European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page a the stars and stripes sunday september 4,198b lifeboats Navy safety test Pittsburgh up spol testing of the Navy s mk-6 inflatable lifeboats mulled in a "100 percent failure rate the Pii Burgh press reported Friday. The unsatisfactory lest a Patilis raised new con Cerns about the ,-6f the rubberized lire boats which Are used on in tidally Ever Navy ship the newspaper so id \ the Navy planned to Nfn tunicate with All Fleet units and the coast guard a advise them or the prob lems with the lifeboats an Taik them to relay information relating to their Safet an Nna Mcd Navy spokes Man in Washington told Pic pres. The possibility that an unknown number of the Navy s 25-Man inflate dec Lifeboat May be defective was raised after agent from the defense criminal investigative service Trie Federal Bureau of investigation and the it Val investigative service raided the offices and factory of rubber craters inc. In Grants Volle w.va., on aug. 8, the newspaper said no arrests we a made and the investigation was continuing the press said. obtained by the press under that Freedom of information1 a revealed problems with the mk-6craft that surf cd late last year such As leakage in life boats that Albrady had been inspected for shipment. \ documents also indicated valves supplied by a sub Contr act and ruptured the press said. Rubber craters received s 17,355,000 in Navy con attracts of produce the lifeboats Between 1984 and 1987. Company officials declined to comment. F actor ends fast from Clor Muhln Sheen right wednesday pm or Sam i Tor de Surj James Olmos after ending � three Day fut Olmos of television s Miami vice begins his fist the next link in the Chain of suffering organized to show support for int farm workers president Cestr Chavez. Cham fasted for 30 Days Span of a prompt to orate Public awareness of the use of pesticide on table grapes. Amputee asks to stay enrolled at of Academy Colorado Springs Colo. A an air Force Academy Cadet who lost part of a leg in an faces dismissal from the Academy because of a Rule Pix. Hibits no amputee in the service officials said. Cadet 2nd class Dan Korslund 20, of Tacoma wash., has asked that he be allowed to continue his studies and graduate with the class of 1991 with a Bachelor of science degree even though he can t receive an a i r Force comm Issi Oti. A medical review Board is studying Thoj Aser red an official recommendation has not Cyl Bacn made to air Force Secretary Edward and Ridge said Academy spokesman will Kelt son. Bui air Force regulations prohibit anyone who has members of american disabled fat. Accessible Public lost a limb including a fool leg or thigh from Mill Many in wheelchair harm Ted fat it leaflets protesting the Lary service and therefore from Academy enrolment hypocrisy a alb Rosr government and the air Force Kilter son taif a cited the 1973 rehabilitation act that prohibits it is very unlikely Cadet Korslund will any discrimination against the disabled by any Agency air Force Academy Ketterson Saia re. Receiving Emy . His possible dismissal Drew criticism from a Handi capped rights group which staged a protest thursday outside the Academy s Chapel. ,4. A Armstrong the air Force to Lei Korslund stay. Korslund is a patient at University Hospital in Den ver and is expected to be transferred to a veterans administration Hospital. Quayle passes physical exam it Tyg colors Washington a Republican vice pc Sidon candidate s medical and family Hii tial nominee Dan Quayle is in excellent health and has fice released Krasner s Only a few minor problems including a slightly Higli-jindimjsan4.thfi Laboratory results. Cholesterol level a report released by the candidate Trayte i level of 22 office said Friday. Evaded and Tan b i Friday in summary you arc a 41-year-Oldnrte Malc i excellent health without any Active or. Roben Krasne Rof the s office of attend ing physician a Rolco the Indiana senator in a letter dated aug. 29j-" Quayle aug. 1 and studied the fice re ase s letter and a summary of his Sulls. I f 228 is marginally cd candidate s medical and family his Lariat a Quayle s of uses a nasal Spray. Re _ the senator also has a slight slim condition on his face caused by exposure to the Sun. He treats the Ikin condition called clinic keratosis. With liquid Nitro Gen. The doctor recommended that Quayle have the condition examined periodically and thai he use Sun screen. Jul had a Small rectal tear in the past but the augusters Mamlon found no evidence of the problem persisting. A Lisler Higg Ted that Quayle have & rectal examination within then Diel and exer Cise the doctor wrote. The stationary bicycle one to three limes weekly and doer Noumone the report said. The doctor reported that Quayle suffers from a minor nos bleeding problem and an unspecified sea Sonal allergy that causes nasal swelling for which he an Era ends in Illinois As Stag brewery closes Belleville 111. A it s last Call for Stag Beer. Terry Gaia i pushed the last Case of Beer off the Stag brewery production line at i . Thursday ending a brewing Era in Illinois. As Hie final Case came through a lot of Mem ories flashed in my mind said Gaia i a machine operator at slag for 11 years. Slag was Illinois last full scale Bre Werand at 130 years old was one of the oldest in the Midwest. The closing Pul about 200 people out of work a Hail can brewing co., which owns slag announced june 27 its was closing the brewery because of its age excess capacity at other Heile Man plants and the need to spend $2.9 million for a sewage Plant for the brewery. sentenced in bombing Salt Lake a Tiv a the Leader of 1 polygamist clan was san lanced to i3 ears in prison Friday for bombing a mormon Chapel an firing Al Federal a cols during a 13-Day standoff thattis did with the slaying of a corrections officer. So Addam Swapp 27, the first of four clan Mcmo Milo be san fenced Friday by . District judge Bruce in Kins could have received 75 years in prison bul in Slead was Given the minimum allowed by Law his Law pc said. A Swapp s Mother in Law clan matriarch v Tki flin re sobbed throughout the hearing As she was sentenced to five years in prison. Jenkins told Swapp he was being sent to prison not for what you say nol for what you believe for what you Swapp Singer s son John Timothy Singer and Swapp s brother Jonatha were convicted in May in the Jan. 16 bombing acid the subsequent standoff with 100 Federal and Wale Law officers. The Stalaj Pofe at the clan s Marion farm ended in a shool Oum Hai killed state corrections Fred House Andrit Javed Addam Swapp. Be Swapp Brothers and the wheelchair bound John Timoth Singer were found guilty of attempted murder of Fri resisting and assaulting Federal agents and two it Jujj counts Addam Swapp alsows4 and guilty of explosives offences and maliciously Danta assistant attorney general Creightoni Horton said murder charges in the death of the corrections officer probably will be tiled tuesday
