European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday May 19, 1990 sizing up the Competition Andy Koffman in t jumping to any conclusions but and Bounds in the annual Calaveras count jumping he a confident his giant Frog from Cameroon West Afri Frog Jubilee. The Frog jump record of nearly 22 feet will Ca left can beat the local Competition right by leaps be challenged in sundays finals in California. Drug smugglers Tunnel discovered Douglas Ariz apr Federal agents who suspected that smugglers had developed an underground pipeline crossing the mexican Border found a Tunnel that was a like something out of a James Bond movie a a customs service spokeswoman said. The Tunnel discovered Friday was about the length of a football Field and 30 feet underground Judy Turner said in Telephone interview from Houston. Quot she said it was 5 feet High 4 feet wide Well lighted and had Concrete piers for support. At various Points were compartments where up to 5 tons of drugs could be stashed. One Entrance was in a Douglas warehouse about 200 feet North of the Border and the other was in a House in Agua Prieta Mexico Only 73 feet South of the Fence that separates the Border cities Turner said. The House featured a compressor operated system of Hydraulic jacks that raised and lowered the entire floor mount St. Helens blew its top 10 years ago , Wash. Apr the catastrophic eruption of mount St. Helens 10 years ago taught scientists and Ordinary citizens lessons that can save lives geologists told a symposium near the Volcano Friday. A it caught our attention and the worlds attention and we Learned a great Deal Quot said Robert Christiansen chief of Volcano hazards for the . Geological Survey. Quot it raises a lot of awareness of volcanism. Christiansen told a "10 years later symposium on the anniversary of the blast that lessons from mount St. Helens apply to other volcanoes especially in the Cascade mountains of the Northwestern United states. A before mount St. Helens volcanoes were seen As something from the Dinosaur Era interesting but something that happened somewhere else. It caught everyone by Surprise even the geologists who worked on it a Christiansen said. Quot this is the first time we be had a real Laboratory Quot in Modem . History to study volcanoes emergency response to eruptions and the rebirth of a blast zone said Colwitz county commissioner Van Youngquist. Quot our entire state is in a better position of the Structure for Entrance to the Tunnel. A it was just an exceptionally professionally engineered Tunnel a Turner said. A it was something that you and i in the Ordinary world would Only find in the movies. It was like something out of a James Bond  she said agents believe it took six months to construct and that it had been used for about six months. Federal agents used jackhammers and torches to break into the Tunnel Friday morning Turner said customs agents had suspected that a Tunnel existed and agents used Aerial surveillance to track the shipment of 2,258 pounds of cocaine from Douglas to a spot outside Phoenix on May 11. There they confiscated the haul and arrested two people. Mexican authorities arrested two other people late thursday or Early Friday in Agua Prieta Turner said. Agent Orange link to cancer admitted by a Washington up a in the governments first admission linking agent Orange to a serious medical problem veterans affairs Secretary Edward Denbinski directed his Agency Friday to pay $8 million a year to Vietnam veterans afflicted by a Broad class of cancers. The decision to compensate veterans suffering from soft tissue Sarcomas was prompted by recommendations of an advisory committee that concluded there is Quot at least As Likely As not a significant statistical link Between exposure to the wartime herbicide and the difficult to diagnose cancers. Agent Orange which contained the deadly contaminant dioxin was sprayed from january 1965 to april 1970 in Vietnam to destroy ground cover and crops. An estimated 1,100 Vietnam veterans or their families Are expected to receive compensation for soft tissue Sarcomas tutors found in such tissues As Muscles or body fat. Payments some of which will be retroactive Are projected to Cost $8 million a year. A i believe this is another step Forward in resolving a most difficult and emotional Issue a Derwinski said. A we intend to proceed As quickly As possible to award compensation to these veterans who Are so deserving of our care and  about 36,000 Vietnam veterans have filed claims contending they were medically disabled by agent Orange. The dispute Over whether they deserve compensation has raged for 15 years. By regulation the a presumes All veterans who served in Vietnam were exposed to agent Orange. An estimated 2.6 million military personnel served in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War which officially lasted from August 1964 through May 1975. In March Derwinski announced the a would Grant about $20 million annually to about 1,700 Vietnam veterans stricken by non Hodgkin a Lymphoma a rare cancer that veterans groups claim is associated with agent Orange exposure. At the time however the a Secretary refused to acknowledge a link to the herbicide. Previously the Only compensation the a offered related directly to agent Orange involved veterans who developed a skin rash called Chlorace within six months after being exposed to the herbicide. Earlier this month a scientific Survey commissioned by veterans groups found a Clear Cut evidence that agent Orange is linked to non Hodgkin a Lymphoma soft tissue Sarcoma Chlorace symptomless liver damage and a metabolism abnormality. Although evidence was less convincing for three other problems a Hodgkin s disease nerve damage and birth defects a the report said the disorders would still meet a standards for disability compensation. Experts discover evidence of giant asteroid Crater Washington up a scientists May have found the crash site of a cataclysmic asteroid or Comet that May have destroyed the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago it was reported Friday. The asteroid believed to have been about 6 Miles in diameter appears to have struck Earth in the Caribbean sea near the Region where North and South America connect researchers said in a study published in the journal science. Alan Hildebrand and William Boynton of the University of Arizona in Tucson based their conclusions on a study of sediment deposits and other geological features in the colombian Basin of the Caribbean sea. Beneath the sea floor the scientists found evidence of a 180-mile in diameter Structure that appears to be a Crater. Moreover they discovered thick sediments in Cuba that look like deposits of a giant wave produced by an asteroid crashing into nearby Ocean water. They also found a 20-Mch-thick layer of a shocked Rock on Haiti a Southern Peninsula that appears to have been ejected by an asteroid Impact about 65 million years ago. Mount St Helens is peaceful now 10 years after a it caught. The worlds attention a now. Whether its St Helens or another Cascade Volcano that erupts he said. Scientists recounted the earthquake pattern before mount St. Helens erupted May 18, 1980, with the fury of 2,500 Hiroshima bombs. The eruption which killed 57 people and scarred a once Lush landscape Sti evokes searing memories but the con me oration also celebrates natures reco1 Ery Power. The Washington Hamlet of Toutle staging a special edition of its Volcan Daze festival on saturday and sunday