European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d sex Dukakis aide gets prison term Page 2 d hitting the Road with your pet pages 14-15 d Mcgwire leads Oakland by Detroit sports Page 21 d soviets rehabilitate Stalin victims Back Page the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 47, no. 83 sunday july 10,1988 25 daily and sunday q 8693 a red Adair arrives to try to Stop Rig fires Paul red Adair a photo Aberdeen Scotland a Oil troubleshooter Paul red Adair boarded the Piper Alpha Oil platform saturday to try to Stop fires still raging on the twisted wreckage where 166 peo ple died in the world s worst Oil Field disaster. Adair was lowered by Crane onto the North sea Rig in a personnel Basket from the nearby support vessel pharos said Occidental Petroleum the Rig s Ameri can owner. Occidental Petroleum hired the 73 year old texan to make the platform Safe Seal Gas leaks and determine whether he can save the Oil Wells that Are connected to the Rig. Adair of Houston has gained Fame for capping out of control Oil Wells. Occidental says it believes a Gas leak caused an explosion last wednesday night that turned the 34,000-ton Rig into a fireball. Sixty four workers escaped and sur Vived. Eighteen remained in Aberdeen Royal infirmary one in serious Condi Tion and the rest stable the Hospital said saturday. Adair and two assistants flew to the disaster site 120 Miles off Scotland s East coast on Friday. They have Bee using the pharos a Semi submersible sup port vessel that Adair helped design As temporary base. On Friday prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Occidental Petroleum chair Man Armand Hammer agreed that the explosion shows major design changes Are needed on offshore Oil platforms. Hammer Thatcher Prince Charles and Princess Diana met some of the survivors and families of the dead on Fri Day. The Royal couple brought skin Graf equipment from London to treat survivors Burns. Hammer said Occidental was Donat ing $1.7 million to a Trust fund for the injured and the bereaved. The govern ment matched the figure and the euro Pean economic Community added $952,000. The 90-year-old Oil magnate told news conference after meeting with Thatcher in this East scottish port City Friday night mrs. Thatcher thinks and we think see Adair on Back Page Brownsville rescuers give up As toll hits 16 Brownsville Texas a hundreds of workers Clearing debris from the collapse of a department store reached the ground floor of the three Story building sat urday but had Little Hope of finding More survivors. Authorities said at least 16 people were killed and47 injured in the disaster but six survivors four of them children were pulled from the debris of the Amigo store on Friday. Related photo Page 4. By this time tomorrow morning the building won the there anymore Terry Ray a construction Foreman Aegis was t fully tested Gao reports Washington a the Complex Aegis air defense system used by the guided missile Cruiser Vincennes last week to shoot Down an iranian Pas Senger Jet was not thoroughly tested before the Navy began deploying it a classified general accounting office report says. The report As described by congressional sources found that the ability of the Aegis to Dis Criminate among various targets was never adequately proved. The report was begun before last sunday s Inci Dent in which the Vincennes shot Down Iran air flight 655, thinking it was an iranian f-14 fighter Jet. All 290 people aboard the commercial plane were lost. Related Story Page 28. Pentagon officials Are reviewing information that led the Vincennes skipper capt. Will c. Rog ers Iii to have his ship fire missiles at the plane in the Strait of Hormuz. They said the Aegis system was not malfunctioning. In an interview with the Portland oregonian rep. Denny Smith r-ore., an outspoken critic of the Aegis system when it was being debated in Congress in 1983, criticized former Navy Secretary see Aegis on Back Page who was leading the digging Effort said  re no longer allowing any tunnelling. We re in the process of taking apart the building layer by  police sgt. Dean Poos said rescuers using sensitive equipment thought they heard noises including tapping sounds from within the rubble and were encouraged. But later saturday Poos said the workers believed they would not find any More survivors. It does t sound like Well find anybody else alive Poos said adding the City had asked for More volunteers to help in the cleanup. Meanwhile an official told the Dallas morning news that clogged drainage holes allowed rain to col Lect on the store s Flat roof possibly overloading it. The roof collapsed during a torrential rain thursday afternoon. The roof is not designed to carry All that weight said Brownsville building inspector Fernando Romero. It s a tragedy and one that May happen again at any  a photo a couple who Only had eyes for each other should mate photo of the couple in a Clinch Friday while _ �.  a _ j 1fc/ff.__nl. A 4 of a i am is ibid a or have kept them peeled for the traffic control camera of the West German government. Just when they rolling toward Munich at 85 Miles an hour. The Driver can kiss goodbye a goodly amount of Marks least expected it the sneaky camera snapped an inti when in a couple months his ticket arrives by mail