European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 10, 1991 fighting fire at ferry terminal new York fireboat Lead the attack sunday on a Blaze that badly damaged the Manhattan terminal of the Staten Island ferry. Arson was suspected in the Early morning outbreak which 200 firefighters brought Cape canaveral flu. Apr space shuttle discovery passed a special leak Check of its Orbital steering system monday morning and the countdown for a thursday liftoff will begin As planned this afternoon Nasa said. Test director Mike Leinbach said tests showed the leak to be too Small to be of concern. A once the leak rate was quantified everyone was Happy Quot Leinbach said. A a we re ready to go anxious to go software firm to partners of Cambridge mass. Apr Lotus development corp. Is extending employee benefits to partners of its homosexual employees in a move the computer software company said was the first of its kind for a major american company. A in terms of Public companies we re out in the forefront on this a said Richard Eckel spokesman for the Cambridge based company. Gay advocate William b. Rubenstein predicted other major corporations would follow suit. A this is very very significant for a company like Lotus to take this step said the director of the american civil liberties unions lesbian and Gay rights project. Miami apr a 72-year-old golfer was charged with felony criminal mischief after police said she disguised herself in Raincoat hat and sunglasses and then sprinkled smelly chemicals at her country club Over a new greens fee. Virginia Parsons is accused of scattering the chemicals two weeks ago at Miami shores country club. Workers have deodorized the place three times in a failed Effort to remove the smell of Rotten eggs and cooked Broccoli. Parsons a regular player with a 36 Handicap alleged under control alter about four hours. Ferry passengers ran from the terminal when flames broke through the partly collapsed waiting room ceiling. Authorities reported 13 minor injuries. The countdown clock was to begin ticking at 5 . Discovery is scheduled to blast off at 6 57 . Thursday with five astronauts and a multimillion Dollar satellite to study the upper atmosphere. Discovery a 13th trip into orbit was threatened when workers discovered a leak near a helium line valve late last week. Tests Over the weekend eased managers minds. Although an alternate line is available the National aeronautics and space administration wanted both lines in Good  benefits Gay employees Eckel said Lotus agreed to the plan last week after two years of talks with workers. It Calls for Gay employees and their live in partners to sign contracts saying they have a Long term commitment. That qualifies them for the same benefits offered to married employees spouses. Benefits include medical and dental care vision and hearing coverage and bereavement leave the Boston Globe reported. Some organizations have Domestic partner agreements that cover unmarried heterosexual couples. But Lotus said its plan applies Only to the partners and dependents of homosexual employees because while heterosexuals can marry Gay and lesbian couples cannot. By committed the Stinky act in retaliation for the new $5 Green fees said detective Richard Harrison. She was arrested and later released thursday from the Dade county jail on $1,500 Bond. Parsons who joined the 2,000-member club in 1977 said she did not do it. A i done to know anything about chemistry Quot she said. A i done to know anything about  police still Haven to identified the chemical origin of the stink. Club officials say it has Cost them $40,000 in lost bookings and cleanup charges.  5% in Survey give Public schools High Mark from wire reports new York a Only 5 percent of americans surveyed in a time Cable news network poll believe that Public school systems across the nation Are doing a a very Good Job of educating the country a children. According to a Survey by time Magazine and can most american have Little enthusiasm for . Educational systems. Eighteen percent reported that the . Schools were doing a a very poor Job with 37 percent reporting that Public schools were a a Good and an equal number saying the schools were poor the poll said. The poll was linked to a cover Story on one possible cure for the woes of the . School system. The Telephone Survey which polled 500 american adults May 8, was done by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. It had a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percent. The numbers went up slightly when respondents were asked about schools in their own communities however. On that question 13 percent said their local Public schools were doing a a very Good Job 45 percent said the local schools were Good 27 percent said they were poor and 10 percent said they were a very , 5, trapped in store Des Moines Iowa a a 5-year-old boy who thought it was funny to hide in a clothing rack fell asleep shortly before closing time and was locked in a store. A frightened Michael Coulliette was discovered after an hour Long sweep of the Merle Hay mall on saturday but it took another half hour to find the store manager to unlock a Gate and let him out. The boy was at the mall with his parents and older sister to spend $10 in birthday Money. Max Coulliette and his wife Joan were in the county seat clothing store shortly before 9 . When they realized their son was missing. A the likes to hide in the Middle of clothes Racks Quot Max Coulliette said. A the thinks that a funny. The Only thing i could think of was that maybe someone had grabbed him. I was  about an hour later As police and private Security guards joined the family in combing the mall Coulliette said he was passing the store and i saw this Little body behind the Gate crying and shaking the  a the was scared. He did no to want to let go of our hands. He said a dad no one was Here. I was locked  a actor Breaks Collarbone Malibu Calif. A emmy winning actor John Larroquette the lecherous prosecutor on televisions night court broke his Collarbone in a dirt Bike Accident near his Home authorities said. Larroquette was taken to St. Johns Hospital and health Center in Santa Monica after the Accident sunday said sheriffs Deputy Ronald Spear. The actor has won four emmy awards for his portrayal of the smug Dan Fielding in the Long running Abc  to be improved new York a sen. Alfonse m. Do Amato r-n.y., announced sunday that More than $57.8 million in Federal discretionary funds were awarded to the metropolitan transportation authority for subway safety improvements. The Money once matched by the Meta which he said had already allocated the funds will provide for modernization and rehabilitation of transit Tunnel lighting Tunnel ventilation and platform roofs and canopies in Manhattan Brooklyn Queens and the Bronx. The new York Region is wholly dependent on carrying millions of commuters daily said d Amato the leading Republican on the Senate transportation appropriations subcommittee. A i think its important that we get into the 21st Century. You can to have passengers in a system that is 50 years old plus. To is coun t come at a More propitious time said d Amato at a press conference that he held at the Union Square station the site of a subway Accident that killed five people. A we should t wait for there to be a terrible  thursday countdown resumes after Check of discovery leak golfer 72, accused of Stinky deed