the compulsory attendance Law against them was raised. State rep. Alfred Walker of Columbus warned the parents of boycotting Motley elementary school Stu dents that they could be prosecuted if they keep their children out of class More than 10 Days. I came strictly to inform them of the compulsory Law and its  Walker said after inc parents meeting the parents say their children won t attend the school until the newly elected school Board agrees to give it the name approved while the school was under construction Martin Luther King or. Elementary school. The parents also said they re upset the cafeteria an Library weren t completed before the school opened last week. But More than 350 people at the meeting called bythe Lowndes county chapter of the National association for the advancement of coloured people and the West Lowndes parents group said they weren t Wor ried about the truancy Law and were willing to face the consequences. The school Board president. Gary Chism failed to return phone Calls for comment. However the school Board voted monday night to try to set up meeting with the Black parents group and Phillips said discussions had been tentatively scheduled for Friday. Hopeful reunion Marina Levitanus meets her brother Anotoly Rod Nunsky fur the first time in 10 years at the International Airport in Memphis term. With help fru philanthropist Armand Hammer Rodnyanskiy flew from inc soviet Union in Hopes of receiving one of his sister s kidneys in a transplant operation. He suffer from nephritis a kidney disease. Levitanus emigrated from the soviet Union to Memphis in 1979. Seattle candidates to Square off on busing Issue Seattle a two candidates with opposing positions on school busing will face off in november s mayoral elec Tion after finishing atop a 13-candidate Field in the primary race. City attorney Doug Jewell a Republican and co sponsor of an anti busing initiative finished first in tuesday s Pri Mary City Council member Norm Rice a do moral and supporter of the Mea sure finished second. It is Rice s second bid to become Seattle s first Black mayor. With a voter turnout exceeding 31 percent and nearly All votes counted Jewell had 23,299 votes or 24 Pyrc Cal and Rice 20,763 Voles or 21.4 Pyrc Cal. Former King county executive  was next with 14,880 Voles or 15.4 Percy no followed by cily Council members Jim Street 14,473, or 14.9 per cent. Dolores Sibonga who had hoped to become Seallie s first asian american mayor got 11,422 Voles or 11.8 Pyrc Cal. David a Lorn advertising exec Liscand creator of the Happy face had 5,311 votes for 5.5 percent. Mayor Charles Royce a Liberal demo crat and former president of the nation Al league of cities is stepping Dow after an unprecedented 12 years in of fice. Hell become head of the Zinsli Luelof political studies Al Harvard univer sity s Kennedy school of government Rice was rated the pre election favor Ite because of the name familiarity rebuilt in a losing 1984 mayoral race and congressional bid last fall. Jewell s Campaign focused on his backing of initiative 32, an attempt to end mandatory busing in the City. The measure which is being challenged in court is scheduled to appear on the cil ballot on nov. 7. All the other major candidates opposed the initiative and supported the new controlled Choice program. Adopted this year to reduce the Reliance on mandatory busing Hal has angered both while and minority parents who want i hair children in neighbourhood , 46, who said the school initiative was the main reason he ran told cheering supporters this election is one of Clear  he accused Jewet tand other initiative backers of being racially , 43, dismissed the criticism. The school Issue is not a racial Issue he said. It s a Mailer of Choice and parents being Able to Send their Chil Dren to Quality neighbourhood