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SECTION Apr. 21, 1985 ReviewsPage 2 ObituariesPage 16 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Sue Ann Wood 1 1 1 "1 1b The Reader's! 1 if 1 KmJrmmmmmmmm" iii i ii TWA Boeing 767s, similar to the one pictured here, will begin daily non-stop flights to Paris and Frankfurt from St. Louis starting April 28. Set For St.Louis-Europe Non-top: St.

Louis County Executive Gene McNary are expected to be aboard the three inaugural flights. The flight to Gatwick Airport near London, will leave at 7:45 p.m. and arrive at 9:40 a.m. April 29 (London time); the flight to Charles de Gaulle near Paris, will.leave at 8fl0 p.m. and arrive at 11:45 a.m.

(Paris time); and the flight to Frankfurt-, Meine Airport, near Frankfurt, will leave at 8:45 p.m. and arrive at 12:45 p.m. (Frankfurt time). The first non-stop flights from Europe will arrive in St. Louis on April 29.

The Paris flight will arrive at 3:45 Fair Project's Reward: American, Delta and United airlines; so far, though, they haven't used it for service to Europe. El Al, the Israeli national airline, has used the 767-ER on flights to Tel Aviv from Montreal. In May, Air Canada plans to begin service to London from Halifax, Nova Scotia, using the 767-ER. Until a few years ago, TWA officials said, non-stop service to Europe from St Louis flights that take more than eight hours would have been impossible because of Federal Aviation Administration safety rules. 7 Did If diatase, a starch-digesting enzyme found in the body.

He said that making projects for the fair often prepares a student for a scientific field. "You learn the scientific method and how you apply it" Robbins said. Robbins, 18, of Des Peres is preparing for a scientific field himself he plans to attend Northwestern University next year and major in biomedical engineering. Public viewing of projects in the fair's secondary division will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Admission is See SCIENCE, Page 16 Rape Victim victim and another girl, also 14, had been walking home from a friend's house after 2 a.m. The suspect grabbed one of the girls while the other fled for help, police said. The man had a small baseball bat and dragged the victim toward a creek in the subdivision's common ground and sexually assaulted her, police said. The other girl fan to McRoberts' door. Other neighbors were awakened by the disturbance.

Steve Falukos and Russell Klein found the victim and helped her. She was treated at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield. By Jim Mosley Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Mike Boley of Ladue was quick to point out that he had bitten off a lot to chew academically when he entered the MonsantoPost-Dispatch Greater St. Louis Science Fair for the first time this year.

"It was a really heavy undertaking," Boley, 15, said Friday as he put the finishing touches on his exhibit in which he extracted DNA from thymus glands. DNA short for deoxyribonucleic acid is the fundamental component of living matter, a "master molecule" of the cell that controls all functions. Boley said his biology teacher at Ladue High Schbol, 1201 South Warson Road, had told him about Advocate 'Doonesbury9 Causes Hubbub The last thing I expected to be writing about this week was another comic strip crisis. But along came Thursday and no "Doonesbury." By Thursday afternoon, about 65 calls had come in to the Reader's Advocate asking why the strip had not appeared. About 20 others had complained to the features editor.

A news story on Friday gave this explanation by Managing Editor David Lipman: "After a careful evaluation, we thought that the strip was in poor taste because of the sexual content. We made the editorial judgment not to print it." Those are key words: editorial judgment. Everything that appears in the news and features columns of the paper is there because an editor made a judgment about it that it was appropriate to print, that it met the newspaper's standards of accuracy, fairness, good taste.t. Anything that fails to meet- those standards is not likely to appear in the paper. i I had been warned on Wednesday that we were holding the strip out of the paper.

Everyone was aware that the wrath of many readers would descend on the newspaper the next v- When I saw a proof of the strip, I agreed that it was in poor taste. I'm a "Doonesbury" fan, but I felt this particular sequence was too far out of bounds. It showed one of the strip's leading characters, Zonker, and his medical school buddy in a motel room crammed with college students in Fort Lauderdale for the spring break: Zonker thinks an orgy is in progress; his friend says no and asks if anyone in the room is getting any "action." Several from the heap of bodies reply, "Nope." One says yes and another voice gives a sarcastic reply to the contrary, using some coarse language. When readers called to complain about its absence in the paper, I asked if they would like it read to them. Most said they would.

After hearing it read, about one in three said they could understand why we didn't run it. The other two of three said they thought we should have printed it anyway. They accused the Post-Dispatch of censorship in holding the strip out of the paper. THIS WAS not the first time "Doonesbury" had been held out of the Post-Dispatch. In 1976, a sequence involving pre-marital sex between two of the strip's leading characters was deemed in bad taste and.

held out by the managing editor at that time. The Reader's Advocate then reported receiving only six or eight telephone calls and three letters from protesting readers. The syndicate handling Doonesbury" reported tfiat about 20 newspapers dropped that pre-marital sex sequence in 1976. About 450 papers carried the strip then. This time, seven newspapers are known to have dropped Thursday's Fort Lauderdale strip, out of 825 papers that carry it.

'i One of the (frher newspapers that rejected the strip was the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Like the Post-Dispatch, it is owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Co. I telephoned the executive editor, Frank E. Johnson, to ask why he had decided not to run the Strip. "My reason was that I felt it was below the standards of decency in this community," Johnson said.

"We wouldn't allow one of our reporters to write something like that, so why should we allow Garry Trudeau to do It?" (Trudeau is the cartoonist who draws the strip.) Johnson said, the paper had Received only four calls complaining about the decision. Lee Salem, vice presidenteditorial director of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the strip, said he had of five other newspapers that refused to print the Thursday sequence, in Jacksonville, Fla Hackensack, N.J.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Omaha, and Winston-Salem, 1 SEVERAL OF the outraged readers who talked -to me said the Post-Dispatch was being excessively prudish. One observed that much worse "sexual content" can be seen on television than in this episode of "Doonesbury." My reply was that just because it appears on'Dynasty" is no excuse for it to appear in the Post- Dispatch. One caller, after hearing the punch line of the sequence, said it was from an old joke, a dirty and not very funny one. He said he was surprised that would use it Several other callers said they thought it wasn't very funny but they were not offended by Censorship, I think, is too strong a word to describe the decision not to run this one sequence of a comic strip.

A newspaper is not obliged to run everything supplied to by a syndicate or wire service. It is obliged, i heiieve. not to offend manv of its readers with unnecessarily coarse or vulgar language and pictures. One woman who called to complain iniot the Pnet-Disoatch did not orint the strip prefaced her remarks with this comment 1 mow irs your editorial prerogative." "Yes," I replied. "And we respect your right to disagree with it" -i -ST (P.

Lynn T. SpencePost-Dispatch But the FAA is starting to relax some of its rules for a "hew generation" of fuel-efficient twin-; engine jets that can be equipped to fly: more than 4,500 miles without refueling. Trans World has 10 767s; each costs about $42 million. The "Extended Range" modification package to permit non-stop overseas flights costs $3 million per plane. TWA has modified five of its 767s, and expects to modify the rest by 1986.

The 767's manufacturer, the See PLANE, Page 10 Banks Gets 2nd Shot At Lambert Bid By Michael D. Sorkin Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Copyright, 1985, St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis officials have given state. Sen.

J.B. "Jet" Banks, the influential, North Side Democrat, a second chance to keep his monopoly on limousine service at Lambert Field. Since 1962, Premier Service now operated by Banks, consistently has been awarded the exclusive right to operate scheduled limousine service between the airport, which is city-owned, and hotels and motels. Customers who go to or from the airport pay $5.90 to ride in one of Banks' 20 minivans. The vans, which can carry 10 or 1 1 passengers, operate under the name Airport Limousine Service.

'i- But this year, two rival companies seeking the limousine contract each offered the airport much more money than Banks' company is offering. One offer was more than twice that of Banks. City airport officials responded by throwing out all three bids, including Banks' offer, and announcing their intention to reopen the bidding at an unspecified date for the five-year contract that begins July 1. One of the bids they rejected SeeLIMOS, Page 8 Robert LaRouchePost Dispatch Operation Brightside. comes from Community Development funds and the rest is being contributed locally either in cash or in supplies and services.

Neighbors Rush To Aid Of i p.m.; the London flight will arrive at 4:30 p.m.; and the Frankfurt flight will arrive at 5:10 p.m. All flights will qperate dally. If all goes according to plan, TWA officials said Friday, out-of-town travelers should clear customs and immigration here in time to make evening connecting flights on TWA or other airlines. Trans World is the first United States carrier to use the 767-ER, or Extended Range, model in scheduled service over relatively long stretches of water. The wide-body 767 also is flown by three of TWA's competitors, the fair and he had taken it from there.

"I've always been interested in DNA," he said. Boley, a freshman, acknowledged Friday that the four months he had spent on the project, had been worth it. "I set out to do it and I did it" he said. Doug Robbins, a senior at Parkway South High School, 801 Hanna Road in Ballwin, also was busy Friday readying his first entry for the science fair. He explained that he had recently moved to the area from Florida.

He conducted an experiment concerning the effects of Infrared, ultraviolet fluorescent light on bloody after running the woods, but I'd do it again." The suspect abandoned his car in his haste to get away. McRoberts and Dennis Drury caught the suspect but he broke free and ran. Authorities said that the had recognized the rapist and that police had found the suspect at his home nearby. The suspect, Steven Michael, Emery, 20, of the 600 block of Greenhurst Court was charged with rape, sodomy and armed criminal action. County police reported that the Interstate 44 at the South Grand flower every spring in.

Increasing numbers. Of the 750,000 bulbs planted in the city, more than 250,000 are to be naturalized. The rest in beds, will be i- sC, ff i ii i miii' -T- i TWA Is By Edward H. Kohn Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Commercial aviation at Lambert Field will enter a new era next Sunday when Trans World Airlines begins scheduled non-stop flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, West Germany. The flights to Paris and Frankfurt will use specially equipped, twin-engine Boeing 767 aircraft which seat 187 passengers.

The flight to London will use a Boeing 747, a four-engine jumbo jet that seats 430. Many politicians and civic leaders including Gov. John D. Ashcroft, Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr.

and U.S. Cuts Called Hard On St. Louis By Gregory B. Freeman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff 7 St. Louis could face drastic' reductions in the number of uniformed policemen, cutbacks in the Operation Brightside program and a slowdown of local development efforts if all of the federal budget cuts proposed go through, an aide to Mayor Vincent C.

Schoemehl Frank Hamsher, Schoemehl's counsel for development said in an interview last week that the cuts and changes in budgeting procedures proposed by President Ronald Reagan "amount to a fend-for-yourself approach as far as the cities are concerned." "Cities are really beginning to make comebacks," Hamsher said. "But this seems to be a basic message to the cities.that if they do come back, they won't do it with the help of the federal government." Hamsher said the cuts were being proposed under the guise of reducing the federal deficit But he said they really were "a Trojan horse" to get the federal government out of urban affairs. City officials are particularly concerned about the president's plans to cut out federal revenue sharing. St See CUTBACKS, Page 14 OnBri If the car heading west in front of you on Interstate 44 in the city suddenly slows down some late afternoon, the cause may not be the usual sun-in-the-eyes but the sight of a sea of daffodils blooming against a deep green hillside. On U.S.

Highway 40 and on Interstate 70 the same thing is happening. 'Along one stretch, motorists slow down for a massed blaze of red tulips; a mile or so later it is a cascade of daffodils that lifts feet off the accelerators. On Hampton Avenue, the median south of 1-44 is ablaze with tulips; on-the Forest Park Expressway, the impetus to slow down is provided by rings of multicolored tulips around every tree in the median. I But this springtime splendor stops, at the western city limits. The good fairy behind it is the city's Operation Brightside, which is enjoying the public's warm response to the flowering of 750,000 bulbs planted last fall.

The state of Missouri maintains the right of way on all Interstate highways as well as state roads. "We got permission from the state to plant bulbs on the interstate and state highway right-of-ways," said Lucille Green, director of Operation Brightside. She also got a promise from the state highway maintenance crews that they would not mow the grass where the tulips and daffodils are blooming ghtside i Awakened early Saturday by a girl's cries for help, an impromptu posse of residents in the Greenmar subdivision near Fenton chased a rape suspect and all but captured him. The suspect was later arrested and charged. '( "I didn't put any shoes on, just grabbed my pants and ran out" said Guy McRoberts, one of four or five men who responded armed only with flashlights.

"You never know what someone like that might have on him, a knife or gun," McRoberts continued. "My feet were kind of Of Rush Hour, City Highways Are Abloom i i i i i .11,11 1 1. i.imn.m. in n.m ,1 I I i -38. 'fn'-d-Jd -V i i 7 ni.if mm 1 Boulevard exit, the handiwork of dug up to make room for summer flowers and then replanted in the faU.

Operation Brightside has a $1.2 'million budget this year, $200,000 .1 Tulips brighten a terrace beside until long after the bulbs' leaves turn brown. That way, the bulbs can be "naturalized" storing energy while the leaves are green so they will I.