European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday january. 19b6page 2 f i the stars and Stripe january Latre team trying to catch last wild condors Angeles a biologists hauled net launching cannons and radio tracking gear ind the Hills Friday id begin rounding up the last Sis wild California Ned Iris remnants of a once wide ranging clan of the Large Birds in North America. As the trapping team set Oul Environ mentalists in inc group snug i to ii Mil the Roundup to the ailing female that was the the . Fish and wildlife service alarmed by the deaths of Sis of inc vultures in the wild since fall i9s4, has decided to catch he six condors known to be fret. They would be Addi d to 21 protected in two Southern California zoos where tins Hope is that they will Breed and that some can be released Back into the wild. The Hunters set out in a plane about 9 . To comb the condors vast Range track ing signals from radio transmitters attached to each Bird when they had been captured previously for monitoring. The Carrion eating Birds whose iving Susn reaches 9ti feet Drift Over the Foothills and mountains at the Southern end of inc san Joaquin Volley which starts about 50 Miles North of los anon los. Trappers from the Candor research Center hoped to key in an one of the two females which scientists believe May be sick because she a remained in one Canyon for several weeks Saiu biologist Jesse Grantham Grantham is with the National Audubon society which along with the us. Wild life service and the California department of fish and game operates the research Center in Ventura so Miles Northwest of los Angeles. Audubon biologist May Stop helping in the Hunt after he female is trapped. The society oppo iss trapping More than condors Alexander Sproul a Duboris vice president and National research director said from his office in tavern ice Fla. We will be cooperating at least to the Point of growing the Bird hint s sick sprung said. % site s Caily sick we d wan to rap her in any Case the society wow not object to trapping iwo male whose genetic backgrounds would be valuable in the captive Breeding program if they were replaced immediately wit Somo captive Birds be said. Ground Crews hoped to establish a snipping she near the sick female and put out a coir carcass to attract her Grantham said. Once on the ground she was to be snared in a 40 by 50-foot net tossed by projectiles from four Small pipe cannons set up near the carcass. Skies were Cloudy and trappers worried thai weather might hamper their hum. The fact that condors eat Only every few Days May also be an obstacle Federal and state officials Nave reluctantly concluded that All the Birds must be brought in from the wild before they die the sin that died most recently Are presumed to be victims of Hunting Hying into Power lines and Lead poisoning from eating Bullet riddled animal carcasses. Audubon scientists feel it is important to keep guide Birds in he wild to serve a examples a captive Birds that must learn to fend Tat themselves after being released sprung mid. Another argument for maintaining a wild pop ovation he said is thai lawmakers will puss measures to protect the habitat Only if Birds Are actually there to protect Nelson others had no time to fight of re officials say , Ark. A spread w get cry through a dc-3 carrying Singer Rick Nelson and is others thai they apparently were unable 10 put it out and died of Smolc inhalation and Burns officials of it five fire extinguishers in the Cabin of the chartered plane thai crashed tuesday near do Kalb Texas were unused. National transportation safety Boardl Man Jim Burnett said thursday a. Burnett said Therewa of structural the 42-year-old plane i Imit actors planned to use in for pit Orography Friday to try to Karn if spillage reported by a truck Driver Wai Tay. By _ the Dallas county indicated that Nelson 45 his Helen Blair 27 and band members a Chapin 30 Bobby Cal Jig Jewls Ward. 35 Rick Clark rus sell 3s, and Burnt in dial examiners Are studying soot on the bodies to determine what was burning in the plane. Burned said stressing that the crash survivors Pilot Brad rank and co Pilot Kenneth Ferguson will be crucial in helping to understand the , 34, was in fair condition in St. Michael Hospital and Ferguson 40, was in serious condition in the us Var " Kansas medical Sucu Attol Grce Burns doctors have1 Sion to Lalk to Ferguson an cannot talk he nodded yes or no. Trotts. Indicating he first noticed smoke in i he Cabin Burnett to preliminary Monitor nos of the plane s transmissions the Pilot first indicated he had a problem at j0o pm. About three minutes later he indicated thai there was smoke in the cockpit and that hand Ferguson were using oxygen masks it four min inquiry prompts Pentagon to scrap controversial lie Detector Mai Washington up a pol training manual instructing examiners ask sexually explicit questions has been discarded by the Pentagon following pres sure from congressional investigators the Washington Post reported Friday. The 60-Page manual titled lesson plan for conduct of personnel screening poly graph examinations instructed examiners to question people seeking Security Clear ances about their sexual preferences ant1 Reid pious racial and Union associate a polygraph Institute trained f Clellan ala., Ushii to draft cd in 1984. by the manual to membership in such As polish american rim japanese Community clubs and to probe the extent of Blacks participation in Lana up. Question in the manual in de have you Lalion in a crowded an Arey Ujj been � As any member of your family been an alcoholic a general accounting office investigation Wai critical of the fort Mccollan training Center for going beyond the Coua intent of the polygraph pro Gram and in response the army which runs the program last month ordered the. _ j the cracking of several spy of that rocked the military Congress authorized the Pentagon to Adra Mettr lie Detector Tau to 11,000 government person Nel will Access to classified information for purposes. Pentagon officials pledged to restrict screening to counterintelligence topics i foible or personal Matten in re Digraph authority from con use of bomb Tetu has come under fire in recent of state George Shult if required to submit to such a inh or presi Dent Reagan ordered them Forth taxi of personnel. And relatives of the victims say the dc-3 had been plagued by engine Trou ble in past months and one band member reportedly had thought about quilting be cause of the problems. Vials Hare not been Able o find main the plane registered to Century wow of pm says o Nelson in May but Burnett said notral Kaech title could be found. He said it is pow the papers were lost in n bureaucratic Shu he said he could not confirm the plane had mechanical trouble. News update Soldier s parents Chicago up the of a Soldier killed in the Jacc. 12 crash of a t cd jetliner Jar Canada filed a �9.75 million Lawit thurs Day against the Ope Ralls and manufacturer of the plane f the suit. Tiled by a and Dorothy Gayton in Cook coutry circuit court claims Mcdonnell a Viglas corp wll negligent in the rating of the Jet and Arrow air inc. Sled to inspect and Ift properly. Son Anthony 21, american servicemen Jash in Gander no israeli urges Force against syr a i i a israeli officials blamed syr Wynn for a surge of Racket attacks from a capt and foreign minister Yizhak Day Catl Cal for the use of Israel s Miu might to Slop them. The attacks have sent some a vents of Northern Israel scurrying to boat shelters for the first time since Israel s j9s2 inva Sion of Lebanon. Shamir said on Israel radio that the rocketing indicated that we re in a period full of danger to Hope More Tian Hope that the if Israel defense forces Wilt not a these attacks to continue and that ump will do All it can to ensure pc tin the Galilee for its civilians Saiu Namir Leader of the right Wing liked bloc. The rockets Are tar Fuget to be bunched by both palestinian and shiite moslem guerrillas Wurfl Iraclis officials have blamed Syria an fran for inspiring and organizing israeli Media reported consultations on the Lebanon situation Lale thursday be tween prime minister Shimon Peres and defense minister Yizhak Rabin both limbers of the centrist labor party Erpf Dier in the Day thai How build out Speal Ciolk in her Tiya North of Tel Alujn Maudet is hard to pinpoint Haj Tospon Siulc tolf rocket att Kij Raum there Are so my an uncoordinated mount Canon other israeli officials said a be Contin ent of fundamentalist iranian backed Hezbollah or party of cod guerrillas to operating in Southern Lebanon. . Peacekeeping Soldier Havo reported iranian Flag exhibited in the urea although such flags previously were banned by amal a Lew Radical Shine militia. Israel sent soldiers into Lebanon from june 19s2 to june 1985 to Root out pales Tinian Guerr ilog mind been bombarding towns Obten Israel with rockets Al i foreign news reports say about israeli soldiers still patrol within a 6 to la mile deep Security zone inside the lebanese Border. But in the past 10 Days two dozen Rock cd have landed in Northern Israel and the Security zone raid military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Five rocket a were fired thursday into Ahern Israel and two wednesday but any Casu Alliea. One of the Day landed in the Center of Kiryati Shammi Dott tin Miles South of the Border and dams Mariand Homes. Tension has Israel and Syria since Israel shot do Jwo syrian soviet made Mig-23 lighters o4yna. On nov. 19. Syria then deployed ainu rail missile on its Border with Lebanon moved some into Lebanon maintain the a the Gnyla was one of 1 kilted in the found land execution n City to. A i murderer wha Vias to die in chamber monday has been i a stay of execution until Jan. _ the slate s highest court Lerald Smith who has said tie bid rather be executed than spend rest of his life on death Row was r anted the postponement by the Missouri supreme court . Consulate in Naples receives bomb threat Naples Italy map the . Con Sulalie in Naples was evacuated Friday after police received two Anonymous phone Calto warning that a bomb bad been placed in Side authorities said. The consulate was evacuated immediately after police received u phone Cau warning of the bomb shortly after 10 . Hara an unidentified male according to a police official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official said Carabiniero paramilitary police received a Simitar telephoned threat a Short while later
