European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lire Faircl Ismur ship Suid Ivr in Iris thousands of Gallons of water on the bbl not North sea Oil drilling Rij. The fire was finally put nut saturday. Firefighters find body of Man on burned Oil Rig Aberdeen Scotland up fire lighten searching the burned Arco Oil Rig saturday apparently found the body of the crewman who Kepi sending distress Calls As of hrs fled from the naming North sea platform. Arco spokeswoman Sarah Taylor said a body had been found shortly before noon on the Ocean Odyssey. The identity of the body was withheld until the family could be notified. One Man out of 67 aboard the Rig was reported missing in the Blaze thursday but there had been Little Hope of finding radio operator Timothy Williams alive the coast guard said. The other 66 were rescued safely. Williams 25, has been credited with continuing to Send distress Calls As his fellow crewmen fled in lifeboats. Troubl Shooler Paul red Adair s team arrived Friday to try to help douse a Blaze at the Rig that was abandoned after the suspected Gas explosion. The remaining flames were doused shortly before noon saturday Arco said. The Rig located 138 Miles cast of Aberdeen is operated by the american Oil company Arco. Adair s famed Texas firc fighting team tackled the fire aboard the Piper Alpha production platform Only 80 Miles North of the Ocean Odyssey which exploded july 6, killing 167 men in the worst offshore disaster. Activist maimed on Railroad tracks gets of for lawsuit san Francisco a activist s. Brian Willson and four other protesters May sue three Railroad crewmen and civilian officials for allegedly running a Navy train into a group of demonstrators and maiming Willson Al court ruled. In a decision made Public Friday chief . District judge Robert Peckham refused to dismiss most of a lawsuit by Willson whose legs were Cut off when he refused to gel off the tracks As the munitions train headed toward him. Peckham said Willson and four other protesters could sue the three civilian train crewmen the Railroad Foreman and station Security manager for allegedly sending the train into the demonstrators sept. 1, 987, at the Concord naval weapons station Feck am dismissed the suit against two Navy offi cers capt Lonnie Cagle commander of the weapons station and cmdr Clayton . Ching the station s Public works officer but said it May be reinstated. He gave lawyers for Willson and the other protesters 30 Days to make More specific allegations against Cagle and Ching. Thomas steel one of the plaintiffs lawyers said the required changes should not be difficult. The other demonstrators who joined Willson to pro test weapons shipments to Central America claimed physical or emotional injuries. Their suit said both the Navy and individual train supervisors were Given ample warning of the Demon Siratirs plans to stay on the tracks. The demonstrators also said the Crew could Sec them far Down the tracks and had time to Slop but instead proceeded at 16 Mph in a zone where the Speed limit was 5 Mph. Peckham rejected the defendants arguments that they were legally immune from being sued because they did not deliberately violate clearly established rights. The judge said the right to be free from excessive Force is clearly established and it can be violated without proof of intent. Britain Manga is ounce of fight in Long switch to metric system London a the British will yield an Inch but not a mile and they Don t even think about swapping the venerable pint of Beer fora half liter. As a deadline draws near for Britain to adopt the metric measurement system of the european eco nomic Community the Island nation is preparing to defend some vestiges of its Imperial system. This country which has lagged in adopting the metric system will probably he weighing in Grams and measuring in centimetres by around the time Europe becomes a single Market in 1992. But it plans to ask to retain several key exceptions like the pint and the mile indefinitely officials said. Obviously there Are certain areas where Well be seeking permanent derogation said Audrey Nel son of the department of Trade and Industry. Tradition is the strongest reason but obviously Cost is a Factor As  she added we re not dragging our feet. It s just that there Ait certain areas we feel particularly strongly  said Roger Phil pot of the department s weights and measures division to some people it might seem rather Odd to perpetrate two measurement system. ,., but he pint of Beer or milk Are not things where Trade aspects arc  Britain committed itself to metric the system devised by the Paris Academy of sciences in 1791, under former prime minister Harold Wilson in 1965, but even he warned thai the British Don t like four syllable words like  still pressure to conform from the dec and British industrialists worried about losing out in creased when Britain joined the dec in 1973 be cause the system is crucial to the Community s plans to create one european Market in 1992. During a visit to dec nations last week. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher criticized the Community s vision of a United Stales of Europe and irate opposition politicians and commentators called her xenophobic. In 1979, the Community asked members to have completed its transition to metric within 10 years but Britain along with Ireland won exceptions to carry on with certain Imperial measurements like the pint and he mile a spokesman for Ireland s Commerce department refused to comment on which exceptions the coun try would like retained but he said almost All Road signs now arc Given in both measurements. At the end of next year the exceptions will end and unless formal amendments Are made subject to the approval of All dec nations Britain must go completely metric. Britain must set a timetable by next year for phasing out most Imperial measurements. Currently a majority of pre packaged goods Are packaged in Melnyc quantities but some still arc sold in pounds and ounces As Are most Loose goods such a vegetables or Candy Phillpot said. The ministry of transport estimated the Cost of changing Speed limit signs at 14.5 million pounds $24 million but said the Cost of changing other signs was not  Brewers Are not preparing any feasibility studies on half liter glassware or bottles. They re certain which Way the ruler will swing. We have absolutely no expectancy that there will be any change to the traditional British Beer served in a pub said a spokesman who refused to be identified. The government has made that absolutely