European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday March 29, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 Bottoms up Danny prevail it funnel to Dink Beer while hit Friend Bill but Cheltra Cheen him an. The two student from Georgia College in a in an Spring break it Dayton Inch fun along with thousands of usher College in Lents. Army will reconsider plans for biological weapons lab Washington not the army has decided to reconsider plans to build a Laboratory in Utah for to Tang defences against biological weapons the Deci Sion came after a week marked by increasingly intense local opposition. Longtime opponents to the proposed Laboratory at the Dugway proving ground about to Miles South West of sail Lake City have been joined in recent weeks by huh scientists the governor who is a re publican and a Democrat who represents the District in Congress. On Friday the conservative Republican sen. Orrin g. Hatch of Utah joined the opponents calling the army s approach reckless the Dugway Laboratory is meant to give the army a tightly sealed facility where aerosols or organisms that could be used in weapons can be tested against Possi ble defences. The planned research is to be defensive because the United states has pledged Noi to develop or possess biological weapons. For Yean opponents have forced delays in the plan to build the s5.3 million Laboratory which would be designed to men the strictest requirements for containment Tor biological laboratories in the United slates. In february the military published an Environ mental study declaring that the facility can be built with Little if any risk of accidentally spreading deadly viruses Tonini or bacteria. Despite the history of resistance the military appears to have been surprised by the vigorous opposition hat coalesced so swiftly. Jay r. Sculley the assist am Secretary of the army for research and development did in an interview sunday that he had discussed with other senior army officials whether the plan can pureed in the face of he mounting political apposition. He will meet this week with John a Shannon assistant Secretary in charge of installation to review the Maller further he said Sculley said no final decision has been made on whether to cancel or alter the plan but a leading oppo nent of the facility. Jeremy Zifkin president of the Washington based foundation on economic trends said the swelling opposition leads him to believe the army is ready to abandon the Effort to build it at Dugway. An aide to rep. Wayne Owens Dulah said the lawmaker s staff had been told the army is considering a change in its plans. If it decides to press on the army appears to be facing lights on three fronts in the Federal courts in Stote and local regulatory agencies and in Congress where funds for the project must be approved. One alternative would be to build a facility on the Remote Pacific islands of the Johnson atoll where the army a storage facilities for outmoded chemical weapons. However the army prefers the Dugway site where it has conducted chemical and biological re search in the past. The army is reluctant to Retreat in pan because its entire program of biological research is under Chal Lenge by Rifle in s environmental group and other. The army describe the Dugway Laboratory Ai a Small but critical part of a broader research Effort into defences against biological agents. The military fears that advances in biological Sci ence require a defense against weapons based upon novel biological age tils. The Pentagon has asserted that the soviet Union makes biological weapons and the military and others have raised the possibility that other nations or terrorists could gain Access to the technology dad feared drowned after giving son preserver Portland Ore. A a Man who gave up his life preserver to save his son after a boating Accident was missing and presumed drowned sunday in the Swift flowing Sandy River. George Earl Trinkel 40, tossed a seat Cushion to his son. George Edward is after their boat hit a submerged log and threw them into the frigid water sat urday. Mul Tomah county sheriffs Dep Uty Dob Bonien said. He said the younger Trunkel used the Cushion o make his Way id Shore then tried to throw it Back to his father. I threw the thing to him but i was so tired it really did t go that the younger Trunkel said sunday in a Tele phone interview. I could just see his head As be went around a Bend he said. I yelled dad a couple of times and he said he would be the elder trunk cd of Blackfoot. Idaho was lost about 30 feel from the Bank Bort in said. A search for his body was called off sunday but a 10 resume monday authorities said. A third Man with them Roland Park or Sham was Wear Hunt 40, of nearby Gri ing a life jacket witnesses pulled the younger Trenkl and Parkhurst who is a paraplegic from the River Boertien said. They were taken to a Hospital in Gresham where they were examined and released. Miiil1 Owens of Gresham said he saw the three men floundering in he water i Lirten when i saw one Guy Riding on lop of i he boat and two others coming behind them that something was wrong Owma raid. Then later i saw what t was sure was a person in the Middle of the liver i thought that Guy is in real trouble " the a Fiji was found overturned and washed ashore about a half mile Down Stream from Wycie in hit the log. Trie Bow had almost completely broken away. The younger Trenkel said his father was rating when the current pulled them Over the tog we tried to balance the boat to go Over the lug but it cracked we lost an oar and the boat tilled up with water we tried to dump water out. But ended up jumping out of the boat he said. He said he managed to climb onto the overturned boat for a time while his father held onto the boat and Parkhurst held his foot. Then we hit the rapids and we All separated from the boat he said. He said he was under water for quite a while before his father pulled him to the surface and gave him a seat Cushion he had found. The younger trunk la senior at Blackfoot High school said his father worked for the Federal Bureau of land management and was in Portland for a business meeting. He said his father and Parkhurst had known each other since High school. Florida City passes Tough anti odor legislation Jacksonville Fla. Up it May be the perfume of Progress to local Industry but the Rotten egg smell that hangs Over Jacksonville has become such in Issue that mayor Tommy Hazouri was elected last year on an anti odor Campaign. If there s one Issue that transcends this City Rich and poor Black and White it s the odor Issue a Zoun said. Odor is the Only Issue keeping us from being a world class in his eight months in office Hazouri has do mailed Jacksonville s pollution control chief hired eight More odor fighters for the City of 610,000. Find up his Legal Slaff to take polluters to court and aimed a Slink strike Force with slate attorney de Tiutin. Last week the City Council passed a u in
