European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 10,1990volunteers re enact end of civil War Appomattox a. Apr about 4,000 volunteers dressed As Union and Confederate soldiers sunday marked the 125th anniversary of the end of the civil War by re creating the solemn surrender of Gen. Robert e. Leeds troops. Nearly 8,000 spectators some wearing bonnets and hoop skirts from 1865, stood behind wooden fences along the old stage Road through Appomattox court House National historic Park. There was scattered applause and a few rebel yells As a Man playing Confederate Gen. John Gordon Rode a Stocky Chestnut horse in front of a column of rebel soldiers marching four abreast Between Union troops with shouldered arms. After Appomattox More than a month went by before the remaining Confederate armies surrendered and a few isolated forces West of the Mississippi River Laid Down their arms. But historians agree that Leeds surrender to Gen. Ulysses s. Grant ended the War Between the states for All intents and purposes. The re enactment took place in the isolated reconstructed Central Virginia Village where the War ended after four devastating years. Most of the volunteers playing rebel and Union men in uniform were grim. A a it a a solemn occasion a said Joe Pitts of Winston Salem . A we done to particularly care for it and the troops Back then did no to care for it a one Young Confederate wept As he stacked his Rifle in one of the Teepee style piles along the dirt Road winding through the regions rolling Hills. A you get into what the soldiers Felt Back then a said Lake Day of Jacksonville Fla. A to subject yourself to surrender is  the volunteers said they were saddened this was the last major re enactment of the anniversary Battles they have re created during the past four years. A few said they planned to quit the expensive Hobby after this. The re Enactor ranged in age from preteens to septuagenarian and came from across the United states Canada and Europe. Pitts said they tried to depict the surrender at Appomattox exactly As the ragged starving soldiers went through it. A it can to be totally Correct we can to be emaciated like they were a he said. The re enactment also was a few Days off and the sky was Blue rather than Gray. The stacking of arms came on april 12, 1865, exactly four years after the War started at fort Sumter s.c., and three Days after Lee surrendered to Grant at a private Home on the Edge of the Village. Leeds surrender was not re enacted. Terry Daley of Baltimore who played Union Gen. Joshua Chamberlain said his order for his men to present arms As 27,800 Confederate soldiers surrendered a helped heal our  a at the sound of a Bugle Chamberlain paid the highest tribute you can to an adversary it was to show we Are Brothers and americans a Daley said. Statehood for puerto Rico could Cost jobs study says new York apr gaining statehood could cause puerto Rico to lose up to 100,000 of the 900,000 jobs on the Island according to a government study. The study released late last week by the congressional budget office addressed the elimination of tax benefits aimed at stimulating investment in the Island the new York times reported. Private . Investment which makes up half of the islands $22 billion private investment would drop 73 percent in a puerto rican state the study said. Statehood would spell the end of an estimated $2 billion a year in tax benefits designed to encourage investment. The Island which has an $82 million ceiling on Federal Money for social programs would gain an additional $3.6 billion in fed eral spending by the year 2000 As a state. But the net effect of statehood would be a 4.3 percent drop in the islands Gross product by the decades end the report said. The study is certain to have an Impact on the Long debate Over statehood Independence or continued Commonwealth status for the Island. Gov. Rafael Herandez Colon and other opponents of statehood who fear voters would be attracted to statehood by the Promise of additional social programs paid for by Washington hailed the report. Supporters of statehood or Independence maintain that the report failed to take into account certain intangibles  As the fact that doubt about the Island already has dampened investment said former gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo. Mantic Ocean fub�?Tmae0 puerto 8/co Atlantic Ocean san Tan a or Mayaguez t 40 Mes Chicago Tribune map Roosevelt roads . Navy base Caribbean sea computer sole to India gets of Washington apr the United states after months of delay has decided in principle to sell a supercomputer to India sources say despite warnings that it could be used to make nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles. Granting an Export License for the sophisticated Cray computer depends however on indians willingness to restrict its use to peaceful research and prevent the Transfer of its data to unauthorized parties one official said. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said India was Balking at the conditions noting that a supercomputer bought in 1987 was being used Only to forecast monsoons. Indian och vials also argue that the country signed a 1984 agreement promising not to Transfer High technology  workers feeling the sting of wild Romance Washington apr perhaps even now pregnant wasps Are waking from their Winter slumber at Kennedy space Center to build paper nests and Lay eggs in the warm Florida Sun. By september the eager Young hatchling will be swarming to look for mates. The tops of 300-foot launch towers built by humans for trips to the stars Are favorite places for Wasp courtship. The swarming goes on until mid december weeks when workers at the Center Are pestered and threatened by the wasps says an agn culture department report. Scientists Are trying to Rig effective traps but admit those May take a few More years of research. Entomologist Peter j. Landolt of the department s agricultural research service suspects the wasps mistake the launch towers for their usual mating Sites a Trees and hilltops. Thus when the mating swarms leave nests built in Bushes or on houses the launch towers and other Man made structures at the Center Are the tallest objects. Landolt who works for the Agency a research lab oratory in Gainesville Fla., said thousands of male wasps Lead off the mating ritual by swarming to Kennedy facilities. Favored gathering places Are around a launch pads Crane and near the Crane motors housing room. Hundreds of female wasps swarm to Greet the thousands of suitors selecting the ones they desire the couples mate in midair requiring about a minute. Once inseminated the females Fly into the Crane housing room where they Cluster together on wans to keep warm and protect themselves from pre tors. Or they squeeze into cracks and crevices. The females remain there All Winter living on stored body fat until Spring when they return to ground to build nests of paper they make by Cylc ing bark from Trees. Then they Lay their eggs p text the Brood and die in the fall. Of meanwhile the male wasps that were Success i suitors during the previous season also die a b a dutifully served their sole purpose mine