European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday february 28,1990  still hot on cold War Charlotte. . A the cold War will still he raging when thousands of North car Olina sixth graders sit Down to Lake their Stan Dardi cd social studies test this Spring. State education officials arc telling teachers to instruct their pupils to pretend that the Berlin Wall never was opened that dissident Vaclav Havel was never elevated to the presidency of a Echo Slovakia. And that the communists still run Poland. It s cheaper than rewriting the 1987 lest the officials say. It is a perfect illustration of the frailly of Clung on standardised multiple Choice tests said John Daman executive director of Public school forum a non profit education think Lank in Raleigh. For the teacher who s really passionate about leaching current events this is really a disincentive and that s  about 80.000 sixth graders will take the 60 que suon stale social studies test used to rank and accredit schools. Third and eighth graders Lake different versions which Don t happen to contain any questions about Eastern Europe. The sixth Grade version has two such questions officials said. The Charlotte observer tuesday reported thai the stale department of Public instruction is telling teachers to instruct their sixth graders in not think about or consider the recent governmental changes hat have occurred in the last Feu months when you choose your answers for the questions about Eastern Europe. Think about How Eastern Europe was in 1987." court says psychotic inmates can t refuse to take drugs Washington a the supreme court tues Day gave prison officials sweeping Power to Force in mates to take anti psychotic drugs. The 6-3 ruling in a Washington stale Case is a Victory for prison officials and doctors who say they an not judges should decide when such powerful behaviour modifying drugs arc administered. The justices said prisoners arc not entitled to court hearings or other due process safeguards before they must take the medication. Given the requirements of the prison Environ ment Justice Anthony m. Kennedy wrote for the court the state May treat a prison inmate who has a serious mental illness with anti psychotic drugs again this will if the inmate is dangerous to himself or others and the treatment is in the inmate s medical  the decision As to whether to use the drugs in such circumstances is Best left to prison officials and psychiatrists nol judges Kennedy said. Kennedy was joined by chief Justice William h. Rehnquist and justices Byron r. While Harry , Sandra Day o Connor and Antonin Scalia. Justices John Paul Stevens. William j. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall dissented. Stevens writing for the dissenters said the court mistakenly has concluded that a mock trial before an institutionally biased tribunal constitutes due processor  ruling in a separate Case tuesday however the supreme court said that people held against their will Al stale mental hospitals without receiving legally required hearings May sue slate officials in Federal court for monetary damages. The justices voted 5-4 to reverse lower court Deci Sions involving a Florida Man who was held in a state Hospital for five months without a hearing that slate Law requires within 48 hours. In the inmate Case the High court overturned a Washington state supreme court ruling in 1988 thai convicted robber Waller Harper diagnosed As Schizo phrenic must be Given a court hearing before anti psychotic drugs Are administered to him. The state court also said prison officials must show a compelling state interest to give him the medication and show that the drugs will be effective. The state s compelling interest can be demonstrated by a need to preserve life to protect others who might be harmed by Harper to prevent his suicide and to maintain the ethical integrity of the medical profession the state court said. Harper was imprisoned in 1976 and for most part of the next four years was in a mental health unit where he agreed to take anti psychotic drugs. He was paroled in 1980 on condition he continue receiving psychiatric care. His parole was revoked after he attacked two nurses at Saint Cabrini Hospital in Seattle. Back in prison. Harper at first agreed to take anti psychotic drugs. But in november 1982 he refused to take the medication any longer complaining in was poisoning his brain and causing other Side effects. A committee of prison officials decided he should be Given the drugs against his will for his own Good and to control his violent behaviour. Harper sued. The stale supreme court calling the drugs As intrusive As Clicc Treshock therapy ruled that an inmate who has not been found mentally incompetent has a right to determine what should be done to his own body. In o sizzling Battle America tops England in annual Pancake race Liberal. Kan. A a 30-year-old housewife won the annual shrove tuesday Pancake race beating her English competitor by less than a second As the title came Hack to America after seven years. Aria Patterson raced through the 415-Yard course in 67.55 seconds after Leader Rosa Porca fell 40 Yards from the finish line. Earlier in the Day in Olney. England. 32-year-old Alison steel also a housewife had to Battle driving winds to defeat 20 other runners and win he British leg of the rave in 68 seconds. " congratulations. But Well gel you next year steel told Patterson in a trans Atlantic Call shortly after the race. We had a stiff wind Al our  Patterson said. Thai s probably Why we beat  the \ Victory ties the series Al 20 victories each. Attending the race were Kansas attorney Genera Robert Stephan. Treasurer Joan Finney and Secretary of state bilk raves. Also attending was the British Consul from Chicago and \ visitors from Olney. In was really hard trying to run against the wind and i m delighted to have won the English leg said steel. The time was slow compared to last year Outwith the wind As it was. I was just glad to get to the finishing line without being blown  the runners wore traditional garb of skirts aprons and head scarves. Cheered on by hundreds of spectators each carried a Pancake in a Fry ing pan along an a shaped route from Olney s Market Square to its 14th Century Church. Runners and spectators then poured into the Parish Church for a prayer service. The English women had been on a winning Streak outpacing their rivals in Liberal for seven successive years. Shrove tuesday precedes the first Day of Lent a time of penitence to commemorate Christ s fasting in the wilderness. According to legend the race has been run in Olney since 1445, when a harassed housewife dashed off to Church still clutching her frying pan and Pancake. The race lapsed during world War ii. But Olney re Vived in in 1948. Forty years ago the women of Liberal challenged the English for the fastest time. During the 1970s. Inc americans won nine straight races. Winner Alison sled hits the finish line at Olney. Lawmaker criticizes Dod Over base closures by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a South Carolina congressman complained tuesday that the defense department is causing friction Between House members Over state Side base closures. I Don t know Why a base closure commission Type policy was nol suggested since in worked so Well be  Republican Arthur Ravenel or. Said referring to the commission last year that designated 86 installations in the United slates for closure. Congress had to accept All 86 or none. A makes me wonder if you really warn to close bases since each of us has our own District s interests to  Ray incl directed his commonis Al i. Lewis Libby. Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy and resources. Libby testified tuesday before the House armed service s subcommittee on military installations and facilities. Ney opted not to recommend another commission based on the advice of the original panel. Or. Cheney made inc decision to close bases nol on a political basis but based on efficiency Libby said. Cheney s fiscal 1991 budget Calls for closing 35bases in the United slates and 12 overseas. The state Side closures must be approved by Congress. Rav cric also criticised the proposed budget s apparent disregard for the  s Overall disapproval of going through with construction at Croton Italy. Plans Call for moving the 40lsi tac fighter Wing from Torr Jon a Spain to Colone. I find in galling that despite our attitudes you continued plans to construct a base for the 401 is he said. As badly As the defense department will need allies in Congress to support their causes one would think you would be More responsive to our feelings in  Libby responded thai defense Secretary Dick Che Many Libby said no disrespect was meant but there Are m actors that went into Why we support  the 401 is is leaving Spain Al thai country s req Ucol. Another subcommittee member. Rep. Norman Sisisky. D-va., questioned the need for overseas military construction specifically for overseas schools in the face of pending troop reductions. Additions for High schools and elementary schools arc Nice things Sisisky said but if we re culling Back whal do we need additions for Libby said the school addition projects arc slated Only for installations thai will not be affected by reductions expected under conventional forces negotiations taking place in Vienna. Austria. In summing up feelings on Capitol Hill. Rep. Pal Schroeder d-colo., Subco Milce chairwoman said today Neil her a newly reunified Germany nor the economic Miracle Japan has the capability for or the interest in world military domination. The threat they pose to their neighbors and us is economic not military. And our ability to compete economically is undermined by our excessive expenditures on overseas