European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 30, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 israelis use tear Gas against schoolgirls Jerusalem ai1 police used tear Gas to quell a sit in demonstration wednesday by about 75 Arab schoolgirls who protested outside the . Consul ate against the closure of their school . Officials said. The official expressed dissatisfaction with police Conj i i. Saying they had asked that tear Gas nut be used against the teen age girls. They said the canisters were throw Only Alicr the girls left the consulate parking lot and a tin.1 half hour Demon str Ilion appeared in fax disbanding. A consulate spokesman said the girls mostly 13 and 14- ear Olds threw no stones and Only held up Handwritten signs saying thaw open Pur  about i officers including Riol police were at the scene the spokes Man said. Police spokesman raft Levy put the number of demonstrating schoolgirls at 200 and said tear Gas was used Only Afler the students were Wam cd to disperse. The use of tear pus is based on operational considerations of the moment Levy told the associated 1 Russ. Outside school in East Jerusalem meanwhile several Arab Schoul irs were arrested after they tried to incite fellow students to protest Levy said. In All israeli Saffici a have closed 34 schools in Arab East Jerusalem and the occupied West . Contending that schools arc a Central spot for holding Ami israeli  since the Arab uprising began nearly seven months ago. Since dec. 8, 211 palestini ans and four israelis  been killed. Also wednesday israeli troops shot and wounded a 22-year-old palestinian after clashes near an Arab marketplace in the occupied West Han City of Nab Lus officials at Nablus Al la jihad Hospi Tal said. The army said it was checking the report. In the West Hank City of Hebron troops welded shut 24 stores on a Street where a jewish settler was stabbed on a Eurnas attack by israeli police forces palestinian schoolgirls la abandon their sit in Oats Dethe , consulate in Jerusalem. Friday palestinian witnesses said. Israel radio said the army had detained members of a guerrilla cell believed to he responsible for recent at tacks in the Hebron area. A senior , official said . Secre tary of slate George Shutlz May visit the Middle East in july in try to Advance his stalled peace initiative. It would be Shulla fourth visit in less than a year. Undersecretary of state Michael Armacost before departing for Cairo said the possibility of such a visit was Dis cussed during his two Days of talks with israeli leaders. Meanwhile prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said wednesday on Israel radio that Israel was on the Alert and level Oping a response to a growing buildup of dangerous sophisticated missiles in Arab countries. There s no doubt that this phenomenon of violent hostility has to come to an end and we shall indeed bring it to an cud Shamir  spoke one Day after the United states promised visiting defense min ister Yitzhak Rabin it would help develop a missile designed to shoot Down in coming ballistic missiles. Recent reports have said the chinese government is preparing to sell Syria advanced surface to surface missiles with a Range of about 375 Miles. 3 charged with dumping hazardous wastes Baltimore a a Federal grand jury has charged free civilian managers of an army chemical weapons program at Aberdeen proving ground with illegally dumping hazardous wastes that leaked into a Creek we certainly did not have a Bhopal out there but i think frankly we re Lucky because the environment existed out there to have a major environmental disaster . Attorney  l. Willcox said re Ferring to the Industrial Accident in India hat claimed nearly 3,000 lives. We suspect that serious environmental Viola is persist Willcox said predicting that More indict ments would follow tuesday s charges. He said some of the problems at Aberdeen a 79,000-acre testing ground for weapons and chemicals 25 Miles Northeast of Baltimore have been addressed. The grand jury indicted William dec 49, Robert Lentz 50, and Carl Gepp 51. All were lop managers Between 1983 and 1986, when the alleged violations occurred at the army s chemical research development and engineering Center. The indictment alleged that the three intentionally stored without a permit chemical wastes such As Ethyl acetate hydrazine picnic acid and Ethyl Ether in deteriorating containers in an army building. The first four counts of the five count indictment including the illegal storage dumping and handling of hazardous wastes arc felonies. The fifth count a water pollution charge is a Misdemeanour. The three men who Are to be arraigned in the nest week or two face up to 21 years in prison and  million in finds each i f convicted on All charges. This Case is not one of technical or minor Viola Lions Willcox said. Rather it concerns the wilful intentional and deliberate failure to comply with the Law Over a period of years by the managers of the army s chemical weapons testing program the army like everyone else is required in this District to obey the Law said Wilcox the lop Federal prosecutor for Maryland according to the indictment chemicals leaked into the base s sanitary sewer and canal Creek which leads into the Bush River and eventually Chesapeake Bay. Investigators have said they do not know whether any people were adversely affected but Willcox said the alleged dumping caused a major fish kill on a Chesapeake Bay tributary. The Fri and the environmental Protection Agency cooperated in an 18-month investigation in the Case Willcox said. The defendants arc chemical engineers and longtime government employees. None was available for com ment but attorney Richard Karceski said they would plead innocent and go to Tria and win their  there is not a scintilla of criminal intent among these three  Karceski said. Acknowledging thai hazardous waste problems May have existed at Aberdeen Karceski said the three defendants arc people who tried to do i hair Besl to Correct alleged deficiencies. This was not an individual problem but a problem of the army he said. Navy advised to reduce shipboard plastic trash Washington al1 the most important step the Navy can Lake to reduce plastic pollution of the Ocean is to reduce the amount of plastic going aboard its ships in food and other packaging a panel of Navy environmentalist and animal welfare representatives said tuesday. The Navy already has begun to carry out some recommendations and has cancelled orders for 11 million Small plastic bags for us in carrying purchases away from ships stores the committee said the committee was organised last year by the Keystone Center a group of environmental mediators based in Keystone colo., in anticipation of legislation pawed later to implement an International agreement to end disposal of plastic trash at sea. Environmentalists increasingly arc concerned Over the killing of Birds fish and Marine mammals by Long lasting plastics such As six pack rings that Are eaten by or entangle sea creatures we Are trying to reverse a tradition of millennia of trash disposal at sea. Said rep. Gerry Ludds a mass. The Navy s initial position was thai it could t pos Sibly comply that it would Lake at least 20 years said Studds who is chairman of the fisheries wildlife conservation and environment subcommittee of the House merchant Marine and fisheries committee the Keystone committee said such scepticism was quickly turned into enthusiastic cooperation largely As a result of the work of Nancy Stchler Deputy director for the environment in the office of the assistant Secre tary of the Navy for so in build no and logistics. She set the example and established the tone we All needed for frankness and openness. She focused our attention on helping the Navy solve the problem the committee said. Warships pose a particular problem because space aboard them is very limited the recommendations Call for reducing the plastics carried because that would greatly reduce the need for expensive technologies intended to facilitate Stor age and  the committee said the Navy should review specifications for food and other Ilams to be bought in Dugra Dable non plastic packaging wherever possible sup port development of compactors and degradable plastics unload unnecessary plastics before leaving port and separate plastics before disposing of other trash at sea