European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 1, 19b8 the stars and stripes Paga 7 court to hear drug testing arguments expected to set conditions for urinalysis by Rita Ciolli new Day Washington the . Supreme court takes ils first step Inlo the increasingly contentious area of employee drug testing wednesday when ii hears two cases challenging president Reagan s sweeping testing program for Federal workers. In his 1986 executive order creating the program. Reagan said that testing government employees would show the Way toward achieving drug free work  Bui government employees say thai such testing violates the fourth amendment s ban on unreasonable search and seizure and other opponents contend in would Lead to even greater erosion of a person s right to privacy far beyond the work place. In deriding the constitutional ques Tion the court s Overall analysis of Lam privacy Issue is also expected to set the boundaries for he methodology of urine testing for drugs and when such tests for. Illegal drugs can occur. Lower Federal courts and stale courts arc divided on whether such tests Are justified prompting Many businesses to wait for a signal from the nation s High est court before initiating a drug testing program of i hair own. They Are saying wow there is a terrific drug problem in society and this justifies an invasion of privacy without any suspicion thai the Norson is using drugs " said Lois Williams who will argue inc Case for the 9,000-Mcmbcr National Treasury employees Union. The Union is fighting a customs serv ice policy requiring testing of employees seeking a promotion or Transfer to a Job involving the interdiction of narcotics the carrying of a weapon or inc handling of classified material. Administration lawyers said the tests Are needed to Foster the Efti Cincy integrity and Public accountability of Cus Toms employees despite any significant problem of drug use. Any sacrifice of personal privacy administration lawyers said is outweighed by the intent to Send a message thai drug use won t be tolerated. The supreme court previously has declined to review drug testing cases indirectly making its policy of allowing lower court rulings to stand. Last year he justices let stand Deci Sions backing the military s  drug testing and in 1986 they similarly re fused to hear an Appeal of rulings up holding a new Jersey program of drug and alcohol less for jockeys. Conflicting rulings at the circuit court of appeals level pushed the supreme court to take the Case. A study by the american management association shows that drug testing is being done by 32 percent of its 8,000 member companies thai employ at least 100 people. For major companies the number testing moves closer o 60 per cent according to Don Bohl research director for the group. We do see a significant jump in the number of companies doing some drug testing Bohl said. He said most of the testing involved applicants or employees suspected of illegal Ilaug use. This Issue brings drug abuse Preven Tion into everybody s lives in a very per Sonal Way until Fiat event of staring at inc cup in has always been someone else s problem said or. Robert Dupont former director of the National Institute on drug abuse and now vice president of a company that advises businesses on drug testing programs. But the american civil liberties Union tiled briefs saying testing should t be permitted unless there is a specific reason to suspect an employee. Otherwise if you accept it in this area there will be greater and increasing intrusion into the private lives of employee said alien Adler Jugis Lalif counsel to the Acle. That is what makes this such a Crit ical Issue. Ii is really about what an employer has the right to inquire about Adfer said. The second Case the justices will hear wednesday involves the railway administration s requirement that workers be tested after accidents involving loss of life or significant property damage. Keg explodes killing Man at birthday party Danbury. No. Jap an empty Beer Keg thrown onto .1 campfire exploded killing a Man at his birthday party Early sunday. In was the second such death reported in october. Chris John wide Beth. Who was 2i on Friday was at a party with Mere than a d07.cn friends from his Home town Northborough fa5s., when the aluminium Keg exploded at 12 45 . A piece of the Keg struck him in the head killing him at the scene. Danbury police chief Stephcn Corsetti said. Nobody else was injured. Corsilli said the friends had gathered for the week end at a collage owned by Phillip Giroux 26, of Northborough. Mis birthday also Wason Friday the weekend was planned As a birthday Cele bration for the two individuals he said. Corsilli would not say who put the Keg into inc fire. It was t Widebeck Hough he was standing near the fire and knew the Keg was in there Corsetti said. Some of the people at the party fled after the Acci Dent but when police arrived ii remained three or four  were under 21 years of age Corsetti said. He said Giroux was charged with illegally providing them alcohol. Patrick Viola 2it of no Kiyuna n.v., was killed in Albany n.y., on oct. 24 when a Beer Keg placed on a Bonfire exploded and a piece of Metal severed his spi Nal Cord in that Case officials said the fire caused a quart of Beer that remained in the Keg to boil and Alcarn and pressure Buill up until the Keg exploded. No serious injuries the private Jet in which actress Sally Field and her husband son and Mother were Riding rests with ils Nash burled in the Side of another Jet Al the Aspen colo., Airport. No one was seriously injured when the Jet owned by men Griffin last Power on Takeoff and skidded Cartiss an infield und struck two other jets. Oil refinery blast kills 2, injures 2 Crifie Scilly Whiting. Ind. A a fire at an Oil refinery earned a Lank As big As a House to explode sunday killing to workers and critically injuring two others when liquid Asphalt burned through their clothing authorities said. 11 was not immediately Clear what caused the Fiah and explosion shortly before 2 . At the Amoco Oil co. Refinery s no. 3 oxi 3i?.cr unit  Industrial Asphalt said Elf Sesi is an Amoco spokeswoman the refinery s  controlled the fire within a half hour she said. The fire has been contained in one Small area of the refinery and no outside  necessary v. Michael Ziino Clit a 44,-a 17-year employee of the refinery was killed As was George Kusbel 37, of Whiting. Kusby who had suffered third dog rec hums Over so per cent of his body died Al the University of Chicago Hospital after being transferred from St. Catherine a officials said. Two of the injured workers were Cov Rcd with tar from their Heads Down to inc tips of their docs. We had to Cut All their clothes off with a Casl saw said or. Michael Pepper an emergency room physician at is. Catherine s Hospital in East Chicago. He said the three were airlifted to the bum . The victims were Alel when they arrived at the East Chicago Hospital despite having tar up to a half Inch thick covering their bodies. Pepper said. When the tar was peeled away. In look Oltie skin underneath had Ted. The men had two or three layers of Al Oihi on because of inc cold weather so. It burned right through their clothes i i Wjk pc said. Late sunday two of the workers were in critical condition one with third degree bums Over 65 percent of his body and one with bums Over 30 to 40 percent of his body officials said. Pepper said a witness old him he was Aboul 100 Yards away from one of inc Vic Tims � Hen a Lank As big As a House exploded. It sounded like a vacuum packed puff said Michael Kowal of Whiting who was driving near the Plant when the explosion occurred. Next thing i know Here was. Black smoke 100 to 200 feet in the air. It just pushed it up like a mushroom  the refinery in this Chicago suburb along the Illinois Indiana slate line was once the largest in the nation and has been the scene of several major fires in the past 10 years. Charles r. Mason another company spokesman said the safety record of the refiner 1 is a Good one and that the last fatality occurred in a 1985 Lank fire. / the Asphall unit up to about the first of october had gone 350-Somc Day s without a disabling injury. It had the Best safety record of any unit in the refinery Mason said. On april 6,16 Peop a were injured in an explosion and Small fire in a processing unit and on oct. 6, two men were Hurt in a fire and explosion in a treating unil where chemicals Are added to Jet fuck a december 1984 fire destroyed two bulk storage tanks and forced the evacuation of about 100 people. In 1979, a series of explosions and the ensuing lire forced the Evacula ii of about a too nearby residents. A 195 5 explosion at the refinery killed two people injured 35 others and destroyed 70 storage tent Sand 200 homed -