European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Florida task Force fails to Stop drug trafficking Page 5 d prep pick id s returns to cover High school sports Page 21 d learning at Home at Moron a Spain Page 9 i Ltd Tion roil vol. 45, no. 140 Friday september 5, 1986 . Makes offer for Daniloff Oen d 8693 a by the los Angeles times Santa Barbara. Calif the Reagan administration has proposed thai a soviet physicist being held on espionage charges in new York would be released 10 the custody of the soviet ambassador pending a Federal court thai in Exchange for he Freedom of an american news correspondent being detained in mos cow a senior administration official said wednesday. We made the  the official said adding thai she soviet Union has not responded. At the same time that is quietly made the proposal however the administration sought to apply greater pressure on the soviet Union and White House spokesman Larry up cakes warned incidents like his certainly can have an effect on .-soviet relations. Obviously this is not  thus in diplomatic Maneu vers being played both in Public and private it appears that the administration is trying to give Moscow a Way out of the dilemma. But at the same time in the words of the senior official who disclosed the Swap offer the government was re minding the Kremlin that the longer it drags out the More we re  but even As the official discussed the proposed Solu Tion of what has become a new irritant in .-Soviel relations the department of Justice appeared to be Balking. A senior department official said in a statement hat there would be no talk of releasing the soviet citizen Gennady f. Zakharov until the Ameri can Nicholas Danilof of . News & world report was in the United Stales. The arrangement if accepted by the soviet Union would appear to follow the precedent of a 1978 Case in which two soviet citizens arrested in this country were turned Over to the soviet ambassador pending trial and a . Business executive arrested in the soviet Union eventually was Given a suspended sentence and allowed to return to the United states. Neither Speakes in Sania Barbara nor slate department spokesman Charlese Redman in washing Ion would comment during news briefings on the prospects for an Exchange of Daniloff and Zakharov a soviet employee of the United nations. But speaker said that the United states will prosecute the Zakharov Case in strict conformity wih the Law which would not be barred by the proposal. Zakharov was arrested in new York aug. 23, and Daniloff was detained by the Kab the soviet secret police one week later. Zakharov does nol hold diplomatic immunity an thus is being held for Iriani. Rather than simply King expelled from the United states. Experts sift wreckage of jetliner Small plane a Friend incest Galor examines pieces of wreckage. By be los Angeles times los Angeles investigators zeroed in on in shattered Tail Section of an acro Mexico dc-9 jetliner and the twisted wreckage of a Piper Archer ii wednes Day As they struggled to determine the cause of the disastrous collision Over Cerritos last sunday. The focus is on these pieces because this is where we have evidence that two air planes came in Contact said John while who Heads the National transportation safety Board s wreckage inspection Effort. Behave had eyewitness accounts that the Small aircraft hit Forward of the Tail Section but Al this Point we Haven t found any evidence of  the Tail Section of the Airliner and the remains of the Light air plane Lay Side by Side wednesday in a lot beside a Mcdonnell Douglas hangar on the West Side of Long Beach municipal Airport. White said the Light plane was recovered almost intact except for the top of the Cabin which was sheared off by the Force of us Impact with the jetliner at the crash site but experts had to reassemble the Al portion of the dc-9 from larger bits and pieces. From these remnants he said experts May be Able to determine the exact Angle at which the planes collided a few minutes before noon sunday dooming 67passengers and Crew members in the two air planes and up to 24 people on the ground. White who also served on a Nasa investigative team that reconstructed parts of the space shuttle Chal Lenger said examination of the wreckage May yield evidence to determine the exact Speed of both aircraft and the direction in which they were flying. He said the physical inspection of the wreckage should be completed by thursday. While displayed a piece of the jetliner s vertical Stabilizer which bore rubber skid Marks caused he said by the nose wheel of the smaller air plane. He said that much of the Forward portion of the Jet disintegrated on Impact which made recovery of those parts nearly  authorities have said that they believe the smaller air plane struck the jetliner near its Tail. And White said several chunks of the Piper were embedded in the left Side of the jetliner s Stabilizer a Long Flat and slightly curved air foil positioned at the top of the Tai Section. Skies Over los Angeles Aren t so Friendly from press dispatches Washington the number of near collisions among aircraft in the skies Over California has More than doubled in the last five years. Incidents now occur at a rate of one every iwo Days according to data released wednesday by the Federal aviation administration. California leads the nation in near collisions the data shows and More than half he state s close Calls occur in the los Angeles Basin described by aviation experts As having perhaps the most crowded skies in the world. Of the 709 California near collisions reported by pilots since 1981, the Faa classified 155 As critical defined As planes coming within 100 Fet of on another. A few involved distances of less than 10 feet according to the computer list which was made Public by the Agency in response to news Media requests after sunday s collision of an Aeron Xico dc-9 arid a Pri vate plane Over Cerritos  report cited 188 Pilot reports of near midair collision incidents in California in 1985, compared with 134 in 1984, 110 in 1983, 76 in 1982 and 87 in 1981. So far in 1986, the Agency said 114 incidents have been reported. Nationwide the rate of near collisions has shown a similar increase from 395 in 1981 to 758 in 1985. About 400 were reported in the first half of this year the Faa said. Some members of Congress maintained that at least part of the increase could be attributed to the air traffic controllers strike in 1981, during which thousands were fired by president Reagan. The Faa disputes that Contention however. Nevertheless rep. Glenn m. Anderson d-calif., a ranking member of the House Public works an transportation subcommittee on aviation said that the newly released report indicates the need for additional air traffic controllers in the los Angeles area. The Faa tells us in is Safe but they admit the1. Don t have enough controllers Anderson said. Anderson said that he called rep. Norman y. Mine lad Calit chairman of the subcommittee this week to suggest Early congressional hearings on the Cerrilo disaster. Several aviation expert attributed the rate of near collisions in the los Angeles area to the heavy volume of commercial military and general aviation traffic generally Good weather that promote private flying and to men factors As mountains and smog. The la Basin has the densest traffic anywhere said John e. O Brien director of engineering and air safely of the air line pilots association. So far in 1986, the report lined the location of a incidents As los Angeles. These halved seven com Mercial aircraft and five general aviation Craft two were classified As critical 7 on feb. 14, when do 9 and a Boeing 767 flying at 1,000 feet came within100 feet on each other and on feb. 23 when Dos and a Small private plane came within 100 feet of one another a an Alt Ifcic of 12,300 feet. Grim reminders of Wii stripes Magazine