European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 28, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Faa hastens Pace of 737 inspections former beatle Paul Mccartney Fields questions from russian fans in bbl world service studio in London. At right is announcer Sam Jones. Be if Eman a Back in . London a Rock Star Paul Mccartney told a horde of Young soviet fans in a live radio broadcast that he thought it was about time he reprised the beatles hit Back in the ." in the . Mccartney 46, fielded Calls for 55minutes from the soviet Union in a live phone in show thursday on the British broadcasting corp s russian service. The bbl said More than 1,000 soviets tried to get through to their London Stu Dio about five times As Many As tried to reach prime minister Margaret Thatcher when she appeared on a similar program in july. Talking to listeners through the Aid of translator he was asked the inevitable will the remaining beatles Ever get Back together it would be too difficult he  Harrison Ringo Starr and me could play together and stuff but to find a replacement for John Lennon is impossible really because there is no one like him. It s impossible  Lennon was slain in new York in de Cember 1980. Mccartney told 12-year-old Andrei Borkovsky from Frunze in the Central Region of the soviet Union it was about time he went to the soviet Union to sing one of the beatles most popular hits. Other people go to Russia and they sing Back in the ., " he said. I think it s about time i went and Sang  he said he had no firm plans to make the trip because he is putting together a new band that will need time to rehearse and learn new songs. Seattle a the Federal aviation administration ordered stepped up inspections for the bolts holding engines to the wings of Boeing 737 jets after investigators found that cracked bolts caused an engine to fall off a plane in Chicago last week. Under thursday s directive the Faa i requiring . Airlines to decrease the interval for ultrasonic inspections for crack sin Cone bolts from 600 to 300 landings. The directive applies to 432 planes in Boeing s737-100 and 737-200 series. Dick Meyer an Faa spokesman i Seattle said the directive also requires More checks to ensure that the Cone bolts have been properly installed. The order stemmed from a Jan. 20incident in which the right engine fell off a Piedmont airlines plane just after take off from Chicago s o Hare International Airport. The incident was the second of it kind involving a Boeing 737-200 series twin engine Jet in the last 13 months. James Kolstad acting chairman of the National transportation safety Board blamed the Accident on Metal fatigue that caused a Back Bolt to fracture. That in turn put the two front bolts under stress causing their eventual fracture and leaving the engine free to fall off he said. His conclusion was delivered in a let Ter thursday to Faa administrator t. Allan Mcartor. There Are several ways it fatigue could have happened said William Bruce who is heading the Nosb investigation. What caused the fatigue is what we re looking  Meyer said the Agency soon will issues notice of proposed regulations to re Duce the amount of time airlines have to install secondary support structures to help hold the engines on the planes. Airlines now under the original order must install the supports within 4,000 land Ings. Records show the Piedmont Jet had been inspected properly according to Kolstad s letter and the engine mount bolts fractured after just 330 Landing cycles. The Piedmont Jet did not have the secondary support Structure but had not completed 4,000 cycles since the mos recent Faa order. In his letter Kolstad recommended the Faa require installation of secon Dary support structures As Early As the availability of parts  Boeing spokesman Jack Gamble said the Seattle aerospace company praised the Faa s order. At a news conference thursday Boe ing officials also responded to a television report saying More than 20 Boeing jetliners were fitted last fall with Misas sem bled parts. They said that problem was unrelated to the Chicago incident. Phil Condit a Boeing vice president said a pin installed As a safety backup to ensure steering cables remained on a Pulley was disassembled in three 737jets, but safety was never an  the air plane would have been perfectly Safe without having it the backup safety pin there at All Condit said adding that the process and the system worked in discovering the problem. . Smashes theft ring dealing in luxury cars new York up a car theft ring that specialized in sending stolen bows and Mercedes benzes to Poland was Bro Ken with the arrest thursday of seven City residents authorities said. Customs officials in various european countries have intercepted More than 50 stolen luxury cars and Many More Are believed to have been stolen Fri spokes Man Joseph Valiquette said. Two co owners of a Brooklyn jewelry store allegedly ran the american end of the scheme which obtained Mercedes benzes and bows through accomplice who would rent or buy them on credit by claiming to be employed by the jewelry store Valiquette said. The phony employee would report Theca stolen or simply Stop making pay ments after turning the car Over to an other ring member he said. Customs agents in the Netherlands uncovered the operation in september. We Don t know who was on the other end who was accepting the cars in return for what Valiquette said noting that the investigation was continuing. The scheme had been operating since at Leas june 1,1988, he said. Stolen car shipments later also we rediscovered in West Germany. In All the cases the cars were destined for Poland Valiquette said. Fri agents and new York City police department detectives from the joint Auto larceny task Force thursday closed in on the jewelry store and arrested co owners Mikolaj Wolski and Krysztof a Walisiewicz Valiquette said. Also arrested were five other accomplices Jamima Villel Zeno Sieradzki Rater Danielwicz Ignacy Jadlowski an Stanislaw Wysocki he said. It could not be determined immediately if the defendants were american citizens. Authorities were aided in their four month investigation by a Veteran Fri informer who developed a rapport with Wolski. The informer said he was paid $1,500 in december to remove vehicle identification numbers and re Register the cars. Coroner contradicts police shooting report san Jose Calif. A one of two police men killed in a shoot out with a transient who grabbed an officer s pistol was fatally wounded by a Shotgun blast not the pistol said a Coro Ner s report that apparently contradicted the police account. The report raised the possibility that the offi cer was caught in Cross fire during Jan. 20 s shoot out in which other police officers som armed with shotguns killed the gunman. Thousands of officers attended a memorial serv ice thursday for the two slain officers Gordon Silva 39, and Gene simps9n, 45. Afterwards police spokesman officer Don Tietgens said police chief Joseph Mcnamara would have no immediate com ment on the Coroner s report. Police had said Silva and Simpson were both fatally shot by Dale Randy cpnnors who had wrestled away Simpson s .357-caliber magnum. Silva s death certificate conflicts with the Ini tial police version of How he was killed. Connors Only carried the pistol during the shootout an apparently did not have Access to a Shotgun. Silva s death certificate listed Shotgun Pellet wounds to the Abdomen As the cause of death John Manok chief investigator for the Santaclara county Coroner said thursday. U.s., vietnamese officials hold talks Washington a a senior vietnamese dip Lomat held discussions with Bush administration officials thursday As part of what is believed to be the first visit Ever by a vietnamese representative to washing ton. The occasion for the visit by Trinh Xuan Lang Vietnam s ambassador to the United nations was a reception thursday night sponsored by a non profit group sight savers International which seeks to train foreign Doc tors in Eye surgery techniques. State department spokesman Charles Redman said the administration waived rules limiting the envoy s travels to the new York City area so he could attend the reception. But the administration took advantage of Lang s presence to raise . Concerns about Ameri can servicemen still missing from the Vietnam War. The thursday afternoon meeting included officials from the National Security Council the state department and the Penta gon. There also was a representative of the National league of families which is comprised of relatives of the missing service members. Redman noted there has been increased cooperation Between the United states and Vietnam in obtaining Redman an accounting for the More than 1,700 americans still missing in Vietnam. We want to make sure that the vietnamese continue to understand our concerns Redman said. A state department official asking not to be identified said that As far As he knew no vietnamese representative has Ever visited Washington since the North Ern half of what is now Vietnam became Independent from France in 1954. The two Vietnam became United after the pro-.south vietnamese government was Defeated by the North in 1975. Vietnam is one of a handful of countries with which the United states does not have diplomatic relations. When the state department official was told that Lang s visit to Washington could be seen As a Concilia tory gesture to Vietnam by the new administration the official said appearances Are  he reaffirmed an earlier assertion by Redman that the Bush administration is applying the same criteria As the previous administration for normalizing relations with Vietnam. According to that policy there will be no obstacle to normalization of relations once the vietnamese com plete their troop withdrawal from Cambodia. At the same time the administration also attaches significance to continuing cooperation by Vietnam in obtaining an accounting for the missing american servicemen