European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday september 15, 1985 vietnamese refugees pull their Small boat toward the Cor a Princess t British luxury liner that rescued ii vietnamese who left to Chi Minh City Vietnam for refugees rescued at sea the malay Peninsula on aug. 21. The refugees were rescued tuesday in the South China sea and taken ton aha Japan. Japan contradicts Boeing s report on faulty repair work on Jal Jet Titi Var i in f . Tokyo Dpi government investigators confirmed saturday that a pressure Bulkhead suspected of causing the Japan air lines jumbo Jet crash last month was incorrectly repaired in 1978 but contradicted Boeing co s account of the error. The transport ministry investigative committee in its second report on the crash of Jal flight 123, did not refer to Boeing s admission of the faulty repair last week. In Stead it offered a substantially different explanation of Fth problem. The 12-Page report did not specify what caused the Boeing 747 to veer out of control and slam into a Mountain in Central Japan on aug. 12, killing 520 people. It was the worst single aircraft Accident in history. Four people sur Vived. Investigators at the crash site found a Large crack in the Bulkhead and have focused their probe on the umbrella shaped aluminium Alloy partition which divides the pressurized passenger Cabin from the a pressurized Tail. The report appeared to confirm the theory that the Bulkhead split open and allowed pressurized air to flood the Tail bursting it. Parts of the Tail were found in water South of Tokyo after the crash. Boeing replaced the lower half of the Bulkhead after the same plane damaged its Tail in a hard Landing in "1978 Boeing abruptly admitted last week that company investigators in Japan found repair Crews had incorrectly riveted the pieces together. The japanese report also mentioned a faulty repair but directly contradicted Boeing s account of its nature. Where mechanics should have installed a single Large splice plate it said they instead used two smaller plates along one Section of the left Side of the Bulkhead. That allowed abnormal pressure to build on one of three rows of rivets used to fasten the plates. The crack was found mostly along thai Row investigators said. The pressure caused Metal fatigue that has been detected around the area with High Power Microscope they said. Boeing however said its Crew failed to Pierce the plates with one of the three rivet rows and did not admit the splice plate disassembly. Japanese investigators said the rivets had in fact been properly installed. Japanese officials expressed outrage at the Boeing admission which they criticized As premature. The report also contained further analysis of the voice and flight recorders retrieved from the wreckage but that data did not add evidence to help pinpoint a cause. Investigators said they hoped soon to be Able to make closer examinations of the wreckage of the aircraft which will be transported to Tokyo from the crash site on mount Sutake in Gumma prefecture Taj mahal bomb threats reported new Delhi a Security ii being tightened around the Taj mahal India s famous Monument to love following threats by terrorists to blow up the 17th-Century Marble Tomb an Indian newspaper reported sat urday. The Indian express the country s largest circulation daily gave no details about what Security measures had been taken at the Monument located in Agra about 120miles Southeast of new Delhi. Bui the paper said the ministry of culture was studying proposals for posting members of the territorial army a paramilitary Force around the Taj mahal and 16 other cultural and historic Sites nationwide. The newspaper gave no details about alleged threat against the Taj mahal including How they were received and who had purportedly made them. Police in Agra could not be reached for comment be cause of poor Telephone lines from the capital. Nagaria Rao director general of the archaeological Survey of India said he had no comment. Fear about terrorism have increased in India following last Mays wave of bombings on buses trains and Public places in Northern India and the recent assassination of three prominent politicians. Police have blamed sikh extremists for the attacks. The Taj mahal whose Graceful minarets and Gem lace Arches have become a Symbol of India was  by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan As a Tomb for his second an favorite wife Muntaz mahal who died giving birth to their 14th child. Both Shah Jahan and Mumuaz arc buried in the Tomb. Twa settles claim t Braj note a us a a Fonow hostage on the trans world airlines plane hijacked in Greece in june Dorothy tressler.61, of Brantn. Has accepted a rash s c ,T1.,?1 to a i Man what More than he 15,000 initially offered to her. The exact amount was not revealed. Dachau putting out new Book in attempt to improve image Dachau Germany a town officials will print a new Guidebook to improve the image of this bavarian town Best known As the site of a nazi concentration Camp. The Book will be distributed free of charge to about a million visitors who tour the Camp site Camp annually. The Book will feature such highlights As the Renais / Sancic Castle of the bavarian Royal Witt Elsbacher family the 19th-Century painters Colony and the House where the bavarian poet Ludwig Thoma was born. Paper reports Italy to build Bridge linking Mainland Sicily Rome a Italy intends to go ahead with building the world s longest suspension Bridge to link Sicily and the italian Mainland the Rome newspaper ii Messaggiero said. The government has commissioned several studies Over the past decade but no follow up action was take. The newspaper quoted transportation minister Claudio sign Orile As saying a preliminary agreement on the Long dreamed of project will be signed by next month. He said work on the project could begin in 1988. Transportation ministry spokesman Umburto Cutolo confirmed Signorile s statements. Although studies have shown that either a Bridge or Tunnel could be built sign rile said he favors a single Span Bridge across the Strait of Messina for both Railroad and car traffic. It would be a 10,800-foot Span or More than twice the length of the verrazano Narrows Bridge across new York Harbor. Signorile estimated the Bridge will Cost up to 5 trillion ire $2.5 billion. Construction of the Bridge is expected 10 take up tonight years. Hundreds of Penguin Chicks killed by ice in Antarctica Hobart Australia a hundreds of dead Emper or Penguin Chicks were found in Antarctica after a Colony of the Birds was decimated by moving ice scientists have reported. They found 600 Chicks none More than 5 weeks old and scores of crushed eggs at a rookery 40 Miles North of Australia s Mawson station. One of the  Enid Horschmann said he team found dead Chicks and broken eggs scattered every the Oliree foot High emperor Penguin distinguished by Gold and Black head plumage Breeds during Winter at about 30 colonies around the Antarctic coast she  it Stim led the Penguin Colony numbered about 10,000 before the collapse of a nearby ice Cliff. Restless Etna results in ban on tourist visits to 2 craters m,r1 Sec by a to Urist veils 0 "i1"mount Etna have been hailed indefinitely because of activity find the pm of pos Sib e lava plugs discovered inside the n vhf crate of Volcano and cracks in thew a win T5s,we" " or