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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 18,1989 insurer gets jitters when stadium gets the beat Columbia. . A the University of South Carolina has banned marching bands from playing the song Louie Louie at its football stadium at the request of an insurer concerned about the Way the stadium moved to the beat the last time the Rock classic was played. South Carolina s marching band last played the song at the Nebraska game in 1986. Dancing fans in the East upper deck of the Williams Brick stadium Home of the gamecocks caused the stadium to Sway and fans below them became alarmed. Engineering studies performed after the Nebraska game showed the stadium to be Safe. But Jerry t. Brewer Dean of student life wrote recently to James k. Copen Haver director of University bands that the insurance Reserve fund has specifically mandated that Louie Louie not be played. I know this request May seem unusual to band directors but a swaying stadium is definitely not a usual occur  structurally if you be got the whole student body out there jumping up and Down constantly for 75 years you might we some Metal fatigue added Johnhat Trusswll assistant director for the insurance Reserve fund which insures the stadium. But with Only six or eight games a year it will fall Down from old age Long before  storm from Page 1 pc did All flights to puerto Rico from the United slates from 5 30 . Sunday until 6 . Monday. The Virgin islands population is 106,000, and puerto Rico has 3.3 million people. A morning weather service bulletin said if the Eye of Hurricane Hugo moves across puerto Rico As fore cast we expect a 50-Milc-wide path of extensive to extreme damage to  civil defense officials said up to 15,000 people could be evacuated from flood prone areas of Western puerto Rico and hundreds had already acc moved into a sports stadium in Mayaguez the Island s third biggest City. National guardsmen and volunteers drove through san Juan the capital on sunday issuing emergency instructions Over loudspeakers. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon flew Over the Island by helicopter sunday morning and told reporters later we arc As prepared As we could  the weather Bureau said Hugo could churn up a Wall of water 8 to 10 feet High that could decimate the coastal Section where it comes to  it added then Hurricane Force winds will destroy wooden structures and uproot Trees. Roofs could be removed and Loose objects will become lethal airborne  first reports indicated that the French Island of Guadeloupe the most southerly of the Leeward is lands was the hardest hit of the string of islands form ing a 600-mile arc from the Leeward to the greater Antilles. Jocelyne Vansvur Dengue a French government offi Cial in Martinique Sarif 80 people were reported injured in  were no immediate re ports of deaths she said. Hugo slammed into Guadeloupe which has a population of 337,000, shortly after Midnight Downing Power lines and blacking out the Island s 30,700 Tele phones As Well As state radio and television and telex service. Stale television in Martinique Guadeloupe s sister Island said 3,000 people were left homeless. The re port could not be confirmed. Officials said Many houses and buildings were dam aged. The Eye of the storm passed Over St. Francois a major tourist area on the Eastern end of the Island. The mayor of the Village of St. Francois Ernest Moutoussamy said on Guadeloupe s radio station radio a arabic internationale that there s nothing left of St.  " r ."t1" "5 " a n Ftp of it f a " a Ltd Rusf -=30tw&.alttk so blasts from Page 1 has struck the country since the cocaine Cartel s Decla ration on aug. 24 of total War against the govern ment. Barco launched an All out offensive against the cartels after the aug. 18 assassination of the leading presidential candidate sen. Luis Carlos Galan by Cartel gunmen. Officials said National police sgt. Carlos Julio boil la and pvt. Luis Alberto Chavez were shot to death by two men Friday night in Southwest Bogota after they entered the Home of font of the men. In other developments two Bogota Banks were bombed saturday afternoon authorities said. Two people were injured in the blasts at Banco popular and the nearby Banco Santander. Sixteen other businesses were damaged. Police said two men on a motorcycle threw a bomb at one Bank while the other bomb was hurled from a car. Ana Beatriz Rodriguez Zuniga a colombian woman wanted in the United Stales on cocaine trafficking charges became eligible for extradition at Midnight Friday but it was not Clear when she would leave Colombia. Rodriguez Zuniga was being held in Bogota after the expiration of a five Day period that under colombian Law allowed her to Appeal the extradition order. She was arrested in the Caribbean coast City of car Tagena during the mass detentions of cocaine suspects. She would be the second colombian sent to the United Stales since Barco reinstated the extradition treaty with the . Government in his War on the drug cartels. Eduardo Martinez Romero was extradited sept. 6 to Atlanta on charges of laundering millions of dollars of cocaine , colombian newspapers reported Sun Day that a leading presidential candidate has said the country should not extradite drug lords apparently joining a quiet chorus advocating negotiations with the traffickers to end the  front running candidate for the March election is calling for an end to extradition. I do not support giving up colombians to be tried under someone else s roof Alberto Santofimio Bolero said in a speech saturday in the Central Colombia town of Iba Guc according to excerpts published in a dozen daily newspapers sunday. Past government anti drug campaigns lasted Only a few weeks or a few  the most important colombian favouring negotiation with the drug traffickers is Juan Gomez Martinez mayor of Medellin and one of the owners of my Dullin s leading daily Al colombian. Grit Chen Carlson puts the miss America Crown on her successor Dubbye Turner saturday in Atlantic City. Missouri student is miss America Atlantic City . A miss Missouri Debby Turner a Marimba playing veterinary student was crowned miss America 1990 on saturday night. Miss Maryland Virginia Cha 25, of Frederick was first runner up and miss Colorado Debbie Riecks 24,of Aurora was second runner up. The third runner up was miss Illinois Jeri Lynn Zimmermann 21, of Chi Cago and the fourth runner up was miss Ohio Kristin Huffman 24, of canal Winchester. Turner 23, of Mexico mo., is the third Black woman to become miss America in the pageant s 68 year  Williams won the 1984 title but was dethroned after a Magazine published nude photos of her with another woman. The first runner up Suzy tic Charles also Black completed Williams  succeeds Gretchen Carlson 23, of Anoka minn., who placed the Crown on her head in the Atlan tic City convention Center As Host Gary Collins Sang the pageant Standard there she  the s-fool-71/118-Pound contestant with dark Brown hair and Brown eyes won one of the three pc " luminary swimsuit competitions in which she wore a Canary yellow swimsuit. Survival from Page 1  it says. Today s news is to Morrow s fish wrap. Long after the pub Lic has forgotten that you were a hero your superiors will remember what you did to  one of the biggest decisions facing a potential whistle Blower is whether to re main Anonymous or go Public according to the handbook. In either Case there is much to consider. For the Anonymous whistle Blower would you be Able to act nonchalant when documents Are disclosed to avoid attracting suspicion if discovered would you or your spouse be Able to sup port the family working in some other profession for the Public whistle Blower Are you ready for personal attacks against your character and having your past indiscretions made Public arc you mentally ready to have fellow workers and friends turn against you anyone who feels prone to dismiss the handbook As Overly melodramatic should read the numerous Case histories of reprisals taken against whistle blow ers. A favorite tactic is to Transfer the whistle Blower to bureaucratic Siberia As in the cases of Joseph so Stepani and James Pope. Sctt Pani was a Quality control chief for the food and drug administration who protested the introduction of Well known carcinogens into food supplies. He was reassigned to Long term researching a trailer on an isolated experimental farm. Pope a Federal aviation administration Engineer protested the Faa s sup pression of a fully tested Industry devel oped backup device to warn pilots of impending midair collisions. The Agency had its own Long term research and development program for the same device. Pope was reassigned to Seattle where his duties included Selling savings Bonds to boy scouts. Although whistle blowers supposedly have More Protection now that Congress has strengthened Laws to prevent reprisals the handbook advises against Bank ing on such Protection As John Kar Tak a former army Recruiter found out the hard Way. While working at a station in Minne Sota Kartak saw High school diplomas forged and criminal records concealed so quotas could be met by enlisting unqualified and marginal recruits. He called the army s fraud waste and abuse hot line. The army s response was to order him to undergo two psychological evaluations with one Superior telling Hospital officials he has lodged numerous complaints recently. I find his behaviour highly  was vindicated after an inquiry found 58 people in his office guilty of dealing in drugs forging documents and demanding sex from a female recruit. But the Price of the vindication was High and the abuse of the hot line sys tem s confidentiality was evident the handbook  recounting so Many horror Sto Ries the authors admit they May have scared some people from blowing the whistle. If so perhaps you weren t ready they  you Are still determined to do so we now Hope that you will do it in a careful and effective Way they say. We Hope this handbook lets you do the right thing for your country while trying to protect your career and personal life. Good  free copies of the handbook can be obtained by writing to the project nonmilitary procurement 613 Pennsylvania ave. Be Washington , 20003  
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