European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes wednesday March 21,1990 news briefs water again Safe to drink at Canadian housing area we Brucken a West Germany a amps a its Safe to drink tap water again in  a Canadian housing area. The City a stad Twork Agency earlier this month flushed stagnant areas in the water distribution system to remove bacteria that had accumulated. Tech. Sgt. Rick Shick a base spokesman said the City has agreed to conduct periodic tests that would detect a wider Range of bacteria. A the system has a few dead ends. The water does no to circulate As Well there so bacteria can grow a Shick said. A higher than Normal bacteria count in the water Supply last month led base health officials to warn housing residents to boil the water for 15 minutes before drinking. The bacterium known As a Romonas hydrophilic can cause diarrhoea. It is normally present in fresh and Salt water. A we jointly conducted new tests and the results came Back negative a said col. James w. Prouty 26th combat support group commander. It is not known whether anyone got sick after drinking the water. A because the symptoms Are similar to the flu we cannot say for certain that people were affected by the bacteria a said it. Col. Charles Boone base clinic  of schoolmate returns to United states Mannheim West Germany a amps a a 16-Ycar-old american who slashed a schoolmates face during a fight has returned to the United states without facing disciplinary action. The youth who Cut another 16-year-old boy during a feb. 28 fight on the Mannheim High school grounds left with his family according to Christine Gibhart a military Community spokeswoman. The injured boys family decided he should also return to the states she said. Officials Are withholding the boys identities because they Are minors. The Community commander did not direct that the teen agers be returned to the United states Gebhart said. The fight apparently grew from a lunchtime argument. One boy Drew a knife and Cut the other from beneath his right Eye through his nose. Officials were unable to find the knife after the fight she said. The injured teen was taken to a local military clinic and then to the army Hospital in Heidelberg. He later was transferred to a civilian Hospital in the City where a plastic surgeon was available. The boy was released from the Hospital March 3.1 Soldier killed 1 injured in Accident near Bamberg Ansbach West Germany a a 1st army div Soldier was killed saturday and another injured in a on car Accident on autobahn a-73 near Bamberg. Dead at the scene was pfc. Kevin j. Boyd 20, of he co 2nd in 70th army regt in Erlanger. Pfc. Curtis n. Moss was treated for minor injuries and released from a Nurnberg Hospital. Another passenger staff sgt. Willie g. Walton was uninjured. Both survivors were assigned to Boyds unit. The Accident is being investigated according to division spokesman capt. . Rostkowski. Boyd from Bessemer ala., is survived by his wife Leslie and a daughter Ashley. He joined the army in october 1988. A memorial service will be held at 2 . Thursday at the Erlanger recreation  names six Bishops to czechoslovak dioceses Vatican City apr Pope John Paul ii named six auxiliary Bishops to Czechoslovakia on saturday in a further sign of the improved relations Between the Vatican Ana the Eastern european nation. The Pope named new auxiliary Bishops for the dioceses of Pra Fla. Floods cause damage threaten interstate Bridge Caryville Fla. Apr Muddy floodwaters from last weeks torrential Rains in Alabama and Georgia coursed through the Florida Panhandle on tuesday damaging Homes and businesses and threatening supports for an interstate Highway Bridge Over a raging River. Flood damage was expected to Worsen in Florida where at least 1,200 people fled their Homes. Some Rivers in the Northern part of the state weren to expected to Crest until wednesday a National weather service forecaster said tuesday. In Alabama and Georgia authorities began assessing damage from storms that dumped up to 16 inches of rain thursday and Friday. Flood related accidents killed 17 people and about 4,000 fled their Homes in those two states. In Alabama gov. Guy Hunt asked president Bush for Federal Aid monday for Coffee county where the swollen pea River burst a levee and inundated Elba a town of 4,400 people. Hunt also requested Federal Aid for 25 other flooded counties in Central and Southern Alabama but said he would ask Bush to help Coffee county first. Some of Elba a evacuees returned monday for their first look at the destruction. A it did no to really Hurt until i got Here. Then it Tore me up a said Mike Simmons who returned Home to find a waterline on his ceiling overturned furniture Fri smaller items still floating in several inches of water National guardsmen and state troopers patrolled the streets to enforce a 7 . Curfew after reported looting in downtown Elba. The towns Center remained under sever a feet of water and Telephone Gas and electric service was Elba and other places in the Region faced another problem the High Waters flushed out snakes which could be seen swimming through inundated neighbourhoods. The swollen pea River was emptying into the Choc to Ohatchee River in Florida contributing to flooding there. On monday Muddy water from the Choctaw Hatcher was already a foot deep in Billy Wayne Bailey a four bedroom House in Caryville and was expected to Rise another 3 feet before cresting tuesday the River was at 20.5 feet in tuesday morning nearly 9 feet Over flood stage. A Washington county commissioners on monday ordered All of Caryville a 630 residents and 200 people in surrounding communities to move to higher ground hundreds More fled voluntarily. A 20-mile stretch of westbound interstate 10, from Bonifay to Defuniak Springs was closed by state transportation officials monday afternoon because of erosion around the supports of the highways Bridge Over the Chocta Ohatchee. Lithuanian Leader denies planning to sell state owned businesses Vilnius . Apr Lithuania a president denied Kremlin accusations that his Baltic Republic plans to seize state enterprises and sell them to private owners and called a harsh warning from Moscow a negotiating ploy. Vytautas Landsbergis speaking before the republics parliament on monday said he believed that the increasing tension Between the Kremlin and Lithuania was part of the a difficult beginning to talks on Lithuania a Independence. In a nationally televised broadcast monday the soviet government warned Lithuania not to erect customs posts introduce its own currency or take Over soviet run factories without Kremlin permission. The announcement did not say what would happen if Lithuania ignored the warning but soviet troops in the past Day have carried out military Maneu vers in the Republic. Landsbergis said the Kremlin a statements were based on mistaken information according to television editor Eduardas Potashin Skas who monitored the session. A it is not True that we Are going to pass state owned enterprises to private owners a Landsbergis said. Lithuania a parliament voted on March 11 to secede from the soviet Union and restore the Independence it enjoyed before being forcibly annexed in 1940 along with the other Baltic states a Estonia and Latvia. Four Days later the soviet parliament declared the decree invalid but did not specify measures the Kremlin might take to prevent Lithuania a secession. A i regard the statement As a difficult beginning of negotiations As an Exchange of opinions that sometimes widely diverge and sometimes coincide a Landsbergis was quoted As saying. In Moscow Egidius Bickauskas a lithuanian legislator said president Mikhail Gorbachev told him and other lithuanian representatives about the warning when he met with them late monday. Bickauskas and lithuanian legislator Vaidotas Antanaitis delivered a letter from Landsbergis rejecting Gorbachev a deadline a which expired monday a for returning to the soviet fold. The Kremlin on monday accused Lithuania of trying to a undermine its links with the rest of the soviet Union which it said could have a pernicious consequences for the National Economy. The soviet statement ordered police the Kab and customs agents to resist any attempts by Lithuania to change the existing customs regime. It also directed the management of soviet enterprises and agencies in Lithuania not to hand Over authority to local  gue Olomouc and Tamava. Until 1988, the Prague communist government had blocked the nominations of new Bishops for i 5  Page 1 the transitory nature of the audience a he said. Instead Nielsen will give arts specialized frequently updated data based on its surveys of american households on How much various stateside shows Appeal to the following age groups 18 to 34, 18 to 49, 12 to 17, 6 to 11 and 1 to 5. The Nielsen data also Divide each age group into male female subsets. But arts has no plans to Cater to its predominately male audience at the expense of female viewers cutting so called a a women a programs a Matheson said. A we Are going to take a Strong look at programs such ask thirty something and a designing women a but if we found such programs rank very High with females or female teens that a very important to us a he said. 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