European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes monday july 30,1990 education Issue divides governors rare partisan fight disrupts conference Mobile Ala. Apr the National governors association split in a rare partisan dispute sunday before tentatively agreeing on the makeup of a panel to judge states Progress in education. Democrats fearing that they would yield a political advantage to the White House and republicans met alone in unscheduled sessions that ran for More than two hours. Their action forced cancellation of a meeting by a bipartisan task Force on education reforms. The democrats met later with gop colleagues and White House officials and announced a tentative agreement but not before Republican gov. Carroll Campbelljr. Of South Carolina co chairman of the task Force accused them of trying to a a polarized the Issue. A if partisanship is More important than education then ill let them defend that a Campbell said. A dispute also was brewing Over a democratic plan to Issue a position statement on the rising Cost of the savings and loan bailout including a Call for an investigation by a National commission a a it a not a Witch Hunt that i m interested in a said Virginia gov. Douglas Wilder who urged an inquiry a the question is How did we get in this  gov. Madeleine Kunin of Vermont a Democrat pushed a proposal to make the regions hardest hit by the a amp a collapse pay for More of the bailout. Democratic and Republican governors were meeting later in the Day with White House chief of staff John Sununu a former governor of new Hampshire and onetime association chairman. Sununu was expected to face heat Over the Bush administrations tentative proposal to raise Federal Revenue a and combat the deficit a by limiting the deductibility of state and local income taxes. Before the meeting the governors sent a letter to the White House opposing such a move. They argued that it would amount to the double taxation of citizens and could increase opposition to further state tax increases a or even bring tax  gov. Bill Clinton a Democrat said the democratic governors asked Wilder and two other colleagues Kunin and Ohio gov. Richard Celeste to propose a policy statement on the a amp a bailout projected at upwards of $500 billion. The dispute Over the education panel marked the first time in recent years that the governors had not voiced bipartisan agreement. The democrats unscheduled sessions sunday followed a private meeting they held the Day before in nearby Pascagoula miss. Some democrats voiced concerns privately that they were yielding too much influence to republicans by giving president Bush authority to put some members on the education judging panel. The panel recommended by the gov Emory last Winter would be made up of governors members of Congress and White House appointees. Clinton co chairman of the education panel said the dispute was resolved. Under the tentative agreement the panel would have six governors three from each party four Bush administration officials and two members of Congress from each party who would have no voting Power. White House Domestic policy adviser Roger Porter also agreed to the plan. The governors rejected a proposal by House speaker Thomas s. Foley d-wash., and Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine that education specialists be included. The panel would Issue a report card on each states Progress in meeting education goals. Clinton said the governors wanted the panel to also assess the Federal governments Progress in meeting education goals set by the governors and Bush last fall. On saturday the governors issued a report urging an overhaul of the nations schools including a de emphasis on grouping elementary and secondary students by age or narrow categories of ability.25% of killers knew the victim . Report says Washington apr nearly one in four state inmates in prison for killing someone committed the crime against a close relative or intimate Friend according to a Justice department report released sunday. Almost 60 percent of prisoners serving time during 1986 for a violent crime did not know the victim the Bureau of Justice department statistics said. At the same time Only 43 percent imprisoned that year killed strangers and 24 percent killed a close relative or intimate Friend according to the report. And almost one of every six of the offenders committed a violent crime against a minor the Bureau said. Slightly More than half of the sex offenders reported their victim was younger than 18. The 245,562 male and female offenders serving time in state prisons for violent crimes had victimized a total of 408,936 people. In All they killed about 79,300, sexually assaulted 51,100, robbed 201,200 and assaulted 56,400, the report said. Minors made up about 10 percent of the victims totalling More than 40,000. Of those victims 71 percent were raped or sexually assaulted according to the report. As for the crimes that landed them in prison about 27 percent of the inmates had committed a homicide and 38 percent had committed a robbery most of them armed. Another 16 percent had sexually assaulted someone 15 percent had committed assault and 4.5 percent had committed another violent crime primarily kidnapping. The findings were based on a Survey with a representative Sample of 13,711 inmates. Three quarters of those imprisoned for violent crimes said they had victimized one person on their current imprisonment offence almost 16 percent said they had victimized two and just Over 10 percent said they had victimized three or More people. Some statistics differed for men and women. For example while Only 26 percent of men in state prison for a violent crime had killed someone homicide was the reason Why almost half of the women imprisoned for a violent crime had been incarcerated the study found. A separate report on family violence released sunday by the Justice departments National Institute of Justice said Fri figures showed that 30 percent of female murder victims in 1986 were killed by their husbands or  hocus focus Large holograms Are being created by a 10-centimeter Lens like the one or. John Perry is holding. Behind the president of Holograph ies North of Bur Lington it is a Hologram of a woman popping a balloon. Perry and his staff can make the three dimensional images As Large As 45 by 72  survive dangerous dip Niagara Falls . Up a five French tourists trying to beat the heat decided to go for a swim a in the swirling rapids about 40 Yards from the Brink of Niagara Falls police said sunday. The five All males Between 16 and 20 years old were coaxed out of the water by two police officers and were apparently unaware of the danger they could have encountered Niagara Frontier state Park police said. The five who wore swimsuits snorkels and swimming fins waded into the Niagara rive rapids about 3 30 . Saturday off Green Island near Goat Island. A alerted by other tourists who saw the frenchmen frolicking in the water a police sergeant John Wal Driff and officer James Wells were Able to wave the group out of the water. None of the five spoke English. A Wells did a Good Job of quietly stirring them out of the water so that no one became upset or travelled any nearer to the Falls a Waldriff said. Police believe that temperatures hovering near 90 degrees enticed the five to seek cooler surroundings. A in my 23 years Here in be never seen anybody intentionally Don swimming trunks and snorkels and go and play in the water a Waldriff said. A the area looked Safe to them. If it Hadnot been near the Falls i  mind going into  police detained the five who with the help of a tourist acting As an interpreter told them they were soccer players from Gironde France competing in a Western new York tournament. The five were Given a warning released and driven by police to a waiting tour bus. A a in a just glad no one got Hurt a Waldriff said. A a few More feet and they would have been swept