European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stalls and stripes sunday april 28.1987 turns up nose at Barge becomes International Issue Islip. . Not the pariah Gar Bage Barge from Long Island became an International Issue Friday As mexican authorities said icy would refuse entry id the Barge and the environmental Protection Agency referred All inquiries about the garbage to the stale depart Menin More than 30 Days or a scorch Tor a place to dump the Barge s cargo of100 torn of waste from businesses in this South Short Community environmental officials said Friday Ilia it had achieved he status of a National Symbol of n grow i no crisis in sol id waste disposal. Frank Jones the supervisor of Islip one of the 10 owns in Suffolk county originally called the Barge s troubled Odyssey a  he has changed his mind. The people of Islip Are embarrassed he said. We an decent Folk who want to solve our own problem. We would like to apologize to the people who have been affronted by this  a recent study by the Epa said at least 27 Stales Are facing severe Landfill prob lems in the next three to 10 years. The plight of the Barge the Morgo could be indicative of future disposal difficulties if the country docs not solve its problem local stale and Federal officials said Fri Day. But As they try to Deal with the Gar Bage problem local officials complain that vehement Community opposition to the opening of new incineration plants or landfills often blocks their efforts. Community organi actions respond that they want Strong recycling programs similar to one signed into Law in new Jersey last week. As officials debated the wider problem Friday the break of Dawn the tugboat pulling the Barge was reported heading West toward Tampico Mexico. But Ai this time said Robert Gwinn a vice president of Harvey Gulf International inc owner of the lug we have no Clear Ance to head into any  the coast guard reported it to be about 200 mites North of the Yucatan Peninsula. Gwinn said the Barge is due in the Tampico area this week Al though he added we do not have a definite destination.11. Fitzhugh Green the associate administrator of the Epa in charge of International relations said he Hgt notified ser Gio Reyes Tijan inc sub Secretary of Mexico s secretariat for Urban development and ecology on thursday that the Barge was headed toward his country. Shortly after Midnight. Green said he Learned that Mexico would not allow it to Dock. Gwinn said he could not comment on Mexico s decision or on Why the Barge was heading there. He said Only Lowell Harrolson the president of National waste contractors which owns the Gar Bage and who Gwinn said was in mexi co could comment. Harrolson did not respond to Tele phone messages. On thursday the Barge eluded the coast guard Cutter Point Lookout with Epa officials aboard and was reported headed toward Mexico s Yucatan pc insula. The officials had hoped to take samples of inc waste to advise its owners on How and where to legally dispose of it. The Barge s trip which by now has exceeded 1,500 Miles began an March 22, when it left Long Island City Queens. It was barred by court order from Docking in Morehead City n.c., and set off for new Orleans. But gov. Edwin Edwards of Louisiana threatened to use the National guard to keep the Barge from Docking. Soon the Barge was seen circling grand Isle to. Then inc coast guard said 11 moved into International Waters. The drama of the Islip garbage actually began in november when the Islip town Board voted to ban at Industrial waste from its 75-acre Landfill in Haup Pauge. The dump they said is almost full and stale officials had refused to allow the town to expand it while await ing completion of an incinerator. As a result of the decision of the new York stale environmental conservation department Jones said we arc placed in this bizarre and embarrassing Situa Tion where slip s garbage has become the laughing Slock of the Eastern sea  but the department s Lang Island regional director Harold d. Burger. Said Friday that inc action was necessary be cause if we Don t protect our ground water. Long Island will no be a very  place 10  Islip residents interviewed. Friday agreed that having Islip garbage floating around inc Gulf or Mexico is Embarrass ing. It is As if the sophisticated metropol Itan area with excess garbage is trying to get another pan of the country that is less sophisticated and less populated to accept something thai never should have left Here said Theresa Corse the owner of the Little Flower nursing Home in East Islip. She added that her monthly garbage costs have More than doubled to i3.26b, from 11,176, since november some of the garbage she and other local businesses pay so much to have re moved led Friday to a message from officials in the . Embassy in Mexico City to Green wanting to discuss the Barge that is attacking  at kidding aside though Green said it dramatizes the whole problem of what to do with solid waste. It s the Nimby syndrome not in my Back Yard. But we can t put trash in the sky and we re running out of Landfill space. Washington Small talk Robert Mcfarlane sex National Security adv user chats with Fawn Hall former Secretary to Marine i. Col. Oliver North while Allan Dir the Ali it House correspondents dinner in Washington stateside Chrysler Renault agree to continue discussions Detroit up Chrysler corp and French automaker Renault said Friday they have agreed to sex lend their talks on Chrysler proposed acquisition of american motors corp. In a statement released in Detroit the two Compa Nies said considerable Progress has been made but it is a Complex Deal and a number of issues remain to be resolved a new target Dale of May 5 has been set for concluding discussions and signing definite agreements the statement said. Chrysler and Renault signed a letter of intent on March 9 and had targeted april 23 of the completion Date for reaching a definitive agreement on the pro posed am acquisition. . Invites soviets to visit chemical destruction site Washington apr the United Stales has invited soviet experts to visit the . Chemical weapons destruction Plant in too Csc Utah in october. The invitation was extended in Geneva by Lynn Hanson who Heads the . Delegation Al a disarmament conference in the Swiss cily to Yuri Nazarin the soviet ambassador. The visit would include a Lour of a chemical weapons Bunker. Hansen said reciprocal visits would be a step in improving Confidence Between the Stales with the larg est chemical weapons  there was no immediate word on whether the Sovi ets had accepted the offer. The two sides have discussed curbing their work on chemical weapons but they have not reached any agreement incorrect transplant prompts Hospital policy review Tucson any. A a Hospital has begun a review of procedures after a patient was Given a heart of the wrong blood Type and surgeons had to implant an artificial heart when his body rejected the donor Organ 3 spokeswoman said. James j. Shock Kex 39, was in stable condition saturday and had recovered enough to be put on the priority list for a new donor heart said his surgeon or. Jack g. Copland of University medical Center. He s awake he s Alert he has been Oul of bad three times and Liis kidney function Lias returned 10 a belter level than it was before his  said c opeland Hospital clip of cardio amnio in surgery. The mismatched heart provided by a Hospital in Texas was transplanted into Shovek e on tuesday and rejection was almost immediate Copland raid unable to find another donor Luearl. Doctors consulted with Shockley s family. And implanted a Jarvik-70 artificial heart said Copland who was chief sur Geon at the second operation. Nina Rasolt a spokeswoman for the Hospital which is affiliated will the urn verily of Ari Ona said a review was under Way but us dined 10 elaborate