European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday july 24,1986 is photo by j. King in Jabr Petty officer 3.c. Brian Grassmyer left and Petty officer 2.c. Bill Dodson skim across holy Loch Scotland. Cold murky water of holy Loch Home for bomb disposal divers by j. King . Bureau holy Loch Scotland the five divers who make up the . Navy s explosive ordnance disposal team soon will head Back to a Palmier climate with no regrets about leaving the murky Chilly Waters of the holy Loch. The Loch a narrow Inlet off the Firth of Clyde in Western Scotland contains a Navy refit site providing Complete overhaul and repair facilities for the nuclear subs assigned to submarine so 14. The Eod divers comprise Del 6, deployed until aug. 8 from its Parent outfit Eod Mobile unit one inform Story a. Only the people will change out said it. Mik Dolan the 27- ear old officer in charge of the team. The equipment will remain on the Barge for the peo ple of the next deployment to  now the water temperature is 45 degrees senior chief Petty officer Thomas Knapp said on a hot sum Mer s Day. It was 35 when we arrived Here last Winter to begin our six month  the wet suits will let us work for from 30 to 90 minutes depending on the water temperature said the 38-year-old Coronado calif., Hull technician. We have dry suits that Are warmer but they Are very Bulky to work  underwater visibility is about three feet until you stir it up when you can just see your hand in front of your face said Dolan. Petty officer 2.c. Bill Dodson 29, a maintenance and Supply Man on the team said underwater visibility generally improves slightly twice a Day during the approximately 45 minutes of Slack water following the nigh tides. However the Slack water after Low tide is about the worst Lime because then the water is All stirred up from the run out said the resident of Charleston . Eod Mobile unit one provides detachments to carriers ammunition ships and Shore installations and supports the . Secret service for the Protection of vips Dolan  primary Mission of the detachment at holy Loch is providing support during missile and torpedo movements. It is Eod s Job to identify disarm and dispose of foreign and Domestic  Are fully capable of responding to any kind of ordnance conventional or nuclear Knapp said. Any of us could make a bomb  team is on Call around the clock but ordinarily Only gets called in Case of an Accident. The unit also responds to bomb scares and examines suspicious packages ashore and afloat. Its deployment has been relatively quiet according to Dolan a resident of Bethesda my. But life was a bit More than routine for the Eod team in the aftermath of the . Bombing raids against Libya he said when the team was called out to investigate a couple of bomb scares that turned out to be hoaxes at nearby Navy Shore facilities. One of the most important roles the Eod team has is training submarine personnel in protective Security measures including the recognition of Limpet min Sand procedures to be taken in order to Deal with them. Dodson and the two remaining members of the team Petty officer 2.c. John e. Bilton 26, the team s administrative Petty officer from Monroe . And Petty officer 3.c. Brian Grassmyer 25, a maintenance and Supply Man from Tyrone a have worked in a recreation program for Navy youth family members. We have found it very enjoyable working with the kids. It has helped keep us Busy said Dodson who also goes on Busman s holidays diving often on the wreck of a Small coaster about five Miles from the holy Loch. World today British parliament votes to ban caning in schools London up1 parliament voted tuesday by a majority of just one to abolish caning in Britain s schools. A conservative move to retain Corporal punishment was Defeated by 231 votes to 230 in the House of commons. Junior education minister Chris Patten backed the move to allow schools to decide whether the Cane should be used. But opposition parties were opposed to the Mea  years ago the european court ruled that parents had a right to Stop their children from being caned. The government attempted to draft legislation allowing schools the option to retain the Cane if they wished. Japan air lines refuses to accept 747 delivery Tokyo up Japan air lines said tuesday it refused to accept delivery of a new Boeing 747 jumbo Jet after the airline s inspectors found manufacturing irregularities in a key Cabin partition of the aircraft. It was the first time we found such defects in a new aircraft Jal spokesman Geoffrey Tudor said of the inspection carried out in december last year. Tudor said however Jal accepted delivery of the same aircraft three months later in March after the Seattle manufacturer the Boeing co., replaced the rear pressure bulk head which separates the Cabin from the Tail Section. The incident came to Light less than a month before the first anniversary of the aug. 12 crash of a Jal Boeing 747 Jet in Central Japan that killed 520 people in the worst single plane Accident in history. China expels newsman accused of espionage peking a new York times correspondent John bums was expelled from China wednesday after being accused by the government of illegally entering a military zone and taking pictures. He dismissed the accusations against him As  bums 41, was taken wednesday morning from the barred padded cell where he had been held for six Days without charge and was put aboard a canc chinese state airlines flight for Hong Kong the news paper s executive editor . Rosenthal said. Upon arrival in Hong Kong Burns said the accusations that he had engaged in espionage while on a motorcycle trip through a closed area of Central China earlier this month were baseless. It was nonsense from the Start he told reporters at Hong Kong Airport. I engaged in a quite legitimate journalistic  Burns a British National had been detained by police since thursday when police at peking s Airport stopped him As he and his family prepared to leave for a vacation abroad. New town to be built for chernobyl workers Moscow up soviet officials will build a new town to House 10,000 people who will work at the Cherno Byl nuclear Power station when it goes Back on line in limited capacity in october pravda said wednesday. The communist party newspaper said the settlement called Zelyony mys Green Cape will be on the Northern Bank of the Tetrev River which flows into the Kiev water Reservoir near the station where the nuclear reactor exploded april 26. A new township for chernobyl atomic Power Plant workers will be built on the Bank of the Kiev water Reservoir pravda said. Zelyony mys will have a population of 10,000." presently rotating teams of workers who maintain the four shut Down reactors at chernobyl Are housed on eight diesel ships on the nearby Prip Yat River. Sawm/7/, logging workers strike in British Columbia Vancouver Canada a some 5,000 workers went on strike tuesday against sawmills and logging operations in Northern British Columbia after negotiations broke Down Over the practice of awarding work to non Union labourers a Union official said. Negotiations continued Between the 31,000-member International Wood workers of America and Industry representatives for Southern and Interior Brit ish Columbia said Jack Munro president of the Union s Western regional Council. Dave Gunderson spokesman for the Northern Mills one of three groups that make up Forest Industrial relations the Industry bargaining agent said he was stunned by the Union s move. I m shocked that the Union is pre pared to apparently shut this Industry Down on such a ridiculous Issue gun Derson told reporters. The Union wants a ban on contracting out but wording proposed earlier by the companies would have allowed the prac Tice under certain circumstances. Overall negotiations including Union demands for pension improvements have been put on hold until the question of contracting out has been resolved said Union first vice president Bob Blanchard. The strike is a separate action fro the 37-Day-old strike by about 7,500 members of the 1wa and the lumber production and Industrial workers i Washington and Oregon against the Weyerhaeuser co. Munro predicted that the strike would spread to the Southern and Interior sections of the province. I assume that they re All going to Tellus that they re not prepared to put on paper words that will give Protection to their employees from losing their jobs to contractors Munro said