European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 24 news briefs Al 5 fuel tank drops slightly injuring woman a woman received minor injuries and a House was slight by damaged wednesday when a . Air Force Al 5 s fuel tank dropped into a Garde Between two houses in Ingon Netherlands Safe officials said wednesday. The Oman was slightly injured by broke window Glass and spilled Jet fuel when the Lank landed near her Home a Safe news release said. The House was slightly damaged when he Taok broke apart. There was no explosion or fire  Ingon fire and police officials responded. The Lank fell from a tac air omd Jet fighter assigned to the 9ili tac fighter so from Holio Man and . The Squadron has been deployed to sons Lyrberg a Netherlands since May 20 As part of he tactical deployment Cor Onet Apache. The deployment is scheduled lend Friday. The Al 5 landed safely at Soester Borg after the incident the release said victims of of plane crash in Panama identified Panama City Panama a the four Crew members who died in the crash of an air Force Strat Tanker trying to land at a canal zone air base have been identified by military  Orsbina a spokesman Tor the . South Ern command said the Kc-135 Jet Lanker based at Grissom fab in Indiana crashed be fore Dawn while Irving to land at Howard a three Miles South of Panama City. A Grissom spokeswoman identified the victim Sas capt. Thomas a Mcderby 29, of new Jersey the Pilot co Pilot 1st it. John a Bristow 25, of Illinois navigator 1st  Wayne . Ching 25, of Hawaii and Shaft sol. Quinn l. Dewitt 31, of Indiana the Boom operator. Thursday june 19,19b6 appointments of justices expected to win easy of from Pagel judge Scalia but everything i hear is very favourable about these men of  Thurmond said hearings would probably begin in mid july after the court s current term ends Burger s retire ment will Lake effect upon the confirmation of his Succes Sor. Thurmond said Rehnquist is highly respected and in my opinion will make a great chief  he praised Scalia s reputation for fairness and  despite Thurmond s prediction. Democrats Likely will voice opposition to both men because of their conservatism. Sen. Donald Ringle d-mich., said Rich Nuisl has not demonstrated. The extraordinary capacity for leadership one expects in a chief Justice rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., said Scalia has passed a conservative litmus lest and i find that  Scalia s presence is not expected to significantly alter inc court s ideological balance but his youth and his recognized intellect could give the court a powerful conservative voice for decades to come. As an appeals court judge Scalia has voted for inc right of the . Park service to bar demonstrators from sleeping in Washington d.c., Parks and for a requirement that criminal defendants claiming insanity undergo examinations. He also wrote an article calling the Freedom of information act the Law that defines inc Public s right to obtain government documents and attend meetings Theta mahal of the doctrine of unanticipated consequences the sistine Chapel of Cost Benefit analysis  Burger saying thai "17 Yean is Long enough for anybody said he is retiring to work full time on run Ning the National commission coordinating the e987 Celebration of the Constitution s 2dolh birthday. It s More important that we have a Good Cele bration an adequate Celebration than it is for me to remain on inc court for another year he said. Burger who in retirement will receive his full an Nual salary of $108,400, is serving As the Bicentennial commission s chairman for no pay. Burger told Reagan about his retirement decision May 27. For the past three weeks it remained one of Washington s Best kept secrets. The chief Justice stunned aides during a chinese dinner in his office Latt monday night when he revealed his plans to retire. He said his fellow justices also were caught by Surprise. Burger 78, was appointed chief Justice in 1969 by president Nixon an admirer of Burger s Tough Lawand order views in a 17-year tenure he helped Lead the court away from inc Liberal paths it had pursued in the 1960s into an Era of caution and conservatism. Scalia 50, was named to the . Circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia by Reagan in 1982. He had been a Law professor since 1967, mos recently at the University of Chicago. Scalia would be he first american of italian descent to serve on the court. He also would be the court s youngest member. Without Burger s retirement the present court would have become in november the oldest in history. The court s average age is 71. With Scalia the aver age age would be 68. Scalia is a roman Catholic and Isth father of nine children. Justice Sandra o Connor is the Only Justice Reagan has placed on the court so far. Rehnquist 61, for 1s years has ranked As the court s leading conservative. Known for his wit Charm an informal style Rehnquist likes to discuss cases Pend ing before the court while scrolling the court s ground with his Law clerks chernobyl from Page 1 radioactive substance equals 370,000becqucrels. Parker said Hose Levels Are now Back to Normal or about 1 to 3 Becquet Els per cubic meter of air. The food and meats in he commissaries Are Safe. Even if people buy the meats from German stores those Are Safe because the German government has closely monitored foods Parker said. But i would not suggest someone buy meals and foods from individual  monitoring is continuing especially on foods and meats coming in from East Ern Europe. We Wilt continue to Monitor our food Supply indefinitely he Aid milk which comes to Germany fro Holland Austria and Denmark has been tested by the 10th medical Laboratory Inland Tull and found to be Safe. Parker said milk also ii rail being monitored. The precautionary measure of washing vegetables should continue Parker said. Out he has rescinded the precaution of not allowing children to play outside. In addition pregnant women need not be alarmed about danger to their unborn children. A woman would have to have been exposed to Mere radiation than we recorded More than radiation exposure through a rays to harm an unborn child Parker said. That exposure would have had to come within the first weeks of pregnancy. We never recorded radiation Levels High enough to cause that  although present dangers Are mini Mal Parker said the chernobyl Accident will cause Long Range effects on the food Chain because of soil contamination. However Parker said experts do no know what those effects will be. We re looking at what s going to Hap pen to the generation 30 Yean from now and we just Don t have the answers yet he said. The task Force looked at the possibility of an increased cancer risk resulting from radiation exposure in Europe. We took data using the highest Levels of radiation throughout Europe and by using our computers found out that within a population of 1 million those Levels would result in Only one additional person contracting cancer he said. Usually there arc 200,000 cancer victims in i  the task Force Analysed data gathered by a team of . Army radiation specialists who spent 10 Days in the soviet Union monitoring effects of radiation on americans working at the . Embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Lenin Grad. Parker s group included representatives from veterinary services Preven Tive Medicine and the German Interior ministry a radiation physician usar eur liaisons to the German Stales a radiation physician from the army environmental health Agency and two civil Ian consultants. The consultants asked to help the task Force were or. Eugene l. Saenger director of the . Saenger radio isotopes Laboratory and professor of radiology and James g. Kereiakes a radiation physicist professor both from the University of Cincinnati College of medi Cine. Saenger is also the author of the Book the medical aspects of Radia Tion  they Analysed data and suggested pre cautionary measures Neucom should recommend to  in Europe. If the Peak Levels were maintained longer and this episode lasted longer yes we could have had problems. But not As Short As this situation was Parker said. To the Best of our knowledge the Situa Tion at chernobyl is under control. We know there Are no emissions coming from there. The armed forces handled the Situa Tion extremely Well. Maj. Gen. Frank , who was acting Neucom sur Geon was concerned if any individual in the is. Armed forces and their family members were at risk Parker said he was restless until we had the data to prove our safety to show the risk was  Parker said the response was As timely As possible because military health authorities teamed of the incident april 28, iwo Days after it occurred when unusually High radioactivity was measured in Scandinavia of course it took time to compile the data but Gen. Ledford s major focus was get the experts get Good data have goo analysis of the data so that he could make whatever decisions had to remade Parker said. We tried not to be alarmists. The chernobyl incident showed How the armed forces could cooperate because rewire asking for and receiving data from the Navy air Force and  Kate Smith from Page 1 land saying this is Kate Smith. Miss Smith is Amer Ica Smith had been a National singing Star almost from the outset of her broadcasting career in 1931. But her identification with patriotism and patriotic themes dates from the night of nov. 11, 1938, when on her regular radio program the introduced a new song writ ten expressly for her by Irving Berlin cod bless America in a Short time the song supplanted the Star Span tied Banner As the nation s most popular patriotic song. There were attempts All unsuccessful to adopt it formally As the National Anthem. For a Lime. Smith had exclusive rights to perform god bless America in Public. She relinquished thai right when it became apparent the song had achieved a significance beyond that of just another new pop Lune. Berlin and Smith waived All royalties from performances of god bless  Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was born in Greenville va., on May 1,1907 he Date Given by her sister and in court papers though most reference books gave it As 1909. She grew up in Washington d.c., where her father was a wholesale Magazine distributor. As a baby she failed to Tali until she was 4 years old. But a year later she was singing at Church socials and by the time she was 8 she was singing for the troops at army Camps in the Washington area during world War i. Alarmed by i daughter s evident penchant for the Slage William Smith made her take up nursing at George Washington University Hospital. She stuck it out a few months quit and got herself on the Bill a Keith s theater As a Singer. Heading the Bill was the actor and producer Eddie dowing who signed up the Young Singer for a revue be was preparing called honeymoon Lane that of no n in n Aua, Cit no on aug. 29,1926. In 1930. While she was starring in new York in George White s flying High Ted Collins a representative of Columbia records heard Smith sing for the first time. He sent a note backstage and a few Days later she went to his office marking the beginning Ofa show business association that lasted 34 years. It ended with Collins death in 1964