European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday january 23,1990 news updates gasoline prices los Angeles i i Gaso line prices climbed nearly 2 a cols in mid january but the unusual wintertime upward trend May be waning Industry analyst Trilby Lundburg said sunday. The average Price of a gallon of gasoline on Jan. 19 was 113.06 cents up 1.97 cents since Jan. 5, said Lundburg. Who regularly sur Veys prices at 12.000 gasoline stations across the country. The jump brought gasoline prices to their highest level since late july and was unusual for the Winter season when people Gener ally drive less and demand is Low. But Lundburg said the increases May be coming to an end As cold weather and an accompanying jump in heating Oil prices that fostered the Rise and an increase of More than 4 a cols two weeks before appear to be lessening. Lundburg said. Ruling allows suit new York a families of victims of the 1986 hijacking of a pan american world airways plane in Pakistan can sue the airline for punitive damages a judge has ruled. The decision by . District judge John e. Sprizzo of manhat Tan is the latest in conflicting interpretations of the Warsaw Conven Tion on International air Ravel. On Jan. 3. A Federal judge in Brooklyn. Thomas Plait ruled in a separate Case that the treaty barred punitive damages for families of Pas sengers killed in the december 1988 bombing of pan american right 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland. Plait said the Warsaw Conven Tion restricted International aviation lawsuits to compensatory damages and limited those dam Ages to $75.000, unless wilful misconduct is proved. Sprizzo disagreed. He said no Lan Guage in the treaty expressly pc copts or precludes punitive claims. Sprizzo s ruling stemmed from More than 50 lawsuits filed by the families of victims of the hijacking of a pan am Light from Bombay India to new York on sept. 5,1986. Eagle scout . Will liberalize restrictions on High tech sales to e. Europe Washington a the Bush administration in a move to help East european countries is ready to Case restrictions on sales of High technology computers and other telecommunications equipment . Officials said monday. The decision was made Friday at a meeting of the National Security Council and will be announced shortly. American experts arc in London beginning discussions on a joint approach with British officials. The discussions arc in preparation for a meeting in Paris in mid february of Cocom the coordination committee for multilateral Export control. There the United slates Hopes to work out details of what kind of equipment will be cleared and How much of it. Cocom. Which includes All 16 nato countries except Iceland plus Japan and Australia attempts to coordinate West Ern deliveries of technology to Eastern countries. The United states a been among the most reluctant to provide High technology to allies of the soviet Union. The countries Likely to be assisted in clude Poland. Hungary and Czechoslovakia All of which have shed communist domination and Are adopting capitalistic approaches to their weak economics. The meeting in Paris is designed to adopt uniform rules to guide Lech logy transfers. In this respect the administration s decision to liberalize restrictions could be balanced against the More eager approaches of some other Cocom Mem Bers and produce a Compromise. The net result however would be to deliver better computers and telecommunications equipment to members of the East bloc provided  technology is not then turned Over to the soviet Union. The . Officials who demanded anonymity said the decision made at the National Security Council meeting applied directly Only to Eastern Europe and not to the soviet Union. But. The officials said the principle aiding countries As they adopted Western style economies could eventually be extended to the soviet Union. The decision was first reported in monday s editions of the Washington Post. Wiesbaden rejects plan to return 2 copter companies to army base Wiesbaden. West Germany is the City of Wiesbaden has Given a thumbs Down to West German defense minister Gerhard St Ollenburg s plan to return two . Army helicopter Compa Nies to nearby Eric Nchim. In a letter to Stollon Borg Friday the acting mayor wrote that Wiesbaden continues to oppose the stationing and believes the move is unnecessary because of peaceful developments in the East mayor s office spokeswoman Christine Fiihr said monday. The letter was penned in response to a  letter in which he asked Oslo. Norway Derick Brown a former member of troop 231. Has attained Eagle scout rank the highest Honor in scouting. The former Oslo elementary Junior High school student has been involved in scouting for five years. For his Eagle scout project the 16 year old organized a youth sports association and drafted its Constitution. He then renovated a track and baseball Field in Oslo. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Services planned for teacher in Mainz Mainz West Germany a memo rial service will be held at 3 . Friday in the Lee Barracks Chapel for Eleanor Wilhelmi. A third Grade teacher at Mainz elementary school. Wilhelmi. 59. Died Jan. 15 of cancer. She had taught at the school since 1971. Members of the City s Ami stationing protest group their opinion on the plan. The defense ministry wants the two companies moved Back to Wiesbaden a because the helicopters cannot be properly maintained in Mainz and Hanau. Ministry spokesman Jorg Josl Schattenberg said monday. The 34 aircraft in the two Black Hawk helicopter companies were moved from Wiesbaden a in december 1988 to make room for an Apache attack Heli copter battalion. But the aircraft Are deteriorating in open Fields because the Mainz and Hanau airfields Don t have enough hangars to House them Schattyn Berg said. Last month Stollon Borg granted the army permission to station up to 100 aircraft at Wiesbaden a but that move was blocked by an administrative court injunction at the request of the City. The City will Appeal to the administrative court again if Stolton Borg orders the helicopters returned to the base As he is expected to do. Fuhr said. There arc currently 25 fixed Wing and 32 rotary Wing aircraft at the base in or bin him. Regardless of the number of aircraft flight movements Are limited to 45.000 a year Schattenberg said. 2 gis injured in crash that kills 2 italians Livorno Italy is two ital ians were killed and three other people including 2 american soldiers were injured in a head on Auto Accident Early sunday. Killed in inc 1 30 . Crash were Enrico Denoth 25, a Livorno resident and the Driver of one of inc vehicles and his front seat passenger Elena Croni 25, of Rome. The Driver of the Oiher car spec. Dar Rell b. Rodgers. 20. Was in critical but stable condition monday in a Livorno Hospital. Army spokesman staff sgt. Jeff Fry said monday. Rodgers a truck Driver assigned to the 8th support group at Livorno s Camp Darby is being treated for massive head injuries broken arms and a broken left ankle. Also listed in critical but stable Condi Tion in the same Hospital were two Pas sengers in Denoth s vehicle. Francesca Denoth 23, the Driver s sister and Paola Spinglli 27. Both of Livorno. Fry said the Lone passenger in Rodg cars car. Pfc. Scott Chambers. 22, was treated for cuts and bruises at the Livor no Hospital and released. Chambers is a military policeman assigned to Camp Darby s 13lh my co. According to italian police Rodgers car apparently crossed the Center line of the four Lane Highway and struck de Noah s car head on. Denoth s car came to rest in a ditch while the american car travelled another 300 feet following the i Impact. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash which occurred about seven Miles South of Camp Darby. Italian and american authorities arc investigating the crash. Nature to handle Tanker Gas spill in Alaska Juneau. Alaska a the coast guard has decided to let nature clean up an estimated 57,600 Gallons of gasoline that gushed into Alaska s Island studded inside passage from a grounded Tanker. It s just not recoverable coast guard spokesman de Morch said. The stunt seems to be evaporating quicker than anyone could pick it up. And it s Only in Small patches scattered  the Canadian owned Tanker Frank h. Brown struck Burn Island reef on sat urday night. The Captain who was not identified blamed inc grounding on a judgment error Morch said. The Agency said in look blood and urine samples from Crew members to lest for drug or alcohol use. The 400-foot ship was re floated at High tide sunday and continued under its own Power about 15 Miles up a Nar Row Channel up scow Bay. Jusi South of Petersburg. Do Vars in arc found a 2-foot Hole in one of its tanks. Coast guard and stale environmental officials said damage to fish and wildlife appeared minimal. The decision not to clean up inc spill was made sunday As inc gasoline quickly broke up into several thin Sheens the largest a mile Long. The spill was a traction of the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in which nearly 11 million Gallons of heavy crude Oil poured into Prince William sound last March in the nation s worst Oil spill. Missile proliferation called world threat Vienna Austria a despite Butler relations Between the two super Powers the future is clouded by growing capability of states to produce ballistic missiles a . Army general warned monday. Brig. Gen. John d. Robinson speak ing at an unusual gathering of top East West military leaders also said terrorism and drug trafficking arc prime concerns. Robinson is the director of Force Struc lure resource planning and assessment at the joint staff directorate. The future Robinson told the group holds a strategic environment even More Complex than that of the last 45  the general said some intelligence experts predict thai by the year 2000 some 15 or More count pics will have the Capac Ity to produce and launch ballistic mis Siles. He also pointed to the dangers of indiscriminate use of chemical Wear  the proliferation of nuclear technology too should trouble everyone he said