European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 6, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3little Relief seen for funds poor schools Washington apr tax supported colleges and universities Are asking state Legislatures for Sharp increases in state Aid but in reality expect another year of layoffs tuition increases and enrolment cutbacks. A 50-state Survey to be published in this weeks edition of the chronicle of higher education an Independent newspaper hat covers issues affecting colleges and universities foresaw scant growth in University support from the 1992 sessions of state Legislatures. Even in states that have escaped the recession tight budgets Are expected. A we were booming along there for a while but it caught up with us a Ann Daley executive director of Washington states higher education coordinating Board told the chronicle. Washington gov. Booth Gardner is proposing Large tuition increases to combat a state deficit. School officials arc asking for hefty increases anyway a As much As 61 percent for four year institutions in Mississippi 42.6 percent in South Carolina and 30.7 percent in Florida. In 26 states requests Are for increases above 10 percent. School officials say they feel a responsibility to show Public officials what their needs Are even if they can to expect to see them met. Higher education a favourable image Isnit much help said Julie k. Phelps vice president for business and finance at Delaware state College. A the Public does not automatically Sec higher education As a Public responsibility a she said. A a it a seen As just another special interest  the chronicle said the states budget problems a along with resistance by taxpayers governors and legislators to tax increases a also will Pinch private col lege students who look to Legislatures for tuition subsidies. In Indiana the commission for higher education is proposing eliminating a $2,483 subsidy for out of state students. Nine states a Alabama Florida Louisiana Montana Oregon Rhode Island Tennessee Virginia and Wyoming a May consider tax increases that directly or indirectly could Benefit higher education. Other highlights from the Survey a Mississippi despite officials requests for increases of 61 percent for four year institutions and 56.8 percent for two year institutions is unlikely to see any in crease in Light of  Kirk for dices opposition to tax increases. For disc has called for the elimination of Many academic programs rather than an increase in state support. The closing of historically Black Mississippi Valley state University May again be proposed. A in Rhode Island officials seek an 18 percent increase in funding but May face a 15 percent decrease if the state finds no additional revenues. A prospects in Oklahoma Are rated fairly Good for some increases in Aid. Last year the state provided a $27 million a one time boost. A South Carolina is Likely to get Only a Small budget increase despite school officials request for 42.6 percent More. But gov. Carroll a. Campbelljr. Supports the buying of a supercomputer for use by colleges. San Diego gets Premium seats for rare ring of fire eclipse a surfer near Cardiff by the sea calif., 25 Miles North of san Diego is silhouetted against the eclipse. By Lee Siegel a science writer los Angeles a the Moon crossed in front of the setting Sun saturday to create a rare a bring of fire solar eclipse that thrilled san Diego sky watchers. Clouds blocked the View however for countless other observers. A it looked like god was putting out a fire in the Ocean a said Rico Pedersen a san Diego Retiree who joined thousands of people on the City a Mission Beach. A the eclipsed Sun Sank slowly into the  the crowd applauded As the Moon moved directly in front of the Sun creating a yellow red ring of Sunshine around the Moons dark disk. The Sun which was 82 percent eclipsed appeared to be surrounded by a Green Border and Reddish Sparks of Light. Spectators in Japan Seattle and Reno nev., saw a More conventional partial eclipse in which the Moon appeared to take a bite out of the Sun. The partial eclipse was supposed to be seen at Sunset from the Rockies and Points to the West. But Clouds thwarted observers in most areas. Hawaiians saw a partial eclipse during mid afternoon. But Clouds obscured views from Northeast Australia and the Southern Philippines where the eclipse happened at Sunrise sunday. The ring eclipse was visible from Dana Point calif., and some other parts of Orange county North of san Diego. But in los Angeles about 100 Miles to the Northwest Clouds ruined the View for millions of would be observers. A it is completely socked in a said astronomer Edwin Krupp director of los Angeles Griffith Observatory where he estimated 10,000 disappointed sky watchers gathered. A it was As if there were no eclipse at  total eclipses like last july a in Hawaii and Mexico happen when the Moon completely blocks the Sun. The Moon also moves directly in front of the Sun during annular or a bring of fire eclipses. But a ring of sunlight shines around the lunar disk because the Moon is farther from Earth in its elliptical orbit around the Plant and the Earth is closer to the Sun in its orbit around the Sun. Annular eclipses happen at Sunset every two or three years somewhere on Earth but Only once every 20,000 years or so at any specific location. The Moons Shadow first touched Earth at Sunrise sunday West of the International dateline where observers in Japan saw about one third of the Sun eclipsed before the sky grew Cloudy. In Honolulu some 2,000 people gathered outside the Bishop museum to watch the Moon eclipse More than half the Sun during mid afternoon saturday. The partial eclipse was the brightest part of an otherwise wet overcast Day in Seattle. Were it not for Clouds the ring eclipse would have been seen from Southern Ventura county through los Angeles and san Diego to Ensenada Mexico. The path of the ring eclipse stretched from the Pacific several Hundred Miles East of the Philippines through several Island groups in Micronesia then across the International Date line and eastward to Southern California. Buchanan integration memo uncovered Boston apr while serving As a White House aide Patrick Buchanan suggested in a 1971 memo that efforts to integrate american society May result in a perpetual friction a the Boston Globe reported saturday. Problems could arise a was the incapable Are played consciously by government Side by Side with the capable a Buchanan wrote in the memo the Globe said. Buchanan is mounting a conservative Challenge to president Bush for the Republican nomination. The newspaper said it searched Richard Nixon a presidential papers to find position papers written by Buchanan on racial issues during the six years he worked As a special assistant to Nixon. The paper quoted Buchanan As saying in an interview Friday that he does not believe Blacks Are inferior to Whites and did not think so at the time. A no that is nonsense a Buchanan told the Globe. He said he sent the memo to Nixon to Call the presidents attention to an ongoing political controversy. The memo discussed a 1971 Magazine article that argued that government Antipoverty programs and enriched education would not result in a More equitable society because genetically advantaged people would Rise to the top. A basically it demonstrates that heredity rather than environment determines intelligence a and that the More we proceed to provide everyone with a a Good environment a surely the More heredity will become the dominant Factor a in their intelligence and thus in their Success and social standing a Buchanan said in the memo. As a result he wrote integration a of Blacks and Whites a but even More so poor and Well to do is less Likely to result in accommodation than it is in perpetual  officer shot in police station gun Battle los Angeles up a los angles policeman was shot in the head and critically wounded during a gun Battle saturday Between officers and a Man to opened fire on his wife As she tried enter a South los Angeles police Sta on authorities said. The officer George Rose in his 30s, As in a extremely critical condition at county us medical Center suffering of a gunshot wound to the head said Ospital spokeswoman Adelaida de la a Erda. The wounded officer was found lying in the parking lot at the Southwest division station in South los Angeles shortly after the shooting erupted about 2 50 p.m., police said. The shooting incident began during a change of shift As several officers stood in the parking lot next to the station said it. William Hall who Heads the departments officer involved shooting investigation team. A woman who apparently had been involved in a Domestic dispute was being dropped off at the station by a Friend Hall said. As the woman got out of the friends car and went toward the stations front door her husband drove up pointed a handgun out his car window and began firing at her Hall said. Officers in the parking lot fired at the gunman he said. Neither the woman nor her husband was hit by the bullets. The gunman sped away and officers then found Rose in the parking lot.$73.50 receipt signed in 1853 by Lincoln Decatur 111. A researchers rummaging through old court records stored in a former jail found a receipt for $13.50 signed by Abraham Lincoln. The discovery is significant because it gives historians information about Lincoln a daily activities said David Blanchette a spokesman for the Illinois historic preservation Agency. A it tells us that Lincoln handled All types of cases a Blanchette said. The receipt reads a received feb. 12th, 1853, of Thomas h. Read administrator of . Dewees deceased by enclosure of Warner w. Oglesby thirteen dollars and fifty cents in full of my claim against said estate. A.  John Lupton and Mike Duncan researchers for the Lincoln Legal papers project found the document thursday at the old Macon county jail