European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 14, 1933 the stars and stripes Page 7 231 killed on major airlines in 87 death toll is highest since 82, report says Washington a three major airline crashes including one that claimed 156 lives gave 1987 one of is highest death tolls during the past decade from commercial . Aviation Acci dents according to figures from the National transportation safety Board. The safety Board said More deaths occurred in commercial airline crashes last year than in seven of the previous nine years. The commuter airlines also posted their worst Safe of record since 1979. The major airlines flying Large Jet air Craft had 31 accidents during the year including four involving fatalities. The crashes mulled in 231 deaths the High est number since 1981. Com mull lines had 35 accidents. 10 involving fatalities. Fifty eight people died the most in commuter crashes since 66 were Icil cd in 1979. The figure of 31 Airliner accidents was inc highest number since 1974 when there were 42. According to the safety Board. The Agency count an Accident whenever there is significant injury or damage. The 231 deaths were eclipsed Over the past decade Only in 1979 when 351 peo ple were kilted in aviation crashes involving major . Airlines and in 1982 when 233 people were killed. Airline Industry officials suggest How Ever that he total Accident and fatality figures arc misleading when trying to make comparison because icy do not take into account changes in traffic vol ume. Furthermore a single Accident involving a Large aircraft could cause the Tola figures to soar. Industry spokesmen said a belter Indi Cator is the rate of fatal accidents per 100,000 departures. It climbed in fjs7 compared 10 the previous year but still was lower than Normal taken Over the Long term 1987 was one of the boiler years Tor airline safety maintained Bill Jackman a spokesman Tor the air transport association which represents the major air carriers. The rate of accidents involving Fatali ties 0.43 per 100.000 departures we lower in 987 than inc rate in seven of the previous nine years according to the Nosb. The airline association pointed to Accident me figures going Back even fur ther. There were Only six other years since the beginning of safely regulations in 1916 that had a lower rate said Wil Liam f. Bolger. The Industry group s president. Dunne 1987, the Overall Accident rate covering fatal and non final accidents was 0.43 per 100,000 departures com pared with 0.31 the previous year the safely Board said. The Overall Accident rate for commuters was 1.43 per 100,000 departures inc highest since 1981, bolter said inc airlines carried More than 490 million passengers on nearly 7 million flights during 1987. He noted that one of the fatal Acci dents included in some of inc Nhsn statistics has been linked to sabotage. The Accident rate figure did nol in clude the crash of a Pacific Southwest airlines Jet dec. 7 in which the cause is believed to have been a passenger tiring a gun in the cockpit. But deaths from thai crash 4 3 in All were included in the Nosb s total death figures. Other major accidents during the year were the crash of a Northwest airlines jetliner aug. 16 near Detroit killing 156 people and the crash of a Continental airlines dc-9 nov. 15 in Denver killing 28. The most severe commuter accidents were he crash of a Hyan air service plane nov. 23 near Homer Alaska kill ing 18 people the collision of a sky West commuter with a private plane Jan 15 near cants Utah killing 10 people and the crash during an attempted Landing March 4 near Detroit of a Northwest air link commuter killing nine people. Winged pigs going up in pork Opolis Cincinnati City Council unable to veto Pegasus Cincinnati a City Council members wearing plastic snouts and pig hats peered Over a Ham tuesday and listened to squeals and grunts As residents debated whether Bronze statues of winged porkers should be erected to Mark Cincinnati s Bicentennial. It was All pretty pointless however As Council members Learned that they arc powerless to change inc Art work it has already been approved by cily boards and is being built. The crowd generally was High on inc hogs. "1 think we be got enough old statues with old bearded men in this town said councilman am Bortz grinning beneath his plastic soul. We should leave this alone and have fun with this when it s  the winged pigs arc planned to lop columns at inc Entrance of a Large sculpture Ai the Entrance to a Park along the Ohio River. The artist chose flying pigs As a Way to commemorate Cincinnati s history As a pork slaughtering Center in the 1 800s, when the City was dubbed  some residents nol amused when the work was publicized flooded newspapers and City Council with letters and Calls of protest prompting the pub Lic hearing. Council members Sal Back put a Ham on the table donned snouts and Green baseball Caps featuring Pink pig cars snouts and tails and listened to arguments on Bolh sides of the Brouhaha. Opponents of the sculpture faced jeers and snorts from pig proponents and occasional squeals from the real thing As they asked Council Mem Bers to ban the work. A radio station brought a Young porker named Arnold after a pig to the old television series Cincinnati City councilman am Bonn. Green acres into Council Chambers. Arnold rested quietly except for an occasional oink. One councilman had a hog shipped in from the Cincin Nati zoo fora Brief pc hearing appearance. Hog supporters in the crowd of 150-200 Lei it be known they think inc complainers Are merely being pig headed. "1 can imagine we re the laughingstock of the country said Kevin Nancken. Opponents insisted inc City s image is at risk be cause of the winged pigs dubbed  the pig statues guarantee unending ridicule and derision of our City and the people in it As surely As night follows Day said Milton Bortz a Cousin of councilman bort.2. The sculpture by Minneapolis artist Andrew Leicester will cover a 100-by-Io-foot area of Sawyer Point Park and will include 17 elements represent ing various stages in the City s history. The a four pigs arc a Small part of the Overall design but inc Only part that has received much Public attention. The greater Cincinnati Bicentennial commission has tried to Calm the outcry hop ing the Public will be More accepting after seeing the Overall design. Commission members displayed a Model of the entire sculpture tuesday praising Ilas the Best of those submitted for consideration in a National Competition to choose n Bicentennial work for the parts. Dennis Barrie director of the contemporary arts Center that helped in inc selection said Here s nothing wrong with getting a chuckle out of the work. "1 think it s All right to laugh at history All right to have fun with our past he said. Acc moves against to station Over obscene film Washington a the Federal communications commission tuesday began its first Ever enforcement action against a television station for broadcast ing an allegedly obscene movie during prime time. The acc said the broadcast of the movie private lessons by station Khz pc to of Kansas cily on Way 26, 1987, beginning Ai i p.m., May have Vio lated the Law because it contained explicit sex and was aired at a Lime when Chil Dren May have been in the audience. The action was the first the commis Sion has taken to enforce Lough new in decency standards in adopted last april. The Law prohibits the broadcast of certain sexually explicit programming to children on radio and television acc chairman Dennis Patrick said prom Ising full enforcement of the Law in accordance with the guidelines provided by the supreme court Morton Kent chairman of inc Board of a Dia Central inc. In Chattanooga tenn., general partner of Zyc said the movie violated the company s own guidelines and the people who made the decision to air it Are no longer with the station. The people Ai the station Are allowed some Basic freedoms of Choice on programming in accordance with Community standards. However we have com Pany guidelines and he particular movie Viola cd our standards. Bui we did nol violate any Law private lessons is a comedy about a wealthy 15-year-Otd boy who is left for a summer in the care of a chauffeur and is seduced by a. Maid. The film has an r rating which Means that in movie Heaters no one under 17 was admitted without a Parent or Guardi an. Acc spokesman John Kamp said the movie include nudity in � sexual con  the version broadcast by the to Sta Tion however May no have been he same version As shown in Heaters. Mov ii Are often Cut before Ibey Are aired on television. Kent said we Don t know Why we were chosen on something that is almost a year  he said the movie was broadcast about a month after the acc revised ils indecency standards and they were so Uncertain thai inc acc had to come out with new explanatory regulations which were adopted in november and officially issued dec. 29. The acc gave the station to Days 10 respond to the complaint. If a violation is found the Agency could impose a Range of unctions from a Leuer of reprimand 10 a Fine of up to j 10,000. Kamp said. The acc also could ask the Justice department to bring a criminal prosecution