European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday August 11,1988 news updates . Vendor zone new York a new yorkers already accustomed to directions on where to Park where to turn and where to Stop or Standwill get yet another instruction where to eat. On thursday City workers will begin Spray painting 2-foot-Square, hot dog carts Complete with umbrella at 1,013 locations to Mark designated zones for food vendors. The markers Are the result of Compromise Between mayor Edward i. Koch and the vendors Over where in Manhattan they can set up shop. Koch had banned the Vendor from most of the Midtown area. Film Star s lawsuit new York a a Federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit in which actress Ginger Rogers accused italian filmmakers of invading her privacy in the movie Gin Ger and  District judge Robert Sweet Rule monday that the film directed by Federico Fellini was artistic expression that enjoys the full Protection of the first  Rogers 77, famous for the series of musicals in which she danced with Fred Astaire in the 1930s, file suit in March 1986 against the pro Ducer Alberto Grimaldi and the distributor Mem United artists. Her complaint seeking $8 million i damages alleged that the movie depicted her in a false Light and in fringed her Public  the movie starring Marcell Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina is about the reunion of two aging italian music Hall dancers who once were popular for imitating Astaire and Rogers. North sea seals London a scientist from european countries Bor Dering the North and Baltic sea began a two Day meeting wednes Day to discuss Seal deaths along their coasts the environmental group Greenpeace said. Greenpeace which is sponsor ing the meeting with the univer sity of London said the scientists will assess the extent of the deaths the cause and any possible action that May be taken. The 12 scientists attending the meeting come from Britain Den Mark the Netherlands Germany Norway and Sweden. Dodds overseas schools hearing is postponed Washington is a congressional hearing on the Quality of Educa Tion in the military s overseas schools has been postponed. The hearing by the House armed services subcommittee on manpower and personnel is to focus on the depart ment of defense dependents schools organizational Structure and responsive Ness to parental concerns. The hearing had been scheduled to Start thursday. No new Date has been set. 4 die As British Jet fighters collide on Low level flights Milburn England a two Tornado Jet fighters collided while on separate Low level night training flights killing three British airmen and one West German trainee navigator the de sense ministry said wednesday. Rescue workers recovered the bodies from wreckage scattered Over a wide area in the cumbrian Hills of Northwest England. The $30 million fighters collide tuesday night Over the Remote sparsely populated Hills near the Village of Mil Burn 240 Miles from London. The defense ministry identified the crewmen killed As three Royal air Force flight lieutenants navigator Anthon Cook and pilots Colin Oliver and John Watts and West German air Force it. Ulrich Sayer 23, of Stuttgart. Sayer had been training with the Raf since May. The two seater aircraft were from Dif Ferent bases in Norfolk in Southeast eng land and in Central England the de sense ministry said. One fighter was flying in a twin forma Tion with another Jet not involved in the Accident and the other was flying alone officials said. The area is regularly used for Low level training flights. Military jets skim a few Hundred feet Over Hills and farm buildings to practice flying under radar search beams. A big red Ball of fire came in the sky. I did t know whether it was the Sun coming up said witness Alan Knell landlord of the Village pub the Stag inn. It was just a mass of Brig tred. And then rockets and flares went off and then there was another sort of explosion Knell said adding that the planes narrowly missed the pub. The Accident the 10th involving Royal air Force jets this year prompted lawmakers to demand that safety Mea sures be improved. The whole program is completely out of control said Dale Campbell Savours opposition labor party legislator for the cumbrian District. He said the conserva Tive government had ignored warning about the dangers of Low level training flights. Armed forces minister Roger Freeman said the pilots would not necessarily have known another aircraft was also on a train ing Mission nearby. The general principle is and it works Well see and avoid Freeman said in a radio interview. After a december 1986 training crashing which one Tornado flew into the Back of another the Royal air Force this year promised to equip the fighters with bet Ter exterior lighting and other modifications so pilots could assess distances More accurately. The Raf gave no Date for completing the modifications arising from the crash which both Crews survived. Hamad s denial he murdered Sailor May be True hijacked Jet s Pilot says Washington a the Pilot of a Twa Jet Airliner hijacked in 1985 said wednesday that the admitted Hijacker of the plane could be telling the truth when he testified that he did t kill a . Navy diver. It s possible that he did t pull the trigger but he and his partner were certainly in full concert throughout that whole ordeal said Pilot John Testrake in an interview on lbs this  West German Law like . Law make accomplices responsible for a crime committed by the other. Testrake said he could not say whether Hamadi who testified in his trial in Frankfurt West Germany on tuesday that he had taken part in the hijacking was the ringleader. I think that he was but it s been three years now and i recognize that memory plays tricks said Testrake who is to testify in Hamadi s trial. I remember that he was the one who spoke German and seemed to be in com Mand of the situation in the cockpit at the time diver Robert Dean Stethem was murdered and he was conducting the radio conversations with the Tower and demanding that they comply with their wishes Testrake said. Hamadi testified that he pleaded with his partner not to kill Stethem. Testrake was not asked about that part of Hama i s testimony. The Pilot said the United states should shoulder a Good share of blame for a lot of the conflict that s going on in the Middle  but he said hijacking is a violent desperate act that we have to  he said tightened Security has diminished the threat. Testrake said he would like to see Hamadi put away quietly for a Good Long time until his attitude  he said no useful purpose would be served by putting him to death. Hamadi faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of Stethem s death. Soviet teams wrap up belgian inf inspection Brussels Belgium is Twenty soviet inspectors completed visit wednesday to Sites in Belgium covered by the superpower treaty eliminating intermediate Range nuclear missiles from Europe. A 10-member team began base line inspections tuesday morning of the 485th tac missile Wing s ground launched cruise missiles at Florenne a a . spokesman said. That inspection ended at 8 a.m., wednesday. Another team visited the european re pair facility in Gosse lies Belgium completing its activities at 9 18 a.m., the spokesman said. The Gosse lies facility is used for missile system maintenance up Grade and testing. Florenne and the Gosse lies site Arete Only locations in Belgium covered by the treaty. Following the visits the soviets completed inspection reports in English and russian before returning to their hotel in Brussels. Both teams were accompanied by members of the . On site inspection Agency and belgian officials. No time has been set for the soviets return to Moscow however they Likely were to Fly Home thursday. The spokes Man said they Are required to file a flight plan at least six hours before departure. Did Navy get bad rafts records May Tell Pittsburgh a Federal agents seized records of a West Virginia defense contractor in an investigation into allegedly defective life rafts sold tothe Navy a newspaper reported wednes Day. The defense criminal investigative service and the Fri on monday raided rubber rafters inc., a Grantsville,w.va., company that received $17.3 Mil lion to produce a 25-Man life raft from 1984 to 1987, the Pittsburgh press said. Voluminous amounts of records were seized . Attorney William Kolibash said. The next step is to see what s inthe records and what action to  an affidavit filed in . District court in Wheeling w.va., quoted unidentified employees of rubber Crafter Sas saying that rafts were constructed of inferior material and shipped to Nav Supply centers in Norfolk va., and Oak land calif., and that records were falsified and tests rigged to conceal the defects. We have no comments said woman who answered the phone at rub Ber craters wednesday. She refused to identify herself. Kolibash said the investigation is not related to the wide ranging probe of alleged bribery in the awarding of military contracts. 33 killed in Rangoon riot 3 policemen beheaded Bangkok Thailand a demonstrators i Burma beheaded three policemen wednesday and troops in the capital opened fire on anti government protesters killing More than 30 people radio rang Oon  burmese government owned radio also said a mob attacked a police station in Moulmein a City i Southern Burma killing one officer. Burma has reported 78 deaths about 160 people wounded and More than 1,500 arrests in three Days of protests against the authoritarian government of presi Dent Sein  diplomats in Rangoon the capital believe casualties Are substantially  Rangoon monitored in Bangkok said Security forces fired is times to disperse crowds in the Capi Tal City. It said 33 people were killed 59 wounded and 113 arrested for violence and  the radio said three policemen were beheaded an another member of the Security forces and a civilian were killed in outlying areas of the  demonstrations the largest Public protests since a military coup in 1962 began last month shortly after Sein Lwin became both president of the country and chairman of its sole political  Lwin has been accused by students and other demonstrators of ruthless suppression of dissent