European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 hews updates not Earhart debris fort Walton Beach. Fla. A a Coral encrusted Battery and two pieces of aluminium found off a South Pacific atoll did not come from an aircraft say members of a team searching for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart s plane. Divers found the items Mon Day leading to speculation they May have come from Earhart s plane which vanished 52 years ago with her and navigator Fred Noonan aboard during an attempt to Fly around the world. Bus crash toll rises Mission. Texas a the death loll in Texas worst school bus crash Rose to 21 on Friday when a 15-year-old passenger died of injuries she suffered when the bus careened into a water filled pit. Elizabeth Flores died late Friday morning. The cause of death was listed As cardiac arrest but Mission Hospital inc. Administrator Tom Symonds said she was a drowning Vic Tim. She had been in critical Condi Tion since the Accident. Mission High school principal Cus Zapata said Elizabeth was the sister of 18-year-old Raul Flores who also died. Their 17-year-old Sis Ter. Estela. Survived the Accident. Threats against actor los Angeles a a woman charged with sending More than 5,000 threatening letters to actor Michael j. Fox was ordered to stand trial oct. 12 on five felony counts of making terrorist threats. Tina Marie Ledbetter. 27, of Camarillo pleaded innocent Fri Day to the charges. If convicted she faces up to four years in state prison. Her letters to Fox. Star of the television series family ties and the motion pictures Back to the future and casualties  began arriving at Par amount studios in february 1988, prosecutors said. The actor received nearly All of the letters Over the course of a year with 800 arriving in july 1988. The month he married actress Tracy Pullan. Usually signed your no. 1  the tone of the letters became increasingly angry As Fox broke up with actress Nancy Makcon and be came engaged to Pollan. You Are a total expletive for marrying  one letter said. Fox called the letters very fright ening at a preliminary hearing and said he feared for the safely of him self his wife and their baby Ledbetter is being held without bail in the psychiatric unit of the Sybil Brand Institute for women. The stars and stripes monday october 2, 1989 israeli troops kill 3 palestinians arabs slay collaboration suspect Jerusalem a soldiers slip and killed three palestinians in clashes in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza strip on sunday and palestinian activists stabbed to death a Man they accused of being a pro israeli Collaborator the army and Arab hospitals reported. In Gaza. Moslem fundamentalists is sued a new leaflet calling on palestinians to escalate their 21 month uprising. The 700,000 Arab residents of the sea Side a a strip remained under army imposed closure for a third consecutive Day As israelis celebrated Rosh hash Ana the jewish new  Holiday marking the jewish new year 5750 ended at Sundown sunday but the closure barring Gaza strip Resi dents from entering Israel remained in effect until monday morning. Security was heavy throughout the coun try. Sunday s most violent clash was reported at Gaza s Nusairat refugee Camp where troops shot and killed 17-year-old Nidal Saddam and wounded at least 11 others including Saddam s sister Ikram. 18, Arab doctors said. They said Saddam died of a gunshot wound in the head. The army command confirmed the death and four wounded and said it was train guard Dies of gunshot wounds Ober Ursel. West Germany a 4th trans come military policeman shot four times while guarding an ammunition train sept. 22 died saturday in a West German Hospital. Pfc. Martin l. Hancy of the 570th my platoon was 20. He is survived by his wife Diane g. Hancy son. Terry and Mother Helen m. Haney. Another 570lh my platoon Soldier is being held in pretrial confinement in connection with the shooting a com Mand spokeswoman said sunday. After the shooting pfc. Thomas r. Hoskins was charged with attempted murder. Hoskins also was guarding the ammunition train at the time of the incident. The shooting in Sythan West Ger Many is under investigation. Checking further. In the Gaza strip Village of Buni Suhaila. Uprising activists armed with Dag Gers and clubs stabbed to death Salch Al Kera. 25, whom they accused of collaborating with israeli authorities. Arab re porters said. The army confirmed the death which raised to 123 the number of alleged collaborators slain by palestinians in the revolt. Some palestinian officials in the occupied lands have condemned indiscriminate slaving of suspected collaborators. The leaflet also ordered two general strike Days this month and told the palestinians to take to the streets of the Homeland in mass riots characteristic of the uprising s first months to give it a new  the fundamentalists said palestinian activists should continue to confiscate israeli issued magnetic identity cards that allow the Gaza strip residents to travel to Israel. Arab enforcers have confiscated some 10,000 of the 60,000 cards issued by Israel since june. Israel said it issued the cards As a Security precaution. The confiscations resulted in severe economic hardships for palestinians working in Israel and activists began returning them last week. Sunday s clashes spread to the occupied West Bank where two palestinians were shot and killed according to Arab and military accounts. Army officials said a military patrol was attacked by youths hurling Concrete blocks from rooftops at the marketplace in Nablus the West Bank s largest pales Tinian  said soldiers opened fire when their lives were in danger wounding 17 year old i mad Kuraz who fell from the roof and died. In the West Bank Village of Arabe troops fired plastic bullets after being at tacked with stones and bottles and one protester was killed military officials said. Arab reporters identified the victim As Khalil Abu Ziad 16. And said he died in stantly As several bullets pierced his Chest. In clashes in Nablus arabic and the West Bank s balata refugee Camp four other palestinians were shot and wounded Arab Hospital officials said. The army said it was checking the reports. Sunday s deaths raised to 580 the num Ber of palestinians killed by israeli soldiers or civilians in the uprising. Forty israelis have also died in the violence. Parental Choice of schools vital but May need limits Cavazos says Washington a Secretary of education Lauro f. Cavazos praised a. Rental Choice sunday As the Cornerstone of rebuilding America s schools but said some restrictions on student transfers May be necessary to prevent segregation. Cavazos. In an interview on Abc tvs this week with David  also defended his 13-month tenure and said he has been pushing the same school Reform ideas that president Bush and state governors agreed on at last week s educational Summit in Charlottsville a. The Summit ended thursday with unanimous support for efforts to give parents More say in choosing which pub Lic school their child attends instead of assigning them strictly by neighbourhood lines. Parental Choice of schools is vital. It s the Cornerstone for restructuring american  Cavazos said. Asked about the possibility of Choice leading to segregation Cavazos said Youl Pavc to be very conscious about that and be careful about that. You have to put into place. Guide lines that will prohibit students from transferring if that were to occur added Cavazos. Who said Minnesota and Arkansas have not had such problems with their statewide Choice plans. Cavazos. Asked about a Newsweek re port that Bush was dissatisfied with his performance said the president has not discussed that with him. Many of the things we re talking Lauro Cavazos about now restructuring Choice set Ting National goals All of those things arc things that we be been advocating for Over a year but somehow people just Haven t been listening and paying Atten Tion said the former Texas tech University president who became the first hispanic Cabinet official after he was appointed by then president Reagan last year. Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton also inter viewed on Abc predicted that the National performance goals Bush and the governors agreed to forge will include reducing the dropout rate from 25 per cent to 10 percent and moving from the Bottom on International math and Sci ence tests to the top two or three coun tries Over the next 10  said that while More Money is needed to help poor children become physically and mentally fit to begin school the main Challenge is the restructuring of american schools and the allo cation of shrinking resources. There s not a lot More Moncy rom the Federal government we need if it s sharply clearly focused Clinton  Jersey gov. Thomas Kean said there s also a problem about what Hap pens to the children after they get into the school. There arc a tremendous num Ber of schools who warehouse children simply instead of teaching them who practice what i Call educational child abuse in the  said drug Czar William Bennett was simply wrong in characterizing some discussions at the Summit As  started with a Small group of governors who were concerned with Educa Tion seven or eight years ago. We now have 50 education governors committed to it. We have a president of the United states who s willing to take the Lead and say this is our most important subject facing the country Kean said. Clinton said Bennett has had a lot of Good ideas Over the years and he bad a bad Day that Day. I wish he d never said it. It was a great conference. We set National performance goals for the first time in the history of the country and the schools arc going to be better. At least 13 die As rockets hit Kabul Kabul Afghanistan a two rockets believed fired by  moslem guerrillas hit the Center of the capital sunday killing at least 13 people and injuring 24, hospitals reported. One rocket fell near the ministry of mines and Industry in the sprawling presidential compound witnesses said while the other hit a Park in downtown Kabul near the Headquarters of the police Force. The attack came on police Day a holi Day honouring the police. Most of the wounded were standing near a gasoline station wailing for the daily rationing to begin said the Hospital sources speaking on condition of Ano  of the merchants on Chicken Street the main shopping site lined wit carpet and antique shops closed their shutters and went Home. Kabul has come under almost daily rocket attack since late june with More than 350 people killed and 800 injured. The government accuses the guerrillas of firing the rockets at random to spread panic and Force residents to flee to guerrilla controlled areas. The guerrillas based in neighbouring Pakistan and supported by the United states and saudi Arabia say the Kabul government fires at its own civilians