European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes Friday february 21, 1992 Man s roots traced to2.4 million years ago Yale professor Andrew Hill holds a casting of the earliest known Fossil from a human ancestor in his left hand and a Skull of modern Man in his  frees members to Back any candidate bal Harbour Fla. A a divided Al Cio on wednesday deferred making a democratic presidential endorsement and meanwhile freed its 89 individual member unions to Back any candidate they like. A if during the primary season a consensus emerges the Al Cio May still make an endorsement Quot said Lane Kirkland president of the 14.2-million Strong federation. A we will review the situation from time to time As circumstances develop. A for now affiliated International unions will work for the candidate of their Choice Quot he added. The federations policy had been to ban member unions from endorsing until the Overall Al Cio did. But some politically Active unions were anxious to go their own Way even though some Union leaders feared this would diminish the federations political clout. A to the contrary it enhances it Quot said Kirkland adding that the Only other Choice was to Force the member unions to remain Neutral. A that would not serve the interests of the country a working people a he said. Kirkland said it was Likely the endorsement Issue  be assessed again until after the March 10th super tuesday primaries. He said the federations wait and see approach was based solely on differing and undecided views among Union members not As a stalling tactic to wait for other candidates to enter the race. The move comes in the Wake of a new Hampshire primary Victory by former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas who has Little labor support and is viewed by Many Union leaders As unelectable. Most of the old line Industrial unions including the United Auto workers United mine workers and the machinists Union Are supporting Liberal Iowa sen. Tom Harkin who finished fourth in new Hampshire. Two Large service unions a the american federation of state county and municipal employees and the american federation of teachers a Back Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton runner up in new Hampshire and the Early favorite in upcoming Southern primaries. The teamsters Union the federations largest member Union with 1.6 million members has not yet stated a preference. In order for the Al Cio to make a full fledged endorsement a consensus must be reached by two thirds of its 89 member unions. Ban on logging extended in owl Protection lawsuit japanese educator slain on Boston business trip new York apr scientists who Analysed a scrap of Skull Bone say humans immediate ancestors arrived on the scene 2,4 million years ago a about 500,000 years earlier than other fossils suggest. Scientists had Long thought that Stone tools dated around 2.4 million to 2.6 million years old were made by a member of the evolutionary group Homo but they did no to have evidence. The oldest fossils firmly attributed to Homo were about 1.9 million years old. A now Homo is available to have made the first known Stone tools a said study co author Andrew Hill. The tools were found in Ethiopia. Hill a Yale University anthropologist reports the analysis in thursdays Issue of the journal nature. Also contributing to the research were Steven Ward of the northeastern Ohio universities College of Medicine in Rootstown and Alan Deino and colleagues at the geochronology Center of the Institute of human origins in Berkeley Calif. They studied a Fossil unearthed about 25 years ago in Kenya a 3-Inch Bone fragment that included the Hole for the right ear and the part that met the lower jaw. When the find was reported researchers said they did not know whether it came from Homo or from related creatures called . The Homo evolutionary group includes the extinct Homo Kabilis and Homo Erec Tus As Well As people called Homo Sapiens. The new analysis used comparisons to skulls from Homo and  that had been discovered since the Fossil was unearthed Hill said in a Telephone interview. Researchers cited two features characteristic of Homo. One indicated that part of the creatures brain was directly Over the jaw joint whereas in  the brain did not extend out that far. The other characteristic was the Sharp Angle of a Ridge of Bone called the Petrous Crest on the inside of the Skull. The Fossil had too Little information to be assigned to a particular member of Homo Hil said. The age of 2.4 million years was determined from analysing rocks from the site where the Fossil was found. Bernard Wood of the University of Liverpool who wrote a nature editorial on the study said that he believed the Fossil was Homo but that the conclusion must be considered tentative. Wood said other Fossil remains had previously been proposed As coming from Homo at dates older than 2 million years but that the supporting evidence was ambiguous. Hill said the new finding lends support to a hypothesis that a global Cooling about 2.4 million years ago playe a role in the appearance of Homo. Boston apr a japanese University president who came to Boston to celebrate a sister school agreement with a local College was shot and killed in his hotel room. Iwao Matsuda president of Chokyo University in Nagoya Japan was shot tuesday night in his 16th-foor room at the fashionable Westin hotel. His school and the University of Massachusetts Boston were to formally Seal their Friendship wednesday. Police superintendent Joseph Saia said wednesday that police had no suspects and no clues As to motive. Nothing was taken from the room he said. Saia said Matsuda a wife told investigators she answered the door of their 16th-floor room about 6 . To find a masked Man forcing his Way in. She told police there was a struggle and she ran out of the hotel room and began frantically knocking on doors for help. The woman heard one gunshot Saia said. While she screamed for help in the hallway police said Matsuda was shot once in the lower Back. Matsuda 72, an acclaimed sports psychologist and former College track Star was pronounced dead less than an hour after he was shot. Police said nothing appeared stolen from his room and they knew of no motive for the killing. Matsuda a wife told police the attacker wore Bandanna As a mask. Toshiki Saito head of economic affairs at the japanese consulate in Boston said he hoped the killing  aggravate relations Between Japan and the United states. A this is very sad a Saito said a but i think we should try harder to establish relations Between the two  the sister school agreement Between Chokyo and the Boston school involved exchanging students and faculty and possibly working together on research. The ceremonial signing of the final agreement was cancelled. A my Hope is that at some Point in the future we will be Able to move Forward on this relationship a mass Boston Chancellor Sherry Penney said. A however now is the time for grieving and for paying our respects to a teacher and scholar who believed so very much in International  Brian Winston the Westing a marketing director said the mat Sudask room had a Standard Doorknob lock that opens with one turn of the key. He said three plainclothes Security guards carrying keys and Walkie talkies were roaming the hotel at the time. A fall hotels Are Public buildings a Winston said. A obviously if we notice suspicious characters. We have Security people ask them  Matsuda joined Chokyo in 1985 As a sports psychology professor and became president of the 11,500-student University in 1988. Ban on logging extended in owl Protection lawsuit Portland Ore. A a Federal judge issued a preliminary injunction wednesday blocking All logging in old growth forests on . Bureau of land management property because of danger to the Northern spotted owls habitat. . District judge Helen Frye issued the injunction in a Long standing lawsuit by several environmental groups. Frye earlier had issued a temporary restraining order halting the logging. The new order will remain in effect until she rules on the merits of the Case this Spring. She gave the plaintiffs and the blk until next Friday to file a motion for summary judgment. In a 17-Page opinion that accompanied the order Frye cited a ruling last year by . District judge William Dwyer that halted old growth logging on National Forest land for the same reason. A this court is bound by the Laws of Congress and judicial precedent a Frye wrote. The preliminary injunction will Block 26 Timber sales awarded by the Bureau since dec. 31, and 23 sales scheduled to be offered this month and in March fryers opinion said. A this injunction is a Nail in the coffin of the economies of Western Oregon a said Ralph Saperstein vice president of the Northwest forestry association. A ten thousand jobs Are at stake As a result of this  blk spokesman de Ciliberti said the injunction will Stop nearly All of his Agency a Timber sales this year. A the Burden of this injunction will fall on the forestry workers who have relied in Good Faith on the Federal obligation under the Law to provide a source of Supply for Timber dependent communities a he said. Vic Sher attorney for the Sierra club Legal defense fund said the bureaus Lack of cooperation in sharing information regarding the environmental Impact of renewed logging on the owls helped bring the latest order. A the decision to Stonewall on this Issue for the last five years is what a brought blk to this situation now Quot Sher said. A it has no one to blame but