European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 Cal Fornias quaking Over official warning san Francisco a nostradamus disaster warning Date has passed but now californians Are All shaken up about a series of Earth quakes and an ominous official warning of worse jolts ahead. A lot of people Are spooked says Paul pres ton who runs an earthquake preparedness Busi Ness in Marin county. Northern California residents began buying up survival supplies and swamping quake experts with phone Calls after the state issued a rare official warning about an increased Chance for a severe earthquake this week South of san Jose where a quake rocked the Region monday. The temblor estimated As High As 5.7 on the Richter scale of ground motion shifted tectonic plates along the san Andreas fault and has been followed by a surprising Lack of aftershocks seismologist Robert Uhrhammer said wednesday. Uhrhammer of the University of California seismographic stations at Berkeley said the area in the Santa Cruz mountains is 40 times More Likely than Normal to be hit by another temblor of at least the same magnitude by Sun Day. The american red Cross on wednesday put its Northern California chapters on Alert through tuesday. The action came a Day after the state office of emergency services suggested that Santa Clara Santa Cruz Monterey and san be Nito counties notify local officials of the in creased earthquake risk. We certainly Don t want to panic people but if there is an increased Chance even a Little one we have to let people know said to Mullins an Agency spokesman in Sacramento. Money Snag cools drive for military War on drugs by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the debate Over unleashing the military might of the United states against drug smugglers seems to be Over before it Ever really got started. In various versions of the defense authorization and appropriations Bills now being completed in Congress lawmakers have scaled Back drug interdiction Initia Tives which at one time included a proposal to have the army Seal the country s Borders against All drug smuggling within 45 Days. Congressional staffers and defense department officials attribute this Cooling trend to the Factor that drives so Many government decisions Money. Pentagon officials told Congress that the Bill for sealing the Borders of the United states might run As High As $14 billion per year and would Hurt military readiness by diverting personnel and equipment from their main Mission deterrence. At several congressional hearings defense Secretary Frank Carlucci spoke forcefully against handing the military the Job of controlling drug smuggling arguing that the Mission of service members is combat not Law enforcement. A recent general accounting office report that casts numerous doubts on the Wisdom of beefing up the military role in drug interdiction also helped to reduce what at times seemed to be a classic Case of election year fever on Capitol Hill. You could say that the rhetoric has Given Way to reality said a House staffer. Certainly there is a drug problem and the various solutions that have been floated All sounded Good at the time. But it s a lot easier to propose far reaching solutions to problems than it is to find Money to pay for  the House which recently passed its fiscal 1989 defense appropriations Bill included just $355 million to buy 10 patrol boats six aircraft and two air surveil Lance systems to be devoted to drug interdiction along with another $120 million to be split Between the Navy and coast guard for operation and maintenance of the equipment. The Senate appropriations committee which finished work on its version of the funding Bill last week was even More stingy allocating Only $199 million for 13 aircraft and ordering eight Navy frigates to be diverted to the drug interdiction Mission. A House Senate conference wrapping up the fiscal 1989 defense authorization Bill has approved funding of $300 million mostly for ships and aircraft to be used for increased surveillance. The final Bill is expected to expand the role of the coast guard As the Leader in the interdiction Effort. The conferees also dropped controversial language that would have involved the military in making civil Ian arrests of suspected drug smugglers. As a Compromise the Pentagon has agreed to allow individual states to use National guard troops to aug ment regular Federal police along the  Bor Der. Differences in the House and Senate appropriations Bills must be worked out in a conference that will begin shortly after the full Senate approves its committee s version. When the conference ends the Bill must then again be approved by both Chambers of Congress and signed by the president. Similarly once the authorization conference ends that Bill also must be approved by the House and sen ate and signed by the president. Pentagon officials Are reluctant to talk about con Gressional backtracking on the drug interdiction Issue now that they have prevailed with their View that the military is ill suited to handle the Mission. We seem to have gotten the folks in Congress to listen to us on this one and we Don t want to do any thing to make them change their minds again one military official said. Wii massacre probe on sex nazi reopened Lubeck West Germany a the District prosecutor s office wednesday said it has re opened an investigation of a former nazi is general alleged to have ordered the 1940 massacre in France of 85 British prisoners of War. The new probe of Wilhelm Mohnke dropped for Lack of sufficient evidence in 1973, was reopened after new names of survivors of the massacre turned up said prosecutor spokesman Joachim Bottcher. The spokesman confirmed the probe when questioned about a report presented to the House of commons in London tuesday by a British official. In the report Junior defense minister Roger Freeman said West German authorities had agreed to reopen the probe against Mohnke a 77-year-old retired business Man. B5ttcher said the Case was reopened a couple of weeks ago after British journalists gave us the new names of  Mohnke allegedly ordered that 85 unarmed British prisoners of War be herded into a barn to be shot by nazi is troops at Wormhoudt near Dunkirk. The is was a quasi military special police unit that was infamous for its brutality. The former general who now lives in stemware about three Miles East of Ham Burg has repeatedly denied any connection with the alleged massacre that took place shortly before British forces retreated from Dunkirk s beaches in the face of the rapid German Advance during the Early stages of world War ii. In the Early 1970s, he also was investigated for involvement in the execution of 72 unarmed . Prisoners of War at Mal Medy in the French ardennes in 1944. West German officials have said that probe also was dropped for Lack of evidence. In april after the British Magazine world War ii investigator traced Mohnke to stemware Home Secretary Douglas Hurd told commons that British officials had reopened a secret file on the affair. Hurd is the British Cabinet member responsible for Law and order. Freeman said thursday that Britain had no jurisdiction in the Case but would hand Over All the evidence it has. He also said an investigation by the War crimes interrogation unit just after the War had concluded there was not enough evidence to bring the possible culprits to trial. Ian Sayer publisher of world War ii investigator told the associated press in april that he traced documents showing Mohnke was wanted by British . And Canadian War crimes investigators at the end of the War. But Mohnke who was captured by the soviets and jailed for 10 years could not be found in 1945, he said. On tuesday in another Case involving alleged War criminals but not concerning Mohnke nazi Hunters handed the British government a detailed list of 13 alleged War criminals who fled to Britain after the War. They said it was new evidence that Brit Ain harboured nazi collaborators partly to assist with anti soviet intelligence. The Home office said it would try to Trace the 13 men White russians now aged Between 63 and 89. Their names and in most cases specific addresses in British pow Camps were first submitted by the soviet ambassador in november 1947. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the nazi Hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said researchers stumbled on the list last week while sifting through British government records for tra Ces of is members who escaped to Canada via Britain after the War. Raisin a bran new beat up photo the toe tapping California raisins Are lending their rhythms to general foods. On the heels of an and Campaign debut i which they danced to a motown beat the Happy Little licensed characters Are being inserted into about 3 million boxes of Post Raisin bran Cereal for shipment to grocery stores in the nation. The promotional project is being carried out in la Fayette ind