European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday. September 20, 1980  is training dogs to jump from air planes fort Bragg n c. A the  is training a crack corps of 40 Ger Man slip hard dogs for a very undo like activity jumping out of air planes with Parachute. Under a new  program to train combat police dogs dog will at firs be placed in special harnesses and affixed to the backs of human jumpers. Afler floating Down to 200 feet above the ground the parachutist will lower the dog on an 18-Fbof-Lihe so thai it will hit the ground seconds before the paratrooper to avoid a collision. The first air drop of a dog and handler is scheduled for october officials Laid. Woman slain in argument Over to football Cleveland a a woman who died of � Shotgun wound was slain because she tried to Stop her Boyfriend from witching College football same on television police disclosed. Homicide detectives said that during the telecast of the Arkansas Texas game pallor Anderson 56, said she was tired of football and stood Between the to let and her Boyfriend Clarence Broadu 56. He warned her several times get oat of the Way or 111 gel my Shotgun police said. The widowed Mother of 10 Chi Ydreo died from a blast of sawed off Shotgun. Broadus was charged with felonious As Sault and aggravated murder. Organized crime called 2nd-biggest Industry new York a Urgani cd crime is probably the second biggest Industry in the United Stales after Oil and has International ramifications As Well a . Business mag Azine says. Organi cd crime grossed $150 billion last year compared with the . Petroleum Industry s j365 billion and the Auto Industry s $125 billion the business Maga Ine Forbes estimates in its sept. 29 edition. Woman hits record Nickel Slot Jackpot $ 17,000 Reno or. A one Roll of Nickels away from starting the drive Back Home. Angle Prather sat Down at Nickel Slot machine at Harold s club. Minutes later she was si7,126.35 Rich or and the Holder of the world s largest Nickel Jackpot. I saw three men la the barrel line up and looked Down to see what i d won she said after her Jackpot. When i looked Back the fourth had dropped  lining up the four symbols produces the payoff amount which increases As the machine is played. Prather is of Magalla calif., said she and her husband would invest her winnings in real estate. Well probably have a lot bought by tomorrow night. We be been thinking about building for a Long Lime she said. 17 haitians charged in boat Hijack to Florida Miami Beach Fla. A a handful of hijackers armed with machetes guns and knives commandeered a boat carrying some 300 haitians on Ait inter Island trip and forced it to Miami Beach the Fri claims. Seventeen haitian nationals were charged with interstate transportation of stolen prop erty and jailed without Bond pending a hearing before a Federal magistrate. Asbestos firm suing top tobacco companies los Angeles a a Kansas City Asbestos company charging that smoking and not Asbestos was to blame for lung injuries claimed by hundreds of Asbestos workers has filed an apparently unprecedented suit against the nation s major to Bacco companies. Tobacco Industry officials characterized he action a an attempt by one Industry to shift Ita problems to another. Attorney John t. Lafolette represent ing Standard Asbestos manufacturing and air Force Boss pushing for bomber decision Washington Dpi air Force Secretary Hans Mark says he is pushing for a Quick administration decision on devel Oping a new strategic bomber to replace the ageing b-52s. Some sources say the decision to develop a new manned bomber to place the b-52s, and the by that president Carter cancelled probably will have to be taken before March 15,1982. Since Congress has mandated that the United states should have a new bomber deployed by 1987, administration official say it probably would be necessary to in clude ample research funds in the fiscal 1983 defense budget. Invasion by red tide costs Maine $4 million Augusta Maine a Cov. Joseph e. Brennan says the worst red tide inva Sion is years already has coat Maine s shellfish Industry More Titu $4 million and he is asking president Carter to de Clare the state s picturesque coastline a disaster Are. Red tide a microscopic organism which can turn water red and sicken people who eat contaminated seafood forced the state on labor Day to ban All harvesting of claim Yasien and similar . Crabs lobsters and scallops were not affected. Car bomb kills reputed St. Louis crime Leader St. Louis up the reputed Leader of a faction of organized crime was killed by a bomb that blow apart his car while he was driving along a Highway in the evening Rush  said James Michaels or. Died when the bomb exploded and scattered wreckage of his late Model luxury Auto Mobile Over All six lanes of the Road halting All traffic for several hours. The leaders of organized crime in St. Louis have been locked in a Power struggle since Anthony j. Giordano who directed major organized crime operations in the City died aug. 18. Giordano 64, had been suffering from lung cancer. 22 Hurt As blast rips underground Titan i missile silo Damascus. Ark. A an explosion rocked an underground Titan 11 missile silo Early Friday hooting flames into the. Sky and injuring at least 22 maintenance workers the air Force said. Pentagon sources said a nuclear warhead was atop the missile but said there was no evidence the weapon was damaged or that any radiation leaked. Rep. Dill Alexander.  said the air Force told his office there was no evidence of a plutonium leak the warhead is intact and the warhead is in the hand of air Force  gov. Bill Clinton said air Force officials told him that no nuclear explosion had occurred and that nonccouli1 have occurred in the silo housing the 103-toot-Iong intercontinental ballistic missile which is capable of delivering this nation s largest Hydrogen bomb to a target 6,300 Miles away. It was not immediately known whether insulating co. Of Kansas City old report Era that the suit filed in Superior court Here and in san Francisco was the first of i kind. According to a report by the Ameri can Long association Noo Semoung a Besto workers appear to have no greater incidence of lung career than other non smokers never exposed to Asbestos la Follette said alleging that smoking caused toe injuries and damages claimed by hundreds of workers in suits. Dies at 90 pulitzer prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter Best knows for her 1962 novel ship of foots died thursday in a Maryland nursing Home at the age of 90. Texas born Porter who won the pulitzer prize in 1966 for a collection of Short stories had bees in poor Beaity since a stroke in 1977. A photo valued at $320 million the missile itself or Only fuel exploded. The silo covered by Concrete doom was just i big rubble inside after the blast Clinton  explosion occurred As a maintenance Crew tried to neutralize a fuel leak in the first stage of the missile said Sac spokes Man col. Richard Kline. The fuel tank had been punctured of some form of human error apparently and 10.000 Gallons of fuel began leaking according to Clinton. The air Force said at least 22 workers were injured most suffering from Burn said Hospital administrator Bill Langford. He said three would be admitted in Good condition and the others treated and  air Force ordered evacuation of a 5 mile radius of the silo. A smaller area had been evacuated earlier. The explosion Shook the ground and the area lit up like Daylight said Tommy Graham an official of the state office of emergency services who lives in the area. The explosion occurred about 3 a.m., Tiv eral hours after air Force officials discovered the fuel leak and spotted smoke Bil lowing from the silo. About 100 people living within one mile of the silo in this sparser populated area had been evacuated thursday night after the smoke thought to be vapor from leaking fuel was discovered. A four member silo Crew also had been evacuated by helicopter and taken to the Little Rock air Force base about 40 Miles away. They were not injured said air Force capt. Tom mahr. State officials said no one was inside the silo after the apparent leak was reported. And conditions inside were being electronically monitored. The air Force had flooded part of the silo with water officials said. Air Force officials contacted state Emer gency officials at 6 47 . Thursday with news of a possible fire and leak and advised the evacuation. A fuel leak in 1978 resulted in Hospital nation of several people after exposure to toxic nitrogen tetroxide fumes. Nitrogen tetroxide is a component of the fuel for the Titan ii missile. 27 indicted in Calif drug smuggling plot san Diego up a grand jury indicted 27 people thursday in what it alleged was an elaborate plot to use three air planes a former presidential yacht a minesweeper and former Green berets to smuggle into the United states More than 200,000 pounds of marijuana and cocaine valued at $320 million. Seventeen of the defendants were in Cus Tody and 10 were fugitives. Affidavits supporting the indictment indicated the colombian american smug gling ring had three Large planes the for Mer presidential yacht Potomac and a converted minesweeper. They said the defendant planned to contract Green Beret veterans to provide 48-hour perimeter Secu Rity for a Clandestine Airstrip in san Diego county to protect the smuggling operation. . Attorney m. James Lorenz said the five out indictment was handed up after an involved International investigation resulted in the sept. 11 seizure of 42,000 pounds of marijuana most of it aboard the converted minesweeper Valk Yure in Sanfrancisco Bay. The indictment charged the defendant used or intended to acquire Ocean going ves Sels Multi engine aircraft and sophisticated electronic navigational and detecting equip ment to smuggle quantities of pot and Cole from stockpiles in South America. One count alleged the 27 people conspired to smuggle 4,000 pounds of cocaine into the United states from Colombia. An other charged conspiracy to Poueu cocaine with intent to distribute. A third count alleged conspiracy to smuggle 200,000 pounds of High Grade colombian Mari Juriw. The indictment detailed 102 overt Ico involved in the conspiracy. The indictment alleged the defendants hired a Security Crew consisting of sex military members. I i if