European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q foreign car Gray Market losing steam Page 2 d 60,000 Usa eur gis to pick regiment they want Page 2 d car Deal Between gis Heads to court Page 3 the stars anti stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 306 wednesday february 19, 1986 o., q 8693 a hundreds flee floods in West residents  Napa calif., North  san Francisco Lake to a boat As floodwaters drive them from their Home. By the associated press another powerful Pacific so Nam pounded the West tuesday As the heaviest rain in three decades unleashed floods that forced hundreds to flee and released mudslides and avalanches that Cut off towns and swept away houses. Waves  storms powered by winds up to 100 Mph have left at least six people dead and three missing since striking the coast a week ago. More than 18 inches  rain and 8 feet  Snow have hit some areas since the storms arrived. The National guard was mobilized in the Northwestern Nevada counties  Washoe Lyon Douglas and Carson City All affected by gov. Richard Bryan s declaration  a state  emergency issued monday night Al Alcorn  the stale department  emergency management said tuesday. One Hundred guardsmen were being deployed mostly in Reno to assist in evacuations and bring in equipment Alcorn said. Crews piled sandbags to Channel the truck cd River through downtown streets in Reno and Sparks and the weather scr see floods  Page 28 tylenol maker ends capsule production new Brunswick . A Johnson & John son will no longer produce Over the counter medicines in capsules because it cannot guarantee their safety but whoever killed a woman with cyanide laced tylenol has not beaten the health care giant its chairman says. Up from the Bottom Crew members  he Navy a Altaic ship preserver assist a deep sea diver who was hoisted from the Atlantic Ocean floor after searching for debris from he space shuttle challenger. The preserver has been working about 20 Miles Northeast  the Kennedy space Center in Florida. See Story  Page 28. We fought our Way Back from the Chicago tragedy. Thanks to the fairness and Good judgment  the american consumer chairman James e. Burke said at a news conference monday. We will do it again this time. What we be done is say you re not going to defeat us " the decision to Stop production came nine Days after a new York woman was killed by cyanide contaminated tylenol capsules and 3 /4 years after seven people in Illi Nois suffered the same Fate. Burke urged users  tylenol capsules to switch to coated Oval tablets known As caplets and he said John son & Johnson will replace free  charge any capsules now in Homes  stores. The drug Industry reacted cautiously to the announce ment and the . Food and drug administration said it would be premature to Call for an Industry wide ban  capsule medications. Meanwhile investigators were still trying to determine whether the bottle whose contents killed 23-year-old Diane Elsroth  feb. 8 and a second one that surfaced five Days later were tampered with during manufacture  when they reached two Bronxville ., stores. The first bottle was manufactured in fort Washington pa., and the second in Las Pindras puerto Rico Johnson & Johnson officials have said. They were stored within two weeks  each other at a warehouse in Montgomery Vine a. On monday Fri and Westchester county ., investigators inspected the fort Washington Plant and the warehouse but officials would not comment  the trip. Johnson & Johnson suspended production  tylenol capsules after Elsroth s death. The company decided to Stop making capsules after consumer research and a re View  technology found no better Way to protect Consumers Burke said. Burke said the replacement program will Cost the com Pany Between $100 million and is so million but he said the Cost did not compare with the magnitude  the suffer ing  the family  Elsroth  pack skill  Caplets which Are 35 percent smaller than capsules were introduced after the 1982 Chicago area poisonings and have been designed by Johnson & Johnson As a substitute for capsules Burke said. Officials have said they cannot be tampered with because they Are solid and Poison would break Down the Medicine. The company will Stop producing capsule forms  extra strength tylenol regular strength tylenol sine Aid co tylenol maximum strength tylenol sinus medi cation and dime syn a menstrual medication. Meanwhile in Tyler Texas police officials Are investigating whether a Man diagnosed As suffering from cyanide poisoning two weeks ago ingested the chemical from Tyle nol capsules he took shortly before he collapsed. The 41-year-old victim survived the poisoning. Police in Tyler located 100 Miles East  Dallas Dis closed the feb. 4 incident for the first time monday nearly two weeks after it occurred saying they delayed an announcement because they did not want to alarm Resi dents. Since there were no other poisoning reports and this appeared just to be an isolated incident we held off know ing full Well that at some Point we had an obligation to the local Public to reveal the information police capt. Bob Bond told the Tyler morning Telegraph. Johnson & Johnson chairman James e. Burke holds up a Model  a tylenol caplet during press conference