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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. June 22, 1383 the stars and stripes Page 5 Navy reopens Rescue swimmer school without Drill involved in death of recruit en5.\rol.a. Fth. A the Navy s Rescue swimmer school re opened monday but ils curriculum no longer includes the Sharks and daisies Rescue Drill thai was in Progress when a panicking re cruel died officials said. The Rhonl no the Pensacola Nas was dosed Sli tily after the March 2 death of airman recruit a Mirecki. 19. Of a Pluton. Wis. Live instructors have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy to commit Battery for allegedly Forcini Mirecki Hack into a swimming Pool after he asked to quit in the midst of the Sharks and dailies Drill. The officer in charge of the a Dion is accused of dereliction of duty. All six face possible court martial and they have been relieved of duly and re placed at the school pending action on their caws officials said. "1 can Lell Vou the Sharks and daisies exercise it not in the new  said it. Cmdr. Dennis Messier Public affairs officer for the naval education and train ing come headquartered in Pensacola. In that Drill instructors randomly grabbed students in head holds to Simu late people panicking in the water. A Slu Drut was supposed to pull his instructor underwater to break the hold and then make i i Rescue. Instructors will not personally participate in practical application drills under the revised procedures said la. Lee Saun Ders. I spokesman for the naval air train in Glomd in Corpus Christi Texas. Instead students will practice the drills on each other. The Navy charged that after Mirucki failed once in the exercise. I Eity officer 2.c. Michael Combe held his head underwater when the Drill was resumed. During an investigative hearing two weeks ago there was conflicting testimony on whether Mirecki collapsed while in Combe s grip. Some instructors and a student testified Mirucki had successfully broken Combe s grip and had the instructor in Tow instructors had testified that pulling tired scared or malingering students into the Pool or off of its Walls was a common procedure at the school. A Navy pathologist testified thai Mirecki had a phobia about being dragged under water which triggered heart fail ure followed by drowning. He died when allegedly shoved Back into the Pool after he had climbed out and declared his in tent to do a or drop on request from the school. New procedures explicitly require thai a student be pulled out of an exercise immediately if he asks to quit is fati Quad or shows signs of fear panic or Lack of Confidence. Navy spokesmen said. They made it quite Clear what the safely and drop on request procedures arc Hessler said. Students May voluntarily drop on re quest at any  2 nuke weapons to be set off in rare Experiment Las vegas Nev. At two nuclear weapons will be dimona cd simultaneously wednesday in an Eup Crimel carried out Only a few times in 43 years of testing the Energy department announced monday. The announcement came a 25 soviet nuclear scientists arrived at the test site in Nevada to join eight other soviets preparing for a series of joint experiments this summer. The test is scheduled to be Ron dude at 7 . In a 750-foot vertical Shaft drilled in Yucca ral about 85 Miles Northwest of Las vegas. Energy department spokesman Jim foyer said the two devices will have a combined yield of less than 5 l Kilotons but refused to disclose the is to cach device. The atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Japan had an explosive i note of 20 Kilotons. Or 20,000 tons of int. Boyar said the simultaneous test of two devices had been conducted Only once to the past 20 years. The to m will be carried out about 20 Miles from Mercury Nev., a Liny Community where the 33 soviet nuclear scientists and technicians Are based. The scientists Are at the Remote desert site 10 pre pare for a blast in mid August that will determine the ability of the soviet Union and the United slates to measure the size of each other s nuclear tests. The devices will be the sixth and seventh tested this year at the Nevada site. Six of the soviet scientists have been at the Nevada site for three of those previous tests. Wednesday s tests will bring to 682 inc total number of devices tested at the Remote desert site. Philadelphia performers up Phon jugglers Date Gillies and Tom Vanvorhes and Organ grinder Joe Boscio and Friend perform in downtown Philadelphia. They were hired by the own ers of an apartment Complex in Center City who hoped their antics would lure potential tenants Lulu stopping and Reading promotional handouts. Chemicals put out Chloride fire Springfield mass. A firefighters poured neutralizing chemicals on barrels of Chloride and cheering residents returned Home monday after a four Day fire that spewed poisonous Gas and forced evacuation of 25.000 people. I d like to thank the people for the patience they have demonstrated major Richard Encl said. Through out our in Mary concern has been the Public  about 275 people were injured and thousands camped out in shelters As explosions rocked the Century old Mill housing the advanced laboratories Plant which made Chloride pellets for swimming pools. Optic gals staid the fire was among the worst in Mem Ory in this cily of 171u100 people. No damage estimate was available but Neal said cily lawyers were arcs is vely pursuing plans to recoup expenses. Residents waved to police and cheered As the first school bus with resuming evacuees moved through a barricade about 1 . The last of the evacuees re turned Home at 6 30 ., and Only the Street in front of the Plum remained closed. Fire commissioner Dar Nell l. Williams said. Two fire trucks and police patrols were to remain on the scene overnight As Crews worked to remove the containers of chlorine compounds weighing up to 300 pounds authorities said. My roses Are Black and my tomatoes Are dead Antoinette Harris 17, said after resuming Home Mon Day. But the dog is ail  after More than 36 hours of flooding the factory with More than 6,000 Gallons of water a minute barrels of Chloride stopped exploding monday. Clean up Crews then poured a solution of Ocul Raling chemicals on hot spots where uie Chloride compounds were decomposing and producing toxic chlorine Gas. John Higgins regional director of the state depart ment of environmental Quality engineering said fire fighters shut off their hoses briefly sunday afternoon so officials could quickly tour the Plant but barrels of Chloride started exploding again soon afterwards. Hoses from All City pumpers flooded the building until 6is . Monday by 8 ., no barrels had exploded and the neutralizing mixture of boric acid and sodium Sulfare was poured onto the remaining Chloride barrels some of which were bubbling. Slate contracted clean up Crews gingerly removed More than 8,000 pounds of chlorine containing com pounds left in the building As firefighters stood by monday afternoon. 6aria� 6ftime in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today ,., june 22, 1948 Gen. Lucius Dclay said soviet troops would not be allowed to Board and search Mili tary trains and announced that Berlin s american Community would be supplied by air. 30 years ago today. June 12, 1958 a . District judge ordered integration suspended at Central High school in Little Rock ark., until the 1960-61 school year Thurgood Marshall general counsel of the a act said his organization would Appeal the ruling. 20 years ago today. June 22. 1968 Congress approved the 10-per Cuni surtax president Johnson had been seeking for 18 months to become effective in july. 10 years ago today. June 22, 1978 the United. Stales had a $6.95 billion balance of payments deficit during the first three months of 1978, inc largest in history  
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