European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Checks flights to Nicaragua Managua Nicaragua up travellers from the United Stales to Nicaragua arc being asked to till out . Customs questionnaires in an Effort to enforce Trade sanctions against Nicara Gua. . Officials said Friday. Alberto Fernandez a spokesman for the . Embassy in Managua said the forms were put into use about a month ago on an apparently random basis. Embassy officials said the forms we redesigned to keep tabs on what americans and other travellers were taking into Nicara Gua and make it More difficult for them to carry items forbidden by the sanctions. The officials said the 15-month-old sanctions prohibit travellers from taking from the United states spare machine parts or other products in commercial quantities for resale inside  Washington . Customs spokes Man Louis kissing said the voluntary program was begun just to collect information in terms of helping us belter enforce the  the program which officials said was strictly voluntary and applied Only to passengers bound for Cuba and Nicara Gua is coordinated by the office of for eign assets control. The . Government has imposed a Trade embargo on Cuba for 25 years and has forbidden most travel to the Island although charter flights leave weekly from Miami to , passengers headed to Man Agua on a Taca night the salvadoran airlines from Miami were taken put of the line of people boarding the Jet for Central america.. Customs officers told the Man Agua bound passengers to fill out the form for statistics  on the form asked what items the traveler was taking that would remain in Nicaragua the value of the items and How much Money the traveler was carrying. The questionnaire also asked the purpose of the traveler s trip. The forms did not mention Nicara Gua on them instead asking about travel to  queried the customs official administering the forms explained she Hadron out of copies saying Nicaragua and told the passengers to disregard the Cuba and answer As though it said  president Reagan imposed the Trade sanctions in May 1985 and renewed the sanctions this year. Sunday september 7, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Maneule ability on display Britain s eap experimental aircraft program fighter plane files Over the crowd at the Farnborough International air show South of London. Funded by interests in Britain Italy and Germany the eap uses computerized for planes visible beneath the cockpit to give it new Levels of a nerve ability. Indian tribe s suit against Fri reinstated Washington a a Federal appeals court Friday reinstated a Minne Sota Indian tribe s $12 million lawsuit charging the Fri with negligence during a 1979 uprising by dissident tribe Mem Bers who took five hostages. The . Circuit court of appeals unanimously ordered a trial of the Law suit charging that an Fri agent acted negligently when he ordered local police to withdraw in the face of what he considered life threatening gunfire. A Federal judge in Washington had dismissed the lawsuit on grounds that the red Lake band of Chippewa indians in Northwestern Minnesota could not prove negligence by Fri agent Robert Erwin in his handling of the May 19, 1979, uprising by dissident tribal Mem Bers. But the appeals court in a 29-Page opinion by judge Robert Bork reversed a lower court s summary judgment Dis missing the lawsuit and ordered a trial on the Issue of Erwin s alleged negligence. Erwin came on the scene after local police had surrounded the red Lake Law enforcement Center where a group of dissident tribal members had taken five hostages. The lawsuit charged that Erwin acted negligently by ordering Bureau of India affairs police to withdraw from their positions without making Contact with Bia officials. The lawsuit contended that Erwin violated Fri policy that bars agents from becoming involved in efforts to quell civil disturbances. The tribe contended in its lawsuit that the withdrawal of officers enabled the dissidents to take Over half the town of red Lake and Burn Down several build Ings including the Home of chief Roge Jourdain before the rebellion was quelled. In considering the government s motion to dismiss the lawsuit Bork wrote that . District judge Thomas a. Flannery could have found reasonable grounds to conduct a trial on the Issue of Erwin s negligence. Flannery could have concluded that Erwin was aware that the Bia was responsible for Law enforcement on the reservation. He saw the roadblocks and therefore must have known that a strategy of some sort had been conceived and was being executed. He had no reason to believe that the officers at the roadblocks were Cut off from communication with the officer who was directing the opera Tion. The conclusion of negligence could be drawn if the court simply found that a reasonable Fri agent in similar circumstances would not have so acted. We of course express no Opin Ion on what conclusion should be reached Bork wrote. The uprising occurred when five armed men led by Harry Hanson took Over the Law enforcement Center to protest the firing of tribal treasurer Ste Phanie Hanson who had protested Jour Dain s policies. Two Bia officers a radio dispatcher and two Bia jailers were taken hostage by the group. Other officers managed to escape. The hostages were Rescue when the rebels burned Down the building. Hanson and other members of the group were convicted of conspiracy and assaulting Federal police officers. In its decision the three judge panel upheld the lower court s dismissal of negligence claims against the Bia police for alleged failure to take sufficient Security precautions after being warned of Possi ble trouble following Stephanie Hanson firing. Harry Sachs a Washington attorney representing the tribe said the Fri s handling of that riot situation was like the Keystone kops. It s right for the court of appeals not to let the Fri just say whatever we do is Good enough for work on an Indian Reser vation. "