European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday september 29, 1985 emergency Landing strip a policeman and other piers by give the Pilot of a Light plane hand in it oiling his Craft from an autobahn near Nuernberg. Germany after the Pilot nude i Safe emergency Landing when he ran out of fuel. The Pilot and his passenger were not injured and the Altae was not damaged in the incident. Police said a Motorist turned on his warning lights when he saw the plane preparing to land alerting other Drivers and molding a collision Between the plane and oncoming vehicle. Even opponents expected to obey ban on dumping nuclear waste at sea London a the worldwide voluntary ban on the dumping of nuclear waste at sea will probably be followed even by those countries which Don t support it the chairman of an International conference on Marine pollution said Friday. Geoffrey Holland chairman of the International Mari time organization s London dumping convention said the non binding Resolution adopted by delegates thursday night imposes a Large moral suasion on All countries even the ones that voted against it. The 38 countries voting at the . Agency s convention voted 25-6 with seven abstentions for a Spanish Resolution calling for an indefinite continuation of the ban first adopted in 1983, on the dumping of Low level radioactive waste on the seabed. The disposal of High level radioactive waste at sea was already forbidden by the convention the continued moratorium on Low level dumping carries no time limit which Means it will remain in Force at least until the convention meets again in october 1986. Mean while the convention will carry out studies on the scientific economic political and social aspects of the practice. Britain the United Stales Canada France South Afri Ca and Switzerland voted against the motion but Holland told reporters at the end of the convention Friday that he expected them to obey the ban. I still think that the existence of the Resolution will have a hampering effect on those people who wish to dispose of Low level radioactive waste in the Ocean from the moral and Public opinion reasons he said. Later a spokesman for Britain s ministry of agriculture said Britain one of the world s by Gecsi dumping nations was awaiting the outcome of its own scientific re search before deciding whether to resume the practice. Holland said no Low level dumping by any country has taken place since uie ban was first agreed upon at the 1983 Conven Tion. Scientific studies on the potential Marine damage caused by the practice have since proven inconclusive he added. Holland conceded that the split among delegates Over the Issue has probably harmed inc London dumping convention which was set up in 1975 to control the dumping of All wastes in International Waters. There is some danger that we will lose the ability to squeeze regulate increase control of a Low level radioactive waste and we May lose a bit of negotiating Power when we come to consider other toxic materials he said. Reacting to the Vole legislators from 21 West european countries meeting in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg France Friday endorsed the ban and urged their govern ments to develop alternative disposal methods. President of Panama resigns Panama City Panama a president Nicolas Ardito Barlotta resigned blaming opposition from politicians and Panama 5 powerful military and the first vice president was named saturday to succeed him. Ardito Barlotta s resignation Cut Short his term As Panama s first democratically elected president in 16 years. It followed reports that labor business and military leaders were pressuring him to step Down in what one lawmaker labelled a the National Assembly voted to accept the resignation and inaugurated first vice president Eric Arturo Delvalle to succeed him As provided for in the Constitution. The new head of state a 48-year-old business executive and graduate of Louisiana state University in Baton Rouge said in a Brief speech that Panama s problems place it in the midst of a social political and economic Whirlpool that presents one of the most difficult times in its Ardito Barlotta 47, an economist was elected to a five year term in october 1984 with a narrow electoral Victory widely criticized As fraudulent. He was attacked for promoting austerity measures to end the latin american country s worst economic crisis in 50 years. The nation s foreign debt is j3.8 billion or $2,000 for each of Panama s 1.9 million people and unemployment is14 percent. In a nationwide television address broadcast saturday Arduo bar Cua said Force within his governing coalition As Well As the defense Force consider that they can no longer work with my presidency to carry out the govern aft on necessary at this time to pull the country out of the difficult circumstances it is he added i wish to make a contribution to the keeping of peace m our country by separating myself from theoffice to which i was the former president belongs to the military backed revolutionary democratic party which is Allied with six minor parties in a governing coalition and holds 45 seats in the 67-scat parliament. The new president belongs to the Republican party which has Only two seats. Arturo Delvalle had no political experience prior to being sworn in As vice president last october. World today warning issued after chemical found in dutch made Candy Dusseldorf Germany a German authorities have issued a Public warning after the discovery of a hazardous chemical in a popular chewy fruit Flavoured Candy for North Rhein Westphalia environment ministry said dict Hylint glycol was found in Clown lec Ketes Fruch Gummi Candy produced in the Netherlands. The chemical is used to make Antifreeze for automobile engines. The same chemical was discovered in several austrian wines this summer. The chemical was added to sweeten the taste. . Grants $68 million to Kenya for agriculture health programs Nairobi up1 the United states has signed two agreements granting Kenya a total of $68 million for fam ily planning and Rural health services and balance of pay ment support for the East african country a statement by the . Embassy said. The first Grant totalling $43 million was earmarked to support kenyan government programs in the Rural health and family planning sector Over the next seven years. A second agreement totalling $25 million was designed to assist the Industrial and agricultural sectors of the econ omy. Just Over half of the Money will be used to finance the importing of essential Industrial commodities for the sector and si2 million will go toward importing fertilizer for the agricultural sector the embassy said. Traffic Jam keeps armoured truck away from Holdup at Bank Rome up five youths and a girl believed to be terrorists staged a Daylight Bank robbery but a traffic Jam kept Bank losses to a minimum. The gang cleaned out the tellers windows and the Safe of the National communications Bank Branch on via Campania police said. But Bank officials said the gang made off with Only 10 million lire $5,000 because the armoured truck thai nor Mally delivers a Large Quantity of Cash got stuck in a traffic Jam and did not arrive until after the robbery. Virus that killed 9 newborns in Yugoslavia is identified Belgrade a doctors have Idem Ifird a virus called Coxsackie virus b As the killer of nine Newborn babies in a Sarajevo Hospital the state run press reported. All the babies were born Between aug. 30 and sept. 6 on the third floor of the Hospital and All died betwee sept. Ii and 17. The virus which causes no pathological symptoms in adults is very dangerous in Newborn infants said the Politika newspaper. The babies suffered respiratory and cardiovascular disorders doctors said. Politika said another 10 babies were treated at the hos Pital with similar symptoms of the illness but they were not in danger. Yugoslav government institutes new hikes in prices sales tax Belgrade. Yugoslavia a yugoslavs have been hit by another wave of Price hikes As part of a new fund raising Effort by the Federal government. An increase in the sales tax involved a whole Range of commodities including tobacco products alcoholic and soft drinks automobiles some perfumes and cosmetic products precious stones leather fur Gold and Coffee. The sales tax hike alone was expected to result in additional Revenue estimated at 18.2 billion dinars or some $62 million. Company from Italy to build $1 billion factory for soviets Moscow up the soviet Union has announced it a buying a billion Dollar factory from Italy to produce the pipe badly needed to carry Oil and Gas from the Tui Tion s Remote Wells. The announcement by the official Tasa news Agency called it a under which the italian con tractor will be responsible for supervising All aspects of building the huge factory in the Southern soviet Union. The italian firm Taii Pianti is to build a Plant to produce seamless pipe for the Oil and Gas Industry in the City of Volz sky near Volgograd under the turn key terms in 1985-88," Tass said. The Plant s annual output capacity will total 720 000 tons of pipes and 210,000 tons of cast pipe billets steel bars Tass said
