European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 2 monday. March 21, 1988 Biden s surgery Washington api dam inserted a tiny filler into one at sen. Joseph a i id nor a major veins to tue Rcpt an additional blood  to one that lodged in a a Jeff a week ago. Spokesman m Waller Reed army medical Cater said Friday. Spoor Niin Jim 51eu\e said Nitko a Delaware Democrat was in Good  West s water Washington Al re Cord Low precipitation in parts of the Ecsi last month has further reduced an already Low Wilder sup ply thy agriculture department Sal j  were a opined that pc Djlila lion Levels  in february Anil Lii  the drought in so Lions of California Nevada Montana Mano. Or Jpn. Washing ton any Wyoming said Wilson scaling chief of the department s soil  service. "instc.id, the situation has  my Plant fire Salt Lake City a an air font icon Friday on a fall fire Ai Lin my missile Assembly Plant said Morton Thi Okol inc. Tailed 10 provide an adequate re Mote control system or full implement other safely measures recommended after a near miss six months earlier. The fire dec. 29 killed five workmen who were manually re moving the Elcel Core from the first 51361 of an my minor Mso which Propf Llain had been poured and hardened. The air Force concluded the fire was caused either by friction or Static electricity. In the Accident 100,000 pounds of solid rocket fuel ignited in a fireball at the company s Wasatch operations Plant 90 Miles North West of Here. Nuke Plant penalty Burlington Kan. Up the nuclear regulatory commis Sion fined the owners of the Wolfcreek nuclear Power Plant $1 10,000 Friday for 10 infractions that occurred during last fall s re fueling shutdown. The commission s staff assessed civil Fine of $50,000 a aim the Wolf Creek nuclear operating corp. And then doubled it  of the number of infractions and because Wolf Creek officials did not initially take prompt corrective action said Robwrt d. Martin regional administrator of the com Mission in Arlington Tsas retail sates increase Washington a retail sales Rose 0.4 percent in february a slightly smaller increase than re ported a week ago. The Commerce department said sales last month totalled a seasonally adjusted si29.12 billion up s525 million from the january sales level. When the sales information was first released on March 11, the government reported sales had risen 0.6 percent in february following a 0.2percent january decline. The new figures show that sales were essentially unchanged in january. The changes reflect the depart ment s annual Benchmark revisions which update the surveys used to. Gather information nationwide on sales. The changes nut total retail sales in 1987 atjl.511 trillion com pared with an estimate of sl.506 trillion before the revisions. Ira funeral crowd beats then kills 2 British soldiers Belfast Northern Ireland Al t two British soldiers were soot 10 death sat urday after mourners at Ait Ira funeral dragged them from a car be to them with crowbars and hoisted them nuked before cheering onlookers witnesses Tod police  soldiers blood streaming from their Heads were pulled to the top of a 12-Fooi-High Wall around a football Geld for the crowd to see witnesses said. They were then hauled behind a build ing and shots were heard. A Short while later their Bullet riddled bodies were found in a vacant lot on Penny Lane off the Falls Road. The Ira claimed responsibility for the killings in i statement released to Belfast  was the second Ira funeral in four Days to be disrupted by violent death coming after a Pete stand extremist at tacked a burial service with hand Gre Nades wednesday Hilling three mourn ers and wounding its others. The funeral saturday was for Kevin Brady an Ira member and one of the victims of wednesday violence. Witnesses said the car carrying the sol Diers vrho were dressed in civilian clothes sped toward the Brady cortege in predominantly roman Catholic West Belfast the car swerved and began Toback up but was engulfed by angry mourners some brandishing crowbars who assumed the men were undercover agents spying on the crowd. One Man climbed onto the roof of the car and pounded it with an Iron bar. The windows were smashed a shot was heard and there were shouts of he s got Agun followed by we be got two brits there were report that a priest who tried to give one of the victims Mouth to Mouth resuscitation after the shootings was chased away and that More shots were then fired into the bodies. Many cheered Ai the naked bodies were hoisted into View hut others shocked by the grisly display were weep ing and trembling As the cortege resumed. The funeral was completed with out further incident. The Royal Ulster constabulary the province s police Force said they War soldiers who were on duly and saw three people were being questioned. A police statement said the kill pigs were an obscenity committed by depraved and perverted Peoples inn fein the outlawed tra Politi Cal Wing claimed the incident bears the Hallmarks of an official British under cover dirty tricks  jilt Fei officials said the men were tailed with their own  said the men could have been plan Ning an attack on the funeral that would then be blamed on protesting militants. The Royal Ulster constabulary said no police were present because Assur ances had been Given that the Ira  turn the funeral into an illegal paramilitary spectacle. One of the to British Mil dim a a Roundel and rating a angry Belfast  finds a Milf he Ppd in bit car Khz escape from the window impossible. 1 Ter Pellet inspect the uni that tarried the two soldiers la their deaths. One b4r lies behind Lui corned by plastic shed. Colombian rebels free Canadian Bogota Colombia a a Ca Nadian Engineer kidnapped last year by colombian guerrillas has been freed police said saturday. Richard Nulson was released Friday near Baleen a town in Boyaca stale and he came to Bogota by bus according to colombian police. The National liberation angry. A group inspired by cuban Leader Fidel Castro had asked 120 million in Ransom for the Engi Neer s release. But it later reduced the amount to 16 million said colombian journalist Alonso pc reds correspondent for the Al esp cmdr newspaper. However the journalist said he did t know whether Paulson s employer. Occi dental Petroleum of los Angeles paid for his release. Credia a Ai kidnapped tuesday and released Friday by the same guerrilla group. He interviewed Paulson during his Captivity. Paulson Learned Spanish during his 376 Days with the guerrillas and receive teaching in revolutionary objectives said Credia. The Canadian Engineer was abducted in Araucua March 8, 1987, with another employee of occident us. Amanda Uribe who wus released l few hours Bier with the Ransom demand. Paulson worked As production manager for the giant Capo a Jinn Oil Licki along the crw Iuculan Border. The National liberation army attacked the canno Limon pipeline and the Oveci dental installations about 50 times in the Pinsl two years. Its demolition quads hailed the exports of  Bane per Day during the month of january. The guerrilla group the most wive in Colombia has vowed to pm foreign Oil companies working in joint ventures with the Italy owned company eco Petrot