European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday March 7.1989 world today chinese dam threatening Ocean fish with extinction rising a the chinese Sturgeon a 10 foot Ocean fish is in danger of extinction be cause a Yangtze. River dam is blocking it from the Breeding grounds it has used at 300 million years an official newspaper reported monday the China daily said the number of mature chinese sturgeons has fallen to 5,000, and Alir Asl Joo arc being killed each year. There Are even fewer of the smaller White Stur Geon is said. The fish which weigh Between 330 and 550 pounds when they Lay eggs Are unable to reach their Breeding grounds in he upper reaches of inc Van Cut because of the newly completed Gez Houba a m  a s Hube province. Anti alcohol Zeal blamed for uprooting of vineyards Mcc us Al excessive 7.eil in pursuing pics ident Mikhail Gorbachev s anti drinking. Drive caused tile destruction of-16 percent of soviet vineyards Many of. Which weren to intended m produce wine at All a newspaper said. With a him of1 Billet irony he labor daily. Trud said tharas a result of the systematic uprooting of vines conducted in the interest of promoting soviet sobriety it was not grapes Des tined for wine production that suffered most but table grapes. From 1985 to 1987, trud said 533,000 acres of soviet vineyards or 16 percent of the total. Were destroyed. The official Tasi news Agency called it a human Folly subway workers offer free rides during protest Seoul South Korea a subway workers Rin monday opened the system s turnstiles and offered fret rides to its 2.5 million riders As pan Ofa lir misday protest cily government workers stand i no. In some station urged passengers in pay the. 28 cent fare but they were largely ignored the management of the 72-mile system Esti mates it will lose More than 5700,000 a day1 during the protest. -.-. 1 he Union  has reneged on an agreement to dismiss me corporation s Prii. Vril arid arrange Union Leader s release from Pris. On.  also wants the -18-hour workweek arranged into shifts of eight hours instead of up to 16.hours,  of the company s personnel management. Management said the Union has failed to enter collective bargaining. Soviets will help open in stabilizing Oil Market Moscow at1 top soviet Energy offi Euk said monday Hul the soviet Union is pre pared to cooperate closely with Olec to Stabi lie world Oil markets,.and an Oil minis try spokesman said the soviet Union plans to re Duce us Oil cup Orts by 100.000 per Day. The statements follow a Tass announcement Friday that the soviet Union will Cut Oil exports by about s percent in tie Fibril Siv months of his year a part of an Effort by non members of the. Or am action of k Tro cum exporting countries to Shore up world Oil prices the so Viii Union will reduce its exports to. Capitalist countries by  barrels per Day during the first half of ibis year said Yevgeny Karh evik.111 Oil ministry official. I Hal would mean a local reduction of 18 million barrels in to Pommer the six month period judge orders release of 188 sikh prisoners in w Delhi India a a judi1 monday ordered the a Cleavi of iss sikhs jailed in a Siuri Horii in s since a i army raid on the holiest sikh shrine left 1,200 people dead a senior  official said among Thoie to Kkt freed is a Gurcharan Singh Tohara had of the ski Temple management committee. The Bod which to mrnes most sikh shrines and Temple lands to considered the most Egv Irful sikh Organ Avion. Soviet icebreaker s reactor came close to a meltdown Moscow a a nuclear nos cred soviet ice breaker came within 40 minutes Ofa meltdown last fall. When an operator mistakenly drained Cooling Vater from a reactor an official soviet newspaper has reported. Vodnoy transport a stale run newspaper that covers shipping said the incident occurred nov. 11 aboard the Rossiya while  docked at Murmansk 1,000 Miles North of Moscow in Kola Bay. It was there for routine changing Ofa reactor filter the newspaper said. The. Reactor was shut Down and. Cooling Waie was supposed to be drained before changing the filter the newspaper explained. Bui a chief physicist aboard the ship gave incorrect instructions loan operator who opened a drainage valve on the ship s other reactor which was in operation Vodnoy transport said in is saturday editions. -. The main Supply of cooler no Waitr was mistakenly drained off just 30 or 40 minutes Worth of backup Waler was left in a Reservoir before the reactor would have melted Down and released radiation the new spa per said. It took four minutes to bring the probe Chi under control according to Dmitri Tarakanov the Nev spa per s Murmansk correspondent. He did nol provide details of whal action was taken. " radiation could have spread from the ship to the City of 440,000 people Tarakanov indicated. Vodnoy transport comes out three times a week. There was no explanation for the four month delay in reporting the incident. A meltdown the worst possible nuclear Accident occurs when the reactor Core overheats to such a de Gree that the fuel begins melting As happened Al three mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979. ". If the fuel penetrates its protective housing in Diode ivc materials arc released Inlo the environment. The Rossiya was launched from the Bailie Yard in Leningrad in 1983 and went into operation in 1986, according to Jane s fighting ships. It is one of five ships in the Ark Tika class. The Rossiya and the other ships no run by the soviet merchant Marine ministry. Two or Csuri de water reactors drive the Rossiya s steam turbines to generate a  75,000 horsepower according to Jane s. " in january the ship made headlines when it rescued Sovil researchers stranded on a Drifting ice Floe North of  thursday the  daily in Viia quoted a nuclear Power official As saying there have been no accidents aboard the Rossiya or four other nuclear powered icebreakers. A.  also said the re actors on Hoard the ships arc a differed design from those at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine where a reactor Cupl Oded and caught fire april26, 1986. Killing Jit Leasi 31 people and spewing radiation worldwide. Center of controversy Normn n rim ill the Skarvi tcrlnarj1 Hospital in Western Sweden has a Slomach in try Hole sliced into her flank Large enough for a researcher to reach in and insert a bag of Fecit. Answering the protests of sumo swedish animal liners project leaders say Norma and another cow with a  her flunk suffer no  they wild Hill hi1 project is valuable for feed a Stinn poisonous illegal liquor kills 109 in India new Delhi India a1 in the Only Indian stale where the Sale of alcohol is banned on illegal Home made liquor killed at least 109 people most of them poor labourers and sickened scores More news re ports said monday the United news of India Agency which gave the death loll Tilso said 100 people were Hospital cd after drinking the poisonous brew in the Weskrna City of Baroda and4qof Ihm were in serious condition. The press Cuit of India Agency. Hoeu it said 151 were Hospital used and Al least 100 were in crucial condition the United news said police arrested three people who had supplied the liquor. A son of one supplier and the son of a prominent local politician wore Anion those killed by the Moonshine it said. Harosia is a major Industrial Center in Gujarat the Only Indian state where the Sale of alcohol is banned. The Coly is Aboul  0 Miles Sou in Wal of new Delhi Many victims arc Likely to go Blind if they live doctors treating the Patin is said. The press Trust quoted doctors As saying the death toll could h ivc been Loci if the victims had sought treatment earlier. It said Many of the victims became dizzy and complained of nausea and stomachaches before losing consciousness. Ciu Saraf s chief minister air Sinai Chaudhary or dered a investigation and promised drastic action against police officials who failed to Avert the disaster the times of India reported. The newspaper said most of Tow minims were poor labourers who bought the liquor saturday morning after receiving their a monthly wages. The first a calms were reported about Midnight saturday it said. As news of the fint deaths emerged police fanned out across Daruda with Loudspeaker  warnings that Anson who had consumed the liquor should seek medical help immediately. The liquor known locally As Kittle a is made from Industrial spirits and Methyl alcohol