European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes tuesday. May 3,19b8 stateside Rockwell corp. Delivers 100th by b bomber to of Palmdale. Calif. A Rockwell inter National corp. Delivered its Loolah bib bomber to inc air Force Over the weekend the company announced the aircraft completed Uvo months Early and within budget was delivered during ceremonies is the aircraft Assembly Complex company officials said in a statement. The firm signed contracts Tor development and production of the plane Jan. 20. 1982. Rockwell delivered the first bib 10 the air Force at Edwards fab in october 1984. The plane delivered saturday will join 16 others bated at Mcconnel fab near Wichita Kim. B-1b bombers arc in operation at tour Strate Gic air come bases Dyess fab. Texas Ellsworth apr . Grand Forks fab . And Mcconnell gang violence Mars say no to crack dance san Francisco a weapons ranging from Garden tools to a tire Iron were confiscated by police when rival gangs battled at a say no to crack dance at least four people were arrested for incs to cation of assault and drunkenness during Sun Day night s violence at inc United Irish cultural Center across from the san Francisco zoo police said. Within hours two drive by shootings occurred in other parts of the City that May have been related to the Battle at the Hall said officer Dennis Morris. Officers confiscated an aluminium baseball Bat. A tire Iron a Hoe. A shovel so wooden clubs and other weapons said police sol Ann Anza Nous. Morris said a 16-year-old male was shot in the Slomach and in another incident a 20-year-old Man was hit in the Arm with to blast from a Shotgun both victims were in stable condition at san Francisco general Hospital. 2 More Whites charged in Campus racial incident Northampton mass. A criminal complaints have been issued against two additional White students in connection with a tight among two Black students and several whiles at the University of Massachusetts. The february incident sparked a six Day take Over Ofa Campus building by minority students. The complaints issued in Northampton District court against David c. Johnson and Ste phen Wolff bring to six the number of men charged with assault and Battery and assault for purposes of racial intimidation. Both Johnson and Wolff withdrew Frum the University after the incident. Earlier complaints were issued against John son s brother Daniel who had been visiting the Campus and William j. Mcphail another White student who has since withdrawn from classes plus the two Black students Jerome Smith and James Cunningham. All arc scheduled to of arraigned on May 19. Montana s River claims Are All wet Oregon says Lincoln City. Ore. Dpi a civil Engi a car prompted to action by Montana Young sters claims that the Roe River is the shortest to the world surveyed the d River in Lincoln City and concluded that it should retain world class status civil Engineer Gene Gin hit said a sense of civic duty prompted him to begin his we Klong project after residents became irked at the no Tion that their River could lose its distinction As the world s shortest. After fifth graders from great Falls mont., claimed that inc Roe River in their slate should be the record Holder at 270 feet officials from the guinness Book of world records announced the Roc would replace the d River previously recorded at 440 feet As the world s shortest. Dial her s Survey May prompt the record keep ers to reconsider since he measured the River at 120 feel. Joseph null of the National  Simy baud explains How the Agency will inspect the damaged Jet. Metal fatigue implicated in blast that ripped open Jet Kahului Hawaii a detailed analysis of a jetliner thai had part of its fuselage blown off White flying at 24,000 feet found cracks apparently caused by Metal fatigue a Federal official said. What appears preliminarily to be fatigue cracking was found at six rivet holes on a Metal strip running the length of inc Ai reran Joseph Nail of the National transportation safety Board said at a news conference sunday night. The cracks measuring 0.2 to 0,6 Inch were discovered on the Metal strip called la no. 10 Stringer that ran above the passenger windows on the left Side of the Aloha airlines Boeing 737, Nail said Nail said All of the plane s rivets As Well As those on Aloha s other 737s. Were being tested electronically in an Effort to find any other cracks. The plane made an emergency Landing thursday at the Airport in this Maui Island town. The flight from Liilo to Honolulu carried 95 people including 89 Pas sengers Twenty feet of the plane s upper fuselage covering first class passengers lore away. A flight attendant who had worked 37 years with Aloha it Arabelle Lansing 57. Of Honolulu apparently was sucked from the plane to her death while 61 other people were injured. Seven remained at Maui memorial Hospital on Sun Day in stable condition suffering from wind bum and lacerations nursing supervisor Beverly i Correira said. The seven who were sitting in the area of the nip lure mainly in window seats received their cuts from jagged sections of what remained of inc fuselage Nail said. Only 30 percent of inc fuselage remained intact at the Point of the rupture. Nail said tests found thai repairs made lust novem Ber to two cracks in the plane s no. 4 Stringer located farther up the fuselage appeared to have held. A service bulletin issued by Boeing in april told airlines to look for corroding fasteners that hold pieces of the fuselage together. Gose inspection of inc upper skin of Early Model Boeing 737 was ordered oct. 5 by the Federal Avi alien administration after routine inspections turned up cracks near where sections of Sheet Metal overlap officials said Friday. The Agency warned that the prob Lem could cause rapid Cabin decompression they said. Inspections carried out because of the Faa order turned up nothing unusual said Aloha airlines spokeswoman Stephanie a Kamtan. In the Wake of the Accident the Faa has barred some of the oldest versions of the 737 from flying above 23,000 feet. The order Alt cil 66 planes operated by Aloha american and Piedmont airlines that have made More than 55.000 landings. The Aloha plane in service since 1969, had made Between 85,000 and 90,000 landings. Air and sea searches failed to located any Trace of the missing fuselage Section officials said. The Section Tore away while the co Pilot. First offi cer Mimi Tompkins was flying the plane at 322 Runph to 333 Mph Nail said saturday. The night Crew donned oxygen masks As Tompkins Turt cd the controls Over to the Pilot Cape. Robert  he said. The plane hit the runway at a i Mph 45 Mph faster than a Normal Landing because Schorn theimer found the cd s flaps used to reduce the Speed at which a plane can land or Lake off without tolling would not work properly Nail said surgeon Genera will declare nicotine addictive official says Washington a an upcoming report by surgeon general a Everett Koop will declare that nicotine is an addictive drug the chief of inc Federal office of smoking and health said sunday. Or. Ronald a Davis said he Hopes the report will Spur the Public to understand that cigarette smoking is More than just a simple  we have to at least give it the serious attention that we do for the illicit drugs such As heroin cocaine etc.," Davis said on lbs to s face the  government officials have been saying for years that nicotine is an addictive drug just like cocaine just like heroin and other drugs that people commonly accept As addicting,11 he said. Pisut this report which will be released in a few weeks looks at the evidence in far greater detail than we be Ever looked at before. It compares this drug nicotine versus other drugs he said. The report would be the first by a Federal official Wilh As High a rank As the surgeon general to declare nicotine addictive. Davis noted hat the i9b6 surgeon it Terral a report on smoking which documented the health hazards of passive smoking accelerated the trend toward restrict ing or Banning smoking in Public places and in the work place. Although Davis did not say exactly what Steps should be taken once the surgeon general issues his report he questioned some current a s that cigarettes Are distributed. Why. Do we sell tobacco products in vending machines he asked. We Don t allow other addicting drugs to be sold in vending machines. Why do we allow free samples of the product to be tent through the mail or to be passed out on Public properly where kids and others have free Access to them when we Call this drug an addicting drug we have to take it More seriously than we currently  he attributed the Lack of Federal regulations on cigarettes to the historical social acceptability of smoking and probably the political influence of the tobacco