European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday february 20, 1992u.n. Opens talks on global warming United nations a delegates from More than 100 nations met tuesday to Start discussing a treaty on global warming with the United states opposed to a specific timetable on controlling damaging emissions. The delegates will draft a convention on climate change that after further consideration in april is to be signed at the . Conference on environment and development in Rio do Janeiro Brazil in june. The two weeks of talks at the United nations in new York will be crucial in establishing whether the treaty will merely express a desire to reduce global warming airline tests ways to spot wind shears Denver apr Continental airlines is testing four systems designed to give pilots up to 90-second warnings that they Are heading toward wind shears an executive said tuesday. Continental plans to decide by june which system to install on All its aircraft said Ray Valeika a senior vice president. At a news conference Valeika described wind shears sudden downward shifts in winds As air a insidious  the Federal aviation administration has required that All aircraft be equipped by dec. 30, 1993, with systems that let pilots know they Are in wind shears. C Continental is among airlines asking for an Extension of that deadline to explore systems that predict wind shears. Three of the systems Continental has installed use pulsed doppler radar the colourful imaging used by Many weather forecasters. The systems measure the Speed of moisture and other airborne particles to determine wind Speed. The fourth system Continental is testing uses infrared technology which senses heat. Capt. Sam Shirck a Continental Pilot said a 10-second warning of a wire to Shear would give pilots enough time to avoid it. A if we could achieve 20 seconds wed be Happy a he added. Research began after wind shears were blamed for the crash of an Eastern flight at new Yorkus Kennedy International Airport in 1975 that killed More than 100 people. Or establish Concrete measures deadlines and requirements. A we will have a convention but the question is whether it will be general or will there be specific commitments a said Michael Zammit Cutajar the . Official overseeing the conference. The . Government is at Odds with the european Community Japan and Many other nations that favor targets on reducing emissions that cause global warming. The Bush administration argues that each nation should be free to take whatever Steps it considers necessary to reduce gases linked to the so called Green House effect. It contends there is no consensus among scientists about the problem. But most scientists now agree global warming is a potentially serious problem. I he administration also says measures to control Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of Fossil fuels would be too expensive and might be impossible to put into effect. Many scientists have argued that Energy conservation measures and other Steps could reduce global warming relatively cheaply. The panel was established jointly by the . Environment program and the world meteorological or to animation in 1988.cents of compassion common cents founder Teddy Gross a new York playwright the common cents project a year ago. Already the Money has and his 5-year-old daughter Nora Are sitting pretty As they paid for 50,000 meals prepared by soup kitchens and food vans show off bags containing More than 1 million pennies collected three weeks of summer Camp for 71 homeless youngsters Hun to help homeless people. Some 30,000 new yorkers have do dress of blankets Coats and sets of Thermal underwear and rated More than $103,000 in Loose change since Gross started recreation programs in family  sending 2,000 thank yous Norristown a. A sending out thank you notes even 2,000 of them is not just a matter of etiquette for Joseph Cicippio a family. Its gratitude. The family is mailing letters to people who showered them with cards letters yellow ribbons baskets erf food and even Christmas tree ornaments during Cicippio s five years As a hostage in Lebanon and after his release in december. Quot so Many people have written us in support of the family a said Cicippio a brother Thomas. A we tried to answer Many of the letters but we wanted to acknowledge All of  so Joseph and Thomas Cicippio Are signing 2,000 copies of a letter thanking people for the Quot expressions of kindness and Many  Thomas Cilip Pion a daughter Judi Siuta has been stuffing addressing sealing and stamping the envelopes. A local printing company donated the paper and printing. But the Cicippio Are paying $580 for postage. When Joseph Cicippio was kidnapped by shiite muslims in Beirut on sept. 12, 1986, Thomas Cicippio became the one to whom cards letters and Flowers were sent. He and his Wile i ran stored every thing in boxes a and boxes a Tor the Day Joseph Cicippio would come Home. Boy scouts uphold ban on Gays san Francisco up facing the possible loss of up to $1 million in funding boy scouts of America leaders refused to Budge tuesday on the organizations hard line stand against allowing homosexuals in the youth group. Buford Hill the Bsat a Western regional director said the organization was not going to be intimidated into change by the threat of a loss of funds from the Bay area United Way. The latter organization has been reviewing its financial commitment to the scouts. Quot the recommendations being made by the United Way of the Bay area would Force scouting to walk away from More than eight decades of Good work and solid values upon which the Bra has been built a Hill said. Quot we will not allow that to happen. Our values and principles Are not up for  the recommendations contained in a United Way task Force report that has yet to be made Public gave the boy scouts two options a first the Bra could review consider and change its position of disallowing Gays to be members or leaders. A if that position were not possible then the six local Bra councils should be Given an exemption from the National Bra bylaw on a Pilot basis to adopt a local policy that allows homosexuals in the Bay area to become members or  two boy scout troops one in san Jose and another in Berkeley already have risked sanctions trom the National Bra governing body by refusing to implement the ban. A group of Gay scouts and former scouts a called the forgotten scouts a also have targeted the National body. Quot a change is difficult a said Ken Mcpherson forgotten scouts co founder. A we recognized that from the beginning. United Way finds itself in a difficult position but the position they officials of the United Way appear to be ready to take shows a great Deal of understanding and its a Clear step  the Bay area United ways Board of directors was to decide today whether to make the recommendations official. Hill noted that the potential Impact of the task Force report on the Bay area Community is significant. Nearly 100,00ft Bay area youths participate in boy scouts of America programs. However we cannot allow the Mission of the Bra to be changed by the United Way of the Bay area in san Francisco a Hill said. A we Hope it is not the intent of the United Way of the Bay area to ask the Bra to negotiate on the values principles and standards that we hold dear. We consider ourselves partners with them in serving the youth of  the Bay area United Way included the boy scout in its Campaign for fiscal 1992-93. In addition to the $849,345 allocated to the six local councils in 1991-92. The scouts received $326,000 in United Way gifts that donors earmarked for that organization. In calling the task Force report unacceptable Hill said the Bra s National executive Board of directors a composed of volunteers from across the country a voted unanimously last week to reaffirm the Bsat a position forbidding homosexuals As members or leaders. In May 1991, the Superior court in los Angeles upheld the National boy scouts position