European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 22, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5high court to decide census Calefate of . House seat rests with ruling Washington up the supreme court agreed on Friday to decide whether the 1990 census wrongfully included overseas military personnel an Issue that will help determine if Massachusetts loses a House seat and Washington state gains one. The court agreed to an Appeal by the Commerce department to hear the Case on an expedited basis. It set Oral arguments for april 21, with a decision expected by july. It Marks the second House reapportionment Challenge currently before the court. The justices also arc considering a Challenge by Montana to the Complex mathematical method adopted in 1941 for determining the proportion of House seats allowed to each state. A . District court in Massachusetts held that the Constitution and the census act allow military personnel stationed overseas and their dependents to be included in state population totals for apportionment purposes. But it ruled that the governments manner of doing so after the 1990 census was unjustified. The Bush administration contends that the lower court did not even have the right to consider the Issue. But if so it wants the High court to Rule that including the Federal personnel for House apportionment purposes was Legal. The census Bureau in 1990 counted overseas military personnel and their dependents and added them to a state s population based on their a Home of  Massachusetts says the process used to determine a service member a Home of record is flawed not reflecting where Many actually reside when not overseas. The lower court agreed ordering the census Bureau to disregard the 922,810 people it included from overseas. With the overseas personnel Massachusetts was entitled to 10 representatives in the upcoming reapportionment Down from its current 11 representatives determined by the 1980 census. By contrast Washington state would be entitled to nine seats up from its current eight. But if the overseas personnel Are excluded Massachusetts would remain at 11 seats while Washington would remain at eight. The Issue could be further complicated by the outcome of the Montana Case which also implicates Washington state on a different basis. The apportionment not Only will determine the number of congressional seats from each state in the 103rd Congress which sits in january 1993, but it also helps determine the number of electoral votes each state will have in november a presidential election. In 1970, the Commerce department which overseas the census Bureau for the first time included in state populations for reapportionment the a Home of record of overseas military personnel. The decision to do so was spurred by the Vietnam War. In the 1980 census the number of overseas personnel was again taken for total population purposes but was not included for apportionment. The Commerce department had not planned to include it in apportionment numbers for the 435 House scats in its 1990 census either but Strong congressional support prompted it to do so. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago March 22,1982 a fore in reporters fleeing Al Salvador said they believe government troops there have declared Quot open season Quot on journalists and were responsible for the killing of four dutch reporters. 20 years ago March 22,1972 a president Nixon signed legislation launching a coordinated Federal attack on drug addiction and told government bureaucrats to cooperate fully or Quot Heads will  30 years ago March 22,1962 a president Kennedy said that he was gratified by soviet overtures for the peaceful use of space but that the soviet Union and the United states remain divided on nuclear test inspections on Earth. 40 years ago March 22,1952 a Humphrey Bogart the Gin Loving Vagabond in the african Queen and Vivien Leigh the faded Beauty of a Streetcar named desire won the oscars for Best actor and actress. It was Leigh a second Oscar. Her first was in 1939 for her performance As Scarlett o Hara in gone with the wind. Doolittle aircrews chinese rescuers reunite nearly 50 years after raid world War ii 50 years ago today 22 March 1. 9. 4.2 heavy attacks by japanese warplanes Force British and Volunteer american air units to abandon Mage Airfield in Burma leaving British ground forces without support against advancing japanese troops. Chinese soldiers defending Tou goo in Central Burma hold firm against japanese attacks. In Australia japanese planes bomb the. Port of Darwin on the Northern coast. Red Wing Minn. A almost 50 years ago a band of american airmen under col. Jimmy Doolittle staged a daring bomber attack on Tokyo a and then flew on to China where they put their lives in the hands of peasants and workers. On Friday eight of the airmen were reunited with five of their chinese rescuers and got a second Chance to say a thank  a a we be thought about these people for 50 years a said retired it. Col. Frank Kap Peler of Santa Rosa Calif., navigator on one of Doolittle a b-25 bombers. The chinese and americans now in their 70s and 80s, were brought together by artist and history Buff Bryan Moon. He led a 1990 expedition to China to recover parts of the bombers that made the historic raid and met some of the rescuers. Forty two of the 80 airmen who made the raid arc still alive. Doolittle 95, lives in Pebble Beach Calif., and was unable to attend. But he sent a message to be read to the chinese at a reception today. The desperate raid on Japan on april 18, 1942, came four months after the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a time when american morale badly needed a boost. It was depicted two years later in the film thirty seconds Over Tokyo starring Spencer Tracy As Doolittle. Doolittle a 16 fully loaded bombers took off from the Hornet on the historic raid. After the raid the Doolittle raiders were to land at airfields in China that were in Friendly hands. But an Early Takeoff coupled with Strong head winds depleted their gasoline reserves and almost All had to abandon their planes and bail out. Of the 80 airmen three drowned or were killed when they parachuted said Carroll v. Glines who helped Doolittle write his autobiography. Eight landed in japanese held China and were imprisoned a three of those later to be executed As War Crimi Doolittle Raider David Thatcher left greets or. Chen so Cyan. Chen helped Rescue Thatcher Charles Mcclure Center left and Dean Davenport right. Nals and a fourth to die in prison. But Doolittle and 68 others came Down in free China or the soviet far East and eventually made their Way Back to . Forces some with the help of people like Zhao Xiaotao a Fisherman a wife. She attended the reunion and recalled How one of Doolittle a bombers crashed near her Home on the coastal Island of Tan Tou Shan. A that night i saw an air plane flying Low in the sky and then there was a tremendous noise a said Zhao. She helped Rescue and hide co Pilot maj. Griffith Williams Williams Engineer gunner i t. Col. Edward Saylor and two others. A we fled to the mountains. When we came Home we found four airmen hidden in the Pigpen of our Home a Zhao said through an interpreter. A they probably saved our lives a said Williams of Al Cajon Calif. . Intercepts 2 bombers off Alaska source 2194 Days of War. W h Smith pm Shors ice a Anchorage Alaska a air Force f-15s intercepted two Bearg series bombers used by the former soviet air Force off Western Alaska Early Friday. A a it a anyone a guess Why they were in the area a said capt. Monica Aloisio a spokeswoman for the 11th air Force at Elmendorf fab near Anchorage. A a we re calling them russian although its believed they were launched from a base in the  the intercept was made at 2 21 a.m., 538 Miles West of cold Bay the air Force said. The f-15s steered the bombers away from the United states. The bombers never penetrated . Airspace the air Force said. The a series bears Are capable of carrying cruise missiles for use against land and sea targets the air Force said. Such intercepts while routine have become less common since the breakup of the soviet Union said cmdr. Chuck Connor a spokesman at the North american aerospace defense Comdr a Headquarters in Colorado Springs Colo. He said intercepts near Alaska fell from 46 in 1988 to 21 in 1991