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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. September 2, 1985 Engineer charged in train crash chateau Roux France a a judge in this Central French City charged the Engineer of a train with involuntary manslaughter sunday for failing to slow his passenger train in a construction zone causing a derailment and crash that resulted m 42 deaths. The Oliver Jean Yves Brisset 37, who admitted to police that he was travelling too fast in to 20-Mph zone Early saturday morn ing was released under judicial control. Brisset s southbound Paris port Bou express derailed at 12 08 . Saturday just after passing through the station at Argen ton sur Creuse and was struck moments later by a mail train travelling in the oppo site direction on another track. Forty two people were killed in the Acci Dent and scores injured. Thirty eight of the injured were hospitalized with 10 reported in critical condition. The official death toll was one less than reported earlier. Officials said one seriously injured passenger had been counted among Fie dead. Normal traffic resumes rail traffic at Argentos South of Cha eau Roux returned to Normal sunday eighty two people have died in three French railway accidents in the past two months. Two of those accidents allegedly involved human error. On aug. 3, 32 people died in a collision of two trains at Flau Jac. A stationmaster has been charged with manslaughter in that incident. On july 5, a be Havre Paris train hit a truck at a level crossing killing eight people. Officials of the state run Railroad say studies Are being planned to examine ways of strictly enforcing safety rules. At Argentos City Hall Many families from France England and spam continued to arrive seeking news of relatives that May have been on the train. Conviction on involuntary manslaughter charges could Lead to a prison term of three months to two years and fines of Between $600 and $3,500. Scientists locate titanic paper says London a a secret search by american and French scientists appears to have located the wreck of the titanic 500 Miles South of St. Johns newfound land the observer newspaper reported sunday. The Ondon weekly said the search by an underwater robot submersible operating from the . Navy Survey ship Knorr has been going on since the begin Ning of july amid tight Security. The paper quoted an unidentified spokesman for Woods Hole Oceano graphic institution in Massachusetts As confirming that the search was being conducted and that one site had been Dis covered that was very  the titanic. 45,000-ton Pride of Impe rial Britain s White Star line was the biggest and most luxurious cruise liner afloat when it struck an iceberg the night of april 14, 1912, on its Maiden voyage. It Sank with the loss of 1,513 lives. With its double Bottom and watertight bulkheads it had been touted As unsinkable. On Board the Knorr Are three Navy personnel two representatives from National geographic Magazine a team from Woods Hole led by or. Bob Ballard head of its deep submergence lab and three French scientist from the Institute of research for exploration of the sea the newspaper said. Last Spring according to the paper transponders were Laid on the Ocean bed. Then the submersible began criss Cross ing a 100-Square-mile Patch of Ocean within which the titanic a believed to have radioed its last position report the world s first Ever sos message. The titanic s Story has inspired four films and countless books not Only be cause of the immensity of the tragedy but because of the opulence of its passengers. Ten millionaires including John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim were aboard. Among the valuables that Sank with the ship were the de Beer diamonds Worth millions of dollars even at 1912 prices and a priceless copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A number of unsuccessful attempts have been made to locate the wreck in Cli irling one by Columbia University searchers financed by Texas Ossa a Grimm two years ago. Germans rally against Star wars from press dispatches and staff reports Munich West germans marked the anniversary of the beginning of world War ii sunday with rallies opposing the american strategic defense initiative re search program. Former Chancellor Willy Brandt the chairman of the social democratic party and Ernst Breit head of the German labor federation addressed the main rallies. For the second straight Day the anti nuclear movement blockaded a . Army Pershing ii missile base. Instead of Star wars we want peace on Earth Breit told a rally outside West Berlin s Kaiser Wilhelm memorial Church. The Union said 8,000 attended the rally. Police said 3,000. Brandt at a rally in Munich called on the German government to refi be to participate in the american plan for space based antinuclear defences. He also said that if his party returns to Power it will negotiate the removal of the profusion of its. Missiles in Germany. It must become government policy As Many German scientists demand that the Federal Republic refuse to participate in the militarization of space Brandt said. The annual rallies were held on what the labor Union and the social democrats called anti War Day the anniversary of the Ger Man invasion of Poland on sept. 1,1939. This year the dominating theme was opposition to the american ski research program. The theme and Brandt were criticized by Gerold Tandler general Secretary of the bavarian Branch of Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl s Christian democratic party. He said Brandt minimized the dangers of soviet policy and he accused the social democrats of one sided criticism of the United states. The German anti nuclear movement observed the anniversary sunday with a two hour blockade of a Pershing Al missile base of the us. Army s 56th Field arty at Mut Langen 35 Miles East of Stuttgart. There were no incidents sunday but late saturday police arrested 43 peop1 for trying to prevent a . Vehicle from Leav ing the base. They were released after their names were taken for possible prosecution. An army spokesman told the stars and stripes that he was aware of Only one Fiack mourners kill 2 Whites in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a Black Mou Nurs returning from a Fune ral for riot victims attacked and killed two Whites and badly wounded two other Whites police said sunday. The attack followed a funeral for 18 Mack riot victims attended by about 50,000 people in Duncan Village a Black area of East London at the Indian Ocean. Wit Nesses said clergymen at the service Saver the life of a suspected Black police informed whom the crowd was about to set alight in a Rieuf 1 punishment for collaborators about 1,500 Black miners began a strike saturday night at a Small Coal mine 24 hours ahead of the scheduled walkout at seven Gold and owl mines where 60,000 Black miners work said Howard Gabriels an official of the Black National Union of mineworkers. He said the night shift at the Transvaal navigation collieries refused to go to work and toe entire Day shift sunday followed suit closing Down the mine at wit Bank 80 mile / then set the car on fire burning one of the East of Johannesburg. The other six mines j injured men to death police said recipient of artificial heart improving Tucson Ariz. Up Michael Drummond at 25 the youngest artificial heart recipient improved dramatically saturday when doctors increased the flow of blood and his temperature went Down to a Normal Range his surgeon said. Drummond had been running a Low Grade fever which doctors at the univer sity of Arizona medical Center said is not uncommon for patients undergoing open heart surgery. They had expressed great concern Friday about the fever and said it might make him unsuitable for a human heart transplant. Or. Jack c. Copeland who headed the team that inserted a Jarvik-7 Bridge to life mechanical heart thursday said the increased blood flow has Given drum mond a face color that is Nice and  but Copeland now is worried about the buildup of fluids in Druin mond s lungs which could develop into pneumonia. Drummond ii still listed in critical but stable condition. Copeland said that because Drummond is a Large Man the parts of the body farthest from the polyurethane mechanical heart were not getting enough blood. We focused our attention too much on the  and not enough on the patient said Copeland who Hopes to find a donor heart to replace the mechanical one within seven to 24 Days. Copeland said the reason Why the blood flow bad not been turned up earlier was that doctors were afraid that blood cells might be destroyed. A pleased As Copeland seemed to be about Drummond s improved color and the drop of his temperature from 102.5 degrees to the Normal Range be expressed concern about the possibility of pneumonia. That would be a setback of sorts Copeland said. Drummond s father Clarence said his son was scared but is doing Well. He s hanging on till he gets one donor heart. Our son is still alive so we feel much better. When we brought him Down Here from Phoenix his color was yellow. Today he s looking great it s been hell. It s been rough a Numond who is not married was an assistant manager of a Phoenix food store until forced to take medical leave last March. He was admitted to the medical Center last monday and Copeland decided to implant the artificial heart on thursday because of the Young Man s deteriorating condition. Vehicle being temporarily blockaded sat urday night an army Volkswagen Van. The blockade began saturday at 8 sun., and police did not intervene until about 11 . At one time about 150 people sat in the Road and blocked both entrances to the installation. Some people had been demonstrating near the Post sunday the army spokes Man said but he was unable to confirm the number of demonstrators. The base has been a target of demonstrations since the first medium Range Pershing ii nuclear missiles arrival in no vember 1983. Germany is scheduled to get All of the 108 Pershing ii missiles nato agreed in 1979 to deploy in Western Europe to counter soviet ss-20 missiles already in place. Germany also is scheduled to get 96 of 464 cruise missiles. Were due to join the walkout at 8 ., coded by the Union after the mine owners declined to improve previous pay Offen. 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