European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 no damage injuries Alaska quake Homer Alaska apr a moderately Strong earthquake Shook the Kenai Peninsula Southwest of Anchorage on monday knocking objects from store shelves and rattling residents 400 Miles away authorities said. It the quake measured 5.6 on the Richter scale according to the tsunami warning Center in Palmer and the Alaska earthquake information Center in Fairbanks. A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing considerable local damage in the right conditions. However officials in Kenai and Homer a City of 2,200 on the Cook Inlet Southwest of Seward said there were no reports of damage or injuries. A everything was dancing a it Felt like the roof was coming in a a said fran Skaggs who works at ulmers Rexall drugs store in Homer. A there were quite a few things falling off the shelves a Skaggs said. A we did no to lose anything a there a just a few piles of things Here and there that need to be cleaned  the quake at 3 04 ., was entered Between Homer and Ninilchik a town 75 Miles West of Seward said Charlotte Rowe a seismologist at the earthquake information Center. The area a a popular vacation spot 110 Miles from Anchorage a is one of the More populous parts of the sparsely settled state. It was Felt strongly in Anchorage and also in Fairbanks 400 Miles to the North. The National earthquake information service in Golden colo., gave the quake a Richter Reading of 5.3, said spokeswoman Pat Jorgensen. Dispatcher Sam Brown of the Kenai police depart mint said she Hadnot received any Calls about the earthquake. A we Felt a big Jolt and things started shaking pretty Good a she said. An earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale can cause slight damage in the local area 4 moderate damage 5 considerable damage and 6 severe damage a 7 Reading is a a a major earthquake capable of widespread heavy damage 8 is a a a great quake capable of tremendous damage. Acle challenges ban of 2 live Crew album Columbia . Apr the american civil liberties Union filed suit monday challenging a sales ban on a was Nasty As they Wanna be a the album by the rap group 2 live Crew. The suit asks for a prohibition on arrests for Selling the album. It also asks a judge to decide whether the album is obscene. Richland county prosecutor Jim Anders who in june threatened to prosecute those Selling the album is named As the defendant. Three record stores have joined the Acle As plaintiffs said Steve Bates executive director for the South Carolina Acle. Bates said the record a has significant literary artistic and political values that reflect the african and afro american heritage of a Large segment of our  Bates acknowledged that 2 live Crews use of raw and sometimes violent sexual imagery in songs like a me so Horny Quot made it a Tough to argue  by South Carolina standards Anders said the album is obscene. The Acle is a group that wants a anything to go a lie said. Office workers by the thousands walk across the Brooklyn Bridge after the Power outage in the financial District. Fire cuts Power shuts Down v new York apr an electrical fire knocked out Power to the skyscrapers of Manhattan a financial District monday disrupting Stock trading stranding people in elevators and sending thousands Home Early through traffic snarled streets. The midday Cable fire at a consolidated Edison substation spewed plumes of Black acrid smoke Over the Southern tip of Manhattan. Workers poured out of buildings like the world Trade Center and South Street seaport in search of pay phones and Cool drinks. A Many subway lines and commuter tunnels were stalled or shut Down. Thousands walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Rush hour ferry service began Early. The outage affected 4,150 customers mostly businesses employing tens possibly hundreds of thousands of employees. Con Edison issued an emergency plea to Cut Energy use worried about a possible overload that could Knock out additional networks. The Utility restored Power to about three quarters of the affected area by 5  By re routing current through other substations. Pedestrian traffic overflowed from the sidewalk onto the Street which was dogged with buses and taxis. With traffic lights Cut of police directed traffic by hand. A a it a not going to be a smooth Rush hour a said transit authority spokesman Jared Lebow. The new York Stock Exchange was Una Fecie 1 by the outage spokesman Ray Pellechia said. But the american Stock Exchange new York mercantile Exchange and commodity Exchange All halted trading for the Day at i  Hundreds of people were stuck in elevators at the world Trade Center for up to 2 a hours said d. Joy Faber a spokeswoman for the port authority which operates the to Story twin skyscrapers the tallest buildings in the City. A my legs Are buckling. I Feci so sore Quot Secretary Ethel Levine said after walking Down 33 floors. Steve and Carol Holcott visiting from los Angeles were on the 36tli floor of i world Trade Center when the lights began blinking and then went off for Good. They decided to walk Down because they did no to want to spend their Only Day in town in an office William Unroch stuck inside his High Rise Home at Battery Park City was not As Lucky. A a it a horrible Here. All the Gas is off the water is off everything is off. In a trapped Here on the 35h floor. I can to get out of my apartment. Id have to walk Down 35  others made the Best of the situation. A a it a the first time in be walked across the Bridge. Its pretty Nice Quot said Joseph Eckart an insurance company employee who strolled the Brooklyn Span that crosses the East River holding hands with his Girlfriend Angela Rizzica. A we feel like its seventh Grade and we be gotten a Day off Quot said Engineer John Gratten. The fire at con eds seaport substation on front Street was reported at 11 50 . And escalated to a four alarm fire by 3 ., said fire department spokeswoman Joe Mcgee. It was declared under control at 5 25  The cause Wasny to known Jav Mcgee  drops objections to rabies vaccine test Philadelphia apr an environmental group said it would not oppose plans to conduct the first Field test of a genetically engineered vaccine on wildlife in the United states. The Virginia department of health announced monday that a 10-Day test of a rabies vaccine will begin aug. 20. It will be tested on Parramore Island an uninhabited Barrier Island about 4 v Miles off the coast of Virginia. The National wildlife federation which had initially fought plans to conduct tests because of safely concerns w ill not object to the Field test according to Margaret Mellon a molecular biologist and lawyer for the group. The tests will be done by the Wistar Institute of Philadelphia which began Luik on the vaccine in 1982. Wistar is a non profit Independent biomedical research Center. Mellon said the group was a a appalled by the Way department of agriculture officials were so Quick to support Avis tarts plans but said refinements in the plans made the federation a More comfortable Quot with the project. The agriculture department the stale of Virginia and the nature conservancy a non profit organization that owns the 7-mile-Long Island approved the Field test. The conservancy consented to the project monday after coming to an agreement with Wistar Over several concerns including Legal responsibility a a a e realized that this Island was really one of the few if not Only places the test could be done Quot said a conservancy spokeswoman Holley Darden. The vaccine was developed to combat the problem of Rabid raccoons which have reached epidemic Levels in the mid Atlantic slates in recent years said or. Warren Cheston Wistaris associate director. So far this year. 127 rabies cases have been reported in Virginia while Pennsylvania has documented 376 cases Accord ing to state health authorities. During the Field test scientists will scatter bait Laden with the vaccine Over the Island. Researchers will then spend the next year tracking the animals and testing their blood to see if they have developed antibodies to the rabies virus Darden said the islands Raccoon population which numbers about 40 1, has not been previously exposed to rabies. She said the Wistar Institute would follow guidelines to prevent Island animals from escaping to the Mainland. The Island will be off limits to the Public and monitored by the Virginia in apartment of game and Inland fisheries