European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes february Small leak manhole covers tossed in air could abort blast rips streets in Louisville balloon trek a the balloon Jules Verne was Drifting toward the Ara Bian sea hampered by a Small leak that could Force its two american pilots to abort their attempt at the first nonstop balloon flight around the trackers Jim Mitchell of the balloonist tracking station Here said Friday the flight might have to be aborted in less than 48 but held some outside Hope the leak could be contained or if the leak is Low in the envelope the Tail balloon filled with Gas mostly air would leak out and it  make any he or it could be in the valve in the top of the and that could be opened and something like that could fix a leak those arc Long but a he Mitchell said earlier that the balloon is in no immediate danger and can Fly for a number of Landing option if he balloonist Maxie Anderson of and Don Ida of will apparently have the option of Landing on the arabian in the arabian sea Between the Peninsula and India or in the 20storyhigh named for the author of around the world in 80 took off thursday from and at Midnight after 19 hours in the it had flown about 850 Mitchell he said at that time it was 210 Miles due South of the capital of saudi travelling at an Altitude of about feet and at a Speed of about 50 its path was Well South of whose ant american government refused to give Anderson and Ida Permis Sion to pass through its if the winds pushed them too far they could run the risk of being shot a mining investment exec piloted the double Eagle ii from Canada to France in 1978 in the first successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by a manned with his he last year claimed the first successful crossing of North solar Energy project the Netherlands a dutch government is funding a solar heat ing project with a new underground storage system designed to heat 100 Homes in the Winter with Energy collected the previous a a predawn explosion Tore through the sewer system in the old Louisville neighbourhood of this Ohio River City ripping up knocking out Power and tossing manhole covers High into the the blast left a Trench 8 feet deep and three blocks Long on one Street and blew out Large holes like bomb craters in Many houses were peppered with police said four people were none Louisville police and fire units cordoned off approximately 10 Square blocks of an area South of Louisville downtown Section shortly after the the cause of the blast was not immediately but Robert Bailey of the Louisville fire department said the metropolitan sewer District was invest three soviet of her officers die in crash Moscow a three top com Manders of the soviet Pacific Fleet have been victims of an aviation disaster that Western specialists said Friday May have killed As Many As two dozen officers and the army newspaper red Star reported that midship warrant officers and ensigns of the Pacific Fleet who perished in the crash last saturday were buried thursday in Lenin among the the soviet Media have identified Only the three leading offi cers Emil Pacific Fleet commander vice Vladimir the fleets top political offi and Georgy com Mander of the fleets air 3 million jobless expected by december London up the Rise in Britain unemployment is Likely to slow Down from its present a month to about a month by the Middle of the a Lead ing City stockbroking firm even predicted stockbrokers Phillips and total unemployment will be approaching 3 million by december Al though the recession Triay reach its Low Point later this the jobless figure will continue to Rise because of the growing la Bor the stockbrokers backed the Trade unions Congress claim that the real level of unemployment is higher than shown in official they said that because fewer people than usual have registered As unemployed during the current the official figures Are understating the True level by Between 000 and unemployment now stands at seasonally adjusted and excluding those leaving Phillips and Drew reports by the soviet press did not spec Ify where the crash the circumstances or give a total casualty air crashes Are not normally reported by the soviet but the saturday Accident was announced because at least three senior offi cers the fact that the funerals were held in Leningrad indicated the crash May have occurred near there was speculation that the dead officers had been on their Way to a Leningrad conference for the soviet navys top commanders and political a meeting on political and psychological training for the Navy has been publicized in the soviet in reporting the red Star said urns containing the ashes of an unspecified number of victims were placed in Serafi Movsky Leningrad municipal Sergei commander of the soviet Navy and Deputy defense spoke at the along with representatives of the Pacific Fleet and red Star Berlin March protests housing shortages Berlin a about persons marched through the heart of the Western sector of this City to protest the critical shortage of adequate police closed off streets in the Schoene Borg Section for the which officials reported was about persons took part in a Satin near the cites housing office and then joined to others who marched on the local City police some 50 older apartment houses in the Western sector have been taken Over by squatters who complain that real estate speculation in the City has pushed up rents and contributed to the housing gating the possibility that a volatile sub stance had been dumped into the Bailey said he had been told something May have accidentally been dumped into the he said the sewer department got readings in some areas that indicate something is still John a spokesman for the sewer said monitoring Crews had called for the fire department to flush out the sewer they have equipment to Monitor sex so if they Are calling for the fire department to flush out the they must still be measuring he Tierney said the monitoring equipment indicated that whatever went in there the sewer system was very natural Gas odor witnesses reported smelling natural but Tierney said the Gas odor could have come because those pipes were ripped in the Dick a who monitors morning traffic for Whas reported that every manhole cover had been blown off along a six lock stretch of Hill Street in old every manhole cover has Digap Gilbert it looks like a world War ii in some the Crater caused by the explosion looks like a bomb Clouds of steam emitted from the crat ers in the cold morning and some filled with water from Mains that were broken in the sewer District officials said Crews were having trouble getting heavy equipment into the area because of weakened pave several including the univer sity of were temperatures l 24 18 9 22 City 13 23 10 19 24 5 11 29 1 14 11 4 21 24 2 Molnes 4 10 17 28 5 28 7 City 37 vegas 15 Rock l 58 Angeles 0 16 65 Beach 2 0 28 Orleans 24 18 City 9 16 6 19 Maine 36 22 17 29 1 Loulu 34 Petersburg 25 Lake City 58 Diego 51 Francisco 75 Juan 41 6 39 18 17 news update former Queen buried Athens a Esqueen Freder Ika of with controversy sur rounding her funeral As it did during her was buried thursday on the greek Royal family former estate near the German born Frederika was buried next to her King who died in Athens in her eking and her two Queen Sofia of Spain and Princess paid their last respects along with members of european Royal thousands of royalists who were kept away from the services by police chanted we want to see the let us but police said no major disturbances took 2 italian lawyers arrested Rome a two italian lawyers were arrested in Rome Early fray on charges of being spokesmen and Pagan lists of the red Italy most feared left Wing Urban guerrilla Rome prosecutor Luciano Infelise is sued the arrest warrants against attorneys Eduardo i Giovanni and Giovanna who have defended left Wing terrorist suspects in several police also arrested Carmine an administrative staff member the left Wing Magazine which recently printed documents by jailed terrorists praising terrorist assassinations of judges and of former Premier Aldo office not bugged Washington up a seven month investigation of the suspected bugging of the office of former Republican National committee chairwoman Mary Crisp found no evidence of any District of Columbia police spokesman Gary Hankins said investigators believe a suspicious wire found in crisps office May have been the Rem Nant of an Interoffice communications it want used for he terrorists guilty Chicago a a Federal court jury has found 10 suspected members of the puerto rican terrorist group fall guilty on charges stemming from bomb Ings and attempted bombings in the Chi Cago the described by a prosecutor As members of a Clandestine army with no regard for the Law or human were convicted on All counts of seditious con armed interstate transportation of stolen vehicles and violations of weapons the jury deliberated More than two hours before delivering its verdict in the