European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 27, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 heat wave victim a photo two men in Athens Greece help woman who fainted while Riding a City bin saturday. The woman was taken la an Athens Hospital for treatment. Greece has been hit by an unprecedented heat wave reaching at least 100 degrees fahrenheit every Day for the past week. More than 331 deaths have been officially reported and thousands of people have been hospitalized. Lawmaker assails Dot s alcohol drug test policy Washington up the head of a congressional panel says inc transportation department s refusal to order air traffic controllers 10 be cited far drugs and alcohol when requested by investigators poses a safely problem. Rep. Vardiss Collins. D-lll., chairman of a House government operations sub committee said in a letter to transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole thai her current drug testing policy raises serious concerns. The department of transportation is continuing to frustrate and undermine National transportation safety Board safely investigations by encouraging air traffic controllers involved in serious operational errors to refuse to be tested for drug and alcohol impairment Collins said in a idler to Dole. The safety Board is an Independent government Agency whose Job is to investigate transportation accidents and close  inc letter and other documents made available to United press International during the weekend Collins said the mos recent example of the department s refusal to cooperate with the safety Board followed a july 9 incident Between two planes Over the North Atlantic. The incident involved a pan Ameri can Airbus carrying 91 passengers and a visa venezuelan airways dc-10, with 93 passengers. The planes passed within 300 feet vertically and 500 feet horizon tally of each other having preliminarily determined thai the near Accident occurred after a controller inexplicably cleared the pan am Jet to switch to an Altitude and air space occupied by the visa plane safety Board investigators requested the con troller to talc a drug alcohol  col Lins said. The controller with dots full Back ing and support refused she said. A transportation department spokes Man said that undercurrent regulations inc department cannot Force a controller to submit to drug or alcohol testing unless there is a reason to believe thai he or she was , in an interview last week said inc department will have wider ranging drug and alcohol testing regulations i place by Early september thai will Call for among other things random testing. Under the new drug testing policy about 30,000 of the departments 100,000 employees including control lers would be tested under certain Cir Cunis lances. In addition pilots truck Drivers and rail workers would be affected by the regulations. It was not made Clear however whether the new policy would Call for mandatory testing of a controller when demanded by safety Board investigators. The letter also signed by rep. Gerry Kluczka d-wis., said the congressional panel has been seeking to untangle inc confusion and misdirection that continues to characterize Dot s drug test poli  letter asked for a copy of All department written records Between feb. I and june 25 related to drug and alcohol testing of controllers. If the records arc not produced the letter said the subcommittee would con Sider obtaining a subpoena. Is fired on Nica Guan troops twice report says _ i. To. I  ugh of Tanta. In1n1_ Ulilah str invt Rand mints to Ltd .5ui Miami a unknown to con Gress Active duty american soldiers under National Security Council control fired rockets and machine guns at nicaraguan troops twice in 1984 to protect saboteurs according to a published re port. Helicopter pilots from an army com Mando unit called intelligence support activity Lew anti Sandim Sta forces in Side Nicaragua in 1983 and 1984, the Miami Herald reported in its sunday editions. The Herald report which it said was based on interviews with organizers and panic Ipanis indicated that the National Security Council bypassing Normal government channels controlled the net work of secret military units and private contractors using la. Col. Oliver North As its chief operative. On two occasions in 1984, Isa provided covering fire with rockets and machine guns to protect the saboteurs re treat against entrenched Nicaragua defenders participants and planners said. Congressional leaders were briefed on some Covert Jas operations but were not told of the nicaraguan attacks the news paper said. Retired sen. Barry Goldwater r ariz., then chairman of the Senate intelligence committee protested to former Cia chief William Casey when he found out after inc fact. Meanwhile the House intelligence committee was lot that Cia hired saboteurs and Cia hired civilian pilots car ried out the missions. But participants say task Force 160, a new helicopter assault Force actually provided helicopter support the Herald said. At the time the Reagan administration strenuously denied any . Mili tary presence in Nicaragua. But North wrote his Boss then nation Al Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane Ina March 2, i9b4, memo that in Accord with prior  the .-sup ported contras look credit for inc oper  describing the procedure used in about a half dozen assaults the Herald said a Navy commando Seal team would be ferried from a . Mother ship by task Force 160 helicopters carrying Seal boats in Underbelly slings. Light attack helicopters based on the Mother ship were armed with rockets and machine guns to protect the saboteurs. You Don t think we would have gone to All hat rouble fora Bunch of contras do you asked z former Pilot who was not named by the Herald. Sudan declares nationwide state of emergency Khartoum. Sudan a the government plagued by a costly 4-year old civil War on saturday declared a nationwide state of emergency and said it was necessary because of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation a government statement broadcast Over the official Omdurman radio sat urday night said inc move was taken by the elected government of prime min ister sack Al Mahdi and was endorsed by the state s five Man Sovereign Council. Sudan has been living under a state of emergency since Gen. Jaafar Numeir was overthrown in april 1985, but the statement did t explain How the new emergency would differ. Government officials were nol immediately available for comment because of the late hour. The Northeast african country is struggling with 100 percent inflation severe commodity shortages strikes and the civil War. Rebels who control much of the largely Christian and animist South arc fight ing a government and army supported by the predominantly moslem North. Foreign observers estimate thai the re Bels number about 30,000. The government which has a foreign debt of about 112 billion spends an Esti mated 1390,000 a Day to Light the rebel  statement said the emergency in tends to restrict dealing in foreign cur Rency control marketplace and civil Dis order and combat the hoarding a commodities and a flourishing Black Market. It also seeks to combat smuggling Whichel said is on the Rise hah interruption of Public services an obvious reference to the labor unrest reduce crime rid the nation of unlicensed arms and defend against enemies of democracy and the country the statement said. The rebels Are reportedly gaining strength partly through increasing sup port from the marxist government of bordering Ethiopia. The insurgents do not advocate secession but claim to want a United Sudan with a secular government Ihal does not discriminate against southerners. Num ciry ruled with an Iron fist for 16 years until two weeks of Street violence protesting conditions similar to the cur rent ones led to his  reports said last week thai 22 of his followers were arrested for anti government activities. Says members of Al Mahdi s government Numeir borrowed heavily from foreign countries and thai most of the loaned Money was misused and Lisman  costs Sudan boo million a year just to service its foreign debt. There Are periodic shortages of com mod Ilici most recently matches soap and motor Oil. Other items Are available Only on the Black Market at three to four times the official Price. The civil War has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their Homes and Settle in squatter Camps around Khartoum and other major cities. The government blames southerners and foreign refugees estimated Lonum Ber Between i million to 2 million peo ple for an increase in  has More Ihan 18.5 million peo ple and is Boul one third hit Lic of the Continental United stall s