European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and Stripe monday november 25, 1991 equipment that found titanic sinks Woods Hole mass. Up a Barge loaded with equipment used to find the titanic has sunk of South America said the undersea explorer who discovered the Ocean liners remains in 1986. Robert Ballard said an estimated $20 million in scientific equipment was lost aboard the Barge Friday when it went Down in Pacific Waters some 9,000 feet deep off Ecuador. No one was Hurt. Investigators were trying to determine what caused the Barge to sink. The equipment included the robot submarine Jason jr., used by Ballard in 1986 to explore and film the wreck of the titanic. The British Ocean liner struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and Sank april 14, 1912, killing 1,500 people. A we re devastated a Ballard said after learning the Barge Sank. The Barge was on a research expedition called project Jason in which Ballard was involved. The sinking occurred while the Barge was being towed by the ecuadorean Navy from the port City Guayaquil to the Galapagos islands some 800 Miles off Ecuador. The project has broadcast undersea pictures to students across the United states and Canada. The system has allowed scientists involved in underwater exploration to talk with an audience while providing live images from the site. Ballard said the sinking May Force the scuttling of the expedition which would have included live telecasts to 500,000 students. A spokeswoman for the Jason foundation for education in Massachusetts said there were no plans to try to Salvage the equipment. A certainly the Jason or. Won t be damaged. That s its Job to dive a said spokeswoman Becky Squires. A but virtually All the rest of the equipment for the project i Don t think will be so  even if the Jason or. Is not destroyed it would be difficult to retrieve. A unfortunately the Ocean is 1.7 Miles deep there a Squires said. Project officials said the equipment was insured but it May be hard to replace before dec. 2, the scheduled Start of the live broadcasts from the Galapagos islands. A a we re hoping we can work with some companies who can offer some of the equipment that was lost a Squires said.86 protesters arrested at Chicago abortion clinic Chicago apr police carried away anti abortion demonstrators from the Entrance of a medical clinic and arrested 86 people saturday. In Montana 28 abortion foes were arrested for trying to Block a clinics entrances. About 300 people protested outside Day Surg Center in downtown Chicago and 48 anti abortion activists were arrested after the doors were blocked. At the american women a medical Center on the West Side about 50 anti abortion protesters and 250 abortion rights advocates faced off. Thirty eight people were arrested including two abortion rights supporters police spokeswoman Tina Vicini said. All were charged with mob action and resisting arrest said police officer Stephen Naughton. Some of the demonstrators belong to the anti abortion group operation Rescue. About 75 operation Rescue members picketed the Blue Mountain clinic in Missoula mont., and 28 were arrested. Most surrendered peacefully but some chained themselves together with bicycle locks and had to be separated with Bolt cutters said assistant police chief Pete Law Renson. About 30 abortion rights activists escorted patients into the clinic past protesters. Volunteers use signs to hide a patient shoved against the Wall by anti abortion protesters in Charlotte n.c., where 19 protesters were arrested saturday. Gorbachev blames communism for soviet economic problems a they shouted at patients shouted at escorts the usual kind of language a you re a murderer you re killing your baby you la bum in hello a that kind of thing a said Willa Craig the clinics executive director. Those arrested were charged with criminal trespass disorderly conduct and criminal contempt for violating a court order last week prohibiting illegal activity during demonstrations. Each pleaded innocent and was released. Meanwhile in Charlotte n.c., 19 anti abortion protesters were arrested and face charges of trespassing officials said. About 20 had blocked the Entrance to Carolinas women a clinic but quickly broke up. They blocked the Entrance again when a patient arrived but the client left when several anti abortion protesters ran after her. Other patients of the clinic made it in. The action league for life organized the protests said a Leader Karen Graham of Charlotte. Elsewhere about 300 demonstrators front both sides gathered at an abortion clinic in Cincinnati but no arrests were made. Police in Cleveland said about 200 anti abortion protesters gathered at a clinic. No arrests were made. And in Des Moines Iowa about 10 antiabortion protesters picketed a planned parenthood clinic despite Drifting Snow and subzero temperatures. Washington apr communism destroyed incentives to work and left the soviet Union with a worker class that did not care soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said in an interview with . News and world report. Gorbachev said that by the Early 1980s, a the command system of economic management had shown that it had totally exhausted its potential and the people did not gain the appropriate benefits from the enormous resources that were expended a . News reported in its dec. 2 edition. A the total grip of state property destroyed the natural motivation the natural incentives to work Quot Gorbachev said. A it also generated the mentality of equalization Lack of initiative and it gave birth to a certain kind of worker who is not interested in much of  the soviet Leader said the cold War arms race a resulted in an enormous distortion of our Economy a a reference to emphasis on military production rather than meeting consumer demands. He said his goal now was to a go Forward above All by reforming property ownership by creating a mixed Economy with various forms of property and by making room for  a there is no Way we can turn Back a he said. Gorbachev also stated that a potential problem involving Moscow a losing control of its nuclear Arsenal to breakaway republics a does not  a let me assure you that so far As the problem of control of nuclear weapons is concerned there is no danger at All that there has been any weakening of that  he asked the United states to share its technology in the elimination and destruction of nuclear chemical and other weapons. Stolen Trees make a Rotten Christmas Champaign 111. Up the Grinch who stoic Christmas better not come looking for a free tree from among the evergreens at the University of Illinois Campus. Workers in the University a division of operation and maintenance have begun the process of spraying Campus evergreens with a chemical that smells like Rotten eggs when exposed to warm air inside a Home the University said. The University began the spraying program in 1987 in response to seasonal thefts that had risen to More than two dozen each year Horticulturist Bill Hoffman said. The number has dropped to three to five Trees a year since the spraying program began Hoffman said. It Cost the University an estimated $400 to $500 to replace each stolen tree or about 15 times the Cost of an equal sized tree from a Christmas lot Hoffman  gets to go Home after dad cleared of rape san Diego a a 10-year-old girl was reunited with her family saturday following a separation of More than two years after her father was wrongly accused of raping her. The father a 37-year-old Navy Man was cleared of charges by the District attorney and on Friday the Case was closed in juvenile court. A a it a like getting out of jail a the father said. Juvenile court referee Yuri Hoffman dismissed the Case and apologized to the family a for the pain they have been caused through this horrible  their ordeal began in 1989 when the girl then 8, was sexually assaulted As the family slept in their apartment at a Navy Complex. For More than a year she insisted to police doctors and social workers that a stranger entered through the window took her outside sexually assaulted her and returned her. But authorities focused on her father As the assailant because her Story did not fit a Standard pattern for such crimes. The father remained a suspect even after a Man was arrested and convicted for attacking Young girls in the same neighbourhood about that time. The father was later arrested and the girl was placed in Foster care. Later semen stains investigators had overlooked were found on the panties and Nightgown the girl wore the night she was attacked. Genetic tests concluded the sperm was not the fathers. The girl was reunited with her parents saturday in time to celebrate her 11th birthday on thanksgiving Day