European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday january 15, 1990 . Drug trafficking centers May get More Federal Aid stateside Washington a Federal officials plan to Send extra Money and resources to new York City. Miami. Houston. Los Angeles and almost the entire Southwest Border to fight drug trafficking according to administration sources. The sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the metropolitan areas and Border Region arc to be designated High intensity drug trafficking areas qualifying them for the new Federal assistance. It is unclear How much More Aid those areas will get because of the designation. In the current fiscal year Only $25 million has been allocated for High intensity regions. However that could increase by up to $21 million with Money coming from assets Soi cd from drug traffickers. Reggie Walton associate director of the office of nation Ambrug control policy said last month. An administration official who spoke Friday on condition of anonymity said the total Federal Effort in the designated areas probably will be Over $1 Bil  when such things As temporarily reassigned fed eral agents and military efforts along the Border arc figured in. An updated National drug control strategy required by Congress is expected to be announced at the end of january. The original version was announced by president Bush last september. Sources Friday said they had seen drafts of the new strategy which was sent to the while House Domestic policy Council on thursday and to Bush on Friday. One source said the strategy Calls for the areas around the actual cities to be included in the drug lighting strategy. When William j. Bennett director of the drug control office designated Washington As a test Case Lor Aid to High intensity drug trafficking areas last Spring leaders of surrounding cities and counties protested that the problems Don t end at the capital s Borders. They suggested the problems would simply be pushed into the City s surrounding areas. The new strategy also designates 34 counties along the Southwest Border As High intensity areas. The strategy also outlines broader guidelines for fed eral drug crimes in which the dealt penalty can reimposed. Under the plan the death penalty could be imposed on drug Kingpins even when they or their organisations have not killed anyone. The death penalty could also be imposed if the at Torney general approves the indictment and if upon conviction the jury found serious aggravating factors a source said. Officials in klan s Birthplace limit anti King demonstration Pulaski. Tenn. A authorities blunted a Kun Klu klan Homecoming rally saturday in the group s Birthplace by squelching its annual March and citing its Leader Wilh violating a Parade ordinance. About 200 while supremacists from various groups rallied in the town Square however and More than300 held another demonstration inter that Day in the nearby town of Lawrenceburg. The klan has marched through i Ulaski on inc sat urday before the Rev. Martin Luther King or s birth Day for the past four years. But officials preempted the hate group by obtaining the Only Parade permit the town would Issue for saturday a restriction upheld by a Federal judge last week. White supremacists gathered nonetheless in the town Square to hear an address by the Rev. Thorn Robb. National director of the knights of the Kun Klu klan he blasted communists homosexuals. King and his  and the local officials who had opposed the klan. Police Cilcy Robb with violating the local ordinance and he was ordered to appear in court when he refused to sign the citation. We did t have a Parade. We were blocked out of a place to  Robb said accusing narrow minded promoters of intolerance of trying to deny the klan its rights of Assembly and free speech. Later saturday More than 300 Klansman and so called skinheads chanted hate slogans As they marched around the Lown Square in Law enc Burg about 20 Miles West of i Ulaski. The crowd also Laun led a Man holding a poster sup porting King s ideals ripped the poster from his hands and tried Coburn it. I just wanted to come and show the other Side of the  said Sam Black. 22. U journalism student from Western Kentucky University. If i can make one Little Bil of difference i would like to show someone Here something else besides  the Kun flux klan was founded in 1866 in i Ulaski. 71 Miles South of Nashville. Modern klan factions evolved from a second movement organi cd in 1915. A Kir in Kun flux klan curb tries to copy her father s a i Salute at a rally saturday in Imren Caburi. Tenn. Generic drug firms fined $400,000 for Fra bribes Baltimore up a . Judge has fined two pharmaceutical companies a total of $400. 100 after each pleaded guilty to one count of bribing . Food and drug administration officials.. District judge John Hargrove gave a $150,000 Fine to Par pharmaceutical inc. Of Spring Valley. New York. He also fined a Par subsidiary. Quad pharmaceuticals inc. Of Indi Anapolis ind. $250.000. Testimony showed the two firms paid thou Sands of dollars in illegal gratuities to former Fra Branch chief Charles Chang and review chemists Walter Kletch and David Brancato in Rockville.  in Nesses said the companies paid the bribes to Speed the Fra review and approval of generic drug applications. With a Quick review the companies stood belter chances of gaining an Edge in the highly competitive generic drug mar Ket Wilness Essaid. Firebombs tossed at Home of feisty anti drug crusader Palo Alto Calif. Up1 two attackers tried to firebomb the Bullet riddled Home of a60-year-old woman whose stubborn neighbor Hood anti drug crusade has made her a target of drug pushers the guardian Angels have said. The red Burc cd civilian crime fighting group which has begun a 24-hour protective watch on Clara Roddy said two Beer hollies filled with gasoline and plugged with cloth Wicks were hurled at her Home one night last  of the Molotov cocktails hit the House bul failed to  Angel Justin Van Zandt said he and other members of the anti crime group were unable to catch two people seen running away from the Back of the House. Solar Power Plant plans to expand despite blasts Barstow Calif. Up the world s largest solar Power Plant damaged by explosions and afire whose cause remains under investigation will move ahead Wilh plans to More than double its sic by 1994. Company officials have , the California Energy commis Sion which has licensing jurisdiction Over the Plant sail ils engineering and Public health experts would visit it wednesday to determine whether the facility or new ones planned for inc site need to be  $231 million Mojave desert Plant owned by w7. International ltd., sustained up to $10 million damage last week when a natural Gas Heater exploded. It was one of four used to Back up the facility s solar heating system. Yosemite Breaks record for number of visitors Yosemite National Park. Calif. A a record number of tourists visited Yos mile National Park last year while nearby Kings can Yon and Sequoia Parks came close to their Best years  attracted 3.429,619 visitors a 3 per cent increase from 1988, said Michael v. Finley. The Park s new superintendent who said 70 per cent of the visitors come from California. 20 percent from abroad and the remaining 10 per cent from other slates. Profs plastic prose1 replacing basics critic says san Francisco up . Col lege students Are subjected to such  cd courses that i Haj know Imle about history and Are steered to professors analyses of literature instead of the works themselves a foundation director said saturday. Much of the blame rests Wilh a rigid academic system that rewards faculty Tor research and not teaching said Lynne Cheney chairwoman of the National endowment for the human pics. The system is evident Al even prestigious schools such As the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University in California she said in an address prepared for a meeting of the association of american colleges. At a graduate seminar at Princeton University in new Jersey a prominent historian discovered recently that the students did t know what the crusades were she said. They had the modern meaning a crusade As a cause bul no idea of the word s historical significance she said too Many professors Al big research universities ignore undergraduate Stu dents leaving grading and counselling to graduate students and replacing essay exams Wilh multiple Choice tests she said. They also replace undergraduate read ing of original historical or literary works Wanh their own analyses substituting plastic prose for Rich and Well consid ered  she said. Cheney called for a return to a system in which students read history and Litera Ture instead of professors treatises on How to View those subjects. She also attacked discourse studies in which professors replace the Reading of plays poems or novels with attempts to category a them within ideologies. Most people i have known who love plays and novels and poetry arc not in tar sled in them As methods of Dis course she said bul As sources of in sight into their lives and into the human