European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. December 25. 19s7 the stars and stripes Christmas bundles or. Mark Sopor of the Johns hop Kins it Limric in onsite cure unit go its West German twins Benjamin in his arms and Patrick a Good look at the Hospital Christmas tree. The siamese twins separated in september "111 spend new year s at Johns Hopkins but might be Able to go Home in Jan uary. The i a month old twins must still amt Vrgo sultry to implant hire mesh plates nver openings where their head had been jul Ned. . Suspects Libya planning to make chemical weapons Washington inti Libya u Bizil Elmea Plant that Reagan adm Isira lion officials strongly suspect will behind to make chemical weapons. Administration officials familiar with secret intelligence reports said construction of the Plant is consistent with a Pat Tern of libyan activities involving chem ical weapons. One senior administration Olti Cial said there is considerable evidence thai the libyan Plani is a chemical installation. Our suspicion is that to will be used for chemical weapons he added another official said. We Are operating on the presumption thai it will or can be used to make chemical weapon 5." the officials declined to say precisely where the Plant is. The spread of chemical weapons to the third world has been a worrisome development for he West. The use of such weapons by Lac and Iran for example has raised concerns Luil the moral barriers reeled after world War against the use of chemical weapons May be crumbling. In addition the spread of chemical weapon May foil he current efforts in clerk in to conclude a treaty Banning them at a time when negotiators there re Purl headway on key issues. In recent years american officials concerned about the spread of chemical arms have identified Iraq Iran and Syria As he main concerns. But now officials who think Libya is Irving o acquire chemical weapons say the development is another Milestone in the spread of the weapons. Administration officials said he libyan Plant also raises important Long term questions about the West s policy toward Libya. If Libya s War with Chad flares up again and poses a threat to col foam mar Fps Hail after inc  is in opera lion he May resort to the widespread use of chemical weapons one official said. In addition the official said Qaddafi May provide chemical weapons to other nations or. Possibly even 10 terrorists. But the official added that this was not an immediate preoccupation because the Plant did not yet appear to be operational. Foam Mir Qaddafi in addition officials said. Libya has recently been less obvious in its support of terrorist groups. Also Chad and Libya have been observing a cease fire for three months though each Side is re arming and waiting. In any Case there have been several indications that Libya is interested in acquiring chemical weapon. American officials said that in recent months Libya appeared to have provided soviet made mines to Iran in Exchange for chemical weapons. American officials said they believed that Libya later tried to use the chemical weapons in Chad on one occasion with no Success. The libyans apparently sprayed chemical agents from the air. American officials say but there were no chadian casualties possibly because the wind was blowing the wrong Way. Administration Otti vials said the United states sent 2.000 Gas masks in Chad in August for use in any future chemical attacks adding to american concerns is the fact thai Libya is not among the group of nations that Nave been negotiating a new treaty in Geneva to ban the production and Possession of chemical weapons. Navy checking Jet engines for problems in gearboxes Washington Al Navy engineers Are checking 300 Jet engines throughout the world after discovering that an error prone Mechanic was incorrectly assembling Gearbox an incorrectly assembled Gearbox on the j-52" Jet engine used on several Ley Navy put ii i said Ross. There is ,1 possibility thai .100 engines could he of  said Ross. The precise number of engines affected and the Cost of of Kinju them will not be known until engineers review the logbooks of each of the 1-52 engine in the Fleet to see Winch had Gearbox maintenance per formed in Jacksonville during Ine time in question. Each engine jus in inn Logbook in which is recorded the Type of Ork done w hero and by whom he said. The Philadelphia inquirer which first disclosed the problem identified the Mechanic As a civilian and said the Navy was looking for logbooks signed Woods Wood or illegible. The individual lost his certification As a Navy Mechanic in february 1986, said Ross. The engine built by the Pratt &. Tilney division of United technologies corp., Powers the a-6" intruder at tack plane the ea-6b 1 Rowler and the to Trainer a variant of the.a-4skyhaw5c alack plane said Ross. The Navy is trying to determine whether anyone was injured As a sult of the faulty workmanship he said. Of the four engine failures linked to the Mechanic so car Ross said three Ere caused by omission of a critical Washer from the Gearbox Assembly and the fourth by fail ure to correctly in my or lock the u Asher. The Navy has not die rammed Why the Mechanic made the mistakes he said. For Vears. This eur was lading these gearboxes apart then putting them Back together with parti left Over Hen he was  an unidentified Navy official in Washington told the inquirer. What As can t figure out is Why it was t Cau Jii sooner. We litre told he simply was not mechanically inclined the paper quoted the official As saying. The offi Cial also was quoted As saving thai appropriate action that could Lead to disciplinary measures Are under Way " pot smoking dangers cited new York. A a 15-year study of More than 45,000 swedish soldiers suggests that heavy marijuana users arc six times More Likely than non users to develop schizophrenia. The authors of the study said the statistical association Between schizophrenia and marijuana or Eanna Bis does not necessarily mean that the drug causes schizophrenia. Cannabis consumption might on the contrary be caused by an emerging schizophrenia the researchers said in their report to be published thursday in the lancet a British medical journal. American researchers asked about the report were not familiar with it. But or. Charles Schulz. Chief of pharmacology research for the schizophrenia Branch at the National Institute of mental health said the find Ings did not Surprise him. Many psychiatric clinicians have noted Over the years that a pattern s illness starts with marijuana use or  Schulz Laid. Marijuana might cause latent schizophrenia to be come apparent no said. Researchers have also noted thai the hallucinogenic drug Ltd can trigger persistent mental illness Schulz said