European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 21,19bb a Brelish airways concorde overshadow two world War ii spitfires Ai the jetliner the old make Way for the new a saw by a air show in Biggin Hill England in Udd lira to International flights Short concorde trips Mer England and France Art often arranged for people who seek the thrill of supersonic flight death toll reaches 5 in Texas Lake storm tragedy Livingston Texas a the bodies of three boaters caught in a storm that struck a Lake during two fishing tournaments and a sailing race were discovered monday bringing to five the number drowned one Fisherman drowned on a late about so Miles to the cast when the line of thunderstorms moved through South East Texas on saturday searcher used bouts and helicopters monday to Loo for five people still missing on Lake Livingston about so Miles North of Houston three others classified As missing were found Safe at Home said Pott county sheriffs capt. Church Staton. Thousands of people had turned out at Lake Livingston for the Bass fishing tournament and race saturday. When the storm hit winds and Choppy Waters swamped dozens of boats and sent people either swimming or running for cover. San Jacinto county Justice of the peace Mike Jeffrey said divers found the bodies near the Lake s dam. The victims had been sailing with another woman whose Bod was found saturday. Not All the people missing Are presumed dead Slutt unsaid. Efforts to Contact family members of the missing were fruitless Over the weekend because of dawned Tele phone lines that were not repaired until late sunday he said those pulled from the Lake monday were identified Snorman Brisbon of Houston James timer Smith or. 54, and his wife Alvina Smith 52, of Huffman Jeffrey  did not have Brisbon s age. The body of Brisbon s wife Vera Mae $7, was found saturday. The other person who drowned saturday on Lake Liv Ingston was identified As Thomas Wayne Baty 38. On Lake Sternhagen so Miles to the East Austin Cor bin 50, of Beaumont drowned when his boat Sank with him and three women aboard. The women wer rescued and Corban s body was found sunday said Tyler county game Warden Bob Rawls. News update arson ruled out in Alabama fire Athens Ala. A arson has Hon ruled out As the cause of a fire that destroyed one of six Cooling towers at the Browns ferry nuclear Plant with the most Likely cause being an electrical Short circuit an official said. Steven a White manager of nuclear Power forthe Tennessee Valley authority said the Federal Utility plans a comprehensive technical investigation into the May 10 fire China to return plane Crew Hong Kong a China agreed monday to return to Taiwan a cargo plane and two crewmen who were flown to China Lay a Pilot who defected chinese official said. He said the Transfer would take place in Hong Kong. Zhang Ruiyu head of the chinese delegation that conducted the first fact to face talks with Tai wan told a news conference the two delegation would meet tuesday to work out details of the turn Over of the Boeing 747. He said the plane flown to the Southern Chines City of Canton by Pilot Wang Hsi Chueh 56, on May a will be flown to Hong Kong by a Crew fro China s state run airline the civil aviation administration of China. The negotiation Tor the return of the plane i screw and cargo of food and tires were the first direct talks Between the taiwanese and chinese since the nationalists fled 10 Taiwan after being Defeated on the Mainland by the communists in1949. Aquino sets priorities Manila Philippines a president Cora Ion Aquino monday said that she sees no immedi ate threat from ousted ruler Ferdinand e. Marcos and that she would rather concentrate on restoring the crippled Economy than worry about him. In an interview four Days before her first trip into the provinces since taking office on feb. 25, Aquino also said the military s concern for her safety has prevented her from mingling with the people who put her in Power. Soviet says investigation team was named on Day of disaster Moscow a a nuclear Energy official monday said the Kremlin named a panel to investigate the Cherno Byl nuclear Accident on the Day the disaster occurred apparently contradicting assertions that soviet leaders were without reliable reports for two Days. Ivan Yemelyanov first Deputy director of the soviet stale Institute that designed the chernobyl reactor also told Western reporters that before the Accident the re actor s heat output surged from a standby level of 6 per cent of maximum capacity to 50 percent in Only 10 seconds. A said the Chain reaction was successfully hopped end declined to say How the urge was connected to the explosion that ripped apart the reactor Early in the morning of april 26. ,.-. Soviet Leader Mikhail a Gorbachev in a televised speech to the nation last wednesday said a pocket of Hydrogen exploded after the surge Yemelyanov said experts have not decided if human error or mechanical malfunction caused the Accident Buthe said he saw no sign the soviets were considering a review of the reactor known As rbmk-1000, that is use Dat chernobyl or a review of the policy of locating nuclear Power plants near populated  said radiation emissions from chernobyl s damaged 1,000-megawatt reactor have stopped but he said he could not predict when workers would finally have it completely encased in Concrete. He said he had no new information on casualties fro the Accident at the four reactor Power Plant 80 Miles North of the ukrainian capital of Kiev. There has been no government update on casualties since Gorbachev s speech but an american doctor who helped treat radiation victims said 13 people have  physician or Robert Gale told a news conference in los Angeles there Are at least 50,000 to 100,000people who have had some dose of radiation which might be of Long term concern. There will unfortunately be additional fatalities Gale said sunday. We Hope this number will be  Yemelyanov spoke with Western reporters in a meeting arranged by the official soviet press Agency in Vosti. Some soviet officials have said the Central government was not Well informed about the Accident initially an local officials underestimated its severity. Gorbachev explained the nearly three Day delay in in forming the soviet Public and the world about the Accident by saying the Kremlin made the announcement us soon Asit had reliable data but Yemelyanov was asked when the investigating com Mission headed by first Deputy Premier Boris y. Sincher Bina was appointed and said it was at work on the everyday of the Accident april 26." one of its first decisions which Yemelyanov said was made within Only a few hours after the explosion was to shut Down the no. 3 reactor housed in a building adjoin ing the stricken no. 4 unit. Yemelyanov was asked several times what caused the Accident but he declined to answer pending a report by the government  repeated earlier reports that the reactor had been shut Down to 6 percent of is heat output and was la be completely switched off far inspection and maintenance. He did not explain what Type of work was to be conducted. Before the explosion he said the reactor s heat level surged to 50 percent of capacity triggering automatic devices that shut Down the Chain  said the soviets had no plans to reconsider their Plant design policy under which the reactors at chernobyl were built in pairs that Are separated by a few Hundred Yards. The pairing of the reactors bad no relation to the Accident he said. Asked if there were any plans to review the practice of building reactors near populated areas or allowing settlements to Spring up near them like the town of privy Annear chernobyl he said i Don t see any sign thai this concept Wilt be changed or reviewed the no 4 reactor does Noi have a containment vessel like those used in the West to prevent radiation leaks but Yemelyanov said the soviets Are satisfied with the her Metic blocks used to seat in radioactive emissions from rbmk-1000  did not precisely describe those devices but said we Don t think containment vessels Are much Mare effective and we believe the emphasis should be on preventing accidents he said