European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 12, 1992the stars and stripes a Page 9bad sibling one option Dodds says High school students May also attend International schools in Munich Salzburg by the stars and stripes High school students in Garmisch and Berchtesgaden in Southern Germany May attend International schools instead of a department of defense dependents schools facility in bad sibling next year an education official said. Fred Killian superintendent of the overseas school systems Stuttgart District said there was a misunderstanding about a recent decision to open the High school in bad sibling. He said that sending the children to bad sibling is an option for parents not a directive from Dodds. Parents in Garmisch and Berchtesgaden had reacted angrily to news that High school students in the two Southeastern Germany military communities would have to attend school in bad sibling which parents say requires nearly two hours of travel from their Homes each Way. Fred Drath chief of executive services for the Germany Region schools said monday that he and Killian planned to meet with officials from Munich International school today to discuss enrolling High school aged students from Garmisch for the 1992-93 school year. An official with the Munich International school said last week that no one from Dodds had called to inquire about enrolling students. She said the school has 250 slots for grades nine through 12 and that 247 of them Are filled this school year. She did not have figures for the next school year. Drath said he was confident that the Munich school would Reserve slots for All the american families in Garmisch who want to enrol their High school aged children. Parents in Garmisch now Send their children to Munich High school but that school will close in june. The parents say they want to Send their children to the Munich International school next fall. Some in Berchtesgaden Send their children to the International school in Salzburg Austria and want their children to remain there. Parents in Garmisch say that it takes about 90 minutes for students to travel from their Homes to school in Munich and that the trip to bad sibling will take an other half hour of travel time. But there Are other concerns too. Susan Carver a Garmisch Parent whose son Aaron would attend the new school said it is unsafe and too strenuous to Send students so far to school. Other parents noted that the roads from Garmisch to bad sibling Are especially hazardous in Winter. While the trip to school in Munich occurs mainly on the autobahn the trip to bad sibling would involve winding secondary roads. A we need to educate Dodds. I done to think they understand the situation a said Ziad Chebaro who has a son in High school. Killian said the decision to expand the bad sibling school facility which now has elementary school and Middle school was made before the news of Munich a closing. As far Back As 1990, school officials decided to add grades nine and 10 to bad sibling. After the decision about Munich school officials decided to add grades 11 and 12, As Well he said. Killian had said recently that the distance from Garmisch and bad sibling can be travelled in one hour and 20 minutes. That figure was disputed by parents. Master sgt. Alan Carver drove a 26-passenger bus along the route. His wife said the journey took one hour and 55 minutes going to bad sibling and two hours and six minutes on the return trip. A Dodds official admitted last week that the travel time is excessive. Frank of Gara said that two Dodds transportation officials drove the route and found the time required a in excess of what we can  a we found that under the Best of conditions it took an hour and a half and that a too  he said the school system was considering allowing students to enrol at the International schools in Munich and Salzburg because of the travel time to bad sibling. Tuition per High school student at the Munich inter Nional school is 16,200 German Marks about $10,000. If Dodds approves sending students to an International school As it does in other communities in Europe it will pick up the Tab. A amps Susan Harris Susan Carver said she understands that Dodds officials might be reluctant to spend that amount especially in a time of draw Down for the 25 High school students in Garmisch. A i can understand that. I really can a said Carver who works in the accounting office for the armed forces recreation Center in Garmisch. A however sending my children two hours one Way to school is not the  Chebaro the armed forces recreation centers financial manager suggested that school officials consider opening a nigh school in Garmisch which has an elementary school and Middle school. A Garmisch is growing a he said. The closure of the Munich military Community will bring a foreign language school to Garmisch along with employees who have High school aged children Chebaro said. But Joseph Blackstead director for Germany Region schools said a the existing facility in Garmisch Isnit adequate. But the one in bad sibling is ready to be occupied almost  Noel Tillman bad sibling school principal said that a no Corners will be Cut in building a science lab this summer to accommodate biology chemistry and physics. He said an Art studio also is being built. The school he said will have a single administration for All 12 grades. Some schools have separate administrations for elementary and High school  counting on skills at Washington Competition Washington four eighth graders from Germany schools will represent the department of defense dependents schools on Friday in an annual National math Competition Here. Noah Carlson of Wei Brincken High school Dennis Chatham of Wiesbaden Middle school Thomas Mcqueen of Heidelberg Middle school and James Brokaw of bad sibling elementary will represent Dodds at the mat counts Competition. Jacqueline Mckeon a math teacher at Heidelberg Middle school is coaching the Dodds participants. The pupils will compete against others from each of the 50 states the District of Columbia Guam puerto Rico the Virgin islands and state department schools overseas. Participants will be tested in written and Oral categories and asked to solve problems in arithmetic geometry probability and logic. The Winner will receive an $8,000 scholarship and a personal computer. Second and third place winners will receive $6,000 and $4,000 scholarships respectively. The Competition is sponsored by the National society of professional engineers the Cna insurance companies general motors corp., the National Council of teachers of mathematics Nasa and the Cray research . Korea seeks parity in nuclear inspections Tokyo up a North Korea has indicated it wont allow inspections by the International atomic Energy Agency unless the United states opens its bases in South Korea to similar probes. A nuclear inspection in the korean Peninsula must be a simultaneous inspection with the Overall inspection of the . Nuclear weapons and bases in South Korea As the main a a spokesman for North koreans foreign ministry said in a statement reported monday by the official korean Central news Agency. North koreans parliament the supreme Peoples Assembly ratified a nuclear safeguards Accord april 9 that paved the Way for inspections after the United states Japan and South Korea made such probes a condition for improved relations. Some observers say the stalinist country desperately needs an infusion of hard currency. Japan and the West allege North Korea is close to developing nuclear weapons at Yon Byon 56 Miles North of Pyongyang. North Korea denies that saying the facilities there Are intended for peaceful purposes. But it has acknowledged studying the nuclear reprocessing Cycle that produces weapons Grade plutonium. Despite assurances from South korean president Roh Tae woo last year that his country was free of . Nuclear weapons North Korea has expressed doubts. The United states said it would not make detailed comments on nuclear  s scientists keep an open mind on ufos Beijing up a chinese scientists Are meeting Lis week to explore the latest mysteries of unidentified Ying objects including reports of sightings and Abdul on and claims that mystics Are in Contact with life on ther planets. The nearly 200 researchers from around the country re in Beijing at a conference sponsored by the China Ifo research society which coordinates studies of is die which in chinese Means a flying  the society known by its English acronym curo is engaged in research that ranges from pure science to ays of speaking to aliens without the High tech gadgets used by Western researchers. A one of our important missions is to establish a Way for people on Earth to communicate with other planets without resorting to modern communications methods a said Wang changing the research society a director. Nearly 5,000 ufos Type sightings have been reported in China since the late 1970s, with All but around 200 discounted As natural or Man made objects such As weather phen Onema and aircraft. The unsolved cases include sightings of floating basketballs Orange lighted Wash basins and flying Straw hats. Around 40 of those Are the a close encounters variety with reports of Contact or kidnappings by vaguely described extraterrestrials. In one Case a teacher in Eastern Tianjin reported seeing a shimmering Ball overhead As he bicycled around a Park at night. He lost consciousness and awoke the next morning at the Park Gate to find the time on his watch an hour behind the actual time. A month later he suddenly recalled having been abducted onto a strange Craft by two Short beings in unidentifiable spacesuits. Along with those reports and research into related topics such As atmospheric Phenomena some of the 3,500 curo members nationwide Are studying claims by chinese mystics that they can locate ufos or communicate with aliens