European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday october 4.1989 soviet legislators of partial ban on strikes Moscow a soviet legislators on tuesday imposed a selective ban on strikes in key economic areas in a Compromise with president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s plea for a Complete prohibition to prevent anarchy. Gorbachev said he was satisfied with the supreme soviet s work saying that it would help restore a Normal  this is a decision in support of  he said referring to his program of Reform. After hearing a Gorbachev backed proposal by the government monday to ban All strikes for the next 15 months a joint session of the supreme soviet s two Chambers spent its entire Day in confused debate. In the end. It voted 364-6 to approve a temporary ban on strikes in the transportation Energy raw materials and metallurgy industries until it can approve full legislation governing strikes. The final decision represented a Compromise with Gorbachev and a lest by the legislature of its new found Independence. A detailed Law regulating strikes May be ready As soon As next week. While debating strike legislation the supreme soviet approved nearly half the full Law in an Anicic by article debate. Hag in be / / no is praised by i Beijing a Premier i Peng on tuesday told a former Secretary of slate Alexander Haig that Rich Ard Nixon showed great foresight in developing China . Ties. I also praised Haig s predecessor As Secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Haig saying their contributions in this regard will go Down in the annals of . Relations the official Xinhua news Agency said. Haig a former Kissinger aide who served under Nixon is now a private citizen and president of an International consulting Agency. He is the most prominent american to visit China since the june 3-4 Mili tary crackdown on student led demonstrators that took hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives. The United states has since stopped All High level official contacts and suspended arms sales to China bringing relations to one of their lowest Points since relations were normalized 10 years ago. Haig in Beijing to attend a business symposium has been Given a cordial reception by the chinese. They invited him to sit on the Tiana men Gate Ros Trum with China s top leaders sunday to watch celebrations for the nation s 40th anniversary. A draft Law bans strikes that could threaten people s health or lives and that affect government bodies and the transportation communications Energy and defense industries. Many of the key issues in the draft have not yet been approved however. A group of legislators who worked through the night rejected a Complete ban on strikes and the supreme soviet then heard a proposal tuesday from the floor to ban strikes Only in key industries. Gorbachev repeated his warning that the soviet econ omy is threatened by Waves of politically motivated Job actions but did not Call again for an outright ban on Al strikes. Interior minister Vadim Baratin told reporters the Blanket ban was rejected by a group of deputies from four legislative committees who met through the night Mon Day. It was unconstitutional. We Don t have a basis for deciding what is an extraordinary situation he said. Deputies also decided to allow the country s ministries of Interior defense and transport to take Over railroads in Armenia and a a Baijan if necessary to Slop a blockade to Armenia. Royal boredom the King of the beasts lets the world know that he s bored with life spent As a social lion at the zoo in sen Ion Switzerland. Behind that big Yawn May lie a Wistful yearning for the ancestral wilds of Africa. Many discrepancies claimed in account of 4 adrift on yacht Auckland . A the government or dered a probe tuesday into Why searchers failed to find any Trace of a capsized yacht whose Crew claims to Hay drifted four months off new zealand before being washed ashore. There Are Many discrepancies in their Story said Terry Knight head of new zealand scarch and Rescue forces. The four say that their 42-foot trimaran capsized in a storm june 3 and that they survived the 121-Day ordeal huddled in the overturned Craft by spearing fish eating seaweed and trapping Rainwater. The four turned up Over the weekend on great Barrier Island but some officials have expressed scepticism about their Story saying that they appear too healthy. We needed a Miracle and we got one said John go cynic skipper of the Sailboat the Rose Noelle. Go cynic said the trimaran left Picton on the North Ern coast of new zealand s South Island on june 1 for a three week Pacific islands cruise to the polynesian kingdom of Tonga. He told authorities that the boat was flipped Over Bya huge wave in a 60-knot wind on the third Day of the journey and that the four activated an emergency Bea con after scrambling to retrieve radio equipment flares clothing and food. The inquiry was announced by transport minister Bill Jeffries whose responsibilities include sea Rescue operations. Jeffries told reporters his department wanted to clarify Why the boat was apparently hundreds of Miles from where its distress signal was sent and Why the yacht s emergency Beacon apparently operated for week Well within Range of an aircraft monitoring serv ice without being detected. They say they were just off the new zealand coast but the radio message we had put them hundreds of Miles away at the Kerman cd islands nearer Tonga Knight said. It was a very big area to  Alex Gibbs. A Marine division official told the associated press there was some confusion about when and where the boat capsized. It is curious he said. Based on winds and sea cur rents it would make More sense if they were farther  Gibbs said the yacht was smashed on the Rocky coast of great Barrier Island 60 Miles Northeast of auck land after the Crew made landfall on sunday. He said the inquiry was Normal procedure. Members of the Crew were owner and skipper Glen Nie Phillip Hoffman and Rick Hellriegal of new Zea land and Jim Nalepka 38, of Minneapolis. Go cynic responding to suspicions tuesday that the Crew was too healthy to have survived such an ordeal told reporters it s not a  the Crew members emerged monday without the Salt water sores typical of extended seawater exposure. Dodds Roundup proposal to give schools More authority delayed Wiesbaden. West Germany is a plan to allow 23 schools in Germany to exercise More local authority has been delayed in the Wake of negotiations Between a teachers Union and overseas school system officials. School officials had planned to begin site based management operations by the beginning of the school year. But sources close to the negotiations predict that details of the plan won t be ironed out before thanksgiving. Under site based management schools no longer will be obligated to Clear every decision with districts and regions. Preliminary plans Call for schools to have unlimited authority in sched uling staff development and some budgeting for such things As supplies equipment Field trips and extra duty pay. A spokeswoman for the overseas education association said the Union was withholding approval of the plan pending assurances that it would not conflict with the Union s contract with the overseas school system. Administrators teachers and parents from participating schools met in May to outline the plan. The 23 principals who volunteered to Pilot the plan have formed a group to represent their concerns at the talks with the teachers Union. The site based concept emerged from the March conference of Germany Region administrators which stressed the benefits of local Deci Sion making. College representatives to be on hand at Hanau Hanau. West Germany More than 100 colleges and universities arc expected to Send representatives to Hanau High school s College night oct. 19. All High school students and Active duty scr  Are Welcome to attend the two hour gathering which begins at 7 . For More information Call 1st it. Christopher Conway at ets 322-8538 or 8868 or the High school at 322-8165. Workshop will focus on computer education Wiesbaden West German teams of High school educators representing four disciplines have been invited to attend a workshop on broadening computer based curricula. More than 150 teachers arc expected to attend what Region educators arc calling the interdisciplinary computer Center workshop in Obj rec Sel from nov. 5 to 9. All Region High schools have been asked to Send a team that includes a teacher of the talented and gifted As Well As representatives from their science social studies and computer Sci ence departments. The teachers will meet daily with colleagues to discuss a variety of educational software. In addition the groups will merge Forup to two hours Day to map common strategies for computer education. Mark Twain administrator named to Lead association Mannheim West Germany the assist ant principal of Mark Twain Vej Centary in Hei Delberg has been named president elect of the overseas association of dependent school administrators. Acc Kirsch who has served the past 15 years in administration in the overseas school system is to serve one year As president elect before Tak ing Over for the current president Lorraine Shanowsky. The group is affiliated with the Federal Man agers association. The overseas chapter claims to have about 750 members from the school system s five regions and meets periodically with school system director John Sucin ple