European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the Star band stripes sunday november 22,1967 Navy marines ground some f/a-18s i.1 i. F to a m i by Norman Black a military writer Washington a the Navy and Marine corps on Friday grounded dozens of their front line of a in Hornet fighters because of it problem with the general electric co. Jet engines that Power them. The two services said they could not estimate Pree Seiy How Ninny of lilo Fig lit ers were being grounded because the flight restriction order was directed at engines with a certain amount of Wear. Any Hornet with a be f-404 engine that has accumulated at least 800 hours of flight time will be affected by the grounding order the services said. Each f/a-18 is powered by two engines. The flight restriction is necessary to reduce the risk of further aircraft loss due to in contained titanium Hies in the engines the Navy said. A Navy spokeswoman in London told the stars and stripes that none of the Navy s f/a-18s in the Mediterranean have been grounded the two services said there Are cur  Brief gently 384 f/a-18s now in the operation Al inventory. The Navy and Marine corps have More than 1,000 operational and spare f-404 engines of which about one third or 320 Are thought to have reached the 800-hour night limit. Navy and Marine unit around the world have begun scrutinizing their Hor net to determine How Many carry Enz Salt Etc by the Sleuth a a her. Said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity. It will probably be several Days before that process is completed but it is Clear that dozens of the planes will be affected the source said. The of a is is the Navy s and the Pentagon s newest Jet fighter. Built bythe Mcdonnell Douglas corp., the plane can be outfitted for either air to air or air to ground combat and is designed to increase the flexibility of air wings As signed to Navy aircraft carriers. The aircraft Carrier Midway which is about to Lake Over Protection duties for . Convoys operating in the persian Gulf it carrying three squadrons of about 30 of a-18s. Friday s grounding order was prompted by a series of recent incidents and crashes. There have been nine of a 1 g accidents this year and at least three involved engine fires. Similar problems have been reported with hornets sold to he Canadian air Force. Canada temporarily halted Acccp-t�3?� of it i  a Kirl Irr Ihl month until modifications were made to the compressor Turbine Blades of the engines. Last week general electric acknowledged that compressor Turbine Blades in the Canadian fighters had shown signs of Metal fatigue after they had accumulated roughly 1,000 hours of flight time. According to the Navy if the com Pressor Turbine Blades which Are made of titanium break off during flight they can melt and then ignite set Ting off a fire in the entire engine. The f/a-18 has recently experienced difficulties entered around the engine High pressure compressor that has caused engine fires which on three Occa Sions has led to the loss of aircraft the Navy said Friday in a joint statement with the Marine  have been developed and Are in the process of being implemented the statement said. For the Short term the Navy said it would attack the problem by coating the inside Walls of the engine compressors with a synthetic material that should help , say heat buildup re fire to the compressor unit. That Effort will probably take about two months the Navy said. Over the Long term the service said it was working with Gelo strengthen the engine compressor Blades. Bob Salvucci a be spokesman said Friday the company would have no immediate comment on the grounding  Navy declined to say Friday whether the hotels assigned to the Midway had been inspected As Yel but the service added in its statement i operational necessity dictates f/a-18s Are fully capable of responding to any  subway commuters say staff did t heed warning London a evidence mount saturday thai staff at King s Cross subway station ignored commuters warnings of a soldering fire that eventually flared into an inferno killing 30people. Two London newspapers quoted survivors As saving subway staff members failed to heed warnings before smoke engulfed the London underground station on wednesday trapping scores of commuters. Both the London times and the daily Mai said investigator were working on the theory that the tire was caused by a mechanical fault in a 4s-Yeai-Gki escalator. Transport Secretary Paul Channon acknowledged that commuters had warned members of the staff about smoke up to an hour before the fireball erupted but he gave no indication what action was taken. A spokesman was quoted As saying the fire could have been started in the mechanism in one of two ways either by friction caused by worn bearings or other bits of machinery rubbing together or1T � fault in electrical wiring. Police said earlier thought an electrical . Feisty Jessica ends Hospital stay Midland. Texas a Jessica Mcclure Rode out of the Hospital in a Little Green Wagon and doctors predicted the toddler will have few scars front her so i hour ordeal Down an abandoned Well. The 19-Monlh-old girl whose televised Rescue oct. 16 captivated the Nalion left Midland memorial Hospital on Friday aft Era 35-Day stay and several operations. She Rode the toy Wagon Down a Hospital ramp clutch ing a Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy. Her Mother. Cissy Mcclure lifted her out of the Wagon so she could walk toward a Forest of television cameras. Despite a cast on her right foot. Jessica hobbled upright briefly to show More than 40 onlookers that she could  father. Chip Mcclure wished the crowd a Happy thanksgiving. We know Well have one headed thanks to the Grace of god and some heroic men we be got our baby  rescuers pulled Jessica who had been wedged 22 feel deep in an 18-Inch-wide Bend in the Shaft fro Mihe backyard Well after digging through solid Rock. Her Long term prognosis is excellent or Shelton Viney said. She s a Young child and she ought to be Able to walk without any kind of noticeable Imp. Jessica will have scars on her thigh and foot and c scar from the pressure wound on her forehead May require plastic surgery in 10 years or so Viney said. He said the cast will stay on another two or three weeks Jessica s physicians said her courageous Lively pint helped her recovery. The Little girl has a fairly Active aggressive personality Viney  s been feisty since Day three said or. Deb Bie Reese. Brains College football scores Lull of in ugh 27. Nett Multi 7pmi set. Non a i �  p it.  10 nut urge Niton is. Rutan Tot Vum z4. Kentucky 33  a Roc Tisl 31 df1or.lj.rjprtjjb w  Tim my 41. Titi car stun 2 want tap 12 tavvurid24 i5.n cbnaa4tw our a 31. Mcnn5n 20  from Page 1 with Stuttgart High which finished second. Computers Aren t really my thing he said. They re More my dad s thing. I Don t really have a favorite  the Home team won by the narrowest of margins. Their 100-95 Victory meant that the we Bruecken five answered one More Bonus question than their foes from Stuttgart regular or tossup questions were Worth 10 Points apiece. The contestant who hit his Button first got first crack at the question. An incorrect answer sent the question to the other team. About half the tossup questions carried five Point Bonus questions. The two learns had squared off earlier in the double elimination Competition which featured answers ranging ram the South China sea to Antarctica. We Bruecken s 160-110 Victory in the first meeting was a Confidence builder said Chris Campbell of the winning team. We figured if we Best them once we could beat them again the Sophomore said. Campbell and Wuerzburg s John Flippen were Hon ored As the lop panellists following the Competition. The Wuerzburg team aiming to defend the title it won last year in Berlin finished third followed by Osterholt Patch and Tilburg. Each team included a freshman Sophomore Junior and senior plus an alternate from any Grade level senior Derek Meyer Junior John Guerry and freshman Jim James rounded out the winning five. Each school submitted groups of 50 questions based on the school system curriculum. A panel of 10 judges bandied disputes. Senior Patrick Childress who captained Stuttgart s entry was satisfied with his team s runner up status. I was on the team last year and i know Luck is part of 70 to 80 percent of the answers he said. You begot to be Quick because the other team knows the answers too. You be got to be the first 10 hit the but  and know what recursive procedures Are. Sergeant sentenced of 5 years on sex charges by Mark Walsh stiff writer Kaiserslautern a behavioural science specialist at funds Lull army regional medical Center was sentenced saturday to five years in prison for hav ing sex with a woman who had come to the social work services clinic for marital counselling. Sgt. Peter s. Thorton 33, in a general court martial also was reduced in rank to Al ordered to forfeit All pay and Given Adi honorable discharge for chores of so Domy indecent acts and dereliction of duty. Thorton pleaded not guilty to the three counts. The charges stemmed from an aug. 27 incident during a counselling session that resulted in the woman s performing Oral sex on Thorton according to court Doc Menis. The woman had been Thorton s patient at the Lan Stuhl clinic since about july 9. Thorton saw the victim ii times counselling her on her marital  these 11 meetings two were con dulled after duty hours one at the clinic and one in Thorton s Barracks room according to court documents and swim statements. Only two of the ii sessions were documented. On aug. Is the woman came to Thorton s Barracks room for a coun seling session during which he produced sexually explicit magazines and read her material from one of them court documents showed. As the sessions went on the woman s Trust in Thorton increased because he seemed to understand her problems and she believed that he was going to be Able to help her according to an army criminal investigation come report on aug. 27, the woman came to the Hospital Lor a scheduled appointment with Thorton. During the appointment. Thorton made suggestive remarks to the woman according to her statement to the army criminal investigation come. Later in the session the sexual activity took place. Thorton s authority in counselling is limited As a social work specialist in Dut he was Only authorized to see patients a maximum of three times in order to gather background information before referring patients to More qualified personnel according to a preliminary report on the Case. Thorton from the Bronx n.y., will serve his sentence at fort Leavenworth Kan