European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday october 29, -1994 at a glance former first lady Nancy Reagan says . Senate candidate Oliver North is a liar. See Story on Page 8. Nato membership the Clinton administration is talk ing with its nato allies about How to Speed the admission of former soviet bloc countries into the Alliance officials say. Pages Tail Hook deliberations jurors have begun deciding whether Hilton hotels was negligent at the Rowdy 1991 Tail Hook Conven Tion. Page 6 2 boys missing the town of Union s.c., is praying for two boys kidnapped by a Man who their Mother says forced her out of her car and drove away with the children. Page 7 raid on reptiles police in Brooklyn n.y., have closed Down a. Veritable reptile House with two Ponds in a fourth floor loft. Page 8 chaplain pushed out an air Force chaplain who spoke out against us. Involvement in the persian Gulf War has lost his Strug Gle to remain in the service. Page,10 Indef Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 22-27 comics. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword. 21 faces v places. 20 focus .15-17 Horoscope. 26 Jumble. 26 letters 12 Money matters. 14 religion. 10 sports 27-32 to listings. 31 weather 11 educators urge Dodds to Challenge its pupils Byj. Kin Cruger Northern Italy Bureau Sirrenia Italy although . Military s overseas school system appears to be performing ably it needs tomake education More challenging an advisory Council reported Friday. Members of the advisory Council independents education meeting in Tirre Nia near Pisa heard reports from a quartet of four member teams that earlier in the week conducted one Day visits tool department of defense dependents schools in Italy Spain and Turkey. V the consensus of one of the Council reports was that Dodds should retain its honors program whose future had been threatened. However Council member Rudolf Crew superintendent of the Tacornal wash., school system warned the Council that it must make sure honors courses Are exactly that and not Ordinary course with a fancy title. The Issue still has not been Reso vedas to what the Content of the honors courses should be. It a genuine Honor program is really a question of depth going deeply into a subject rather than broadly Crew said. Many parents and teachers Don think of their children As being capable of taking  honors classes and that s very  Crew said he was concerned that head seen no ethnic students in several honors classes he had observed at the Dodds High school in Rota Spain. He said   him because it reflected educational expectations. The Low number of minority students taking challenging programs  As Hon ors and advanced placement classes prompted one of the Council  chairs Albert v. Conte principal undersecretary of defense to wonder aloud what Are we doing wrong however Robert b. Binswanger a education professor at Dart Nouth col lege in Hanover , offered Dodds Comfort. In areas of ethnic diversity you a recons ahead of schools in the United states Binswanger said. Members of a team that had visited schools in Naples and Nas Sig Oriella Sicily reported concern about the num Ber of hyperactive children in those schools being treated with the drug rid Lin. . Army col. John t. Plants a Mem Ber of that team reported that six out of 20 children were receiving the drug at is Gonella s preschool program while 35 out of 850 Naples elementary students arid 23 out of 800 youngsters in grades Kinder Garten through 12 at Simonella also were being prescribed the drug. Is this Ridlin use excessive is there something going on in Dodds that we need to look at Plant asked the coun cil. A  said the overuse of Ridl Hris a problem at Public schools in the United states and suggested Dodds re View its use in its school system before we Rush into  the Council is to make recommendations during its final session today for presentation to the school system s new director Lillian Gonzalez who also is at tending the conference. Home from Page 1 brigade s equipment would be Ware housed in Qatar and another in either saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emi rates. A in his 15-minute speech the president kidded troops about sandstorms and Elvis sightings in the kuwaiti desert. He also gave a Stern message to Iraq which massed More than 60,000 troops near Kuwait s Northern Border earlier this month. The . And the International Community will not allow Baghdad to threaten its neighbors now or in the future Clinton said. That is not our threat that is our   emphasized american resolve to enforce . Resolution 949 that prohibits Iraq from moving its heavily armed Republican guard units across the 32ndparallel into Southern Iraq. The line is also the Boundary of the . No Fly zone and Resolution 949 was passed two weeks ago to prevent a repeat of this month s Border crisis. Iraq s invasion of the tiny Oil Rich country in 1990 led tothe persian Gulf War. We will not permit Iraq to enhance it capability below the 32nd parallel Clin ton said. Iraq withdrew its forces from the kuwaiti Border following a Swift re action by . And coalition troops. The history of this encounter is that you got Here in a very big hurry Clinton told the troops who were mainly fro the 24th inf div Mech out o Effort Stewart a. And because of that Iraq got the Mes Sage in a very big hurry Clinton said. His desert audience also included soldiers from Bahrain Kuwait the United Arab Emi rates and the United kingdom. Speaking at a desert site about 60 mile from the iraqi Border the president was flanked by my Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. There Are a few Back Home who ques Tion our military preparedness Clinton said. They ought to conc Over Here an take a look at  spec Jason Johnson with he co 1st ,18th inf regt from fort Benning ga., said the president s speech was  he said a lot of things soldiers wanted to hear said Johnson 22, a Bradley vehicles Mechanic from Nashville Tenn he said he postponed his nov. 5 wedding be cause of his desert deployment. Several soldiers said they were glad Roget a visit by their commander in chief particularly when it meant television Crew were putting them on the air live Back Home. /-.". That s excellent. That s what everybody wants to hear sgt. George Regan said of the president s Christmas shopping Sugges Tion. Regan 30, is from Kansas City mo., and is assigned to the 24th fwd support ten.  some troops said the president Christmas shopping announcement had been too vague. That was a double ended statement said pfc. Brian Lagesse 1?, Art infantry mortar Man from Stockton Calif. I d like to Point out that there s a pm at amp Doha said chief warrant officer 3 Fred House referring to an austere Mili tary compound on the outskirts of Kuwait City. We could do Bur Christmas shopping there pay from Page 1 Issue these Type orders when  s executive order makes that recommendation Law. According to a Pentagon statement the change gives commanders much More flexibility in determining the appropriate entitlement to condition for Post cold War operations it allows the com Mander to keep our troops adequately and appropriately reimbursed in a consistent manner even though the operations scenario May change dramatically the greatest Benefit of the executive order will be for service members in the Junior ranks whose separate rations can be As much As 13 percent of their monthly pay the statement said. _ most single enlisted  on the Economy and All married enlisted service members draw separate rations also known As Basic allowance for subsistence. The enlisted rates for Sepa rate rations vary based partly on rank and also on whether service members arson leave or if they Are in an area where no government dining facilities Are Avail Able. Visit from Page 1  efforts spoke to reporters after writing in a guest Book at the me Morial. "1 wrote that today we Are one step closer to the time when the people of is Rael can live together in peace with All of your neighbors the Tinc when the people of Israel will never again suffer death and destruction the events that Are memorialized Here simply because of their race or their Faith Clinton said. He then visited the memorial for 1.5 million children killed in the holocaust. Emerging from the cavernous Structure the president paused to look at the sur rounding forested Hills. He told me it was a place that gave an extraordinarily powerful and emotional experience Shalev said. Each tree at had Washem is planted in commemoration of a righteous Gentile a person who risked his life to save jews. He was interested to know How one qualifies for the title of righteous Gen tile How Many we have recognized and what it Means Shalev said. They looked at a sculpture commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising and Clinton was shown a boat used to rescue600 danish jews. He said that Clinton spoke of his own experiences telling of his visit to Warsaw and the remnants of the Bunker of the Leader of the ghetto uprising. I think he showed a lot of empathy for what he saw Shalev said. We told him that his historic visit that began with the signing of a peace treaty which has perhaps opened a new future for the Region a Region soaked and Rich in history ends by paying respects to the events of the recent