European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday october 8,1989 air Force firefighters Check a by a bomber shortly after its successful emergency Landing at 6 15 . Wednesday on the Mojave desert Lake bed at de damaged in the desert wards fab Calif. The four member Crew was unable to unlock the s280 million aircraft s nose Landing gear during its flight from Dyess fab Texas. Upon land inn the bomber skidded on its nose for More than half a minute. There were no injuries although the bomber suffered some damage. Zumwalt to advise a Secretary on agent Orange health Issue Washington a adm. Elmo r. Zumwalt jr., whose son died of cancer after being exposed to agent Orange that his father had ordered sprayed in Vietnam has been named a senior adviser to Veter ans affairs Secretary Edward j. Derwinski the department said Friday. The appointment of Zumwalt 68, is one of several Steps the a has taken under Derwinski to address the concerns of veterans who have health problems they say Are linked to exposure to the defoliant. The a said Zumwalt to will counsel on a variety Zumwalt of issues but the first on the Agenda will be agent  Zumwalt who retired As chief of naval operations in 1974, commanded in country naval forces in Vietnam in the late 1960s, when agent Orange was sprayed in the Mekong Delta. His son Elmo r. Zumwalt Iii had served As a patrol boat commander at the same time. He died in August 1988 of a form of cancer linked to agent Orange exposure. He was 42. A grandson Elmo Russell Zumwalt in suffers from a congenital dysfunction of his physical senses. Agent Orange has also been blamed for birth defects. The father has said he still would have ordered spraying the defoliant because Overall casualties were reduced. The two co wrote a Book my father my son about the experience. It was later made into a television movie. On monday the a department published regulations creating less stringent guidelines for determining whether there is a link Between agent Orange exposure and a Host of ailments. A a panel will re examine studies in november in Light of the new guidelines. Government scientists have said there is no Way of determining a positive link a position challenged by veterans groups and outside scientists. The american legion for example has released a major study show ing that exposure is related to benign fatty tutors adult acne skin rash with blisters several other ail ments and an increased risk of miscarriages in Veter ans wives. Or. Seuss your Lora is Loose by the los Angeles times Laytonville Calif. Amid a flood of television lights and National press attention the Layton Villa school Board sent a message to a packed Elemen tary school cafeteria and the rest of the country it is not the town that hates or. Seuss. To thunderous applause from More than 200 on lookers that included teachers parents and students the Board voted unanimously thursday night to retain for now its second Grade Core Reading list including the Lora a 1971 Book by Theodor Seuss Geisel the beloved children s author from san Diego. The Book about a fuzzy headed creature who fights a fruitless Battle against the devastation of a make be Lieve Forest recently touched off a firestorm of Contro Versy in this tiny lumber town Iso Miles North of san Francisco. Two prominent logging families said that the Book was a thinly veiled attack against their embattled Industry and that its environmental concepts were too advanced for Young children. Recently the Book has been required Reading for second graders in Laytonville along with the tale of Peter Rabbit and two other books. Or. Seuss who for decades has charmed Young read ers with his rhyming whimsy is the author of More than 40 books such As the cat in the hat and How the Grinch stole  in september. Judith Bailey the wife of a wealthy Laytonville lumber supplier petitioned the Board to remove the Lora from the required Reading list instead making it alternative Reading. The ensuing controversy struck at the growing ten Sion Between established logging families and Newcom ers from the big City Many of whom believe Northern California s forests arc a precious commodity and should be preserved. Some residents charged that the logger s action were tantamount to Book burning. Others snickered that the lumber families wanted to a the Lora Lynch the Grinch in the end the Board assigned school superintendent Brian Buckley to review the use of Core and extended literature lists As part of the District s language arts curricula and report Back to the Board at a later Date. In the meantime parents who objected to any liter Ary work used in the classroom could ask for a differ ent Book to be used Board members said. Stateside Van Gogh Art buyer got loan from rotheby s new York a rotheby s loaned australian businessman Alan Bond half of the re Cord $53.9 million he paid two years ago for Vincent Van Gogh s irises a rotheby s spokeswoman said Friday. Spokeswoman Diana Levin said Bond has re paid significantly More than hair1 of the approximately $27 million that the auction House loaned him. Levitt would not discuss the terms of the loan but said the auction House has offered Loans which arc described in rotheby s brochures to its clients for at least 10 years. The Price paid for irises was considered significant because its Sale came one month after the oct. 19 crash of the Stock Market. Many in the Art world feared the Art auction Market would suffer because of the crash. Those con Cerns however were Laid aside when Bond bought the painting in november 1987 at a Price that remains unsurpassed for a piece of Art. Are lingus pleading guilty to illegal transport charge Miami a car lingus airlines agreed Friday to plead guilty to illegally transporting aircraft parts to Iran and will pay $1 million in fines and court costs. According to a two count criminal information the Carrier s subsidiary Are lingus production Export worked with a Miami company Dane aircraft inc., which falsified Export documents. Car lingus the National airline of Ireland could have faced a maximum $2 million Fine if convicted of both charges. Teen Hacker on a Lark faces trespass charges Bethpage . A a 15-year-old Honor student charged with breaking into a de sense contractor s computer system was de scribed by police As a Hacker on a  he was having a Gay old time of it said detective Christopher Poppe of the Nassau county forgery squad. For kids As Bright As this one getting into a system like Grumman is like a football player sconing three  the High school student has been charged with delinquency for computer trespass in the computer system of Grumman corp., an Aero space company police said. Police withheld the Levi own teen Ager s name because he is a minor