European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world today the stars and stripes thursday january 28, 1988 Miner rescues terrier with rope Sandwich Merthyr tydfil Wales a a Coal Miner toting a rope and a Ham Sandwich freed a 2-year-old terrier named Rocky which had been trapped Tor eight Days about 40 feel Down a narrow Crevice. Martin Townsend. 27. Said he threw Down the undo in to lure the hungry dog into a noose tin had lowered in the Crevice then hauled him up to inc surface. Animal activists and local volunteers had drilled into the Side of Fri their Mountain near Mert liar tydfil and removed 30 tons of Rock and Earth to get within 10 feel of the dog which full Down the Crevice while chasing rabbits. Townsend said he climbed the Mountain with a Friend after Midnight thinking inc dog would be easier to catch when it was quiet and there was no noise from All inc Hammer drills thai people had been  owner Gareth Davies. 16, fed the rescued Rocky corned beef and milk and said the dog looked a bit thinner but otherwise  Kohl to urge Congress to ratify inf treaty Bonn a Chancellor Helmut Kohl will travel to Washington next month for talks with president Reagan and will urge Congress to quickly ratify Trie  missile treaty the government announced tuesday. Chief government spokesman Friedhelm Ost and Kohls scheduled to Fly to die United Stales on l cd 17 and will meet with Reagan on feb. I. During the talks Kohl will stress West Germany s interest in a fourth Summit meet ing Between Cagan and Ovici Leader Mik Hail s. Gorbachev and will press for further Hasl West disarmament agreements Ost told reporters. Kohl also is scheduled to hold talks will congressional leaders Gnu will urge them a quickly ratify Llie agreement scrapping inter mediate Range nuclear missiles signed by Reagan and Gorbachev in december Ost said. Hospitals trim services As nurses stage strike Edmonton Alberta a the Union representing 11,400 nurses in the Host prov Ince for Neil month s Winter olympics began an illegal strike monday forcing most of Al Berta s 100 hospitals to close to All but Emer gency patients. Members of the United nurses of Alberta began the strike after last ditch contract negotiations with inc Alberta Hospital association ended in failure. In Calgary Host City for the Winter olympic games starting it. 13, hospitals discharged 1,000 patients and appealed to anyone with nursing experience to help them with More than 1,400 patients still requiring care. Most hospitals in the province hive some non Union nurses but they still cancelled elective sur Gery. Ira anti Armor grenade kills policeman in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a a police offi cer killed in bit armoured patrol vehicle is the first fatality of an Armor piercing grenade used by the outlawed Irish Republican army police said tuesday. Colin Jama Cilmore 27, was fatally injured Mon Day night in Belfast when guerrillas Ihrck tic grenade at a patrolling police land Rover in the roman Catho Lic Falls Road District. No group claimed responsibility. The Royal Ulster constabulary Northern Ireland s police Force said inc weapon was used in about 40 previous guerrilla attacks but Gilmore is the first per son to be killed by it. On tuesday a Belfast news Agency released photo graphs of masked men dressed in camouflage holding grenades. It said inc men belonged to the Ira and the weapons were Armor piercing grenades like the one used monday. A constabulary spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity said Security forces in Northern Ireland became aware of the Ira weapon in november. Britain s Domestic news Agency press association said tuesday that the grenade is said to be More pow Erful than rockets launched from the soviet Madero g-7 anti tank weapon. It said the grenade contains a Pound of a High Quality Czechoslovakia plastic explosive packed into a food can. The bombs have Mela noses that arc designed a vaporize and concentrate the Force of the blast on one Small Point blowing through Armor plating press association said. The Agency said the weapon s Point must strike the target first like a Dart hitting a Dart Board or else tote blast is dissipated in London the British government said tuesday it agreed loan Irish government request for a special meeting to discuss findings of an inquiry into an alleged police shool to Kilt policy against suspected terrorists in British ruled Northern Ireland. The government said monday thai despite evidence of perversion of Justice no police officers in the Royal Ulster constabulary would be charged following investigation of allegations that officers earned out the shool to kill policy under orders. The Irish government in Dublin criticized the Deci Sion not to prosecute saying it is deeply concerned at the implications for Public Confidence in the a denims Ira member with Amor pm mag grenade. Union of Justice in Northern Ireland and in partic ular for Public Confidence by the nationalist Community in the Royal Ulster  by nationalist the Irish government meant the minority roman catholics in the proc Plant Domi ruled North. The Ira it falling to drive the British from North Ern Ireland and to unite the province with the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic in the South under a socialist government firm sold arms to Iran austrian says Vienna Austria a the former head of a subsidiary of austria1 state steel concern Voest Ai Pine admitted that the company had made illegal weapons deliveries to Iran Worth millions of dollars it was reported tuesday. Peter under Wegor who headed the Norcum subsidiary of Voest Alpine. Said weapons Worth s333 Mil lion were delivered to Iran Austria s permanent neutrality makes it illegal to sell weapons to a warring country. The Austria. Press Agency quoted Unterweger As saying that he was ordered in talc 1984 to fill an order for cannons from Libya although it already was Clear the weapons actually were destined for Iran. The firs weapons  Are thought to have taken place in 19s5, according to reports in austrian Media Herbert Lewinsky the general director of Voest Alpine said monday the preliminary result of in internal investigation bad increased suspicion that non cum made a direct weapons Deal with Iran. Voest previously had denied this. Norcum is thought to have delivered Al least 140 Cannon to Iran. Unterweger told Apa thai he did not want to say who gave him the assurances that the Libya inn Ami Deal was in order. His lawyer Alfred to Wagner.  As telling Apa that White  naturally bears some responsibility for the arms sales he is not the sole figure involved. Do you think thai a director like  would have been in the situation to conduct such a billion Schilling business alone thaw anger was quoted a saying by Apa sick buildings source of workers ills study says London api Tough new Stan Dards of ventilation arc needed in Brit Ain to Stop office buildings from making workers sick an american air condition ing company said tuesday. Air conditioning and Vintila Tioff anal Ysis of Fairfax va., said that according to a Survey of buildings in Britain earned out by the firm at least half the country s office buildings Are Likely to make people � because their air conditioning systems con lain High Levels of microbes chemicals fungus spores and dust. Gray Robertson the company s Brit ish bom president Laid a news Confer ence that up 10 a third of absenteeism in Britain is caused by illness rooted in sick  outbreaks of cold and flu often occur in the work place but the source is rarely identified. In Many cases in is the build ing itself he Lold reporters. Symptoms commonly associated with sick buildings arc sore eyes and Throat headaches nausea and lethargy Robertson said. Bui the company found thai Mote severe complaints like heavy colds and flu May be caused by bacteria grow ing in dirty air condition neg systems. Smoking was found to be relatively harmless. Robertson said. We have inspected Over 40 million Square feet of offices and found that half of them Are contaminated with bacteria and rung compared with Only four percent affected by Loo much nicotine often blamed for  said. Cur investigation indicates that worker would have to be exposed to Pas Sive smoking for two and a half months to inhale the nicotine equivalent of a sin Gle  he urged he government to Institute regulations to control the amount of fresh air circulating in buildings and to improve the Standard of filtration and maintenance in air conditioning systems. Systems which Are not dirty but arc clogged up and operated incorrectly could result in inadequate ventilation and the accumulation of gases and fume the Survey said. Systems which Recycle air without enough fresh intake Forte workers to breathe the gases and fumes and also circulate diseases in said. Once diagnosed the problem Cut be solved Given adequate ventilation and belter maintenance Robertson said. The Survey by the Virginia firm which specializes in investigating the lick building syndrome. Was taken in 31 buildings in seven cities throughout Brit Ain last  but six had Sifina Vicant contamination by Carbon monoxide bacteria fungi nicotine and dust pumped around by the air conditioning system Robertson  highest level of pollution Wai round in a London health clinic despite a smoking ban in the building