European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday february 17,1988 alcohol old gear make flying unsafe soviets say Moscow a the ministry of civil aviation which oversees the soviet airline Aeroflot was criticized publicly for the second time in a week saturday when an aviation newspaper revealed malpractices endangering air safely. Routine checks by the office of the National prosecutor showed that drunkenness failure to modernize and Viola Tion of technical rules have made flying unsafe in the Ukraine Georgia the far East Western Siberia the Krasnoyarsk Region of Central Siberia and the Central asian Republic or Uzbekistan the newspaper Voz Dushny trans port air transport said. The news followed publication tuesday of a Central committee report that took the rare step of reprimanding a minister by name. Minister of civil aviation Boris p. Pugayev was strictly punished in connection with harassment by govern ment officials of editors and reporters who wrote critical articles in Voz Dushny transport and the newspaper Vodnoy transport water transport. Soviet liner sinks 20 feared dead Many missing Wellington new zealand up a soviet luxury liner with More than 700 people aboard slammed into rocks and Sank sunday off new Zea land s South Island. Twenty Crew members were feared drowned and As Many As 70 people were missing. The 20,000-ton Mikhail Lermontov was cruising through the fjord like area Between Tasman Bay an the Cook Strait when it struck the rocks and Sank 25 Miles Northwest of Wellington at 6 . The soviet vessel carrying an estimated 400 Pas sengers most of them elderly australians was split open by the Impact and water crashed into the engine room shutting Down both engines. The vessel s soviet Captain ignored the pleas of anew zealand Pilot to immediately abandon ship and allowed the liner to Drift for several hours in 20-knot winds and heavy rain in an attempt to Beach it officials said the ship Sank in 100 feet of water five hours after striking rocks off the Northern coast of new zealand s South Island. Passengers and Crew members were Low ered into the sea in the dark As the boat look on water. Passengers said the ship s Crew appeared unconcerned by the collision and poured the passengers cock tails during the hours after the ship collided with the rocks. They told us All to go upstairs and poured us cock tails said Tim Johnson 70, of Sydney Australia. The Captain tried to Beach the ship and at first it looked As though it was successful and they poured us More new zealand Navy Cape. Brian Perry said it was believed 20 members of the ship s 340-person Crew 330 soviets and 10 australians went Down with the vessel. The Central committee report said the articles concerned improvement of labor discipline and in aviation investment and improvement of passenger services. The saturday report was similarly sparse in detail naming Only the regions where air safety was found deficient. It said drunkenness was a particular problem in flying connected with agriculture. This concerns mostly the spraying of crops. Pilots on passenger planes like Drivers of official cars in the soviet Union must by Law undergo strict checks to ensure they Are sober before they Fly. The prosecutors report urged the ministry of civil aviation and the ministry of the aviation Industry to under take a significant strengthening of control Over civilian flying. Westerners often criticize safety standards on Aeroflot. Soviet civil aviation officials say the airline the world s largest has As Good a safety record As Western carriers. A Pawl building evidence forensic scientist Nelson mass uni in Rio de Janeiro Brazil holds facial reconstruction from a skill found last year in Robu Brazil. Mussini is trying to add to the evidence that toe remains Are those of Nad War criminal Joseph Mengele. World today anti terrorist unit added to boost Athens Airport Security Athens Greece a Security at Athens International Airport has been bolstered with the addition of a 40 member anti terrorist unit a police spokesman said. The spokesman said members of the elite police special missions platoon were permanently assigned to the air port scene of two hijackings in the past nine months. He said they would reinforce the More than 500 police already assigned to the Airport. Security at Athens Airport was significantly increased following last june s hijacking of a Rome bound Twa jetliner from Athens and the similar takeover of an Egypt Tair jetliner flying from Here to Cairo Egypt five months later. Tylenol sales banned in Italy until . Completes probe Rome Dpi the italian health ministry has banned the Sale of the pain killer drug tylenol dered the confiscation of existing supplies pending an out come of the . Investigation into cyanide tainted Sam Ples of the drug. A health ministry statement said the action was taken As soon As the ministry was informed about the situation in the United states where a woman died after consuming the tainted tylenol. It said that As a precautionary measure the Sale of the drug is banned in Italy and has been withdrawn from the italian Market. Restitution urged for gypsies used by nazis As slave labourers Frankfurt a a Gypsy organization has appealed to German Industry to make restitution to gypsies who were forced labourers during the nazi third Reich. In a statement issued in Frankfurt the Central Council of German gypsies said the industries who used slave labourers should establish a fund for the workers and their survivors. Roman Rose chairman of the Council said some 500 gypsies Are still alive who were slave labourers for various German industries Between 933-45. Unlike jewish slave labourers most of the gypsies have never received compensation for their work he said. An estimated 500,000 people including jews gypsies and slaves from occupied territories were forced labourers under he nazis. Rose said that jewish victims have received More than so million Marks $21.2 million in restitution from Ger Man Industry since the War but the plight of the gypsies has been ignored. A certificate to Paradise reportedly found on iranians Kuwait a pieces of paper signed by 40 Irani an mullahs and entitled a certificate to Paradise have been found in the pockets of a number of iranian soldiers killed in the latest offensive against Iraq the kuwaiti newspaper Al Watan has reported. The paper s correspondent who toured the iraqi front said the document was believed to be carried by most iranian combatants. The purported certificate gives the bearer guarantees that the fighter would go to Paradise upon martyrdom in Battle with Iraq the paper said. Canada says Carcinogen fraces found in 3 . Bourbons Washington not three brands of Bourbon imported into Canada have been found to contain Small amounts of Ethyl Carbamate a cancer causing sub stance according to Canadian health officials. The finding has prompted provincial governments to suspend sales of the brands in Canada while the United states begins its own inquiry. The chemical is present in such tiny amounts that neither the Canadian nor the . Authorities regard it As an immediate health threat. The brands Are Jim beam Ezra Brooks and Lionstone s Snow Goose. Spokesmen for distillers who could be reached denied that their Bourbon contained any dangerous Levels of Ethyl Carba mate and criticized the Canadian finding. Ross Elliot of the Canadian department of health and welfare said All three brands exceeded the permissible Ethyl Carbamate level of 150 parts per billion. Jim beam he said tested at 275 parts per billion Ezra Brooks at 175 and Snow Goose at 260. It is not a Gross health Hazard in the Short term he said. We Are concerned about Long term William Grigg a spokesman for the food and drug administration said tests in the United states had yielded much lower Levels 23 or 68 parts per billion for Jim beam depending on its proof and 25 parts per billion for Ezra Brooks. Data for Snow Goose were not immediately Avail Able he said. Unlike Canada Grigg said the United states has not established any allowable level of Ethyl Carbamate because american official were unaware that there was any in Bourbon. It is not known How it gets in the Whis key Grigg said. If it gets there As an additive Zero tolerance is permitted he said it is possible that Canadian test ing methods Are not As Good As american methods but Elliot said he would Challenge such a suggestion. We Are right he asserted. Elliot said Canadian officials suspected that Ethyl Carbamate was formed from the use of nutrients to enhance the action of yeast in the fermentation process but representatives of american distillers denied this. Joseph j. Winkler a vice president of the James b. Beam distilling co., the largest maker of Bourbon said we Are aware of no tests that purport to show the presence of Ethyl Carbamate in beam Bourbon in excess of Trace amounts. Ethyl Carbamate has been alleged to be a potential Carcinogen. I based on tests of Laboratory animals Given massive dosage it is reported to be present in Many alcoholic beverages and other com Mon foods such As Orange juice and bread. A similar position was taken by Paul l. Kraus executive vice president of Bart brands one of two distillers that Supply Bourbon to a company that repackaged the whisky in a fancy bottle under the Snow Goose Brand. Kraus said his company bad tested its Bourbon for the presence of Ethyl Carba mate and the Levels were half those the canadians reported. He referred to the Ca Nadian action As a storm in a water Glass and said of the Canadian health officials those people Are officials at heaven Hill the other maker of Bourbon for the Snow Goose bottles and at Ezra Brooks did not return Telephone Calls seeking comment. T
