European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 6 the stars and stripes february 1981 stateside acid rain suspected of killing fish in California Luj acid which has wreaked havoc in other parts of the May be killing fish in the Sierra we have the ingredients for a said John professor of Plant and soil biology at the University of California at acid rain is no stranger to Southern Cali where precipitation As caustic As Vin Egar has been measured in Auto Mobile pollution is thought to be the principal culprit in the los Angeles environmentalists became concerned last summer when fish died at 14 lakes in the Sequoia National the cause of death was a bacterial but experts said fish usually do not succumb to the infection unless weakened by something marines leave Indian Ocean after 6week cruise Washington Al a battalion of about marines left the Indian Ocean aboard Navy amphibious ships after a six week this was the fifth deployment by a Marine Force since last March when the United states increased its military presence in those Waters following the soviet invasion of there was no word on any replacement battalion moving into the Indian the three amphibious ships carrying the marines entered the Western the nary did not indicate its Destina the Navy amphibious including the assault ship the tank Landing ship Barbour county and the amphibious cargo ship St Louis sailed into the Indian Ocean 5 and then conducted what the Pentagon described As routine operations and Hughes Institute denied estate share Houston up multimillionaire Howard Hughes died without leaving a will and a Miami based Howard Hughes medi Cal Institute has no claim to his a probate judge has judge Pat Gregory said that the medical Institute is not the heir to the estimated million to million that was left when the Recluse died in april 1976 aboard a private jetliner in route to Houston from Gregory will sign an order 27 which closes another chapter in the five year struggle to unravel the riches of several wills turned up after Hughes the most famous being the will of the mormon Church in Salt Lake it was declared a forgery in May serve As Rescue device during a tire san Francisco up a retired ironworker turned inventor has unveiled a device which could save thousands of lives in a High Rise fire and employs an object found in just about every hotel or business the William Holmes displayed his dubbed the Holmes High Rise fire snor that consists of a filter and length of plastic in the event of a he the tubing could be inserted into the toilet bowl through the water trap and Back up above the waiter line inside the Bow to an air vent that leads from each toilet to the the users could then inhale air for several hours until there be who has invented and patented several pieces of Rescue said that despite the there will still be some sewer Gas that might be but during a fire in which a person could die from smoke he you Only have one twins doing Well after separation surgery Texas a twins born joined at the base of the one apparently Able to feel a Pinch to the Are now two perfectly Normal Little girls after a delicate 10hour operation to separate doctors the performed when the Chil Dren were two months involved separating a common segment of the spinal Cord and we really  imagine what it would be Joan a Neur Osur said of the it was a matter of going in and at the family request the girls were not identified and no information about the operation was made Public until the babies had been discharged from the Nicaragua pair pleads no contest in copter theft three die in fire Venessa comes is restrained by a neigh Bor from entering her burning Home where her Lela and two nephews perished in the Dorchester Sec less than requested Tion of neighbors said they heard an explosion just before the fire broke out in the two Story which was completely up postal service wins of for i8cenf letter Rafe san Texas a two High officials of the nicaraguan air Force have agreed to cooperate with Cus Toms smuggling investigations after pleading no contest to charges of trying to sneak two helicopters out of the United under a plea the government agreed not to prosecute the Nica Regusis on charges of conspiracy or in any other Case now under in the defendants agreed to cooperate in an investigation of reports that As Many As 12 helicopters were taken to Nicaragua Over the past chief District judge William ses Sions Beard the pleas four hours before scheduled then convicted Modesto director general of the nicaraguan air and Sidney its chief procurement sentencing was set for March Sac Boss urges new bomber development Washington a two bombers being considered for production in the next few years May not be Able to penetrate so Viet defences in the the head of the strategic air command Sac believes it is necessary to develop a new technology bomber for the 1990s and to select an interim bomber to offset the near term soviet Richard Ellis told the Senate armed services com i am being very careful How i say but the threat in the 90onward time period is such that we dont believe we can be sure of penetration of soviet defences with either the Al 11 or the Ellis production of the by bomber was can celeb in 1977 by former president who argued that cruise missiles launched from b52s could penetrate soviet air de lenses for a decade until a radar baffling stealth bomber could be an air Force study on three alternatives a variation on the a modified Al 11 or the stealth bomber is due in Washington a the postal service won approval thursday to charge 18 cents to mail a firs class 2 cents less than it the new rate can take effect on 10 Days the new rate plus increases for other types of mail were approved by the postal rate a tiny government Agency that reviews postal service requests for higher postal rate commission chairman Lee Fritschler said the rates would bring the postal service about billion less per year than the billion it had said it postmaster general William Bolger said last week the Agency May need to ask for higher rates again this year if the rate commission did not approve the full Fritschler told a Senate subcommittee thursday the commission approved the 18 cent rate for the first ounce of a firs class letter and 17 cents per ounce after on of he the commission approved rates generally Simi Lar to those requested by the postal the commission allowed a 12cent charge for Post a Penny less than the postal service the approved increases amount to 9 per cent for newspapers and 6 percent to 24 percent for advertising circulars and 3 percent for parcel Post and Book the commission expanded discounts available to business mailers who do prelim Inary sorting of their outgoing Fritschler said the new rates will be anti inflationary and in keeping with president reagans the new rates will generate the Revenue necessary for postal operations without put Ting an undue Burden on the people who pay postal he told the the commission eliminated a provision to allow the postal service to charge rates that would make up for deficits suffered in pre Vious he charged the postal service with failing to use the Money for this Pur pose in the Fritschler said the new rates can stand for several depending on the rate of inflation and other the postal service asked for the higher rates last citing rising costs for labor and if there is a villain in this that villain is Bolger said in his economic address Reagan said the postal service has been consistently unable to live within its operating it is still dependent on Federal we propose reducing those subsidies by million in 1982 to press the postal service into becoming More Rea Gan in subsequent the savings will continue to add under the Carter administrations pro posed budget for fiscal Federal subsidies to the postal service would have been James chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees spending by the postal serv said he has been assured by Bolger that the budget cuts dont threaten saturday mail Abdnor in a news release wednes Day before Reagan that Bolger had said that plans Call for increased Automa Tion in the handling of mail to absorb any budget the Agency May have to Swal the last increase in postal rates took effect May when the letter rate went from 13 to 15