European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 21, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 woman cop tapped As Houston chief Houston a Deputy chief Elizabeth Watson a 17-year police Veter an was named chief of police Friday making Houston s one of the few depart ments in the nation and by far the larg est to be directed by a woman. If the City Council approves. Watson. 40. Will succeed Lee Brown who takes Over As new York City s police commissioner monday. Brown was Houston s first Black police chief when he was picked in 1982 by mayor Kathy Whit Mirc. Who also named Watson. Watson commanded several divisions worked five years As a detective and was assigned to an anti riot and terrorism squad at one time. She said she never expected to Rise to police chief. She will Lead a Force of some 4.500 offi cers whose morale is thought to be Low. Houston s slow Economy in recent cars has patented officers from receiving pay  department also has been criticized for two recent fatal shootings of citizens. Brown in one of his last acts As chief last week fired the four officers involved in those incidents. Gerald arc Borg. Executive director of inc Washington based National association of chiefs of police said Watson s selection was remarkable considering 92 per cent of police officers arc men. It s always been a Man s  he said. To have a woman Rise so rapidly and then be named head of one of the largest police forces that s an extraordinary Cir  the Only Large City that has had a female chief is Portland. Ore., a few years ago. She lasted about i years. Arc Borg said. A native of Philadelphia Watson moved in 1963 to Houston and attended Public schools. She was an honors graduate of Texas tech University in Lubbock. Watson and her husband Robert a police sergeant have two children. The mayor s nomination must be approved by the City Council where initial reaction was positive. She also received backing from Mark Clark president of the Houston police of Ficcio association. By technicians examine a Tomahawk cruise missile after it completed a flight across Maine Friday. Despite opposition Navy again flies cruise missile across Maine Bath. Maine a the Navy flew a Tomahawk cruise missile across Maine on Friday in the first such flight since the slate s voters rejected missile tests Over their soil in a non binding referendum in november. The unarmed missile went on a 700 mile roundabout flight from the de Stroyer Conolly offshore to a recovery site at a Navy survival school outside Rangeley in Western Maine. The lest was extremely successful said Bob Holsapple spokesman for the Navy cruise missile project. In Portland organizers of the referendum said they planned to hold demonstrations this week to protest the flight. The test flight which began at noon and lasted approximately 90 minutes followed a meandering path across the Center of the slate primarily above for est and mountains. The test had been delayed earlier in the week because of had weather. Temperatures at flight Levels were around Zero allowing the Navy to carry out its Mission of testing the Tomahawk s performance in cold weather Holsapple said. Before parachuting 19 the ground at the recovery site the missile circled the town of Rangely at an Altitude of about 3.500 feet the Navy spokesman said. Erie Johnson spokesman for the coalition for the cruise missile referendum said he was incensed that the Navy had defied Maine voters who approved the referendum against missile tests by 52 percent to 48 percent. Johnson said continuation of the lest program was particularly inappropriate when the easing of cold War tensions has reduced the need for nuclear weapons. Earlier this month. Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garroll Iii notified the Maine congressional delegation that three test flights were planned this year despite the referendum. Calif lab making potent new drug shut Down Sacramento. Calif. Up sheriffs deputies said Friday that they had raided and shut Down the first known Laboratory in the Continental United states for making ice a potent new drug thought to be More addictive than crack cocaine. The while Smo Kable crystals of methamphetamine made at the lab were distributed to drug dealers coast to coast Sacramento county sheriffs sgt. Gary Gritzmacher said. Deputies discovered the lab last weekend in the Sacra mento suburb of Elk Grove on a tip from police in Colora do Springs. Colo., who arrested two people on suspicion of possessing ice. Five people were arrested in Sacramento last weekend on charges of manufacture Possession and conspiracy to transport methamphetamine for Sale Gritzmacher said. All were held in the Sacramento county jail in lieu of $1 million bail each. Because the five allegedly shipped the drug across slate lines they will be tried in Federal court he said. Investigators kept the arrests secret for a week in Hopes of nabbing More suspects. The discovery of the Kitchen like lab offers new evidence that ice is spreading across the Continental United states. Use of the drug has reached epidemic proportions in Hawaii where it is shipped in from the Orient but Sei zures of ice in the c9ntmcntal United Stales have been relatively scarce sheriffs spokesman de close said. Deputies found 4 pounds of the drug in various stages of production and 4 Gallons of chemicals that could be used to make 32 pounds of the drug. The current Price of ice in los Angeles ranges from $ 10,000 to $ 15,000 a Pound Gritzmacher said. The suspects allegedly used Kitchen utensils to Cook batches of the crystallized drug Gritzmacher said. Don f Duck abortion Issue a water urges gop chairman Lee Atwater Washington a Republican National chairman Lee Atwater urged gop candidates Friday to face the Abor Tion Issue without vacillation waffling or double  he said voters would accept differences but not ducking. In 1990. No candidate can run for office without squarely facing the Abor Tion Issue Atwater told the Winter meeting of the Republican National committee. President Bush Atwater and the offi Cial party platform Are firm opponents of abortion but the gop chairman said that does t mean All Republican Candi dates have to agree. There is no litmus test on any Issue which would be grounds for repudiating a Republican who believes in our Overall  Atwater said. The Issue figured in Republican de feats for two governorships in 1989. And Ever since Atwater has been telling his party that candidates must stake out their own positions clearly and Early. Otherwise he said. Democrats will de Fine the Issue on their terms. Whal no voter likes is vacillation waffling or double  Atwater said Friday. And they Don t like the appear Ance of vacillation waffling or double  vice president Dan Quayle said thursday that people on All sides of the abortion Issue can be comfortable in the Republican party but there was a Dis Tinct level of discomfort at the National committee meeting. The president has already campaigned for a number of pro Choice sen ate candidates. He will continue to sup port the Republican candidate no matter whether pro life or  Quayle added. Idaho Republican chairman Randy Ayrc w As swiftly rebuffed thursday when he tried to gel the party to adopt a Resolution reaffirming the top s 1988 platform stance opposing abortion. Republicans arc trying to Cope with a turnaround in inc Impact of the Issue after a decade in which candidates espousing pro Choice views were on the defensive. Bui a ground swell of pro Choice activism was energized by a supreme court ruling last summer that opened the Way for states to restrict abortions