European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 19, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Derwinski hearings postponed again by the los Angeles times Washington in an unusual action the Senate veterans affairs com Mittee Friday postponed for the second time its confirmation hearings on Edward j. Derwinski to be the nation s first Secretary of veterans affairs and scheduled a closed session for feb. 28 to study National Security information involving Derwinski. An open hearing was set for March 1 As the committee pressed for new information on Derwinski s act in tipping off the South korean embassy that a korean Central intelligence Agency official was defecting to House investigators who were looking into alleged influence peddling by the koreans. The committee is now scheduled Tovote on the nomination March 2. A source familiar with the inquiry said the National Security information was contained in Fri interviews of Derwinski in which he allegedly gave conflicting accounts and explanations of his action. The information involves electronic monitoring of embassies that picked up evidence of Derwinski s actions Accord ing to a source familiar with the matter. Reports of Fri interviews of subjects in background As Well As criminal investigations so called 302s Are usually not made available to Senate commit tees. One source said that the alleged conflicts Are apparent in summaries of the interviews that have been supplied to members of the panel. An Fri spokesman would not com ment on whether the 302s would be Given to the committee. Some of the interviews took place this year in connection with Derwinski s nomination and others were conducted in 1983 when he was first named to a state department Post by former presi Dent Reagan after serving in Congress for 24 years. Cashing in on cow chips a Cowboy watches Over a Small Herd near a manure burning Power Plant in Southern California s Imperi Al Valley. The $46 million Plant Burns As much As 900 tons of droppings daily powering 20,000 Homes. Rampaging truck hits 14 vehicles Washington a the Driver was arrested and charged with Drunken and reckless driving after a delivery truck careened onto a Busy downtown Street Friday afternoon crashing into 14 vehicles and critically injuring one person. It was just hitting things. It was hitting anything that was in his path said one witness. Everybody was just running out of the  at one Point the truck went onto the sidewalk As it slowed into 10 cars three vans and a bus along with Light poles Telephone Booths and fire hydrants at the intersection of 16th and k streets three blocks North of the White House. The Driver was identified As Jerome Delano Greene 42. The incident occurred about 3 30 . As the rented delivery truck was heading East on k Street. It turned onto 16th Street then made a a turn Back to k Street according to police capt. . Harrison. One pedestrian Ethel Redd 33, was hit by the truck As she tried to flee from its erratic path. One of her legs was nearly severed and she was reported in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital. Three other persons received minor injuries chiefly from broken Glass at the scene. The incident ended when Leonard Hernandez a detective with the Federal protective service jumped onto the truck overpowered Greene and stopped the truck and took him into custody until police arrived. Government claims airline Security breached Boston a the government is seeking $25,000 in fines from american airlines for alleged violations of Federal regulations claiming Federal agents carried explosives and a gun through the Carrier s Security checkpoints at Logan International Airport. The government claims in a suit filed thursday that in june 1987, Federal aviation administration agents were passed through an american checkpoint at Logan with a Dummy pipe bomb hand grenade and gun packed in their carry on Luggage. Al Becker a spokesman for american airlines at its corporate Headquarters in fort Worth Texas declined to comment on the lawsuit Friday but said american s Security system literally is the envy of the  if you re asking me Are we 100 percent perfect the answer is probably not because to operate a 100 per cent perfect Security system one would have to turn the nation s airports into armed fortresses Becker said. A spokesman for the Faa s Washington office said such cases Are usually resolved through administrative channels and filing lawsuits in such cases was unusual. Normally these civil penalties Are paid by the air lines not without protest but eventually they re paid. It is unusual to have to refer the Case to the Justice department the spokesman said. Passengers have a right to expect that the airlines to which they Are paying Large amounts of Money Are taking their Security obligation seriously and Are paying Atten Tion to what they Are doing said . Attorney Jeremiah o Sullvan in a news release issued when the suit was filed. Becker while not commenting on the 1987 incident said that in general the airline will review a set of allegations or complaints and if we think they re with out Merit or we re being unjustly accused we re going to object to  the Faa spokesman said the latest figures available for june through september of last year showed a nationwide detection rate of 88.9 percent of attempts to breach airline Security. That Means that 11.1 percent of the time Security agents miss potentially dangerous items but the spokesman said that percentage is considered Good. We want it to be better and we re going to continue testing like this but it Means that the average person that s thinking about hijacking an air plane knows he s got a better than a 5-to-l Chance of getting caught he said. The lawsuit said in the 1987 incident an Faa in Spector went through the airline s a Ray system with a Dummy pipe bomb and hand grenade in his carry on Luggage. Another agent had a gun in an attache Case and the Security person was not paying attention to the a Ray Monitor screen and failed to detect it. On the same Day the agents made the tests a Federal agent says he saw 22 passengers go through Security without being watched on the Monitor by the Security person. Each of the undetected weapons constituted a violation and each of the 22 people unchecked also was a violation according to the suit. Bozo fhe Clown irked by Bozo the restaurant Mason Tenn. A Bozo the Clown is disturbed Over a Patent office decision that has Given a Rural Western Tennessee restaurant the right to use his name to fran Chise around the country. Who Are these people in Mason Tennes see to Tell me How famous they Are asked Larry Harmon who created Bozo the Clown. These people in Mason population 471, Are the folks at Bozo s restaurant which serves pork Barbecue. Restaurant owner Jeff Thompson of Memphis has no plans to Branch out or fran Chise but decided to protect the right to use the name by filing for a National trademark in 1982, said assistant manager Dot Cottam. There Are no plans at the present but in the future who knows the . Patent and trademark office decided the restaurant a local fixture since 1923, attracts enough out of state customers to trademark its name nationally. The whole world has recognized the greatness and love of Bozo Harmon said thursday from his new York City office. Don t i have the right to protect what Smine Bozo has been my life he said. It is my life. It will carry on Long after i go to that circus in the  his lawyers have appealed to the . Court of appeals i Washington. In the meantime Bozo the Barbecue peo ple keep Busy at the 90-seat restaurant about 40 Miles Northeast of Memphis. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 19, 1949 Dick Button of Englewood n.j., won the world men s figure skating championship for the second year in a Row during Competition at the sport Palace in Paris. 30 years ago today. Feb. 19, 1959 the Wabash River continued its rampage into Southern sections of Indiana and Illinois forcing hundreds of Rural residents from their Homes an flooding thousands of acres of Farmland. 20 years ago today. Feb. 19, 1969 in what was believed to be the first . Delivery of heavy military equipment to Greece since the greek military coup in april 1967, five american fighter bombers were unloaded at a port in Athens. J 0 years ago today. Feb. 19, 1979 the soviet Union warned China to Stop its invasion of Vietnam saying it would Honor its obligations under a soviet vietnamese treaty that called for removal of outside threats