European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. December 21. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Bush weighs wider military role in drug War Washington api president Bush Mcl with defense Secretary  Cheney and attorney general Richard Thornburgh to consider the merits of a wider military role in the War on drugs administration officials said. The subject of 1 us Day s Oval office session was a recent Justice department Legal opinion suggesting that the . Military could legally arrest drug offend ers overseas. Bush advocated use of the military for raids on strongholds of drug Kingpins during last year s presidential Campaign. He hinted at a miliary role in his sept. 6 anti drug speech to the nation. Bui at the time aides said he did not envision an overseas Mission. However presidential spokesman Marlin Fiu water said the session was to sort All this  including possible use of the military to interdict drug traffickers in the source countries. Bush has expressed recent frustration with the in crease of drug related violence in Colombia and with his inability to influence events in Panama. Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega is under indictment in Florida on drug trafficking charges. At tuesday s session Cheney presented to Bush a preliminary report on the role of the military in the anti drug Effort said White House spokeswoman Alix Glen. A final strategy will be  she said. White House officials Over the weekend acknowledged receiving the Justice department opinion and said it was being studied. The Legal opinion said that the 1878 Law which pro Hibits the military from functioning As a police Agency on . Soil has no bearing overseas. The report was written in november at the request of the White House by assistant attorney general William p. Barr. Head of the Justice department s of fice of Legal counsel. Its existence was disclosed last week. At the Pentagon tuesday spokesman Pete Williams said the Legal opinion would not automatically mean an expanded military role in the drug War. It s a Justice department option not a policy he said. White racists suspected in wave of bombings Mountain Brook Ala. A bomb sniffing dogs and dozens of police provided Security wednesday at the Fune ral of a Federal judge killed by a parcel bomb in a wave of attacks that May have been carried out b White racists. More than 700 mourners including attorney general  Thornburgh and Fri director William s. Sessions filled a suburban Church for the service in Mem Ory of . Circuit judge Robert Vance. The 58-year-old Vance was killed by a package bomb saturday. Fri agents scythe bomb and three others including the one that killed Savannah ga., lawyer Robert Robinson. 42, on monday All bore Georgia return addresses or Post Marks. Links to a act school desegregation efforts have been established in Al four cases leading investigators to speculate that a White racist group May be responsible. After police defused a bomb at an a act office in Jackson Ville. Fla., tuesday the organization placed All its offices on Alert. Four Anonymous letters mailed Ina gust to declare War on various Feder Al appeals courts arc being examined for clues to the bombings Fri spokes Man Greg Jones said wednesday in Washington. St. Luke s episcopal Church in quiet area of this wooded exclusive suburb of Birmingham was sur rounded by police barriers. Among those attending was supreme court Justice Anthony Kennedy who oversees Vance s appellate circuit. Vance s wife. Helen remained hospitalized from wounds received in the bombing. William Hinshaw. Agent in charge of the Atlanta Fri office told the Bir Mingham news in an interview published wednesday that the deadly pack age addressed to Vance was mailed thursday from Newnan a town of about 11,500 people 30 Miles South West of Atlanta. The bomb that killed Robinson on monday is believed to have been mailed Friday from Macon 82 Miles Southeast of Atlanta. Hinshaw said but the Post Mark was destroyed in the Mas. The Atlanta Constitution quoted unidentified sources As saying it bore a return address in Warner Robins a town near Macon. The bomb found tuesday in Jack Sonville also was mailed Friday from Macon. Hinshaw said. A Jacksonville a act official. Lloyd n. Pearson told the Macon Telegraph and news the package bore the return address of a Warner Robins lawyer. Another device was mailed saturday from the Atlanta area o the 11th . Circuit court of appeals clerk s office in Atlanta Hinshaw said and the Constitution reported it bore the return address of an Atlanta lawyer. The court on which Vance served handled appeals of Federal cases from Georgia Al Obama and Florida. That bomb was removed safely. All four bombs reportedly were designed to hurl nails or shrapnel. One possible link Between the cases Fri agent Allen  a reconstructed version of the parcel bomb. Was the a act s efforts to desegregate Southern schools authorities said. Evi Dence included Vance wrote the Lith circuit s unanimous opinion three months ago that ruled in favor of the a act in a desegregation suit against the Jackson Ville. Fla. Schools. Robinson a Black City Alderman represented the a act in another de segregation Case involving Savannah area schools. The Jacksonville a act chapter talked with Robinson about its desegregation Case but Robinson did not represent them. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Dec. 21, 1949 a widespread storm with Arctic winds and heavy Snow swept the Western United Stales leaving parts of Montana with temperatures of 29 below Zero. 30 years ago today. Dec. 21, 1959 typhoon Gilda swept through Manila leaving thousands of filipinos homeless. Damage was estimated at Over $1 million. 20 years ago today. Dec. 21, 1969 billionaire h. Ross Perot announced that he would Airlift 90 tons of Christmas dinners and supplies to american prisoners of War in North Vietnam. 10 years ago today. Dec. 21,1979 in Tehran militant students Rule that relatives would not be allowed Christmas visits to the 50 americans being held hostage. A government spokesman refused to say whether the captives would be permitted to attend Church services during the holi Day period something which had been promised ear Lier by the iranian government. 3 killed in truck train collision in dense California Valley fog Stockton. Calif. A an Amtrak train smashed into a tractor trailer in dense fog and derailed tuesday. The train s Engineer and fireman and the truck Driver were killed and 54 others were injured authorities reported. It was like a  said passenger Phyllis Ferguson of Stockton. I was sitting there Reading the paper and then crash. Fire. I was thrown to the floor. Scats crumpled ahead and behind me. Everybody was screaming and  i was collecting tickets and then All hell broke  said conductor Gary Burke. I wound up flying into the next  the Engineer and fireman were killed when the engine careened off the tracks overturned and exploded the California Highway patrol said. The patrol said the Driver of the truck which was loaded with chocolate syrup also was killed. The names of the dead were not released. Several passengers said the train and ground were so covered with chocolate from the truck that they slipped when they tried to leave the train. The train was travelling southbound from Oakland to Bakersfield on Amtrak s san Joaquin Valley route through the California Valley s dense Winter Tulc fog. Highway patrol spokesman Bob Whitmire said 23 seriously injured people were taken by ambulances to area hospitals and 31 with less serious injuries were taken by bus. He said 87 uninjured passengers we retaken to the Riverbank Amtrak station about 20 Miles South of the crash site. Amtrak spokesman Arthur Lloyd said the train was going about 70 Mph when it hit the truck. Evidently the vehicle ignored lights and went right in front of the train Lloyd said. The Highway patrol however said the cause of the crash was not yet known. Claire Austin a spokeswoman for the fed Raj rail Road administration in Washington d.c., said the train was travelling within the Speed limit. On that stretch of track the Speed limit is 79 Mph she said. She added that on that stretch there were no clamps on Speed on that track because of weather con  the National weather service reported there had been Zero visibility almost constantly since monday night in the Northern san Joaquin Valley. Dense fog caused a 69-Vehicie pileup near Tracy West of Stock ton monday morning and a series of accidents involved 55 vehicles farther South in Merced county