European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday november 3.1968 news updates crime fighters Detroit a an army of volunteers like the one thai helped put a Damper on Devil snight anon fires last weekend May be deployed one Day to com Bat  houses and Romh gun i has says mayor Coltman . Any time an aroused Community comes together of Deal with a problem that problem can be  Young said tuesday. What you be seen is a Resolution of the Devil s night  about 20.000 civilians joined police and firefighters lit patrolling the streets keeping Detroit s an Nual halloween weekend fire out break Well below last year s level and near the City s Normal Rale Young said. From saturday through Mon Day 229 fires broke out a drop of 21 percent from last year the. Mayor said. Devil s nigh is the night before halloween. On saturday a below average number of s6 fires broke out and monday s 69 blazes were typical for any night of the year to the City Young said. Officials reported 104 fires sunday. Nuns rebellion Morris township. . A five rebel nuns marked four weeks barricaded in their car Melite monastery s infirmary tuesday watching mass from be Hind sled bars and receiving com Munion through a half opened door. We re at the same Point we  sister Marie one of the nuns said by Telephone. We re just waiting it out. I guess you could Call it a  the five nuns who Locke themselves in the infirmary oct. 4 because they feared they were about to be evicted have said they Wilt not give in to liberalization such As sweets and television at the Moil ambry. To guide takeover new York. Dpi Rupert Murdoch s news corp. Us. Tues Day completed its 13 billion acquisition of Waller Annenberg s Tri Angle publications inc. And installed a new management team to run Triangle s no. I asset to guide. The completion of the Deal first revealed in Early August was announced by Murdoch and Annan Berg who founded the Radnor i  Magazine in 1953, the Murdoch group said that Joseph w. Cocce director of development for Murdoch magazines. Will Heaume president of to guide effective immediately. Army says 1 St radon checks favourable will expand tests by William j. Batman Washington Bureau Washington preliminary radon testing at army installations in the United states uncovered no serious concentrations of the cancer causing Gas but officials Are preparing to expand the program worldwide beginning in january. The tests begun last year included checks at fort Campbell by. Fort Ritchie my. Vint Hill farms station a. And West Point . Official a some military bases not included in the Pentagon funded tests also opted to participate using local funds. At fort Campbell one set of living quarters had a Reading of is Pic curies per liter of air Well above the federally established minimum of four Picoc urics according to army spokes Man maj. Richard Bridges. The environmental Protection Agency recommends remedial action within one to four years for Sites with Reading of eight to 20 Pic curies per liter of air depending on the level found. Out of 239 buildings tested at Carlisle the Home of the army Var College 125 had radon readings above the federally accepted limit. None of the readings however was High enough to warrant immediate action. Radon a naturally occurring odourless colourless radioactive Gas is produced by decaying uranium in the soil. Research has shown that extended exposure to elevated Levels of radon in creases the risk of developing lung cancer. The Epa estimates that radon is responsible for 5,000 to 20,000 lung cancer deathsaycar.1. Last Spring he air Force found dangerous radon Levels at Aviano a Italy and Kaduna a Japan. Some buildings on the to installations showed readings above 20 Picoc urics. Fifteen other overseas bases the majority in Europe had Levels Between four and 20 Picoc urics per liter of air. Bridges said Abr array i award a contract for million of radon Gas testers in mid december. We will go into a full scale test program sometime in january. Everything will Start at the same time worldwide.1 the testing is expected to Cost Between j12 million and j15million. It s not Likely to Cost a great Deal to fix. Rut it s something we have to identify Bridges said. We really Don t know How big Hie problem is he  arc indications that army s not going to have the prob Lem that s been found in new civilian housing  Bridges said radon seems to be worse in newer structures because such buildings Are normally belter sealed and do no tallow the Gas to escape. We re usually dealing with older quarters in the army be said. Bui testers have been learning to expect the unexpected with radon. The big Surprise was that the places you expected to be High were not nigh and those you thought would not show any radon at All showed it Bridges  army testing is scheduled to be completed by 1991 with All remedial action completed by 1997. Structures will be assigned one of three priorities. Priority one wit include residences child care facilities schools Ana. Is sin Linsly occupied. Structures showing High radon Levels Are repaired through procedures such As sealing the radon entry Points and installing sub slab ventilation a system that drains the Gas through pipes under the Structure. Briton gets 2-year probation for role in Selling sub technology to soviets Kongsberg Norway a British citizen was convicted wednesday of helping sell sensitive technology to the soviet Union that the soviet Navy late used to muffle is submarines. A Kongsberg City court however gave Bernard John Green a rare form of sus Pended sentence for his role in arranging the Sale of the equipment in conjunction with Toshiba machines co., a subsidiary of the japanese electronics giant Toshiba  court told Green it would refrain from sentencing him for a trial period of tvo years in effect pulling him on Proba Tion for that time. -.-. Green who has lived in Norway since 1975, was a sales manager for the state owned Kongsberg  Tkv arms factory when it negotiated with to Shiba and the soviets to sell machine tool for culling submarine propellers. He was charged with falsifying information on the application for an Export License to hide the capability of the equipment which was sold to the soviets from 1982 to 1985. The norwegian computer software steered japanese built nine of milling machinery. Western Trade regulations limit such machinery sold to soviet bloc coun tries to two axes with simultaneous control. With the sophisticated machine tools the soviets developed a propeller Blade. That was quiver and harder for Western sub Hunters to select. Norway is a member of the North Atlan tic treaty organization and of the Paris based coordination committee for Mulli. National Export control Cocom which regulates Trade with the soviet bloc. Green in an associated press interview last year acknowledged that he knew the Sale violated Cocom rules but said the company had not understood the military applications of Ali equipment. Green whose signature was on he con tracts argued that it was a collective Deci Sion by Tkv managers to go ahead with the Sale and he pleaded innocent to the charges. Vietnam to deliver at least 21 sets of remains Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam will turn Over to the United states at cast 21 sets of remains that May be those of americans missing from the Vietnam War a . Diplomat said wednesday. The remains include the two sets that  teams recovered during last month s unprecedented joint Field investigations in Northern Vietnam said Tran Viet Tan Counselor of the Viet namese embassy in Bangkok. He said 13 sets would be returned on thursday but a . Embassy official who requested anonymity put the num Ber at 21, sources said Vietnam has Given the United Stales a list of at least nine names associated with the remains. A . Military team is to receive theremins in a ceremony at Noi Bai air port in Hanoi Vietnam s capital. They will be loaded onto a military piano for the flight to Honolulu where an army Laboratory will try to confirm the prelim Inary analyses done by the vietnamese. Thursday s return would be among the largest since the january 1973 Paris peace accords ended  military involvement in the War. The communist Defeated the .-Backcd South Viet namese government in april 1975. Six teens Hurt in Brawl at Frankfurt High school by Dave Walcza education writer military police continued their investigation wednesday into a tuesday morning Brawl outside Frankfurt High school that briefly hospitalized six teen agers v the in jul who suffered cuts and bruises were taken to Frankfurt army regional medical Center tuesday morn ing and released. A seventh teen Ager was also involved in the tight but was not injured police said. -.-. School principal Dan Basarich said wednesday that he would await a police report before taking any action regarding the incident which involved teen agers from the Darmstadt and Frankfurt communities. Frankfurt Community officials said at least one of those involved in Ute fight was 19 years old. A Frankfurt Community spokeswoman said investigators would conclude their probe As soon As  fight broke out about 8 . Just As a bus bringing Darmstadt students arrived at the school which serves about 1,000 students in grades 10 through 12. A Darmstadt Community spokesman said wednesday that the appropriate people Here have been notified and Are looking into it however she refer Redall queries to the Frankfurt Community officials. Basarich who was in his office when the fight started said the injured were taken to the school nurse s office before being transported to the Frankfurt Hospi Tal. School administrators will meet with student next week to discuss regulation concerning fighting he said additionally Basarich met with Frankfurt s Deputy Community commander col. Thom Sherre. Wednesday morning to discuss the incident. Frankfurt District superintendent Frank Hill said he had no immediate plans to meet with military officials concerning the incident unless gang activity was suspected. The military is the Best organization to handle something like that because they can control it be said. 1 the Frankfurt Community spokeswoman said invest ligation have uncovered no link Between the fight and teen Gan activity. F