European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes february no need to scientist says w t be eaten by starfish Guam a scientists at the University of Guam believe they have found the cause of mysterious plagues of Coral eating Crown of thorns starfish which have consumed huge areas of protective reef in the Pacific and raised fears that the islands will Wash 2 Baffo Oniss leave go to Delhi from press dispatches new Delhi two american balloonist who Cut Short their  trip by Landing in Rural Northern arrived in Delhi magic arrived by car from a Village 90 Miles Northwest of while Copilot Donald landed at delis Aida rang Airport in an Indian air Force they were not Able to arrange for the Transfer of their Craft from the Shrub filled Field where it is lying because Airport officials had warned of bad weather conditions at the Hussar District commission Yogeshwar told a reporter that there were problems in getting a truck to carry the Craft to new thousands stare throughout the after the balloon came thousands of curious Indian villagers had gathered to stare at the two american adventurers whose flight was thwarted by the mighty Himalayan Moun although their Hopes of circling the Earth nonstop were officials who spoke with the two said they had not yet decided whether to Call off their trip or after travelling almost Miles in three Anderson and Ida saturday landed the Jules their slowly leak ing helium filled in the Foothills of the As villagers Many of whom walked for Miles surrounded the the two americans decided to spend the night in the White and Blue Gondola to guard the thousands of dollars of navigational and radio Anderson and Ida had hoped not Only to Circle the Globe in their but to shave 70 Days off the fictional record set by Phileas the hero of Vernes Clas sic around the world in 80 the americans intended to bring the balloon to new Delhi to examine it before deciding whether they might resume their global 100 feared buried in India mine collapse new Delhi up an unlicensed Coal mine collapsed in Eastern India and 100 labourers were feared buried news reports when the mine caved tons of Earth were dumped on 500 labourers working at a Remote Village in Bihar the reports about 400 workers scrambled to rescuers were frustrated by sporadic landslides and a Lack of maps to guide them through the the newspaper illegal mining with the knowledge of police and other Security forces has become a common practice in recent years in the re the times Bihar state political leaders immediately ordered an investigation into the illegal mining the scientists believe there is no cause for Richard who first reported starfish plagues on Guam in said work at the University Marine Laboratory suggested the sudden infestations were caused by unusually heavy rainfall on the islands which washed nutrients into the la if this coincided with the starfish spawn ing period it enhanced the survival rates of the larvae and a surge in starfish population one starfish produces millions of but Only a Small number normally first by a hairs length Hiroko of holds the world record for having the longest As listed in the 1981 edition of the guinness Book of world she began letting her hair grow at age and it has now reached Over she said she spends More than four hours each time she washes can Chiachio put zing into the life of Lingling London up the Lon Don zoos male giant will be sent to America next month to bring some new life into the marriage of the resident female Panda of the Washington officials said the sunday times said it broke a Valentines Day secret by revealing in a frontage article that Chiachio was being shipped to Washington March 6 to begin a courtship with the Exchange was to have been announced during British prime minister Margaret thatchers scheduled visit to Washington next the sunday times Only 13 giant pandas Are kept in zoos in the West so the Only giant Panda cub born outside China was a product of artificial insemination at the Mexico City zoo last that cub accidentally was suffocated by its Mother a few Days after it was and her male Hsing were Given to the Washington zoo in 1971 when former president Richard Nixon visited but in the past 10 the two giant pandas have had marital prob the Washington pair failed to Breed because Hsin Hsing appears to be incapable of doing the said Colin director of the London tests have proved that Hes perfectly but he just cant seem to do the right pronounced has had his he spent much of last year alone in his Cage while his recovered from stomach sur Chingching will stay behind in London while Chiachio spends the Spring in Wash the Best Breeding time for pandas is in May and we would expect to bring Chia Chia Back Home in Early by which time anything that is going to happen should have Rawlin but even if Lingling spurns zoo officials Are hopeful the presence of another male will bring out the Best in a bit of Competition can sometimes do the Rawlin who has been studying Coral reefs for 16 also believes the Crown of Thorn which have been recorded across the Pacific and on the great Barrier reef off Australia East will not permanently damage the some believe the destruction of fringing Coral reefs around Small islands would deprive the islands of the fish that inhabit the reefs and expose the islands to severe surf the reefs Are also a valuable economic asset As a tourist my personal View is that it is a natural phenomenon that been going on for thou Sands of Randall the is lands Arent going to Wash but if it occurs at too great a some reefs May never Randall said his research had also shown that the reef would Over periods ranging from 21 years for shallow water areas to 36 years for corals in deeper the american scientist said that when he first started diving on the reef at Guam Timon Bay in 1967 he found one patches in 1968 the starfish started showing up in patches of 5 to then in then he they were in plague proportions by the latter part of Randall said a Survey of the reef before the plague showed 60 percent of the top reef was living Coral 49 percent at lower in a few months this had been reduced to 1 percent for the top and less than i percent for the lower reef the scientifically known As normally eats at night but in Timon Bay they were eating Day and they were devouring Square Miles of living thoroughly cleaning the reef and leaving Only rubble he the acan toaster plague on Coral reefs is the equivalent of a Forest it devastates the whole Forest but eventually it will Randall underwater Parks my feeling is that its nothing to worry we Are justified in spending Money on eliminating the acan toaster if the extinction of underwater Parks depends on but to go out and spend huge sums of Money eradicating it is he in divers killed starfish with injections of ammonia hydroxide in japanese scientists devised a Copper sulphate and Australia tried to kill the millions of starfish infesting the mile great Barrier reef with injections of Randall said that Core samples of reefs had shown plagues had occurred in past they have a tradition of we were looking for a manmade but its Only since world War ii that weve noticed that probably because there Are Many More people looking at Randall said that Charles Birkland of the Guam Marine Laboratory had com pared weather records with starfish out we had heavy rain on Guam about four years ago following a he predicted an outbreak three years and there is a plague Cathedral being restored Italy a workmen erected scaffolding and closed several aisles to the Public in Milans famed gothic Ca thedral in the Start of restoration work to prevent the 14th Century Church from top Cathedral officials said the work Wil probably last five years and Cost several million