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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, February 23, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday february 23, 1967 dying Lake a photo pile of dead Flash line the Shore of Carson sink inthe Stillm scr wildlife Refuge near Fallon Nevad. An estimated 7 million fish have died Ai result of what biologists think is increasing Najja it caused by the decreasing volume of tie like Man water evaporates than is replaced. . Oil drillers face problems study warns Washington Dpi the Domestic Oil Indus try May have been so badly Hurt by falling prices Over the Ian year that production will fait taster and far ther than expected a Library of Congress study said saturday the study concluded that the Domestic Oil resource base May have been pushed Low enough to make a resumption of massive drilling unprofitable and Exten Sive new exploration unlikely. In that Case the document said Domestic Oil production will fall faster and farther than is generally  the Industry Bat suffered because of a Sharp drop in Petroleum prices generally believed la have been engineered by saudi Arabia which flooded International markets with is own crude Oil. As a result . Oil companies have Cut  on production at less profitable facilities and reduced spending on exploration and development. Statistics show the number of Active drilling Rig fell last year to less than half the 1985 level. Some companies have been restructured and Many have taken on excessive debt As a result the report said. The Assumption that saudi Arabia can raise Oil production at will and swamp the Market has discouraged . Oil companies interest in investment in exploration and  the report said. Even if prices Rise to More profitable Levels recovery would not tie immediate the report said. Sen. Lloyd Bentten a Teutu who requested the study warned thai the problems will be complicated by president Rea an s proposal co Cut nearly in Hal the government s �130 million research budget for Oil natural Gas and Coal stateside new Orleans mayor orders barricades to suburb removed new Orleans a mayor Sidney Barthelemy ordered City workers saturday to remove two steel barricades that Block automobile Access from a mostly Lack Section of he City to a mostly while suburb. "1 can t stand for it Barthelemy said after Dis Patching workers to remove the barricades the Jefferson Parish Council ordered the barricades a Recti d thursday and Friday after residents of the sub Urban area complained that people from the City were driving into their neighbourhood at night and commit Ting burglaries and assaults. Blacks on the new Orleans Side in Orleans Parish tall the structures the Berlin Wall in december Jefferson sheriff Harry Lee set of widespread criticism by announcing that Blacks in pre dominantly while neighbourhoods would be routinely slopped and questioned by deputies. He rescinded the plan less than 24 hours after he announced it. But the memory lingers. Lee said last week he was unaware of serious crime problems in the area where the barricades went up. Barthelemy said the structures strips of steel rail ing affixed to wooden posts sunk into inc ground were unsafe and illegal because they blocked Access Toa nearby state Highway and a route to Ochsner Hospi Tal. Dob Evans acting president of the Jefferson Parish Council disagreed saying that City emergency vehicles that serve the area do not have to Cross the Parish line. The Council will study inc legality of the barricades Evans said and if Barthelemy is wrong the barricades will go  up. Barthelemy did not mention race relations As a Rea son for removing the structures and the Jefferson Par ish Council did not mention race As a Factor in erecting the barricades. But residents of inc new Orleans neighbourhood said he barriers were directed a them. They Don t want no coloured people in Jefferson Parish never did Nusha Bibbins said Friday. This is their Way of telling  a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish sheriffs of fice said no information was available on whether crimes in the area West of the City where the Barri Cades were erected were actually committed by people from new Orleans. Health Center tackles dirty subject Amherst mass. A researchers Are sorting through he soiled diapers of 63 children to find out How much dirt from playgrounds and Yards makes ils Way into youngsters diets. This is the Only study i know of that requires inc Purchase of 17,000 Worth of diapers and the rental of a Abr lift for a month project manager Charles Gilbert of the University of Massachusetts Public health Cen Ter said saturday. Gilbert said the study s aim is to find out whether the commonly held belief Lylial children cat More Din than adults is True. The work is being done with a $344,000 Grant from Sypien corp., a California pharmaceutical company involved in lawsuits Over Din in contaminated soil i times Beach. To. Researchers said the government can use inc study 10 set safely standards. The researchers will Analyse the diapers contents in the Nett few months for traces of chemicals the body docs not absorb and ones known to be in the local soil. Principal investigator Edward Calabress said he Hopes to have some results by the end of april. To prepare for the study researchers first tried a diet of dirt on six adults last fall. Four of the adults were parents of he children used in the diaper study. The volunteers swallowed 50 milligrams of soil in a capsule twice a Day for one week and increased the dosage to 250 milligrams the next week. As e control measure the third week they swallowed capsules that unknown to them were empty. Subjects who were paid 5500 each saved samples of everything they ate and carried a four quart ice Cream Container with them throughout the Ihre week for Stool and urine samples. In the diaper study he families of the children who were Between the Ages of 1 and. 3. Were paid s500 fur two weeks. They kept used diapers on ice until re searchers picked them up at the end of the Day in a special truck that freeze dried i hem. About 4,000 Dia pers were collected Gilbert said. Judge oks plan for la to Stop polluting Bay los Angeles apr a Federal judge has approved a plan thai gives los Angela 11 More Yean to Stop polluting Santa Monica Bay. Appeals court judge Harry Prelerson a new schedule but he fined the City $625,000 Lor missing a 1977 deadline that required sewage dumped into the Bay to be heavily treated. That deadline was later extended to l9st.justice department officials called the Fine one of the urged penalties Ever collected for violations of the 1972 clean War act. The City says the Bay Waters cannot be cleaned up before the end of 1998. Techno Bandit convicted of Selling gear to soviets los Angeles up Werner Bruchhausen a German businessman labelled the most prolific Lechno Bandit Ever prosecuted has been convicted of illegally shipping us. Computers and electronics to the soviet Union. Ujj. District judge Alice Marie Stotler foun Bruchhausen guilty on All 15 counts of a wire fraud indictment covering $6 million in High technology equipment bought from american manufacturers and diverted to inc soviets with out the knowledge or approval of the . Government Between 1977 and 1980, Stotler called the evidence against Bruchhausen overwhelming reinstatement of Pilot blocked by Rehnquist Washington a chief Justice Wil Liam h. Rehnquist has temporarily blocked the reinstatement of a Northwest airlines Pilot a recovered alcoholic tired for drinking less than24 hours before flying a commercial Airliner. Rehnquist granted an emergency request by Northwest airlines that the reinstatement be blocked until the full court considers he airline formal Appeal. The Pilot Larry Morrison had been wit Northwest for 16 years when he was discovered piloting a flight on aug. 6, 1982. Within 24 hours of consuming  Northwest allows recovered alcoholics to be pilots the airline said Morrison had failed 10 scent help until his problem was discovered when he was forced to Alec a blood test during Layover in California from he 1982 flight. Tribal chairman s order closes Navajo daily paper window Rock Ariz. A the Nalion Sonly daily newspaper owned and operated by indians has ceased publication but a spokesman for the head of the tribe said the decision was financial not political. The Navajo tribal chairman Peter  took office last month after narrowly winnings  issued the Ord closing their inc sup ported Navajo times on thursday but said it May return As a weekly or semimonthly. Stan Milford chief Enciu Tiveron Macdonald s staff said the paper Hud run up a deficit of s750.000 in the past few years flip paper bad been a daily since april 1984."it s primarily u failure As a business Ven Ture Milford said. Man arrested after trying to buy torpedo manual Seattle up a dutch citizen who de scribed himself As an arms merchant has been charged with attempting to buy a technical Man Ual on a . Navy torpedo for resale to foreign Powers including  Nootenboom was arrested at sea Tilc Tacoma International Airport after retried to buy the torpedo manual from an under cover . Customs service agent for $10.000,Federal officials said saturday. . Attorney Gene Anderson and Philip Bowen special agent in charge of lie . Cus Toms service in Seattle said Nootenboom was arrested during a Ilu Postr of a flight that originated in Vancouver b.c., and was destined for Hong Kong  
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