European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday May 14,1989 pilots Chart clean paths for Alaska fishermen Valdez. Alaska a the coastguard in a joint Effort with Exxon has ordered More than a dozen flights during the weekend Over the site of the nation s worst Oil spill to Chart routes for fishing boats and ensure a clean Start to the Hali but season. The company and government officials also planned to test Oil thinning chemicals on beaches caked with crude Oil. Some environmentalists have criticized the move but officials said it was necessary because seven weeks of Wash ing and scrubbing by thousands of clean up workers had proven ineffective. Vice adm. Clyde Robbins the coast guard s senior officer in the spill zone ordered eight flights saturday and eight scouting news More on sunday Over fishing grounds Inland around the Prince William sound. The fishing Industry had sought the flights As a Means of allaying Consumers concerns of Oil tainted halibut. The halibut season begins monday and the area s annual Harvest has been estimated at $85 million. Alicr the Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24 and spilled almost 11 Mil lion Gallons of crude the herring season was cancelled in the sound. Robbins also ordered test sprays of chemical dispersant on the beaches of ingot Island in the sound on  chemicals Are used to thin the hard ened Oil. It creates More of a Haard than it s Worth said Cindy Lowry a spokeswoman for the environmental group Green peace. Right now. It seems a pretty risky thing to try. There Are so Man important pumping areas for Harbor seals. This is not the right time to do  earlier testing of dispersant shortly after the spill proved inconclusive. Meanwhile nov. Steve Cowper signed legislation to create a state commission to investigate the Exxon Valdez spill and to impose tougher spill fines. The la would increase fines for spills caused by Gross negligence to As much As $50 a Gal Lon or a maximum of $300 million from $ 10 a gallon or $100 million. Cowper also signed a Bill that impose stricter liability Laws on companies responsible for Oil and hazardous material spills. The spill Bills were the first to be come Law Sines the Exxon Valdez ran aground. The National transportation safety Board has hearings scheduled next week in Anchorage to investigate the cause of the Accident the fired skipper of the Tanker Joseph Hazelwood 42, of Huntington n.y., faces trial june 20 in Val Doz on charges that include operating vessel while intoxicated. Authorities also reported that a soviet Skimmer ship that Exxon dropped from the cleanup Effort last week had been Chirco for standby duty near the in trance of Prince William sound. Eagle scout organized service station project Hahn a West Germany a member of troop 206 was awarded the rank of Eagle scout the highest rank in boy scouting in a recent ceremony. Ryan Berry 15, has been in scouting for 4 i years. For his Eagle scout project he organized an directed a service project for Drivers of the More than 6,000 privately owned vehicles in the hahnmilitary1 Community. Berry and 30 other volunteers assembled a list of All service stations within a 50-Kilometer radius of Hahn a that accepted cafes coupons. The list which included addresses Telephone numbers and hours of operation was distributed to locations where coupons Are sold at Hahn and Wilsch Cim air station. Berry is in the ninth Grade at Herzog Johann gymnasium in simmer a West Germany. He is the son of it. Col. Bruce and Margaret Berry. 8th-grader aided Church to qualify As Eagle scout ludwigs Burg West Germany a eighth grader at ludwigs Burg Middle school recently received the Eagle scout award the High est Honor for boy scouts. Scott Foster 13, has been in scouting for 5w years and has earned 36 Merit badges. For his Eagle scout project he organized volunteers to clean up the Yard of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints in Sci Imdorf. Foster and the volunteers rebuilt Park benches trimmed Flower Beds and Hedges and weeded the Are around the Church parking lot. Foster has served As a senior patrol Cader for troop 120 and is an Honor student at school. He is the son of Steven and Peggy Foster. To Cam inc Eagle scout award a boy scout Mustful fill requirements in the areas of leadership serv ice and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least21 Merit badges and performing an average of 100 hours on a Community project. Transatlantic Council honors nine adult leaders garm1sch, West Germany nine adult scout leaders were awarded the Silver Beaver award at the 39th annual conference of the transatlantic Council boy scouts of America. The awards arc Given to scout leaders who have made outstanding Volunteer contributions to their troops and the boy scouts of  257 such awards have been presented in the transatlantic Council since 1959. Recipients of the Silver Beaver award were Alfred s. Bouncy Athens Greece Michael c. Allen Ramstein a West Germany Richard . Vienna Austria maj. Charles Craig nordic la. Hahn West Germany Patrick Rich Brussels Belgium Arthur h. Stimson Bonn West Germany Cape. Steve Thomas Geil Cankir Chen West Germany George Thullen Geneva and Fred Wurm Wiesbaden West Germany. 500 join Tokyo nuclear arms profess Tokyo a hundreds of people demonstrated in Tokyo on saturday calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons to prevent another Accident like the recently disclosed loss of a . Nuclear bomb near Japan 24 years ago. About 500 demonstrators marched through Down town Tokyo with a Dummy nuclear bomb and banners Reading remove nuclear arms and let s repeal the .-Japan Security  i got really angry when i heard about the .Accident." said Hajic Takahashi 62, a demonstrator who said he was a victim of the United states atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of world War ii. Newsweek Magazine s disclosure last week that plane carrying a Hydrogen bomb fell from a . Air Craft Carrier into the sea near Japan in 1965 has re Vived tension Over the role of . Troops in Japan. The aircraft Carrier was reportedly travelling Between Vietnam and Japan at the time. Following the rally saturday anti nuclear protester were to begin a March from Tokyo to Hiroshima about 430 Miles Southwest of  said the marchers were scheduled Loar rive in Hiroshima on aug. 4, shortly before the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the City in 1945. Also on saturday an official of another anti nuclear group the National movement against the deploy ment of tomahawks said it had requested that the foreign ministry investigate whether any other . Nuclear accidents had occurred near  maintains that a Security treaty under which about 60,000 . Troops Are stationed in Japan requires prior consultation by the United states if it wants to introduce nuclear weapons into japanese territory. Japan says no such consultations have occurred. The introduction of nuclear weapons is banned i Japan but it is widely believed that japanese officials regularly Overlook the arrival of . Warships carrying nuclear  o. Reischauer . Ambassador to Japan at the time of the bomb incident said in 1981 that Washington did not consider the transit of nuclear weapons a violation of the japanese ban. Bush from Page 1 were denied democracy. Bush noted what he said is widespread world sup port All the Way to Japan to get Noriega Panama s de Facto ruler out of office. He said the european Community has supported . Effort adding that he Hopes the organization of american states will come out on wednesday with Strong statement denouncing election fraud in Panama. He said Venezuela and other countries have been sounded out about taking Noriega into exile. Bush s remarks came during a swing of commence ment addresses that took him to Texas asm univer sity in College station on Friday and to Alcorn Slat University at Lorrian miss., and Mississippi state University at Mississippi state on saturday. Earlier saturday Bush said he wants to win the peace War and he challenged soviet president Mik Hail Gorbachev to make Good on his Promise to reduce the soviet nuclear  his first comments on Gorbachev s announced Cut of 500 Short Range missiles in Eastern Europe the president said he welcomes the  him do what he says unilaterally. It would be Good Bush said aboard air Force  remarks indicate that he continues to oppose negotiations with the soviets for cuts in nato tactical nuclear weapons in Western  be already removed 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons and it would be Nice to have him go ahead and make some moves Bush said. Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush was re Ferring to Well Over 2,000" obsolete nuclear warhead that the army has taken out of service in Europe Over the past few  s comments came a Day after he called for a new openness in .-soviet relations including a Call for Mutual surveillance flights Over nato and War saw pact territories. Panama from Page 1 to show the will of the panamanian  the stoppage would coincide with a meeting of the organization of american slates in washing ton to discuss the panamanian situation. Ford Saidie panamanian opposition would be represented. Ricardo Arias Calderon an opposition vice presidential candidate said he Hopes for firm action from the Oas. Including a possible political and diplomatic embargo of Panama if Noriega does not recognize the election results. He said thai the opposition has the names of 157 opposition figures jailed since wednesday in the Panama City area and that the number May reach 300 nationwide. The United slates recalled its ambassador a thur Davis for consultation after the Vole was nullified. Davis is to leave for Washington on Mon Day. Venezuela and Mexico also recalled their ambassadors. Countries in Europe Asia and Lalin Amer Ica have called on Panama to Honor the election results. Noriega has nol appeared in Public since before he election. He was indicted last year by Federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa fla., on drug charges. He contends the charges Are a . Ploy to gel rid of him in favor of someone who will help he United Stales scrap the Panama canal treaties. Those treaties turn the Panama canal Over to Panama at the end of the Century. Ii is those treaties As Well that allow the United states to Send in the extra troops. The 10,000 . Military troops Are based Al 10 military installations along the 50-mile Long Panama canal which cuts a Swath through the isthmus to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Their Mission mandated by the 1977 in Calico i twofold to protect the waterway and to prepare to turn it Over to the panamanians on dec. 31,1999. A so called neutrality i scaly however provide san open ended american military presence to Gua Rantee inc Parma Neil neutrality and operation of the canal. Since inc canal treaties Well Inlo effect on oct. I 1979, the military has been moving toward Ful filling ils treaty obligations by slowly turning Over its property to the panamanians