European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 14,1994 at a glance Jeff Gillooly the former husband of figure skater Tonya Harding has entered a prison Boot Camp in Hopes of shaving months off the jail time he received for his involve ment in the beating of handing s rival Nancy Kerrigan. See Story on Page 21. V. Officers to fight four air Force officers signalled tuesday that they will fight charges filed in the Friendly fire Downing of two . Helicopters Over Iraq.  _ page5 prosecutor picks aides the new Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr appointed top aides monday a sign that the investigation is picking up. Page6 " German wounded a Bullet fired from Shore hit a tourist from Hamburg Germany who was of a sightseer boat circling Manhattan. ,.-. ,. Page 7 Quebec elections Quebec voters have taken what could be their first step toward Independence. Page 10 promotion Rule defense department officials who want to hire or promote no disabled White men to a civilian Job at Grade 15 or above must now get approval from an undersecretary of defense. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds. 25-28 comics. 22-24 commentary. 15 crossword i24 faces n1 places. 21 focus 17-20 Horoscope. 28 Jumble. 28 letters. 14 Money matters ,. 16 sports 29-36 to listings 35 weather 13 dislike for school still no. 1 dropout re Washington a More than a Quarter of the girls who drop out of High school cite pregnancy As the reason and nearly 8 percent of male dropouts say it s because they be become parents. But the most common reason for drop Ping out still is a Plain dislike of school the education department said tuesday. In its annual dropout report the department said 381,000 High school Stu dents aged 15 to 24 quit school last year. All told 3.4 million people aged 16 to 24 it percent of the age group Are High school dropouts. Although the 11 percent dropout rate was unchanged from 1992, it has declined since the 1970s, when it ranged from 14 percent to 14.5 percent. Students who were Black or hispanic living in families with Low income or Liv ing in the South or West were less Likely to Complete High school the report s Aid. However the report found an encouraging trend among Black students whose High school graduation rate Rose from 74 percent in 1972 to nearly 84 percent in 1993. Among Whites the graduation rate Rose from 85 percent to 90 percent Over the same period. Hispanics had lower graduation rates than Blacks or Whites. The department said language barriers might contribute to a hispanic dropout rate nearly triple the National figure. Many dropouts say they left school because they were failing or just did t like it education Secretary Richard Riley said. The department followed pupils who were eighth graders in 1988 through their last year of High school in 1992, dropouts cited school related reasons Over other reasons for leaving school but female dropouts were More Likely than male dropouts to report family related reasons the report said. Nearly 43 percent of those who dropped put Between 10th and 12th grades said they did so because they did t like school 38.7 percent said they left because they were failing. Twenty one percent of the girls said they left school because they had become a Parent As did 8 percent of the boys. Shuttle Mission extended by Day space Center Houston a Nasa on tuesday added a 10th Day to discovery s flight so the Crew can perform More experiments to learn about the damaging effects of space shuttle exhaust. The six astronauts had been dimming the lights and even using flashlights whenever possible to conserve enough Power for the extra Day. Their efforts paid off. Good Job Mission control told the Crew in a written message. The flight will now end next monday tuesday s other highlight for the Crew was the planned release of a $14 million Sun gazing satellite named spartan. It s a Good Day to deploy a spartan and to continue our re search on the Earth s Environ ment Mission control said. Spartan has two telescopes that will focus on the Sun s Corona or outer atmosphere. The astronauts will retrieve the satellite thursday for the trip Home. Crime Stephen Sposato Cente whose wife was killed when a gunman invaded a san Francisco Law firm and Marc Klaas right whose Daugh Ter Polly was kidnapped and killed watch president Clinton sign the crime Bill tuesday. From Pagel  authorizes thousands of new state and local prison cells life sentences for some three time violent felons and a ban on 19 types of assault style firearms the ceremony was delayed about 20 minutes As May ors police chiefs and others on the guest list of about 2,000 jammed beside reporters waiting to be cleared. Sitting beside first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were survivors of some crime victims Stephen Sposato whose wife was killed when a gunman invaded the san Francisco Law firm where Shewa working.  Marc Klaas whose daughter Polly was kidnapped and killed last year in California. Both lobbied strongly for the Bill Sposato focusing on the ban on assault style firearms and Klaas on put Ting third time felons in prison for life. A career Crimi Nal is awaiting trial in that Case. Clinton signed the Bill with several pens and handed the first two to Sposato and Klaas. But he told his audience that even this great Law. Cannot do the Job alone. By its own words it is still a Law. It must be implemented by you. And it must be supplemented by  Clinton said that in the coming months he and vice president Al Gore would hold forums on crime around venation. Gore singled out for Praise the republicans in the House who worked out a Compromise when the Bill was blocked by a procedural move Early last month. And he praised the Republican senators who bucked their party leaders to allow the Bill to overcome a different procedural Block  uninvited to the ceremony were critics of the Bill including Senate minority Leader Bob Dole,kan., who has vowed to take revenge at the ballot Box in november saying the gop would Call attention to All the ludicrous ridiculous items in this  crash from Page 1 two scat Cessna 150 sneaked up on stunned White House guards with Only moment s notice. Senior administration officials did not publicly find immediate fault with these purity system or secret service agents but pointedly failed to guarantee that current procedures Are adequate to pre vent a similar incident. Apparently Una a de by the Security breach president Clinton jogged tues Day morning on one of his usual routes along the Potomac River. Later tuesday he. Was asked by a re Porter if he Felt Safe in the White House yes Clinton said. At the time of the crash Clinton and his family were staying at a government guest House across Pennsylvania Avenue because of White House repairs. Clinton worked monday in the Oval office and the family returned Home As scheduled after work. As the wreckage was removed for closer inspection Federal investigators began interviewing Corder s friends and family in search of clues to his motive. Special agent Carl Meyer said Corder s motive did not appear to be hurting Clintono his family. Treasury undersecretary Ron Noble discharged with leading the review of Security procedures. When asked if he could guar Antee that current procedures Are enough to prevent Tunila mishap from occurring again he replied for me to speculate about what specific event might or might not occur would be  Meyer said startled agents got their first warning when one of them spotted the plane buzzing toward the White House leaving them time enough to run for  Meyer described a scene of frantic uncertainty As the plane approached. The first thing we had to determine was what was the situation i mean was this just a plane that ran out of Gas did somebody have a heart attack we just did t have a Good sense of what was involved Here. Or was it a diversion was something going to come