European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 18. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 i to so la a tue Jwj. In nor  an athenian demonstrates his reaction to Mounds of rotting garbage in the City s commercial Center on powerful problem in Athens monday. More than 10,000 inns if trash have piled up in the greek capital since garbage collectors staged a Ulk out thursday. The strikers Are demand ing contracts that offer Heller Job Security. Court frees teen shoplifter jailed with baby London a a teen age Mother jailed Wilh her baby for shoplifting was freed tuesday after appeals court judges overturned her sentence As being unjust. A smiling Tracey Scott who agreed to be put on probation for two years said she was very Nappy after being re leased with 3-month-old Alesha. The 19-year-old supermarket cashier who is single had been Given a six month sentence by a controversial judge who said he wanted to deter women from gelling pregnant to avoid jail. Scott and her daughter were imprisoned two weeks ago after she pleaded guilty to 10 theft charges. The counts were filed after she let friends walk out of a supermarket in Hudders Field Northern England without paying. Northern circuit court judge James pickles said that while he was t accusing Scott of getting pregnant to avoid jail he was afraid other women might get that idea. He sent both the Mother and child to prison to avoid separating them. Lord Lane the lord chief Justice on the court of Appeal said pickles seems to us to have been concerned More with the Public import of what he was doing and saying rather than the Justice of  Scott was not in court monday when her sentence was quashed. Lord Lane told her tuesday that pickles should have put her on probation rather than Send her to jail. Pickles 64. Is one of Britain s most outspoken judges and frequently makes headlines for his sentencing. Last year he jailed a woman who was too frightened to testify against a Man accused of heating her up. In january he opted for probation for a child mole sir. Saying the Man would have been bullied in prison and that the arrest and court appearance would Likely chasten him. Pickles a judge since l 76, insists that he is humane lie twice delayed sentencing Scott until he was sure a place was available for her and the baby in youth custody where conditions arc less strict. Lawyer Ken Green said his client s Faith in British Justice has been re stored. But she is very bitter toward judge pickles. She fell there was no need for him to Send her to  Scott s Mother. Marjorie Sylvester called her daughter s release the answer to my dreams. It was a late Christmas present. It s wonderful that at last Tracey and the baby will be out of  . Consortium ends bid to Moke computer chips Santa Clara. Calif. A the leaders of a planned computer Chip making consortium said the joint venture failed because the electronics Industry lacks a Long term strategy to compete with Japan. We had an Opportunity As a nation and an Industry to Send a message and we missed  said Sanford l. Kane president of now defunct . Memories. . Memories formed six months ago with the Hope of expanding America s Small output of dynamic random Access memory chips or drams announced monday it was dissolving because of inadequate financial support from computer companies. Japanese companies now Supply about 75 per cent of the Market while . Manufacturers have less than 10 percent. . Memories hoped to take 25 percent of the . Market. The consortium was born at a time when Short supplies had driven up the Price of drams. Which store data in a wide Range of electronic products and Are often compared to crude Oil in their importance to Industry. Since then Chip supplies have increased and prices have dropped in part because several companies including Samsung of South Korea have started production analysts said. At a meeting in Dallas on wednesday most of . Memories original seven investors and four potential backers were unwilling to put up enough Money to enable the consortium to build a Sibil lion Plant Kane said. The companies also would not Promise to buy enough of its 4-Mcgabil drams. He said. . Companies apparently no longer think they have a problem Wilh Chip supplies. Kane said. Wilfred Corrigan. . Memories chairman said the Issue for american companies was t Sim ply one of adequate Supply but More a matter of control Over it. You look at a . Laptop computer today and the display comes from Japan the memory comes from Japan he said. The computer has simply become the gift Box in which japanese products get mailed to the  the consortium s original investors were inter National business machines corp. Digital equip ment corp. Hewlett Packard co., Intel  Vance Micro devices inc. National semiconductor corp. And Psi logic. Although . Companies in several industries have cooperated in recent years on joint research projects . Memories was planned As the first consortium to manufacture products