European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday. September 20, 1989 new coalition targets Low level flights w. German officials Issue demands by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau seven groups of West German local government officials demanded an end to All military Low level flights in their country As they formed a National coalition tuesday in Bonn. West German defense minister Gerhard Stolten Borg has agreed to meet with coalition representatives Early nest month to discuss their demands according to one organizer. Jurgin  the mayor of the Western bavarian City of Dinkl Bilhl. The coalition considers the elimination of military flights below 300 meters about 990 feet a Long Range goal so it issued three Short term demands As Well Walch shofar said. They include immediate reduction and More equal distribution of Low level flights an imposition of flight Speed limits to reduce noise and the requirement that the restrictions apply to All nato pilots flying in West Germany. The West German air Force conducted 38 percent of All Low level military flights Over the country in 19x8. According to a current Safe Booklet on the subject. The . And British air forces Lew 20 percent each with dutch belgian Canadian and French forces accounting for the remainder of the flights. Walc Shofer said the seven regional organizations each located in one of the seven West German areas where Low level flights arc allowed decided to join forces to give themselves the political muscle necessary to influence the Federal government. He said the coalition recognizes the government s responsibility to provide defences for the country but criticizes it for what the coalition Calls two decades of failure to alleviate military Jet noise from Low level flying. We protest fully the fact that the government has t done anything for such a Long  he said. Walch shofar said the coalition draws moral support from two West German court decisions this year. Recently a Darmstadt court banned Low level flights Over schools and hospitals and a court in the Northern West German City of Oldenburg banned them Over an entire county. The Federal government has appealed the latter Deci Sion and a higher court in Luneburg still is considering the Appeal.  said. He said the coalition also takes heart in a recent Welt am sonntag newspaper interview with . Army Gen. John r. Calvin the nato european commander in which Galvin said he supports the West German government s efforts to find ways to reduce the Burden of aircraft noise on its citizens. Hugo from Page 1 teen frees All hostages gives up northeastern part of the Island then skirted its populous Northern coast on monday. It churned on to the Northwest and toward open water. It whirled past but missed the dominican Republic. At least 25 people in the Caribbean died from the storm said Cizan Etle Riv Era a spokeswoman for the civil de sense in puerto Rico. Hugo s winds overturned cars peeled roofs off houses and office buildings and sent chunks of Concrete plunging into streets in san Juan. Fifty air planes were reported destroyed mangled into twisted wrecks at the Isla verde Airport. In Hawaii Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan said $500,000 in emergency assistance funds were released to Ai storm stricken areas of puerto Rico and the . Virgin islands. Federal teams reached the . Virgin islands to assess damages tuesday be fore deciding whether to recommend disaster Relief. Looting by Machete Wield ing mobs was reported on the Island of St. Thomas in the . Virgin islands. Looting was also reported in san Juan. Sailboats were blown out of the water and thrown up to 150 feet on Shore in , and some waterfront businesses have disappeared. Hugo s itinerary included some of the most idyllic pearls in a 750 mile Long necklace of Caribbean Isles be ginning sunday with the French resort of Guadeloupe in the Leeward islands. Five were killed 80 injured and More than 10,000 lost their Homes there. Mckee by. A a heavily armed teen Ager apparently acting out author Stephen King s thriller rage took 11 classmates hostage during a Daylong standoff that ended with his surrender after nine hours authorities said. No injuries were reported. Dustin Pierce a 17-year-old straight a student was detained by police monday evening after he released his last two hos tages Laid Down three guns and surrendered. Charges were not immediately filed. A copy of rage and some personal writings found in i circe s room at his grandparents House were helpful in pro Viding clues to what he planned said stale police detective Bob Stephens who negotiated with Pierce. Stephens said he had been worried by parts of Pierce s writing that indicated suicide was what we d have to Deal with at the  in King s novel a teen Ager enraged at his father takes hostages at a school is shot and wounded by police and ends up in an institution. Like the character in the Book. Pierce was upset with his father whom he had not seen for 13 years and asked to see him authorities said. Police arranged to have the father whose name was not released brought from Delray Beach fla., but Pierce sur rendered before his arrival. Throughout the Day Stephens traded food cigarettes and soft drinks for hostages. More than a dozen state police officers went to the school just South of my acc a town of about 1.000 people some 65 Miles Southeast of Lexington. Police were concerned about references in Pierce s writing to dying at 9 o clock. He said it la All end at 9," Stephens guns. Said. We did t want that 9 o clock  Pierce surrendered at 6 30 . Sharon Judd who had gone to school with Pierce since fourth Grade called him a quiet straight a student who liked Dustin Pierce 17, stares out the window of a police car after his surrender. Bush from Page 1 said. The plan is now in House and Senate subcommittees. Bush proposed a 10 billion ton reduction in acid rain producing Fulfur dioxide emissions by the year 2000, a 2 million ton reduction in nitrous oxide and a40 percent Cut in other emissions that cause Urban smog. It also Calls for use of alternative fuels in i million vehicles by 1997. Environmentalists and their allies in Congress have criticized the goals As too modest and said the plan would leave too much to the discretion of the Environ mental Protection Agency and in some cases to the affected industries. Bush winding up a two Day swing that also took him to Centennial celebrations in South Dakota and Montana said the Majestic Spokane River coursing through downtown Spokane Over waterfalls and Volca Nic outcroppings has been reborn from its once polluted state and is a Symbol of the nation s Environ mental Progress. Today i m asking All americans to join in a renewed spirit of conservation a new commitment to a More careful stewardship of the natural  he praised a waste disposal fee system in Seattle that he said has Cut waste by nearly one fourth. He said those results need to be duplicated everywhere in  the president was scheduled to Plant a Centennial Elm tree before flying Back to Washington with Foley on air Force one. Bush in a news conference monday in the Montana state Senate Chambers in Helena urged Congress to get on with his $7.9 billion anti drug strategy. The american people want action he said. There s a certain frustration level when we come out with a sound program and two answers come out spend More and raise taxes he said. Also during the news conference. Bush announced plans to Grant Hungary most favored nation trading status in recognition of its political and economic reforms. Said he feels in no Rush to hold a Summit with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Bush defended the Pace of strategic arms negotiations and he said the United Stales is not going to just react to proposals by soviet foreign minister Eduard she Ard Nadza. Bush will see Shevardnadze at the White House on thursday before the soviet official s weekend Retreat with Secretary of stale James a. Baker i in Wyoming. Said there is no hard intelligence evidence that colombian drug lords arc targeting his family but warned that any attack would just bring Down the total Wrath of the american people and the american  called it too soon after the Tiana men massacre to resume total normalcy of .-chinese relations. Bush said there Are still great difficulties there but he defended ties with Beijing by . Businessmen including his brother. Declared that if the two Germany decide to reunite i do not think we should View that As bad for Western  decried recent racial violence in new York and elsewhere saying it says something ugly whenever there s an incident of that  but he refused to Call it a trend. Jet with 170 aboard missing Paris a a dc-10 passenger aircraft on a flight from Gnu Avilla Congo to Paris with 170 people on boar disappeared tuesday soon after Takeoff from a Stopover in n Ndjamena Chad the French airline Uta said. The airline said there was no indication of the plane s Fate More than five hours after Contact was lost. Uta flight 772 was carrying 155 passengers and 15 Crew  last radio Contact Between the plane and air traffic controllers came 40 to so minutes after leaving the Airport at n Ndjamena and everything appeared Normal the airline said