European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 10,1988 hostage taker s pleas Huntsville Ala. Jap clutching a Bible and wiping his eyes a distraught James l. Harvey was sentenced Friday to life in prison plus 20 years for taking hos Tage 110 children and adults at a Church school in Tuscaloosa. Harvey Al the encouragement of ills Sisters pleaded guilty to six counts of kidnapping in the feb. 2 takeover of West end Christian school. Circuit judge John m. Karrh who moved the trial to Huntsville because of publicity in Tuscaloosa also recommended that Harvey 43, gel psychiatric help. Harvey whose guilty plea Cut Short his trial after three Days had maintained during the 11-hour siege that he was exercising his right to Bear Arras and was making a statement for the nation s Home less poor and illiterate. Rowan congratulated Washington a presi Dent Reagan telephoned syndicated columnist Carl t. Rowan on Friday to offer congratulations on the District of Columbia s decision to drop its weapons Possession Case against him. The president said it was an outrage that they prosecuted me Rowan said. Reagan made the Call because he considers Rowan a Friend and was concerned about him a White House official said. Drug lab destroyed la Paz Bolivia a the biggest cocaine Laboratory Ever discovered in Bolivia was destroyed by bolivian police and the . Drug enforcement Agency Interior minister Juan Carlos Duran said Friday the lab 40 Miles to the West of inc City of Trinidad produced 3vi metric tons of pure cocaine week. It was hidden by Jungles when . Agents and bolivian anti drug police known As Leop Ards discovered in wednesday. Couple sues Plo new York a a couple caught in the 1985 Hijacker to of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro sued the Palestine liberation organization on Friday for More than s11 million. The lawsuit filed at . District court in Manhattan accuse the Plo of false imprisonment As Sault and Battery and intentionally inflicting emotional distress on Frank r. Hodes and his wife Mildred both of Springfield no. The Achille Laura a 24,000-ton italian liner was seized oct. 7, 1985, off Egypt by terrorists identifying themselves As members of a Plo splinter group the Palestine liberation  wheelchair bound american Leon Klinghoffer 69, of new York was killed by the terrorists before they icel the vessel oct. 9. E. German escapes bad Bramstedt West Ger Many a a 24-year-old East German climbed his communist Homeland s Border barriers Friday and swam a River to flee to the West Border police said. The Man whose identity was not released eluded East German Border patrols Al the Frontier about 50 Miles East of Hamburg scaled the barriers and swam the Wake Nilz River said the West German Border police. Pravda criticizes local plan to raze town of chernobyl Moscow a the radiation contaminated town of chernobyl near the site of the world s worst nuclear Acci Dent is being razed because official say it won t be fit for human habitation for decades pravda said saturday officials even plan to erase the chernobyl administrative Region by eliminating communist parly and govern ment bodies in the area and transferring seven villages to a neighbouring Region the newspaper reported that will be the end to the chernobyl problem pravda noted in an article that objected to the plans. Pravda complained that local authorities arc taking dras tic action without trying hard enough to clean up the 800 year old town. It questioned Why the decision was made without prior announcement and without consulting the people who wanted to go Back to the area to live. Pravda said the town s Fate was decided by the local atomic Energy ministry Combine and the newspaper suggested that the Academy of sciences or higher government organs should have been involved in the decision. Chernobyl once Home to 10,000 people was evacuated in april 1986 after a fire at the Power Plant with the same name spewed radiation worldwide. Officials said 31 people were killed. The radiation situation in chernobyl is such that a Normal life for people cannot resume for decades v. Komarov chief Engineer of the nuclear Power Agency now running the Power Plant was quoted As saying. Local authorities in the town which is 11 Miles from the Plant burned one House and then bulldozed two streets of Homes in the Central District the communist party news paper said. Some of the buildings were just 3 years old. Al first authorities planned to tear Down Only Dilapi dated houses Komarov wrote in a Power Plant newspaper quoted by pravda. But by the Lime Normal life can return All the houses will be equally dilapidated and living in them will be impossible he was quoted As saying. There will be scarcely anything to preserve at All pravda noted that the town of Den is about the same distance from the Power Plant As chernobyl and has been decontaminated and repopulated. In the revitalized byelorussian town new water lines were set Down streets re paved roofs were replaced and All 245 families returned six months after the Accident pravda said. There is not a single such example in the ukrainian part of the danger zone even though the wind brought More radioactivity to byelorussian than to the Ukraine after the Accident the newspaper said. Pravda also reported that 994 people mostly Middle aged and elderly have defied bans and moved Back into the ukrainian Section of the danger zone an 18-mile Radi us from the Accident site. Reports last Spring said 100 people had returned to chernobyl but pravda said they were Given no consideration in the decision to raze the town. Gamma background radiation Levels in chernobyl were  Milli Roentgen per hour As of june equal 10 the natural radioactivity in mountainous areas and twice Hal of the ukrainian capital of Kiev to inc South the newspaper said. Kiev regional officials said last year that at least 27 towns and villages were Loo contaminated to be populated in the foreseeable future. A net town for workers Al inc Power Plant was built 35 Miles from chernobyl. 4 killed in fire explosion at Illinois ammunition Plant Ottawa Iii. A flying bullets forced  to Lake cover when a ammunition manufacturing Complex caught fire Ano Cpl Odd Friday killing four people. Investigators front the state fire marshal s office and the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms worked saturday to determine what caused the tire and explosion the Buffalo Rock shooters Supply Sevcu Miles Wcislo Follaway in North Central lit Pis. The company makes ammunition pm Sells weapons to police depart Sci around the country authorities said. I be seen explosions before but Noth ing like this. Ii was just so massive la Salle county Coroner Marion Osborne. Said. It was a big Ball of fire with a couple of explosions. There were a lot of bullets flying said Vince do store fire chief of Naplate a town about four Miles cast of the factory. Do lore said workers Al the company were believed to have been making bul lets when the first explosion hit about11 30 . In the main building which also housed the company s general offices and gun shop. Fire investigator suspect a spark ignited Gunpowder. Ii started in the main building where they make ammunition and sell guns Dottore said. A place like that with All that Black powder just inc dust if you gel a spark in there that s All it s going to Lake. They had Cawi and cases and cases of All kinds of ammunition All kinds of guns.". Bullets were whizzing through inc air when firc fighters arrived Al inc Complex which also included three ammunition and gun Lorage buildings Dottore said. La i not As dangerous As if in was shot out of a gun itself the fire chief said. It a gets a Little scary when you get a big cd onion we started putting in out until we wer told there was Black powder in inc Reind then i evacuated All of the men our he Sligo she 40 firefighters retreated about a half Ile from the Complex for45 minutes ans Hen resumed battling the Blaze. The four victims Cre company owner Roger Fulmer 51 of Ottawa his stepdaughter Palti Smith 32, of Utica Pamela Ellsworth 26, of wed Ron and Korea seamen 31, of Ottawa they were identified through dental records Osborne said. Abc flagship goes o air new York Friday was the last Day m the air for radio station win for 62 years the flagship of the 1bc radio net work that was orc to Jack Benny Bob Hope red Allen and inc Abc Symphy y conducted by Arturo Toscani. Its spot at 660 i the am dial a Clear Channel signal that could be picked up in As Many As 35 slates at night is going to  sports station. In by was  from the station that was to first to broadcast a world series the first to run a com Mercial the fim v Iha coast to coast Hookup and the ret to broadcast a National political invention. The end of an a came As a result of the $6 billion d i in 198s in which general electric co. Bought Ria corp abcs Par it company. A Federal communications commission Reg lation prevents a new owner Fror keeping both a to and radio is lion in the same Market so be decided to sell ils new radio proc to and keep the More profitable in by to. In by said gof Obyc with a 90 minute retrospect Are program Fri Day featuring clips from programs with Benny rope Allen and others. Iasa Pilot ejects survives Jet crash Boron Cali oppt a Nas Pilot ejected safely from his $5  shortly before it crashed into the Mojave desert during a research night. Pilot Stephen Ishmael 39, of Palm Dale calif., was examined by a flight sur Geon after the Accident Friday and was in copter picked him up she said. Tasa spokesman Ralph Jackson said rim Zijm reports of Anyiwo it on the ground Thiret jeofrd6wn about three Miles Milhe of a joke at 11 30 . Ishmael was piloting a my Dumael Good condition said Nancy ,._couglas a is Chase plane which spokeswoman for the National car Pau following Aneth tics and space administration Dryden Light research facile a at Edwards fab.  " he was out waving before the Heli another a is on a research flight when he experienced problems with the air plane s control system Lov Ato said. The Navy uses similar f-1s jets As fighter attack aircraft but Nasa is using. Modified Fa-18s, reproduction Proto types of the f-18, in us High Angle of attack program aimed at designing highly  Loval said. Ishmael is chief Pilot of Nasa s pro Gram to research the x-29, an exp Cri Enlal aircraft that uses Forward swept a Tiv composite structural materials and High for Twoey flight controls for increased Maneule ability. Nasa will Convene an occident Board to investigate the crash Jackson said