European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 8, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 new air marshals take to skies in october Washington a the first class of air marshal recruits will begin training monday at a Sec Rel Federal aviation administration facility and be Riding aboard selected overseas flights by mid october the Faa says. There is a five week training program following which the new sky marshals will immediately go into service aboard . Overseas flights said sen. Lloyd bunt san d Texas who sponsored legislation to give the of a a an extra $2 million for air marshal training. Bunt san had called for armed air marshals  Over seas flights in the Wake of the hijacking of a Twa Jet in june. Terrorists who boarded inc flight at Athens eventually forced the plane to land in Beirut where they killed planes land safely after collision Over Pensacola a . Serviceman and held 39 other hostages for 17 Days. Since Airport a Ray screening of passengers and baggage began in 1973, the Faa has maintained Only a Small Force of air marshals Faa spokesman Fred Farrar said Friday. Earlier this summer armed air marshals already on the Faa payroll began Riding on a limited number of flights. Farrar said that for Security reasons the Agency is not releasing the number of air marshals in the class or the Loca Tion of the school. Air marshals previously received training at the Fri Academy in Quantico. Va., he said. Faa spokeswoman Joann Sloan said the Agency will determine on a Case by Casc basis which flights will carry air marshals. I imagine it s going to depend on what countries they Goto she said. Bunt san said he sought the new air marshal program because it seemed to work for Al Al. The israeli airline had been plagued by sky jacking but now has armed guards on every flight. Al Al now has an unprecedented Security record by Olsen said. Certainly the Best place to prevent a sky jacking is on the ground before it occurs bul we need some Back up in the  he said. Pensacola Fla. A a Navy patrol plane and a single engine private plane collided in flight a car the Pensacola Nas on Friday but both landed safely authorities said. No injuries were reported from the 8 15 . Cd collision Between the Cessna 150 and the Navy t-2 Jet said Federal aviation administration spokesman Roger Myers in Atlanta. They were Lucky said Frank Millonas watch supervisor for Faa air controllers in the Pensacola regional Airport control Tower. The civilian thought it was a civilian air base. Jack Edwards Field which is about 40 Miles West of Pensacola said it. Cmdr. John Waas a duty officer Al the Navy air terminal. They were both trying to land he said. They were somewhere Between 600 and 800 feet above the  the Cessna landed almost immediately but the Pilot of the Navy Jet remained in the air until another Navy plane was sent up to inspect it and made sure it was Unda Maged enough to make a Safe Landing Waas said. Damage to both planes was minor said Kcal Atwater a Navy spokeswoman at the base. Neither Myers nor Waas had the names of the pilots. Myers said he believed the Cessna carried Only the Pilot a civilian. The air is so crowded in the Pensacola area which has several military bases that the Faa has proposed creating what has been dubbed a radar Wall in the Florida Panhandle. Such a Wall would stretch almost from the Gulf of Mexico northward to Whiting Field the Navy s busiest air station. Air Craft would have to get Faa permission to Fly through the area and planes without iwo Way radios would be excluded. The cause of the collision will be investigated jointly by the Faa and Navy officials Myers said. Surgeon general says porno can be injurious to health Cincinnati a pornography can be considered a health problem because of its apparent psychological effect on those who commit rape and child sexual abuse says . Surgeon general c. Everett Koop. Rapists can be incited to attack women by pornographic publications and should be kept away from such materials he said Fri Day. But Koop admitted that he did not know How to single out men who could be incited by pornography. You Don t know whether someone exposed to pornography will be among those adversely affected he said. I think pornography is dangerous to some people s health. I d like to see it kept away from the people who might be adversely affected said Koop president Reagan s chief adviser on Public health matters. The surgeon general was in Cincinnati to attend the third annual National Consulta Tion on pornography a convention of anti pornography activists. Koop addressing a news conference said he did not Fink pornographic publications will be stan., a with health warnings As cigarette packs now. Dogging the school Board striking Seattle Lea cur Roxal Lanne Medley is joined by her dog Bosun she two picket the John Hay elementary school. The 3,700 school employees struck last week Over salary limits and class size among other issues. Negotiations broke Down Lite in the week and no new talks had been scheduled. Of lobby tears spraying harms health environment Washington a the marijuana lobby is criticizing the Reagan administration s renewed Herbicidal attack on the outlawed plants As a threat to the Public and the Environ ment and a desperate attempt to bolster its War on drugs. It s a sign of  says Kevin Zecic National director of Normal the National organization for the Reform of marijuana Laws which favors legalization of the  to an announcement Friday by the drug enforcement administration pc use said Normal would go to Federal court to halt the Dea s use of herbicides against marijuana growing on Federal land. Marijuana is the nation s second largest Cash crop Zeese Laid. They be tried a massive manual eradication program. That did t solve the problem. Now they re threatening the  Aba administrator John c. Lawn said the renewed chemical Campaign began Friday morning when agents Aroliee Aryl Hosatte. One of the world s most widely used herbicides to an estimated 10,000 plants in five plots in a midwestern location he declined to identify. Lawn told a news conference that an environmental Impact study done by his Agency concluded that a person would have to smoke 139 Glyph sate tainted marijuana cigarettes each Day to face a health risk. Al Heier a spokesman for the environmental Protection Agency said Epa considers Gyp Hosatte a very weak Carcinogen certainly not of the nature that we can take action against without further  attorney general Edwin Meuse Iii speaking at the american Enterprise Institute told reporters that based on the environmental Impact statement the use of cer Tain types of chemicals for the eradication of marijuana is Safe and poses no health hazards. In a memo last month Epa told Aba that it does not expect any significant risk from the level of Glyph sate to which humans Are Likely to be exposed in the Dea s Campaign. The Dea in 1983 began Herbicidal destruction of Domestic marijuana by spraying paraquat considered a More dangerous chemical on plants growing in National forests in Georgia and Kentucky. A Federal court Challenge by Normal and several environmental groups resulted in Dea agreeing in a consent decree to halt the Campaign until it conducted the Environ mental Impact study. The decree also forbids the spraying of paraquat until Epa relaxes restrictions against its use in wildlife Habi Tats. Lawn said Dea is working to get the restrictions changed but he said this would not occur in time to use it against the 1985 . Marijuana crop. In the meantime he said Dea would use Glyph sate and 2,4-d, a chemical that is widely used in agriculture. The Dea estimated that smoking 20 2,4-d-Contaminatcd marijuana cigarettes a Day could harm a person s health. Although Friday s herbicide attack was carried out on the ground Lawn said future spraying might be done by aircraft if crops Are in Remote areas where chemicals would not get into streams or affect endangered plants and animals. Lawn calling marijuana smoking a substantial health Hazard said herbicides Are a necessary tool to combat an increasing amount of pot being grown on Federal land. The marijuana cultivators now know they cannot look for a site in the Remote parts of the United slates said Lawn whose Agency is preparing an environmental study of the use of herbicides against pot plants on private property. Asked if he favored spraying chemicals on non Public land he replied "1 think we should have available to us All the Means necessary to eradicate marijuana in this  Lawn said he did not know How Many plots on Federal land would be attacked by herbicides. We have Sites under review throughout the United states he said. He declined to predict How Many pot plants might be destroyed by the herbicide Campaign. In fact he said it May be there will not be a significant increase in the number of plants killed by Dea. Normal estimates that the 1984 Domestic marijuana Harvest was Worth $16 billion making it the nation s Sec Ond most valuable crop behind Corn Al s20 billion. A desc says that about 55 percent of the pol consumed in this country is grown domestically with Aboul 30 Pyrc Cal of the Domestic crop raised on Public lands