European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse N Dodds disputes claims of overstating ,.,. Page 2 n judge rules India s courts should decide Bhopal cases Page 5 it Hermite Rtuh countdown for june Magazine vol. 45, no. 27 urho Bicci unofficial publication for wednesday May 14, 1986 0 b693 a Sis photo by Oik Ollio Corse at an installation Are sound the alarm if there s intrusion. Geese on patrol guarding bases by Allen Cowan staff writer Darmstadt Germany the 3?.nd army air defense come is paying nearly $25,000 for 900 geese to be used As sentries at its installations in Ger Many. The first 300 arc being raised by Farmer Ralf Schuchmann in Moda Utal where they re guarded by two targe turkeys. The command says Gecse arc blessed with natural keen hearing they frighten easily at unfamiliar noises. When alarmed they re supposed 10 honk Hiss Flap their wings Una run like crazy causing a disturbance Alert ing the nearest human Sentinel. As in any Security system there can be false alarms. At one test site the geese ran amok when pheasants approached. Yet a sergeant who helped launch the project is enthused. They work they really work said the sergeant who handled Gecse in puerto Rico in the 1960s. A Goose has incredible hearing will even Start making noise while asleep if his sub conscious hearing detects danger. They Are amazing the idea originated with the land s commander maj. Gen. Victor j. Hugo jr., who read about Security geese saw 3 television special about them. In february he sent his aide Cape. David Thomas to Scotland for three Days while there Thomas toured the Ballantine brewery where geese have continued on Page 2 i Adafay orders e ver Li-1 As Mon London a Libya Liday an a noun Cal it is expelling 36 Dillon is Raj resenting seven West a Uri incan Coufol retaliation for Whyl the state run called oppressive the announcement by the Moa mar Khan by was Enrri Ujj Bynn radio the Broadens stored in London the radio Reno re said dip Ltd ats from the embassies of Italy Cernut re France the Netherlands Spain. By Lyhn Denmark would be Cupelle. The no deadline for the diplomats to Lve. But German Dulch officials so their representatives were told la Depute within 10 Days. In Teluli Iilma for the oppressive Mea sures taken of european Stales under pres sure from by United Stales of America. ,. The Kielc s Bureau for foreign Liaison Loday the expulsion of 36 diploid jilt the radio said monday. Affected noun lies Are members of i he european economic Community or common Market. The 12-member blot a leave roved diplomatic a Couamin sanctions Libya on april 21, Sis Days after the United slates bombed two libyan cities in retaliation for a Berlin disco bombing that killed two Pecpec including n . Sol Dier. . Officials said they had evidence Lul Libya was involved. Juthe common Market decided la reduce full number of libyan diploma is in their Coin Jakics tighten visa requirements for i Byart Ilion iils Hall discount sales of sure Ludko possibly other foods to Libya. Most fun Nifon Market nations Nln announced Stilt reductions at their diplomatic missions in a Fca. Four Gurma diplomats Ami one dutch Diplomat Mondle Cre ordered to leave Libya officials Sasa we were inform Bat to at aul d Plomas must leave Carman foreign ministry spokesman said Vescy did t Tell us anything he did a identify the diplomats. A a dutch foreign ministry Ombal said Chancellor Willem of three staff members at the Dulch embassy in Tripoli was ordered expelled. Gao quest ions legality y of lobbying by Deaver Washington former White House aide Michael k. Deaver May have violated conflict of interest Laws by lobbying for Canada on acid rain the Gen eral accounting office said monday. Re lated Story Page 3. Moreover a Democrat on the House sub committee that accepted the Gao report ours ironed whether while House counsel Fred Fielding also May have had a conflict of interest because of the role he played in the Deaver inquiry. Rep. Gerry Sikorski d-minn., said Fielding has told the subcommittee staff that he Deaver discussed possible employment for Fielding with Deaver White both of them were still at the while House but after Deaver had announced that he was leaving Fielding left his White House Job More recently to go to a private Law firm. After monday s congressional hearing Sikorski said. I think Fielding has some answers to give i think it s appropriate for the department of Justice to be review ing that.". Fielding has not yet started his new Job was unavailable for comment. The Gao said Denver May have Vio lated four different but somewhat Over lapping provisions of the taws As a result of sea Deaver on Page 28 More deaths reported from radiation Moscow not the soviet government said monday that six people had died from radiation Burns suffered in the Wake of the explosion fire at the chernobyl nuclear reactor. The announcement Marks the first time anyone is known to have died from radiation emitted by a civilian nuclear Power Plant. The wording of the Brief government communique an the deaths suggested that they were in addition to the two a calms reported nearly two weeks ago which were attributed to steam Burns Fulling debris. Thus the new report apparently brings the number of officially con firmed deaths from the disaster to eight. The communique also said that 35 people were in grave condition nearly twice As Many As had previously been reported. There was no indication from the announcement exactly where the victims had been when they suffered the Radia Tion exposure. The a calms were reported on the main evening television news program on the same Day As the official soviet press began to report the punishment of three local communist party members accused of shirking their duties during the evacuation of areas near the chernobyl Plant. Although the three mentioned were officials of the chernobyl Branch of an organization of nuclear Plant construction workers which apparently is not responsible for the operation or maintenance of the four reactors at the chernobyl Plant one Western Diplomat said the action might signal the Start of a Cycle of retribution thut could reach higher into party ranks until now reports about the Accident in the soviet press have had the heroic flavor of War stories with one Power Plant official asserting there were no deserters no one refused to do his Job everyone performed his later accounts included passing references to cowards but not until monday s edition of pravda the communist see radiation on Page 38
