European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2b the stars and stripes saturday ,19sb news briefs dynamite blast damages empty Sardinia nightclub Palau Sardinia a dynamite exploded Early Friday at a nightclub popular with . Sailors but the building was empty at the Lime and no one was Hurt police reported. The blast occurred at 6 30 . At the night club big in the town of Palau near the . Military base at la  said however that the explosion did not appear aimed at the americans. In apparently was a protest of the no siness of the club said a police officer who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity. The dynamite placed at the Entrance to the club shattered windows and bottles of liquor and damaged inc  had planned a non binding referendum for april on whether residents of the Island were in favor of foreign military bases not approved by parliament which service nuclear Power d vessels or those carrying nuclear arms. The Only base fitting the description was theone at la Maddalena. However Italy s constitutional court suspended the april Vole. 4 die 10 Hurt in pileup on freeway in Illinois Highland Park 111. A a truck cab slowed into a line of cars at the end of an express Way causing a fiery Chain reaction crash that killed four people and injured 10, police said. Apparently. The truck Driver had Bee driving Loo Many hours and fell asleep said master set. Jerry Brusnahan of the Illinois slate police. The truck driven by Richard Hall 37, of Warrenville s.c., was travelling in the North bound Lane where Edens expressway turns into . 41 in this Northern Chicago suburb when inc crash occurred about 9 . Thursday bras Natian said. The Stop Light at the end of the expressway had just turned Green so the seven cars involved in the Accident May have been moving few Miles per hour. The four people killed two men and two women were in the first car hit by the truck a Rennahan said. The identities of the victims have not been released. 23 seamen from Poland request Asylum in Boston Boston up Twenty the acc polish fish Ermen docked in Boston Harbor this week left their trawlers walked into the polish american citizens club in the City s Dorchester Section and announced they wanted to slay. The men some with Shore passes left the ships Kuwataka and Laskara on tuesday and wednes Day said Jack Kowalski head of mayor Raymond Flynn s polish american affairs office ii was not the first Lime visiting polish fishermen decided to stay in Boston. Lost january 13 polish sailors defected ask arriving on the same two ships citing oppression and economic conditions in the soviet bloc nation. For now the men Are slaying with friends relatives and the other defectors. Most of the men Are married and Hope their families eventually can join them if they Are Al Lowed to stay in the United states. Baggage from Page 1 months the delivery of Thermal Neutron analysis de vices thai can detect All known explosives even those thai Ace transparent to a rays  As the plastic explosives favored by terrorists. In London passengers and their baggage came under increased scrutiny Friday at Heathrow Airport White British police checked Frankfurt Airport As Parton the Effort to determine How a bomb was placed aboard the fan am jetliner that exploded last  spokesmen in West Germany lot the Stan and stripes that passengers should arrive Early to accommodate the new Security procedures. Otherwise Little has changed they  Vincent of Delta said passengers should arrive 90 minutes before the  said the airline has always had Light Security Al Frankfurt so there is Tittle change a spokeswoman for american airlines in Frankfurt also said passengers should arrive 90 minutes before Takeoff but said the Paa order has Little Impact on he airline s current procedures. This is the Way it was and this is the Way it will be she said. Officials for Northwest airlines released a statement Friday saying the airline s policy in Europe meets and in Many cases exceeds the new  Germany promised to refine and improve Airport procedures for detecting weapons and explosives. Interior ministry spokesman Michael Andreas Butz also emphasized the need for proper raining of Airport personnel by the West German Federal police the a , Butz also told reporters that there were no indications of Security lapses at Frankfurt Airport that could have allowed the bomb to be smuggled aboard the plane  Bonn West German Interior ministry officials met with experts to decide on possible Steps to increase Airport Security. Butz staunchly defended Security at the nation s  Hess it slate economics ministry which runs the Frankfurt Airport said it had virtually ruled out the possibility that there were any lapses there that led to the pan am bombing. We do not see any omis Sions in Frankfurt 1 Otto Kirst the ministry s no. 2 official told inc a. Other people will have to Check whore they May have made  but Kirst was Quick to Point out that he was no trying to assign blame on Security lapses elsewhere. Authorities in West Germany were looking to see whether a Radical syrian backed palestinian group placed the bomb but there was no definite Trail Lead ing in that direction a prosecutor s spokesman said. The Hesson stale Security chief at Frankfurt Airport told the a that ground personnel at the Airport also were being checked in the  proceeded smoothly Al London s Heath Row Airport but passengers were quizzed about who packed their hags when they were packed whether the bags had been out of their sight and whether strangers Adgive them parcels to carry. Their checked in baggage was fed through a Ray machine and then bound with a Lough plastic strip to prevent it from being opened in route to the  Luggage also was searched by hand. Hank Auerbach pan american world airways chief in Northern Europe said the airline had met All the requirements set by Britain s department of transport. He refused to elaborate. Brian Jenkins a . Terrorism consultant said investigators must Check the background of each flight 103 passenger and look for false identities discover whether any had connections that could make them Witting or unwitting confederates and Trace cargo items to their origins. The historical record suggests int in fact we prob ably will eventually be Able to identify a perpetrator he told the British broadcasting corp analysts have speculated that the bomb could have been smuggled aboard by the ground  no  thing As fail Safe Security said Stephen Sloan a University of Oklahoma political Sci ence professor who has helped develop terrorism awareness and Security programs for International air lines and Public and private aviation concerns. Emphasizing that he spoke Only in general term about International terrorism and the pan am tragedy Sloan told the stars and stripes that the bombing appeared to be a rather professional  although explosives  As semtex often can escape Airport detection in Normal passengers Luggage diplomatic pouches which Sloan said have a certain degree of Sanctity " provide ont Means of carrying items on Board with Little  reportedly have discounted the guardians of the islamic revolution s claim of responsibility forthe pan am bombing As revenge for the . Navy s Downing of an Iran Airbus. However Sloan noted that generally retaliation for an act committed months ago was a real possibility. It takes time to plan operation Sand look at specific  with suspicion falling on palestinian and iranian extremists British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe appealed to Middle Eastern governments to co operate the a reported. Washington has offered a 1500,000 Reward for information leading to those responsible for the crash in a Field near Lockerbie engineers sawed up the plane s nose Section for removal and relatives of Vic Tims Laid wreaths alongside court Ute � thu pm Buh Anttn Ron a Tim w Irmi Giitl Wail of Wiy. A do Amojan ook i . Ami own by boy admits writing bomb threat on Jet Albuquerque . A charges against College teacher were dropped thursday after an 11 year old boy admitted writing a note saying bomb were aboard an american airlines flight the Fri said. The boy and his parents came Forward in san fran Cisco Fri spokesman Doug Beldon said. The boy admitted placing the note on his pullout Ray table which was folded into its receptacle after the in flight meal Beldon  a Canning 40, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley was in inc same seat on a later flight from san Francisco to new Orleans on tuesday when he found the note and handed it to a night Atten Dant defense attorney Ray Twohig and the Fri said. Agents arrested him in Albuquerque in what his lawyer called a terrible misunderstanding resulting from Fri confusion. The plane made an unscheduled Landing in Albuquerque and bomb sniffing dogs searched the Jet not turning up anything. Canning was later charged wit making a bomb threat on an aircraft. . Magistrate Sumner o. Butl in Albuquerque dropped the charge thursday and the . Attorney s office in san Francisco declined to prosecute the boy the Fri reported. \ ,. -. Canning was in route to his Home in Berkeley by car thursday evening and could not be notified of the development Twohig said. No airline would let the Harvard doctoral candidate Fly even though the magistrate released him on his own recognizance Twohig said Index from Page 1 month period. To Many analysts this suggests that economic growth will be slower in 1989 but there should be no recession. The traditional signal of an economic Down turn is three consecutive months of de clinics in the leading Index. While the Overall Economy As measured by the Gross National product is  to climb by 3.9. Percent this year the Best performance in four years Many analysis Are predicting growth inthe new year will slow to around 2.5 per cent. Such a slowdown would have the beneficial effect of casing inflationary fears analysts said. With Many industries Al ready operating at close to Peak capacity and with unemployment near 14-year lows economists believe that slower oath is needed to keep the Economy from overheating. We think a Little slowdown is useful right now said David Wyss an economist with data resources inc. Of Lexington mass. The Economy has been growing too fast and needs to slow to Amore sustainable  in november four of the available nine indicators contributed to the de Cline. The biggest negative Factor was speedup in delivery limes on business orders. This is viewed negatively for the future because it indicates declining de Mand for products. The other negative factors dragging the Index Down were a fall in Stock prices an increase in weekly unemployment claims and a decline in raw Materi als prices also viewed As a negative be. Cause it signals falling  indicators made positive contributions led by an increase in growth inthe Money Supply. Other positive forces were a Rise in manufacturing orders for consumer goods and an increase in or Ders for new plants and equipment. Two indicators building permits and the length of the average workweek were unchanged in november.\.-.  various changes left the Index at i93.2pereentofits 1967baseof 100.the Federal Reserve Board Bis been tightening up on credit for much of this year in a move to Dampen demand and keep inflation from accelerating. Even without the credit tightening by the Federal Reserve Many analysts Saida slowdown would have occurred anyway because they do not believe that business investment and Export sales the two sources of strength in 1988, can continue growing at the same rates in 1989,those two sectors of the Economy were responsible for half of All growth in19s8. .-."-. The Commerce department on thurs Day said it Waji projecting a somewhat slower demand for . Manufacture goods in its annual . Industrial out look based on the expectation that .exports and capital spending will not Rise Al the same Breakneck Pace in the new year a. The Outlook forecast that-70 percent of at manufacturing companies would enjoy rising sales in the new year Dow from a decade High level of 82 percent in 1988