European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Dod part of new anti trafficking plan Washington up the defense department has told Congress that it is prepared to use military spy planes and special radar balloons in a new Effort to Battle drug trafficking along the 2,000-mile  Border. Witnesses at a House committee hearing tuesday indicated that the military plans part of a $400 Mil lion initiative for fighting drugs along the Southwest Border Are necessary because of a near failed mexican drug eradication program and a Lack of cooperation from mexican authorities. Air Force col. Harvey Pothier acting director of the defense task Force on drug enforcement said Mili tary forces Are now prepared to Render our most significant contribution to controlling illegal drug trafficking along the Border the most since president Reagan approved a secret directive in april expanding the allowable use of . Military forces in the International fight against drugs. Pothier told the House select committee on narcotics abuse and control that parts of the plan Are Al ready being implemented. The plan would provide four Navy surveillance planes and five balloon borne radar systems to select Low flying planes along the Border. Also two specially equipped Blanes would be transferred to the . Southern come in Panama. But the committee s chairman rep. Charles Range. D-n.y., blasted the administration for failing to act sooner. This Congress knows How to Send a message. Disneyland ruled negligent in teen s stabbing death Santa Ana Calif. Up a jury ruled tuesday that Disneyland was negligent in its treatment of the Only person Ever murdered in the 31-year history of the famed amusement Park and ordered the Park Topay $600,000 to survivors of the teen age victim. In testimony Park nurse Elizabeth Micco who took the teen Ager to the Hospital in a Park Van said she was following an unwritten Park Rule and she had Neverseen a Rule saying paramedics should be called in severe injury cases. Superior court jurors said Disneyland employee contributed to the death of Mel Yorba 18, who was stabbed in the heart in an argument Over a girl by ignoring the Park Rule. Yorba s Mother wept As the jury Foreman read the verdict. She later said she did not care that the damage award was a fraction of the $60 million requested in her lawsuit filed in 1981. The important thing is that the truth came out that the Story was told Ellen Reynolds said. That was always what has been our goal. The Money will not bring Mel Back but perhaps because this does come out some other Mother May not lose her  Yorba was stabbed in March 1981 with an 8 Inch knife in a dispute outside the matterhorn ride in the Park s tomorrow land Section. He reportedly Layon the ground bleeding for about 20 minutes before Disney land officials drove him to a Hospital. Disneyland attorney Richard Mccain left court immediately after the verdict was announced and did not say whether Disneyland would Appeal. Mccain maintained throughout the 10-Day trial thai the Park did everything possible for Yorba saying the nurse absolutely did the right thing in deciding to take the severely bleeding teen Ager to the Hospital instead of waiting for paramedics. Reynolds attorney said Yorba might have lived if paramedics had been called saying they would have arrived quickly Given him blood transfusions and oxygen placed him in a pressurized suit to help his heart begun radio communications with a trauma doctor and rushed him to a Hospital specializing in serious injuries. 170 charged in car insurance scams Detroit a the Fri has charged 170 people with filing false Auto insurance claims totalling More than $ i million in 12 states and Canada. In terms of the number of defendants this is the largest undercover operation in Fri history and it s clearly the largest Auto insurance fraud Case in . History said Kenneth Walton special agent in charge of the Michigan Fri office which conducted the 17 month operation. He said 163 vehicles ranging from bows and a 1985 Corvette to clunkers r that had to be towed were sold or Given to four undercover Fri agents who claimed they could get rid of the can so fraudulent insurance claims could be filed. The scam called steaming worked this Way according to authorities a car owner gives his keys to a middleman who agrees to have the car stolen. The vehicle is either taken to a shop to be Cut Down for parts or driven out of state and sold. The middleman then notifies the owner the car has been disposed of and the owner files a false insurance claim. Fri agents arrested about so of the defendants monday. Mail fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a s1,000 Fine. Walton said that 11,388 of Detroit s 37,985 Auto thefts last year were insurance frauds and $68.4 Mil lion was paid out that year on fraudulent claims. The other states where fraudulent thefts were reported the Fri said were California Kansas Missouri Ohio Kentucky Pennsylvania new York Virginia North Carolina Massachusetts and Florida. Governor says school officials should produce or be fired san Francisco a new Jersey gov. Thom As h. Kean on tuesday called for the nation to improve its Urban school systems saying that school Board members and superintendents who fail to do their jobs should be fired. Too Many people believe that Urban children simply cannot learn to read and write they can t learn to do arithmetic Kean said in an address to the National Urban league. Our children have the ability to Leam. The question is do our schools have the capacity to Kean teach if the schools Don t have the capacity it is our failure not the children she said. The Republican governor said education creates Progress for All people and has been the catalyst for the liberation of Black  Kean reminded a crowded Assembly of the league s 76th annual conference that school issues fuelled the energies of the Rev. Martin Luther King jr., and Gener ated landmark civil rights cases. One of the biggest problems for Black americans he said is that Urban schools Are no longer the seed bed for social change. Instead they Are often warehouses filled with unfilled human  in our Urban schools particularly schools in which the majority of students Are Black we see a pattern of rules and regulations Dogma and doctrine that protects powerlessness he said. In new Jersey Kean said if schools fail in performance the state will simply take them Over replace the school boards get rid of the superintendents. No longer will we tolerate mediocrity for our  schools should t be rewarded for their remedial programs while incentives for achievement by both schools and students Are withheld he said. The government of Bolivia did not willingly open its Borders Rangl said of the recent Large scale . Military operation in that country. A defense department spokesman said the United states would not be Able to wage such an Effort i Mexico without a request from the mexican govern ment which was not Likely. We re talking about lightening our Borders in a sporadic fashion based on intelligence said William Rosenblatt a customs department official. Rosenblatt was asked by rep. Frank Guarini d n.j., whether the mexican government had helped gather intelligence for a joint anti drug Effort. We Are not getting that kind of  he replied. House votes to impeach jailed judge Washington a the House taking its first impeachment vote in 50 years unanimously recommended on tuesday the ouster of a Federal judge who refuses to resign and is still drawing his salary while serving a prison term for tax evasion. The 14th impeachment vote in House history sent the Case of Harry e. Claiborne to the Senate for trial. Conviction there would remove Claiborne from his lifetime appoint ment As chief . District judge in Nevada and Possi Bly bar him from any fur ther Federal employment. Even in Advance of the 406-0 vote in the House where the outcome was a Given the Senate put it self a timetable that could Lead to Claiborne being stripped of his position by fall. The 69-year-old judge is serving a two year term at the Federal prison Camp in Montgomery ala., continuing to draw his salary of $215 a  is the first Federal official in half a Century to face a House floor vote on impeachment articles and the first Ever to do so after being convicted of a crime and imprisoned. A House impeachment vote is somewhat like an indictment and is followed by a Senate trial to see whether the defendant should be fired and even barred from holding another Federal office. Sands of term in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 24, 1946 Harold red Grange a football immortal now living in Chicago envisions a Boom in professional football during the postwar Era. He predicts the game will be played in a Glass enclosed stadium and the play for pay Grinders will out collegiate the College crowd in dazzle dazzle football. 30 years ago today. July 24,1956 the House approved by a vote of 279-126 the administration s civil rights Bill despite Southern opposition but the measure is almost certain to die in the Senate. 20 years ago today. July 24, 1966 striking Between two widely separated Battle sectors communist mortars rained 30 shells on a . Marine heliport Seabee compound and Navy Hospital at Danang East. 10 years ago today. July 24, 1976 . Space officials in Pasadena Calif., believe they have diagnosed and can easily solve a malfunction on the Mars Lander that caused its soil scooping Arm to Jam