European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 17,1990 v news updates Souter s income Washington apr supreme court nominee David Souter reported a net Worth of $627,010 on july 30, some $5,700 More than he was Worth six months earlier according to a financial statement released tuesday by the Senate judiciary committee. On dec. 31, Souter reported he was Worth $621,252. The nominee said $ 191,000 of his assets were in autos and other personal property $235,500 in securities and $150,000 in real estate. The statement showed $24,118 in Cash on hand and $5,586 in Cash value life insurance. Brando s Bond of d Santa Monica Calif. Apr the Price for Christian Brando a immediate Freedom is his fathers $5 million Hilltop estate. Superior court judge David Perez on tuesday approved use of actor Marlon Brando a mansion As collateral to secure the release of his jailed son who is accused of murdering his Sisters tahitian Boyfriend on May 16 the younger Brando was to be released wednesday. Christian Brando 32, is accused of shooting to death Dag Droplet 26, in an argument at the Brando family Manor. Cheyenne Brando the actors 20-year-old daughter was pregnant at the time with a Rollel a son. American Pilot among 3 dead in . Collision London a amps a a . Air Force Exchange Pilot was one of the three Crew members killed in a collision of two Royal air Force Tornado aircraft in England on  a fourth Crew member was seriously injured. The american Pilot was identified As maj Dennis Wise 36, the 12-year air Force Veteran was piloting the Jet when the collision occurred. Wise who was qualified As an Al 11 Pilot had been stationed at Raf Honington near Bury is. Edmunds since 1987 through an officer Exchange program. The native of storm Lake wis., was married but no other details about his family were immediately available. The planes collided about 3 20 . 10 Miles East of the town of spurn head about 30 Miles Wisl of Hull during a training flight. The planes were from Raf Honington and Raf Laar Hruch West Germany. The two britons killed in the crash were identified As flight it. John Frederick Bowles and Squadron Leader Jordon Graham a the Pilot of the Tornado assigned to Laar Hruch is listed in serious condition. Navy Jet crash kills 1, hurts Smith Point a apr a Navy attack Jet crashed wednesday killing one Crew member and injuring the Oiler the Navy said. The a-6e intruder crashed near this town on a Peninsula in the Chesapeake Hay near the Mankind state line. The names of the Crew members is Ere withheld until relatives could he notified a spokeswoman for the Patu vent River naval air test enter in Maryland. Where the plane was based said. Go who vanished for 15 wants to by Dave Walczak staff writer the Soldier who disappeared for More than two weeks after paying $10,125 for a Mercedes that quit running three Days later said wednesday he Hopes to leave West Germany soon in an attempt to put the incident behind him. Spec Anthony Barnhart who returned 1o his unit in Mannheim West Germany on july 6, is serving 45 Days of extra duty As punishment for his unauthorized absence. The extra duty was a result of an article 15 hearing on july 27. He was also demoted to the lowest enlisted rank but the demotion was suspended for 45 Days. Barnhart said the suspension Means that he will retain his current rank if he remains trouble free during that period. A i feel a lot of anxiety Quot said Barnhart who is assigned to the 4th in 8th inf div at Czicman Barracks. Quot its really embarrassing. I never expected my personal life to become Public knowledge. I really need to get out of Germany. Quot Andy Warhol said that everyone is famous for 15 minutes. This is not the kind of Fame i was looking  Barnhart has served More than five years in the army. He said his tour in West Germany is not due to end until december 1992, but he Hopes to be reassigned before then. He said he is also trying to Cope with the departure of his wife Wendy who left West Germany late last month after he returned from 15 Days of roaming around Europe. Quot my wife went Back to the states Ana lives with her parents Quot he said. Quot she was upset. In a just kind of  the barn arts problems started when they bought a 1972 Mercedes 350lc from chaplain capt Ricky d. Brock on May 29. After the car quit running an Engineer certified that it was unsafe to drive and estimated its value at a 10th of the $10,125 the couple had paid for it. Barnhart said in an affidavit taken before his disappearance that he did not Check out the Mercedes before he bought it because he trusted Brock. But when the car quit running Barnhart said Brock refused to discuss the matter. A sue me a the Soldier quoted the chaplain As saying Barnhart said the car is parked at the Czicman Barracks motor Pool. Brock who was assigned to the 377th Armor in at Sullivan baracks in Mannheim has not been available for comment. He left Europe for reassignment to fort Monmouth n.j., where he began attending the advanced chaplains course july 20, Brock has not returned any of a dozen phone Calls the stars and stripes has made to him in new Jersey. The barn arts have filed a lawsuit in West German court that seeks the Retno of their Money. Barnhart said the events Over the past two months Quot have just been a lot of Nis rations 1 feel stupid opening myself to something like this. In be seen the worst of what a  Barnhart who shared an apartment with his wife in Blumenau West Germany before her departure now lives in the Barracks. Quot i used bad judgment and i know that Quot he said. A a it a hard being Here trying to gel everything together. 1 sit in my room sometimes thinking about All this and try not to go  senator not viewing nerve Johnston atoll apr a television Monitor showed the destruction of one of the worlds most loathed weapons a a a rocket armed with deadly nerve agent being Cut by a machine and dumped into an incinerator. It was the 63rd m-55 rocket destroyed tuesday at this Remote outpost 800 Miles Southwest of Honolulu and the 1,104th incinerated since the Johnston atoll chemical agent disposal system or a cads Plant began tests june 30. A i came Here with a few doubts but i leave Here reinforced in my support for this facility Quot sen. Daniel Inouye Dha Waii said after seeing the process. He and several other visitors wore Gas masks and nerve Gas antidote syringes strapped to their sides. The $240 million facility was built to destroy 300,000 aging chemical weapons moved Here from Okinawa in 1971, pending government approval and the outcome of a lawsuit filed by the environmental group Greenpeace Usa the facility also will incinerate 100,000 rounds being shipped from West Germany. Some Pacific leaders and environmental groups fear the facility is unsafe and could turn Johnston atoll into the nations a and perhaps the worlds a chemical munitions disposal site. To address those fears. Inouye travelled to the Small Flat atoll on tuesday with congressional delegates Ben Blaz a Guam and eni Falc Mavaega a american Samoa adm. Huntington Hardisty head of the . Pacific come and several reporters. A an army spokesman said it was the first time reporters had been Given Access to the atolls chemical weapons facilities. Inouye chairman of the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee said he arranged the tour because a Lack of information about activities at Johnston atoll was causing unfounded concern. Inouye said he came away convinced the facility was Safe would not harm the environment and would not be used for weapons stored on the . Mainland Quot my reaction is very Good Quot Blaz said. "1 am absolutely convinced this facility is As Good As it can be to do the Job for which it is intended a col. David Moss in charge of a cads told the visitors the facility is Safe Quot we take All the precautions we possibly can. We do extensive monitoring. We be destroyed Over 1,100 rockets already without incident a Moss said. Similar plants Are planned for the Mainland where nearly All of the . Chemical weapons stockpile is kept. The Johnston atoll and european weapons amount to 6.6 percent of the . Chemical Mun 11 ions Arsenal. The disposal facility which resembles a factory or Power Plant covers several acres on the Coral atoll that is barely Large enough to accommodate its Airport. The facility is being tested in a 16-month trial run burning obsolete rockets containing the nerve agent go. Nerve weapons convoys beef up Security my Esau West Germany a amps a nearly till extra personnel have joined the Security Force guarding . Chemical weapons convoys because of the International showdown with Iraq. The 92 extra West German Border patrol officers were added tuesday said Rudi Genii Interior minister for the state of Rheinland pea. They joined a Force of 1,200 West , German army and Border patrol Odices who were Al ready monitoring the Convoy route Genii said there had been no actual threat to the convoys which Are moving the chemical weapons from the Clausen army depot to the Railhead at Miessau. Wednesdays Convoy was the 15th since the operation began july 26. That is half of the projected number that the army says it needs to move the approximately 100,000 artillery shells with the nerve agents vex and Sarin. Genii said the convoys Are going better than expected and in Nis opinion Quot if the others run As scheduled we May finish moving All the weapons a Day or two  once All the weapons Are at Miessau they will be loaded onto trains and moved to the North sea port at no Denham. At the port the shells will be loaded onto two Navy ships and taken to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean for destruction. Navy finds cheating by a several on Nimitz Bremerton Wash. Apr the Navy has continued that Quot several sailors Quot aboard the aircraft Carrier Nimitz cheated when levied on their knowledge of the aircraft carriers nuclear reactor oper Apitius and procedures. But the Navy said it found no evidence eclat such cheating would harm the a Tow s ability to operate the vessel. It a Ien cd Public allegations by four sailors o unsafe procedures aboard the ship. Including shortcuts in various systems tests and the possibility of sabotage. It found that a the ship s reactors Are Safe and that Crew members Are qualified to operate them a the Navy said  problem was being resolved by the Nimitz Crew the Navy said. Rep. Norm Dicks d-Wash., met tuesday with the director of the Navy s nuclear propulsion program adm. Bruce Dumars Dicks said testing procedures Mohing naval nuclear reactors were being reviewed because of the cheating. Quot there were nine people out of 345 w to were involved in cribbing for exams and that a simply unacceptable Quot Dicks said. Quot but it did no to relate Back to any safety problem on the  la. Pm or. Bob Pritchard a Navy spokesman in san Diego said the exams require Crew members m charge of reactor operations to answer a Short list of questions