European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday january 6,1990 heating Oil leak Linden . Api More than 300,000 Gallons 06 heating Oil not 5,000. May have Lead into the Busy Arthur kill shipping Channel from a break in in Exon pipeline the coast guard said wednesday. Coast guard spokesman jct Crawley said Exxon i cued the new estimate after Tak Nuhn in Emory of its supplies. He Slid 420.000 to 546,000 Gallons Coul have leaked. The coast guard previously estimated 5.000 Gallott of the Light weight no. 2 Oil ran spilled into the Channel who Khz separates Staten Island  from new Jer sey. The spill disco Rcd tuesday morning resulted Horn a break in a 12-Inch pipe at Exon s Bayway terminal part of he Oil giant s largest East coast refinery. Wine taint Jug Case Milan Italy Asp a Public prosecutor called a wednesday for the indictment of in people accused in a wine Tain Fig scandal that killed 19pc9pleifirf986. The Public prom Tutor in Milan Alberto Nabih accused nine peo ple of voluntary it order and Onmi Nal association for the production and marketing w wine tainted with methanol. Otters were accused of adulteration those accused of the most serious charges included wine producers Giovanni Cira Rifca and his son Daniel. Of a Arzota in the Northern Piedmont Region Jan investigating magistrate is to decide whether to order the accused to stand trial. According to Tiv estimators the Winc makers and heir alleged accomplices added Nethyl alcohol or methanol to Tow Quality wine to raise the alcoholic Content. An excess of methanol in some bottles caused the deaths. The Case prompted the seizure of thousands of bottles of win throughout Italy acid abroad and caused millions of dollars in dam age to the country s wine Industry. Transplant patient Chicago a doctor shave upgraded the condition of a Little girl who received the nation s first living donor liver transplant and she May be sent Home to Texas As Early As next week. Alyssa Smith s condition was upgraded to Good on tuesday said University of Chicago medical Center spokeswoman Susan Phil lips. Alyssa who is 22 months old and lives in suburban san Anto Nio received part of her Mother Sliver on nov. 27. Sarina Jones the nation s Sec Ond recipient of a liver from a live donor remained in critical but Sta ble condition wednesday. The 16 month old girl from Millington tcnn., received part of her father s liver dec. 8. Honecker freed East Berlin a East Germany s ousted Leader Erich Honecker has been released from House arrest and has been offered a new place to live the official news Agency adn said thursday. Adn said that no Legal grounds were  to continue the House arrest against Honecker. Honecker 77,  ousted As East Germany s Leader on oct. 18 following mounting pressure from pro democracy Reform  German officials announced in december that because of his illness. Honecker had been placed under House arrest after charges of massive corruption in the former government were raised. Change in tuition Aid will limit funds to Job related courses by Dave Walcza 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 Aldr april 15. In addition soldiers who withdraw from courses for other than personal emergencies must repay the tuition payments. Werner Rcd dig chief of the programs Branch of the army continuing Educa Tion systems in Heidelberg said thurs Day that the army 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 careers. Maybe Well Sec 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  Usa eur spent More than $13 Mil lion for tuition assistance during fiscal1989, and Reddig said army officials expect to spend at least that much in fiscal 1990. Under the program the army 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 army education official refused to estimate How Many payments were made for courses outside soldiers Job specialities. The army has never kept records of How Many soldiers used tuition assist Ance but an education official said a new computer program will allow Usa eur to do so beginning this fiscal year. Rcd dig said his office will Issue More tuition assistance policy guidelines next week. The guidelines will emphasize that Al 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  army education official said the repayment provision will put More responsibility on commanders because Field duty will no longer exempt Soldier from repaying the army for withdrawals from College level courses. Jef lends after losing 1 of 3 engines Tampa Fla. A leaking water from a toilet May have caused an engine to fall off a Northwest airlines jetliner thursday forcing an emergency Landing Federal investigators said. The right engine one of three mounted on the Tail of the Boeing 727, was sheared off about an hour after flight 5 left Miami in route to Minneapolis St. Paul about 8 . National transportation safety Board investigators began examining the plane almost immediately after its Landing at Tampa International Airport. No injuries were reported among the 139 Pas sengers and six Crew members. We found that the Forward right lava tory did not have any fluid in it. An the rubber ring for the outside servicing of this unit was shifted off Center said Andrew Alston an Nosb investigator. We did find massive Blue streaking which is from the Blue water along the right Side of the  Alston said that at the 35,000-foot Altitude where the engine fell off the fluid could have Frozen and entered the intake of the engine. He refused to speculate further on How that might have affected the loss of the engine. Boeing spokesman Tom Cole in Seattle noted that engines on a 727 Are designed to break off if sudden vibrations threaten to tear a plane apart an the so called Blue ice could cause such vibrations. Blue ice is a definite possibility Cole said. Twice before when engines fell off Boeing 727s on a Dallas to Sandiego flight in 1985 and on a flight Over Sierra Blanca Texas in 1975 lavatory ice was raised As a possible cause he said. It can do serious damage Cole  have been found that weighed 10 to 15  Alston stressed the investigation Wasin its Early stages and the most important information will come from the missing engine which dropped Over the Rural Marshlands of Northern  of defense radar information is being used to help locate the 3.500-Pound engine he said. Investigators were interviewing some Crew members the plane s Miami ground personnel and passengers about the incident. The flight Crew initially believed the no. 3 engine had flamed out and they made several attempts to restart it flying for several minutes without realizing the engine had fallen off Alston said. 20 die in rail Accident in Pakistan Karroll Pakistan a a packed Passyn Futi train was switched onto the wrong Tram and slowed into a standing freight train july thursday killing 210 people in the win roil disaster in Pakistan s history official said. Many of the estimated 700 in were trapped in mangled and do rail coaches of the 16-car passenger train. Army 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 loll was Likely to Rise As troops with Metal torches searched through the wreckage. The passenger train was packed pfc Pond its 1,408-Scal capacity when a re cling at More than 35 Man it Jin the empty freight train said Mujaj Jar Ahmad Shintei. The regional tray Ltd officer for . Fhe Sai t1-�ienginffr had no Chance to Brake. It was am  lineman s fault who put  on the same track  mtg want occurred 225 Miles North of it City of Karachi at Shukkur. Rhc City s Deputy administrative com missioner Hazul Baksh said its seven hospitals were overflowing with injured and some of the injured were being 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 automb4ion manager we Brucken West a Conj my is a memorial mass will a held thursday for a Veteran . Government employee who died dec. 28? Robert f. Odenthal Ufi Factor of information manage meet at Zweir Ilcken s 73rd signal in died in a Homburg hos Pital after a lop about with cancer. Of Denchak a Boston native who Gre up in new York cite was a leading com Puter professional for the . Army in Europe for nearly 30 years. He was a government employee for 43 years. He held lop level data processing management positions in Poitiers and Orleans France and in Zweir Ilcken West Ger Many. He is credited with shaping the Early Standard army automation systems in sup ply maintenance transportation calibration depot operations finance and person Nel while serving with the computer suit pcs command support group Europe. He became the director for All information areas Jar the  Miessau communities Micor the 1985 information management area radian men. Odenthal is Surv Veuy 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 Krecu Zberg Cavern Chapel. Powell address military Washington a St by a Quin "9ns As we As Job to citral and non Powell chairman of the joint c Hicen if .-4kncd up bahts of Europe. Staff will be the principal . Speaker re a i la tics from All 35 countries at a High level seminar on military a pc taking  on conf Trine in Vienna Austria. Dence and Security Tetli Ujj the seminar the first fits kind to be will be represented at the ser held in the Post world War ii Era will will focus on each nation s military bring together High level military offi Trine and capabilities vials from nato and Warsaw pact a Powell will open the proceedings Jan. Measures 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 opel jail March. It is expected to end fcb