European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page j28.the stars and stripes wednesday March 29,1989 a kinds hamper efforts to control Oil spill Valdez Alaska a Strong winds monday delayed efforts to control a huge Oil spill in Prince William sound and the president of Exxon shipping co. Said the company is a Little overwhelmed by the magnitude of the cleanup. Federal investigators piecing together the sequence of events leading up to the spill said they planned to interview the Captain and other officers of the Tanker Exxon Valdez. The Captain Joseph Hazelwood. Was not on the Bridge when the vessel left shipping lanes to avoid ice and ran a ground on a charted reef Early Friday. The third mate who did not have proper certification was in charge Exxon shipping co. President Frank Larossi said investigators said results of drug and alcohol tests news briefs Reagan s testimony not yet required Washington kit the judge in the  of Oliver l. North monday turned Down request by North s Zwyers to compel former president Reagan to testify in person at the trial but he postponed a final decision on whether Reagan might be called  District judge Gerhard a. Go sell said that before he decides Hether Reagan s appear Ance will be required a wants to know if Rea Gan objects to testifying in person. The judge said he also wants to know if Rea Gan s appearance is Mijc Tiai or whether a writ ten deposition video ipod testimony or submission of a diary will satisfy North s lawyers who on Friday asked the cd girl to enforce a subpoena against the former president. In addition Csell Jold he wants North s Law. Yen to provide him Wotli a succinct particular cd statement of facti1 that they Hope to elicit from Reagin. Theodore a Olson Reagan s lawyer said monday he would noncom Mcnol on the order. Reagan spokesman it California has said the former president would Jizot comment on matters related to a pending Cas. Soviets seeking mias held by afghan rebels Kabul afghanis not six weeks after its troops left Afghanistan no objective is More urgent for the Povill Union Here than learning what became of the 313 soviet troops listed As missing in action soviet embassy officials say. The officials have concluded that 100 to 200 of the soldiers May to alive held prisoner by moslem guerrillas at Mountain Camps inside Afghanistan or at base Tarcai in Iran or Pakistan. This is a very  for us in fact there is no higher a Dij Alomal said re cell Dur ing a discussion of the soul i position m Afghanistan i the Diplomat a senior aide to Yuli m. To Ron inv the first Deputy foreign minister who serves As ambassador indicated that one of his major responsibilities at the fortress like embassy in Kabul s Western suburb is was to work on the problem of Urmia Sas you Call  Pakistan bomb blast linked to satanic verses Islamabad. Pakistan a a bomb exploded near a British cultural Center Early tues hours after British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe arrived to discuss the controversy Over the novel the satanic  police said no one was injured in the 1 a m. Blast at a building under construction next to the British Council Library. It broke windows in the Library and some sur rounding shops but damage appeared to be slight bomb experts at the scene had no imme Diate information on the explosives  were no claims of responsibility but the bombing appeared to be linked to Anli but ish protests Over the satanic verses by Sal Man Rushdie a naturalized British subject bom in India. ,. An explosion at a British Council Library in Karachi Pakistan s largest City killed a Paki Stani guard on feb. 27. Police said they believed the blast was related to Rushdie s Book. On Crew members will be made Public when officials receive them. According to one source close to the investigation it is questionable whether the drug and alcohol tests will be of much value. Drucylla Anderson an Nosb spokeswoman said preliminary indications arc the tests May have been administered As Long As 10 hours after the Accident. I Don t know How Good the tests will to said Rachel Halterman another spokeswoman for the Nosb in Washington. The Board plans to open a formal inquiry i Anchorage sometime in the next three weeks. The 987-foot Tanker carrying 1.2 million barrels of North slope crude Oil apparently struck a glancing blow against a Rock kept going and hit rocks a second time then ran aground Larossi said. About 240,000 barrels spilled through the Hull creating an Oil Slick that has since covered about 100 Square Miles according to the coast guard. The Oil is slowly heading South toward the Gulf of Alaska but must pass numerous islands before it reaches open sea. At about 10.1 million Gallons the spill is the biggest such Accident on record in the United Stales. The spill closed the port of Valdez the Southern terminus of the Alaska pipeline and crude Oil prices Rose sharply on monday. Meanwhile gusts up to 70 Mph idled most aircraft including one that was to Spray chemicals to break up the ii Slick Larossi said the wind damaged some of the containment booms used to Corral the Oil including some around the stricken Tanker. The vessel remained stuck on Bligh reef about 25 Miles from Valdez. Larossi said the wind pivoted the ship 12 degrees to the North and that the Crew said the new position Felt much More stable. Workers continued pumping operations to remove the Oil left on ship. By monday morning about 100000 barrels had been transferred to the Exxon Baton Rouge Larossi said Exxon hoped to have about 95 percent of the remaining Oil off the vessel in three or four Days. Gov. Steve Cowper was critical of the time it look Exxon and Alyeska  co. To begin the cleanup. Alyeska operates the Oil loading terminal at Val Doz. People should have anticipated such a spill As this Cowper said at a news conference in Juneau. Vote from Page 1\ tin Gursky an the City s party chief Konstantin Masik ran unopposed but Tost anyway because a majority of voters marked i hair ballots  new elections will be held there. In a country that has gone at least seven decades without popular opinion polls and Mulli candidate bal lots the election results want a Long Way toward show ing Public impatience especially with the most conservative segments of the communist party. The Appart is surely weaker today and it is Alt a very sobering Day for the chem Munsil party and for Mitchail Gorbachev said Obsi Donl historian Roy Cdv Edv. Who led All six candidates in his race in Moscow s Vor Hilovski District with 35 percent of the Vole. He must now Lake part fit a Runholt election against factory manager Kseniya Razumova. Yeltsin and Medvedev agreed thai inc Evelion re sults May put pressure on Gorbachev to increase the Pace of Reform. / although it was Gorbachev himself who introduced political reforms the communist part bid not meekly yield the Field to reformists. In the Case of Yeltsin Medve div and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov for exam ple party conservatives used every measure they could Rule changes harsh publicity denunciations to defeat them. $ Cdv Edv who As recently b five years ago had a Kab guard stationed outside us Joor said that the elec Tion process and rules were " wily Only about 10 percent democratic and that he Hope next time there will be no one Man races not 20 or 25pcrccnt like this  ballots Are still being Oun cd in Many parts of the country but it is Clear in inc Baltic especially thai Reform minded candid pcs with grass roots support were making impressive shavings. Calls from Page 1 \ cent inflation rate voters were apparently displeased by the prime minister s governing style a licit seen in Many quarters As increasingly arrogant Ana detached. Before the balloting Mosi commentators i grave danger for Ozah his party s share of the Vole � below 30 percent. Motherland candidates got Only. Percent monday and the party lost control of City Halls ii the three largest cities Istanbul Ankara and Izmir. The left of Cenich social democratic populist party led by Erdal Inonu Drew 28 percent while inc Lent in Power anymore turkic a Tal newspaper wrote. A senior govern id i can t Sec How he can carry on the motherland party s defeat was so Humita and so unexpected that government officials Ticiano editorial writers and other turks have by write Ozal s political obituary ithe turkish nation is in a spirit of not waiting l keep this gov jermal Bypro men official  &. ,. Turkish Stol tical commentators and foreign Diplo Mats said Fiat even if Ozal managed to avoid Resig nation pfc arly elections his parliamentary majority would probably erode As a result of defections by motherland lawmakers. Some of these analysts also expressed concern that the government was Drifting. The country struggling under the Burden of inflation is in for More hard limes they warned because the prime minister is Ore preoccupied with polities than policy even in the government some officials have been offended by Ozal s manner including a warning during me election Campaign that he would Cut off National ids to localities voting against his  do nol react Well to  an official said. Ller to kill a Turk than of threaten him."1 has threatened More than once in the past to if voters did nol support him. But he always Meed himself satisfied with the election results even in High he has steadily lost popular backing Sincen government replaced military Rule in 1983. Iraq from Page 1 working to Complete the claims for pm sensation for repair of the vessel which was  damaged in the attack and for wounds suffered fit other crewmen a Pentagon official said. He said he Pentagon hoped to present those additional  Baghdad. The Pentagon spent $82.9 Matlion to repair the Stark and return in to Active duty two crewmen who survive the attack were badly burned and have undergone extensive treatment. Others suffered minor Burr and wounds. Any Crew member is allowed to submit claim but the Pentagon has declined to discuss derails of the personal injury claims citing the seamen s fight to privacy. The Issue of compensation for the Stark incident bad become an increasingly urgent priority in Reia Nons Between Washington and Baghdad since the United Stales presented us claims last april. When an Ali warplane fired two French made exocet missile at the frigate on May 17, 1987, at inc height of the Kanker War in the persian Gulf the iraqi Gove Mcra said in would pay compensation for loss of life injure and damage to the ship. In a Teller to president Keagan within Days of inc attack president Saddam Hussein of Iraq called inc attack accidental a expressed Heartfelt Condo Lences for the Deal hot the american seamen adding sorrow and regret arc a  but the stale and defense departments were frus raied Over Iraq s failure to make a substantive response to Washington s cd is and in recent months had concluded that Iraq was calling. The Bush administration fus yet to decide How to compensate the 290 families it those who died last july when the guided missile Cruiser Vincennes shot Down an iranian Airliner Over the asian Gulf. Reagan promised to compensate the Vic lint i families Liutsai the United Stales would not pay reparations. The plan ran into stiff opposition in c engr Sci and the Bush administration has not addressed the Issue