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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday september 8, 1985 no talks with Plo Shustz assures Israel Washington a Secretary of state George Shultz said Friday that the United states will maintain its policy of not negotiating with he Palestine liberation organization. The Secretary also warned that those who perpetuate violence Deal themselves out of the peace  the statement by Shutlz after a meeting with Israel s finance minister would appear to Rule out talks Between assistant Secretary of state Richard w. Murphy and Nabil Sha ath an adviser to Plo chairman Yasser Arafat. With . Efforts to promote Arab israeli peace talks stalled Murphy and other Middle East experts were understood to have recommended that Murphy be sent Back to the Middle East to meet with Sha ath and other palestinians proposed by Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan. Us. Policy since 1975 bars negotiations with the Plo unless it accepts Israel s right to  w the United states is doing everything that we can to bring about direct negotiations Between an Arab interlocutor who will be Able to speak authoritatively and  Shultz added that conditions for talking with the Plo remain As they have been for Many years apparently referring to reports of possible Murphy Sha ath talks Shultz said "1 read in the Rumor Mill of what we Are thinking and i say someone is insulting us. They must think we be lost our  at the same time Shultz issued an implicit warning to the Plo which Israel has accused of increasing violence against  Don t want to see radicals use violence As a tech Nique to derail Progress he said. They can i be allowed to Stop Progress by violence. It s very Clear to us that those who perpetrate violence Deal themselves out of the peace Shultz appeared in the stale department lobby with israeli finance minister Yitzhak modal and announced that about $750 million in emergency . Economic Aid would be released. Congress has approved $1.5 billion Over two Yean in addition to $1.8 billion in military Aid and $1.2 billion in economic Aid in the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. Shultz said had weighed the moves taken by the Jerusa Lem government to Deal with inflation and other economic problems and has concluded that they have taken Strong and necessary  West hit by Winter while East shelters news update by the associated press Winter made a sneak attack in the West springing a blizzard on a Montana resort a a heat wave baked much of the Eastern United states with record temperatures some above 100 degrees across the Eastern half of the nation. Moy schoolchildren were sent Home Early Friday because of the heat. When we started school it was 80-plus in the rooms said John Cox school superintendent of Urban rial Iowa. We Aren t getting any Cooling effect in the evening. In Michigan residents of Flint deluged police with reports of damage spawned by heavy Rains Friday while gov. James Blanchard pledged to seek Federal Aid for the flood drenched City surrounding gun Sec county and neighbouring Saginaw county. Thunderstorms caused damage Esti mated at $4.7 million and knocked out Power to an estimated 56.000 Homes. Util Ity Crews worked overnight to restore Power to about 10,000 of them. Friday s storms dumped up to 7.5 inches of rain and raised the Flint River As High As 16.8 feet which is 5.8 feet above flood stage. About 40 Flint residents were forced to evacuate their Homes Friday City spokeswoman Valerie Reaves said. Molt Community College and the University of Michigan Campus at Flint were closed Friday because of impassable roads she said. In Montana officials at Granite Park chalet which had closed on monday for the season reported blizzard conditions with 6 to 8 inches on the ground by mid morning. Rene Morcy. Park aide at West Glacier said snowfall in Glacier National Park reached Between 12 and 16 inches in High est mountains and 8 to 10 inches lower mountains with rain at West Glacier and elsewhere. Lots of people Are cancelling their Back country permits bagging it and going Home she said. She knew of no weather related problems at All because there just arc t Many people out and about in higher mountains. In Canada residents of Calgary woke up Friday to find the City blanketed by a Light dusting of Snow. The Mercury Rose again into the 90s, or above in the Southern and Central Plains and along the mid Atlantic coast for the third Day of near record temperatures. High humidity made the heat tougher to take and consolidated Edison in new York City reported record Power use thursday As people cranked up their air conditioners. Carriage horses were or dered off Manhattan streets As the Mer Cury reached 94, breaking the record of 93 for sept. 5 set in 1961. The Oklahoma health department is sued a statewide heart Alert As the heat Index climbed above 105 on thursday. When temperatures reach 100 degrees and the humidity exceeds 60 percent the heat Index How hot it actually feels is at least 105. In Hawaii a Hurricane watch remained in effect for the Island of Hawaii As Hurri Cane Pauline located about 585 Miles East of Hilo moved West at 12 Mph. Ship goals would double Navy budget Washington a spending hikes unprecedented in peacetime would be required to achieve Navy shipbuilding goals the congressional budget office has told a House panel. Eric a. Hanushek Deputy budget office director told a House armed services sub committee Friday that the Navy s budget would have to increase each year by be tween 3 percent and 5 percent after inflation to meet administration goals for a 500 Ini Navy. Tach sustained growth would be unprecedented in peacetime Hanushek said adding it would mean a doubling in the Navy s budget Between 1980 and 1994. A budget increase Only Large enough to cover inflation such As Congress is Likely to approve for the entire Pentagon for next year would leave the Navy with roughly $250 billion less than necessary to meet that goal he said. The Navy declined to comment publicly on the budget office official s testimony. Hanushek and an expert from the Gener Al accounting office told the panel that while the Navy would reach its goal of hav ing 600 ships by the end of the decade it would be several years later if then before it achieved the More important g in of assembling the mixture of aircraft carriers battleships submarines and other ships it is seeking. The Navy s goal is to achieve that mix Ture by 1994, but Frank Conahan testify ing for the Gao said his Agency believes the Navy will not achieve its desired 600 ship Force mix through the year 2000." experts to study Jal Jet Bulkhead casts Seattle up the Boeing co. Mid saturday a team of experts will study casts of a faulty Bulkhead splice found in the wreckage of a Japan air lines 747 to determine if it contributed to aviation s wont single plane disaster. Jim Boynton a Boeing spokesman said casts of the splice in the plane s pressure Bulkhead will be shipped to Seattle for examination by a team of engineers. The jumbo passenger Jet slammed into a East German musician 2 sons defect to West Lucerne. Switzerland a a 62 year of Eist German musician and his two ions All members of the Dresden state or Chestra have defected to the West during a concert Lour a Lucerne official said. Do player Heinz Hermann and his sons holier 38, also a bassist and Heiko 35, a cellist were believed to have gone to West Germany said Othmar Fries director of Lucerne s International music festival. Mountain in Central Japan with 524 people aboard aug. 12. Only four people survived. The company acknowledged the faulty repairs Friday in a letter to airlines that Fly its 747 jets. Boeing also said an investigation of the crash indicates a decompression occurred during the flight due to a rupture of the Bulkhead. But Boeing also noted that the ongoing inspection of the world s 747 Fleet in the Wake of the Jal crash and the crash of an air India 747 off the coast of Ireland in june in which 329 died has not turned up inherent problems in the plane. Boynton said the Boeing team would look fully at this repair to get to the heart of what caused the Accident although you be got to remember the splice May not have had any effect on the  he said no disciplinary action was planned at this time for members of the Boeing team responsible for the faulty re pair Job. The pressure Bulkhead of a 747 separates the pressurized Cabin from the depress Rizero Tail Section. Boeing experts made the repair in the Jal Jet after inspecting the Bulkhead at the request of airline officials following a rough Landing in 1978. The Accident caused the Jet s Tail Section to drag on the runway for 1,200 feet. Some experts have theorized that last month s Jal disaster occurred when the Bulkhead gave Way causing the 747 s Cabin to suddenly decompress with such Force that steering assemblies in the Tail were blown off or disabled. Part of the plane s vertical Stabilizer was found at sea 80 Miles from the crash site. Boeing conceded that about 7 percent of the Bulkhead surface was incorrectly assembled during the repair. However it disputed a published report Friday that the problem involved a Tingle line of rivets in Stead of the double line mandated by the plane s manual. Contrary to published reports this mis Assembly does not involve a missing Row of rivets. A splice plate added during the re pair was incorrectly installed in this Small Section of the Bulkhead splice such that one of three rows of rivets did not pass through the splice  possible nominee Washington a former sen. James l. Buckley says that he it being considered for a seat on the 2nd is. Circuit court of appeals which b based in new York City and covers Federal court districts in new York Connecticut and Vermont Buckley 62, president of the government run radio free Europe and radio Liberty said he believed his name was put Forward As a possible nominee by someone within the jus Tice  my understanding is that there Are several vacancies. This a a sur prise but i m obviously giving it careful thought he said. If president Reagan nominates Buckley for the court the Nomi nation would go to the Senate for confirmation. Case continues Frank part a West German Auto critics Are still investigating the Case of Josef Menicle the nazi War criminal whose body was found in unc in Brazil a prosecutor said. Hans Eberhard Klein the Frank Furt prosecutor in charge of the Menicle Case said All results of the probe into the late nazi s death were not yet available. We Are still checking and won t let ourselves be distracted by re mors he said in a Telephone inter View. Klein whose office first started Hunting for Mengele More than 25 years ago declined to say what information was still needed before German authorities could officially Rule the nazi fugitive had died. The Skeleton of a Man presumed to be Mengele was exhumed at Emu near Sao Paulo on june 6. Anti nuclear Law Christchurch new Zea land up prime minister David Lang says the government will pass Laws later this year to formalize its ban on visits of nuclear armed or nuclear powered vessels. Speaking to reporters following an International affairs discussion at the ruling labor party s annual Confer ence Lang said the new Laws will place the new zealand prime min ister under a Legal obligation not to admit nuclear armed or nuclear powered vessels. If it could not be established that a Given vessel was not nuclear armed the prime minister could not under the Law allow the vessel to enter new zealand he said  
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