European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes  6. 1990 t t Duck lovers find solution to voracious turtles a snap Bluefield . Apr snapping turtles Are feeding Oft ducks at a town Pond but Duck lovers Are getting even by feasting on the turtles. The Strong Jawed turtles in Douglas Pond have been latching onto ducks by the feet dragging them under water and eating them said Crowley Fralick who works at a nearby sporting goods store in Bluff iced. A it is their Way of survival. I understand that Quot Fraziek said. A still it got to be a Little much during the Spring when the Young ducklings started disappearing a lie said. A the Little ones arc easy for the turtles to  Fralick and his co workers have responded by trapping the turtles in the a acre Pond and turning them into soup. In three years they be caught and eaten 72 snappers. A last year was the first time i tried one. It was pretty Good. Really it was delicious Quot Fralick said. 15 injured when Airliner cleared after bomb threat Grapevine Texas apr a hoax bomb threat prompted the hurried evacuation of a Delta airlines Jet and 15 passengers suffered minor injuries from sliding Down emergency chutes an airline official said. Delta flight 748 landed safely at its scheduled Stop Dallas fort Worth International Airport about 10 minutes after a telephoned bomb threat was received at the Della reservations desk at los Angeles International Airport air lint spokesman  Licitra said. There were 230 passengers and 11 Crew members aboard the flight that originated in los Angeles those injured were treated for scrapes bumps and sprains and released at local hospitals Licitra said. Bomb sniffing dogs found no explosives on the Boeing 767, Licitra said adding that the plane returned to service later that evening. Stranded squid create �?~slick1 on Calif Shore Dana Point Calif. Apr thousands of squid have washed ashore on a three mile stretch of a Southern California Beach apparently stranded As they chased after prey officials said. Quot most important to state is the squid Are not ill and Are not casualties of a Marine pollutant a said Herb Frey a Marine biologist with the slate department of fish and game. The giant squid each measuring up to 3 feet in length and weighing about 20 pounds formed a 18-Inch-deep a a Slick along the Shore officials said. Quot the squid were probably chasing Small fish when they began Landing on the South Orange county Shoreline Between Dana Point and Monarch Bay Frey said. Or. Gary Graybeal examines the Oil tainted Sand along the pier at his waterfront House in Beach City Texas. Cleanup Crews tackle oily goo to protect Texas Beach City Texas apr Oil oozed into sensitive Marshlands on the North end of Galveston Bay but fishing resumed saturday in parts of the Bay where up to 700,000 Gallons of Oil spilled from a damaged Barge. Cleanup Crews used vacuum trucks to suck up the oily mess which has washed up along an estimated seven mile stretch of Houston Point. The Oil has struck marshes and some residential property. Coast guard capt. Thomas Greene said saturday that he was encouraged by the Shoreline cleanup but expected it to last another week. Environmentalists were worried by reports of some Oil soiled Birds. Workers used noisemakers along the oily Shore to keep Birds from Landing in the goo. Booms along the Shoreline trapped some of the Oil and stopped new crude from washing ashore the coast guard said. New Oil was reported Friday morning along Houston Point on the North end of the Bay Between the Houston ship Channel and Trinity Bay. Crews were laying additional absorbent booms to protect marshes farther into Trinity Bay Greene said. The coast guard also planned to Spray Oil gobbling microbes on some marshy areas sunday. State officials dumped the microbes on a 400-Yard stretch of Beach on Pelican Island on thursday but results weren t expected for several weeks. Coast guard officials estimated that Between Miami loses conventions Over snub of Mondelo 500,000 Gallons and 700,000 Gallons of Oil spilled but they Are perplexed by the relatively Small amount of Oil that has been cleaned up or has washed ashore. The Oil spilled into Galveston Bay when a Tanker collided with two barges july 28 in the ship Channel. One of the barges nearly Sank but it has since been raised and moved to another area of the Bay. Salvage Crews were considering the possibility of cutting the Barge in half then moving the pieces out of the Bay. Limited traffic resumed Friday in the ship Channel after the Barge was moved. In Beaumont Texas two Federal lawsuits were filed on behalf of hundreds of fishermen who say their livelihoods have suffered because of a massive Oil spill in Galveston Bay which occurred As the shrimping seasons Peak period approached. Both class action lawsuits name Apex re amp to inc., owner of the barges and Eletson corp., owner of the Tanker Shin Oussa As defendants. An investigation of the Accident also resumed saturday in Houston. A Houston Pilot capt. Raymond Fincher has disputed claims by crewmen of the Tanker Shin Oussa who said the Pilot ordered the vessel to Speed through the ship Channel and then to turn into the barges in the oncoming Lane. Fincher blamed Shin Oussa helmsman Mohammed Haque of Bangladesh. Fincher said Haque failed to turn correctly setting the ship on a collision course with three barges towed by the tugboat Chandy a the a third Barge was not hit by the Tanker. Miami apr the snub that City leaders gave Nelson Mandela Over his Praise Lor i idol Castro is beginning to eos Miami convention bookings by National Black organizations. I he National bar association a group of Black lawyers with about 2,000 delegates decided last week to nun its he 3 co mention from Miami to another a its. A leading Black  Omega Psi Phi cancelled plans for a Ham meeting in Miami. Another fraternity. Alpha Phi Alpha considered cancelling its Miami Beach convention this sear but stayed because of Long standing booking obligations. City officials refused to Issue a proclamation in Honor of Mandela the South african anti apartheid Leader when he visited june 28. Cuban exiles were offended by Mandela s show of a gratitude to Castro for his support when Mandela was imprisoned. Jewish leaders were also upset Over Mandela s embrace of Yasser Arafat chairman of the Palestine liberation organization. A Quot we re very concerned Quot said Mary English spokeswoman for the greater Miami convention amp visitors Bureau the Bureau has been running an aggressive Campaign to lure More Blacks flu it represent 17 percent of Dade county a v Isi Tois. Up to now the Effort bad been succeeding. Nine major Black organizations had scheduled conventions m Miami this year up from Tiv c in i 4s4. Tests find lethal cocaine in 8 More soda bottles Miami apr tests found cocaine in Ehhel More bottles of a colombian soft drink and officials saturday warned Consumers not to drink the beverage which already caused one Case of critical poisoning. The eight bottles of Pony Malta de Bavaria that tested positive for dissolved cocaine Friday had been collected by government officials from a distributor who supplies the drink to Mobile vendors for Street Side sales. Each of the 6.16-ounce bottles contained lethal dosages of up to 10 Grams of cocaine said George Nib Lack environmental supervisor for the Dade county health department Niblack said the lethal dosage was 1 Gram. A Miami arca Man Maximo Rene Menendez 2>. Drank from a bottle of the soft drink on july 26 and suffered convulsions and cardiac arrest. He was still in a coma saturday. Two bottles from a lot Menendez had purchased also tested positive for the drug a one contained 54 Grams and the other 37 Grams. Drug traffickers frequently smuggle cocaine by dissolving it in liquids. I he soft drink popular in the hispanic Community is similar to a nonalcoholic Beer. It is manufactured by Cerv Ceria Bavaria . Based in Bogota Colombia. The company has undertaken a voluntary recall of the product and some of the companies that distribute the drink in Miami have recalled it. Distribution of the suspected lot of the drink has been lined to South Honda