European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March stateside flames spurt through the rubble outside an explosion damaged store in los a photo los Angeles clothing store blast is followed by gasped flames los Angeles a fires fed by a mysterious possibly produced by abandoned Oil burned in hedgerows monday after an explosion ripped through a clothing store and injured 21 officials two of the injured were in critical according to Gas seeping through the ground fuelled flames that danced several inches High along the sidewalks on two sides of the demolished sometimes leaping sever Al feet into the air through cracks and firefighters shut off Mains that could be fueling the and concern grew that an underground pocket of Gas or abandoned Well was the fire department spokesman de Reed said at least one employee at the shattered Ross dress Orless store was missing hours after the 5 blast and hundreds of people in a one lock area surrounding the store were evacuated As officials feared More there was debris a mile in the it said Kim who works at Mordigan Nursery just across the Street from the explosion crumbled the front off the Ross shattered windows a Block away and cracked the pave ment around the flames from the unidentified Gas flickered in the pavement cracks As rescuers dug through the looking for theres a possibility there Are More victims in Reed said of the demolished Jim division manager for Southern California said what we have found just recently in our  lab reports is that it if not a but it want known what kind of Gas it the Way its it appears to be a methane based he adding that abandoned Oil Wells in the area May have produced we have Learned in our experience that those Wells have leaked in the he fumes also were detected in a Kmart store across the and fire officials vented both stores with spar free according to Gas company service representative John Amos said he went into the basement of the Kmart and found about two inches of water in some areas of the and Gas is seeping up through the he said the Gas lacks the odor which the Gas company puts into its Gas but has a sewer Type More than 100 backed by 16 battled the said fireman David six ambulances transported 14 of the victims to Cedars Sinai medical Brotman memorial hol Lywood presbyterian Hospital and Urcla medical and seven victims went to hospitals on their own with lesser Wells Diana is listed in critical condition at Brot Man with secondhand third degree and Michael suffered Burns Over 30 percent of his body and also is in critical a Hospital spokeswoman most other victims were treated for minor injuries and Hospital officials an unidentified Security guard told firefighters that at least 75 and in the Ross store at the time of the foreign service official sentenced for embezzlement Washington up a foreign service officer was sentenced to six months in prison Friday for embezzlement and capping a fou year investigation into an elaborate Money laundering and foreign Exchange Walter of District an employee of the Agency for International development who had served in Somalia As a budget officer with the Mission had been found guilty in february of eight counts of embezzlement and six of mail he faced a possible maximum sentence of 110 judge Albert Bryan of the District court in sentenced costello to five years imprison with All but six months suspended and three years according to the costello used his position As budget and fiscal officer to divert More than 100 Worth More than to his personal Bank account in then he would draw on that account to buy Somalia shillings on the Black Market and pay the Money Back to the Aid Mission in at the much lower official rate of when the scheme was first uncovered in costello was dismissed from the foreign but he was re instated by a grievance Board that decided the government had not proved he had made a personal burglary suspect shows police he was no second Story Man Chicago a burglary suspect wrestled out of a Security guards dived through a window and fell five floors then hobbled Only to be i saw it and i still dont believe police officer Jim Morris said of the five Story leap by Lorenzo who was taken into custody after his a building Security guard was holding Kent when he crashing headfirst through a closed window of the West Side Kent landed on his feet and staggered about 40 Yards before he was caught by Morris charged with was in Good condition at Cook county a spokesman dog has his Day As part goers celebrate Winston recovery new a More than 100 people sipped and the guest of Honor gnawed on a rubber Bone at a party for an English bulldog that recovered from two shots one in the head and one in a Hind the named was saved after ranging from children to a retired police sent in More than for the surgery needed to repair his shattered Winston has been adopted by a family who wishes to remain in the dog was found wounded in new to and wearing no identification shelter officials had said Winston would have to be put to sleep unless they obtained to pay for the besides he received offers of the Eastchester family that boarded Winston while he recuperated from surgery will keep him Shel Ter officials the dogs medical expenses actually amounted to said humane society president Audrey she said the Money left Over would be set aside in a fund to treat other abused no motive for the shooting was recruiters for Cia becoming popular again on campuses los Angeles up recruiters for the once targets of abuse and protest at colleges and universities across the have become popular on Cam career Counselor said in an article published the Welcome mat is out on campuses nationwide for intelligence Agency who said they Are attract ing graduates similar to those who would be hired by major career Counselor said a surge in patriotism in recent years apparently accounts for the shift in attitude about Cia presence on career recruiters for the intelligence Agency were often forced away from colleges and universities by opponents of the Vietnam War during the the Cia has greatly increased activity on our and were quite pleased about said Sharon the career opportunities office director at the University of Southern