European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Carbide defends Gas leak notification system a Union Carbide defended itself monday against criticism of its emergency notification procedures during a Poison Gas leak that injured 135 but company officials conceded that work ers at first thought the leak was not a and delayed notifying the chemical involved in sundays Aldi carb is rated on a toxicity scale in the same class As Methyl which killed More than people after it leaked at a Carbide Plant in according to a company memo disclosed by an aide to Henry the company said the rating includes chemicals of varying and that it does not consider Aldi carb oxime As toxic As doctors said those exposed at Institute were expected to recover a photo victims of Union Carbide chemical leak at sunday Are taken to local hospitals by Carbide said it would investigate the cause of Sun Days while county officials said they would investigate the company emergency the system didst said Charleston mayor Mike who joined mayors from Dunbar and other communities in criticizing the warn ing but Carbide officials disputed the with Plant manager Hank Karawan saying the plants alarm was activated within 60 seconds of the leaks being discovered at Kanawha county emergency officials were not Noti fied for 20 minutes until because at that time we did not believe the emergency would affect the Community because the Cloud was hovering Over the said part of the delay was based on a computer system which showed the leak passing Back Over the Karawan he said the Community warning whistle at the Institute fire station was sounded shortly before 10 but emergency broadcast systems first report want broadcast until said Kanawha Valley emergency services coordinator Bill by that White Gas Cloud already was settling on forcing the Community Resi dents to flee or Seal themselves inside their thousands stayed indoors for two and More than 300 were checked at an emergency medical Center set up two Miles More than 130 were treated at hospitals for burning throats and and 13 remained hospitalized doctors predicted Quick but Stanley one of six Carbide workers was in serious condition with Eye the rest were in satisfactory Carbide will pay the medical expenses of those in said company spokesman Dick Henderson said Plant workers promptly notified the emergency services office and recommended a first stage Alert in which sirens warn people to go shut windows and doors and turn off air company officials believe the leak occurred when steam was somehow introduced into a storage tank containing 500 Gallons of the pesticide but the source of the steam has not been Karawan accused sex Fri agent disliked vote transcribing Job los Angeles a a former Fri agent charged with spying for the soviet Union was unhappy with his desk Job Tran scribing intelligence an Fri agent testified John a member of the Bis for eign counterintelligence unit working on soviet involved told a Federal court jury that Richard Miller was dissatisfied with the Rote task and complained about the volume of the first Fri agent charged with is accused of conspiring with two russian emigres to pass secret documents to the soviet in late Miller was assigned to Tran scribe tapes from court authorized wire Justice Miller said that with 20 years he deserved More respond Justice defense attorney Stanley Greenberg has portrayed Miller As an inept agent trying to Salvage his failing career by trying to be come a double agent with Nikolay and Svetlana the Ogorodnikova pleaded guilty june 25 in an earlier trial to conspiring with was an agent of a far lower level of intelligence than required for his Greenberg said at the Start of the trial last he said Miller had a reputation As a get this image of Efrem Zimbalist out of your mind and substitute Ralph Kram without the Greenberg told sexual revolution losing steam College women study says new York a the sexual Revo Lution has bottomed according to a sociologist who says his 21year study Indi Cates More College women Are virgins today than in the during the College women tried to electrocuted in Utility Power station Detroit a a 10yearold boy was electrocuted inside a Detroit Public lighting commission Power station he and some friends used As a police Ethan Taylor of Detroit grabbed a High voltage breaking the electrical police the Jolt sent volts through the youths body and caused a Power outage in the nearby Herman gardens housing pro eight children regularly used the build ing As a entering by climbing on a 55gallon steel drum and crawling through a foot High opening about 7 feet off the investigators imitate the Carefree masculine attitude to Ward premarital says Robert professor of sociology at Miami University in he and colleague Sherry Corbett studied sexual behaviour on that Campus Over 21 interviewing More than in 75 percent of the women they interviewed were by that percentage had plunged to nearly equal to that of their male but in the trend began to reverse with 43 percent of the women reporting them selves to be compared with 28 per cent of the among the reasons Sherwin found for More conservative sexual behaviour were fear of herpes and other venereal and the fact that the which has become the preferred method of birth con Doest easily lend itself to unplanned bursts of so what happened to the sexual revolution i think its bottomed Sherwin says in the september Issue of Glamour mag while were getting an ebb and flow Between standards endorsing anything goes to nothing should i think there has been a movement toward the lat Ter but Sherwin said that does not mean society is heading Back to the standards of the when women were expected to remain Chaste until their wedding Many years there was a tyranny that you had to be a he then we went through a period when there was another tyranny you had to be Promiscuo i think were getting a relaxing of both allowing for More self i think the social Standard is broader and gives people a lot More former envoy Dies fort a John Stanley who served As ambassador to the Netherland during presi Dent Kennedy has died Here at the age of Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago 1945 talk of a possible civil War or revolution in China was heard an american radio correspondent reported in a new York radio report said japanese troops remaining on the Solomon islands have 30 years ago today 1955 Thomas Nobel prizewinning suffered a heart at tack and died in the 80yearold authors Best known works were magic Joseph and his and 20 years ago today 1965 embattled police in los Angeles asked for National guard a Mored troops to help put Down bloody riot ing and looting by More than 100 persons have been injured since the racially tense Watts District erupted three Days to years ago foday 1975 Anthony Mcauliffe the defiant acting com Mander of the Holst airborne div whose re tort was nuts to a German ultimatum of surrender at died of leukaemia in Walter Reed general he was