European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 6, 1968 the stars Ako stripes Page 3 All that glitters it s not tout s Gold but the real thing Ooi Gurten in Brian Chi fund s Hind. The 72-Yebf-old Coin Hauler struck it Rich during recent trek into the australian Outback when he discovered the 24-Onnce Nunet Crox Ford who hid be a wild l even Altona in easier egg list we now has a nest egg to dominicans get 2 speedboats from . To fight drug traffic Santo Domino dominican Republic a attorney general Edwin Mccase Iii handed Over to this Island s military authorities two speedboats to be used to fight drug trafficking. The Long sleek boats were confiscated from Traffick ers trying to smuggle cocaine into the United states . Officials said. They can reach speeds of 65 Mph. Smugglers use this Caribbean Island nation As a transit Point for cocaine from South America bound for the United slates. The dominican Republic seems o be determined. Thai narcotics trafficking should he totally eliminated Meuse told Gen. Antonio imbed Barrera the armed forces minister on wednesday. Mccase spoke on the first Day of a live nation latin american Lour. He arrived by air Force Jet and was due to leave Santo Domingo thursday Lor Bogota Colombia. Meuse also will visit Ecuador Peru and Bolivia the dominican Republic shares the Island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Drug runners have turned to the is land As governments on the neighbouring islands of Jamaica and puerto Rico tightened surveillance of boats and planet. President Joaquin baby cur elected to a fifth term in May 1986, has nude the War on drugs a lop priority. In december 1986. The dominican air Force shot Down a Small plane thai did not identify itself upon demand. Officials later said it was carrying hundreds of pounds of cocaine. In recent months police and soldiers have seized cocaine shipments weighing hundreds of pounds and valued at Militona of dollars. But Susic card smugglers in High powered boats often outran the patrol boats of the dominican coast guard. These confiscated boats Are going to put inc dominican Republic one step ahead of the smugglers said one . Official sneaking on condition of anonymity. The beats were confiscated from traffickers apprehended while trying to smuggle drugs into the United slates he said. One is a 31-foot Chris Craft scorpion with twin 135 horsepower Mercury engines and the other a 33-foot sonic Carrara 33rx, he said. The value of the boats delivered from Florida by . Coast guard c-13qs, was not disclosed. The United states also plans to Supply five Small twin engined Cessna to the dominican air Force under the military assistance program. Accompanying Meuse were his wife Ursula the chief of the drug enforcement administration John Lawn Frank Keating the Treasury department s us Distant Secretary for enforcement Mark Dion the slate department s Deputy assistant Secretary and Mike Skol director of state s office of andean affairs. On wednesday Meuse met with Balagur at the National Palace then with foreign affairs minister Donald Reid Cabral. Man paralysed by Nail gun gets $15.35 million Boston a a Man who was a rallied when he was hit by 6 Nail from a High Speed Nail gun As he sat in a Barber s chair Wilt receive 115.35 million in Otic of the largest Lump mini damage payments in . History attorneys said wednesday. The settlement reached during the second Day of a . District court trial ends the nearly 2-year-old suit riled by Eugene Duran and his family against Tay Lor rental corp-1 Andover franchise and the manufacturers of the Nail gun. Doran s spinal Cord was severed on april 15.1986, Fay a three Inch Nail shot by n worker installing a Stor age Chest in a liquor store not to Coco s Barbershop in Andover where Doran was having his hair Cut. Doran 40, was instantly rendered a quadriplegic by the Accident said Cne of his attorneys Junmei Meehan. Hen a Guy who came through Vietnam and the act offensive unscathed Only to be Sho Down White having his hair nil said Mechan. Ltd Boyle another attorney for Doran said the suit died Taylor and a Taylor franchise in Andover for renting the gun after company Headquarters ordered inc units destroyed because of insurance liability prob lems. A memo was sent id All Taylor company owned rental Center a month before Doran was paralysed but the approximately 250 franchisee outlets were not notified Hie attorneys said. The worker thinking he was working on a Concrete backed Wall shot the Nail at Chest level. The Nail rav eled through Wood and she clock before striking Doran in the Side of inc neck. The High velocity Nail gun which can drive nails at 700 feet per second arc no longer produced in the United slates although Low velocity Nail guns Are still in use said Boyle no charges were filed against the worker an uninsured part time Carpenter Boyle said. Doran who has been at the veterans administration Hospital in Boston since the Accident said he will use a portion of the settlement to modify his Home with lifts and ramps tic said he expects to leave the Hospital in several weeks. I m just very relieved that one item a very important item is off our shoulders said Doran who a accompanied by his wife Kathy. At the news con Ference. The couple Nave three children. Doran said he is frustrated at times but i really have never had much anger. Maybe because it was an Accident. I could t even Tell you the Man s name who did  the settlement is one of the top five Lump sum compensatory court settlements in . History said Don Ald Marshall research director at Ohio based jury ver dict research inc. Taylor based in new Britain conn., will pay approximately $11 million and about s3.25 million will be paid by the Nail gun manufacturers am a International corp. And Desa industries inc., both of Han Over n.h., and Docsa International inc. Of Bowling Green by. The Andover franchise will pay the remaining sum. Attorneys Tor the defendants had left the office and could not be reached for comment after business hours wednesday. Telephone Calls made after business hours to the four companies also went unanswered. Students protest sex baseball Czar s racial slur Lexington by. A univer sity of Kentucky students marched wednesday to protest a racial slur made the previous Day by former gov. . Happy Chandler who helped the first Black players get into major league base Ball. About 40 students marched across Campus to meet with University presi Dent David Roselle to Call for an apology by Chandler or his resignation from the school s Board of trustee. Some March ers expressed anger with placards such As hopefully Happy is sad while of hrs demanded an explanation shouting we want to know Chandler a two time governor of Kentucky and former . Senator re acted by saying. They re trying 10 make a Mountain out of a  he said he had no plans 10 apologize unless asked to do so by hostile or gov. Wai lace Wilkinson. But in an interview with the Islington Herald Leader he said if it is Offen Sive i m ready to say i m just really sad and sorry. In other words my head is bloody but  during a committee s discussion tuesday of the. University s i9h5 Deci Sion to sell off its investments in South Africa Chandler said you know Zimbabwe s All Nigger now. There Aren t any  i Don t think i should be censured for this he said in a Telephone interview from his Home in Versailles by. "1 Don l think i deserve any harsh  Chandler 89, was commissioner of baseball from 1945-51 and takes credit for opening the door for Jackie Robinson to become the first Black to play major league baseball when Robinson signed with the Brooklyn dodgers in 1947, Wilkinson who appointed Chandler to a voting position on the University governing Board earlier this year said wednesday thai he believed Chandler meant nothing derogatory but should apologize anyway. Ii was a bad statement and ii was a statement thai should never be made Wilkinson Laid and i m going to recommend to him that he apologize and explain it in the Telephone interview. Chandler said that while growing up in Corydon in Henderson county there were 400 whiles and 400 Blacks. We called them niggers and they did t mind. We loved each other. We never had any trouble. I integrated schools when other governors were sending troop in to keep Black out. I was sending troops in to keep them  he was governor in 1935 39, and again in 195 5-59. Hostile Lold the students that inc University completely and totally repudiates what it ii gov. Chandler  but he said he did t know whether there would be any action against Chandler. Roselle said he Hopes some Good comes from the incident such As the need for a continuing aggressive program of action la Pul aside All semblance of racial prejudice at this University of Ken Tucky