European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a Pago 5california plans to clean the air smog free electric autos mandated by 98 l of Angeles up a state smog regulators approved Friday a sweeping pin that includes a requirement for mass production of electric cars by 1998. A we recognize that these Are very dramatic requirements we Are imposing a said Jananne Sharpless chairwoman of the states air resources Board. A a it a lining to take a lot of work but we think its  the program is designed to clean up some of nations dirtiest air. It will require car makers to Start Selling progressively cleaner cars beginning in 1994. By 2003, All of the estimated 2 million cars sold annually in California would have to be producing 70 percent less pollutants than 1993 models. The plan includes the requirement that 2 percent of All new cars sold in California in 1998 Emit no smog in effect a mandate to produce an electric car. By 2003, 10 percent of All new cars would have to be electric. California is regarded As the Pace setter in air Quality regulation so the plan is expected to have a profound Impact. Regulators in new York voted earlier last week to follow the California plan but there Are questions whether they have the Legal authority to do so. The plan was approved on an 8-0 vote following two Days of hearings which featured pleas from the Auto Industry to ease the requirements for specific numbers of cleaner cars. But in a Victory for the Oil Industry the Board agreed to drop a proposed requirement that refiners produce a specific volume of cleaner burning fuels such As methanol starting in 1994. Instead the Board agreed to boost the required number of gasoline stations offering the cleaner fuels raising the 1994 requirement from 30 to 90 stations. That number would grow to 200 in 1995 and to 400 in 1996. By 2003, the Board plans for 6,000 of the states current 13,000 Gas stations to offer clean fuels. The Agency in a last minute revision also agreed to conduct a comprehensive review of the plan in the Spring of 1992. Board member Brian Bilbray a san Diego county supervisor said that the Agency has has been under a a immense lobbying pressure on the plan including threats to Challenge the boards authority Over clean air regulation in the state. A i think we need to continue taking the War to the enemy a dirty air a Bilbray said. Then addressing the Many representatives of the Oil and Auto industries in the audience he said a when we re done with this whole thing you re going to thank us for  the Board has been developing the regulations for two years. A key goal is to help the los Angeles Basin a plagued by the nations dirtiest air a meet the . Governments deadline of 2007 to comply with Federal clean air standards or risk losing Federal funds. During the two Days of testimony Oil and Auto Industry representatives complained that the deadlines were not realistic and would Force them to adopt technologies that Consumers might not accept. But the Agency composed of appointed officials who oversee All air Quality regulation issues in California had been widely expected to approve the plan partly because it has already implemented the nations toughest tailpipe standards. Quot we knew this was coming a said Samuel Leonard director of automotive emission controls for general motors corp., which Sells about 25 percent of the cars sold in California the nations largest car Market. A the boards idea of feasibility is a lot different from ours a Leonard said. A a we la just have to go Back to Detroit and turn our engineers  pm debuted a prototype electric car the Impact in january. At that Point than chairman Roger Smith said that under Ideal conditions the vehicle could be ready for mass production in five years. Leonard who said pm is committed to an electric car eventually said the company is not certain How soon it would be available because of the technical problems in developing a longer lasting More powerful Battery. Such a car would probably need about 800 pounds of batteries and have a Range of less than 200 Miles per  told to focus on 7 Mapplethorpe photos Cincinnati apr defense lawyers took Issue Friday with the prosecutions statement that seven Robert Mapplethorpe photographs Are All the jury needs to consider in the nations first obscenity trial of an Art gallery and its director. Quot a the states Case is in some respects very simple a said prosecutor Frank Prouty. A the pictures Are the states Case. The Issue is not the first amendment. The Issue is obscenity. The Issue is also displaying pictures of children in the state of  Prouty told the jury that its Only duty is to determine the truthfulness of what the indictments allege a that two of the photographs show children with their genitals exposed and that five of them depict homosexual sex acts. But attorney Marc Mezibov who represents the contemporary arts Center told jurors that there a More to the Case. A this is not about photographs. It is about people a he said. A we done to want any Breaks. We done to want any sympathy. We want a fair  the gallery and its director Dennis Barrie Are charged with pandering obscenity and using children in nudity related material based on photographs in the 175-photo exhibit a Robert Mapplethorpe the perfect  it attracted More than 80,000 people during its seven week run in Cincinnati. The Mapplethorpe exhibit closed May 26 and now is on display in Boston. A grand jury viewed the exhibit april 7 before returning the indictments. If convicted of both charges Barrie could be sentenced to one year in mail and fined $2,000. The gallery which marked its 50th anniversary last year could be fined $5,000 on each count. Opening statements were heard Friday in Hamilton county municipal court after the eight person jury returned from a Brief tour of the gallery. Attorney h. Louis Sirkin who represents Barrie had told jurors earlier that Mapplethorpe was a homosexual and that some of the photographs on display depicted _. Environmental group tries to halt Sun probe launch % v  s mrs f a prosecutor Frank Prouty questions Cincinnati policeman Donald Ruberg about the Mapplethorpe exhibit. Sexually explicit acts. A it was a retrospective a biography of an individual by showing his works a Sirkin said. A this particular photographer not Only did Beautiful pictures he also did Sands of time some other pictures that Are not so Beautiful. But they were pictures of the real world to  Mapplethorpe died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in March 1989 at age 42. Washington a an Environ in Cental activist group asked a Federal judge on Friday to Stop the scheduled launch of space shuttle discovery this week with the nuclear powered Ulysses Sun probe in its cargo Bay. A we have an extraordinary risk Here from an Agency whose competency in the last year has been abysmal said Andrew c. Kimbrell a lawyer for the foundation on economic trends which asked for a preliminary injunction. The motion continues a Legal fight begun last year when Nasa dispatched the Galileo probe to Jupiter from shuttle Atlantis. . District judge Oliver Gasch refused to Stop the launch and Galileo was sent on its Way. The foundations motion on Friday was made part of that earlier suit which had been brought by the Florida coalition on peace and Justice. The coalition demonstrated on sept. 22 at the Kennedy space Center. A it was not unexpected a said Edward Frankie the space Agency a general counsel. A a it a basically similar to the one that was done last year in Galileo and i Hope it has the same  both planetary probes use electricity generated by decaying radioactive pellets of plutonium-238, which causes cancer Ana death in humans if inhaled. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 30, 1950 a germans who were at any time members of the nazi party will no longer be granted immigration visas to the United states officials announced. The policy will also apply to the spouses of members of the occupation forces. 30 years ago today. Sept. 30,1960 a president Eisenhower called vice president Richard Nixon a counsel valuable and said Nixon was better prepared for the presidency than anyone he knew. 20 years ago today. Sept. 30,1970 a vice president Spiro t. Agnew assailed the presidential commission on Campus unrest saying its failure to blame disrupter and their sympathizers a will be taken As More pablum for  10 years ago today. 1980 a Iraq said it would agree to a . Security Council Call for a cd with Iran if Iran would also need it. There was no response from Iran As b sept. 30,1980 Ira fire in its War countries continued to a Russ their War efforts ase both