European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 22, 1937 the stars and stripes i a Paga 9 Zaragoza Asbestos plan cancelled school said removal method unsafe Bidav Walczak education writer Art Asbestos removal project at Zaragoza Elemen tary High school was cancelled Friday despite an agreement Between a teachers Union and he military s overseas school system. Base officials cancelled the project after Asbestos re Moval experts working on behalf of the department of defense dependents schools recommended scuttling the project a school official did. The experts who work for the defense logistics Agency said the contract s specifications were inadequate in meeting the strict standards for Asbestos abatement drawn up by the environmental Protection Agency. A base spokesman said the school system was responsible for the cancellation and referred All questions to Dodds Mediterranean Region. The Asbestos Issue and the removal project while i concern Tor All is a problem that Dodds must tackle not the air Force said Public affairs officer Cape John Biek Cit. He declined 10 answer questions regarding the cancellation even though Dodds hat no authority to sign Large scale maintenance work contracts such As the Zaragoza project. The school system uses local military engineering office Fortuch contracts. Zaragoza teachers have complained for More than three Yean that the school Ponci a health risk because of the Prence of Asbestos which studies have linked to cancer. Dodds earmarked 557,25 million this year to re move or encapsulate Asbestos in All its schools. The first phase of the program which will identify Asbestos Levels in All schools began last month. The project at Zaragoza was planned Long before the current Dodds Asbestos removal program which came in response to the october 1986 Asbestos Hazard emergency response act. Zaragoza teachers said the timing and methods previously used in removing Asbestos at the school produced a hazardous environment. Work Crews were hacking away at Asbestos covered insulation pipes during school hours local teachers charged scattering airborne Asbestos i bars. A Benoi was once used extensively for insulation and a flame Mardarl. The use of Asbestos was Dis continued in the Jill 1970s, but Many schools built before then contain the hazardous substance. Mediterranean Region spokesman Otto Thomas said the Zaragoza i cobol would open for the 1987-48 school year aug. 31 As scheduled despite the project s cancellation because no present Asbestos Hazard sex Isle at this  the overseas federation of teachers had claimed Victory following a May 14 agreement with Dodds management pan of which provides Zaragoza teach ers with free medical exams. We Hope this shows a change in management s position on How Aib Cloi is to be removed or contained Laid Oft executive director Ernie Lehman n from his office in Verona Italy. We consider this a Victory in our fight to provide Asbestos free  Oft officials and Dodds Mediterranean Region officials agreed on a settlement the same Day a Washington  arbitrator was to hear a grievance filed by the Union Over an Asbestos removal project that began in 1984. The agreement includes the following provisions a department of labor form indicating potential compensation for having worked in an unsafe environment 10 be i a Ciudad in teachers personnel tiles. A pledge to Monitor carefully the Arbenus situation. The military is charged with oversee in any project designed to remove Asbestos. Permission for teachers to avoid working under conditions that have been determined to be unsafe or Uncal Ahful by the responsible health or safety  the Union also has set up a Trust fund for Zara a student exposed to Asbestos. We re convinced thai somewhere Down the line the Odds arc that some of the students enrolled Here will As an adult suffer from   said local Union president Mabel Segovia. Thomas said that management never disagreed with the potential Asbestos Hazard at the school and differed Only in what specific language should be included in the  he said signing an agreement before arbitration was not unusual Given the fact we had been negotiating for some Lime with Union officials about this the local Oft chapter filed a grievance March 17. 1986. Charging principal Royal a Arlanti with ignoring their pleas to provide teachers and students wish an Asbestos fryc environment. The grievance was signed by 36 leathers. Ted a confess plan to hit . Base Athens Greece Dpi two us peeled members of an Abu Nidal terrorist cell arrested sin weeks ago in Italy con fessed they were planning an impressive strike against a . Target in Greece a greek newspaper reported Friday. Two Abu Nidal terrorists revealed to italian intelligence agents plans for an impressive strike on greek soil against an american target said the 1 Cullion daily Eleftheros to a senior police source., Abu Nidal w�1iead5 the Al Fatah for Council one of several  spawned by the Palestine liberation organization formed his Tup in 1974 after an abortive attempt1 " f Plo Leader Yasser Arafat. The two arrested men were part  Abu Nidal terrorist group by attacked Turkey s la sept. 6 and kill most Likely the targets in were two . Naval bases one at Lea Makri. Near Athens and another at Souda Bay on the Island of Crete. Abu Nidal also has British. Israeli and kuwaiti targets in  a Diplomat said. The British arc holding members of Abu Nidal s organization in their  italian police said the two suspected terrorists both of Middle East origin. Were arrested about so weeks a train As they were tray. Ii a go Acos were followed by italian its of the secret service after one of and applied to a Turin clinic for a Huckery. Arousing the suspicion of the mul is not a full fledged member of the Alliance. Progress made toward goal  space station Paris a o s. And european officials said Friday they were Yakiv slow but steady Progress to Ward the goal of a join space Slation do spec snags caused by questions Over Imeary use of the station. The officials have been my Sung at the Paris air show an 11-Day exhibit of a till and civilian air and space Craft that ends sunday. On display is a full size lockup Oit a soviet Union s manned Mir space station a re Mirner that the West lags far behind in its bid for a presence in space. Nasa and the european space Agency arc to to have a space station aloft in the mid-1990s.airtnil partners have been trying to Iron out  on How the station should be built and used James Fletcher  aeronautics and space  last week with the Esa director general fluff mar lust but Fletcher said beforehand the Iziu Giuld not be negotiating specific Points. Neither Side reported any breakthroughs but Nasa spokesman Guk Harreii said we re making head  s nothing dramatic but things arc going the said in an interview Friday at the a Bourget Airfield where the show is being held. The major stumbling mock has been the Issue of military use of the space station. The europeans arc concerned about pol Colja use of the space station for work on Milieu such As the strategic defense lug Tiv  the . Earlier  to an Accord wiling forthccxclusivdyj0imul use of the station. Of Fth aerospace industries Asso i. Another partner said the Issue could rur Fuce later. There s general agreement thai defense is legit the and offensive purposes Are  he said in an interview. But it s sometimes hard to Tell one from the  at a news conference last week. Fletcher said the Clagon has yet to propose any specific military pro s on the space station. But. He added they would verb such Tike to use  fur Fig is another prickly Issue in the lulls. The Baw cosi of the station is si3 billion. In no vember Eow keep ministers will meet 10 discus an eight year Cornil Nten totalling $12 billion for the Hermes spacer Kari inc s rocket and Columbus manned and in Ryan risp acc labs. The while House in Jet the space station budget request at $767 million it focal iws8. . Officials arc finding it hard to Epla Niumai american financial support for the space station Costa Del line when a new president tales office or con orca twins searching for ways to economize