European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 3, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7library worker charged with stealing books Philadelphia apr a part time employee of the University of Pennsylvania Library was charged with stealing More than 100 books and documents including a 1611 copy of Shakespeare so Hamlet a authorities said thursday. The works valued at More than $1.45 million were recovered they said. City police charged Kathleen Wilkerson a part time worker in the Van Pelt Library a rare books department with one count each of theft and receiving stolen property said Wayne r. Gilbert the of big Stop agent in Philadelphia. If convicted Wilkerson 33, would face three to five years in prison. No other arrests were imminent but the investigation was continuing officials said. Id Tarod mushers will be dogged by natures Nightmare this year Anchorage Alaska apr when the id Tarod Trail sled dog race gets under Way saturday the 70 mushers could be facing some of the worst conditions the race has seen since its inception in 1973. A a nature is throwing everything at us it can. It might slow things Down a bit a said race manager Jack Niggemyer. Wind chill temperatures to 60 degrees below Zero the deepest Snow in a Quarter Century Ash from redoubt Volcano and Gale Force winds Are combining to make things extremely difficult for Trai Breakers who Are trying to Groom the 1,100-mile run on Snow machines. At least 30 inches of new Snow on the South Side of the Alaska Range has virtually smothered hundreds of Miles of Trail and winds in the desolate Farewell Burn have shaped 8-foot drifts that threaten to turn into a Frozen pattern of furrows that could twist lines tax dogs and snap sleds. A your Nightmare has come True a Niggemyer said. The id Tarod was stalled by deep Snow in 1985, the Only time the run officially has been postponed in its 18-year history the halt was called because dog food supplies had not reached snowed in checkpoints. Niggemyer said the food situation is in better shape this year. The Skwentna and Finger Lake checkpoints have been supplied and materials were headed for the Rohn checkpoint on tuesday he said. The Trail however is another matter. Trai Breakers were stuck with their Snow machines in deep Snow on the South Side of the Alaska Range earlier this week and movement since then has been sporadic. Parts of the Trail Are Best described As a Trench and mushers Are wondering How they will pass one another or whether  even be Able to pull off the Trail to feed their dogs. Niggemyer said he had thought about that problem earlier and tried to take care of it. Trai Breakers had tried to carve passing lanes and rest stops into the Snow until the last big snowfall changed priorities. A now Trai Breakers have been told to forget the passing lanes. Just Cut a one Lane Road to Nome. A let the mushers worry about passing themselves a Niggemyer said. Another problem could be angry Moose which in the past have attacked dog teams and which this year Are proving aggressive about protecting what feeding territory they have in the shoulder deep Snow. Buffalo also have been reported camped out on the Trail in the Farewell Burn area and then there Are the Standard problems of fatigue cold sick dogs faulty headlamps missing food drops and broken gear. Vermont guard Al 6s intercept soviet jets Burlington it. Up a two Vermont air National guard fighter jets intercepted a pair of soviet reconnaissance planes off the coast of Newfoundland thursday and escorted them away from american and Canadian airspace officials said. The Al 6s were scrambled from their base in Burlington at about 4 . And met up with the soviet Tu-95 a Bear do aircraft at 6 40 . About 250 nautical Miles Southeast of St. Johns Newfoundland it. Lloyd Goodrow of the Vermont air National guard said. The soviets were heading Northeast and were escorted by the Vermont fighters for about one hour until they cleared the Canadian air defense identification zone a Buffer area outside Canadian airspace. Under International Law planes entering air defense identification zones Are supposed to identify themselves and declare their intent Goodrow said. A the soviets just done to identify themselves so we have to go out there and determine who they Are a Goodrow said. Goodrow said the soviet planes were allowed no closer than 220 nautical Miles East Southeast of St. Johns and never entered . Or Canadian airspace. During the same operation two Canadian air Force Cf-18 fighters from the 425th tac fighter so detachment were sent from their Alert facility in Gander Newfoundland to intercept two soviet Tu-95 a Bear of a Antisubmarine aircraft that were trailing about 100 nautical Miles behind the reconnaissance planes. The soviet aircraft were detected by the 776th radar so in Bangor Maine and the Mission was directed by a . Air Force airborne warning and control system aircraft from tinker fab in Oklahoma. The fighter jets were refuelled three times during the Mission by a Kc-135 from the 42nd bombardment Wing of Loring fab in Maine. The intercepts were completed without incident and the american f-l6s returned to Burlington at 9 55 . Thursdays was the Vermont air National guards first intercept since february 1989, and the 31st since the unit was assigned interceptor duty in 1987. The Vermont jets Are assigned to the 158th fighter interceptor group and Are controlled by the North american aerospace defense  plane View Rockwell corp. Rolled out its x-31a venture with West Germany a mob enhanced fighter Maneule ability co., will serve As a test platform for demonstrator in Palmdale calif., the exploration of controlled High thursday. The plane built As a joint Angle of attack  wins confirmation As surgeon general Washington apr or. Antonia Coello Novello was confirmed by the Senate As surgeon general the first woman and first hispanic to hold the Post. The action came thursday on a voice vote without debate. She succeeds c. Everett Koop who stepped Down in december in the nations top health Post. The surgeon general is the head of the United states Public health service. A 45-year-old paediatrician and expert on aids in children Novello has been Deputy director of the National Institute of child health and human development. Army wants homosexual Cadet to reimburse Roth scholarship by the new York times a Reserve officer training corps hearing officer has recommended the army try to reclaim the scholarship Money it gave to a Cadet who is homosexual. The Cadet 24-year-old James m. Holo Baugh had been a top performer in his Roth class at Washington University in St. Louis and had even appeared in an Roth recruiting advertisement before telling the army last year that he is homosexual. After a preliminary hearing in december the hearing officer found no evidence Holobaugh had wilfully evaded army requirements but recommended nonetheless that Roth a Edisen Roll him and order him to repay the scholarship Money. Holobaugh said the four year scholarship came to about $25,000. The department of defense has a longstanding policy against admitting homosexuals into the armed forces. On monday the supreme court refused to consider two challenges to the policy. It. Col. John Calvin Blake a spokesman for army Roth said he did not know How Many cadets were discharged for homosexuality each year. A this is probably the first Case like this in be seen involving reimbursement of a scholarship to a homosexual Cadet a Blake said. A but the investigation is still ongoing and whatever the nearing officer recommended has to go through a careful review before there is a final  Holobaugh who expects to graduate this Spring said that when he entered College in 1984 he was dating women and had no idea he was homosexual. He said he began to realize he was homosexual in late 1988 and reported his homosexuality to Roth officials in april Holobaugh said �?o1 1989. A looking Back a Tiofio Vaugn would have been better off if i Hadnot told them i was Gay. I think 1 could have gone ahead into the reserves for eight years and they  have found out. But in a also glad in a not trying to hide  Washington University supports Holobaugh. The Provost of the University wrote a letter to it. Col. Robert l. Bates the schools Roth commander saying the ban on homosexuals was a inconsistent with the non discriminatory values of this and i should think virtually All  the Provost Edward s. Macias added that Holobaugh should not be required to reimburse the army for his scholarship since a it is the army a stance on homosexuality not evasive action by Cadet Holobaugh which prevents his commissioning. A