European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes wednesday december a 198b Bulgaria stops jamming radio free Europe Munich West Germany a Bulgaria has stopped jamming radio free Europe after More than three decades. A move thai Means , station now can be heard in every country of the soviet bloc the station said tues Day. Earlier this month. Czechoslovakia also stopped jamming radio few Europe leaving Bulgaria As the last holdout the jamming slopped on Friday two Days before Christmas radio free Europe spokes Man Bab Redlich said. It s holding and we Hope it stays that Way he said. This was the last of those jamming red Lich said. The soviet Union lifted 35 years of jamming radio free Europe s sister station radio Liberty on nov. 29. -. Radio Liberty broadcasts to the soviet Union while radio free Europe is beamed at the other soviet bloc countries. Bush s son says quake Aid exemplifies political View Washington a Jeb Bush said tues Day that the trip he and Hii son took to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Armenia exemplified the thousand Points of Light his father president elect George Bush talked about during the presidential Campaign. You remember during the Campaign my dad did talk in political terms about the thousand Points Oft Ghl said the president elect s son Onnic to s today show. And this is an exam Leofil. It s one example of hundreds of i hints that arc occurring in this country and outside this country. Job Bush and his son George 12, Lew on Christmas eve to soviet Armenia in an Airlift to deliver toys and medical supplies to victims of the earthquake that struck there dec. 7. The trip was sponsored by americans a Connecticut based Reid of organization. West Germany planning 4qth-anniversary exhibits Bonn West Germany a West Ger Many plans elaborate ceremonies marking the Federal Republic s 40th anniversary next year. Horse Walte Schmidt parliamentary undersecretary in the Interior ministry said he govern ment will stage exhibits and other projects Mark ing the founding of West Germany that will Cost an estimated $ 13.7 million. Chancellor Helmut Keiit will kick off lire Cere monies by opening an exhibition at Bonn s Aca Demic Center on feb. 16, Wafic Schmidl said starting in april the exhibition will be Dis played successively in West Berlin maim Ham Burg Stuttgart Munich Wiesbaden and Kiel. Prom february through september 180 Sepa rate ceremonies Are planned  with the main ceremony a Tor May 24 when president Richard Yon Wiz sucker will Spca Kin Bonn. West Germany s Basic Law establishing the new Republic was proclaimed on May 23, 1949, and went into effect one Day later. The country s first democratic parliamentary election was held on aug. 14, 1949, and Konrad Adenauer became West Germany s first Chan cellar on sept. 15,1949,. Army commissary system to standardize food items by Deedee Arrington Doke suit writer we Brucken West Germany starting i january the army commissary system will begin standardizing products offered a t its european food stores. Store managers previously had been allows to order any of lec 4,600 items available on the list of Semi perishables the army buys from the unite states. Thai led some commissary customers questioning Why the product they bought at one store was not available at anti her commissary of equal size. It also forced vendors that sell to the system to peddle their wares at each store. Under the change the number of items and Brand carried by individual commissaries will depend on monthly sales volumes representatives from the fix european commissary districts will oversee the Addi Tion and deletion of items to commissary stocks according to Denise Gomes a spokeswoman for the army system. The army will need about six months to Complete the change she said. Small stores such As the outlet in Helm Studt West Germany which average $100,000 per month or less will Stock a prescribed list of items representing about 29 percent of the total available products. The nine largest commissaries which average More than is Mil lion in monthly sales will carry the Complete list of products. The store in Heidelberg West Germany for example will Stock All items Gomes said other stores will carry Between 40 percent and 8s percent of the listed Semi perishable products which require no refrigeration and have an extended shelf life. In addition to food they include health and Beauty aids household products and other non food items. All stores will be required to carry certain items. Individual commissary officers still will determine blockage of cigarettes cocktail mixes certain Kosher and hispanic products and generic items As wet As products acquired in Europe including fresh fruits and vegetables Dairy products meat and poultry. Gomes said the commissary officers May request exceptions when demand for a particular product is High or Tow in i hair communities. Deadly Winter storm hits Central . By the associated press Snow sleet and freezing rain stretching from the Rockies and upper Plains to Ohio stymied Holiday travellers in choked airports and on snarled icy High ways causing a least 10 traffic deaths. _ at Chicago s o Harc International Airport the nation s busiest Only two runways were open monday United airlines o Harc s heaviest user cancelled most outbound flights after 5 . And an additional 165 flights tuesday morning.  nearly 50,000 passengers were stranded at o Harc the Day alter Christmas. Milwaukee s Mitchell International Airport was closed for two hours monday so Crews could Clear Snow off runways. About 25 lights were delayed air port spokeswoman Patricia Rowe said. Warmer air moved into some areas tuesday but cold air dominated the Northern and Central Rocky mountains area. Ely nev., registered 20 degrees below Zero and had a wind chill Reading of s3 below Zero tuesday morning. The Early Winter storm monday dropped up to afoot of Snow closing interstate in five states. "1 was stuck last year on Christmas eve at the air port so i thought this year i d Lake the bus wrong said Jan Gafic Lson of Cincinnati who spent several hours at Chicago s greyhound bus terminal while re turning from a Christmas trip to  Utah the heavy Snow caused a department store roof to collapse South of Salt Lake City. No injuries were reported. Managers of the Fred Meyer store had denied entry to customers when they arrived monday morning and found the roof sagging and creaking from 6-fool-High snowdrifts. It collapsed soon afterwards. Luckily they did t open the store or we Wouldhave had a major catastrophe said Salt Lake county fire department capt. Max  Indiana the weather caused a tractor trailer  on interstate 69, Iri Egbring a 42-car pileup that led one person dead and 2j injured. An unrelated35-ear pileup on the Highway injured eight people. A total of five people died in Indiana traffic Acci dents blamed on the storm. Illinois and Minnesota each reported one storm related traffic death on Mon Day while i  people died on roads in Wisconsin. Farmers welcomed the storm in North Dakota which like much of the Region had suffered a severe drought. Up to 11 inches fed on parts of the  s Good news said wheat Farmer Peter Sil Benui go of , . It greatly improves the Outlook for Spring  from Page 1 addition to routine maintenance. Mardis said she did not know whether that was unusual for similar aircraft. Alan Pollock a spokesman for the safely Board in Washington d.c., said two Nosb investigators would travel to the Airport for the inquiry. Passengers were forced to breathe through emergency oxygen masks when the Cabin lost pressure about an Hoar out of Rochester . Officials said. The. Jet landed at a Cager Airport at 9 16 . My daughter was t Silling with me she was sitting in front of me said passenger Elaine Davic when the oxygen tank came Down they did t work for the children and that s what was so  the decompression occurred while the plane was cruising at 31,000 feet and the Pilot took the jetliner Down to 10,000 feet Eastern spokeswoman Karen Ceremsak said in Miami where Theair inc is based. The pressure stabilized at that Point and the Pilot went ahead and landed at Charleston she said. In the interim the oxygen masks were deployed forthe pass sengers. Ceremsak described Ine Hole As a 14-Inch Square rupture in the outer skin of the plane which was. Built in the late 1960s. The tear was in the top Section of in fuselage near the Tail. From the Interior of the plane you would nol have seen the tear cd Romsak  least one passenger disputed her. David Moore said i looked up and the roof pane bad been sucked up against the fuselage and the Sun was shining through that Side of the fuselage and it was giving you an outline of the Hole inside the  . Barnette chief of police at the Airport said the Eastern plane was carrying 104 Holiday travellers and a  of sin.-.  " looters from Page 1 ments research and development establishment in Kent South of London has yet emerged that could shed Light on the theory the aircraft was destroyed by a bomb. Department of transport spokeswoman Penny Russell Smith would not give details of where or How lie suitcase had been found or describe the baggage. A. Dozens of Rescue workers and relatives of victims attended a requiem mass offered for All the victims of the disaster monday night by Bishop Maurice Taylor and 16 other priests at holy Trinity Catholic Church. Where once there were Homes there is now an aching void Taylor said. There is an empty space in Lockerbie s Sher Wood Crescent neighbourhood and in the lives those who  Britain s chief investigator at Lockerbie Mick Charles said because the wreckage was widely scattered some of it As far away As the North sea coast to Miles from Lockerbie the investigation of possible structural failure would be a slow process. No evidence of a structural failure has so far been found charges said monday. However the jews Sibily of such a failure is still being actively investigated.",. Searchers have been unable to find the left Wing of the air plane leading to speculation it May have ripped from the fuselage and caused the crash we Are looking in Lochs bogs and reservoirs As Well As in wooded areas said Dumfries and Galloway Deputy chief Constable Paul Newell he added that it was possible toe Wing bad been destroyed in the Accident and might not be found. William Trench. Britain s former chief inspector of air accidents told the times of London monday that the missing win might indicate structural failure caused the. Crash. -. .-.-. "1 am still nol dissuaded from the View that structural failure dissociated from a bomb is the Basic cause of the  Trench told the newspaper Newell said that with the discovery of one More body in the wreckage monday the remains of 240victims have been recovered. Pan am said monday 259 people were aboard the plane including an infant who bad not been included in previous counts ten Lockerbie residents Wens missing an feared dead in addition to one confirmed death on he ground