European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 19, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a american workers need help to improve Basic skills stay competitive study says mc\1/ by Rulif a a _ rect a Mam Tom j new York apr most american workers a will see their dreams slip away unless society invests far More in improving their skills in school and on the Job a commission led by two former labor secretaries warned monday. The United states also will lose the economic race with other countries unless business schools and government take Radical Steps to boost worker skills concluded the report. A most workers receive no education or training beyond High school a the report said adding that existing state and Federal training programs Are a haphazard incoherent and  a what we Are facing is an economic Cliff of sorts. And the front line working people of America Are about to fall off it a the report said. Front line workers include clerks secretaries machinists Drivers farmhands and others who Are not usually College educated. The report offered a blueprint for changing the Way schools business and the government prepare workers for an increasingly Complex Economy. Among its recommendations a requirement that . Companies devote at least 1 percent of payroll to skills training and a mandate that no one under 18 be allowed to hold a Job until earning a certificate proving Mastery of Basic academic skills and work qualities. It also recommended that states with Federal assistance create a local youth centers for ensuring that All dropouts Ages 14-21 earn Mastery certificates. The report estimated such centers would Cost $8.2 billion a year. The report warned that Many with limited skills face the loss of their jobs As . Businesses struggle to Cut labor costs to remain competitive with foreign companies. A higher skills Means the jobs stay at Home a the report said. Some 70 percent of . Workers a will see their dreams slip away unless society increases the commitment to improved skills the report said. The study was produced by the 34-member commission on the skills of the american work Force. The panel included top business education and labor executives. Its chairmen were former . Labor secretaries Bill Brock and Ray Marshall As Well As Ira Magaziner an International business authority. The report was based on about 2,000 interviews conducted since last july at Over 550 companies and agencies in the United states West Germany Sweden Denmark Ireland Japan and Singapore. Although . Businesses spend some $30 billion training workers Only one third is spent on non College educated employees. About 15,000 companies less than 1 percent of the total provide Over 90 percent of corporate based training in the United states the study said. By contrast the report found foreign education systems far More committed than . Schools to preparing All students not just the College bound for successful careers. The approximately 100 foreign corporations in the study were generally More inclined to avoid layoffs and provide worker training than . Companies it reported. The study was funded with $500,000 in Grants from the Carnegie corporation of new York new York state and towers Perrin a new York based consulting firm. The reports Central theme was that . Schools and businesses should strive to a a professionalize front line workers and bolster skills so they will need less supervision. In turn companies will become More efficient sell More expand and employ More people at higher  Pilot killed in Oklahoma air show crash Oklahoma City up a a former National aerobatics Champion performing stunts at an air show in a soviet made plane sunday was killed when the Craft slammed into the ground near thousands of spectators authorities said. Tom Jones 46, an organizer of the Aero space America �?T90 air show at will Rogers Airport was killed when the plane an Su-26 fighter crashed nose first. Jones had purposely stalled the soviet made plane but he apparently could not restart the engine officials and witnesses said. A on the first leap he went up and came Down too Low. He went up again spinning around and then he crashed a said Spectator Svetoff. A we saw flames coming out of the engine. It Flat hit the ground right in front of us. A i cried. In a still shaky. I knew he was  Svetoff said hundreds of spectators a screamed and ran in the other direction. They thought it was coming toward us and it was for a  other witnesses indicated that just before the crash the plane released a Type of smoke different from that often used As part of a stunt show. A what id seen was the plane going up and making a stall and then he tried to pull out of the stall a said Dean Brenner who was working in the Airport parking lot at the time of the Accident. A the did no to quite make the height. He came in head first and then there was a big puff of Black  estimates of the crowd on the third Day of the air show ranged from 75,000 to 90,000. Air show officials said the crash Between 100 and 200 Yards from the nearest spectators was the first major Accident in the five years of the event. After Jones crash the rest of the Days events were cancelled. The other . And soviet pilots participating in the air show conducted a mass Fly by in tribute to the dead Pilot. A police keep their distance from the wreckage of a burning plane after an air show crash in which the Pilot was  March turns into threats clashes new York not a what began As a peaceful March through Greenwich Village late saturday night to protest violence against homosexuals broke up into clashes chases and threats Early sunday morning when hecklers taunted the marchers. In one incident about 1,000 advocates of Gay rights were walking along Broadway at about 1 . When some spectators yelled anti homosexual remarks at them. More than 50 marchers chased the men around the Comer. Demonstrators said three of the men escaped while two or three others sought Refuge in an apartment building. Police guarded the building As the angry crowd taunted them and demanded that the men be arrested. The crowd resumed marching when the police who apparently used another exit to get the men out of the building stopped guarding the building. Police said no charges were brought As a result of the incident. A this shows graphically the Type of problems we face a said Gary Konecky 33, an accountant from Bellerose n.y., who was one of the demonstrators chasing the men. A i have no idea what would have happened if we had caught them a he added. A they exacerbated the situation by charging at the person when someone called them names a said Deputy inspector Charles Campisi the commanding officer of the sixth precinct who walked in front of the crowd during the four hour March. A it was a Long Tough  the March was organized by queer nation a group formed to protest violence against homosexuals and to draw More attention to the rights of homosexuals and lesbians. At about 11 20 p.m., about 20 demonstrators rushed at former mayor Edward i. Koch shouting a shame shame a after he walked past the March with two bodyguards on his Way Back from attending movie. A dozen police officers encircled him and rushed him into his apartment. A i would say 1 was startled certainly not frightened a Koch said later in a Telephone interview. A i Haven to been subject to this kind of demonstration or action or invective since i left the  a spokesman for queer nation Scott Gorenstein said a for years we be been trying to get that Man s attention. Tonight we