European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 8, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 former Missouri governor running for seat in Senate from wire reports Springfield to. Former Missouri gov. John Ashcroft returned to his Hometown sunday to launch his bid for the . Senate scat being vacated by fellow Republican John c. Danforth. Standing on the basketball court where he played As a child the 51-year-old Ashcroft said one theme of his Campaign will be congressional Reform. I believe that we have an Opportunity to change the Way that Congress operates and we need to in order for this country to succeed he said. I m eager for that to  Ashcroft is currently unopposed in the gop primary election in August. He served As governor for two terms from 1984 to 1992. Rubella hits Boston area Boston at least 13 people in the Boston area including a pregnant woman have been diagnosed with German measles in the past 1 i months health officials said. The rare outbreak of rubella has affected mainly inmates and staff of local jails according to the Boston department of health and hospitals. Two homeless people also contracted the disease and two other people were infected by Contact with jail inmates or staff. Rubella is a highly contagious disease that can cause birth defects such As blindness deafness and heart problems if contracted by a pregnant woman. The disease is not generally dangerous to other adults said or. Anita Barry head of the City s communicable disease control program. Its symptoms include a rash on the face or behind the cars swollen Lymph nodes mild fever and headaches. Lawmaker exits Hospital Washington rep. William h. Natcher chairman of the House appropriations committee was released from a Hospital sunday after doctors traced his illness to Medicine he was taking his daughter said. Natcher d-ky., Felt better and planned to return to work today said his daughter Celeste Jirles. His string of More than 18,800 straight floor votes a Point of Pride for Natcher should continue uninterrupted Jirles said. No votes were scheduled monday. He s just Fine and hell be Back at the office tuesday morning As usual Jirles said. Hell be working just As  Natcher 84, returned Home from the Hospital sunday afternoon she said. Sharpton re baptized new York the Rev. Al Sharpton Clad inthe customary White Robe and wearing a White bathing Cap was re baptized sunday changing his religious denomination the same weekend he announced plans to run for the . Senate. A packed House of worshippers at the Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn applauded As Sharpton stepped into the baptismal cubicle above the altar sat Down and was ceremonially dunked backward bythe pastor the Rev. William a. Jones. Have you been to the water the choir , certainly certainly lord the congregation Sang in response. Sharpton along with his wife Kathy and two daughters Dominique 7, and Ashley 6, were among 11 people baptized at the Church. Sharpton had been an ordained pentecostal minister. Veteran news director Dies Golden Valley Minn. Jim Bormann a former Waco radio news director and a founder of the radio and television news directors association died saturday after a Long illness. He was 82. Bormann was news director at Waco from 1951 to 1971, and was president of the Ronda in 1952. Bormann began his news career with the Milwaukee journal in 1935. He later worked in Chicago for United press International and the associated press. After stepping Down As news director in 1971, Bormann stayed on As the station s Community affairs director until his retirement in 1976. Sat to undergo changes in math verbal sections Princeton . A the venerable sat i getting its first major overhaul in two decades. It will allow use of calculators and better test critical thinking skills. But critics say the revisions to the assessment test arc Only cosmetic and do not address what they see As an underlying Bias against women and minorities. It s an attempt to make the sat look like it will measure higher order thinking skills said cinthia .s.chuman, head of the National Center for fair and open testing. You really can t measure higher order thinking skills in questions answered in one minute or less or when students can t show their work or do any thing except choose from preselected  the Scholastic aptitude test first appeared in 1926. It is used by most . Colleges to evaluate potential students. It consists of two sections one measuring ver bal abilities and one measuring mathematical skills. High school students will first see the new version March 19. More than 1 million High school students a year take the sat. The verbal Section will contain fewer Reading Pas sages but the passages will be longer. The test also will include a pair of passages on similar subjects which students will be asked to compare. Students who have memorized Long lists of obscure words will have less Chance to display their knowledge. The new sat won t contain a Section on antonyms. Instead the sat will have More partial sentences that students will have to Complete. In the mathematical Section the biggest change willbe that students can bring along calculators. Unlike the old test the new version will have 10 math questions without multiple Choice answers. Stu dents will be required to calculate their own response. It s really a test requiring students to think Anne Buckley of the College Board said in sunday s editions of the Home news of East Brunswick. Clinton works to Lasso support funds in visit to longhorn state Houston a president Clinton is mixing pol icy and politics on a three Day Southern swing designed to fatten democratic party coffers and promote his new Federal budget. The president was expected to raise $2 million Sun Day night at a glitzy Texas presidential dinner and gala at Houston s Wortham Center the Money to be divided Between the democratic National committee and the Texas state party. A few Hundred guests were paying $10,000 a couple for a Buffet dinner with the president before a larger $l,000-per-couple reception featuring country an Western entertainment by asleep at the wheel. Before the fund raising events Clinton met with hundreds of Young cancer patients at a Houston hotel sitting with several of them on his Lap and answering their questions about what it s like to be president. Sometimes he feels like being just an Ordinary Citi zen he told them. Clinton is trying to build support in politically important Texas where his approval ratings drooped into the 20s last year before rebounding to the 50 percent Range in recent months. The first Stop on Clinton s Agenda sunday was the american cancer society children s party at the four seasons hotel in Houston. On monday the president s focus was to shift from politics to policy. Clinton planned to promote his pro posed $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal 1995 before hous ton business leaders As the spending plan was being unveiled in Washington. The president wants to Cut spending on More than 300 programs to free up Money for such priorities As Job training education and fighting crime. With the latest space shuttle Mission still in Progress Clinton planned a monday afternoon visit to the Johnson space flight Center to tour shuttle training facilities. Ironically the National aeronautics and space administration is among the programs targeted for cutbacks in Clinton s hew budget the administration wants to trim Nasa s spending by $250 million a Small Cut but the first the space Agency has received in 21 years. Today Clinton plans to shift the focus to his health care Reform plan which took major hits from big business last week. The president will speak at a general motors corp. Plant in Shreveport la., hoping to emphasize that the president Clinton gives a lift to 3-year-old Timothy West one of the Young cancer victims Clinton met Sun Day at a Houston hotel. Plan would be Good for business and labor. Owen f. Bieber president of the United Auto work ers was expected to be on hand with pm chief executive officer Jack Smith hooked up via satellite from Detroit. Combining fund raising trips with official presiden tial events is common. It reduces the costs to political organizations of bringing in the president for fund raisers by getting taxpayers to shoulder partial expense. Misfires save police officer foil thugs new York a an off duty police officer caught in a gun Battle with three robbers in a hair Salon got Lucky when one of the robbers put a gun to her head and it misfired twice. Police said officer Arlene Beckles an instructor at the police Academy was getting her hair done sat urday afternoon when three men entered the Salon la Mode in downtown Brooklyn forced the patrons against a Wall and emptied the Cash Register police  Drew her .38-caliber revolver and exchanged shots with the men hitting All three said officer an Drew Mclnnis a police spokesman. She disarmed one Man but another knocks her Down puts a gun to her head and fires Mclnnis said. The gun misfired twice. Two of the men fled. Beckles arrested the third Man with help from transit police sgt. William o Brien who was on a dinner break from the nearby transit authority Headquarters and had spotted the commotion. Suspect Fernando Douglas 25, who had been shot in the face was taken to St. Vincent s Hospital in critical condition. Luis Medina 19, and Eddie Eribeto Lopez 23, were arrested later in emergency rooms where they sought treatment for gunshot wounds. The three face attempted murder robbery and weapons charges