European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 12,1988 news updates labor dispute settled Rome a government and Union negotiators settled a labor dispute involving customs officials that had backed up freight at Border Points. The settlement was reached tuesday by finance minister Emi Lio Colombo and Union leaders. Colombo said Italy s customs administration will be reformed to Grant customs officers a pay raise and to redefine their duties. Thousands of Rucks were backed up at tic crossing Points with Switzerland and Austria last week after italian officers refused to work overtime to Clear customs documents. An official at the ital Ian Swiss Border Point of Chiasson said the situation was Back to nor Mal Afler the settlement was announced. Medal of Freedom Washington up president Reagan presented Ameri Ca s highest civilian award tues Day to outgoing nato Secretary general lord Carrington for maintaining Allied Solidarity that led to the first superpower Orr a Accord in eight years. During a while Liauw a crime by attended by top administration officials members of Congress and nato ambassadors Reagan awarded Carrington the presiden tial medal of Freedom Tor a magnificent Job at the Helm of the Atlantic Alliance. Billionaire boys Case Redwood City. Calif. A a judge sentenced two Mem Bers of the notorious billionaire boys club tuesday to life in Pris on without parole in the Kidnap Ping and death of the millionaire father of one of the defendants. Reza Eslaminia 26, and Arben Dosti were convicted in january of second degree murder kidnapping for extortion and conspiracy in the july 1984 plot to Kidnap Eslaminia a l father Hedayat for his Money Hen till him. Dosti and Ren Eslaminia were members of the club which was founded by Joe Hunt in 198 As � business fraternity of Bright Young men from some of Southern Cali fornia s wealthiest families. Hunt sentenced july 6 to life in prison without the possibility of parole in another slaying and his bodyguard still face rial in es1a Minia s death. Aids virus mutating los Angeles up the viruses that cause aids arc evolving so quickly and into so Many different forms that researchers said they May have to develop Many new blood tests and vaccines to detect them. Molecular biologist Gerald Myers of the los Alamos National Laboratory n new Mexico said tuesday that the latest quarterly update of his computerized aids data base shows the mutation rate of the aids viruses is millions of times faster than that of typical human  this mutation rate is already so great it presents a formidable Challenge to our detection and vac Cine development efforts be said. Parents complain about delay in releasing Asbestos data by Daryle. Green Kilt relay turn tartan Ramstein a. West Germany higher Ihan acceptable Asbestos Levels in three preschool classrooms prompted some parents 10 pull their children from class this week following a near two week delay by the air Force in publicizing the problem. However base officials said the delay in notifying parents was justified by thelow level of Asbestos test result Given to base officials april 29 showed thai three rooms used by preschoolers in a 30-year-old base. Remedy the problem before notifying parents by letter wednesday a move that has angered some parents. I m mad that they did t give us the Choice of whether to leave our children in Here or take them out said Donna m. Holumzer Parent of one of three children taken out of the program. One of the children has since been re enrolled. The Levels were so insignificant that our initial feelings were that there was no problem at All said col. James h. How Ard acting commander of the base clinic. Tic test revealed an average .013 fib ers of Chrysolite Asbestos per cubic Centi meter of air Well below Vic danger level of 2 fibres per cubic centimetre. The Standard level is .01 fibres per cubic Cen time Ter. I think the primary reason far the delay is that we had to digest the results and determine what we really had said col. Eugene a. Lupia. 377th combat support Wing commander. It  have been to anybody s advantage in my opinion to have run out inc Day the lest results came Back got a marquee and posted that we found three one thousandths fibres per cubic centimetre above standards in our child care Cen  after receiving the test result officials met May 5 and began cleanup procedures which included cleaning up dust steam cleaning carpets wet wiping Walls and painting the ceiling. The clean up was conducted Over a weekend by civil engineering and child development enter personnel wearing masks and rub her gloves. The lest were done in accordance with the Asbestos Hazard emergency response act of 1986. The act establishes specific rules and regulations governing the identification evaluation and control of Asbestos containing materials in schools. Earlier bulk samples found evidence of Asbestos containing Maie Riat in theft Stein preschool prompting base officials to take air samples. Asbestos pre Scanu a health Hazard Only when in Brea thable form. Base officials look another air Sample wednesday and were scheduled to hold a meeting with parents thursday. Federal court upholds Epa rules on Asbestos inspection in schools Washington a a Federal appeals court tuesday upheld govern ment regulations requiring local officials to inspect school buildings fur the presence of cancer causing Asbestos and report findings to parents. The . Circuit court of appeals dismissed a Challenge to he Environ mental Protection Agency regulations by a fade group trial complained the rules failed to set a Safe level of expo sure to airborne particles of Asbestos. This argument is meritless a three judge panel said. Congress exr Ricilly recognized that experts present disagree Over what Levels of exposure Are  the panel in a unanimous opinion by judge Harry t. Edwards said Epa s guidelines should serve As minimum standards in devising appropriate response  Congress nowhere said Epa need rely exclusively or even mainly on air monitoring techniques in selecting response actions or that it need establish a quantitative measure that it deems Safe Edwards wrote. The court noted that during he de Bate on he Asbestos Hazard emergency response act of 1986, sen. Robert Stafford a it. One of the Law s chief sponsors said that experts could t agree on a Safe level of exposure. Any doubt should be resolved i favor of erring on the Side of greater Protection Stafford said. By imposing a one year deadline on Epa for promulgating the regulations Congress impelled Epa to act quickly to address existing hazards Edwards wrote. In to doing it accorded Epa considerable leeway in determining Ade quate methods of dealing with extant problems Epa s regulations require schools to conduct visual inspections of Asbestos containing building materials to deter mine if they ate damaged. Undamaged Asbestos is not believed to pose a health risk. But when Asbestos Breaks up into Small invisible particles that become airborne it can cause cancer and other lung diseases Over Long periods of expo sure the regulations were challenged by the Safe building Alliance a Trade association that represents companies that formerly manufactured building mate rial containing Asbestos. The Oginni Union contended the regulations promoted the unnecessary re Moval of Asbestos materials which could actually increase exposure to the dangerous Mineral which was used As a flame retardant. To the extent that unnecessary or dangerous removals Are undertaken those Are going to increase exposure Levels said John Welch president of the Trade group. They May result in Asbestos related diseases at some Point that could prompt injury suits against the Compa Nies that once manufactured the Asbestos products he said. The regulations were supported by the american association of school administrators and he american federation of slate county and municipal employees and various stale attorneys general. Edwards opinion was joined by judges Stephen Williams and Louis Oberdorfer. Mcdonald s 1 St autobahn restaurant to test motorists buying preference byjoe Mapother Bremer Lumn Bureau the big Mac soon will compete against the bratwurst along German autobahn in what a Mcdonald s spokes Man is calling a lest of interstate Highway buying preferences. Ii should prove that the autobahn user can make More use of ibis Type of eatery said Manfred Schneider a Mcdonald s Chain spokesman in Munich who has worked on the proposal for the past three years. Although German officials have Given permission for one test Mcdonald s Tobe built along the autobahn Schneider said wednesday its location has not yet been agreed upon. Several autobahn franchisers have expressed interest in having a Mcdonald s at their rest top Schneider said adding that the fast Rood site will be part of an existing autobahn restaurant. Although the Chain has built a handful of outlet near autobahn. The Mcdon Ald s lest restaurant will be the first located along a German superhighway Schneider said. There is however a Mcdonald s located on the Highway near the Brenner pass at Schun Borg Austria. The German test ate Marks a break through for interstate Highway eateries in West Germany because it is part of program to lest whether the present sys tem of no name restaurants should be changed in favor of an advertised variety Schneider said. As opposed to Austria Schneider said. The German system does nol use restau rant names. German autobahn signs employ a Standard Symbol of a crossed knife and Fork to denote an eatery although the test restaurant will be a Mcdonald a Schneider said it was pre mature to say whether the company sym Bol the Golden Arches _ will be prominently displayed along the inter state. The remodelling of an ousting Ait food Section of a restaurant will be done with the idea of integration into the existing site he said. Once a site has been elected another round of negotiations lies ahead Between Mcdonald a officials and various groups representing autobahn concessionaire and the West German government Schneider said