European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday March 1,1389 $800 million Airliner safety work urged Washington Cap a group of aviation Industry and government safely experts on tuesday recommended s800 million Worth of mandatory work on older airliners to ensure safety of the nation s aging Airliner of Eccl. The unprecedented program if adopted by the Federal aviation administration would noted More than i.3cq Carly Boeing 7-17, 7.17 and 717 models at a Cost of More than $ 600,000 each. The aging aircraft task Force s work ing group on older Boeing airliners Drew up its final  tuesday morning before a news conference re leasing inc details. The air transport association which represents major airlines organized the task Force. Clyde Kizer an Ata vice president said none of the recommended work which would involve planes flown by for eign As Well As . Carriers was consid ered urgent. There arc no dangerous aircraft out there flying right now he said. Delta and United representatives who also participated in the news conference said that much of inc work  been done on their airliners and that they anticipated no immediate Large expenses. Some other major airlines have also made Many of the changes recommended by the Lask Force. Wide scale modification or replace ment of structural material fittings and skin is being recommended on the basis of service  said a final draft of the report which follows nine months of meetings and examination of More than 700 service bulletins issued by Boe  recommendations adopt 150 of the bulletins and consolidate them into one massive service bulletin to be issued by Boeing and presented to the Faa for possible adoption As an airworthiness directive. The difference in a manufacturer s bulletin and an Faa airworthiness directive is that Faa orders Are mandatory. Airliner operators will be Given varying limes to accomplish the changes based on the amount of service an aircraft has had. Other groups from the task Force arc looking at service recommendations for Mcdonnell Douglas do is. Dc-8s Andic los As Well As airliners manufactured abroad to Sec what modifications will be needed to maintain their safety. Results of their work arc expected be fore the end of the. Year. The average age of the nearly 3,000 . Airliners ii about 13 years. Half of the planes in Many major air lines fleets arc Well incr 15 years old. According to at Mark an appraisal and consulting firm democratic presi Donnial nominee Michael Dukakis talks with Bryant Gumbel on the Todd show no. 4. Gumbel says Scott s antics in bad taste paper reports n i a York ai1 today show co Hosl Lbryant i imbue complained in an in House memo  Weatherman Willard Scott s antics arc in bad taste and that Gem Shalit s film reviews Are often late a news Piiper. Reported tuesday almost1 no one associated with television s no. 1 no Irving lives show1 escaped reproach except Coran Chor  i aul who is not mentioned in the memo to Marla r an executive producer of the Nylic program. New York news Assaid. I he four Page single spaced memo was written last fall in response to Ryan s request for Gumbel s opinions according to new Day which obtained the memo. Gumbel. 40, said that Stott holds the show hos Tage to his assortment of whims wishes birthdays and bad taste that Shalit s reviews Are often Laic and his interviews Aren t very Good and that con Sumer reporter David Horowitz is a walking  Gumbel has a  $7 million contract with Abc court Marf a in spying Case scarfs monday by Norman Black a military writer Washington an army warrant officer accused of spying for the Warsaw pact has waived his right to a strand jury Type proceeding and will face a court martial nil week the service said monday. The Case against warrant officer James w. Hall has been referred 10 trial As a non capital Case however. This Means that if Hall is convicted the maximum punishment would be life in prison the army said. 1-Iall, 30, of new York City was arrested dec. 21 near Savannah a. The arrest came after he allegedly admitted to an Fri undercover agent that he had been passing classified intelligence information to the Sovi Al and East germans for the past six years. On Jan. 4, Hall was charged with 10 counts of espionage attempted espionage and failure to obey regulations. The army has said that Hall an intelligence analyst Wilh a top secret Security clearance delivered expose film and documents dealing Wilh communications intelligence a Means of defense or retaliation against Large scale attack War plans and military  Al the time of his arrest. Hall was assigned to the 24lh inf div and worked As an intelligence analyst in the army s intelligence Section. He joined the army in september 1976 and spent most of his Carter working  As an analyst of intercepted radio and Tele phone traffic and coded messages.1 legally Hall could have insisted that the army con duet an article 32 hearing a proceeding that resembles a civilian grand jury hearing to determine whether a court martial is warranted. The Soldier waited that hearing and the court mar tial has been set for monday at 1-Ort Leslie j. Mcnair in Washington  the army said. Local governments ruled liable in some rights cases _ .11 a _ i la Washington api the supreme court ruled tuesday thai local governments stay be forced to pay monetary damages when their deliberate in difference lets inadequately trained pm plot Eli violate someone s rights the court s unanimous decision Al though a Putin jul threat to municipal treasuries nationwide might not result in numerous successful lawsuits. Led in a Canlon Ohio Case by Justice Boron r. White the court set a hard to meet Standard of proof for those who file such suits. The justices said a cily or town cannot be held legally accountable when an in adequately trained Public employee Vio lates someone s rights unless the harm is directly linked to governmental deliberate indifference White said creating any less stringent Standard of proof would open local governments to unprecedented liability and Saddle Federal courts Wilh an end less exercise of second guessing Munici pal employee training programs 1 am supreme court decisions make Clear him a much used Federal civil rights Law May not be invoked to sue a local supreme court government every time one of its employees violates someone s rights. The court previously had ruled that the local government is not liable unless the injury stemmed from some unconstitutional official policy in tuesday s ruling the court for the first time said a local government s valid official policy May be challenged Success fully if the policy is subverted by in adequate training the decision is a setback but not a final defeat for Canton officials who sought to kill a lawsuit by a woman who said police violated her rights by failing to get needed medical attention while she was in their custody. Geraldine Harris sued Canton Over. An. April 26, 1978, incident in which Bhe was stopped for speeding while driving her teen age daughter to school. The 52-year-old woman repeatedly slumped to inc Stalions Bush floor during a slay of 30 or 40 minutes but police officers did not Call for medical help saying they believed Harris was merely Excil cd and would Calm Down if left alone and permitted to Sec her family. When family members arrived they arranged to have Harris taken by ambulance to a Hospital. There she was diag nosed As suffering from stress reaction anxiety and depression. She was hospitalized for a week and received subsequent outpatient treat ment for the next year. A jury awarded Harris s200,000 after deciding that inc had been unreasonably denied medical attention by police. The 6ui . Circuit court of appeals although ordering a new trial in hams Case ruled that Canton could be liable for monetary damages because its police officers were not trained adequately to summon medical help in such cases. The justices returned hams Case to the 6th circuit  vote to Send inc Case Back to the appeals court was 6-3. In other decisions inc court ruled 6-3 that railroads and airlines May punish strikers by giving their jobs to employees with less seniority who slay on the Job or return to work before the strike ends. Voted 9-0 in a Case involving two Canadian citizens with Bank accounts in Washington state to make it easier for the Federal government to give tax information and financial records to a foreign government. Reinstated a convicted Florida murderer s death sentence ruling 5-4 that he should have been barred from mounting a successful constitutional attack in fed eral courts