European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1985 austrian firm is casualty of wine scandal Vienna a after amassing Short term debts in the a wine bottler and marketer was declared bankrupt tues Day the first known financial casualty of the adulterate Edwinc the credit Protection which rep resents creditors at Legal said a court had accepted a bankruptcy application filed last week by the Brueder Grill in Pels am 37 Miles North West from More than austrians Are Esti mated to earn part or All of their living from bottling or Selling and the scandal has touched off fears among Many of a woman answering the Telephone at the company said no one was available to com there Hast been anyone Here for said the who refused to give her the creditors association said permanent assets were valued at about 15 million Schil Lings against debts of 58 million schillings the firm employs about 100 the Josef and Richard Are in investigative custody in connection with the practice of cutting wine with Dieth Ylene health experts say the Antifreeze component May cause chronic kidney dam age and can be fatal if enough is forty austrian arrest warrants were is sued in the and More than 150 people were under investigation by no charges have been More than 15 million liners of wine have been impounded by austrian and millions More have been impounded West the main on Mon Day issued a list of 830 doctored of which 803 were austrian and 27 of the hundreds of adulterated wines on an austrian health ministry More than 60 were bottled or sold by Brueder the wine which broke in spread to other drinks earlier this after Laboratory analysis revealed die thy Lene glycol in several brands of grape juice and an austrian the less easily traced than was added As a germans asked to retire Germany a a state government min ister in the win growing state of Rheinland Pfalz was asked to retire and and two lower officials were transferred becoming the first political victims of the Rheinland Pfalz Bernhard Vogel said he had asked agriculture and wine minister Ferdinand Stark to retire because of his handling of the Han Bernd the chief of the wine department in the states agriculture and his Josef were transferred to other Vogel he told reporters after a Cabinet session that Stark had reacted wrongly and with poor judgment to the Dis covery of adulterated wines imported from the West German health ministry on monday listed 27 German and 803 austrian wines found to contain a potentially lethal chemical used in More than 4 million Gallons of wine laced with the Dieth Ylene have been impounded in aus Tria and Germany this and Germany issued an urgent warning to Consumers not to drink austrian last Germany stopped imports of austrian grape juice and warned Consumers not to drink the juice already in the country after tests found three brands contained dangerous amounts of the austrian authorities have arrested 33 people in connection with the scandal and Are investigating More than Iso derailment spills deadly mixture Date a dozens of people remained out of their Homes tues Day after a train derailment spilled a deadly mixture of toxic chemicals and started a fire so hot it melted the rails and the wheels of some authorities the 70car Santa be train flipped 27 cars off the tracks Early engulfing 11 in flames after several officials at least 250 residents of three towns were authorities said there were no but at least one cow and several Birds were killed by the the train was hauling 46 containers filled with about 30 hazardous including hydrochloric meth butyl and alcohol said Tom a spokesman for the Railroad in los he said the benzine Proba Bly caused the the intense heat melted the rails and the wheels of some of the said Mohave county sheriffs Clark it really Felt like an earthquake had said Carole of there was a series of four explosions to begin and the fifth one just totally rocked the we went to the front door and looked and Here is this whole string of tankers on nearby Highway about 30 Miles Northeast of was closed As a pre the cause of the predawn Accident was not immediately Buckley it could be one of Many Morrell said smoke billowed All Over the in All and it kept shifting because the wind kept at least 250 residents of Truxton and Hackberry were transported to red Cross centers in Kingman and peach All but the Valentine residents re turned Home late train traffic was being detoured along alternate Buckley spilled chemical is safely contained Cam a a lon spill of a toxic chemical considered extremely dangerous was contained be fore it caused major authorities More than 100 residents were forced to evacuate a area around a chemical company monday after a Fork lift backed into and ruptured a pipe to a storage police Art Lewandowski the substance was which is extremely dangerous if Lewan Dowski aniline is a oily liquid used in making varnishes and rocket the chemical drained into a sewage system four people were taken to our lady of Lourdes medical Center for treatment after being exposed to the police All were held briefly for Obser vation and said nursing supervisor Peggy the evacuated residents returned to their Homes about six hours after the said Harry the Accident occurred at Kohns Tamm which makes colors for drugs and cleanup Crews quickly dumped Sand on a 50by100foot area to absorb most of the chemical before it reached the sewer said spokesman Jim Staples of the department of environmental some of it May have made it Down the but it have been a Heck of a he the state department of environmental Protection monitored the and representatives were at the sewage Plant to see if the toxic substance entered the officials said initial concern focused on the possibility of fumes blowing toward an apartment Complex and two blocks of sin Gle family it could have been but i think we got Here fast enough and got every thing under City official Bill Murray news tobacco plaintiff Dies Boston a a Harvard University professor who sued the tobacco Institute and three tobacco claiming they failed to warn him of the dangers of has died of lung John died at the Dan Farber cancer Institute in he had appeared at a Boston news conference june 19 to announce the filing of a million suit against the tobacco Liggett group Philip Morris and american brands about 30 similar suits have been filed too much paper work Washington a presi Dent Reagan says his administration has Cut Back on the More intrusive and burdensome Federal regulations and paper work but has told con Gress that More needs to be in a message to the president said businesses and individuals were spending nearly 2 billion hours annually at a Cost of billion to satisfy Federal paperwork require ments by toxic closes capital Beltway a police Al Lowed some 300 residents to return to their Homes Early tuesday after authorities Emp tied a Tanker that leaked hazardous materials onto the Busy capital the spill snarled rus hour traffic in this suburb of the the regions main express was reopened at 3 after the clean ing solvent chemicals were cleaned from the Road and removed in a different said a Virginia state police All the excess has been weve got it All cleaned he adding that no health threat the estimated 500gallon which occurred at the height of mondays evening Rush caused a traffic Fairfax county officials closed Down a two mile stretch of the Beltway and evacuated a Mil Square area around the two injuries were one Man was treated at Fairfax and a woman was treated at the scene and re police both victims suffered irritated officials the Fairfax county fire department worked with the county emergency operations Center and a hazardous materials team from the state police to clean up the spill before the morning Rush the Tanker owned by applied was hauling a Load of Industry a strength cleaning solvents from the naval Yard to a new Jersey treatment Center when the Driver discovered the leak in the underside of the county fire department spokeswoman Pam Weiger hazardous materials workers in yellow protective suits tried to contain the flowing chemicals while a second truck was brought to the scene to Transfer the 3rd inf div Soldier killed in Accident Germany a 3rd inf div Soldier was killed monday afternoon when he was run Over by a 10ton tractor trailer a division spokesman the soldiers name is being withheld pending notification of next of the spokesman the Accident occurred monday afternoon on Range 117 at the Grafe Woehr training the Soldier was taken to the army Hospital in but was dead on the spokesman he died of severe head and Chest he corrections an incorrect number was printed Mon Day on the letters to the editor Page for the Wiesbaden Community Point of Contact to report problems with television reception in that the Correct numbers Are ets or civilian the stars and stripes regrets the
