European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 c the stars and stripes thursday october 3,1991 Iraa Clear hurdles i or crash averted ii i by Chance sighting blocking 3 search copters by United press International Iraq and the United nations reached an agreement Clearing the Way wednesday for the arrival of three helicopters to be used in the United nations search for scud missile Sites. Arab diplomats based in Cairo Egypt said wednesday that the agreement took care of Fin u a a a final details that had held up the arrival of the German helicopters which were flying from Turkey to the Al Rashid military Airfield South of Baghdad. The diplomats predicted that the . Team which arrived in Baghdad on tuesday would have no problems using the helicopters. The choppers reportedly were to avoid flying Over president Saddam Hussein s office in the iraqi capital. Baghdad had in the past refused to allow . Helicopters to Fly unimpeded Over Iraq prompting a previous . Team to cancel its Mission. The missile Sites Are to be destroyed under the terms of the persian Gulf War cease fire. Of the Arab sources would not give any details of the final agreement Clearing the Way for use of the three helicopters to search for Long Range soviet made scud missiles Sites not damaged by Allied bombing during the War. . Inspectors arrived in Baghdad on tuesday to supervise the destruction of 28 permanent missile launchers in Western Iraq and to search for More. The official iraqi news Agency reported that the team headed by Douglas England and Wolfgang pot Ler a will focus its inspection on the installation and Sites already declared by before departing for Iraq on tuesday from the persian Gulf emirate of Bahrain England said that besides supervising destruction of the scud missile launchers the team also was to supervise the destruction of a giant artillery piece. The . Team is carrying out the terms of a . Security Council Resolution on the conditions of the april 2 cease fire. The Resolution called for scrapping iraqis weapons of mass destruction such As chemical nuclear and biological arms. Last week another . Inspection team led by american David Kay was held at a gunpoint by iraqi Security forces for four Days at a parking lot in Baghdad for seizing documents about Iraq s nuclear program. The 44-member team was allowed to leave the country after an agreement was reached under which the United nations would provide Iraq with an inventory of the documents and copies of the teams videotapes. The team returned to its Headquarters in Bahrain with the papers which were expected to be studied by the International atomic Energy Agency a . Arm based in Vienna Austria to determine How Iraq was developing its nuclear program. Cleveland up a crash Between two jetliners carrying 252 people was narrowly averted in August when a co Pilot happened to look out a window and spot the other plane seconds from Impact it was reported wednesday by the Plain dealer newspaper. A committee of Union and management employees at the Cleveland air route control Center in nearby Oberlin said that with Only 10 to 20 seconds remaining a Midway airlines co Pilot stood up at his station and saw a British airways dc-10 bearing Down aug. 24, the Plain dealer reported. The Cleveland newspaper said the co Pilot immediately ordered evasive action and the impending collision was averted. The committee concluded that the near catastrophe occurred because of overcrowded skies and staffing difficulties at the control Center in Oberlin. A it was the end of a Long Chain of events that led to the incident a said Patrick Forrey president of the National air traffic controllers association Union at the Oberlin facility. _ a i Hope we will be Able to learn something from this and make improvements so this does no to happen supervise me Muu Wuth re Bush gives pupils televised Pep talk on education a can Nril and a own dlr harder learn president Bush talks to youngsters at Alice Deal Junior High school in Washington on tuesday. Washington up a with reports showing american schoolchildren lagging behind president Bush challenged them in a televised address to take responsibility for their own Fate and hit the books. A education Means the differences Between a Good future and a Lousy one a Bush said tuesday sitting before a camera in an eighth Grade classroom at Alice Deal Junior High in the nations capital. M the self proclaimed a education president criticized for paying inadequate attention to schools himself delivered his Pep talk a Day after release of the latest in a series of studies on the grim state of amen can education. A the report found that the nation has a Long Way to go to reach presidents education goals which include making schoolchildren no. 1 in the world in math and science by the year 2000. The report by Bush a National education goals panel showed that five of six eighth graders done to know enough math to move up to the ninth Grade and most have difficulty Reading a newspaper. Bush a address was beamed nationwide and the White House expressed Hope that it was shown at virtually All of the county a a 110,000 schools which have a contained enrolment of 46.8 million. Although pupils at Alice Deal Junior High a Magnet school in the City a fashionable Northwest gave Bush a big hand when he arrived Many were fidgeting by the time he finished his 12-minute speech. The president spoke frankly. A i can to understand for the life of me what s so great about being stupid a Bush said. He implored youngsters to a Block out the kids who think its not Cool to be smart and a work harder learn he said a a let a put it on the line. You be got the brains. Now put them to work. Not for me but for among Bush a six education goals for the year 2000 is making schools Safe and free of drugs. On monday for the fourth time in a month there was a shooting at a Washington area High school. A was a student you have the night to be physically Safe at school a Bush told the youngsters. A demand discipline. If Good people Chicken out bad people take Bush has been accused by democrats of focusing most of his attention on foreign policy at the expense of Domestic concerns including the presidents top education goal is making All children already to learn by the time they Start school he has yet to seek full funding of the head Start program. Other education goals include a raising the High school graduation rate from 83 percent to 90 percent. A obtaining 100 percent literacy among adults. A making schoolchildren competent in All the basics. Bush closed his address by saying a let me leave you with a simple message every time you walk through that door make it your Mission to get a Good he also asked pupils to a let me know How you Are doing. Write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our Lucas Fleischer president of the schools ninth Grade class presented Bush with a sweat shirt inscribed with the message Quot a child is a terrible thing to Cuba seeks end to economic blockade United nations a a top cuban envoy on tuesday condemned what he called president Bush so sickly obsession with Cuba and demanded an end to the . Economic blockade of the marxist nation. Foreign minister Isidoro Malmierca in a speech to the general Assembly urged the International Community to condemn the 30-year-old blockade saying it has caused untold suffering and losses of $15 billion Over the years. Cubans Economy is in a shambles because of the longstanding blockade and the shrinking of Aid from the soviet Union its principal sponsor for the past three decades. The envoy speaking in Spanish also called for . Withdrawal from its Guantanamo naval base on Cuba in step with a soviet troop pullout already pledged by Moscow in the Wake of Augustus failed Kremlin coup. Malmierca said Cuba would maintain its hard line marxist course despite the collapse of soviet communism. A socialism or death a he declared. He reserved the bulk of his address for a bitter condemnation of . Foreign policy and particularly Bush a address to the Assembly last week in which he harshly criticized cuban Leader Fidel Castro. In his speech Bush said of Castro a the people of Cuba suffer oppression at the hands of a dictator who Hasni to gotten the word the Lone holdout in an otherwise democratic hemisphere a Man who Hasni to adapted to a world that has no use for totalitarian Malmierca told the general Assembly he was compelled to respond to the a aggressively hysterical campaigns aimed at Cuba. He said the United states is tightening the economic blockade which he said covers food and Medicine adding that it now bars meetings Between cubans in the United states and family members in their Homeland. A this is state intervention a Malmierca said a and it does not consider the damaging consequences from the cuban Point of he also accused the United states of lecturing the world on democracy and human rights while running a capitalist economic system that a has reduced almost 100 nations to abject he said nearly All of the underdeveloped countries Are pursuing the free Market economic Model but that it has brought Only poverty unemployment and Lack of Access to education health care and other alaskan to get $931 dividend Check Juneau Alaska apr its christmastime in Alaska again. Virtually every Man woman and child in Alaska will get an Oil dividend Check this year of $931.34, the state announced tuesday. This Marks the 10th straight year the state has distributed a dividend from its $12 billion permanent fund a Trust created in 1976 to ensure alaskans Benefit from the states Oil wealth Long after the Petroleum is gone. About 514,000 people will be eligible for the Money which is available to anyone who has lived in Alaska for at least one year before april 1. The biggest payout was $1,000, in the programs first year
