Show Saturday Ogden National 3 more SUMMERDALE Ala (AP) — training Navy plane trying to land crashed and burst into flames Friday killing board on both people Navy officials said The plane crashed about 3:45 pm while trying to land at the said air field Summerdale Ensign Susan spokeswoman A planned LAS VEGAS Nev (AP) — Three more nuclear weapons tests are planned at the Nevada Test Site this month including one which President Reagan has invited Soviet scientists to witness an environmentalist said Friday Stan Norris of the Washington-based Natural Resources Defense Council said the tests include a weapons shot Jefferson scheduled for Wednesday He said the Jefferson shot is the one which Reagan has invited Soviet scientists to witness The Soviet Union has not accepted the offer Norris said a smaller test Mogollon is scheduled before Jefferson A third test named Panamint is scheduled for sometime after Jefferson but before the end of April Norris said “I’m not sure Mogollon hasn’t gone off” Norris said from his Washington office “It’s one that I wouldn’t expect them to announce” Norris said he obtained information on the tests from public documents in Washington including material from the Defense Nuclear Agency The DNA conducts nuclear weapons effects tests such as Mighty Oak to determine whether US space and military hardware can survive nuclear attack Norris said his agency is a public interest group involved in environmental problems ranging from toxic waste and acid rain to weapons issues Department of Energy spokesman Dave Miller refused Friday to confirm the three tests saying the schedules are classified until they are announced by his department Major tests are announced by the DOE 48 hours in advance if they have the potential to cause ground motion in Las Vegas Haeg “We don’t know the training mission or type of flying it was doing before the crash” she said adding that she assumed the two people on board were a student-piland an instructor The identities of the two were withheld pending notification of relatives she said t Agent falls to death during routine exercise WASHINGTON (AP) — An agent who was a member of the bureau’s hostage rescue team fell to his death from a helicopter during a routine exercise Friday at the FBI’s training facility in Quantico Va the agency announced James K McAllister 34 a veteran agent who was assigned to the Washington field office of the FBI was participating in the training exercise about 10 am when he slipped from a rope hanging from the helicopter and fell to the ground the bureau FBI said Attacked cabbie grabs gun kills two teens - Too hot Boston firefighter turns away from the flames as he helps battle a fire in an un- A occupied three - story house were reported Classes set up to avoid KOKOMO Ind (AP) — Pupils afraid they might contract 'AIDS from classmate Ryan White will begin attending special classes at a hall Tuesday a group of parents said Larry Gabbard of Concerned Citizens and Parents said the parents group agreed Thursday night to begin an education program at the former Russiaville American Legion “Tuesday’s the day we are shooting for Wednesday at the latest” Gabbard said adding that the owner of the hall was providing it free He did not say who owned the building Gabbard said he expected 23 students to withdraw from the Western School Corp and attend the special classes The group will pay the salaries for two teachers with two substitutes on standby and children will be taught from school corporation textbooks and lesson plans His group opposes Ryan’s return to school because of fears other children could contract the disease he contracted through tainted blood products Ryan 14 from Kokomo is a hemophiliac His acquired immune deficiency syndrome was diagnosed in December 1984 Although health officials repeatedly have said AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact a court and administrative fight kept Ryan from attending school for much of this school year He returned Feb 21 after a health he posed no health threat to other pupils or teachers But the parents’ group obtained a temporary injunction that same day No injuries AIDS boy barring him from school Clinton Circuit Court Judge Jack R O’Neill struck down the injunction on April 10 O’Neill said the court had no evidence of a threat of irreparable harm to justify the injunction Ryan returned to class later that day The parents group plans to appeal O’Neill’s ruling Under the alternative education plan the group will pay teachers and children will be taught from school textbooks and lesson plans School Superintendent JO Smith said Friday he is allowing use of the books because families already paid rent for them for this school year Group tries to stem childhood drinking SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The National Council on Alcoholism citing surveys that show 30 percent of the nation’s feel pressure to drink announced Friday a classroom campaign to stem childhood drinking “Adolescent alcohol abuse has become one of the country’s most said epidemics” devastating Thomas V Secssel the council’s executive director “Nearly 100000 10- - and get drunk at least once a week This is an urgent priority for early and effective prevention” The $200000 campaign to turn children ages 9 to 14 away from alcohol was outlined oh the opening day of the council’s National Alcoholism Forum which runs through April 21 In addition to broadcast and print advertisements starting in May the council’s campaign will extend to the Weekly Reader which circulates in classrooms for more than 3 million children in grades The campaign which also features rap music star Kurtis Blow as its official spokesman is coorNadinated with the tional Advertising Council "Together these educational programs will alert children and their parents that alcohol is a drug it can be addictive and that the earlier you start the greater your chances of developing an problem” said Secssel A Weekly Reader survey of more than a pupils in 1983 found 30 percent of responding felt peer pressure to drink alcoholic beverages said Paula Roth the council’s prevention and education officer A January 1987 survey in the same publication is planned to measure results of the campaign she said “We wanted to give a positive motivation for saying no: the kids’ own dreams and hopes for the filture” said Agi Clark an ad agency director in New York “The theme line combines a call to action and the reward: ’Say no And say yes to your life’” research Recent council showed that children begin drink- - Students buy teacher’s spoof TOLEDO Ohio (AP) — When science teacher Dave Bourland told his students the nation was switching to “metric time” with hours and weeks he thought they would learn a lesson in how to question statements as right or wrong To his chagrin none of them challenged him and the school even got calls from parents asking when metric time would begin “They don’t think” Bourland scsaid Friday of his ience students at Libbey High School “That’s the biggest thing educators are fighting against” Bourland said he staged the hoax in an attempt to teach students how to use the scientific method of proving a statement with a pencil and tried to figure it out” Bourland said “No one wrong or right that it "If say one thing you should came up with the fact be able to prove to me that I’m would not have worked “They said that some questions wrong just as I have to prove to had crossed their mind but they you that I am right” he said didn’t ask the questions And I Under metric time days would wouldn't have had an answer” have 10 hours of daylight spoof He brought the minutes would have 100 seconds and the year would be reduced to to an end Wednesday 10 months he told the class “They were very positive They The numbers on a clock would liked it” he said “They definitely learned a great deal from this be replaced by 10s he said and “My philosophy is that educaJuly and August would be tion as a whole is simply dull and dropped from the calendar boring and I try to make my class No one asked where that time exciting for my students — it’s would go he said exciting when they learn some“No one actually sat down thing” Bourland said ing between the ages of 9 and in an attempt to be part of the crowd solve personal problems to rebel or because family members encourage it The council also reported that youths generally have strong desire to control their own lives and want help to resist drinking pressures although they don’t like being preached to about alcohol The council said research has shown that the best predictor of adolescent drinking habits is parental attitude and behavior toward alcohol Alcohol abuse accounts for approximately 98000 annual deaths in the US and in 1983 problems cost the nation about $1167 billion the council reported 5A National briefs Navy trainer crash kills two in Alabama N-te- sts April 19 1986 CHICAGO — A cabdriver wrested a gun from a gang of four teenage robbers in his taxi early Friday then killed two of them and wounded another while receiving four bullet wounds himself police said Referring to the fourth robber who managed to flee the cab driver Charles Pegues said “I would have shot him too but I ran out of ammunition” According to Police Capt John Stibich Pegues later said “I shot them because I thought they were going to kill me And I wasn’t going to die” Pegues was described as “a pretty tough old guy” by Detective Henry Leja who called the shooting “poetic justice” After the four youths flagged down Pegues one wrapped his arm around Pegues’ neck pressed a 25 caliber semiautomatic pistol to his head and said “This is it this is a according to Winners were Ncunecker a French horn player West from Germany who is a principal in the Bamberger Symphony Marina Piccinini a flutist from Madison Wis who studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and Maria Bachmann a violinist from Chester Pa who studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia Mazda 626s recalled for throttle emissions : DETROIT (AP) — Mazda Mo tor Corp issued two recalls Friday for 1986 model 626 cars citing uncontrolled acceleration and pollution control hoses that were installed backward The recalls will affect more than 100000 of the Japanese made cars and are the third and fourth major recall by Mazda this year Rum cake binge leads to DUI charge Mass — When QUINCY Robert Nightingale developed a sweet tooth last month he appeased his craving by consuming rurrt nearly all of a cake purchased at a local bakery The meat salesman from Plymouth Mass was arrested a few hours later and charged with driving while undef the influence of alcohol after spotted him driving erratically Friday Nightingale and his lawyer David Dray appeared in Quincy District Court ready to fight the charge with what has since been dubbed the rum cake defense: Lawyer and client contend it was the cake and not beer that caused Nightingale to flunk a Breathalyzer test administered shortly after his 10:30 pm arrest last March 8 “I didn’t feel there was any rea- son to refuse the test at the time because I knew I wasn't drinking heavily” Nightingale said in an interview outside the courtroom! “All I had that day was about four pounds of cake and three beers” t The case was continued to May 16 Mom allegedly tosses ' children into bayou HOUSTON (AP) — A woman allegedly threw her seven children into a muddy bayou near police headquarters Friday critically injuring two youngsters who were under water for as long as 40 minutes before being rescued by police authorities said “One of the children managed Leja to run to the front desk of the Houston police station right Three first place across the street” said police Lt RH Bielstein “Apparently a sein music competition curity guard and a public work$ — A NEW YORK (AP) employee rescued some of the French horn player a flutist and children” a violinist shared first place honThe children ranged in age ors in 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