European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7over protest korean War statue of d by Cox news service Washington a a Federal review commission approved an altered korean War veterans memorial on thursday despite protests from the designers that their original concept was changed to glorify War. The action by the National capital memorial commission one of three boards that must approve the design ended another skirmish in an increasingly hot Battle Over artistic integrity and the Way the korean War should be  memorial is to be located across a reflecting Pool from the Vietnam veterans memorial on the Grassy mall near the Lincoln memorial. It is scheduled to be dedicated on july 27,1993, the 40th anniversary of the signing of the armistice ending the conflict in which 54,000 americans died Between 1950 and 1953. Critics complained to the commission on thursday that the original design selected in a National Competition with 540 entries was drastically changed to satisfy some bureaucrats and veterans. The award winning concept of a column of pensive War weary soldiers trudging along a Rocky Ridge toward an american Flag has been changed to statues in Battle 1 loses that resemble i Joe figures said Robert Soko Ove an attorney representing the Pennsylvania architects who won the National Competition. A an entirely different design has emerged a architect John Paul Lucas told the commission. Rather than portraying a sacrifice a he said the realistic Soldier statues Are a much Tore aggressive in  the korean War veterans memorial advisory Board however endorsed the changes and urged the commission to approve them. A the memorial does not glorify War but celebrates the courage of the men and women who went to a far off place and fought to preserve the Freedom of the people in a Small nation from communist aggression a the veterans Board said in its  lib los Angeles not the newly opened presidential Library of Richard m. Nixon has postponed making two crucial watergate tapes available to visitors. Instead the director said the museum is putting its Money into acquiring 23 Oil paintings by Dwight d. Eisenhower and expanding a display of gowns worn by Nixon a wife Pat. The museum director John Taylor insisted that a tight budget and his sense of the important events in Nixon a life rather than any intention to obscure the record of watergate were involved in the decision to provide Access to Only one of three tapes that were to have been made available for listening.5 die As plane crashes in Texas Nacogdoches Texas apr a twin engine air plane attempting to land in heavy rain at an East Texas Airport crashed thursday night in thick Woods killing  five people aboard police said. The Piper Aerostat crashed shortly after 6 . Near Lake Nacogdoches about eight Miles West of the City. The victims were identified As Jim Grisham the Pilot Tim Owens and Joe Siedschlag  of hot Springs ark., Mary Angel 36, and her 8-year-old son Thomas both of peach tree City a. The Ages of the three men were not immediately available said Pat Denman of the Texas department of Public safety in Lufkin. It was not immediately known who owned the plane which crashed at . Mangum Airport. The plane was about six Miles East of the Airport when it crashed. Nacogdoches is 151 Miles Southeast of Dallas. Cigarette machines targeted new York apr hoping to keep cigarettes from children the City Council voted thursday to ban vending machines that offer the smokes in most Public places. Taverns would be exempt from the ban which needs the signature of mayor David Dinkins a former two pack a Day smoker to become Law. The ban would eliminate cigarette machines from virtually  Public places such As restaurants Heaters Ana Bowling alleys. Councilman Sal Albanese said the move makes new York the first major City in the country to ban cigarette vending machines. Salt Lake City and Minneapolis have enacted similar bans. The purpose of the ban is a to prevent the children from easy Access to cigarettes a said councilman Joseph Lisa Council health committee chairman. A last month the music cigarette amp amusement association inc., representing More than 150 Small businesses in the vending machine Industry told the Council the ban would Cost 2,000 unskilled and Semi skilled workers their jobs. Brennan Dawson a spokeswoman for the Washington based tobacco Institute said the ban would Only a punish and inconvenience adults who Are looking to Purchase a Legal  a the tobacco Industry agrees with the goal of keeping cigarettes out of the hands of kids but it is a misguided notion to think that by Banning cigarette vending machines that a what you re going to accomplish a she said. The Council voted 33-1 for the ban. The Lone dissenter was councilman Jerome of Donovan who said a common sense should prevail since youngsters know smoking is dangerous. Violations of the ban which would take effect Jan. 31, 1992, would result in maximum fines ranging from $300 for the first offence to $1,000 for the third. Iry omits 2 key watergate tapes a the tapes will be there eventually there Are a lot of things i want to do eventually a Taylor said. A but i have got to enforce some discipline in what we spend on what when. I Nave got to ask myself what is More  the Library is financed through private contributions most from admirers of Nixon. Some scholars reacted so optically at what they described As a further attempt by the former president to manipulate and cover up negative episodes in his career. A so it still goes on the Way it was a said James David Barber a professor of political science at Duke University which was once considered As a site for the Library. A there is a real question about censoring out these things and trying to build a shrine rather than a  As for the two watergate tapes Taylor said a i could have just spent $12,000 or $15,000 and gotten them in. But you be got to ask yourself what is More  answering that question for the Library he said a we Are bringing in 23 Oil paintings by general Eisenhower for exhibit beginning the week before thanksgiving and we Are going to rethink the approach for mrs. Nixon a area. We Are going to move and expand the display of  the watergate exhibit at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda 30 Miles Southeast of los Angeles includes a portion of one watergate tape the so called a smoking gun tape of june 23,1972, in which Nixon agreed to ask the Cia to Block an investigation by the Fri into the break in at the democratic National committee Headquarters in the watergate Complex which had taken place less than a week earlier. Taylor said an edited tape of that conversation can now be heard in three places two of which had been intended for the audio presentation of the other two tapes and that a your visitors seem quite interested in  assaying goodbye Marine corps commandant Gen. Alfred m. Gray or. Marine col. William Richard Higgins. Higgins was presents a Flag to Marine maj. Robin Higgins during kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in february 1988 funeral services in Quantico va., for her late husband and was later slain by his captors