European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 2, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5las vegas adds 18 schools to Start new year Las vegas apr the Bells Are ringing in Las vegas not just on winning Slot machines but in some of 33 new schools built to relieve overcrowding in the burgeoning desert Community. Five High schools three Junior highs and 10 elementary schools that can serve 20,000 pupils were open when the districts 130,000 pupils returned to class aug. 26. The building spree is part of a $600 million Bond Issue that also funded 15 new schools last year in the nation s 14th largest school District. Schools were contracted out by the handful. Using fast track construction methods elementary schools were built in an average of eight months. Junior highs were completed in a Little More than a year while High schools took a few months longer. In one new Junior High classroom a few Days before school opened a teacher put up a bulletin Board As a Workman installed baseboards at her feet. A Painter was across the room touching up a Wall while another worker was on a ladder adjusting the air conditioning. Quot a we had parents and boy scout troops coming in and stacking books in the libraries a said Brian cram superintendent of schools. When a school was declared ready to move into. 10 trucks filled with desks chalkboards office equipment and books pulled up outside. The equipment was color coded so workers could quickly put it in its proper place. For the first time in several years no schools Are on double sessions and the District is close to maintaining the 15-1 Pupil teacher ratio mandated by the state legislature for first and second grades. More than 800 new teachers were hired for the current school year which had an increase of about 8.000 pupils from the previous year. The pupils Are part of a growth Boom that saw 3,000 people a month move to Las vegas last year and the area s population double to nearly 800,000 in the last decade. Despite the construction however the District is still using about 600 temporary classrooms. Another 10 new schools Are scheduled to open next year. Voters May be asked to approve another Bond Issue to build even More  to launch Cross country Domestic Campaign president Bush returns to the clubhouse after being rained out after nine holes of Golf. By new Day Kennebunkport Maine president Bush Heads Back to school this week. His tour tuesday of Farwell elementary school in Lewiston Maine and an address to local High school students there is the Start of a concerted monthlong Cross country Campaign on Domestic issues by the president who loves foreign policy. Later this month according to a White House aide the president a will stand beside the grand Canyon to tout his commitment to the environment. A travel to Philadelphia to highlight his War on drugs. A make a series of other stops in states from Florida to Oregon. A not coincidentally this is also the month in which Bush is expected to announce formation of the Campaign committee charged with his re election although his formal announcement of candidacy wont be until Early next year. At this Point a judging by approval ratings in National surveys and the Field of candidates opposing him a Bush is in the strongest position for re election of any president in modern times. On the Cusp of the presidential election Campaign the democrats Are in Dis array but the republicans Are moving to Shore up what both parties now see As the president s chief political vulnerability the charge that he has ignored Domestic problems while focusing on dramatic developments abroad. After a year dominated by the persian Gulf War and a month consumed with the foiled coup and its aftermath in the soviet Union the president Aims to mend fences Back Home. Quot wait until you see me come Back after August after i m rested up a Little to take on these Fellows. Who Tell me that we done to have a Domestic program a he recently vowed to reporters but the president won t be unveiling major new programs relying instead on showcasing the relatively modest Domestic proposals he already has made particularly the a America 20011�?� education package. The White House has devised a simple three part strategy on Domestic issues a promote the proposals the president already has made preferably in photogenic settings. A Bash Congress for failing to enact Many of them. A portray democratic alternatives As too expensive and of dubious value. In the stars and stripes10 years ago sept. 2,1981 a South african troops captured a soviet warrant officer and killed several other High ranking soviet military personnel during heavy fighting in angola.20 years ago sept. 2,1971 a a woman who commuted Between new York and Amsterdam with her 14-year-old grandson virtually nonstop for five months died without explaining Why she had made the nearly 160 transatlantic Crossings at a Cost of $160,000.30 years ago sept. 2, 1961 a the United states announced that the soviet Union had conducted an aboveground nuclear test of an atomic device Quot substantially Jarger than the average atomic bomb."40 years ago sept. 2,1951 a the East German government without warning slapped a tax at Midnight on West German vehicles using the Berlin autobahn creating a new backlog in traffic Between Berlin and the West. Medical waste washes ashore closes Public Beach in Queens new York a hundreds of dirty hypodermic Needles and empty Medicine vials and other medical waste washed ashore closing a Beach to swimmers saturday a National Park service spokesman said. The waste was spread along the mile Long Beach at Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National recreation area in Queens said spokesman Manny Strumpf. It was the first discovery of medical waste on the Shore since authorities cracked Down on illegal dumping three years ago after Needles and other waste began washing up on beaches in new York and new Jersey Strumpf said. A it is a shame that someone would dump this medical waste before the last weekend of the 1991 season a said Kevin c. Buckley general superintendent of Gateway. Buckley called the latest waste a an isolated  the Needles and vials were discovered Friday evening by a Park visitor Strumpf said. About 3 h Needles and 100 empty Medicine vials were found in the Sand Friday night another 100 Needles and More medical waste were collected saturday. R. The Park at the Western end of Long Island s Chain of Barrier islands had been used this summer by More than 600,000 people As of wednesday. A this would have been the last big weekend fling of the summer a Strumpf said. If those responsible Are found they could face charges of illegal dumping and defacing Federal property among other charges. Identifying Marks found on some of the medical waste provided investigators with Early leads. . Seizes hashish valued at $90 million Boston apr a four year investigation has culminated in the seizure of 3.2 tons of hashish a valued at $90 million a hidden in a shipment of olives from Lebanon authorities said. Arrest warrants were issued for 15 alleged conspirators including two lawyers charged with laundering Money. Ten people including the alleged ringleader 61-year-old Peter Kattar of Andover were in custody by Friday in the United states and Canada. An undercover agent of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms passing himself off As a mercenary penetrated the organization and accepted $500,000 to arrange transportation of the hashish from Boston into Canada. Court documents alleged some of the defendants began purchasing hashish from growers and producers in the Bekaan Valley Region of Lebanon in late 19k7. They bribed lebanese and syrian government officials and arranged to ship the hash from Beirut aboard a soviet freighter the g. Gorbatov. . Officials said the ships Captain and Crew were not aware of their illicit cargo hidden in Drums of olives in a sealed 20-loot Container truck. The ship arrived aug. 9, but Federal officials said it took three weeks to Nail Down details obtain indictments and begin making arrests. A record 100 tons of pakistani hashish was seized on a vessel near Hawaii in july and 12 tons of hash was found aboard a Schooner off the coast of the Pacific Northwest