European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 28,1986 . Drinking Ages 118 19"h20 rj21 near Beer and or wine note As of the end of september 1986, the Legal drinking age in Georgia will be raised to 21 Chicago Tribune graphic source insurance information Institute random checks oof Best deterrent against Drunken driving group says Detroit apr random checkpoints that Stop to Loris i Are not an effective Way to solve the problem of Drunken Drivers the american bar association said in a report released monday. The nation s largest lawyers group said that such  initially reduce Drunken driving for a Short period the Detroit news said in a Story from Washington. But Only when combined with Public information and Edu cation do they act As a defer rent according to he report the checkpoint Are not an efficient tactic especially when considered in Light of the heavy use of scarce police resources the report said. We be got to change society s values to solve this prob Lem said David Horowitz a los Angela Superior court judge and chairman of the study committee. It s Clear that attitudes need to be changed regarding the seriousness of driving under the influence to a feeling that this is a bad thing to do just As any other crime is a bad thing to do he said. A program of setting up checkpoints to catch Drunken Drivers was halted in Michigan last week when lawmaker and the american civil liberties Union challenged the practice As unconstitutional. Michigan state police suspended the Check lanes until a court hearing could be held. Opponent insert the Check lanes arc an unreasonable search because Drivers Are indiscriminately stopped and observed for signs of alcohol con sumption. The bar association s 174-Page report evaluating Laws across the nation said More meaningful education and treatment program Are needed to combat Drunken driving. The Best deterrent to Drunken driving is restricting and suspending Drivers licenses the report said. The study recommended that police immediately setae a License if the Driver refuse chemical toting when topped on suspicion of Drunken driving. The report also suggested increasing penalties if a Driver convicted of Drunken driving subsequently fails a sobriety Tat or refuses to take a sobriety test. License restrictions recommended by the committee in clude limiting where the Driver is allowed to travel. Blast that Felt like an earthquake7 kills 2 employees of aluminium Plant Kearny . A a blast ripped through an aluminium manufacturing Plant monday killing two peo ple and shooting a huge Ball of fire into the sky before the Maze was brought under control. Police capt. Joseph Messineo said two bodies were found in the rubble of the airline aluminium corp. Plant in the elite Industrial Park a Complex of 14 to 15 companies. The bodies were not immediately identified but a Plant supervisor Lee White said two employees were believed to have been in the single Story building when the blast occurred All 1 49 . Monday. The cause of the fire which destroyed the Plant build ing and damaged the other four buildings in the Complex was not known. But Tom Dunwoodie chief inspector for the Kearny fire prevention Bureau said it appeared a smelter Furnace blew up Steve Bognar who lives two blocks front the Park said the explosion Shook his House. It Felt like an earthquake/1 he said. At first i thought a plane crashed because they use this pattern to land at Newark International  i live a couple of blocks from Here and it blew me out of my bed said fire capt Frank Lynch the fire was brought under control about 3 30 a.m., and 500 residents evacuated from a nearby apartment Complex were allowed to return Home authorities said. I woke up and All i saw was a yellow lain in my apartment said Richard Clark a resident of the apart ment Complex. I started Yelling fire everybody gel out it was like something i be never heard like a nuclear explosion. It was   baseball Ball manufactured by airline sex. Plotted in the blast and were shooting up like projectiles said capt. Michael Disalvo of the nearby Harrison fire department one of four called to Aid in battling the fire. Fire officials bad Power in a id Block area near the Complex Shu t off and Drew water from the nearby Passaic River to fight the Blaze Bernard Dicker a Kearny fire department dispatcher old All kind of companies were boiled in five building in the Complex. He said he did not know whether any toxic materials we restored at the Complex Kearny is directly to the North of Newark across the Passaic River. Fire companies Tram Jersey City Newark Harrison and East Newark were called to the Blaze. Stateside thousands being spent to rid St. Louis buses of cockroaches St. Louis up the Agency that provides bus service Tor he St. Louis metropolitan area is of id Exter Minate certain six legged riders who Don t pay their fares. Officials of the by stole develop men Agency say they will spend thousands at dollars to rid their buses or Pesky cockroaches. The Roaches who survived the Winter on City transit. Buses Kepi inside new garages now arc thriving. Mike set7.tr, by stale s general manager for transit blamed this Spring s crop or bus Riding bugs on new indoor garages thai allowed them to malic it through the Winter. In past years the buses were kept outdoors and the newel come passengers froze to death. By a dec spent jizj82 from july 1985.through april 1986 to kill Roaches. The Agency said it has budgeted 521,000 to Bailie the bugs in the coming year. Excursion boat crash blamed on full Moon s effect on currents new York up a full Moon is being a lined for a daytime Accident in which an excursion boat packed with 600 passengers hit a City Bridge. Federal officials however began investigations monday la determine who was at fault in the crash sunday that injured 20 people including one Man who remained hospitalized in critical condition. Sgt. Howard Smith of the new York police depart ment s Harbor patrol unit said that the crash was caused by the full Moon s effect on the swirling currents surround ing the Willis Avenue Bridge. The current u so bad we Ell people it s Darcy Jont got hold on our Hull and is giving us a tug Howard said. This was right around a full Moon and the currents Are extra Swift around the full  some hospitalizations of aged attributed to reactions to drugs Philadelphia up As Many As one in seven Hospital admission among the elderly May be due to and Vene reactions to drugs taken to Battle problems that come with growing old a pharmacology expert warned monday. Drug interaction and overrun education May be the cause of Many episodes of syndromes associated with growing old including senility forgetfulness and Diric Lilion said or. George Simpson director of clinical psychopharmacology at a psychiatric Institute run by the Media College of Pennsylvania. The More pills that you get the More possibilities Here Are for drug interaction he said. Somewhere along the line some of these drugs can have negative effects water borne intestinal ailment threatens hikers in Vermont Burlington Al. Up a once rare intestinal disease thai is considered a special threat to Vermont hikers is now rivalling gonorrhoea As the state s most infectious disease slate health officials said monday. Giard Lasis an illness that lasts for weeks and can cause severe weight loss and vomiting is spreading from upstate. New York s Adirondack mountains into the Green mountains according to stale health department spokeswoman Judy Raven. We Only began recording statistics for the disease five years ago and now it s being reported just As much ii if not More than Gojio Rhea she said. The disease caused by the Guardia. Parasite spreads through water supplies contaminated with focal Natter. Hikers often get the disease by drinking water that a not been purified she said Hart s backing 3 times As Strong As Cuomo a time poll finds new York Cap Colorado sen. Try Hart its u backing of three times As Many Democrat and inde Pendents As new York gov Mario Cuomo in i democratic presidential preference poll. Time Magazine reports. Cuomo does Best with people in the Northeast who know him Well said the poll which was included in a ewer tory on the governor. The lilt of potential candidates in 1988 St so included Jesse Jackson Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt new Jersey sen. Bill Bradley Delaware sen. Joseph biota Missouri rep. Richard Gephardt Chrysler chairman Leo bunco. And Lyndon Laro Ucic