European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday february 9, 1989 news updates acid rain suspected Moscow a thallium poisoning possibly from acid rain is officially being blamed for the mysterious hair loss suffered by 150 children under the age of 14 in the ukrainian City of Chernov Tsy. But three months after the Ini tial reports the ukrainian health ministry is still unable to Calm parents in the area because the source of the thallium has not been identified the official soviet news Agency Tass reported. Pravda said in november that authorities suspected thallium a toxic Metal As the cause of the children s ailment. Soviet Media speculated that contaminated Gas Oline or acid rain created by a romanian chemical Plant might be at fault. Authorities in Chernov Tsy near the romanian Border Are trying to reduce the amount of thallium in the air and soil by regularly Wash ing downtown streets allowing Only local Drivers into the City Cen Ter and Banning traffic altogether one Day a week Tass said. Union chiefs meet Madrid Spain a Union leaders met wednesday to study ways to pressure the government in their Battle to win concessions on unemployment and pension benefits. The gathering followed the col lapse of negotiations that set off fears of increased labor unrest. The meeting Between the socialist general workers Union s Secre tary general Nicolas Redondo and the Leader of the communist workers commissions Union an Tonio Gutierrez was seen As the opening shot of labor strife expected to last through the Spring. The two unions called a general strike dec. 14 that paralysed Spain for a Day. In a series of talks since then they have been unable to make headway with the govern ment of socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez. Toll of soviet unrest Moscow a the ethnic violence that ripped Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1988 killed 91 peo ple and injured 1,650, a soviet official said tuesday. The official also said rioting so terrified the armenians and azerbaijanis living in each other s republics that nearly 300,000 people fled their Homes according to Fig ures reported by the official soviet news Agency Tass quoting maj. Gen. Nikolai Vasko of the soviet ministry of internal affairs. Less than a sixth of those Refu gees have returned Home Accord ing to Vasko. That leaves local governments with a massive re settlement problem especially in Armenia. There More than 100,000 refugees of the ethnic Vio Lence have joined 700,000 left homeless by the devastating dec. 7earthquake. Previous reports had placed the death toll at More than 70, with 200,000 refugees. Correction an article tuesday incorrectly implied that All civilians would be evacuated from Corsica during a military   Man Euver will simulate an evacuation of the Island. Texas says plan would revive shipments of beef to Europe Austin Texas up Texas Agri culture commissioner Jim Hightowe unveiled an Export verification system tuesday that he said would allow ship ment of hormone free . Beef to Europe and revive a $145 million a year Market. Hightower warned that current . Agriculture department policy could prompt an All out Trade War that might endanger the annual $7 billion in . Agricultural exports to Europe. National leaders on both sides of the Atlantic should help agriculture make trades not Trade War he told a new conference. The us a imposed an Export Embar go on . Beef to Europe after the euro Pean economic Community on Jan. 1 barred imported beef treated with artificial growth stimulants. . Officials have called the ban by the i2-nation dec a Trade Barrier be cause they say the hormones fed to .livestock Are Safe. Washington retaliated by putting 100 percent tariffs on seven european products shipped to the United states. I think they us a Are locked into an ideology that s gone bad on them Hightower said. They re trying to make an International Trade Point and that s All Fine and Good in the theoretical world in which some Trade negotiators live. But out Here in the Countryside we rein danger of losing a $145 million beef Market due to what amounts to a Regula tory embargo he said. I Don t know if it s a matter of stubbornness or what but we re appealing to cooler  Texas beef exports to Europe amount to about $29 million a year. Hightower s plan which has been submitted to the us a Calls for beef ship Ped to Europe to receive the same us certification now authorized for the Sale of hormone free beef in the United states. It also would require us a inspectors to test urine and focal samples from one of every 2,000 live animals destined for euro Pean Export to assure they Are drug free. Hightower said he has received no response from the us a to his plan co pies of which have also been sent to Secretary of state James Baker and the . Trade representative Carla Hills. Radiation Levels found by Greenpeace near sub bases not toxic officials say by Dave Diehl . Bureau radioactivity Levels around . And British submarine bases in Scotland Are four to nine times higher than govern ment estimates according to tests con ducted by the environmental group Greenpeace. However British government . Navy officials say even the higher Levels of radioactivity Are Safe. In a report issued tuesday Green peace claimed it found the higher Levels of cesium-137 and Cobalt-60 isotopes in the Firth of Clyde around the . Navy s base in Dunoon and the British base at Aslane. The discharges Are from nuclear sub marines and their tender ships Accord ing to the report. Greenpeace conducted its research last year from its ship the moby Dick spokesman Damien Durrant said. Holy Loch a part of the Firth of Clyde is the Home of the . Navy s submarine so 14, which supports about 11 nuclear powered submarines from the tender Simon Lake. Aslane at nearby Helensburgh is Home to four Royal Navy nuclear submarines. A spokesman for the British ministry of agriculture said the Greenpeace tests conducted in different locations from government tests produced different re sults. Ministry inspectors checked radiation Levels on the beaches of the Clyde while Greenpeace took its samples from Sedi ment at the Bottom of the waterway in Western Scotland Brian Mcbride said. But the higher Levels still Are Well below those considered Safe he said. Mcbride compared the Levels Green peace recorded to those a person would encounter on six flights Between London and Paris. The Levels found around holy Loch also were Well below those considered Safe by the . Government said it. Dave Smith spokesman for the Simon Lake. The statement from the Navy in Washington said a person drinking the entire amount of radioactivity Dis charged into any Harbor like holy Loch in any of the last 18 years would t exceed the annual exposure permitted for an individual by the .nuclear regulatory commission. But Greenpeace believes there should be no discharge of radioactive materials Durrant said calling for alternatives to dumping the material in Waterways like the Clyde. He also challenged the British govern ment s practice of monitoring isotope Levels around the submarine bases. They Only Monitor on the Beach Durrant said. We Don t think that is  upset stomach led Borg to take pills Friend says Milan Italy a an adviser to Bjorn Borg was quoted As saying the former Tennis Star got an upset stomach and took barbiturates to sleep not because he wanted to kill himself with an overdose. The five time Wimbledon Champion from Sweden was rushed by ambulance tuesday to Milan polyclinic Hospital where he was treated and released three hours later. Hospital officials refused to give any details. After returning to his Milan apartment Borg told reporters Only i m Fine it s All  the 32-year-old Borg and his italian Fiancee Rock Singer Loredana Berte rushed away later tuesday in a taxi with a police escort. They did not say where they were going. Italian news agencies initially reported Borg May have swallowed As Many As 60 barbiturates in a suicide attempt. But they gave no official confirmation. In Stockholm the National news Agency to said Borg s adviser Ingmar Alverda called and said Borg got sick after eating at a restaurant. Borg Felt sick. And took barbiturates to fall asleep Alverda was quoted As saying. But his nausea got worse and in the morning on doctors advice he went to the  Mara Savastano a Friend of the couple said the Singer told her Borg suffered from food poisoning. Borg who retired from professional Tennis in1983 at age 27, runs a fashion business and helps promote tourism for Sweden. He was considered a Model sportsman on court with no known problems involving drugs or alcohol. The Hospital incident came a Day aftera former companion Jannie Bjorling of Sweden publicly aired Dis agreements with Borg Over custody of their 3-year-old son Robin. In an interview published monday in the Stockholm tabloid of to bladet Bjorling threatened to go to court if Borg tried to take custody of the child. He is going to be very angry she said in a television interview monday night on the . Program a current  Borg and Berte 41, recently announced they would be married in Milan on feb. 26. But newspaper reports said the Date was postpone because Berte s divorce from industrialist Roberto Berger was still pending. Soldier in stable condition after fire destroys vehicle Ansbach West Germany a 1st army div sergeant was in stable condition wednesday after being injured in a fire that destroyed Hisa Mored vehicle sunday. Staff sgt. Ricky Stark 29, assigned to he co 1st in 6th inf regt in Hillesheim was injured when his m577 armoured command vehicle caught fire in a training area Northwest of ans Bach Early sunday division spokesman maj. John Shea said. Shea declined to disclose the nature of Stark injuries. The Soldier was taken to a local Ger Man Hospital and later transferred to the Mili tary Hospital in Nurnberg. Another Soldier escaped injury in the Blaze. The amount of damage and cause of the fir have not been determined. The incident is being investigated by military authorities Shea said. Sergeant with 1st army div accused of sexual assault Ansbach West Germany a 1st army div ser Geant has been charged with rape adultery and disobeying an officer in connection with a Jan. 13 sexual assault a division spokesman said wednesday. Sgt. 1st class Alex s. Fazekas 39, assign red to the Nurnberg military Community is accused of assaulting a Soldier s wife in her government leased quarters maj. John l. Shea said. The criminal investigation come is looking into the Case. To it