European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 13, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5group urges environmental revolution by Sam Fulwood Iii the los Angeles times Washington a the world will degrade into a virtually uninhabitable sphere littered with a economic decline and social instability unless a global environmental cleanup Effort is undertaken soon said a report issued saturday by the research group world watch Institute. The groups annual a state of the world report urges individuals corporations and governments worldwide to fashion a an environmental revolution on the order of the earlier Industrial and agricultural revolutions. A the Issue is not our survival As a species but rather the survival of civilization As we know it a Lester r. Brown president of world watch said in the report. A but if the environmental revolution is to succeed it must be compressed into a few decades. It will need the support of far More people than it now has a the report said. The study a state of the world 1992,�?� said the global environments future depends on a dramatic change in lifestyles. For instance the report Calls for people around the world to lobby their governments for a a National ban on the use of throwaway beverage containers the creation of a bicycle Friendly local transportation system Andl the adoption of a National population stabilization  the group said the worlds future depends on a shift to i he policy decisions we make in the years ahead will determine whether our children live in a world of development or decline world watch Institute smaller families to reassert a balance Between population and the natural systems on which it depends. The study notes that the world population grows by about 92 million people each year. But according to Fig ures from the . Department of agriculture the amount of Grain available per person has been declining since 1984, especially in poor countries where Grain is a major food. A the decline in living conditions that was once predicted by some ecologists from the combination of continuing rapid population growth spreading environmental degradation and rising external debt has become a reality for one sixth of humanity a Brown said. A muddling through will not work a the report concludes. A either we turn things around quickly or the self reinforcing internal dynamic of the deterioration and de Cline scenario will take Over. The policy decisions we make in the years ahead will determine whether our children live in a world of development or  world watch is a private environmental research organization supported by foundations and the . Population fund. The group issued its first a state of the world report in 1984. The report issued saturday called for Radical restructuring of worldwide economic systems citing a world Bank calculation that average income during the 1980s declined in More than 40 third world countries with a combined population of 800 million people. In the stars and stripes10 years ago Jan. 13,1982 a Poland and the soviet Union accused the Western allies of Quot grossly interfering Quot in the internal affairs of a Sovereign state by criticizing martial Law in Poland and rejected natos condemnation issued earlier in the week.20 years ago Jan. 13,1972 the . 8th circuit court of appeals found that Dixie is a Quot typical american song with a Gay and Catchy tune and is not racially abusive. The court made the observation in upholding the suspension of 29 Black pupils who walked out of a Pep rally at an Arkansas High school when Dixie was played.30 years ago Jan. 13,1962 a some 9,000 electricians in new York went on strike to Back their demand for a 20-hour work week. The electricians have had a 30-hour work week since 1934. 40years ago Jan. 13,1952 a in what appeared to be a Radical switch in policy the soviet Union proposed that a ban on the atomic bomb go into affect simultaneously with launching a strict . Control system. They agreed that inspections to insure compliance should be set up on a continuing basis. World War ii50 years ago today 13 Jan,1�?�942 German a boats find the . East coast is almost a shooting gallery with ships sailing at night with lights on lighthouses working As Normal radio messages made without codes and few . Warships on patrol. On the soviet front the soviets Widen the bulge driven Between Germany s 2nd and 4th Panzer groups. In London the allies announce Axis War criminals will be punished. Swaggart s viewer ratings plummet after second scandal involving sex from wire reports Baton Rouge la. A nearly two thirds of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart a National television audience deserted him after publicity Over his involvement with a California prostitute in october according to statistics released saturday. Swaggart held 403,000 households and 93 television markets in july 1991, but plummeted to 143,000 households and 30 markets in november according to Arbi tron a firm that measures viewer ratings. Officials of the worldwide Jimmy Swaggart ministries were unavailable for immediate comment. Police in Indio calif., stopped Swaggart on oct. 11 while he was driving erratically according to reports. He passed a Field sobriety test. He was accompanied by Rosemary Garcia 31, a known prostitute who said Swaggart a asked me for  Swaggart had resigned in disgrace from the nations largest pentecostal denomination the assemblies of god following revelations in 1988 that he had a series of sexual encounters with a suburban new Orleans a prostitute. Swaggart a syndicated religious show was no. 7 in Arbitron ratings in july 1991, but Only no. 17 in november 1991, after the second sex scandal. The evangelists show was no. 1 in several ratings periods and Drew audiences of 2.1 million households weekly for several years until 1988, the first time Swaggart a name was linked with a prostitute. Swaggart a ministry has undergone a rapid downsizing since october 1991, with hundreds Laid off and millions of dollars in land and other assets put up for Sale. The name of Jimmy Swaggart Bible College officially changed to world evangelism Bible College. Swaggart has continued to preach although be has surrendered control of the ministries to his son Donnie. In Washington meanwhile the internal Revenue service using the Jimmy Swaggart ministries As an example served notice on tax exempt organizations Friday to stay out of partisan politics. The Swaggart organization based in Baton Rouge la., accepted an irs find ing that it had violated the rules of its tax exempt status by endorsing Pat Robertson for president in 1988. To prevent a recurrence the ministry agreed to change its organizational Structure and create a special compliance committee. As part of the agreement with the irs the organization promised a under no circumstances will any of Jsmes resources including financial resources personnel or facilities be uti Swaggart lived to participate or intervene in a political  the irs could have revoked the ministry a tax exemption because of the violation. A but our goal is not to put folks out of business a Mark Owens of the Irsos exempt organizations division said Friday. Same sex Pat Down ruling reversed san Francisco a male guards at a Washington prison May resume a Pat Down searches of female inmates although some psychologists had said the practice could traumatize women who had been abused by men a Federal court has ruled. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals in a 2-1 ruling Friday said the searches were legitimate Security measures that a do not violate evolving standards of  under the ruling the Washington corrections Center for Cornea at gig Harbor can resume Cross gender Pat Downs halted by a Federal judge a few hours after they were instituted in july 1989. The Pat Downs May be uncomfortable or unpleasant for some inmates but they do not violate constitutional standards for searches or punishment and Are within a prison management a authority said the opinion by chief judge j. Clifford Wallace. Wallace noted that the prisoners were to remain clothed that the guards were trained to search in the least threatening Way and prison guidelines specified a Contact with the breasts and Crotch is Brief and  courts already permit female guards to Pat Down male prisoners he said. He dismissed lower court findings of Likely psychological harm to women inmates As speculative disputed and insufficient to outweigh Security concerns. Writing in dissent judge Diarmuid Oscannlain defended the psychological findings of experts who said some women who had been brutalized by men would suffer greatly if male guards searched them. He also disputed Quot Pat Down As a Misnomer. The searches May last up to a minute and guards were directed to push upward and inward on the inmates Crotch and upper thighs Oscannlain said. Saint statue stolen on Christmas is found source 2194 Days of War w h Smitn App of Fishers inc. World almanac Book of world Ivor ii. Son books clip1981 new York a a Marble statue of St. Bernadette stolen from a Church on Christmas was found saturday wrapped in a Blanket on the Side of a Highway. St. Edmund a roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn Learned about the discovery from the Man who found it said the Rev. Robert Romano. A the was looking for cans along the Highway and saw something covered by the Blanket lifted it up and saw the statue and called a Romano said. The priest called police who recovered the statue. Quot except for two thumbs that Are broken it is in pretty Good shape considering that it is 53 years old a Romano said. The 3-foot-High, kneeling statue of St. Bernadette who is believed to have had several apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1858 in Lourdes France is Worth a in the area of $5,000 to $10,000,�?� the pastor said. Police done to believe there is any connection Between the statue theft and the theft of the so called a sweeping icon of St. Irene which was stolen from a greek orthodox Church in Queens two Days before Christmas. The icon was returned by mail on dec. 28 without its Diamond studded Gold Frame. With the Frame it had been valued at $800,000. The icon gained worldwide notice when some parishioners claimed they saw the portrait weeping a tears of grief at the Onuf the persian Gulf War