European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 6, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3jackson goads Bush about . Statehood Washington up the Rev. Jesse Jackson intensified his Campaign for District statehood sunday com Pang . Residents to Blacks in Soweto As he urged president Bush to end his opposition and Back the movement. Jackson elected As a Shadow senator to lobby on behalf of statehood said in a letter to Bush released sunday that creating a state of a new columbian from non Federal property in Washington was a morally right rationally sound economically feasible and constitutionally  Jackson mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon and other District leaders launched a drive for statehood last week declaring May a statehood  Jackson a eight Page Appeal focused on the costs to the District for supporting the Federal government and the inequities he said were forced upon residents by current arrangements. A the form and Structure of our relationship to Congress is similar and comparable to that of Soweto and Pretoria South Africa a Jackson said. Soweto residents elect a mayor and City Council who appoint a police and fire chief and administer some funds from Pretoria the National capital Jackson said. District residents enjoy the same rights to vote Kir local officials but cannot cast votes through a representative in Congress on Federal policy he said. In his letter Jackson said the Federal government has a exploited economically the District by imposing restrictions and conditions that Are not applied to other states. For example 50 percent of the districts real estate is tax exempt As government or foreign embassy property a 90 foot height restriction on District buildings limits tax income and nearly half the commercial sales arc to the Federal government or other tax exempt organi at is. Jackson also blamed the Federal government for failing to provide adequate financing for federally required police firefighter teacher and judge pensions for leasing a $578 million operating deficit Tor giving the City St. Elizabeth s Hospital without adequate Money for renova Lions s and Lor maintaining annual payments at $430.5. Million while costs have soared. Commitment to Community Ernest Hibbard 97, a retired tobacco Farmer listens to a speaker at the annual town meeting in Hadley mass. Hibbard has faithfully attended the annual town meeting since 1906, when his father let him play Hooky from school so he could attend. A my father said 1 would get More out of that than i would to go to school a Hibbard said. At his first meeting a resident implored the rest of the Community to rid itself of a $2,000 debt. Lincoln papers from 1845 found Havana Iii. Apr two Legal documents written by Abrahano Lincoln have turned up in the Back room of the Mason county clerks office. The papers dated 1845, have been verified As authentic. A a it a unbelievable a for being folded up for 146 years a there were no major tears and the ends weren to dogeared a said William Beard assistant editor of the Lincoln Legal papers a state funded study of Lincoln Slegal practice. A it looks like Lincoln wrote them  both manuscripts Deal with the same Case a a lawsuit filed by a landowner against three  built a dam near his property. Lincoln represented the builders. The landowner sued the Trio for $300 in damages after his land was flooded. The jury awarded the plaintiff $168. Beards colleagues sent a fax of the documents to Springfield where Tom Schultz a curator with the Illinois historic preservation Agency and retired curator James Hickey a Lincoln handwriting expert determined that the papers were authentic. A a a a ski Mission a. A. A a. A a a a a a. A. A a k a a. A nears ending for discovery Cape canaveral Fla. Up the shuttle discovery a seven Man Crew mat King the 30th anniversary of american manned space flight wrapped up a Battery of strategic defense initiative experiments sunday and geared up for mondays Landing in Cailor Nia. A Quot a a a  a a a a .���.,. A a a a Quot. With Ideal weather expected commander. Michael Coats and co Pilot Blaine Hammond planned to lire discovery s twin braking rockets at 1 54 . Edt to drop the ship out of orbit for an hour Long Glide to touchdown at Edwards fab calif., at 2 49 . Edt 8 49 . Central european l Ime. The astronauts spent the Day sunday completing their a Star wars experiments pausing Lor a moment to Mark the 30th anniversary of former astronaut Alan Shepard a historic 15-minute, 22-second Mercury flight on May 5, 1961, to become the first american in space. A thirty years ago we were flying one Man at a time a Coats radioed Mission control in Houston. A now we re flying seven or More. We re All wondering what its going to be like 30 years from now How Many people will be up Here and in what kind of vehicle. Happy anniversary from the discovery Crew a Nasa administrator Richard truly said in a message a we should remember that event and All the members of the Nasa team that have worked so hard to make 30 years of manned spaceflight possible. Your flight is an Extension of that great  Coats and Hammond then fired up one of discovery a three Hydraulic Power units sunday and fired a series of mane vering jets to Check out the shuttles steering system prior to re entry their Crew males spent the Day collecting data from a Battery of Pentagon experiments in the waning hours of a 3.5-million-mile, 134-orbit Mission to help strategic defense initiative researchers learn More about detecting enemy missiles in space. One of three secondary experiments that were hot wired saturday in a Complex shuttle repair Job shut Down Early sunday because of an unknown problem. Efforts to revive the instrument an a Ray sensor built to verify arms control treaties were not successful. The other two instruments however continued collecting valuable data with Navy capt. Coats 45, and air Force it. Col. Hammond 39, aboard discovery Are Gregory car Baugh 35, air Force col. Guion Bluford 48, Richard Lieb 35, air Force it. Col Donald Mcmonagle 38, and Charles Lacy Veach 46. V poll finds two thirds of . College students cheat new York up As College students prepare for final exams a National Survey reports that two thirds of them have cheated in the past and will probably do so again. Business students led their Peers for dishonesty with 87 percent surveyed saying they had cheated followed by engineering majors at 74 percent and science majors at 67 percent. The Survey which was to be published monday in people Magazine found that 67 percent of All students said they have cheated at least once since their freshman year. The Survey received 6,000 responses to questionnaires mailed to students at 31 of the nations most prestigious schools. Students offered various rationales for cheating. A if our leaders can  heinous acts and then lie before Senate committees about their total ignorance and innocence then Why can to i cheat a Little a wrote one student at an allow Omen a College. Others cited Competition for grades and widespread dishonesty among students. A you must cheat to stay alive a wrote a senior at a Large engineering school in the northeastern United states. Technology has prompted students to become More sophisticated at cheating such As with programmable calculators that have enough memory to store class notes from a whole semester. _ a having the Best technology in ones shirt pocket tempts students to Cross the line of honesty a Dave Culler a Sophomore electrical engineering major at Northwestern University told the Magazine. A Donald Mccabe an associate professor of business ethics at the graduate school of management at Rutgers University who conducted the Survey commented a the thing that scares me is that these kids Are the academic elite a the future leaders of America a and the attitude is a society owes  should i have to do the work a a