European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 29,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 5study finds Young uninformed uninterested Washington apr americans under the age of 30 know less about what a going on in the country and the world than any other generation in the past 50 years according to a study of How people keep up with the news. The study conducted by the times Mirror Center for the people and the press sponsored by the owners of the los Angeles times found that younger americans Are less Likely than earlier generations to have read a newspaper or watched a television news show. Twenty five years ago 67 percent of people under age 35 said a a yes when asked if they had a read a newspaper  now Only 24 percent say a yes a it said. Television news watching has dropped too. Young people who said they watched the to news a a yesterday fell from 52 percent in 1965 to 41 percent this year. The study said that from 1941 to 1975, Young americans were on a Par with their elders in Public knowledge and in following most major news events closely. But since 1975, Young people have been less attentive and the trend is accelerating it said. A the information age has spawned an uninformed and uninvolved population a the Center concluded. The centers own polls and those of four other polling organizations taken Over the years were Analysed. Even though the average 30-year-old is More Likely to use a computer to have attended College and even More Likely to be Reading a Book than someone 20 years senior the younger generation knows less about the world it said. In the latest measurement 12,000 random interviews conducted Between May 1989 and March 1990 were Analysed. The study found that the number of Young people that could correctly answer questions about current news was at its lowest level since pollsters started sampling news awareness in the Early 1940s. A the army Mccarthy hearings watergate and Vietnam were stories followed closely by Young and old alike a it said. A however since the mtd-70s, the Young have shown much less interest in news including the biggest stories with the most far reaching implications.�?�. The exceptions sports news and the abortion Issue. There the Young match their elders in news interest. In 1989, 25 percent of each group kept up with the world series while 41 percent of the Young and 33 percent of respondents Over 50 knew about the supreme courts most recent major abortion ruling the study found. But it found younger americans were 20 percent less Likely than those Over 30 to know who won the recent election in Nicaragua what happened to romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu or what the soviet unions role has been in the political upheavals of Eastern Europe. Jurors see Fri tape of . Mayor smoking crack _. _ s Dndr Corl in Loon of Loq if lol Washington apr jurors in Marion barrys drug and penury trial watched a riveting videotape thursday showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine and then being arrested by Fri agents during a hotel room sting operation. The fuzzy tape showed Barry inhaling from a pipe and a few moments later agents burst into the room where he had come at the invitation of a longtime Friend cooperating with the Fri. A i did no to do anything a Barry said at first. Then realizing his situation he muttered a a in be been set up and uttered a string of expletives at the Friend sex Model Rasheeda Moore. As the videotape was played Barry studied a transcript in the courtroom. His wife Effi stared expressionless at a television Monitor. Moore seated on the witness stand viewed the tape on a Small television set nearby. Three Fri cameras hidden in a downtown hotel room recorded barrys visit to Moore a room on Jan. 18 and his Purchase of an amount of the drug from an undercover agent posing As a Friend of Moore a. The tape shows Barry initially expressed reluctance to smoke the cocaine unless Moore did so. She declined his repeated requests that she go first saying a it makes me too hyper i get really  a you do it a he insisted. A no in a not doing nothing a she plied. A no you do it a he repeated. But she did no to. And Barry used illegal drugs together More than 100 times Over several years. Barrys attorney has portrayed the mayor As a reluctant inexperienced drug user in recounting barrys version of the night. Moore also said that it was Barry who first brought up the subject of drugs. A the asked me if i had been Good. Which i understood to mean had i done drugs a Moore recalled. A there had been numerous times in the past where he would ask if 1 had been Good in reference to drugs. There was an  Barry 54, has pleaded innocent to 10 Misdemeanour cocaine Possession charges one Misdemeanour cocaine conspiracy charge and three felony charges of lying to a grand jury about his alleged drug use. One Possession charge stems from the night of his arrest. Moore also testified thursday that Barry asked whether the undercover agent whom Moore introduced As Wanda a messed  a i understood that to mean a did she use drugs a a Moore said. �?o1 said she did sometimes and that she did toot  when Moore added that Wanda was going downstairs to buy drugs a emr. Barry said that possibly he might want to a a Moore said. He said. He a Small amount of co re Rasheeda Moore left with Washington mayor Marion Barry in a past photo. Barry acknowledged a month ago that he the night. A i _____1_ am i roi/1 Fah pral Cua Rai get some wanted a Tab a  jurors in the Case also saw Barry attempting to rekindle what Moore has described As a longtime sexual relationship. 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Because there  Moore testified wednesday tha she Mithat Pend Wii nazi Art Cache valued at $6.8 million by Texas judge Houston apr a Federal judge set at $6.8 million the value of an Art Cache seized by the . Government. It includes four Watercolours painted by a Young Adolf Hitler and photographs of pre War Europe and nazi Germany. . District judge Lynn n. Hughes also ruled tuesday that the items could have produced More than $1.1 million in income through the Sale of reproductions during the years of Legal wrangling Over their ownership. Billy f. Price of Houston who helped locate the articles in the Early 1980s, had sought to have them valued at More than $30 million. The latest findings open the Way for Price to seek monetary damages based on the income he could have received in the period since the government seized the paintings said Larry a. Campagna one of prices attorneys. The . Government which can not Appeal any of Hughes decisions m the suit until a final judgment is issued has contended that Price is not entitled to any Money. The paintings and photos were seized in 1945 by the army in Germany. The family of Heinrich Hoffman who operated a photographic Burness in Europe before and during world War it and who was Given the paintings by Hitler claimed ownership of the items. Price a collector of hitlers work who helped the hoffmans locate the articles and bought an interest from the family has been battling the . Government for their Possession. 3ilw a a list t 1 in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Tine 29 1950 a South koreans army struggled to form a new defense line 20 Miles South of Seoul after the capital and its Airport at Kimpo fell to the communists.30 years ago today. June 29 1960 a sen. J. William Fulbright d.-ark., said . Prestige had reached a new Low As a result of a bumbling and fumbling in the u-2 reconnaissance plane incident. The chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee said the incident and the . Handling of it a were the immediate cause of the collapse of the Paris Summit a week after the plane was brought Down Over the soviet union.20 years ago today. Tune 29 1970 a Jordan a King Hussein approved a government heavily in Ivor of Arab guerrillas and ordered the country a prime minister to prepare for War.10 years ago today. U i june 29, 1980 a iranian president Bani Sadr declared the crisis american hostages a insoluble a according to a speech reported by Iran s state owned news Agency