European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 members of the Arctic discoverer expedition stand on a Dock in Norfolk va., to display some of the recovered Gold coins and bars they found in the coming Home with Gold wreck of the ship Central America. Pictured from left Are Bob Evans expedition Leader Tom Thomp son and Barry Schatz. Yale Swarthmore ranked Best for 2nd year by annual Survey Washington a a Survey of College presi dents and Deans released thursday names Yale University and Swarthmore College As the nation s bes schools for the second year in a Row. . News and world report said its annual Survey ranked Yale at the top of 204 National universities an Swarthmore As the Best of the 141 National Liberal arts colleges. Several colleges and universities topped a number of categories in the Magazine s special report on Ameri Ca s Best colleges scheduled to go on Sale monday. Among them St. Mary s College of Maryland. Transylvania University of Kentucky Ohio Wesleyan University and southwestern University of Texas were named Thebes of the 384 regional Liberal arts colleges. Worcester polytechnic Institute of Massachusetts Wake Forest University of North Carolina Illinois Wesleyan University and Trinity University of Texas were named the Best of the 562 regional colleges and universities. Babson College in Wellesley mass., and Harvey Mudd College in Claremont Calif., were called the nation s top business and engineering specially schools respectively. . News said the colleges and universities were ranked on their records in five areas including Quality of the student body and faculty reputation for Aca Demic excellence and financial resources. About 60 percent of the 3,879 College presidents Deans of academic affairs and Deans of admission polled at 1,294 schools responded to the Survey on academic  Yale As lop National universities were Princeton University Harvard University California Institute of technology Duke University Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of technology Dartmouth College the University of Chicago and Rice  Liberal arts colleges behind Swarthmore were Amherst Williams Pomona Bryn mawr Wellesley Smith Wesleyan Oberlin and Gunnell. For the first time . News asked College presi dents and administrators to identify the country s up and coming schools. Arizona state University topped the National universities category. Centre College of Kentucky led the National Liberal arts colleges and under regional colleges and universities Towson state University in Maryland College of Charleston s.c., Bucana Vista College in Iowa and san Diego state University were at the top. Trade deficit May shrink Washington a Commerce Secretary Rob Ert Mosbacher said thursday the . Trade deficit is Likely to shrink to Between $100 billion and $110 Bil lion this year with Japan accounting for about half of that  the first seven months of the year the Trade deficit has been running at an annual rate of $105.8 billion Down ii percent from the 1988 deficit of $118.5 billion. B-2 s Range reported less than bulb s by the Washington pot Washington the air Force s b-2 stealth bomber has less cruising Range than the older and cheaper bib now in operation according to a secret part of the defense department budget sure to stir up new troubles for the $530 million aircraft. Not Good news for the plane said rep. Les Aspin,d-wis., chairman of the House armed services com Mittee commenting on the comparative Urc Fulcd ranges of the two bombers disclosed to the Washington Post by authoritative sources. The Pentagon Black budget gives the current estimates of comparative ranges without refuelling As 6,400 Miles for the by and 6,000 for the b-2, Accord ing to the  m surprised at that Aspin said. They be been advertising the b-2 As having better  rep. Joseph m. Mcdade r-pa., who As ranking Republican on the House appropriations defense sub committee would have Access to the secret documents that go to lawmakers to Back up the main budget also expressed Surprise. I thought the b-2 would have much longer Range he said. Mcdade has been a Backer of the air Force plan to build 132 of the b-2s for a total $70 billion. An air Force spokesman declined to elaborate on the comparative ranges declaring that the air Force had Only said that the b-2 s Urc Fulcd Range would be in excess of 6,000 Miles while the Range of the by is  b-2 is designed to foil air defences until the bomber is too close for defenders to react. The by is designed to Fly in Low under radar beams. The b-2, which the air Force is now flight testing was designed As a flying Wing partly to achieve better fuel efficiency. The whole aircraft is shaped As a lifting body while the by experiences drag from its conventional body and Tail. Aspin said the surprisingly Short Urc Fulcd cruising Range of the b-2 adds another problem to Many threat ening its future. Conference Aspin said of the House armed services  said issues that defense Secretary Dick Cheney and air Force leaders will be asked to address in the hearings include the present and future performance of the plane As documented by flight tests the current and future state of soviet air defences with a focus on whether the b-2 i needed Given the diminished threat of the soviet Union and whether the plane s maker Northrop corp., can build a Fleet of bombers efficiently. The air Force is really going to have to calibrate its presentation on soviet air defences Aspin said. If the soviets do not improve their air defences we Don t need the b-2. If they improve their defences a lot we won t need the b-2 because it May not be Able to penetrate them. So when you really look at it the air Force has to make the Case that the soviet air defences will have to be improved too much for the by but not enough to Stop the b-2," Aspin said. This is going to take some real Fine  aviation experts expressed Surprise that the projected Urc Fulcd Range of the b-2 was not much More than the by s. Even though the b-2 body is smaller and thus might be expected to carry less fuel these experts said that the anticipated improvements in lift would be expected to extend the Range despite the smaller size of the flying Wing. A of describes Landing bib without nose gear Edwards fab Calif. A the Pilot who landed a bib bomber on a desert air strip without its nose Landing gear Down said thursday he kept his thoughts on emergency drills and his feelings on his family. The Only thought on my mind was accomplishing the emergency procedures and getting out of the plane Cape. Jef Frey r. A conc 30, told a news conference the Day after the spectacular Landing. My Basic feelings were that of my family. In our business we. Worry about them a lot said Benne who has a wife son and 3-month-old daughter. The big swing win bomber remained on the runway where it Slid several thou Sand feet wednesday after a conc and his co Pilot capt. Vernon b. Benton 30, set it Down on the main gear and gently dropped the nose to the ground. The $280 million bib assigned to the 96th bombardment Wing at dyes Safe Texas took off on a training flight at 6 38 . And was Over Abilene Texas when the problem was discovered about three hours later. The bomber which was refuelled four limes headed to California where it was escorted for More than an hour by an f  crippled Jet circled Edwards fab made a touch and go Landing circled again As it dumped excess fuel and came Down for Good. It. Col. Joseph g. Day 39, a weapons instructor said it was Lith rattling when the nose hit the  12 hours of flying and four hours of interviews we were pretty Well beat said capt. Robert h. Hendricks the offensive weapons officer. A conc said the Crew had problems with both the electronic and Hydraulic systems controlling the nose wheel. He said air Force and by engineers at the manufacturer Rockwell International decided the Crew could land the bomber safely rather than have to eject. We called Rockwell to see if there were other options been  air Force would not say How much damage the plane suffered and re porters were not allowed closer than i i Miles to the plane. Videotape shot from a Chase plane showed no apparent structural  said the bomber was unarmed