European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday August 14,1988 . Downplays Flap Over inspection team Washington not Reagan administration officials Friday dismissed reports that a team of . Nuclear test ing experts had been involved in illicit intelligence activities at a soviet test site. The officials said the episode in question was essentially an errant souvenir Hunting Mission involving materials no More Sensi Tive than Rock samples a piece of barbed wire a wrench and a Small Hammer. The Washington Post reported Friday that the experts had been caught with prohibited potentially militarily sensitive so Viet materials in violation of a recent agreement on nuclear testing verification. The report prompted a spate of questions at the daily White House and state department briefings that produced new details. The state department spokesman Charles e. Redman said that three . Specialists were implicated and that the items taken were of no military or tech Nical  indeed some of the Rock samples were of the same types As those already provided to the . Team by the soviets under the new testing agreement Redman said. Redman said that the americans had reason to believe that they would be allowed to take out personal Rock Sam Ples and he suggested that there was a misunderstanding on this count. But Redman also acknowledged that the soviet authorities had not formally authorized the americans to remove the items from the test site. Another state department official said that a soviet geologist was aware that the americans had the rocks but suggested that he was not empowered to approve their removal. Redman said that Moscow had not filed a formal protest but that it had complained after the items were found during a customs search at the test site. State department officials said that the americans had been reprimanded by the administration for the unauthorized removal of the items in violation of the test verification agreement and that they would not be returning to the soviet Union. The administration did not identify the americans implicated. Administration officials said they they did not expect the incident to interfere with plans to carry out joint experiments to improve verification techniques at the american test site in Nevada this week. A similar Experiment is to be carried out next month at the soviet test site. Army spec. James w. Snyder East meets West it. Col. Thomas b. Wykoff is flanked director Christopher l. Evans far by soviet inspection team chief Anat right during a news briefing that was oly s. Chentsova and Hausen facility held in Frankfurt. News briefs Mandela hospitalized treated for lung ailment Johannesburg up Nelson Man Dela the 70-year-old jailed Leader of the outlawed african National Congress was taken into a surgical unit at a Cape town Hospital saturday for treatment of a lung condition. His wife Winnie said later she was shocked by his condition the family Law yer  prison authorities transferred Mandela to the Tigerberg Hospital Friday night. He was suffering from what Hospital superintendent . Strauss said was fluid around the left lung. There was no indication How Long the Black nationalist Leader would remain hospitalized and no official comment on whether he had undergone surgery. Memorial scheduled for go killed in Accident Darmstadt West Germany is a memorial service will be held monday for the 94th engr in Soldier who died thursday follow ing a six car one bicycle Accident. Sgt. Bruce c. Mcmullen died on a medical evacuation helicopter flight to Lan Stuhl  regional medical Center. He was Riding a Bicy Cle when a Mercedes ran a red Light struck a car in an intersection and then hit him German police said. Mcmullen was 25. The service will be at 1 30 . At the Darm Stadt Community Chapel a unit spokesman said. Mcmullen is survived by his wife and son. Water from Page 1 for commander Fleet air Mediterranean. As this summer rolled in i saw the water pressure get lower and lower till i had no water at All. During the past month i be been out of water virtually every Day. At Best i get a trickle sometimes Between 2 . And 7 ., so i get up to fill the tub and a couple of  experts blame the chronic shortage on poor plan Ning by past City administrations and on the condition of the existing water system where pumps Don t work pipes Are broken and More than 30 percent of the water carried in aqueducts is wasted in transit. On top of that we be had no appreciable snowfall and Little rain this past Winter. The reservoirs Are lower than Ever before municipal water authority spokes Man Enrico Ciaccio said thursday. We be been rationing water within City limits All through the Spring but it was t enough. We be had no Choice but to extend the rationing to the entire territory surrounding Naples. I can understand being rationed said Laura Morehead who lives with her husband  sgt. Jerry Morehead in Pozzuoli. I just wish they would do it on a predetermined schedule so we could be prepared. You just never know when the faucets go dry and worse yet How Long they la stay  we try to do it on an equitable basis but we Are dealing with a system that is Over 100 years old and was meant to serve Only a fraction of today s population Ciaccio said. As Hilly As this area is there Are great differences in water pressure. The people who live on higher areas Are going to Bear the Brunt of the rationing while the people in the lower areas feel it less because they usually have some residual water  in the meantime Many americans Are learning to Deal with the water shortage any Way they can. I be been without a drop of water for As Long As seven Days at one time said Navy it. Cathy Whitaker who lives in Monte Ruscello. When the water comes i m usually at work so i eat off of paper plates and paper cups. When i can i fill a five gallon Camp ing Shower bag and put it out on the Balcony to warm up in the Sun. Most of the time i go to the gym to take a Shower. I m learning to Camp out in my House and i Don t like it one , when the Long awaited liquid shows up it often in t fit for consumption forcing Many to buy drinking  i hear it gurgle up the pipes in the mid dle of the night and i get up to do the Wash or the dishes said Marisa Dolch who lives in Nicola with her husband chief Petty officer Alfred Dolch. But what water comes out of the faucet is too dirty and Rusty looking to Cook or drink with. So we buy drink ing water by the Case and we even Brush our Teeth with Mineral water people employ different methods to determine when the water is  keep an Eye on the water main in front of my House said Randey Collins who lives in Lago Patria with her husband senior chief Petty officer Christo Pher Collins. When it leaks i know the water is com ing and i Rush to fill my  telltale sign is the italian woman two floors below us said Donna Hancock who lives with her husband Petty officer 1st class Patrick Hancock in Parco Piccioni. When the water shows up she starts Yelling Aqua Aqua no matter what time of Day or  Long term residents of the area avoid the problem by drilling a Well or installing a Reserve water tank but that option often is not open to americans. You can drive around and see All the new shining water tanks sitting on the roofs said Petty officer 1st class Joseph Carlson who lives in Varc Aturo. But americans Are just renters and most landlords won t Rush into that kind of expense for rentals so we Are the ones who Are suffering the  the situation is not expected to get better any time soon. If anything it might get  expect that september when vacationers move Back into the City will be the most critical month Ciaccio said. We Are dealing with a huge problem that has been neglected for a Long Long time and cannot be solved overnight. We Are drilling new Wells but that s Only a partial Stopgap solution. The real solution completing the new Aqueduct is still a couple of years and 66 billion lira about $46.5 million Down the  Praise and protests Mark Berlin Wall anniversary Berlin a West German pro testers threw tomatoes and eggs at East German guards posted at the Berlin Wall As both sides marked the Barrier s 27th anniversary saturday. West Berlin politicians and peace groups Laid wreaths during solemn ceremonies at memorials for the 77 East germans reported killed in escape at tempts to the West. West German newspapers condemned the Wall with one of them calling it a  but communist East Germany s state controlled newspapers celebrated the Wall s construction and said it contributed to East West peace. Dozens of West German activists demonstrated in front of the Branden Burg Gate a Stone Gateway directly be Hind the Wall in the Eastern sector. They carried life sized portraits of Mikhail s. Gorbachev and called on the soviet Leader to pressure East Ger Many to tear Down the Wall. About a dozen Young people from West Berlin protested late Friday night at the checkpoint Charlie control Point Between East and West Berlin witnesses said hurling tomatoes and eggs at guards stationed on the Eastern Side. The witnesses who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said the demonstrators left peacefully after British Mili tary police were called in. East German Border guards began constructing the 13-foot Wall on aug. 13, 1961, dividing the City into Eastern and Western halves. Orders to construct the Wall came As the rising flow of East German refugees to the West threatened to cripple the communist nation s Economy