European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday december 29,198b news updates Seal epidemic Piete Buren Netherlands a up lord percent of the seals roaming the North sea have been wiped out by he viral epidemic thai has swept danish West German and dutch coastal Waters since last april Europe s biggest Hospital for seals said wednesday. From 7.500 to 8,000 seals have died in the epidemic which has been linked to the virus that also causes distemper in dogs Accord ing to Lunic i Hart of the Seal clinic in this Northern dutch Vil Lage seals arc still dying of the viral infection which undermines the animals immune system and exposes them to pneumonia or liver infection t Hart said. Brennan at work Washington a supreme court Justice William j. Brennan Liq underwent surgery to remove his Gall bladder two weeks ago returned to work tues Day Brennan 82, was hospitalized dec 8, he suffered from chills an fever. His condition initially was diagnosed As pneumonia but Doe tors later determined he had anon malignant Gall bladder Dis ease he looks great a court employee who declined to be identified said of the Justice. He s Backon the Jab and feeling  judge orders immigrant sent to Georgia to face spy counts Tampa Fla. A a judge ordered a 60-year-old turkish immigrant to be transferred to Georgia to face charges thai he helped it . Soldier sell secrets to East bloc countries. Huseyin Yildirim of Belleair was or dered detained and sent to Savannah ga., after a 90-Minule hearing tuesday . Magistrate Paul game or. Sel no Date for his Transfer by . Marshals. Yildirim who is a . Citizen is accused of plotting with warrant officer James William Hall i a . Army intelligence analyst to sell sensitive . Defense information to East Germany and the soviet Union. Defense attorney Arthur addess dented the allegations saying Hall was lying about Yildirim to save himself. Eagle scouts Mons Belgium a Sophomore at shape american High school was awarded the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting in a Cere Mony monday. Richard Chapman 16, has been in scouting 3 years and has earned 21 Merit badges. For his Eagle scout award he organized a food and clothing drive inthe shape military Community. Chap Man and other scouts from troop 200 collected More than a ton of food and clothing 16 distribute to the needy living in the mansard. Chapman who has been elected into the order of the Arrow the highest recognition for boy scout campers serves As Junior assistant scoutmaster for his troop. Lie is the son of retired it. Col. Rich Ard and Marian ni1 Chipman. Stuttgart West Germany a Junior at Patch High school advanced to the rank of Eagle Seoul the highest rank in boy scouting in a recent ceremony. Carl Michael Eissmann 16, has been in scouting for five years. For his Eagle scout award he organized a food and toy drive in the Stuttgart military Community. In coordination with the army Community service Eisemann and other volunteers from troop 154 collected and distributed 35 food baskets to the less fortunate during the 1987 holi Day season. With help from the youth Center at Kelley Barracks Eissmann also con ducted a Christmas toy drive for the Benefit of a local German Halfway House for abused children. Eissmann also a member of the order of the Arrow semes As instructor for his troop Fie is the son of chief warrant officer a Carl and Cabriele Eisemann. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes at least 21 Merit badges and an average 100 hours on a Community project. ,. Hall had top secret clearance at fort Stewart ga., at the time of his arrest last week. He appeared tuesday at fort Meade md., before an army magistrate it. Col. William Ramsey who found the army had probable cause to detain Hall Tor a maximum of 30 Days during which Lime charges May be filed. In Tempa assistant . Attorney Mark Jackowski described Yildirim As a courier and paymaster who copied and passed classified defense documents to the East germans collected the pay ments and returned the Cash to Hall a Federal agent testified that Yildirim and Hall met at a us. Base in West Ber Lin where Yildirim was an Auto Mechanic and Hall was involved in electronic eavesdropping. The arrests followed a meeting at a Savannah hotel last week Between Hall and an Fri agent posing As a soviet intelligence officer Fri agent Jeffrey us Chell testified tuesday. Hall told the unidentified agent that he had been passing highly sensitive Sig Nal intelligence documents to soviet and. East German intelligence service since late 1982, according to an Fri arrest affidavit. J 7.a Hall boasted of the important signal intelligence information he had passed and admitted Bis motivation to be greed the affidavit said. Army officials began investigating Las summer after being tipped that Hau was living above his armed services salary of$20,200. Mines still a threat to shipping lanes in persian Gulf . Officer warns aboard the fearless a mines Laid by Iran and Iraq arc believed to be still adrift in the persian Gulf where shipping is increasing following the cease fire a . Navy officer said tuesday. I. Cmdr. John k. Ross skipper of the mine sweeper fearless said the Shatt Al Arab waterway that forms the Southern Boundary Between the two countries is particularly risky. About Iso mines have been discovered in the Gulf since , and other for eign navies intervened to protect ship Ping from iranian attack in july 1987, Ross said. I Hope they re All gone but i believe More mines Ane still Here in the Gulf he  noted that Western Navy patrols have not ventured into Northern Waters where iranian and iraqi forces were Active until the aug. 20 cease fire ended the right Yea War. -. We be searched up to Kuwait but no farther. Someone has to Check the Shatt Al Arab said Ross. As shipping in the Gulf increases , officers have voiced fears that rough Winter seas could tear moored mines from their anchors to final South into shipping  ship has hit a mine since the cease fire. Ross declined to estimate How Man mines remain but . Sources put the number a High As 200, mainly in the North pm sector. Iran claim it has cleared mines in North Ern Waters and other sectors since the cease fire. A .-,.rod said 166 mines 82 moored to the Tea bed my 84 floating were discovered Between july 1987 and the Oeast fire ii is believed Iran planted most of the reportedly freed girls still Haven t turned up Beirut Lebanon a there was no Trace wednesday of two French girls reportedly freed Christmas eve by Abu Nidal s palestini an terrorist group after 13 months in Captivity triggering speculation they still have not been released. Walid Khalid spokesman for Abu Nidal s Fatah revolutionary Council said monday that Maric Laura Belille 7 and her sister Virginia 6, had been freed and were on their Way to Paris by plane. But they never arrived in the French capital. Amid contradictory statements by the Fatah revolutionary coun cil one of the group s officials said wednesday in West Beirut com Rade Walid Khalid revealed the latest information on the two French girls yesterday. There is nothing new on them. Comrade Walid Khaled is not in town and cannot be  Khalid said saturday thai the girls would be released within 24 hours in response to a Call by libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qaddafi the group s main financial Backer. On sunday he said the girls were to be released outside Lebanon but refused to say  tuesday Khalid announced that terrorist Mastermind Abu Nidal had met the girls at one of the faction s bases in Lebanon said goodbye to them and approved arrangements to Send them Home. He refused to say when the meeting look place. The girls were seized by Abu Nidal s gunmen aboard the yacht Silko off the israeli occupied Gaza strip in november 1987 along with their Mother Jacqueline Valente and five belgians a palestinian source said Khaled was intentionally making conflicting statements about the girls to divert attention from the real location where they will be set  the source said without elaborating that the girls might be released in an Arab capital to North Africa. Lucien Bitterlin head of a pro Arab French lobbying group visited Libya several times in january and february in an Effort to work out a release of the girls i Khaled said when the europeans were seized that they were spying for Israel. Bui israeli news reports said the yacht was hijacked while sailing off the libyan  gave birth to a girl in Captivity and reportedly is expecting another child next month. She had been living with Fernand Houtch Kins one of the five belgians seized on the Silko. The girls father Pascal Belille is separated from their Mother. Theother four captives Are Hou Lekuas elder brother. Emmanuel his wife Godelive and their two children Laurent 17, and Valerie 16. Memorial rites planned for victims of pan am trash by the Tutu id stripes memorial services will be held at Hahn a and Ramstein a for victims of the crash of pan american flight 103 in Scotland. A service will be held at 3 30 . Today in Hahn s Chapel 2 for senior airman Lawanda Thomas 21, and her month-old son Jona than. -1 1 Thomas native of Detroit was a documents control clerk assigned to the 38th tac Missil Maint so at  air station. She is survived by her parents Eugene Andl Clia Coleman of Southfield Mich.  memorial service for sol. Edgar Eggl Caslon Iii 24, of the 1856th comm group will be held at 3 30 . Jan. 5 in Ramsten s Chapel i. Eggleston of Glens Falls n.y., is survived by his parents Edgar or. And Nieta Eggleston also of Ciena Falls. Club worker found dead in her Rhein main Home rhe1n-main a West Germany is a 33-year-old woman was discovered dead in her on baser government quarters wednesday morning of undetermined causes. Cathy l. Richardson was found dead in bed at 9i23a.m. By her children in their Gateway gardens apart ment a Public affairs spokesman said. Richardson had worked at Rhein main s Galaxy club since August 1987. She is survived by Ber husband. Dale Richardson who works for the government service Agency on base and Childre Brian Bird and Rebecca Bird no memorial service has been set for the native of twin Falls Idaho