European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday february 23, 1986 Iran claims 3 iraqi warplanes shot Down Tehran Iran a Iran claimed it shot Down three iraqi warplanes saturday while Iraq said its air Force and artillery continued their heavy pounding of the iranians besieged in the port of Fao. Iraq s official iraqi news Agency monitored in Cyprus quoted the commander of Iraq s Navy As saying his warships were blockading Fao preventing any supplies from reaching it earlier Iraq claimed a three pronged As Sault on the estimated 50,000 iranian troops in the Fao Peninsula had Cut them off from the land Side. Bulletin reported Only the shooting Down of three More iraqi jets saturday morning. This raised to 53 the total jets Iran has claimed it has downed since it launched its offensive across the Shalt Al Arab water Way 13 Days ago. The radio made no refer ence to ground fighting. Iran succeeded in crossing the Shalt Al Arab at the beginning of the offensive to capture the disused Oil port of Fao on the Western iraqi Side of the wide waterway. Iraq has been claiming its forces have stopped the iranian Advance and Laid siege to Fao. Iran s official radio in its midday news meantime in Tehran a Large crowd at in did the funeral of 46 people who were killed when an iranian passenger plane was shot Down last thursday. Iran has accused Iraq of shooting Down the civilian plane which was on a Domestic flight from Teh ran to the Southern iranian City of Ahwaz. But Iraq denied this saying it was Only hitting military  the blood of the victims not be wasted declared Hashemi a Sfanjani the speaker of Iran s majlis or parliament. He was addressing a crowd stretching for blocks in front of the Marble majlis build ing. Six of the victims were members of parliament on their Way to a front line visit. A Sfanjani called on Iran s fighters to 15 tons of radioactive Gas released from nuclear Power Plant in Wales London a fifteen tons of mildly radioactive Carbon dioxide Gas was accidentally released Friday from a Welsh nuclear Power station electricity authorities said. In the latest of a string of accidents in. The nuclear Industry the Central electricity generating Board said the Gas equivalent to about half a Tanker Load escaped at the 20-year-old Trawsfynydd Power station in North Wales when a safety valve lifted on a nuclear reactor. An Alert was declared the fault was Iso lated within 15 minutes and the reactor shut Down following loss of pressure the Board said. It said that minor radiation was later detected on the Power station and at one or two other spots on the  a spokesman for the government s health and safely executive said the Inci Dent seemed fairly  the Gas leak came at the end of a rough week for Britain s nuclear Power Industry. Irish prime minister Garret Fitzgerald officially complained to prime minister Margaret Thatcher on wednesday about leaks of radioactive waste into the Irish sea from Britain s nuclear reprocessing Plant at Sellafield which has had Over 300 Acci dents since it opened in 1950 under the name winds Caie. On the same Day electricity authorities acknowledged there was a radioactive leak from a boiler tube at the Sizewell nuclear Power station 75 Miles Northeast of Lon Don. Officials admitted trespassing on a Fanner s land to collect grass clippings forests. On thursday the 12-nation european parliament in Strasbourg voted 135-99 in favor of Sellafield being closed pending the outcome of an inquiry by the British House of commons. Before Friday s Gas leak in Wales be came known the. Government confirmed re ports that it was carrying out a monitoring exercise of food by a Sample 50 families around Sellafield to see if radioactive waste has contaminated food Garden products or soil. After Friday s Gas leak,.the Greenpeace environmental organization said it would like to know what special precautions electricity officials would take to protect residents around the station from possible contamination because cancer causing iodine 131 might have been in the Gas Dis charge. The Welsh Power station sited in Snow Donia National Park was opened in 1965. It generates Power from uranium encased in magnesium Alloy and is one of an Early series known As Mannox plants. The Gas is pumped through fuel channels in the reactor Core at High pressure to re move the heat produced by the fission of the uranium fuel rods. It then transfers the heat to boilers that make steam to Power Turbo generators that produce electricity. The Board said that the Gas circulates at a temperature of 392 degrees celsius at 17 times Normal atmospheric pressure. Allergy to nuts suspected in death Providence. . A Peanut butter used in Chili at a restaurant May have triggered an allergic reaction that killed a Brown University freshman Doc tors say. Catherine Brodsky 18, of Brooklyn ., was always very very careful when she went out to eat because of her severe allergy to nuts her father David Brodsky said Friday. But Brodsky a nationally ranked Squash player did not ask about nuts when she ordered Chili tuesday at Montana a a pop ular restaurant near Brown. You Don t expect to find nuts in Chili said or. Sumner Hoffman director of health services at Brown. The restaurant uses Peanut butter to thicken its Chili said owner John Rosen Blatt. It s a horrible absurd event he said. Thousands of people have eaten this Chili. There s nothing wrong with the Chili. It just so happens we uie Peanut  slate health officials said they were con ducting an investigation of Montana s at the request of the University. An autopsy report is pending but or. William q. Stumer the chief state medical examiner said Brodsky s death appears to have been caused by an allergic reaction. Brodsky reportedly said she Felt ill after taking several bites of the Chili. An assistant coach drove her to a doctor s Home and he determined she was in Shock injected her with adrenaline and called the Rescue squad. She was admitted to Miriam Hospital at 9 30 . And died at 10 55 ., a Hospital spokeswoman said. Five busloads of Brown classmates and faculty attended her funeral service in Newyork on Friday. A Kate Brodsky scholarship fund has been established at Brown in her memory. Tip about missing  Boy proves false show iraqi president Saddam Hussein that such attacks cannot produce fear among  vast crowd chanted Allah Akbar or god is great and revenge revenge  the Ina quoted the commander a Iraq s 7lh army corps in charge of the Fao salient As stating the hour of the final showdown at Fao is very  on Friday it. Gen. Hisham Sabah no Fakir the commander of a tank column on the outskirts of Fao told foreign correspondents at his command Post that fighting was ferocious. Seattle a police and be Fri acting on a tip fingerprinted a 12-year-old boy who resembled Etan Patz a Young boy whose disappearance from new York City in 1979 triggered an International  investigators now say Todd Hidde of the suburb of Woodinville Northeast of Seattle is not the boy they were looking for. The fingerprints of the boy Here Are no those of Etan Patz said Deputy King county prosecutor Marilyn  s Mother Linda Hidde recalled that an Fri agent and a King county police officer confronted her Jan. 24, saying they wanted to discuss her  was upset at first because i did t know what was going on the said. Iguess they thought i was the  while she was questioned her son was taken out of class fingerprinted foot printed a id  Patz Case helped trigger the forma Tion of missing child  Patz was 6 years old when he disappeared from a Greenwich Village sidewalks he walked a half Block from his Home to a school bus. At the time the hidden we reliving in Amsterdam a town near Albany in upstate new York. They moved to Kin county last year. The Case of mistaken identity began Las december when a 13-year-old classmate of Malta tourism rebounds after 3-year decline Valletta. Malta a maltese tourism is making a comeback with the number of visitors to the Mediterranean Island last year rising by 8 percent from 1984, government figures  statistics show that 518,155 tourists mostly european came to Malta in 1985.tourism had been slowly declining since a Boom in 1980 and 1981, but the trend now appears to be turning around said tourism minister Joe Grima. Jodd s saw a photo of Etan Palz distributed by child find inc., a National missing child  classmate called Marilyn Mann president of the National missing Chil Dren s locate Center in Gresham ore., and told her the boy she knew As Todd Hidde closely resembled Etan. Even Todd agrees there is a facial Simila Rity. Shown a photo of Etan Todd said hey. That does look like me when i was that  three forensic experts Mann contacted lot ? j985 Phot of Todd and a1979 photo of Etan said the photos were of the same child. With those opinions. Mann presented the information to King county prosecutor Norm Maleng and  Patz Eton s father says he was aware of the Hidde investigation but had gotten his Hopes up. We have been through a lot of them like this he said. Paat news u Glenn clarifies remarks Columbus Ohio a sen. John Glenn in announcing Bis Campaign for re election has defended himself from criticism by teachers who say he opposes allowing civilians to ride in the space shuttle. The Ohio Democrat who became the first american to orbit the Earth 24 years ago said his concern is to see that the shuttle s research mis Sions gets top priority. Glenn 64, seeking Bis third term said aides showed him a letter writ ten to the Cincinnati enquirer by teachers Jean Galloway Zoller and eve Bolton. The two interpreted Glenn As opposing shuttle rides by people such As Christa Mcauliffe chosen to be the nation s first teacher in space and one of seven astronauts killed when the space shuttle challenger exploded after liftoff Jan. 28.the senator said his remarks were misconstrued.  Don t object to teachers or any body else going into space Glen told a Cincinnati Newt conference. We want to Lay the Basic research program Down first. When that pro Gram is done then any other people can ride the  Airport expansion Gibraltar a civil aviation officials from Spain Britain and Gibraltar plan to hold talks her March 7-11 to discuss allowing Span ish Access to the British colours com Mercial Airport the Spanish Independent news Agency Europa press  press quoted unnamed i officials hoped to reach an a that would allow Spanish civilian air Craft Access to the Airfield on the 2.2square-mile Limestone Rock and per Mit Gibraltar airways to use Span ish airports. Of sergeant daughter found dead at Home Naples Italy is a 33-year-Oldair Force sergeant and her 11-year-old daughter were found dead Friday a Ihei apartment near Here the air Force hid  victims were identified at staff sgt herdsmen Dillard and daughter , a 12-year air Force Veteran from Adrian mich., was an administrative co at nato s air South in suburban  bodies were found in a is. Govern ment leased apartment in Pineta Mare by members of the Navy Shore patrol alerted by an air Force shift supervisor when Oil lard failed to report for work Friday. There was no sign of forced entry or struggle said italian authorities who ruled out  Case is being investigated by both italian and air Force authorities