European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday january 5,1990 news update heating Oil leak Linden . A More than 500,000 Gallons of heating Oil not 5,000, May have leaked into the Busy Arthur kill shipping Channel from a break in an Exxon pipeline the coast guard said wednesday. Coast guard. Spokesman Jelt crawly said Exxon issued the new estimate after taking an inventory of its supplies. He said 420.000 to546,000 Gallons could have leaked. The coast guard previously estimated 5,000 Gallons of the Light weight no. 2 Oil had spilled into the Channel which separate Staten Island n.y., from new Jer sey. The spill discovered tuesday morning resulted from a break in a 12-Inch pipe at Exxon s Bayway terminal part of the Oil giant s largest East coast refinery. Wine tainting Case Milan Italy a a Public prosecutor called wednesday for the indictment of 18 people accused in a wine tainting scandal that killed 19 people in 1986. The Public prosecutor in Milan Alberto Nobili accused nine peo ple of voluntary murder and Crimi Nal association for the production and marketing of wine tainted with methanol. Others were accused of adulteration. Those accused of the most serious charges included wine producers Giovanni Ciravegna and his son Danice of a Arzota in the Northern Piedmont Region. An investigating magistrate is to decide whether to order the accused to stand trial. According to investigators the winemakers and their alleged accomplices added Methyl alcohol or methanol to Low Quality wine to raise the alcoholic Content. A excess of methanol in some bottles caused the deaths. The Case prompted the seizure of thousands of bottles of wine throughout Italy and abroad an caused millions of dollars in dam age to the country s wine Industry. Change in tuition Aid will limit funds to Job related courses Bidav Walczak education writer Heidelberg West Germany soldiers who enrol in degree programs and College courses unrelated to their jobs will no longer be eligible for tuition assistance after april 15. In addition soldiers who withdraw fro courses for other than personal emergencies must repay the tuition payments. Wymer Weddig chief of the programs ranch of the continuing Educa Tion systems in Heidelberg said thurs Day that the wants to link Educa Tion spending to soldiers jobs. Reddig predicted the change would Lead to More soldiers enrolling in degree programs linked directly to their Well see an increase in manage ment degree programs. Or Law enforce ment degrees he said. He said Cost was not the reason for the changes. We won t Sec a reduction in funding of the program. That was not the driving Force behind the spent More than $13 Mil lion for tuition assistance during fiscal1989, and Reddig said officials expect to spend at least that much in fiscal 1990.under the program the pays 75 percent of tuition costs for each semester hour. Soldiers pay the other 25 percent. Usa eur made about 89,500 Tui Tion assistance payments in fiscal 1989 for undergraduate courses and 3,500payments for Post graduate courses. An education official refused to estimate How Many payments were made for courses outside soldiers Job specialities. The has never kept records of How Many soldiers used tuition ats it acc but an education official said a new computer program will allow Usa Eurto do so beginning this fiscal year. Reddig said his office will Issue More tuition assistance policy guidelines next week. The guidelines will emphasize that of courses within a degree program still qualify for tuition assistance Money. For example an no enrolled in a Bachelor of arts degree program in management can qualify for tuition assistance for an Art history course if the degree program requires the course. An education official said the repayment provision will put More responsibility on commanders because Field duty will no longer exempt soldiers from repaying the for withdrawal from College level courses. Both Germany now letting soldiers military civilians visit the other Side by de Reavis staff writer the fall of the Iron curtain has opened the Way for soldiers serving inthe military services of West Germany and East Germany to see the other Side. Since mid december members of the West German bund Sychr and civilians who work for it can travel to communist countries without reporting to anyone. The East German also recently began to allow its military and civilian personnel to travel to the West for the firs time a West German defense official said. Under the regulation they have to inform the East German defense ministry of their plans but do not need permission. It. Col. Wolf Poulet press spokesman for the West German defense ministry said that those with top secret Clear ances must inform their offices that they plan to travel in a communist they do not need permission. However persons working for our military intelligence units or other highly sensitive areas such As for institutions such As nato must have permission to travel to the East Poulet said. It is Sel Dom granted he said. The new regulation issued by the West German ministry of Interior applies to All government agencies. It replaces a 1973 regulation Poulet said. That ruling required military Mem Bers and civilians working for the de sense department to inform their superiors that they were planning such travel no permission was required. Military and civilian employees wit top secret clearances could not travel without permission which was Seldom granted Poulet said. The ministry of Interior made the Rul ing to reflect the new political situation in be had no problem in putting the ruling into effect Poulet said. It do snot impinge in any Way on the Security of nato and our soldiers Are very Happy about 210 die in rail Accident in Pakistan property sales Wiesbaden West Germany de sense re utilization and marketing office officials have announced that a retail Sale and an auction i l be held Jan. 12. The Sec Konheim retail Sale open Only to . Identification card holders will take place from 9 to 11 . At the Frie Drichas fold quartermaster service Center building 1040. Items for Sale include typewriters wooden furniture general merchandise clothing audiovisual equipment and household goods. Only dollars will be accepted and Pur chases must be removed the Day of the Sale. All sales arc final. The Public is invited to the property auction to be held in building 12 at the Mainz Kastel storage station. Bidder registration begins at 8 ., and the auction starts at 9 . The merchandise includes cars medi Cal equipment typewriters clothing sleeping bags and electronic equipment. Beginning tuesday items May be inspected from 9 . To noon and 1 to 3 . In building 42 at the Mainz Kaste storage station. Customers May pay in dollars or Marks. All sales Are final. Purchases Mustbe removed by Jan. 25. Additional information is available from the demo at the locations. Karachi Pakistan a packed passenger train was switched onto the wrong track and slowed into standing freight train Early thursday killing 210 people in the worst rail disaster in Pakistan s history officials said. Many of the estimated 700 injure were trapped in mangled and derailed coaches of the 16-car passenger train. troops rushed to the scene in Southern Pakistan and helped extricate victims from the wreckage. Railway officials said rescuers recovered 188 dead by thursday afternoon. But officials at the scene said there were210 known dead. The death toll was Likely to Rise As troops with Metal torches searched through the passenger train was packed beyond its 1,408-seat capacity when trav Eling at More than 35 Mph it hit the empty freight train said Muktar Ahmad Abassi. The regional traffic officer for Pakistan said the Engineer had no Chance to was apparently a lineman s fault who put the passenger train on the same track said Accident occurred 225 Miles North of the port City of Karachi at City s Deputy administrative com missioner Hazul Baksh said its seven hospitals were overflowing with injured and some of the injured were min moved to other cities. Shukkur s hospitals have about 300 Beds in said hundreds of people had responded to an Appeal for said three cars of the passenger train each seating 88 people were destroyed and two were badly damaged. Rites planned for automation manager we Brucken West Germany is a memorial mass will be held thursday for a Veteran . Government employee who died dec. 28. Robert f. Odenthal director of information management at Zweir Ilcken s 73rd signal in died in a Homburg hos Pital after a Long bout with , a Boston native who grew up in new York City was a leading com Puter professional for the . Army in Europe for nearly 30 years. He was government employee for 43 years. He held top level data processing management positions in Poitiers and Orleans France and in West Ger is credited with shaping the Early Standard automation systems in sup ply maintenance transportation calibration depot operations finance and person Nel while serving with the computer systems command support group Europe. He became the director for All information areas for the we Brocken Mesa communities under the 1985 information management area realignment Odenthal is survived by his wife Jean nine and three children Nathalie Jen Nifer and was buried tuesday in France. Thursday s mass will be at 2 . At the Kreuzberg Cavern Chapel. Powell to address military seminar in Vienna Washington is Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will be the principal . Speaker at a High level seminar on military Doc Trine in Vienna Austria. The seminar the first of its kind to be held in the Post world War ii Era will bring together High level military officials from nato and Warsaw pact nations As Well As the Neutral and non aligned countries of Europe. Representatives from All 35 countries taking part in the negotiations on Confidence and Security building measures will be represented at the seminar which will focus on each nation s military Doc Trine and capabilities. Powell will open the proceedings Jan. 16 when he Speaks on . Military Doc Trine and its relationship to the posture of . Conventional forces in Europe. He will leave Vienna the following Day. The seminar is the result of a nato proposal made when the Confidence and Security building measures talks opened last March. It is expected to end feb. 5
