European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday february 1990 Bush says panel will help America compete overseas Raleigh. . A president Bush on thursday announced he is creating a panel of science advisers to search for ways to make the United Stales More competitive in science and technology. Bush citing tremendous problems from overseas Competition vowed to engage in Lough negotiations to try to Knock Down foreign Trade barriers. I think we can compete. I believe that. But we can t do it if we re up against closed markets and if we re up against Trade  the president said. Speaking at a round table discussion on High tech issues at North Carolina stale University the president said we be just got to find ways to free up As much As possible our Commerce. I am optimistic about the country. Know we be got tremendous problems with Competition but we re getting our focus on it now Bush said. We re moving into a whole new dec Ade with a whole new focus he  summoned the newly formed panel to be headed by White House Sci ence adviser Alan Bromley to the presidential retinal at Camp David. Md., fora Kickoff meeting on saturday. The panel which will have Between 10 and 14 members will be called the presi Dent s Council of advisers on science and  president was travelling to Raleigh and Knoxville tcnn., to promote the educational goals he outlined in his state of the Union address earlier this week goals already under attack from critics who contend Bush does t Back up his promises with enough Money. Look. I came Here to learn and Lis ten Bush said. He called himself fired up on the subject of improving . Competitiveness. Decade ends with drinking Down again new York a Ameri cans drank less liquor last year continuing a decade Long trend and wine consumption dropped for the third straight year an Industry group reported Friday. Changing lifestyles concerns about health and publicity about Drunken driving and alcohol abuse contributed to the declines according to the Jobson beverage Al Cohol group which publishes an annual  of distilled spirits dropped More than 2 percent in 1989. To 141 million cases. Liquor drinking peaked at 166 million cases in 1979 and has dropped is percent in 10 years. Wine consumption fell 7 per cent in 1989. Largely because of the decreasing popularity of wine Cool ers and a drop in table wine con sumption the organization said. Wine coolers were Down 19 per cent to about 40 million cases while table wine was Down 4.3 per cent to 141.4 million cases. Sparkling wine was off 5.4 per cent in 1989 and dessert wine was off 1.2 percent but Var Nouth was up 5 percent possibly reflecting an increase in the consumption of martinis. Jobson reported. The nation s liquor consumption worked out to 0.8 cases per adult Down from 1.1 cases per adult in 1979. Per capita con sumption was at 0.6 cases the Low est level since i96s. No Shadow of a doubt Punxsutawney Phil s handler has Good reason to smile. Bud Dunkel wearing a groundhog hat for the occasion holds the furry celebrity aloft Friday after it indicated in unmistakable groundhog Csc that it had failed to see its Shadow Phil s followers said. For True believers that Means Spring is just around he Corner. The 10-Pound woodchuck made his meteorological forecast outside his Burrow at gob Bler s Knob in Punxsutawney a. 275,000 new january Obs enable unemployment Rote to hold steady Washington a the nation s unemployment rate held steady at 5.3 percent in january As the Economy began the new year by producing 275,000 new jobs the government said Friday. It was the eighth consecutive month with no change in the unemployment level. But the labor department said the Strong Job growth figures might be Over stated because warm january weather that followed a bitter cold december made it Tough to seasonally adjust Job totals for construction and other Indus tries affected by weather. Delays in the reporting of Post Christmas layoffs in retail Trade also May have skewed the numbers. The manufacturing slump added to the Overall slowdown in the nation s Economy last year and Friday s report the first comprehensive look at eco nomic activity in 1990 indicated that the sector s lacklustre performance is continuing this year. Factory jobs dropped 112,000 last month with 90,000 of the losses suffered by the struggling Auto Industry. It was the 10th straight month manufacturing jobs declined. However the government said Many of the Laid off Auto workers have been recalled since the Survey of businesses Tab Lisments last month to gauge Job growth. Construction employers reported a gain of 104,000 jobs during Jast month s mild weather after a 50,000-Job loss Dur ing december. Mining industries Oil drilling included added 1.000 jobs. Meanwhile the service producing industries which carried the Economy last year continued to demonstrate healthy gains this year. Those industries reported 284,000 new jobs with 48,000 of them created in health services. The government said the civilian labor Force the number of people with jobs or actively seeking employment declined by 149,000 last month to 124 million. The number of americans with jobs fell by 25,000 to 117.8 million. In a separate calculation of unemployment that counts members of the armed services stationed in the United states the january jobless rate was 5.2 percent Down from 5.3 percent in december. . Endorses Gorbachev s plan for Summit if arms treaty is Complete Washington a soviet presi Dent Mikhail s. Gorbachev s proposal for a 35-Nalion Summit this year has received the Bush administration s Quali fied approval provided a treaty is completed to reduce troops and tanks in Europe. . Secretary of state James Baker told the Senate foreign relations committee on thursday that the Summit could be the forum for signing the treaty and also pro vide a framework for addressing the ques Tion of German reunification. But he said the soviets first must agree that free elections Are a human right. The 12 members of the european Community have endorsed the idea of a far ranging Summit this year. And Baker said the United states would be willing to attend such a Summit to sign the treaty provided . Conditions were met. A treaty to reduce nato and Warsaw pact troops and non nuclear weapons in Europe is caring completion at talks in Vienna Austria. However. Baker said there was disagreement on How to Deal with combat aircraft and helicopters. President Bush s proposal on wednes Day night for deeper cuts also could complicate the pact s completion. The 35-nation conference would bring together the United states Canada the soviet Union the Vatican and All the countries of Europe except Albania. The same 35 signed the Helsinki agreement of 1975 that promoted human rights and. In effect recognized the Post world War ii Borders of Hur pc. Innocent plea entered in renewed murder charge Phoenix a prison inmate James Robison pleaded innocent Friday to a renewed murder charge in the 1976 car bomb slaying of Arizona Republic re Porter Don bolls. Judge Thomas o tools of Maricopa county Superior court set a preliminary trial Date of april 19. Robison. A 67-year-old former plumber was convicted of the bolls killing in 1977 after a witness said he triggered the bomb. But the conviction was reversed on Appeal. He remained in prison on an unrelated conviction though and was still there when attorney general Bob Corby filed the new murder charge last fall. In addition to the murder charge Corbin s office has been working with a slate grand jury investigating a possible conspiracy to obstruct earlier investigations of the bolls probe. Bolls died june 13, 1976, 11 Days after his car was blown up in a hotel parking lot. He was a prominent investigative reporter and his death touched off wide ranging speculation As to which of his targets might have ordered the killing. The Only Man so far convicted in the Case onetime greyhound breeder John Harvey Adamson has acknowledged planting the fatal bomb and has claimed that Robison triggered it. He was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to death but the death sentence was reversed on Appeal