European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday decembers. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 safety inspection on . Bridges called inadequate Washington , Federal Midge Huff in i it Utji Spur Ray i l%7 disaster  killed Jyh people have deteriorated Irlo paper audits thai provide Lille proc Cimon for Lite Public the head of the National transportation safely Board says. James turn Cut used thai phrase tues Day to describe reviews by the Federal Highway administration which he said rarely include on sic observations of slate inspections. Reviews by inc Federal Highway administration do Lillic More than verify that state Bridge inspection reports. Are completed and thai All the boxes Are checked Burnett told a House subcommittee. He said the Federal government in its role of ensuring adequate state Bridge inspections promises the Public a whole lot More than in s  rep. James l. Oberstar d-minn., chairman of the House Public works and transportation subcommittee said he organi de the hearings to review Bridge safety standards As the 20lh anniversary of a Milestone Bridge Accident approached. On dec. Is 1967, the Silver Bridge Belicen Point pleasant. . A Jilin Liu Koivu lentil Post a killing 46 Iku if. Thi1 Accident triggered the establishment of a special committee to examine Bridge safety nationwide. That resulted in the National Bridge inspection standards the basis Floday s Bridge safety regulations Burn Cut however said he believes that lax stale inspections and failure of the Federal Highway administration to oversee those local programs led to the 19113 Mian us River Bridge collapse in Connecticut that killed three motorists. He said the problem also May have played a role in the april collapse of a Bridge Over the Schoharie Creek in up state new York that killed 10. Burnett said the Federal Highway administration is incorporated some safely Board recommendations but excluded others thai he feels arc critical to prevent Bridge collapses. He warned that without action it is like to the number of major collapses will in crease As Bridges built during the Boom of the 1950s and 1960s continue to decay. Burnett said an administration proposal specifying certain inspection changes focuses on the number of inspections instead . Going Home Apoll Otu Bob and  Boyd or St. Alberta Alberta take Home 7-�cek-old Mitch Ell who underwent � hurl transplant last week. The surgery Nan performed Al California Ijima Linda University medical Center. Yale scholar wrote for nazi paper new Haven Conn. A a late Yale professor regarded As one of the most Brilliant intellectuals of his time wrote for an Ami semitic pro nazi belgian news paper in 1941-42, research in Belgium shows. Sterling humanities professor Paul deman died at the age of 64 in 1983 and was eulogized by then Yale presi Dent a. Bank cell Giamelli As a tremendous Light for humane life and  Vale names Only its most highly respected scholars to be Sterling professors. The revelation thai do Man wrote Al least 100 Arti cles for the newspaper Lesoir during world War ii has surprised his colleagues and students Neil Hertz professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said tuesday. They the articles make a biographical  he said. Hertz who is jewish said do Man never exhibited to him any anti semitic leanings in the 25 years he knew him. He was somebody whose Impact on students was of somebody ethically responsible Hertz said. At least one of the de Man articles strikes research ers As anti semitic. It appeared in the Spring of 1941 and was tilled the jews and contemporary Litera  next to it was printed a caricature of jews Wear ing prayer shawls and praying that Jehovah will con found the  of Man wrote it shows the strength of our West Ern intellectuals that they could protect from jewish influence a sphere As representative of the culture at Large As literature. Despite he lingering semitism in All our civilization literature showed that its essential nature was  Hertz said the article accepts the premise that the jews have a degenerating Eft eco on literature but then argues against that premise. The newspaper articles were found by a belgian graduate student. Onwin do grief who was research ing a thesis on de Man. Hertz said in a Telephone interview. The so Udint brought the articles to the at Tention of his colleagues. Hertz said. They will be published in a special Issue of the on Ford literary review Nel year along with comments from about 50 scholars who both support and oppose de Man s work he said. Tim supervisor fired for sleeping Harrisburg a. A an investigator has concluded that a supervisor fired from the damaged three mile Island nuclear Power Plant slept on duly numerous times and officials want to know Why the problem went unchecked. A report released monday by Tel s operators Gnu nuclear corp., said the shift supervisor s behaviour was Par of a longstanding pattern during which the worker repeatedly fell asleep nodded of and otherwise Dis played  while working at the Plant three mile Island s unit 2 re actor site of inc nation s worst commercial nuclear Accident has been shut Down since 1979. However the shift supervisor is responsible for overseeing staff tire Protection systems and radiation monitors at the Plant. A ii billion cleanup is expected to conclude Laie next year. Gnu spokesman Gordon Tomb said the Independent investigator who compiled inc report is continuing to study inc company s reaction to allegations involving the supervisor who was fired nov. 27 after inc report was submitted to the company. The report based on More than 70 interviews who workers Al inc Plant concluded hat Ilic steeping Inci dents stretched Back to Al least in and occurred As recently As late june. The invest  i Ion was set off in july Afler an Anonymous letter was sent Smullan Cousley to Tim manage ment and Federal officials accusing the supervisor of sleeping on duty. According 1o the report the letter also accused Tim management of a cover up and threatened to Call the news Media. The idler also referred to previous efforts Loha a the supervisor removed from duty including cd Blacl ing a Plant operations manager in april. Also management had warned the supervisor about sleeping on inc Job us Early As october in hrs the report said. Tomb said the company was unsure Why the allegations had surfaced anonymously rather than through regular channels. He said the i be lion would he re viewed As the probe continues. Rehab Agency