European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars and stripes sunday March 23, 1986 13 Hurt in clashes at Subic naval base Clark a Philippines a . Servicemen trying to enter Subic Bay naval base have clashed twice with striking filipino workers leaving at least 13 people injured officials said saturday. The strike began Friday when filipinos employed on the base struck to Back de mands for higher Severance pay. The strik ers set up barricades of logs rocks and Iron grills at three Gates leading into Subic. The strike spread to Clark a on sat urday. In All 22,000 workers had stopped work at the United states largest military bases overseas. Meanwhile in the City of Baguio president Corazon Aquino told graduating military Tim reports Small release of radiation Middletown a. A opera tors at the three mile Island nuclear Power Plant declared an unusual event Early sat urday when a radiation Monitor alarm went off during a planned shutdown a Plant spokesman said. During the event there was a Small filtered release of radiation from the Plant said Tim spokesman Doug Bedell. It was undetectable on environmental monitors outside the  the Plant was being shut Down so that tests can begin next week on heat Exchange tubes in the Plant s steam Generator. The unusual event the lowest emergency category used in the nuclear Power Indus try was declared at about 3 . And ended about 25 minutes later. The event began As a technician in a Plant chemistry lab was routinely drawing a Sample of water from unit 1 s reactor Cool ant system. As the Sample was being taken a Relief valve on the Sample line released some radioactive Gas into the area in which the technician was  the Gas was xenon 133, which does not react with other chemicals but is radioactive. The Sample line had More than the nor Mal pressure at the time because Plant operators were removing gases from the re actor Cooling system As a Normal part of the shutdown Bedell said. When the Gas was released into the Sample sink area it set off the radiation Monitor alarm a condition that requires the operators to declare the unusual event Bedell said. The radioactive Gas then passed through a series of filters before then being vented from the Plant Bedell said. It amounted to about two hundredths of 1 percent of the nuclear regulatory commission s quarterly limit for airborne releases from nuclear Power  no workers were contaminated. Federal state and local officials were advised of the unusual event he said. Unit 1 s sister reactor was crippled in the March 1979 Accident that was the worst in the history of commercial nuclear Power. Academy cadets she May ask them to build schools rather than fight communist rebels but she said she would not hesitate to use them to protect her government. She also appealed to insurgents to Lay Down their arms and said she would soon formally Call on them to rejoin your people in rebuilding our  presiding As the Philippines first female commander in chief mrs. Aquino brought applause and Gleeful shouts of approval from a crowd of several thousand people As she gave a Snappy Salute to cadets on a Parade ground. At the Clark base Remigio Sumbillo presi Dent of the Clark Union of filipino civilian employees said workers planned to barricade Gates around the air base at Midnight. Una be picketers at the naval base Clark workers would allow military personnel and their de Pendents to pass freely he said. Friday night five filipino workers were stabbed during a Brawl started when . Servicemen tried to enter the base said or. Roberto Deleon a surgeon at the nearby Olon Gapo City general Hospital. Chief Petty officer Jack Leigh said five . Servicemen suffered minor injuries in the Brawl. Fifteen . Servicemen trying to Cross a Subic picket line clashed with some 40 work ers saturday said Aynor Santonil a Union officer. Two servicemen were injured and a picketed was struck in the head with a Rock Santonil said. Leigh said a Rock hit the head of one of the Serviceman seriously injuring him. He was hospitalized in stable condition. Workers struck to gain Severance benefits for employees who resign the Only one of eight demands that . Authorities have not met. Military authorities have agreed to in crease the Christmas Bonus from 125 per cent to 200 percent of a monthly salary As Well As meet demands on group health insurance premiums compensation for unused sick leave and Holiday stipends. It has also pledged to Grant holidays declared by the philippine government and pay a single 2,000-peso $100 Bonus to each employee upon the signing of the agreement. Rookie wraps up mushing Marathon Nome Alaska a if Only this were 1974, Mike Peterson s time would have won the id Tarod Trail sled dog race. But in this year s record breaking dash from Anchorage to Nome the Rookie brought up the Tail end of the pack. Peterson a 40-year-old Musher from Willow earned the 1,100-mile race s red lantern award by crossing the finish line Friday at 5 42 . After 20 Days 13 hours and 42 minutes on the Trail he became the 55th and final Musher to drive his dogs under the burled Wood finish Arch on Nome s front Street. I be enjoyed the trip he said but added this will be my one and Only. Anybody that would run this twice has got to have a nut  one who must have several nuts Loose is Susan Butcher of Manley who won the mushing Marathon this year on her eighth try. She and her dog team established a new race record running it in 11 Days 15 hours and 6 minutes. The Pace has picked up considerably since the second annual id Tarod in 1974, when Carl Huntington won with a time of 20 Days 15 hours and 2 minutes. The prize Money has also increased. Hunting ton won $12,000 for his first place show ing while Butcher collected $50,000. Peterson won Only a red lantern and the privilege of blowing out the Light that Burns by the finish Chute until the last Musher pulls into Nome. At least he made it that far of the original 73 entrants who started in an chorale 18 scratched along the Way. Peterson who trailed no. 54 Stan Ferguson into Nome by 11 hours said the trip was Worth it despite Hills that never seemed to quit and the 400 Miles he walked behind his sled to give the dogs a break. I think everybody ought to have the Opportunity to run the id Tarod one time Peterson said. You realize what people Back in the past went through to run mail and get the Gold out and sup plies in. It gives you some time out there to think about some of their trials and tribulations. Mine were enough and i am proud to be  the top 20 mushers in this 14th annual id Tarod shared $200,000 in prize Money. They were in order american unless noted otherwise Susan Butcher Joe Garnie Rick Swenson Joe Runyan Duane Halverson John Cooper Lavon Barve Jerry Austin Terry Adkins Rune Hes Thammer of Norway John Barron Guy Blankenship Tim Moerlein Bob Chlupach Jerry Riley Vern Halter Gary Whittemore Ted English Nina Hotvedt of Norway and Rick Atkinson of Britain. Among foreign mushers Hes Thammer Hotvedt and Atkinson were followed by Kari Skogan of Norway who placed 33rd Alan Cheshire of Britain 39th Armen Khatchikian of Italy 43rd and Peter Thomann of Switzerland 47th. S. African apartheid foes win court Victory Johannesburg South Africa a the supreme court handed anti apart Heid campaigners a Victory saturday by annulling government restrictions imposed on a prominent Black activist. It was the third time last week that courts nullified a controversial government measure. Elsewhere police said two Black women and a Black Man burned to death in Over night violence in Cape province. A woman in Adelaide in Cape province was killed when a burning tire was thrown around her body while another woman in the same Region died when her House was set on fire a police report said. Police also reported finding the charred body of a Black Man in Adelaide. More than 20 Blacks have been killed in Black factional fighting in the past week far More than have died at the hands of police. Independent studies estimate that about one third of the roughly 1,250 Blacks killed in 18 months of racial violence died at the hands of other Blacks in political feuds and Gangland vendettas. The others were killed by Security forces. The court in port Elizabeth accepted the argument that the Banning order on 28 year old a Huseli Jack was invalid because Law and order minister Louis be Grange had failed to state his reasons. Banning is a key weapon in the govern ment s Arsenal of measures for silencing Black and White opponents of apartheid the system of segregation under which 5 million Whites dominate 24 million vote less Blacks. Jack and another port Elizabeth activist Henry Fazzie got orders March 11 restrict ing them to their Homes from dusk to Dawn and on weekends and forbidding them to leave the port Elizabeth area attend Politi Cal meetings or be quoted in the Media. The measure had provoked outrage among White business leaders in the South coast City who said they were involved in Auto conversion firm declares bankruptcy by Bob Hoyer staff writer g and r automobile of Mannheim a Auto sales and conversion firm dealing Pri Marily with american buyers of used Ger Man cars is bankrupt. A dispute Between g and r partners John Gordon and Manu Rast far forced the owners to seek Resolution of their differences under German bankruptcy Law. The Fate of the firm now is in the hands of German courts. Gordon a car conversion specialist who handled Many conversions for military buy ers during the past four years said five autos temporarily were impounded but All have since been released. It really boils Down to a family  both have lawyers Gordon said. We be paid off our suppliers and there should be enough Money in our spare parts inventory to pay Legal fees when the court finally Settle the  Rast far said g and r has sold no car for three or four  in business 2� years the partnership benefited from the Strong Dollar which made it profitable to buy and convert German cars for import into the unite states. Both partners say the bankruptcy is the result of personal differences Over the handling of company finances rather than loss of business due to the Dollar s recent decline. Gordon continues to operate trans at lactic car shipping company and is convert ing cars through his new firm Gordon automobile a Mph Mannheim. Rast far is operating Rast far Auto mobiles Mannheim. He said he is continuing in the conversion business and work with a dealer in Atlanta. Sen. Inouye s Mother Dies Honolulu a Kame manag Inouye Mother of sen. Daniel k. Inouye a Hawaii has died at the age of 82. Delicate negotiations with the two men to prevent the resumption of a crippling Black consumer Boycott. Jack is president of the port Elizabeth youth Congress a Black group affiliated with the multiracial United democratic front coalition. He had served As spokes Man for the consumer Boycott committee. On thursday the Bloemfontein appeals court the nation s highest court ruled that be Grange served invalid detention orders on 16 anti apartheid activists in August 1984. All 16 had been freed previously or charged with crimes. They appealed their detention to Challenge the minister s Power to order detentions without providing specific reasons. Hours after the Bloemfontein ruling a Johannesburg supreme court judge or dered three Black detainees released saying their court lawsuit against being held was based on the same grounds As that of the 16. Airman killed 3 Hurt in Luxembourg crash Pitburg a Germany a Pitburg based airman was killed and two other air men and a family member were injured in Aone car Accident Early saturday morning in echternach Luxembourg. The airman was killed when he lost control of the car he was driving said Victoria Hanson base spokeswoman. He was pronounced dead at the Accident scene. One airman was seriously injured and sin a Luxembourg Hospital. Names Are being withheld until relative scan be notified. The other airman . Dennis Brownf the 36th aircraft generation so at bit Burg and his wife Cheryl were slightly injured