European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 .5 this super Puma helicopter was ferrying worker from an offshore Oil Rig in the North sea Friday when it developed engine problems. The Pilot was forced to downed chopper make an emergency Landing 80 Miles Southwest of Stavenger Norway and the passengers took to life rafts. Another helicopter rescued All 18 passengers a who were aboard. It was the second time in three Day that a helicopter was forced to make an emergency Landing in the North sea. There were no injuries. Judge rules sunken ship belongs to Florida Miami a a Federal judge has ruled that a sunken 17th-Century Spanish Galleon found a year ago belongs to Testate of Florida not the two men who have claimed it and up to $500,000 i Booty. Under Friday s ruling Peter Leo an Dominic Addario of Jupiter would have to surrender the treasure including 2,500 Gold and Silver coins a Large Silver bar dated 1652, a Small Gold bar and several cannons. The treasure Worth $300,000 to$500,000, will remain in the hands of a conservator while the ruling is . District judge Stanley Marcus banned any other salvages from taking artefacts from the wreck in Jupiter Inlet. The two men who have incorporated under the name Jupiter wreck inc., Dis covered the sunken Galleon last summer buried in the Sand about 100 Yards off the Inlet s Beach. Last August the state department of natural resources sought an injunction to Stop them from exploiting the department said the wreck belonged to the state and the men needed a License to remove anything. Leo 33, and Addario 39, represented by attorney David Horan who also worked for key West treasure Hunter Mel Fisher in a score of similar actions countered by seeking an injunction bar ring the state from interfering with them but Marcus ruled against them. Strike forces tourists to Camp out of . Airports London a thousands of tourists began their summer holidays by camping at British airports As the aftereffects of a greek air traffic controllers strike wreaked havoc on already Busy summer flight schedules. Police were called to Luton Airport on saturday when passengers frustrated by Long flight delays threat ened to Block a runway. About 100 passengers blocked the departure lounge doors refused to let other passengers through and threatened to stage a sit in on the runway 28 mile Northwest of London. They had just Learned the plane on which they were due to leave for Palma Majorca after a 23-hour delay had been reassigned to other passengers. Kim Petherick a nurse who was waiting for another flight said everyone seemed to lose their temper at once. A group of men got through the Security and were going to he in front of the planes Petherick told Independent radio news. They were going to Stop the planes taking off until they got off to but Deputy Airport manager Geoff Smith said they would not have got onto the runway it Ismore than a half mile we asked the passengers to Clear the doors an they let the other people through Smith said. It was All Over in about five the passengers were put on another plane to Palma an hour later he said. Luton police said any excitement was Over by the time they arrived. On Friday the average delay in flights from Brit into the Mediterranean was six hours with some flights delayed up to 48 hours at Manchester s Airport i North England and up to 24 hours at London s Gat Wick Airport. Already Busy summer flight schedules were throw into turmoil by the greek air traffic controllers strike which ended wednesday. French and Spanish control lers have also threatened summer Job action. Britain s civil aviation authority said travellers can expect similar chaos for Summers to come until improvements Are made to outdated air traffic control systems throughout Europe. The heart of the problem is the unprecedented Rise in Holiday flights from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean which was not forecast either by airlines or governments the authority said in a statement sat urday. In Mediterranean countries this increase in traffic has placed enormous strains on their air traffic control systems giving Rise to Industrial disputes which have made the problem very much worse. The majority of the extreme delays which have caused so much suffering to British air passengers have stemmed directly from these the number of travellers passing through British air ports increased by 30 percent from 1981 to 1987. Dur ing the same period London s Heathrow and Gatwick airports Rose to become the two busiest in Europe. At Gatwick which handles most of Britain s charter flights spokesman Dave Hurst said most travellers were Well behaved despite the Long delays. They be taken the phlegmatic Brit approach an realize the Airport staff Are not to blame he said. Up to 4,000 travellers camped out in Gatwick each night in the past week. They consumed daily 10,000 pints of Beer 20,000 cups of Tea and Coffee 6,000sandwiches and 10,000 breakfasts according to Peter Ransome Gatwick s catering manager. Aids epidemic Only starting who official says san Francisco up unofficial of the world health organization predicted about a million new cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome will be diagnosed globally in the next five years say ing the aids epidemic is Only in it infancy. Or. Jonathan Mann the Organiza Tion s aids director told a conference of 1,400 health workers Friday that a estimated 5 to 10 million people Are already infected with the his virus believed a precursor to aids. Mann who said another 150,000people will be diagnosed this year As having the his virus warned that aids was not Likely to remain confined primarily to homosexual men and intravenous drug users As it has been in the United states. Noting that the lethal disease is pre dominant among heterosexuals in Afri Ca he said there must be several Hundred million people whose Behaviours would permit them to become in Mann called aids a global disease of a new order requiring efforts by every nation. The fight against aids is irrevocably International he said
